Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Fast & Skip Build 16273 for PC

Just a wild guess, but maybe the general speedup we're all seeing is the result of what they (MS) were trying to do that caused all of their self-host crashes and roll-backs. They maybe were re-engineering the whole UUP scenario and hit a ton of bugs. Then finally got it and released.

 

On second try the old 32 bit machine did it. Yippy! This time it took 3 hrs 10 minutes including ISO.

 

I'm thinking that MS is finally in the fix-it mode and new features will come later. I have a small laptop that I've been wanting to try Win 10S on. 10S may just be what it needs to bring life back to it.

 

What's are the calling the Photo App now? *Smile

 

Can't prove it by me. My computer started installing at 9:13pm and it's now 9:57pm and it's at 62%. The download was fast.

 

Probably good they do fix the already deployed features before bringing in the new. Compounding errors would be bad for all. Reading all that has been fixed on this build, the worker bees have been busy.

I thought about my old Dell Inspiron running on 10S and it's not a bad idea at all. It's getting by quite well on 10 Pro but 10S would be easier on it. I need to upgrade the wife's Dell Vista machine and she just may get 10S. She uses Android tablets for most things but thinks she deserves an upgraded Windows machine also, lol!

 

My laptop originally came with Windows 8. I upgraded it to Window 8.1 then Windows 10. After upgrading it the laptop always seemed to under powered and slow that I stopped using it.

 

All but a few features, but a lot of fixes listed in Brink's OP. Probably be fixes from here until OEM release.

Just really lookin at it now. Weather app live tiles are now working.

 

16273 has failed to install several times on my Win 10 laptop - first installation got to 14% in Working on Updates phase, then the system spontaneously reverted to 16257. Several Retry attempts also failed, error 0x80070020. I tried to update from within Safe Mode (one suggested cure for that error) but with no luck. Quitting for the night (almost 11 PM EST), will try to research this some more tomorrow. May try a clean install but I don't know that I can trust the ISO I created, as that was the one that failed the first time.

 

Finally got to 100% around 10:40pm. Making my ISO then I'll do a restart. *Smile

 

My total time to Install and restart was 1:37. The restart took 10 minutes.

 

Yes, much quicker here as many have found (sorry Kari!!).

All looks good as usual.

Thanks, Joanne, for reminder to turn hiber off.

 

Unfortunately, I seem to be stuck in an endless reboot loop. It tells me that it couldn't install, then it gives me a "Critical Service Failed" GSOD, and when I use my Win8 thumb drive to access a recovery console (and yes, I am aware it's a different version, but it's the only recovery console I have access to), it won't let me roll back to the previous version. I really don't want to have to do a reset because I don't have all of the programs to reinstall. Right now I am trying to find a 16273 ISO so I can upgrade that way. If that doesn't work, can I use an earlier version to get me sorta back to where I was before?

 

It needs way more upvoting to get noticed.
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At least they fixed the silly, completely unacknowledged (until today) sleep issue.

What is your souped-up system disk setup? Nvme? RAID 0? Both?

 

Yes, fast one, less than an hour on this machine and that's counting download of about 40mbps. I attribute that to missing 77-79% high disk usage which is slowest part of all. It would be even faster if process used more resources, I have 6 cores, 12 thread 4GHz processor and update uses only one core/thread. Same with RAM, only 20% of 16GB. If it was using more resources it would be even faster. It's not very best idea to use computer during the update as it may interfere with process so saving resources is not a priority.
I'm going to use same ISO, I made from this one, on second computer that's much slower with 4 cores and 5400Rpm HDD and see how long it takes. That would be minus download time of course.