Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16241 PC + 15230 Mobile Insider

Cbarnhorst said:

I'm not opting for Skip-Ahead. I want to continue as I have been. That seems to be the option MSFT hopes we will take also. It offers the most help from us.

Me too, I am in no hurry.

Fisher Mann said:

I make back ups for my back ups and ISO's so I went with Skip Ahead just for the experience of the releases. Will be prepared for a go back if needed. Nothing could be as bad for me as the 16215 release, but I'll be prepared just in case.

I image my System on a daily basis with Macrium Reflect , it takes about 5 1/2 minutes, and restores even faster.

Josey Wales said:

I image my System on a daily basis with Macrium Reflect , it takes about 5 1/2 minutes, and restores even faster.

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Fisher Mann said:

Every day back up is pretty dedicated. Not sure I need to do it quite that often.
I've been backing up to a portable SSD drive every release and doing a BL disk every other release. With every release I also use the ISO with Brink's tut How to Create a Recovery Image used to Reset Windows 10.

I do not use that recovery partition. SSD space is valuable and since I have 5 minutes out of 24 hours to use to image with MR I do not even use restore points. That takes up 75% of your memory and since I have 24GB of memory I do not need 75% of it going to a program that never worked as designed since put out. To restore the same build it takes less than 2 minutes, and I image to a hard drive.

slicendice said:

I just skimmed through Feedback Hub and most feedback I see are complaints about not being able to do something, or that Windows does something that the users don't want. Seems most insider users have no idea how to use Windows at all. They are requesting fixes for stuff that is already there and has been there the past 20 years. All those users would know this if they had the slightest idea of how Windows works and what tools are available by default.

It's not only users.
The jokers at MS can't explain (or don't know) how Windows works either.

Kari said:

PowerShell comes to rescue! Simply enter following command to get a list of all installed traditional Win32 applications:

Get-WmiObject -Class win32_Product



Not very practical, though, with lots of unnecessary information. Let's add some options to only show name and version, sort list alphabetically as a table, and write it to a text file. Command is (replace W:\Installed_Software.txt with your preferred save path and filename):

Get-WmiObject -Class win32_Product | select Name, Version | Sort-Object Name | ft -auto > 'W:\Installed_Software.txt'


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Now you have a list of your installed software in a text file. Upload it to OneDrive, use it as reference after a clean install to see what software you had installed earlier and what needs to be re-installed:

@Kari, Thanks for that tip. :)

slicendice said:

I just skimmed through Feedback Hub and most feedback I see are complaints about not being able to do something, or that Windows does something that the users don't want. Seems most insider users have no idea how to use Windows at all. They are requesting fixes for stuff that is already there and has been there the past 20 years. All those users would know this if they had the slightest idea of how Windows works and what tools are available by default.

FUNNY!!!

There used to be an Insiders Hub just for Insiders but Microsoft in it's infinite wisdom thought it would be better to only have one hub for all Windows 10 users. I asked to have sort of a chat room for just Insiders or a forum where we could share data but that got nowhere. So those posts in the hub can be from anyone.