Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Slow Build 16278 for PC

Mine installed quickly and easily, using it now. Keen to see how MS Edge behaves!

 

I think this part is going to be well received by the Public come release day.

 

Thats why I went back to insiders *Cool

 

Going to do an experiment by letting Windows get updates automatically rather than manually searching to see if I get new pop up, and what happens if I ignore it.

 

It seems to be better than it was with all previous builds. I have actually been using it for 5 minutes now and haven't felt the need to close it - *Wink

 

Funny you say that, I was just about to come here and post a similar report. Mine seems quite nice and responsive and the terrible laggy/crashing of the last build hasn't happened yet! It feels really nice, fingers crossed...

 

That has been there for a while. Even better if you set up one drive to download on demand, and use "clear space option" at top level, size on disk can be reduced to zero bytes .

 

Spoke too soon - dealing with the bookmarks is still a joke as far as I am concerned - Edge goes from Taskbar to All Apps menu never to be seen again until the next build.

 

When I turn my Insider PC on, it just asked me to restart to install 16275... now there's 16278?

 

Ok... right after installing 16275... 16278 is coming down...

 

I did not know that if you put your cursor tight against the left side of the screen in Edge and scroll up and down, it will go back and forth a page!
(or pages, whatever you visit or whatever the web site offers!)

 

Glad you found some use for Edge - *Wink

 

I realize all that, I knew it was not something brand new. Been using it since available several builds ago. Simply commented that the public will appreciate it. It's not new to me at all.

 

Sure, just that comment was not really connected to this specific build, but you are right - effective return of placeholders is great.

Actually term return of placeholders is inaccurate. Under Windows 8, a place holder was a small file on local drive, with info where actual file was on onedrive.

Windows 10 is actually rather different, as there is no placeholder file, and files are marked on onedrive as being synced or on demand ie info is held on onedrive not local file - this info is held as effectively a file attribute rather than in a placeholder file.

Thus if all files are on demand, and local onedrive has been cleared, the local onedrive folder can have zero bytes.

So effect is like placeholders, but mechanism is quite different.

 

Ok, it was connected to the progression of all these builds, since the availability of the option.

I just wanted to say I think people are going to like the feature. That's all.