Omg all you people that cant delete Windows.old, why are you even using a technical preview if you dont know the basics of taking ownership/icacls or using recovery command prompt to delete folders that wont go away? Bunch of plebs. Just go to recovery command prompt, find which directory your windows installation is in (because it differs sometimes in recovery cmd) and then just rmdir /s/q windows.old
Well... using the recovery just to delete a folder is like using an F16 to kill a chicken, it works but...
Yes but people who SHOULD have the technical ability high enough to run a beta OS should already know how to get rid of a folder that won't go the easy way....we should not be explaining these things to the "technically inclined."
The easiest way to delete windows.old is to use CCleaner. I have done it several times on another PC. Not that hard.
Well we should take in account that while using a beta os is matter of doubleclicking on setup.exe, managing the permissions via a gui is still incredibly complicated and time wasting. The truth is that you can't blame the newbies for the permissions/ownership matter, you have to blame MS that, after 30 years, still have to code a decent gui option to set the permissions and the ownership. The KDE alpha from 98 or so was already more user friendly than win 10 is today. MS guys prefers to use their time to search and remove the traces of the old start menu or the aero glass from windows rather than improve things where windows is still in the middle age.
There is a GUI to set permission/ownership and it's very simple too. You shouldn not even touch permissions, especially not for windows.old... that folder is removed with the disk cleanup utility there is no damn reason to change any permissions.
updated, start screen does not work properly and the black theme on notification is so.... it hurts my eyes. downgraded back after playing. on a side note the sleep shutdown and restart is now at the bottom of the start menu
I'm using PCs since the AD 1982,and IT is my work since the year 2000 or so. And yes the I think it's complicated and time wasting and still practically unevolved since the days of win NT3.51. If you think is good/simple you never had the chance to try a decent desktop environment on Linux or just ES file explorer on Android
I downloaded the Enterprise, which is unpacked, used an older build 10041 USB Flash drive, delete the whole content, incl. Boot folder and copied the 10056 content to it. That USB will now boot into the Setup of 10056 with no problem. OK, I didn't did that, instead I'm now on 'upgrading' 10051 Pro to 10056 Enterprise which seems to work just fine because it just passed the Configuring Settings and Setting up, now working on Applying PC settings. I did that just to see if Network Settings could now work or not, with no intend to use that Build further on.
All in all I like that 10056. Overall is likely the best looking windows since win8 build 8400. Looks like they finally took a a definite direction, you may like it or not, but is still a direction, way different from the random steps taken in the last years.
OK, done with that upgrade from 10051 Pro to 10056 Enterprise. That worked well. Network Settings still didn't working. Start Menu is just ugly as other things to. Down now and will HDD Low Level format.