Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

ahem, @plat1098's a she.

 

whoa, i thought you were around my age. but turns out you're about the same age as my pop. nice review btw.

 

Yep. Times have already changed--maybe it's better to at least pretend to be "current." Or not, up to oneself.

At any rate, when I updated the NVIDIA graphics driver to v. 461.92, startup got slowed a little, so I clean-booted the little drag away. Happens sometimes with a new Windows build and latest NVIDIA, it seems.

 

well, i see what you mean, but still.

 

Thanks. I'll be 37 in June

 

Thank you appreciate it!

 

My pleasure. Cheers

 

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21343
March 24, 2021
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...ncing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-21343/

 

The new icons are interesting. Definitely colorful. They almost feel like Linux icons.

 

Are you testing this build by chance?

 

I am. I test all of them to make sure there are no issues with the software we produce.

 

Releasing Windows 10 Build 19042.906 (20H2) to Release Preview Channel
March 25, 2021
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...ld-19042-906-20h2-to-release-preview-channel/

 

Releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0 to the Beta & Release Preview Channels
March 25, 2021
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...-3530-0-to-the-beta-release-preview-channels/

 

I just logged into my Insider account to check this out. You are right, the icons kind of remind me of Linux in a way.

 

Saw that yesterday. Always seemed like something they should have done from the beginning.

 

Weird that they didn't think of this way sooner. It's very annoying that when explorer.exe crashes that certain tray-icons were missing and you had to restart those apps again. I believe this even still happens sometimes on Win 10.

 

very seldom but it does.

 

Still running behind, but not blind. Just ran Windows Updates for the first time in a couple of months, and now at Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.1379)

 

I see that in build 21343 (Dev channel) that as well as new icons that there is more vertical spacing between files in list and details view(s) in the File Explorer. I don't like the gap It causes less files to be viable at a time.

 

These are the default values from the previous build, you can easily change them via this reg edit then log out/log back in

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"IconSpacing"="-1850"
"IconVerticalSpacing"="-1128"

 

Thanks. After doing some searching I see there is also a "Use compact mode" in the View Setting of Folder Options. If they make this a change for release builds I hope they keep the option to turn it off.

 

Correct, luckily both Win 8 and Win 10 almost never crash.

 

yep, that's also correct.