Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14251

Oh wow.. now that stinks.. but for some reason I'm not totally surprised. MS wants to shift users over to apps from the store for games from now on.

 

I can assure you there are clever people working on it. Until then I'm using this freebee 123 Free Solitaire - MajorGeeks

The graphics aren't particularly great and you don't have so many undo choices (only one) and no hints (I love the MS solitaire game highlighting the card as if to say "get on with it").

However if you like solitaire as we do it is worth a look.

Anyway, sorry for the diversion, nothing else to report on the new build front at the moment. I tested webex and that still works but that isn't terribly interesting to anyone (unless you use it).

 

No luck for me last night... will try again tonight....

 

Solitaire and Mine sweeper have caused more work hours wasted than cancer and common cold !

 

Probably a lot of installed SW, it takes time to sort all of that out, everything has to be checked for compatibility and returned to it's place.[/QUOTE]
*Ditto

 

thanks guys i will stay on 10586 for now
*Smile

 

Thanks Edwin for the workaround.

 

Hi there

they still work


Look on W8 forums - a while ago but I left a dropbox link - file is mgms-x32x64_1.2

I haven't tried the X-86 (32 bit) version for a while but the X-64 version works perfectly both on Insider build and latest current retail build -- running W10 Pro x-64 on both machines. You need to re-install them again even if you did a W10 upgrade rather than a clean install.

These are the old built in W7 games. Here's a screenshot of Spider Solitaire --I love playing this during Hideous boring office meetings where a lot of "Accidenture" type consultants are rabitting on about some theory using all the latest American "Management Speak" - stops me falling asleep. Do those people actually get Paid -- I can do the same sort of B/S as those guys can but I wouldn't get paid !!!!! and I actually don't have a Suit and tie any more (not that I used one often years ago either).







Cheers
jimbo

 

Install it and find out. *Smile We're Insiders and that's what we're supposed to do.

 

Here ya go, straight from the Horse's mouth:

 

Took 3 tries to get rid of windows.old. Just wouldn't go away. Took ownership and deleted last few files manually.

 

Odd that the cleanup tool didn't remove it all--always works for me--after you run Disk Cleanup, Windows.old will not be removed until you also hit the "Cleanup System files" button and select it...*Wink Then it will remove all without the necessity of having to change file ownership. It's much faster than trying to do it manually.

 

I know all of that, done it million times, even from XP and forward but every now and than it just gets stuck on last few files/folders. Reboot helps sometimes but not always.

 

I tried three times to install 14251 from 11099, but failed three times. Three times the install aborted after the "copy files" portion was completed, upon the automatic reboot, with an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error, after which the system restored my previous build 11099. I can only think that 14251 is trying to boot itself to finish the install process with the IDE driver in place instead of the AHCI driver I must use with my EVO 850 SSD. I tried several things before giving up, including turning off secure boot, legacy booting, and using the UEFI bios's Bootmenu to tell the install program which drive to boot from in case it was getting confused there. This is the second consecutive build I've not been able to use--11102 installed without a problem, but the graphics stack was buggy--so I reverted from there as well. 11099 is the last stable build I'm able to use.