Widows Technical preview (10)

After playing around with this for a day or so I find a few things
which irk me,

1. It has changed the wallpaper on my C:\ Win 8.1 Drive, I am running it
in dual boot on a seperate SSD. I thought it would stay in it's own pen!!!

2. It wants to put all my info on a Cloud which I won't allow.

3. It still won't let me use Windows Mail unless I have an IMAP or some
other type of Acct which I don;t have. , I am on a Pop3 system.

So I am thinking it may not be such a good thing to run it in dualboot
with My main C drive hooked up and its too much work to pull the box
out and disconnect the other drives, I may just drop it till spring when
the consumer edition comes out.

Regards, Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
After playing around with this for a day or so I find a few things
which irk me,

1. It has changed the wallpaper on my C:\ Win 8.1 Drive, I am running it
in dual boot on a seperate SSD. I thought it would stay in it's own pen!!!

2. It wants to put all my info on a Cloud which I won't allow.

3. It still won't let me use Windows Mail unless I have an IMAP or some
other type of Acct which I don;t have. , I am on a Pop3 system.

So I am thinking it may not be such a good thing to run it in dualboot
with My main C drive hooked up and its too much work to pull the box
out and disconnect the other drives, I may just drop it till spring when
the consumer edition comes out.

Regards, Rene

Would that have something to do with sharing the
boot partition ?

On Windows 7, you have SYSTEM RESERVED and C:. The SYSTEM RESERVED
contains the boot information.

If you install two modern OSes, one provides boot management at
startup, for the other. The boot information for the two
OSes, is likely stored in the same SYSTEM RESERVED partition.

If you installed Windows 10 on one physical hard drive,
and Windows 8.1 on a second physical hard drive, maybe
the wallpaper would stay put. Each disk would have its
own boot partition. (This is also an argument for not
doing Previews on laptops, as there aren't enough disk
ports for "safe" computing.)

This is one reason that for the Preview, I installed a single
blank hard drive, and installed Win10 from a USB key. Not that
I couldn't have used a rewritable DVD, but the USB key was
slightly faster to set up (using the Microsoft Store ISO to
USB key utility).

*******

I was able to use the standard trick to create a local account
for Windows 10 Preview. The same method that works on Windows 8.
When it wants to connect to Microsoft during the installation,
to set up an account, I just pull the network cable on the back
of the computer, and in dim print, there is a "Create Local Account"
option available. That method will likely be blocked, somehow,
for Windows 10 RTM.

Windows 10 can apparently report all key presses on the Preview,
to the Microsoft site. But I don't know under what circumstances
they use their keylogger technology. Maybe they have some
limits as to what they record, and maybe not. It would be
pretty hard to tell what they're doing, if encrypted
connections were to be used. A packet sniffer might not
capture human-readable details.

Paul

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
After playing around with this for a day or so I find a few things
which irk me,

1. It has changed the wallpaper on my C:\ Win 8.1 Drive, I am running it
in dual boot on a seperate SSD. I thought it would stay in it's own pen!!!

If Win8.1 is configured to sync MSFT user settings to a cloud(your MSFT
account) then installing W10TP with the same MSFT account would sync
W10TP's user settings with subsequent use of 8.1 retrieving those settings.

2. It wants to put all my info on a Cloud which I won't allow.

3. It still won't let me use Windows Mail unless I have an IMAP or some
other type of Acct which I don;t have. , I am on a Pop3 system.
It's doubtful that POP3 will be supported with EAS and IMAP being the
two protocols since both provide syncable mirror images (local and
online) of folders and messages.


So I am thinking it may not be such a good thing to run it in dualboot
with My main C drive hooked up and its too much work to pull the box
out and disconnect the other drives, I may just drop it till spring when
the consumer edition comes out.

Sounds like a plan, though I wouldn't expect much, if anything at all to
change impacting your above concerns. Syncing of user settings is not
just across common MSFT accounts in a dual boot machine, its' across
multiple devices using the same MSFT account - i.e. design intent


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