Windows 10: Windows 10 Build 10074 Expected at BUILD 2015

Yes, it'll be the best thing Microsoft has done in quite some time--surpassing Win7 in popularity, no doubt. One area that currently needs a lot of work is the Start Menu, though. It needs to be at least as useful and robust as the Win7 menu, and hopefully even more powerful. Being able to access and/or run every program in a box from the single desktop page is a huge advantage compared to having to change screens and then horizontally and vertically scrolling several more pages to see it all (They should have named the "start page" "scrolling pages".) At least, that's certainly true for those of us who choose to use keyboards & mice...

 

This. I clean installed 10061 on my laptop and can't even install drivers, so its useless. Trying to do an in place upgrade now but if that doesn't work i'll try 10056, which I didn't have the time to try when it was current. Pointless to spend too much time figuring out 10061 if there is potentially a more polished build coming out this week.

 

Sorry to hear that its not working out for you. Maybe the newer build will work better for you. Hope it does get dropped at the Build.

 

I have 10061 installed at the moment. It disables my keyboard and I have to use the on screen version. PITA. I am going back to the iso10041. I do not think I will have a choice of which version the update will advance me to after install? Fast = 10061 again, Slow = 10056??

 

I think if you are on SLOW you will stay on 10041, FAST yes 10061 you are correct. 10056 was never actually released IIRC, only leaked. So you wont get it pushed out to you

 

Thanks... Hopefully. This is a serious driver issue (I figured out the root cause of it is Windows update trying to install graphics drivers, and them being bad drivers/failing which causes my screen to go black, and the intel setup.exe from Intels site, as well as the .zip with the .inf's fails with a "your PC not supported" error.)

 

The intention of Microsoft is that all new installations of W10 on computers with W7 and W8.1 will be done by updating,
If you have a M$ account it would make the whole process of transferring all your data a doddle.

As for your opinion regarding an ISO install is better, only if you have messed about with the registry or have a compromised computer.

Others like myself have updated each issue without problem during the installation, obviously bugs have been found afterwards, but surely isn't this why M$ have released these previews is to sort out these out.

 

I was on fast with leaked 10056. 10061 was pushed to me and I did the upgrade. 10061 is running great with no issues. I normally do clean installs only but decided for this build to just do the upgrade. No issues. Amazing how different systems get so many different results.

 

Wonder if yesterday's system April update had anything to do with your results?

 

What do you mean Charlie?

Jeff

 

I mean if you build an ISO and do a clean install of 10061 it tends to run a bit better?

 

Doubtful, yesterday was when I installed and got that issue. The only other thing i'm gonna try is installing it in a VM, doing all the windows updates, then generalising it and imaging it to my laptop. If that doesn't work i have no idea what to do, which sucks, because I want to run Windows 10.

 

Yes, but the final release is intended to update Windows 7, or 8.x. During the betas, lots of crud and settings get left behind that mess things up, so these upgrades can be problematic. I've had a few, and clean installs work much better than upgrades from previous betas.

 

Have not experienced any remnants of either crud or settings left behind after updating in this preview and am still of the same opinion, registry alterations or a compromised computer probably cause these problems.

 

I've had issues after doing upgrade installs. No such issues after a clean install though. Clean install is usually a lot faster too.