TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out!

TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.

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Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.

TH1
Based on history:
TH = ThresHold

Threshold was Windows 10's MSFT internal code name

1 - version one

Could be RTM as the press/media are claiming. Maybe not. Could also be
just how MSFT differentiates the Insiders built in feedback from the RTM
end-user telemetry.



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...winston
msft mvp windows experience

". . .winston" wrote in message
...
Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.

TH1
Based on history:
TH = ThresHold

Threshold was Windows 10's MSFT internal code name

1 - version one

Could be RTM as the press/media are claiming. Maybe not. Could also be
just how MSFT differentiates the Insiders built in feedback from the RTM
end-user telemetry.

My info screen no longer says 'Insider Preview' and there is no logo in the
bottom right-hand corner of the screen saying Build XXXXX. Maybe this IS the
real deal :-)
--
SC Tom

On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

On 16/07/2015 18:45, T wrote:
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

From Windows Updates in Win 10 Preview.

You have to go in to the thing that lets you say if you want Fast or
Slow new builds and there is a new bit that you have to change from
"fbl_impressive" to "TH1".

--

Brian Gregory (in the UK).
To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address.

"T" wrote in message ...
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

ISO

http://microsoft-news.com/download-w...ild-10240-iso/

T wrote:
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

ISO availability is temporarily turned off to Windows Insiders on the
MSFT Insiders site.

Other sites are 'sharing' the iso.

--
...winston
msft mvp windows experience

On 07/16/2015 06:16 PM, Rich wrote:


"T" wrote in message ...
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

ISO

http://microsoft-news.com/download-w...ild-10240-iso/

Hi Rich,

Oh bummer. Not an official M$ site.

Thank anyway!

-T

Can you hear me clucking like a Chicken?

On 07/16/2015 03:17 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 16/07/2015 18:45, T wrote:
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

From Windows Updates in Win 10 Preview.

You have to go in to the thing that lets you say if you want Fast or
Slow new builds and there is a new bit that you have to change from
"fbl_impressive" to "TH1".



Thank you! Will do.

On 07/16/2015 03:17 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
On 16/07/2015 18:45, T wrote:
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

From Windows Updates in Win 10 Preview.

You have to go in to the thing that lets you say if you want Fast or
Slow new builds and there is a new bit that you have to change from
"fbl_impressive" to "TH1".



I am on 10162. Inside updates, Advanced, I can not longer
locate fast or slow. But I now have a button to
disable Insider Updates.

????

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:50:49 -0700, T wrote:

On 07/16/2015 06:16 PM, Rich wrote:


"T" wrote in message ...
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

ISO

http://microsoft-news.com/download-w...ild-10240-iso/

Hi Rich,

Oh bummer. Not an official M$ site.

Thank anyway!

-T

Can you hear me clucking like a Chicken?

That site includes this text:

Windows 10 RTM build 10240 x64 ISO was created by me from the ESD file
downloaded through Windows Update. You can download with confidence.


Doesn't that last sentence give you all of the confidence that you need? ;-)

But seriously, my advice to myself is that it doesn't matter so much where
you get something as long as the checksum is correct (preferably not just
MD5, but something better). In this case, since the guy made the ISO
himself, I wouldn't be surprised if the checksum is unique, which is not
good.

Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:50:49 -0700, T wrote:

On 07/16/2015 06:16 PM, Rich wrote:

"T" wrote in message ...
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.

From Windows Updates or an ISO?
ISO

http://microsoft-news.com/download-w...ild-10240-iso/
Hi Rich,

Oh bummer. Not an official M$ site.

Thank anyway!

-T

Can you hear me clucking like a Chicken?

That site includes this text:

Windows 10 RTM build 10240 x64 ISO was created by me from the ESD file
downloaded through Windows Update. You can download with confidence.


Doesn't that last sentence give you all of the confidence that you need? ;-)

But seriously, my advice to myself is that it doesn't matter so much where
you get something as long as the checksum is correct (preferably not just
MD5, but something better). In this case, since the guy made the ISO
himself, I wouldn't be surprised if the checksum is unique, which is not
good.


If the media has "install.esd", the encrypted WIM, the
signature on each of those is normally unique per subscriber.
So he in effect, is distributing an ISO "with his name on it".
I tested this back in Win8 days, and *every* download which
has an install.esd inside (not an install.wim), the thing is
encrypted to prevent casual inspection. And each download
has a unique signature. If you download the same ISO twice,
the checksum is different on *each* one. And the unique signature
would also serve to trace the source of the material (with a
lot of work of course). They could trace to an IP and time of
day, go to the ISP and get an ID from them. Or using data
mining, trace back what other details the individual left
via his Windows OS and purchasing habits. For example, in
my case, if I were to have distributed my Win8 downloaded
ISO with install.esd, they have the credit card number I
used to pay them $39.95, to figure out the source of the
media.

His ISO checksum will be unique, but for the wrong reasons.
It's not something he inserted, it's that the install.esd
is different on each and every download. Only an unpolluted
ISO, such as MSDN subscription DVD with install.wim, is
"safe" to Torrent. And Microsoft removed the easily accessible
SHA1 sums for those, preventing people from "Torrenting in
confidence". (Only an MSDN subscriber can see the checksums
now, as far as I know.) In addition, the MDL site, a favorite
place to get checksums, has gone underground - only members can
view posts and read all the content. They still allow
visitors, but many posts will not be readable. So one
alternative source of checksums is also no longer
available.

So if you were a person who relies on checksums, you're a long
way from Kansas, Toto. Only the MSDN ones are redistributable,
and then, you typically (as a non-subscriber) don't have
access to the checksum (as generated by Microsoft).

I would be getting my smelly 10240 ISO, straight from Microsoft :-)
Encryption and all.

A possible way to do it...

1) Back up 10166 C: drive.
2) Start the update to 10240.
3) When it is about finished, capture whatever
files and folder are used as starting materials
to make ISO.
4) Let upgrade install finish.
5) Make ISO 10240 from the leftovers.
6) Restore from backup.
7) Now you can do any kind of install you want,
subject to the limits of the media.
8) Method only makes matching bitness. Your Win10TP x64
will make a 10240 x64 ISO this way, not an x32 one.

I'd have done this by now, but I'm missing step (3) :-)
I know there is a recipe out there somewhere...

Paul

On 07/17/2015 03:21 PM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:50:49 -0700, T wrote:

On 07/16/2015 06:16 PM, Rich wrote:


"T" wrote in message ...
On 07/15/2015 03:12 PM, Brian Gregory wrote:
TH1 Professional 10240 appears to be out.

AFAIK TH1 means it's a release candidate.

I'm downloading now.


From Windows Updates or an ISO?

ISO

http://microsoft-news.com/download-w...ild-10240-iso/

Hi Rich,

Oh bummer. Not an official M$ site.

Thank anyway!

-T

Can you hear me clucking like a Chicken?

That site includes this text:

Windows 10 RTM build 10240 x64 ISO was created by me from the ESD file
downloaded through Windows Update. You can download with confidence.


Doesn't that last sentence give you all of the confidence that you need? ;-)

But seriously, my advice to myself is that it doesn't matter so much where
you get something as long as the checksum is correct (preferably not just
MD5, but something better). In this case, since the guy made the ISO
himself, I wouldn't be surprised if the checksum is unique, which is not
good.


As I tell my customers "You wouldn't have much of a career as a
criminal if you did not have an honest face".