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I wasn't expecting the Technical Preview to be worth a second look. But I was wrong. They did a pretty good job of fixing most of the warts in 8.1. There were a few oddities, though. My initial initial setup was a dual boot with 8.1. No problems, but it was a bit confusing, since I installed 10 on the second partition, normally my Drive D:. But when 10 started up, Drive D: became Drive C: and the first partition became Drive D: Then I installed Office 2013 and decided I wanted to go back to Office 2010, and figured it would just be easier to restore an image I had made with Acronis. After the restore the computer wouldn't boot. I thought maybe Acronis 2013 couldn't back up and restore the new version. Fortunately that turned out to be incorrect, as I found out later. Anyway, I went back to booting of the USB drive, and selected the Repair option. Much to my surprise, it repaired whatever was wrong, and 10 started right up. Impressive. MSConfig couldn't edit the BCD store, but EasyBCD could. I figured the dual boot was too confusing, so I opted to install it on the primary 30GB partition. But it wouldn't install, saying the partition didn't have enough space. The dual boot installation was a 40Gb partition and that worked fine. I created a 40GB partition and it installed fine. But I thought the specs were 20GB. Guess not. By and large I was quite pleased with the entire process. The initial setup was very quick, not a lot of shutdown and restart nonsense. I got the desktop setup the way I wanted it, without the tile stuff, and wanted to be Mr. NiceGuy and leave some feedback at Microsoft. I logged into my account, and there was a lot of disk activity, and I noticed there was a OneDrive icon on the task bar. Hmm, what's that all about? I didn't think much about it, left some feedback scolding them about leaving out Floppy Disk support. Turned off the computer and went to bed. This morning when I got up and turned the computer on, I got a locked screen, and my Microsoft login eMail address was filled in. I originally set up 10 without any password, but now I have to log into Microsoft with my username and password, to get to use my computer. That's a show stopper for me. While I might have considered the RTM version of 10, it's off the table for me now, unless there is some way to *not* be joined at the hip should I make the mistake of ever logging into my Microsoft account. And somehow I got a feeling that the final release won't give you the option of not doing it. Try as I might with Autoruns, I couldn't find out what service/program was the culprit. So I just restored an image with Acronis, (worked fine, BTW) and went back to having a local computer, without the Microsoft Nanny feature. .
@Palladin.... click your NAME at the top of the start button, click CHANGE ACCOUNT PICTURE, click the word DISCONNECT under your account Name and Email. You will go to a local account, reverse order after to go back to an MS account. Should ask things like this, might save you the heartache of the MS NON-Nanny Features -ed- just for anyone else about to try it. Its very easy to go to local, going back to MS account requires a reboot. FYI
If there was a way to do it, I knew that somebody here on MDL would know how to do it. Thanks for the solution. .
I'm on your side. But I'm playing the devil's advocate in saying the constant phone home maybe to make sure it is able to catch as much information before any crashes? I would like to think the telemetry is for bug catching purposes, i.e. comes with being a preview; but perhaps they will keep it in for the RTM code. And since we've already heard pre-Win 10 telemetry (Windows Error Reporting) being able to be used maliciously, I hope they at least revise their privacy policies to allow less information being recorded and sent.
How to get WMC ON technical preview First install Windows Technical Preview Second paste the WMC retail key only into the add new features spot found in control panel Third allow download and restart Fourth reactivate your windows with Microsoft toolkit 2.5.2 easy activator option Fifth install and configure your television cards ect and enjoy
Typo apology Sorry on typo this method test by me on 3 pcs using consumer version of the preview so know is working as of today. I posted no keys to be sure I stayed with in guidelines as its one of the few times I have posted my findings. I just edited the post to correct error.
No other edition except Professional/Enterprise are provisioned to the insider program. Preview builds page will lock you with 0x800700ea without future updates. Post 956179.
I can say I have definitely seen that. It does not seem any of the modern apps have been updated yet. BTW does anyone wonder why the privacy policy for the technical preview has a clause stating they might send phone call and sms data? Is Windows proper going to have phone/sms capabilities? Or maybe is this same privacy policy going to be used for the ARM preview?
You are also able to format drives to ReFS after that value "AllowRefsFormatOverNonmirrorVolume = 1" is created in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MiniNT" key of the registry.
Yep . Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MiniNT] "AllowRefsFormatOverNonmirrorVolume"="1" Code: reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MiniNT" /v "AllowRefsFormatOverNonmirrorVolume" /t REG_SZ /d "1" /f