WU does provide Insider Preview Builds and 15042 is the latest. This build uses the new UUP type update only and not the old install.esd full esd type update; therefore for the time being builds prior to 14986 will not see these new builds. As noted before in this thread MCT still uses the install.esd esd type. At some point MS will have to provide a method for these older builds to update however I am not sure how or when this will happen. So at his point you did the only thing available to update to from 14393 to 15042.
install.esd is not the same as a full esd, it's a compressed (recovery) install.wim. The MCT downloads full ESD files like: "14393.0.161119-1705.rs1_refresh_clientcombined_ret_x64fre_nl-nl_a7b2361098be4fb3e84832566245c681f0949a63.esd" and creates iso's from it. small correction, the MCT used for direct upgrading will create an install folder like "ws-sources" containing an extracted iso which is used to upgrade. They will, by providing iso's (VLSC/MSDN/techbench/techbench unlocked) and the MCT (it will download full esd's and create iso's from it).
With the UUP files you supplied, and uup-converter-winlib 3.7z, it all went perfectly. ISO was created and 15031 was upgraded to 15042 with one major problem that the "known issues" segment allowed me to fix, and after that the second attempt to install the upgrade on top of 15031 went off without a hitch. The first install attempt hung @ 1 single dot, then I followed the following instructions and upgraded without a problem after that: A small percentage of PCs may fail to update to this build due to a corrupt registry key. If your PC appears to be at the spinning dots black screen during boot for an unusual amount of time while updating to this build, hard reboot your PC and then run the following commands in an admin Command Prompt: 1 2 3 4 5 reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\setup\upgrade\nsimigrationroot /f netsh int ipv6 set locality state=disabled reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nsi\{eb004a01-9b1a-11d4-9123-0050047759bc}\28 /f
It's there but the idiots have shifted the settings from the Settings app to the new hub app. It's there under Virus & Threat protection (the shield). Make sure to add it in feedback.
Why is windows so fragile now my tweaks keep breaking windows metro start menu and now update so I have to download the latest UUP and then mega limits their download and only lets me get 2 1 gb files before it cuts me off for 6 hours. You guys should figure out which the fastest free ones are and use those cause these blow.................. I also cant use feedback hub anymore cause the entire tile metro thing is so fragile and that DISM and getappshetstaine.poop cmd doesnt work either. Sure wish they would finally write a full dependency tree for everything with windows services too cause it still runs so much faster then you turn allot of that crap off then it breaks the os and you cant repair it. Also if you defrag an hdd system drive it also breaks the os the damn file security attributes have become stupid and now I always run into files it wont let me copy and processes I cant kill. Of course there is no help online and there will never be a guide put out to handle this kind of crap.................
It seems 15042.0 is different than others by removing Watermark and without time bomb. So, If I install this build (fresh install) and if microsoft releases new insider build (with watermark and time bomb) will my system automatically install it? Or is there a way to prevent watermarked builds from installing in anyway? I remember once i installed RTM-Escrow build (probably for 1607) and it does not even "Insider Build" words in About Windows screen. This has it.