Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10158 for PCs

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For those of you following along at home, there is a new Windows 10 build (10158) for PCs out for Windows Insiders. The latest build has UI improvements, new features and Microsoft Edge included.

We have a new build for PCs releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10158. This build is full of improvements to stability and quality as well as some additional UI polish. It also has some great new features included for Microsoft Edge as well. The first thing that you’ll notice in this build is that the Microsoft Edge branding is now included.
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I installed this build on my SP3 and so far things are looking good. I had several issues with 10130 that are now resolved with 10158.
 
Just a reminder that the Microsoft store is out of beta so everyone should launch it and update all the apps associated with your profile.
 
Seems to be working well. I have a weird Metro icon I can't seem to get rid of, but am otherwise doing well. Gaming performance is on par with Win 8.1 using the newest Nvidia driver.
 
Man, I just installed 10130 on my machine last night, haven't had time to dive in. I guess ill have to update tonight when I get home.
 
Yay, will have to update this evening.

Maybe Win10 will stop throwing the memory error on shutdown and stop hanging on shutdown about 75% of the time.
 
Cortana can't connect to the internet and Chrome throws up ERR_CONNECTION_RESET on well over half the websites I normally visit. Tried a new NIC and resetting/rebooting the router and modem just in case. Whee, this ain't fun.
 
But, hey; at least I no longer have to pfutz around with audio settings every time I boot up just to get sound anymore.
 
cyclone3d said:
Yay, will have to update this evening.

Maybe Win10 will stop throwing the memory error on shutdown and stop hanging on shutdown about 75% of the time.
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In 130, the shutdown error hang thing is like a 100% of the time problem for the computer I have 10 installed on and in the 130 build the Spartan/Edge/whatever hangs for half a minute or more while loading web pages (not even consistently on the same site or page, but seemingly at random) so if 158 fixes that it'd be nice.

Still, I'm sort of worried about an OS with preview builds that are this erratic so close to the release of the retail version. :eek: Seems like it might rank as "not good" on a scale of 1 to 10. :(
 
Well, if anyone here knows of a legit ISO link, please pass it on. Microsoft still has not figured out how to properly update the Surface Pro 3, and that is on 130 installed from ISO because that update failed. Build 10130 has treated me well, so I'm looking forward to 10158. TIA
 
I have a friend with a Latitude E6500 that brought it in because it was throwing explorer.exe fits on restart/shutdown like 99% of the time on 10130. System was perfectly stable other than that. I reloaded 10130 multiple times, still did it. Fresh installed 10158 from a ESD --> ISO image, problem now gone. Feels a little faster as well.
 
tesfaye said:
Well, if anyone here knows of a legit ISO link, please pass it on. Microsoft still has not figured out how to properly update the Surface Pro 3, and that is on 130 installed from ISO because that update failed. Build 10130 has treated me well, so I'm looking forward to 10158. TIA
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Not sure about legit, but there's a few links here for ISO's: http://microsoft-news.com/download-windows-10-build-10158-iso/
 
I've been running it on my SP3 since last night and it's for me by far the most stable and useable official build on the SP3. The tablet mode is starting to coming along finally. Not sure how I feel about the new handwriting input panel. It works much differently than the old one that's not changed significantly since Windows XP Tablet PC Edition but the accuracy does seem to be a bit better. It would also be n ice if there were an option to autohide the task bar in tablet mode.

Still a number of rough edges and quirks that need work. Edge looks good in dark mode and is pretty fast.
 
Just updated and then did a fresh install as I have issues with washed out color, from 10130 up I seem to get washed out color. I have two monitors and one is worse then the other however I dont have this issue pre 10130. This is the only issue i have so far.

Other then that it seems to be coming along nicely.
 
Just upgraded from build 10147, no apparent issues, Avast Antivirus still works OK.
 
I wonder how far behind the public builds are vs the private ones. As I would have thought with a release date 1 month away this would be pretty much final by now.
 
My VM isn't picking up the update. Boo.

Have they added the ability to disable the f'n web results in the Start menu search yet or at least fixed the GPO entry to disable it? That's been infuriating from the beginning.
 
I think they just pulled it as it was stuck at 0% however when I went to refresh it its not picking it up now.
 
Spire3660 said:
Mods, please remove the link in the quoted post. IT will only bring people pain.
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Yeah, reason I posted immediately to flag it. Unfortunately, we can't edit our own posts.

MS still hasn't updated the ISO's on the preview site.
 
159 is for sure running better than 130 for me on my Lenovo X240.

We also have to keep in mind drivers that need updating.
 
All I can say is... Windows 7 is much faster than Windows 8/8.1. Windows 10... it seems Micro$haft is taking Windows ME and pruning it with Windows 8.
 
Do you care to be more specific about that claim that Windows 7 is much faster than Windows 8, 8.1, and 10? Can you prove that claim?
 
thundermitty said:
Do you care to be more specific about that claim that Windows 7 is much faster than Windows 8, 8.1, and 10? Can you prove that claim?
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Never "claimed" Windows 7 was faster than Windows 10. I've not delved too far into Windows 10, but from my current assessment of using preview builds, is that it's a load of junk, it's Microsoft ME with a major facelift.

If you need proof about Windows 7 being faster than Windows 8/8.1 then search the hundreds of thousands of threads, posts, and videos containing benchmarks. OR install it yourself and find out.
 
Is W10 better than Vista yet? :rolleyes:

Have not upgraded to 10 as 7 works nice so I'll still wait until you guys get it bugged out.
 
thundermitty said:
That's pretty disturbing. Will the final release of Windows 10 contain any spyware?
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I don't see what incentive Microsoft has to remove any debugging and monitoring capabilities in their retail versions. Google has been doing the same stuff for countless thousands of years and they also have no qualms about stopping 3rd party companies that offer apps via their store from doing so either. The only thing people think they can do to make a difference is to install custom ROMs and permissions control programs which are pretty much completely not proven to make a difference anyway. If Google does it, why shouldn't Microsoft?
 
valis1 said:
All I can say is... Windows 7 is much faster than Windows 8/8.1. Windows 10... it seems Micro$haft is taking Windows ME and pruning it with Windows 8.
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On moderately powerful hardware and better, my opinion and I'd say general consensus is that day to day performance overall on the desktop isn't significantly different between 7 and 8.x. On lower powered hardware 8.x has been noted by many to be faster. A lot of that is subjective coming from observations using newer Windows 8.1 Atom devices which don't have official Windows 7 support thus there's not been much direct benchmarking between 7 and 8.x with this kind of hardware.
 
10130 was pretty slow, especially after reboot. 10158 and 10159 felt pretty much like 8.1 at least for me. It's pretty much is fixing bugs and polishing from here on out.
 
Serious question, I haven't had time to bother with the past few builds. Can all the cortana stuff be uninstalled from the current build? Also can the icon customization in the start menu basically be reduced down to extremely minimal to no icons yet? I really don't want to download another test build just to answer those two questions.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Serious question, I haven't had time to bother with the past few builds. Can all the cortana stuff be uninstalled from the current build? Also can the icon customization in the start menu basically be reduced down to extremely minimal to no icons yet? I really don't want to download another test build just to answer those two questions.
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Cortana is built into the system, and doubt that it can be removed easily. You'd have to wait until xper, or others, find a solution to remove it. Problem is that Microsoft always integrates uneccessary components deep into the system that no one will ever use on a Personal Computer, the same with Firefox, and don't add these so-called features as a developer recommended ADD-ON. Instead they willingly bloat the Software with useless junk.

I too dislike the Start Menu program list icons and find them very intrusive. I doubt Microsoft is going to do away with the Start Menu icons, or enhance it in any form. The Windows 7 Start Menu is the last real program list, but now we have dumb kids developing software. As for now the only alternative is by using a 3rd party application like Classic Start Menu or other.
 
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