Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Skip Ahead Build 17618 - Mar. 7

1. Still required a hard reset after going to sleep on my desktop.
2. Successfully updated a Hyper-V Build 17604 VM to Build 17618
3. Now upldating an ESXi Build 17604 VM to build 17618 using setup.exe on the 17618 ISO. This instance reverted from Skippy and the registry hack did not work. It likely would never update until the fast and skip ahead tracks were merged. I'm going to run another imaging program on my Windows Server 2016 and go to sleep. We will see what happens when I awake.

 

Upgraded VM so took long time.
Playing with sets so far disappointed.
Was anyone able to open file explorer in new tab of file explorer window (two file explorer tabs in same window). When I open new tab it just opens Edge.
I can type app name to launch it in search bar and most of the time it either launches new window or overrides previous tab if app was same.
I only had success opening file explorer and weather app in same window tabs.

Oh never mind found this in blog:

 

Anyone else seeing this in Edge, all Favorites bar icons changed to a generic one:

 

I got this at first, then went to settings, updates and recovery, windows Insider Programme, and made sure I was set to get Insider builds, and changed option to recieve skip ahead, then rebooted, and tabs now appeared.

 

Works fine on my pc.

 

Thanks! That actually worked on my tablet. I could have sworn I did that on my desktop as well, but maybe not. I'll try again on my PC again tomorrow.

 

Thanks for this. It is really yucky that pressing the +tab opens an Edge tab. I hope they mean in future pressing tab will open second instance of app, rather than having to click on file explorer icon in task bar but I doubt it.

Getting tabs at last after 20+ years of having them dropped is good but I would like to see ability to cascade the tabs, or put them side by side.

 

That didn't work on my PC, unfortunately. Keep in mind I upgraded from 17115 to 17618.

 

Finally upgraded to 17618...after uninstalling Kaspersky Anti Virus software which caused a green screen/failed install klbackupdisc.sys.

Two issues

Store & all the apps not working (I tried the workaround which did not work!
In File Explorer I can see the + sign on open a new tab but for some reason that opens Edge *Smile

Anyone else having the File Explorer & apps issue?

Thanks Steven

 

Yes, edge opens on every APP that has + sign.

 

Why? Should not be opening a new explorer tab?

 

Solution was posted by @VBJP earlier.

• When launching a supported desktop (Win32) app from a tabbed window, such as protocol/file launch or from the new tab page, it launches in a new window instead of auto-grouping to the existing window. You can work around this for now by holding down the Ctrl key while launching a supported desktop (Win32) app – note, for File Explorer, in particular, you will need to hold down Ctrl until the new tab with File Explorer appears, not just Ctrl + click and immediately release.

Rather than clicking plus, hold down ctrl key, and right click on file explorer, and select file explorer in popup context menu.

Cack handed but works.

 

That's part of "Sets" and not classical tabs, those (for File Explorer should come later.

 

Ok..well I tried the @VBJP method in File Explorer, does not work as expected for me. I have read about 'Sets', but am still unclear exactly what it should do!! Anyway always interesting to try new versions.

 

CTRL + middle-clicking in the file explorer button in the taskbar also works.