Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16226 for PC Insider

Wynona said:

I know I'm not making sense, because none of that makes any sense to me.

And my last WAG is that maybe something had to be lost in the translation from another language to English?

Wynona, I was just joking with that :)

The %s is clearly a variable, Windows uses precent sign for variables. For instance if / when I boot a PC from a USB flash drive in which I have Windows install.wim file to apply Windows image, I do not know which drive letter it gets at boot. When applying Windows image (read: clean install) using a batch file stored on same USB drive which first partitions HDD then applies the image, I open Command Prompt at boot and use the same type variable and run following command:

for /f %X in ('wmic volume get DriveLetter ^, Label ^| find "W10PRO_USB"') do START %X\Run.bat

This command searches for all present disks to find the one with label W10PRO_USB, writes that device's disk ID letter (for example D:) to variable %X then runs my batch file %X\Run.bat, in other words in this example D:\Run.bat.

Kari said:

Wynona, I was just joking with that :)

The %s is clearly a variable, Windows uses precent sign for variables. For instance if / when I boot a PC from a USB flash drive in which I have Windows install.wim file to apply Windows image, I do not know which drive letter it gets at boot. When applying Windows image (read: clean install) using a batch file stored on same USB drive which first partitions HDD then applies the image, I open Command Prompt at boot and use the same type variable and run following command:

for /f %X in ('wmic volume get DriveLetter ^, Label ^| find "W10PRO_USB"') do START %X\Run.bat

This command searches for all present disks to find the one with label W10PRO_USB, writes that device's disk ID letter (for example D:) to variable %X then runs my batch file %X\Run.bat, in other words in this example D:\Run.bat.

OK, so you got me! And I wasn't able to make a whole lot of sense of what you just said above either. I'll stick to what I already know and can understand. But thanks for the explanation.

Wynona said:

OK, so you got me! And I wasn't able to make a whole lot of sense of what you just said above either. I'll stick to what I already know and can understand. But thanks for the explanation.

LOL short explanation: I know that %s in that screenshot refers to, and should be replaced with a number, the %s being just a variable.

Edwin said:

I just tripped over this:
draw characters on the handwriting pad: ^ > . ° • ☺ -

Handwriting pad? I haven't read the latest release notes, so I may be missing something. I don't find a handwriting pad on my desktop.

I think doing the HTML code for it is just as fast.

Edwin said:

Oh, I don't do the touch keyboard on anything, Edwin. I can type about 80 WPM on my keyboard and only about 10 WPM on the touch keyboard.

smactilactus said:

No it shouldn't. That has nothing to do with this threads intentions. Just drop it man. I'm guilty of chiming in on it, but when they said drop it, I dropped it. You are the only one who is continually pushing it.

Who is "they"??