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Bored so I installed 10176 on a spare drive as an upgrade from 8.1. Went smoothly and I find no problems with it though it did need some help with activating :). It does not have the watermark on the screen.
I will likely play with it for a while and then clean off the drive. There is certainly no compelling reason for using it on a production drive.
Boredom is dangerous. :):)
Alright so here's my review of 10176 after 10 minutes of use:
1. OMG WINDOWS DESKTOP ISN'T BLURRY WHEN I RAISE FONT SIZE (display in Settings), but all other windows are still blurry (Skype, program installers, Steam, etc).
2. Still get that problem where a few programs won't terminate when I initiate a shutdown/restart........surprised this error still exists. I clean installed 10176 too.
3. Despite being unactivated, it still used the default theme, rather then the black Desktop previous versions of Windows used.
4. PLS MS FIX THE FONT INCREASE! I don't want blurriness in non-Modern apps.
5. Lol Cortana's unavailable. I wanted to ask her to dance .
6. MS Edge actually seems buggier then 10162
7. Under the Insider Program settings (MS Update) it shows that I can join the Insider Program (indicating that all W.10 users will probably have the option)
Conclusion: this build is NOWHERE NEAR RTM ready! No wonder MS delayed it, giving themselves 3 more days for fixing. The font size modifier HAS TO BE FIXED - since taskbar icons are smaller then Win7/8 by default, a lot of users will want to increase their size...without making non-Modern apps blurry.
After a day playing with 10176 I went back to 10166. Although 10176 is not bad I'm gonna follow the official track during the last days until RTM.
For these installers or other programs, (example : CPU-Z), right-click on the .exe and select Properties / Compatibility / Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.
For this issue apply the following Registry settings, if you wish :
The .reg file exists somewhere in this site, too...
Mine, when I was testing it, used a previous custom Theme I have created. It has to do with OneDrive...
YES, MS PLEASE DO THAT!
I'm back on 10162 waiting the upgrade, too.