Will I need to reinstall windows 10 preview often?

[Compman55]

Help me out here. Back when beta testing windows vista, they had a very ugly xp style start menu button and taskbar. That build became obsolete and no longer patched, then I had to download another build which had the vista taskbar & start menu that we all use today. That build remained and matured to where vista was prior to SP1.

With the buggy windows 10 tech preview, will they keep patching it and it will get better, or will I need to trash it every month or 2 to avoid bit rot & bugs?

 

[corkyg]

Trash it as soon as you have previewed it. It is not even Beta yet.

 

[JackMDS]

The Consumer version that would appeal well to the Cosmetic orientated Enthusiasts should be released in Jan. 2015.


The current preview is intended to give an "Head Up" to serious Enterprise users.

 

[Dahak]

The current build is good until April 2015. But if you want the new bits for it, if they dont release it them through the windows updates, you would have to re-install the new release.

Supposedly they are going to release new bits of it through windows update

 

[Compman55]

The new build seems to install perfect on top of the old one. Took forever, but it did. Really liking the new OS. Moving from 7 to 10 I hope will be good. I just hope they do not force a fresh install at a certain point like they did with vista beta.

 

[Underclocked]

The upgrade that I did with the new build did not go well at all. The result was sluggish and slow. Fonts did not display properly in either desktop programs or Internet Explorer. Restarts and another windows update did not help. I trashed it and loaded the new build from an iso (converted from the esd). Much better, none of the problems from the upgraded load were present.

So I would say your results with an upgrade install will vary. If you are running the preview as a primary operating system, you are being foolish and careless with your system. My install is on a completely separate computer that I use as a playground for such things.

There are surely some gains to be had with the newer build but so far they've had no real world effect so far as things I do with that system. Better animation is nice but hardly a major improvement. The notification center looks to be a joke at this point. Why a notification center along with an action center??

 

[Compman55]

I only ask because with a beta OS I like to pile my programs in to test. It gets old doing it over and over again.

In 2014 all OS manufactures should make the upgrade process 100% perfect.

Since Windows 3.1, on up, I have had little success with upgrades working well after. There were exceptions.

 

[Dahak]

Well part of the beta process is that if needed you have to be aware and prepared that you may need to do a full wipe and re-install.

And if you are not prepared to do that, it might be best not to use the beta.

Having said that, most of the updates to it should be pushed through windows update now that they have the special fast / slow update release option

And thorough the last bit of the public beta for 7, I was able to directly upgrade from the last public release to fine without any issue

 

[Underclocked]

Must add that I did another upgrade install in that same test computer last night. The hard drive had a completely loaded and updated copy of Windows 7 on it. Did the upgrade to the original release, then the upgrade to the 9860 release. Experienced some sluggish behavior and badly blurred fonts after the last upgrade but the two available windows updates seemed to correct the issues.

So, it's your mileage may vary with the upgrades.

Still no floppy drive support.

 

[podspi]

The upgrade that I did with the new build did not go well at all. The result was sluggish and slow. Fonts did not display properly in either desktop programs or Internet Explorer. Restarts and another windows update did not help. I trashed it and loaded the new build from an iso (converted from the esd). Much better, none of the problems from the upgraded load were present.

I had the same (really weird) issue. Installed some updates that were in Windows Update (after applying the build update) and a reboot cleared everything up.

So far Windows 10 is looking like a winner. It definitely isn't there yet, but they are on the right track and seem to be taking people's feedback very seriously.

The notification tray and action/system tray (if you want to be old school wrong) need to be merged. I have some ideas for that, so hopefully Microsoft does too.

 

[bbhaag]

I had the same (really weird) issue. Installed some updates that were in Windows Update (after applying the build update) and a reboot cleared everything up.

So far Windows 10 is looking like a winner. It definitely isn't there yet, but they are on the right track and seem to be taking people's feedback very seriously.

The notification tray and action/system tray (if you want to be old school wrong) need to be merged. I have some ideas for that, so hopefully Microsoft does too.

I had the same issues too. I did the same as you and after I rebooted it was fixed. It's really weird how PC Settings gets you the new build but the Windows Update straightened out the problem. This is something that MS needs to work on especially if they want to replace the older Control Panel with the newer PC Settings.
This is an Alpha OS though so patience is needed.

 

[podspi]

Yeah, the fact that there are still two locations for Windows updates shows they are not quite there yet, but they're definitely going in the right direction.