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• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Ouch! SFC and DISM may disagree in Build 10586.17

  Normally, the system file checker (SFC) and the deployment image servicing and management (DISM) facilities in Windows march in lockstep: here, I find a case where DISM says the component store is ...

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  US Gov't Usage Data: Win10 Grabbing Marketshare from XP and 7

  A recent set of data from the US Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP), shows clearly what common sense says is inevitable: that Windows 10's share of desktop users comes mostly at the ...

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Windows Administrivia: The Case of the Missing BIOS Access

  As is often the case on a holiday weekend, I like to tinker with my PCs. This Thanksgiving weekend, I found myself wanting to access the BIOS on my production PC with its Gigabyte X77X-UD3H ...

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  As Win8.1 Closes in on XP, Win10 Jumps into the Marketshare Game

  Every now and then, I like to check in on the Desktop Operating System Market Share pie chart over at NetMarketShare.com. This morning, I had to fiddle the parameters a bit to get the site to show ...

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  New Cumulative Update Restores Build 10586, Incremented to .14

  Wow! It's been a whacky week in advance of Turkeyday, with Version 1511 (Build 10586) gone over the weekend, then back again late yesterday. MS even furnished an explanation, which I reproduce from ...

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• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Media Creation Tool and MSDN Win10 Versions Diverge

  There's been a whole lotta hoopla over the past few days about the sudden disappearance of Version 1511 (Build 10586) from the Media Creation Tool late Friday, 11/21. Of the many stories published ...

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Cumulative Updates Increment Win10 Build Numbers: Implications?

  On 11/18, later in the day, my Win10 systems picked up a new cumulative update: KB3118754. What made this update interesting was that it led to an increment in the Windows 10 Version number suffix, ...

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Identifying Windows Images/Installers/ISO files

  The more I dig into the DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) command, the more "good stuff" I keep finding. Today's gem comes courtesy of Sergey Tkachenko, whose excellent WinAero.com ...

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Build 1511 Boosts "Time Smarts"

  In getting to know the new build of Windows 10 released late last week, I'm starting to notice some interesting refinements here and there. In particular, v1511 now combines location and time zone ...

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  Build 10586/1511 Makes Its Debut: Lessons Learned

  Early yesterday morning (11/12), some of my Build 10240 Windows 10 PCs began offering access to the 10586/1511 Build. Throughout the course of the day, I was slowly but surely able to get most of ...

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Updates Galore on 11/10/15, but No Build 10586!

  Looking at my update history on my Windows 10 production PC this morning, I see a whole slew of updates hit the wire yesterday for that OS, but so far there's no sign of a Threshold 2 release ...

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Simple Versioning Numbers in Win10 Presage Deployment Changes

  If you take a look at the Winver information from the latest Fast Ring build for Windows Insiders, aka Build 10586, you'll see some additional information in the second line of text therein, just ...

• November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15

  Win10 Build 10586 Recognizes "Digital Entitlement"

  If the rumor mill is correct, the current Win10 fast ring build represents the upcoming Threshold 2 release for Windows 10, and will be pushed out to the entire population of Windows 10 users next ...

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Another Worthwhile DISM Source "Trick"

  In my continuing efforts to maintain the health and well-being of my Windows 10 installations, I've continued messing about with the built-in deployment image servicing and management tool ...

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Gadgets Come Back to Win10 Build 10576

  Goody, Goody: one of the things I liked least about Build 10565 in the Windows 10 lead-up to the Threshold 2 Build scheduled for later this month (November 2015) has apparently been fixed in Build ...