Microsoft's official stance is that you have to remain in the Insider Program to remain activated. However, nobody's been deactivated by leaving it. If you do get de activated, just check the thread regarding upgrading from Daz activated 7
Hi is new build being sent to uk i am not getting any update, i have windows updates on and other stuff off on telemetry with a no of these programs. i have the insider builds greyed out but showing as automatic. any ideas?
If you cant click the button it is because you disable some telemetry stuff. You need to reactivate it for get insider builds
which bits of telemetry i need to revet, i am getting windows updates but not the insider builds, i have used 5 - 6 diffent telemetry programs and done various tweaks so how do i change to normal?
i have on updates screen some settings are managed by your organisation, i am trying to revert settings to enable update of insider 10525 update, but its not doing it !!
I notice that also, Fresh install and 2 upgrades seem to run much better. No lag at all on a cheap gateway that took 2-3 seconds opening the start menu now opens right away
Not totally true. I've got a tablet here running W10 Pro, that was activated the same way. If I 'Reset' it or do a 'Clean' install it fails to activate, 'key blocked' The only way the get it activated again is to go through 10130 first
1 thing definitely changed, Hyper-V Windows 10 now has near same capabilities as server Hyper-V. RemoteFX has been added for vms you can now toggle secure boot certificates in vm settings without having to hassle with powershell
According to my personal experience, being "permanently" activated through the insider program leaves you with two choices: 1: your can opt out from the insider program and keep your current installation permanently activated but you won't be able to re-install and re-activate 10240 (only by going through 10130 before that build expires) 2: you can remain in the program and either carry over your activation status to later builds during upgrades (but necessarily including some preview upgrades in this case) or may be re-activate a clean installation of some later preview builds through the insider program (*although I am not exactly sure about this last bit, it will probably depend on the particular builds*) So, the inconvenient question with option 1 is if you can carry over this "insider permanent" activated status to the next retail version by upgrading with the masses (to whatever build number they will end up with by the time they decide 'everybody' should upgrade their retail installations except those with the 'long term service' enterprise option). In that case, all you need to secure your "free" activated status is a thorough incremental backup of your installation, so you won't be force into a clean install. Although, changing your motherboard will also invalidate this "insider permanent" status, I guess (it should because it invalidates every OEM-like activations like every Win7/8->10 upgrades and this is a similar status, you don't have a retail Win10 key per se...). Or may be this "permanent" status will expire at some point and you will need to re-activate a preview build as an insider (back to the * part above: some of the slow ring builds will probably re-activate if necessary as "insider permanent" and that new activation will be valid again for some time, perhaps even for the next retail build like it happened with 10130->10240, so you can always enjoy a retail build "permanently" if you participated in it's preview testing...)
there is a link floating around somewhere, but now all insiders are required to have a genuine license that can upgrade to 10.