[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

By Ian S.
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  1. 1. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being worst, 5 being best. What do you think of Windows 10 from the leaks so far?

    • 5.Great, best OS ever
      156
    • 4. Pretty Good, needs a lot of minor tweaks
      409
    • 3. OK, Needs a few major improvements, some minor ones
      168
    • 2. Fine, Needs a lot of major improvements
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    • 1.Poor, Needs too many improvements, all hope is lost, never going to use it
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  2. 2. Based on the recent leaks by Neowin and Winfuture.de, my next OS upgrade will be?

    • Windows 10
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    • Windows 8
      20
    • Windows 7
      48
    • Sticking with XP
      3
    • OSX Yosemite
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    • Linux
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    • Sticking with OSX Mavericks
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  3. 3. Should Microsoft give away Windows 10 for free?

    • Yes for Windows 8.1 Users
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    • Yes for Windows 7 and above users
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    • Yes for Vista and above users
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    • Yes for XP and above users
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    • Yes for all Windows users
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    • No
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WinMunkee

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It only takes about 10 seconds to right click them all and remove them from the menu, hardly a showstopper

This.

 

Not to mention MS is trying to show people their app store exists. Sure most advanced users will find this as a nuisance, but it's not like it's cumbersome to uninstall them. We aren't the only people that use Windows, think about the masses that might actually use some of the apps.

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kozukumi

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Can't you just right click on them and unpin from Start? I tried it and it works fine.

 

Not from the All Apps menu. I will never use some of these Apps so just want them gone.

It only takes about 10 seconds to right click them all and remove them from the menu, hardly a showstopper

 

Yes to remove from the start menu but not from the All Apps list. Not all apps have an Uninstall option.

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Kierax2016

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Cortana, "Tornado alert!" *as computer is sucked out of the window.

 

I am quite impressed at how stable and solid build 10166 is running, I had some real problems beforehand with explorer.exe crashing, gpu driver issues.  Gives me renewed hope for RTM.

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Preppy Veteran

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Guess what? DWM is hacked on Windows 10, those thin borders? It is done with a trick:

You misspelled "done with code, as is every other bit of Windows."  :)   What apps are effected by this?  Blur is pretty deliberately not supported in Windows 10 for window chrome at this time.  You might want to get cute at this point, but that's, as noted, not really a path to success.

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chrisj1968

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I like how Microsoft is backing off UEFI a bit from friends comments while on vacation for the last 2 weeks.

 

Q: Can someone conirm this? I have been out of the loop for a while and interested to know for creating a dualboot system

 

My concern is STILL the icon issue. I'd replace my icons with Vista ones if I could by personal choice.

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xendrome

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UEFI hasn't changed a bit, and not sure what you mean by "backing off"

Microsoft doesn't own UEFI. You either use it or you don't. If your OEM system enables secure boot and doesn't have an option to disable it, that's the OEM, nothing to do with MS. This was covered in the 15 page forum topic a week or two ago 10000x over.

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neufuse Veteran

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I like how Microsoft is backing off UEFI a bit from friends comments while on vacation for the last 2 weeks.

 

Q: Can someone conirm this? I have been out of the loop for a while and interested to know for creating a dualboot system

 

My concern is STILL the icon issue. I'd replace my icons with Vista ones if I could by personal choice.

I thought we had a big convo with you about EFI already?... in another thread?

 

MS is not "backing off UEFI" if anything MS is backing off traditional BIOS's and going pure EFI

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adrynalyne

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I like how Microsoft is backing off UEFI a bit from friends comments while on vacation for the last 2 weeks.

 

Q: Can someone conirm this? I have been out of the loop for a while and interested to know for creating a dualboot system

 

My concern is STILL the icon issue. I'd replace my icons with Vista ones if I could by personal choice.

LOL, this again?

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Ian S.

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You misspelled "done with code, as is every other bit of Windows."  :)   What apps are effected by this?  Blur is pretty deliberately not supported in Windows 10 for window chrome at this time.  You might want to get cute at this point, but that's, as noted, not really a path to success.

Meh, didn't think it was really news, just something interesting to note. Not that it should ever be a problem (I hope). Unless it breaks trying to update the OS style in the future. Who knows? I mean the BSOD was pretty hard to update in Windows 9 apparently.

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The_Decryptor Veteran

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You misspelled "done with code, as is every other bit of Windows."  :)   What apps are effected by this?  Blur is pretty deliberately not supported in Windows 10 for window chrome at this time.  You might want to get cute at this point, but that's, as noted, not really a path to success.

Yeah, I should have responded to this when it was originally posted, what the DWM is doing seems perfectly normal and makes a lot of sense (Due to how input is handled).

I mean, the guy on Twitter edited it to use the background blur, but didn't provide a mask, so of course it's going to blur the entirety of the window frame.

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PsYcHoKiLLa

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Anyone else getting random sound loops while watching mp4 on the Film & TV app while using an Nvidia? I've got a GTX760 4GB and I'm getting that behaviour, the same drivers were fine in previous versions to 10166 though. Very annoying since Windows 10 has been nice up until then, hope they can sort it out before launch with some new drivers.

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MikeM97

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Meh, didn't think it was really news, just something interesting to note. Not that it should ever be a problem (I hope). Unless it breaks trying to update the OS style in the future. Who knows? I mean the BSOD was pretty hard to update in Windows 9 apparently.

Windows 9? Never heard about it except from rumors' side...(before we knew the real follower for Windows 8.1)

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PsYcHoKiLLa

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Windows 9? Never heard about it except from rumors' side...(before we knew the real follower for Windows 8.1)

 

Windows 9 was skipped as a version number because lazy programmers in the 90's used "Windows 9* " as a shortcut to signify Windows 95, 98 and 98SE to denote possible install versions and if Microsoft had brought out Windows 9 then any programs done by those lazy programmers would have thought Windows 9 was 95 or 98 so it could have caused problems so they decided to skip it.

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DeusProto

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If 10.0.10240.16388 or any other build was sent to OEMs as some sources have claimed, then it won't be long for it to leak.

 

Or if it goes to OEMs today, I'd guess the ISOs will be floating around by midnight pacific time.

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