Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10166

right you can make an ISO from the the stored ESD after it downloads and or installs .

 

i don't take any offense to it, but i think you missed my point, or at the very least don't give it much credence. i agree with you about piracy, but i feel ten times more strongly about privacy! it's not m$ business what i choose to put in my cloud storage. and to assume because some people will pirate software, that it's ok for them to absolutely trash my privacy, is imbecilic in my opinion. if they want to wage a war against piracy, so be it. but don't infringe on my rights to privacy to do it. privacy should not be sacrificed for ANY CORPORATIONS desires. the large corporations of this country are the MOST criminal aspects of this country. they control everything and everyone, including the gov. so giving them more leeway to take away my rights is ludicrous. they are already taking more and more of our freedoms away every year, and people stand by and say that's ok. but i don't! it's not ok! and it never will be. it is a slippery slope, and you can already see so many of our freedoms are slipping away everyday. now you think it is ok for them to breach our privacy for their own personal battle against piracy. hell no! not for me. and while i like and agree with most of your posts, this is one where i do not agree at all. so i'm happy to be on the opposite end of the spectrum from you on this point, and will shout if from the roof tops. no shame in my game.

 

Yes, I knew I can, but you probably missed my posts #32 and #42.

 

Not available yet here in the Denver, Co. USA area. 12:40 pm mountain time zone
Jim

 

I would just empty the recycle bin and maybe run disc clean and clean out your (old windows fol;ders ) and previous windows installs in there ( within old windows folders using disc clean ) if your last update was less than 4 weeks ago that's about it .


OTOH if you have enough drive space it won't be a problem Windows will just park your current buld in another old windows sub folder and auto delete the previious one at the end of 4 weeks anyway .

IOW Having 2 -3 old windows test bullds stored does use up ~ 20 - ++ GB (depending what u have in there ) ea of extra space for each build with the rapid pace of the fast ring now whereas previously an old build would be auto deleted before a new one came out .

You can also clean browser history and cache but not necessaery it will get copied over in an update and your browsing won't slow down from newley empty browser cashe .

 

My OneDrive had activity which could be interpreted as if I was sharing illegal software. For me the fact that they politely asked me about this and the downloads by external users were suspended for this period (downloads from my own PC, signed in to OneDrive with my MS Account of course worked all the time) is to me a sign that MS takes this seriously. Although annoyed when this happened, I fully understood their reasoning; the matter was handled rapidly and I gave MS a few extra points for really checking that I am not using my OneDrive for illegal software distribution.

You know (should know at least) I like you, let's respect our different views *Smile

You did not get it? Because MS is not willing to sacrifice my privacy they could not check if the uploaded files were legal to share. That's why they asked me to explain it.

 

again, i don't see it as them protecting your privacy, but invading it. if they want to wage war against the pirates, then do that, not the end users. they should't be using you, to fight a battle against someone else. monitoring users activities isn't how you beat piracy, it's stopping the pirates from giving it to them. that's the proper way, not infringing on our freedoms.

and i like your quote above, so we can agree to disagree on this point.

 

Has anyone had any lucky getting Cortana to answer to "Hey Cortana"? This feature hasn't worked for me for quite a few builds now. She understands perfectly after hitting the mic button, but otherwise nothing.

 

yes, it works perfectly for me. i have put it through a whole battery of tests, and it completed everything without fail.

you might have to retrain it. someone with the last build upgrade had to do that. so go back through the training of your voice, and see if that helps.

 

Now I get it .......I remember when I was on 100% Copper DSL at about that speeed before the FTTN U verse upgrade here ☻☻

 

Yes, even in Canada today!! LOL

 

Interesting: a PC would not find the upgrade. Signed in with an MS Account, Fast Ring selected. Refreshed, restarted the WU service, nothing. Some Defender update, no new build.

Just to test all possible scenarios I created a new user account, with another MS / Insider account of mine. Made the new account admin, signed out from the old one and signed in to new one. Removed the original MS Account, rebooted and signed in with the new user account with this other MS / Insider account of mine and it immediately started to download the 10166.

 

Downloaded and installed. The install took 13 minutes. I did Shawn's aerolite theme to get the color title bar back. So far it going great. Even Cortana is working good.

 

LOL Kari - MS didn't like that particular account.....not the one associated with your ISOs on OneDrive was it? (just kidding...) *Wink

 

By Jove, I think MS is getting this download and update thing to work good. Downloaded and installed in 45 minutes flat and all of that with mediocre internet speed and not exactly a beast of a computer. There's still hope for them. A friend of mine just came from work and noticed a strange number in the corner of the screen. He said he could swear he left it on 10162 and now it's 10166.