Windows 10: New Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10074 now available

(ref upgrade today's iso over yesterday's) No Dude, only thing I found, after stressing it as much as I could, the 1 day newer, bigger one, doesn't keep asking me to verify who I am. People still doesn't work, just like Gabe said, update kept trying to download an older version of my NVIDIA video driver even though I have the newest one...it finally gave up after 2 hours. First time opening every app and program was painfully slow, then they worked after that. Not seeing what they did to make it bigger.

 

I don't know exactly what they've done, but everything just looks nicer, maybe it's the Aero, don't know, but it's starting to look really good. Mail and calendar aren't working for some reason, they've changed the weather app and the Xbox app, probably a heap of other stuff, but I'm liking it.

Spartan seems to be working better for me, I've had a few problems with it before, it's very fast on my 6 year old computer. I was getting Windows 8.1 withdrawal but I'm liking 10 more all the time.

Oh, I just updated, no new ISO, and everything worked smoothly.

 

Upgraded over night. Not sure how long it took but I know over 3 hours. I'm posting this using Spartan

 

why does installing the update take so long. i swear its been like over an hour now.

 

Right now I'm running build 10061, instead of downloading the build 10074 ISO file and doing a clean install, isn't ok just to install the latest build (10074) right over build 10061, like I've been doing ? Using this method didn't seem to cause any MAJOR issue's for me.
David *Huh

 

I've never had a problem with it. If you do, then go the clean install route.

 

I got it from Windows update, no problems at all. It was the smoothest upgrade so far. Spartan (Edge) still does not work for me though.

 

Edwin,
Thanks for your quick reply..I'm typing this reply using windows 8.1, I changed back to this o.s. as my default because windows technical preview build 10061 was still somewhat buggy for me. But now with the release of build 10074, I'll install it and give it a 'test drive', who knows..I might actually like it.
David *Tongue

 

I upgraded a copy of my W8.1 install to Build 10074 yesterday and its running very smoothly. All the programs I had installed in W8.1 work just fine in W10.

 

I just read on the Insiders forum that there is a known issue with Spartan crashing so thankfully it is not only me.

 

Good for you, the upgrade worked. I have a question what media did you create (dvd or usb drive) to install build on your PC ? what software did you use to create the media ?

 

I always keep my Windows 8.1 as my current default. When Windows 10 is ready to go then I will change it to that version. I'M on 8.1. It only makes sense.

 

I downloaded the esd file for Build 10074 and used Kari's tutorial to convert it to an iso file.
ESD to ISO - Create Bootable ISO from Windows 10 ESD File
I then ran the upgrade directly from the iso file.

Please beware that I first restored an image of my W8.1 Pro installation to another disk and then ran the upgrade over that copy.

 

"

• You can now launch Win32 (desktop) apps from the Start menu again. Sorry about this bug!"

WOW!
But now I can't pin anything to start menu and all my shortcuts are WIPED!
Thank you M$ :|

 

I'm happy I got my icons back from 49...they were still blank untill about the third reboot after install finished. *Smile Still a problem running in full screen...most apps have to be run in a window frame, but xbox is signing in again.