Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10166 Insider
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i close when i try to open the windows store and the email app
Did you download this build from Windows Update? Or did you do a 'clean' install?
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Did you download this build from Windows Update? Or did you do a 'clean' install?
windows update
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and this is build 10166 that was released today?
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and this is build 10166 that was released today?
yeah use the 10166
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Edwin, is here something for you to test:
- I got the EN-GB and Swedish upgrade builds without an issue. Switched the machine on, the WU started to download the upgrade
- The Finnish and EN-US ones didn't find the upgrade
- The Finnish one started after I created a new user account on Finnish 10162 using my other Insider / MS Account, signing in to that, removing the original Insider / MS Account and rebooting
- When I opened the WU after reboot, the upgrade was already downloading
- The EN-US download did not start even after the above described MS Account switch. As I only had the EN-US 10162 on a Hyper-V vm, it took less than a minute to restore it to an older checkpoint, build 10047
- As soon as I had restored the build 10047, I remembered that at that stage the vm did not have an MS Account, only one local account. I had only created the MS Account when this machine was upgraded to 10159
- Went to Settings to switch to MS Account as I thought it might speed things up but I didn't need to; the 10047 had already started to download the 10166 upgrade
- See the screenshot. #1 shows it's 10074, #2 that there's only one user account, #3 that this account is local, and #4 that the upgrade is downloading:
I'm pretty much at the tail end of a crazy experiment.
I've eliminated every conceivable 'Metro' element from my PC, (Build 10162), and, surprisingly, it works quite well without any apps whatsoever, no 'Metro' taskbar elements, no Start Menu, but I can't get updates or create a new user either.
The only immersive element I was able to keep was Settings.
Got some other things I will try.
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mine downloaded for the first time with no hitches and me DD Server Error Has Gone so far so good
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the store and the email worked fine on the 10162 build
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the store and the email worked fine on the 10162 build
And you were set up with your email and able to send and receive emails? And access the store with no problems?
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Downloaded and installed update to 10162.
It seemed to go much quicker with no dramatic 5 minute apparent pauses.
It retained Bink's aerolight scheme and windows locations.
Lost my NAS server in the network as did 1062.
Although not directly related to 10166 the weather app is still buggy and not giving the weather for the location i select from the list.
Still insists on knocking out the old windows 8 games and have to put them back.