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So I just installed 10056 and soo far so good. I am digging the dark theme that it came with when I installed it.

 

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A few issues I have ran into though are Just like in 10051 Spartan crashes whenever I try to type "google.com" I get to "goo" before it just dies. Search is for some reason incredibly bad in this build I typed in "Control Panel" and it wanted to install something from the app store it seems like all I am getting is web searches so I turned it off from normal view. That and the search function is also very crashy so that doesn't help. 

 

Also whenever I hit the start button sometimes it will halt for just a second then open and then when I close the start menu the start bar will go down like auto-hide is enabled and then re-appear again some of the time.

New weather,sports money app in build 10056. Looks like small task bar is still being worked on, Spacing is off on it.

 

Also notice the recycle bin pin in explorer and task bar is different from the desktop icon. 

 

Looks like tablet mode is being worked on.

-A lot of win32 apps wont open in tablet mode.

-Apps don't show up on the task bar.

-When in tablet mode the spacing of notification area is more widely spaced out. 

-pin apps on task bar disappear when in tablet mode. 

 

Metro\windows apps can now be re sized all the way down to a tiny window\title bar and it scales to windows size. ( I GUESS PEOPLE CAN STOP MOANING ABOUT CALC TAKING UP SCREEN SPACE)

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- Right Click "Screen Resolution" renamed to "Display Settings"

 

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To capture new about:flags completely in one pic, I have to change VM resolution quite and as a result:

 

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Apparently Project Spartan will get to crash when you're typing in the address bar if you don't have the Indexing Service enabled.
I know that Samsung Magician will mostly disable it since it deems it not so useful on SSD's.

Got my Lumia 920 updated to this and man it is unstable as hell

 

Liking

- Settings app

- Overall UI looks sleeker

- Keyboard is even better and buttery :) (loving this)

- Text to speech on keyboard has been so far 100% accurate

- Shape writing now shows words forming as you are drawing - awesome!

- People app and phone app updates are nice

- Updated mail and calendar experience is gorgeous!

 

Dislikes and crashes so far (in first two hours)

- Photos app : almost every time

- Spartan : is barely usable

- Cortana : UI terrible and barely usable

- No live tile support in Outlook mail & calendar, blurry icon

- Can't pin individual email accounts to start

Could anyone share the imageres.dll of Build 10056 located in C:\Windows\system32? I want to replace my mum's one on Windows 8.1. Thanks a lot.

Umm I wouldn't do that... it might break icon associations as Windows 10 is changing nearly all of them, but... http://1drv.ms/1PvBnoJ

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Got my Lumia 920 updated to this and man it is unstable as hell

 

Liking

- Settings app

- Overall UI looks sleeker

- Keyboard is even better and buttery :) (loving this)

- Text to speech on keyboard has been so far 100% accurate

- Shape writing now shows words forming as you are drawing - awesome!

- People app and phone app updates are nice

- Updated mail and calendar experience is gorgeous!

 

Dislikes and crashes so far (in first two hours)

- Photos app : almost every time

- Spartan : is barely usable

- Cortana : UI terrible and barely usable

- No live tile support in Outlook mail & calendar, blurry icon

- Can't pin individual email accounts to start

 

Installed mine overnight, haven't played with it much. outlook is a new app so I suspect it'll get live tile as an app update as soon as it's ready. 

 

Something I did notice, they added Caller ID app support. finally I can install a number look up app on my WP. now I just need someone to make the Norwegian spam number database app for AP :)

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