[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
      79
    • 1.Poor, Needs too many improvements, all hope is lost, never going to use it
      41

  2. 2. Based on the recent leaks by Neowin and Winfuture.de, my next OS upgrade will be?

    • Windows 10
      720
    • Windows 8
      20
    • Windows 7
      48
    • Sticking with XP
      3
    • OSX Yosemite
      35
    • Linux
      24
    • Sticking with OSX Mavericks
      3

  3. 3. Should Microsoft give away Windows 10 for free?

    • Yes for Windows 8.1 Users
      305
    • Yes for Windows 7 and above users
      227
    • Yes for Vista and above users
      31
    • Yes for XP and above users
      27
    • Yes for all Windows users
      192
    • No
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AtomR

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What's the fault data for that crash as found in the View all Problem Reports control panel?

 

I didn't check it. I removed W10 from my PC. Waiting for GA release to perform a clean install.

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MikeM97

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What? 

 

I have no problems with mine.  Activated fine here.

 

You probably did wrong. Or missed a step.... whatever it is.

I've just assumed it would do that as much as MS has said that their key is down till 29th.

It happened for me in a VM,so not the best experience.

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HawkMan

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Does CRTL+SHIFT+S work?

And rightclicking downloads links and saving don't give file popup?

 

ctrl+shift+s doesn't do anything. right clicking does not give any download options in the context menu. 

 

Annoying since one of IE's best features was the ability to run files directly without saving to disk first then opening. 

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The_Decryptor Veteran

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I am sorry... Were you trying to develop a Universal Windows App and wanted to read the official documentation? Well, you've made the wrong choice then.

Sadly that's kinda normal for MS documentation, they like to move pages around, sometimes they document things incorrectly (Their coverage of IE used to be really bad for that), and sometimes they just don't document things at all.

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Why?

 

I have no flipping idea. Most UWP do not work and crash on startup. They have got to be kidding me that the OS is ready for release. Cold crashes on a fresh installation a week before release. Wonderful!

 

I cannot wait for the crapfest that will start happening on the 29th.

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MikeM97

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I have no flipping idea. Most UWP do not work and crash on startup. They have got to be kidding me that the OS is ready for release. Cold crashes on a fresh installation a week before release. Wonderful!

 

I cannot wait for the crapfest that will start happening on the 29th.

Kindly agree with you here,but 8.1 does the same to me and I don't wanna revert to XP,so...No changes.

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Kindly agree with you here,but 8.1 does the same to me and I don't wanna revert to XP,so...No changes.

 

Oh, this is getting even better. Not just the Store, most things are broken. I cannot open pictures. The app crashes. Also Mail, Calendar, Weather, and a bunch of other things crash as well.

 

ON A FRESH INSTALL! /clap

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kaborka

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I tried upgrading Win7 to W10 last weekend using an ISO of 10162, but it failed during the "Checking PC..." phase of setup with "Setup has failed to validate the product key." Posts on various forums suggest MS invalidated all the Insider keys last week. Guess I shouldn't have waited to try out W10. I'm bummed.

 

I'm not to do the free upgrade from Win 7 because I don't want to give up dual-booting, keeping my Win 7 as long as I need it. I'm hoping they provide another build for the Insider program before too long.

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PGHammer

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Not being able to organize your tool shed is no reason to affect those of us that can.

And why can't you use them both at once?  Not everyone is a Dropbox user - heck, I have a Google Drive I hardly use.  (The only reason I use it at all is due to Google Music - which came with BlueStacks and my Lenovo Tab 2 - leveraging it; GM is unable to leverage OneDrive in that fashion.)

 

OneDrive IS something I use - a lot - and have since it launched; it is, in fact, especially useful now that I have multiple PCs and the Android tablet (which has OneDrive for Android and Word for Android installed; I'll likely reinstall Outlook for Android once I get an sdcard).  You are a Dropbox subscriber - that's fine; nothing in OneDrive blocks you from using Dropbox - even as your default cloud service; same applies to Google Drive, for that matter.  Isn't your REAL issue that Dropbox integration into Windows is sorely lacking compared to OneDrive - or even Google Drive?  (Where OneDrive excels - for me - is integration into Office, and specifically, Microsoft Word - which is on all my hardware.  I write/edit in snatches, and the tag-team of Word and OneDrive fits that workflow to a T.)

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max84

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Has anyone tried the reset feature? How 'clean' is it compared to boot-from-usb-and-nuke-it-from-orbit install? I'm somehow doubtful about the cleanliness of the reset feature. Does it leave any remaining files from the previous install?

 

It is just like a clean install. However, it keeps all the drivers. As of 10, I heard it also keeps all the already installed windows updates.

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nekrosoft13

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I just got an alert that my insider status had to be "fixed", I clicked ok and it kicked my 10 VM out of the insider program :laugh:

Still shows as activated and licensed to me, no idea why that happened.

is there a way to see to what machines are under your insider profile?

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