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Is anyone getting Cortana to work in the new build? I asked her to send an email and she can't find any email accounts. Yet I have the Mail app open and working for five of my webmail accounts. I also can't get response to anything else that isn't a generalized Bing search. Apparently all that works is voice recognition, which is a start I guess.
Don't see the point in complaining about the start menu, no matter what Microsoft does it will not be as good as classic shell or the others
I am very disheartened with this build...
There is really nothing easy about using this version. Yes all the parts are there, but it makes you go through tons of extra steps.
DirectX 12 I am certain will become available on Windows 8/8.1 (maybe even 7 at some point)
so besides Cortana I see nothing that improves over Windows 8 (with a 3rd party menu), I liked the 8 start screen scrolling.
I guess if you like this menu arrangement it is fine. I just find it a big disappointment.
1. Removal of original built-in tools (E.g. calc.exe).
2. Inability in run multiple copies of 'Modern' apps such as Calculator.
3. Lack of Windows Update settings for us poor people with very slow internet connections (e.g. The entire population of Australia).
4. Start-menu search overlapping Taskbar and application icons.
5. Removal of vmguest.iso for Hyperv guests (No drivers for Guests below Win8.1)
6. Elevated Explorer.exe prevents the entire start-menu from functioning.
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I have just installed build 9926 and within 30 minutes I formatted the ssd it was on. its a nightmare build the old windows 10 was ok and I rather liked it but this version was slow and unpredicatable ,,it became very annoying very quickly and as I had dual booted on 2 ssd`s I went straight back to windows 8.1 pro (sigh of relief). they will have to do some serious work before I install it again![]()