Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Slow Build 16278 for PC

Tony K · 30 Aug 2017

Al Airone said:

Installing 16278 was a breeze, as many have already noted - 40 minutes from Restart Now to PIN entry. I'm used to 2-3 hours for that phase. Now on to testing!

f14tomcat · 30 Aug 2017

HippsieGypsie said:

As any OS is concerned, neither should be intruding on the other. Like I said, it's not an infinitive scenario. Just saying that I've noticed a pattern is all. First, we're dealing with prereleases. It could be that Edge doesn't load correctly for some for all we know. Not blaming one or the other. I will say, though, that I've seen Chrome mess up an OS upgrade more than once. Again, not saying that it's the Chrome install that should cause it and be blamed. Just reporting facts.

I've never had any browser mess up any install. I've seen installs mess up browsers, but not the opposite.

fdegrove · 30 Aug 2017

Hi,

All went very smoothly. Pretty impressed with the update improvements.
Disk Clean Up went a lot faster than before too. Happy camper here.

Cheers guys,

goatty2 · 30 Aug 2017

goatty2 said:

not a good start

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got this twice

eventually got it installed had to run update troubleshooter 3 times before it worked
and as usual touchpad would not work and had to reinstall synaptic ver 19 to get it to work

f14tomcat · 30 Aug 2017

fdegrove said:

Hi,

All went very smoothly. Pretty impressed with the update improvements.
Disk Clean Up went a lot faster than before too. Happy camper here.

Cheers guys,

Disk Cleanup did go faster. Might just be my imagination, but before Disk Cleanup, I don't remember seeing that ~$BT folder in C:. Can't remember the full name. The one right at the top. Didn't seem to be there, just the Windows.old.

Tony K · 30 Aug 2017

f14tomcat said:

I've never had any browser mess up any install. I've seen installs mess up browsers, but not the opposite.

Haven't seen it here yet, but over on 8F I have more than a few times. If I remember correctly, not so much bork an install, but rather block an install with an error message. After uninstalling Chrome it went fine. Tried to find some threads about it on 8F to no avail.

24c · 30 Aug 2017

HippsieGypsie said:

As any OS is concerned, neither should be intruding on the other. Like I said, it's not an infinitive scenario. Just saying that I've noticed a pattern is all. First, we're dealing with prereleases. It could be that Edge doesn't load correctly for some for all we know. Not blaming one or the other. I will say, though, that I've seen Chrome mess up an OS upgrade more than once. Again, not saying that it's the Chrome install that should cause it and be blamed. Just reporting facts.

No blame - just discussions of our own experiences. I think Edge sucks, others love it. I have not had a lot of the issues others have had with these builds.

The combination of the hardware, software, use of the machine, and 1,254 other variables probably leads to the variety of experience here. Together we trod on through the fruits and vegetables known as Beta Software.

f14tomcat · 30 Aug 2017

24c said:

No blame - just discussions of our own experiences. I think Edge sucks, others love it. I have not had a lot of the issues others have had with these builds.

The combination of the hardware, software, use of the machine, and 1,254 other variables probably leads to the variety of experience here. Together we trod on through the fruits and vegetables known as Beta Software.

Beta Veggie Medley .......

f14tomcat · 30 Aug 2017

HippsieGypsie said:

Haven't seen it here yet, but over on 8F I have more than a few times. If I remember correctly, not so much bork an install, but rather block an install with an error message. After uninstalling Chrome it went fine. Tried to find some threads about it on 8F to no avail.

Might be. Haven't touched 8 in eons.

Fisher Mann · 30 Aug 2017

Last several builds seem to have improved Edge/Bing speed for me and I am using it more now than Opera (gave up on Mozilla and it's newly updated family of browsers). I was concerned that they would over bloat Edge with stuff only some would use, but it seems fine.
Can't understand why some seem to have almost constant problems with Edge while others don't. Seems like there might be a common thread there but no idea what that might be. I guess you can't really reinstall Edge?