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Anyone know if I can upgrade to windows 10 and try it out with my current install, then install it again with a clean install?

A broken Windows Update patch released to Windows Insiders over the weekend shows the importance of Microsoft's new plan to test updates via multiple rings before a wide public release. read more Continue reading...

Is downloading now on my machine. If anyone is interested.

Well after Windows 7 it seems like MS has been paring down features on each new release. My understanding is that XP mode from Windows 7 will be removed in Windows 10. What about Hyper V does that still work Windows 10? I've got Windows 7 Ultimate and it had a feature that was dropped in Windows...

Ok, I'm pretty sure this haven't been posted on the forum so I'll do it myself. Starting off, I want to say that I play San Andreas Multi Player on a very big server. My problem started when I was taken for testing if I used cheat codes. The procedure is pretty annoying, because an authorized...

With around four weeks to go before Windows 10 becomes available, I thought it would be helpful to provide some context on how we will roll-out Windows 10 to the world. We’ve been really pleased with the strong response to Windows 10 since we kicked off reservations in early June, with millions...

Windows 10 Insiders can now download a new build for their Windows Phone devices to continue testing the development of the Windows 10 Mobile operating system. read more Continue reading...

Hey, New computer, reinstalled windows twice but still getting these BSOD's: 0x1E, 0x3B, 0x1A, 0xFE Not sure what to do, or what information you need. CPU: AMD FX-6300 Mobo: 970 Pro3 R2.0 RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) GPU: 2GB AMD Radeon R9 270 PSU: Antec Neo Eco 520C Bronze Win 7 64 is installed on a 1tb...

In 10147, and probably the next official build, there is an option to stop the Preview Builds. This seems to direct you to a website to do this, but since I am not ready to leave, does anyone know if this option will stop the Preview builds for all the computers currently enrolled or just the...

Although Windows 10 is still being tested some of the apps in the new OS have moved out of preview mode. Interstitial Ads Frequency: -1 read more Continue reading...

No Icon has appeared. I have a legit OS of W7 Pro, with all the latest updates including the one necessary to get the Icon. I have tried everything that has been posted including the command prompt route and nothing works. Is it that I will not be able to use W10? Is there a way to test this...

Please forget this ================================================== There was no driver for my Intel series 4 express VGA after the installation of build 10125 (10130 did not install at all on my notebook). Hence a standard - not matching - screen resolution and no 2nd screen. Hardly or not...

Back to running Windows-7-pro. Still more solid than 8.1 or beta-10. I have 16-gigs of ram on the board. Windows-7 sees it, but I often wondered if it actually uses it. I had the pagefile at 12-gigs. So I did a test. I moved 38-gigs from one sata drive to another sata drive. The desktop...

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We've got two things for you today... First, I wanted to highlight an outstanding post by Utkarsh Shigihalli. Last week I highlighted and Visual Studio extension by Utkarsh Shigihalli and Tarun Arora, Is Visual Studio Online Online? VSO Status Indicator Extension. Since then Utkarsh released...

Power Suite for Windows Embedded Compact Platforms is a group of tools to help developers debugging and testing their code on Windows Embedded Compact Platforms. Link Removed

Hi All, I have installed Windows 10 in my testing machine. I have checked the Major, Minor and Build version for the Windows 10 Programmatically as shown below. Major: 6 Minor: 2 Build: 9200 (But i got the same result in Windows 8 and 8.1 OS) So, please let me know the correct details(Major...

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Microsoft Emulator is a desktop application that emulates a Windows 10 Mobile device when used in conjunction with Visual Studio 2015 Preview. It provides a virtualized environment in which you can debug and test universal apps without a physical device. It also provides an isolated environment...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 RC enables remote debugging, remote testing, and unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, and the deployment and performance profiling of Windows apps on...