Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Fast+Skip Ahead Build 17040 for PC

Yeah. All tiles for non-UWP apps (Photoshop, Steam, Afterburner etc.) disappeared after the upgrade.

 

It's all here and at same order as left, unlike with 17025 when some were missing and all reverted to default as in clean install.



No problems detected yet.

 

Well, now I wish I'd thought to make an ISO. Eh, I was planning on doing a clean install soon anyway, so I guess I'll pop back to FCU and then wait on the next build.

 

The phrase "toys out of the pram" comes to mind.

 

Not all canary builds make it to the fast ring. This is not done to annoy insiders it is because they are not stable enough for release.

 

The Build!

Seems the upgrade process is creating dead boot loader entries and defaulting the timer to 0 every time, so I get nowhere!

 

Can't find any major faults, not even ones listed in Known problems. Only thing is that the problem with AMD systems in 17035 was probably solved by lowering system, specially processor and disk performance. those two dropped about 10% in the benchmark comparing to 17025.

 

Updated both Fast Ring and Skip Ahead in Hyper-V. No issues to report on neither. Now for testing...

Those who has issues with Windows.old not getting removed after a full disc cleanup, PM me or Mention me here and I take a look. I had leftover folders on both VMs but I could remove all of them with my usual methods.

 

I got it deleted with no problems this time.

 

Everything appears to be working as it should, no faults found, Updating faultless yet again.....how annoying it must be for those with multiple problems to keep reading this.

Could it be that faults are minimised by having a separate SSD or HD specifically used ONLY for the Insider program.?
All programs, games, etc, can then all be loaded onto the O/S and tested.

It works for me.

 

That's how I have it set, one disk each for W10, W7 and Mint with multiboot set in W10 and 7. Still I had some problems with some builds.

 

I did state Mike "faults are minimised".....One cannot expect perfection with O/S,s in Beta.

During early stages of W10, encountered problems with W10 and W10 Insider multi-booting on same SSD, hence my preference of separation.