Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16176 PC + 15204 Mobile

*chuckle

 

Didn't see the notice until just now: went to check both test machines and here's what I found: the desktop was ready to reboot, and the hybrid tablet 75% finished with "preparing to install" (now at 86% as I write this message). So far, so good: I'll follow up shortly with additional results & observations once they complete. The automation bit does seem to be working, though...
--Ed--

About an hour later: the desktop is done, up and running, no problems. The laptop is 32% in on "Working on upgrades." I've noticed the installer seems more aggressive about using memory and CPU during the install process, so things seem to be going a bit faster vis-a-vis earlier Creators Update and Redstone 3 upgrades/"feature updates". No problems so far on the desktop and still too early to tell on the hybrid tablet (Dell Venue Pro 7130). More later when the whole thing is over...

Made it through the whole process on both test machines without any problems. The update did seem faster on the desktop (i7 4770K, 32 GB RAM, Samsung 850 EVO SSD) but I couldn't tell any difference on the hybrid tablet (older i5 dual core mobile CPU, 8 GB RAM, OEM LiteOn SSD). Cleanup and follow-up didn't show anything odd with drivers, disk space, or DISM either. I did, however, just trigger a BSOD (unhappy face: "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart" while trying to log into the hybrid laptop. I'll report further if anything interesting or untoward comes up. Nope: just had to disconnect an external USB device to get the hybrid tablet to boot correctly.

 

Magilla, I had to reinstall Office 365 one of my Creators updates as well.

WEK

 

Did you lose any of your outlook email, tasks, calendar with that? I did repair, which installs all programs, but there was still a problem -something about the license couldn't be installed. Went back to previous version, reinstalled Creators version and same thing. So, I left it for the official download of creators. Interesting enough, on laptop I have the second license of office that is paired with desktop version. It installed on that version with no problems. Go figure.

 

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3 attempts, three failures to update. "System Service Exception" on all three attempts. Tried cleaning up the C: drive, deleted the Windows.BT folder and still no luck. Too bad, it was nice to wake up to a fully updated system which the last several updates did on their own.

 

downloaded and installed quick and as usual touchpad stopped working and had to reinstall the
the driver
sfc /scannow

 

Created ISO using Kari's UUPtoISO program from a VM using the directory in windows.old. While its nice that Windows automatically rebooted into the new build its nice to know that the ESD information is available in windows.old for future reference. Othewise I'm continuing to update all the local and remote VMs. I have now been able to boot Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 independent of each other by copying the BCD stuff to the Windows partition which happens to be partition 2. So I don't need to create dual boot VMs anymore and less wear and tear on the hardware. Things are looking good.

 

Disk cleanup on 2 remote VMs. I wonder why the great differences in windows.old size.?

 

Updated to both 16170 and 16176 within 24hrs without any issue except for the boot problems 16170 caused to my main Windows 10 on another SSD. It was the first time it happened since I separated the 2 installations between MBR and GPT disks more than a year ago. But not a big deal. Image backups are sweet.

 

Do you have a GPT disk on your SSD? If so how is it working out. I'm leaving my SSD with the 3 operating systems as MBR unless I can find a good reason to convert it to GPT. The 2 internal drives I use for storage (almost completely of VMs) are HDD drives with GPT.

 

Yes. Separate SSDs. I use GPT because it works better with UEFI for me. I am only using MBR to isolate the Insider OS from my main OS so that they don't mess up with it each other. But unfortunately I had one incident last night when I upgraded to 16170. That was the first time. But it could be my fault.