NoelC Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 I've upgraded two test systems to Windows 10 TP build 10061 - one a VM with "Pro" and the other a real machine with "Enterprise". Observations so far: There seem to be a few bugs. I doubt this version will be suitable for the slow ring unless they release a bunch of Windows Updates to fix basic problems. I don't use the Windows start menu (preferring Classic Shell) but when I tried to use it things didn't seem right at all. These build updates always undo a whole bunch of tweaks and registry changes that have to be re-done to make the system more useful. The ones I do seem to still apply. For some reason the Taskbar is now very thick, and doesn't seem to respond to the configured theme colors (nor do desktop window title bars seem to be able to be colored). This doesn't affect me much as I auto-hide the Taskbar anyway. The system tray bug where the hidden tray icons wouldn't show if the Taskbar was set to auto-hide seems to be fixed. Classic Shell seems to work okay, though I no longer see any of the Metro Apps listed. Not a big deal for me, I don't have use for such Apps. Aero Glass 1.3.2 DEBUG extension for Win8.1 Desktop Window Manager seems to work, but only in fallback mode after failing to find symbols online. This is usable, though occasionally renders a few artifacts in the title bars. I've had to redo my theme atlas file as the positions and sizes of some of the graphic elements have changed. But the good news is that there's still enough of the theming engine in place to actually be able to make the desktop elements look decent. I've had Internet Explorer crash (on this site, using this editor) with Experimental mode enabled. I haven't tried (nor am I particularly interested in) Spartan. I've had a fair bit of success trimming the number of running processes. I've got it to where my VM is running 50 or so just to have an empty desktop, using about 1.2 GB of RAM. I have installed some server software (Subversion Edge) on my Enterprise test system, and I have been able to settle it down to 63 processes running (roughly equivalent to the VM, since Subversion Edge starts quite a few processes), using about 1.5 GB of RAM. There are still a fair number that are candidates for further study, and ultimate trimming. All the Windows "legacy" desktop applications I've tried seem to work okay. I don't sense any changes in the Win32 environment. Overall performance seems just about the same as build 10049 to me. Not better as some have reported. Of course, everyone does different things. I don't run games, for example. I guess my observation still holds that if Microsoft doesn't mess too many more things up I could probably find a way to live with Windows 10 as it is to do my software engineering business work. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted April 25, 2015 Share Posted April 25, 2015 Here are some updated features of 10061 from previous builds, so far I have had few issues.~DP "Start" ⦁ The Power button is now showed above the All apps button ⦁ There are some new icons ⦁ It is now possible to resize the start menu ⦁ Now has two columns of apps instead of one fat column⦁ You can now resize start ⦁ Tiles for Win32 apps no longer take a color based on the icon of that tile, but follows the window color ⦁ Transparancy can be disabled ⦁ Recently installed apps are now displayed on the top of the all apps list ⦁ Health & Fitness is no longer pinned to start by default⦁ Improved Mail, News, Calendar and Xbox apps "Internet Explorer" ⦁ Major improvements to ECMAScript 6 support (from 73% to 82%)⦁ Default function parameters ⦁ Rest parameters ⦁ Spread (...) operator ⦁ RegEx "y" and "u" flags ⦁ Generators ⦁ Proxy ⦁ Function "name" property ⦁ String.prototype methods "Project Spartan" ⦁ Project Spartan has been updated from version 0.10 to 0.11 ⦁ You can now find your downloads in the download manager ⦁ You can now open Internet Explorer from within Spartan ⦁ The "Add to" dialogue has been improved ⦁ You can now save PDFs you opened in the browser ⦁ Spartan now has an about:flags page with new options compared to Internet Explorer "Desktop" ⦁ The taskbar and start menu have gained some transparency and opaqueness⦁ The TaskView button has a new icon ⦁ The search bar is now the full hight of the taskbar ⦁ Some icons have been updated ⦁ The taskbar, start menu and action center now have a black system theme ⦁ You can now enable and disable the color of the taskbar and startscreen ⦁ There is a new calendar fly-out for the system tray ⦁ The notification center now takes on the color you've choosen for windows and the taskbar ⦁ Windows no longer take on a color and are now always gray⦁ Solitaire is back! (via Cortana) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) I still can't go "Full Screen" in VMware with build 10061 (as with 10049). Apparently Microsoft has changed or broken the API that VMware tools uses to resize the display. It's unfortunate, because I'd really like to test multi-monitor support. My Win 10 TP Enterprise installation has now requested Activation twice. It's not supposed to need activation at all, per the documentation. The first time I just used the Enterprise activation key via the normal UI (e.g., SLUI 3), but the second time it required: slmgr.vbs -ipk PBHCJ-Q2NYD-2PX34-T2TD6-233PK Edit: Another observation. The Task Scheduler Library list is nearly empty - yet some things that were scheduled before the upgrade (e.g., Aerohost) are actually running. I wonder how... -Noel Edited April 25, 2015 by NoelC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 System scan is back working again with Build 10061.~DP @Echo Off:: Sys-Repair.cmd (Must run As Admin)Sfc /scannow Pause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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