Recent content by rseiler

@IownAmoneyPit Maybe the restarts hurried them along, but I've had no restarts between Friday and now: Back then, all the things you mentioned weren't there. I didn't look again until today, but now they're all there. Like with some other MS products these days, I guess they can just populate...

I interpreted their "double backslash" example as a typo. Did you? Because otherwise it's just a normal path, and those have worked for years. Surely they meant: c:\\Users\\user Though it's unclear how anyone would come across such a thing in order to paste it.

I notice that there are seven of these now. Does each one correspond to a Vivetool ID? If so, what is the ID for the 4th on this list? It would be useful for anyone stuck on the old screen due to needing to use Offline Insider Enroll, for instance (which continues to work for getting builds but...

It looks a tad different than that after the upgrade for those who were enrolled using the offline tool. I'm sure either an update to that, or maybe some vivetool trick, will come along to get this group back on the right track.

Ed Bott has come up with four very, very good ideas here to further getting things back on track (if they're truly serious about that): https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-fix-windows-11 1. Make preview builds useful again 2. Decouple quality testing from feature testing 3. Ditch Controlled...

When news of this came out several weeks ago (in lesser detail), was that a leak? If so, I wonder why they waited so long and then why late on a Friday. If they follow through on this stuff, some of which is almost ridiculous this deep into the product's run, then by next year (presumably...

Regarding that Windows Setup Experience improvement, I wonder if that same profile can be used if you want to go from MSA to local (after OOBE, for a normal person who doesn't know the OOBE workaround)? That would be nice, but I guess it doesn't matter much if you do it right away. A week later...

It seems to me that one of the emoji should have been an elephant, to represent what's in the room. How they didn't address the bizarre issues (associations and desktop stability) that came and went (somehow) in the last Dev/Beta builds is beyond me.

Though it wants to break out, it'll probably be kept in the corner for months to come:

Well, I guess I can add me to this extremely anecdotal list: the problem seems gone with a reboot. And I had no problem at all reproducing it before. I don't even have the WU "toggle" on, which I think is the only real way of getting something pushed out that wouldn't necessarily appear in WU...

You're the second person I've seen mention a reboot in passing. In that case they thought it was a Defender update that helped, and in yours a WU troubleshooter. Both seem unlikely. What if it's the reboot? As in MS pushed some kind of silent fix late this week and it's only picked up on reboot...

Suffering the same thing on Dev, which has the same issue (reported here). I'd suggest doing an "Add feedback details" to maybe spur them along on this time-wasting issue. I hate when links don't open in my default browser!

As soon as you open a link from something like a mail or chat program, Edge re-steals the https protocol association (and .html, but that's less important), effectively making itself the default browser. It does this every time. If this isn't a Windows build thing, then it's a huge coincidence...

Did this build do anything funny in terms of not opening links in your default browser, assuming your default browser isn't Edge? It sure seems to have here. So far, I've noticed the association for https and html changed to Edge, but changing them back hasn't helped. I must be missing the key one.

Are you saying that WU installed a Dell BIOS update, as in the very one you would get if going to your model's page on Dell and installing the BIOS update? If so, that's extraordinary and is not something that I've ever seen in WU, though I deal mostly with Lenovo these days. I've certainly seen...