[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

[PGHammer]

I wish they would return WINDOWS HOME SERVER, but I know that the possibilities of that are one in like 20 trillion, but  hey, we could always use lower prices to Windows Server 201x Essentials, and maybe opening up Foundation edition to us hobbists?

AnotherITguy - seriously, what was WHS capable of that Server 20102 (or Server 2012R2, for that matter), is not?

 

Server 2012 OR 2012R2 is a perfectly-capable home-LAN storage server; while it is certainly capable of tons more, who says that you have to use that extra capability?

 

What I like about Server 2012R2 is that it can be a storage server AND a virtualization server for a home or other small LAN simultaneously - which is something WHS could never do.

 

What's more, all you need is a dual-core or better CPU with VT-x or AMD-V - unlike 8 or later in the same role, you don't need EPT support.

 

My peeve with the successor to 2012R2 is that it will require EPT support in the virtualization-server role - which 2012R2 does not.

[onewarmslime]

HawkMan, on 30 Jan 2015 - 22:29, said:

Even with a mouse the win8 one is better for connecting to wireless networks, the only complaint people have is that it takes up the whole side of the screen, you know for the two seconds you use it every once in a while...

you can't right click a connection to go to properties. you have to use control panel for that. or troubleshoot. I hate it

[HawkMan]

Well you can still right click the connectiong in the systray to go to network and sharing center. 

 

Sure having the setting directly there was handy, you know, the once a year I needed to actually go and manually edit settings, even those times I usually didn't need to, I just felt like setting stuff manually when I could have let it be or would be better of setting a static DHCP on the router. 

[BajiRav]

heres the guide i used to do my toshiba tablet. i had the 16gb version,and when i was done, i had a little over 12GB free space.

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Encore-Tablets/Windows-8-1-WimBoot/td-p/574620

note, you have to do some additional things to get your hp drivers into the image.

in the guide, when you get to the part where you download the additional drivers zip file for the toshiba, extract it into a folder. look at the directory structure.

each folder for each type of driver. audio, camera,etc.. you now need to replace the contents of these folders with the drivers for your tablet. add additional folders for additional driver types. the files you need are the .sys .inf and .cat files. to get these go to the hp support site, and download all the drivers. each driver will have an exe file. you can extract the contents of the installer with winrar. you'll get a folder, and inside of it there will be some other folder,with one folder containing the driver. you'll be looking for the folder with the .sys .inf and .cat files. so now take those files,and put them in the folder called Audio if these were audio drivers for example.

now that you have your drivers in the correct folders, you'll need to modify the driverin.bat file in the root of that driver folder. you need to make sure to have the correct directories for your hp driver files

for example, this is no longer right because its the toshiba driver

 

so you will modify it with the names and directory of the hp drivers you downloaded earlier, like so

 

 

add additional entries for additional drivers.

 

the rest of the guide should apply to your tablet. if you need help with a step let me know. i would make a usb recovery image before beginning just in case something goes wrong. once you get an image up and running, you can then play around and add additional software you would like, or maybe even attempt a windows 10 image.

The guide has mostly worked for me and I have one of the wim files ready. For preparing install.wim, it uses Toshiba OEM scripts. Where did you get those from? I am looking into wim files in my tablet's recovery files but not sure what I am supposed to get from there.

[vcfan]

The guide has mostly worked for me and I have one of the wim files ready. For preparing install.wim, it uses Toshiba OEM scripts. Where did you get those from? I am looking into wim files in my tablet's recovery files but not sure what I am supposed to get from there.

ah,sorry missed that part.

the files for me were already provided by the guide.

what you need is the OEM folder,which contains the key,license and script to activate windows. you can usually extract these from the recovery partition and wim files. you want to look for an OEM or Windows\OEM or Windows\System32\OEM folder. it should contain in it at least a .cmd file which is the script,and a Certificates folder(which contains a certificate called HP.XRM-MS), thats how you know you found it.

what does your recovery partition look like(what files and folders are in it)?

[BajiRav]

ah,sorry missed that part.

the files for me were already provided by the guide.

what you need is the OEM folder,which contains the key,license and script to activate windows. you can usually extract these from the recovery partition and wim files. you want to look for an OEM or Windows\OEM or Windows\System32\OEM folder. it should contain in it at least a .cmd file which is the script,and a Certificates folder(which contains a certificate called HP.XRM-MS), thats how you know you found it.

what does your recovery partition look like(what files and folders are in it)?

I guess I can skip those for Windows 10 then?

[PGHammer]

you can't right click a connection to go to properties. you have to use control panel for that. or troubleshoot. I hate it

That is because you simply CLICK (not right-click) the connection to get the status of the connection in question - the details are exposed by the Details radio button.  Yes - it IS a regression, but back to 7.

[vcfan]

I guess I can skip those for Windows 10 then?

 

yep, those files are only necessary for automatic oem activation for the version of windows shipped with your device.

 

oh,and I asked someone with a stream 7 about disk space, and I was told a clean factory restore has only 3gb and a bit of usage, with a 5gb recovery partition. the recovery partition could be moved to an external drive, so from clean you should be able to have 23GB+ free(+ the filesystem usage) for a 32GB device without needing to make your own image using the on device factory win 8.1 image.  

[Jan Veteran]

Not new news but apps can colour the titlebar (not sure what build this is):

 

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/2ub7bl/apps_can_colorize_the_title_bar/

[Dot Matrix]

Not new news but apps can colour the titlebar (not sure what build this is):

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/2ub7bl/apps_can_colorize_the_title_bar/

Yes, yes, yes, and more YES!

[Knife Party]

Not new news but apps can colour the titlebar (not sure what build this is):

 

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/2ub7bl/apps_can_colorize_the_title_bar/

that's basically how iOS apps handle the app colour scheme, it changes the statusbar to the same colour. Same on Android. Like the concept.

[nosense]

This apps has 5 different color schemes.

 

 

[Sszecret Veteran]

This apps has 5 different color schemes.

 

- snip - 

 

Reminds me of MetroTwit. 

[Kurt Pochert]

Topic: Windows 10 Technical Preview.

 

Problem: Most obvious problem for me. All Netflix, Amazon Prime, movies do not play nicely, regardless of the browser used. Movie is jerky, not smooth,  and lip sync is off. Movies played perfectly on my fully updated 8.1

 

Any comments on this will be most appreciated. Thanks. 

[Ian S.]

Topic: Windows 10 Technical Preview.

 

Problem: Most obvious problem for me. All Netflix, Amazon Prime, movies do not play nicely, regardless of the browser used. Movie is jerky, not smooth,  and lip sync is off. Movies played perfectly on my fully updated 8.1

 

Any comments on this will be most appreciated. Thanks. 

Maybe graphics card drivers are not Windows 10 compatible/installed? I suggest you start your own thread before it gets lost in this one.

[PotatoAlchemist]

Anyone losing sound playback after booting Windows 10 with fast boot? A restart and a full boot always fixes it, but I'm curious of why it wouldn't work properly when fast booting it.

[TheBlueRaja]

Anyone know how to remove "Most Popular" and Bing wallpaper of the day from the Cortina search area? Also using GPedit to disable Bing search and keep searches local doesnt work by the look of it.

[thechronic]

How is the current build performing? Is it more or less resource intensive than Windows 8.x?

[gohpep]

How is the current build performing? Is it more or less resource intensive than Windows 8.x?

Startup feels slower than normal, but everything else seems the same, if not faster, especially with games.

[Jackaluichi]

Startup feels slower than normal, but everything else seems the same, if not faster, especially with games.

 

I agree. Games seem somehow smoother and more responsive. I've noticed this especially with a couple of them such as Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite.

[HawkMan]

I agree. Games seem somehow smoother and more responsive. I've noticed this especially with a couple of them such as Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite.

 

incidentally, tests shown that 8.1 is fastest in games, followed by 7 then 10...

[Jackaluichi]

incidentally, tests shown that 8.1 is fastest in games, followed by 7 then 10...

It must be a placebo effect, then. Or I'm getting on more than I thought xD

[gohpep]

incidentally, tests shown that 8.1 is fastest in games, followed by 7 then 10...

But seriously, I used to get around 29 FPS on my laptop with Windows 8.1, and now I get a solid 60FPS.

[BajiRav]

Xbox app update coming soon?

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[patseguin Global Moderator]

Anyone else getting an error every time you try to update? I'm wondering how we'll get the next build if update is not working.