Posted on 10/16/2015 8:33:39 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft's latest preview release of Windows 10, build 10565, adds several features and refinements as the company works towards a major update for all users. The new build is available to anyone signed up for the Windows Insider preview scheme.
Microsoft is now bundling three communications apps with Windows 10: Skype Video, Phone, and Messaging. Three apps seems overkill, but these are universal apps and their simplicity is well suited to mobile devices. This build integrates the Skype apps with the Action Center, so that if you miss a call, for example, you can call back or send a message via quick links.
The mechanism for setting a default printer has changed. In previous versions of Windows, one printer is set as default and you can use print options within an application to use a different printer. In Windows 10, this is changing so that the last printer used is the default. This could be annoying, if, for example, you printed out your huge A3 CAD drawing on the special A3 printer, and then printed your boarding pass to that printer by mistake. However, you can restore the old behaviour if you prefer.
Cortana apparently has new features that we were unable to test, including reading inked notes, tracking appointments through emails, and giving you an option to book an Uber ride when the reminder comes up. The trade-off is more data heading towards Microsofts cloud, unless you choose to turn off Cortana.
Edge, Microsofts new web browser, has a few enhancements in this build. Hovering over a tab now gives you a preview of that page, theres a new icon for web notes, and you can sync favourites and reading list items across devices. Save Target As is now a right-click option for downloads.
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Setting aside all the concerns about spyware and so forth, let's look at some of the good stuff.
Have you gotten remote desktop to work?
I’ll just be happy if they fix it so it doesn’t auto-login to the last user.
Is there no mstsc.exe?
Probably. I didn’t think of looking for it. I was looking for it in the menus. I will Clonezilla back to 10 and try it. Thanks!
So, even though you think Windows 10 is spiffy you are not ready to give up Windows 7?
I’m in the same boat, I hear great things about Window 10 but am reluctant to move because of the vast differences between Windows 7 and Windows 10.
I guess if I had experience with Windows 8, the move would be easier.
I've been telling friends and family who ask me, should they upgrade? that if they have Win7 and like it, and don't like the look of 8, they should stick with 7; but if they have 8/8.1 they should upgrade.
If they hate 8, they'll find 10 a lot better. If they like 8, they'll like 10 even more.
But those who (like me) are still fans of 7, are not likely to jump into bed with 10 immediately.
I'm working with it (in a VM) because I have to be able to support my users who are migrating to it (I'm a System Admin). And I'm finding it's a damn sight better than 8 or 8.1.
That said, I'm keeping my main Windows box at Win7 indefinitely, because it's configured just how I like it and there's no reason to change that.
If you have Windows 8x the decision is a no-brainer. I would say it’s about even with 7 but an upgrade would probably be advantageous as new software that takes advantage of the new features becomes available.
I've long held the view that the only time to upgrade the OS is when you get a new PC. Windows 10 marks the first time in my career where I considered an OS upgrade to be worthwhile under some circumstances.
TY, much need information. I think I will stay with Windows 7 until the last minute.
My son started with Windows 8 with his latest computer and upgraded to Windows 10 and loves it ... little experience with any earlier version of Windows.
I dont care what they use at work, which is still 7, but at home i have 7 and keep getting offers to download 10.
I’m a computer dolt, do i want to take the chance?
IMHO, that was the turd in the punchbowl with 8 that got them is not much trouble.
I will try to talk the wife into "upgrading" (hah!) her 8.1 laptop to 10 once I get a DVD burned of the first stable upgrade version.
IF I like what I see, maybe it will be a consideration, but I doubt it. No need for the bells and crap, I only need an OS to run the background cleanly so my software runs.
Win 7 does that, and I only went to that from XP due to waning driver support and such. 10 is not going to make the box run faster, though a faster boot time would get my attention.
“I dont care what they use at work, which is still 7, but at home i have 7 and keep getting offers to download 10. Im a computer dolt, do i want to take the chance?”
Absolutely not!
I found this about how to get rid of the W10 nagware, though it’s possible that this might be too technical for you:
“KB3035583 [W10 nagware] just showed up AGAIN on a plethora of my client’s systems a few days ago after I had already removed it, unchecked it and hid it weeks earlier.
And doing this is the most outrageous and evil thing Microsoft has done in its history, namely re-releasing KB3035583 after I’ve had dozens of clients pay me to remove it and their other spyware (telemetry) updates.
Furthermore, it appears that the update option, “check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them”, has somehow been ignored with one of these re-released updates as I’ve found systems magically reset to “Install Updates Automatically”, even on systems where the users don’t even know how to access an administrator account.
Two days ago I found KB3035583 installed AGAIN on several systems I support and had to uninstall it AGAIN. I then had Update find it again, unchecked it and hid it, and lo and behold, the Windows 10 installer itself was STILL pending as the only available update! Looking at “view other updates”, I found the Windows 10 installer itself included, and then unchecked and hid it, and that actually BROKE Microsoft updates! After I did the above, update would immediately fail with an error (I think 0x80240019: “WU_E_EXCLUSIVE_INSTALL_CONFLICT An exclusive update cannot be installed with other updates at the same time”).
This happened on ALL the systems at one business I support!
Fortunately I had encountered this problem before when I had had to roll back to W8.1 from W10 for a client who was tricked into installing W10, so I knew what to do, namely apply the following .reg hack (it will solve the problem on both W10 and W8):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]
“AllowOSUpgrade”=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade\State]
“OSUpgradeState”=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
“DisableOSUpgrade”=dword:00000001
[Note: copy the above in a file with .reg type, and execute the reg file by right-clicking and selecting “Merge”.]
This reg hack can be applied at any time when removing, unchecking and hiding KB3035583 and the Windows 10 installer update itself, but the simplest way to use the reg hack is to first uninstall KB3035583, and then apply the above reg hack BEFORE rebooting, namely first use:
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /norestart /quiet
then apply the .reg reghack, and then reboot. I’ve found that if the reg hack is applied that way, the Windows 10 update installer itself will not come back, though you still have to recheck for updates after the boot, to find KB3035583 AGAIN and then uncheck and hide it.
Note KB2952664 comes back too, and if you want to make sure you’ve removed ALL the telemetry put the following in a .bat file:
@echo on
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3075249 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2990214 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:3012973 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /norestart /quiet
wusa /uninstall /kb:2976978 /norestart /quiet
pause
and run the above batch file, THEN do the .reg hack, and then reboot, and as I said before, you will then have to have update check for new updates, find KB3035583 and KB2952664 and uncheck and hide them.
At this point in the game, because of what Microsoft is doing to my clients with their outrageous, repeated attempts to force W10 onto my client’s computers and thereby completely wreck their businesses if they succeed, my only choice is to turn automatic updates off altogether with “Never check for updates” and manually check once or twice a year and see if there’s anything worth allowing to install.”
Install the remote desktop app.
couldn’t follow that in a million years :)
but luckily i can just check the x box in the upper right corner each time i log on and it goes away.
I guess i will have to do that permanently.
I did graphics in the city for a long time. Apple was always better for graphics but Msoft won the advertising war see we always had PCs. I would wait sometimes tens of minutes for changes to save. Sometimes a HALF HOUR.
bttt
(Got to reread this tomorrow while I decide WHEN our PC’s all go in the scrap pile and get replaced with Apple stuff.
What a pain in the.....)
I haven't had time to go look into it. . . so I am not certain it is actually coming from Microsoft. Each of these clients who are getting this are on Cloud based vertical solution software for their businesses. I try it here on my Windows 7 Pro VM install using their software, and I don't see it. I am beginning to think it's the company's providing that that has the problem, and only on their links, not Microsoft, and/or their ISPs. Any ideas? For now, I've just told them to keep saying no to the pop-ups.
I've about decided to do that and not charge my clients for my time. . . it's not their fault. Damn it.
Sounds like that unwanted update to 10 reminder is only on Win 8 machines. Never seen on on my 7 box with “notify” and wife has not mentioned it on her 8.1 laptop that I avoid touching.
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