Apr 28, 2015

The latest test build finally fixing the glaring flaw in superfluous backups, freeing up 25+ GB; Recycling Bin also gets a new look

On Wednesday Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced that its Fast Ring testers (including me) would receive a fresh Preview Build of its upcoming free major operating system upgrade, Windows 10. My first attempt to snag the new Build 10061 didn't succeed, but nothing was lost but a bit of time, on the plus side. It politely rolled me back to Build 10049. And today another update came down the pipe, presumably with some sort of modifications that allowed it to install without a hitch.




Some users reported in my piece on the last build that the lack of transparency in the taskbar was in fact a bug and that it was working properly on their machine. Either way, Build 10061 seems to have fixed this, finally bringing glorious transparency to my configuration.

Windows 10 is looking good -- really good, in fact. In my opinion this is best looking version of Windows Microsoft has ever produced.

And that brings me to a final point which small, and yet speaks volumes over Windows 10's maturing codebase. I had frequently mentioned my battle with Windows 10's bugs, as it seemed to be making a inordinate number of copies of the NVIDIA driver (typing 20-30 copies) with each Windows Update.

Cumulatively these files took up 10-15 GB of space and the fact that they regularly regenerated made disk management on my 128 GB partition of an evenly subdivided dual-boot 256 GB drive an excercise in frustration. But Microsoft has worked some magic behind the scenes and these files (which appeared to be as redundant and useless as they seemed) have disappeared.

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