Windows 10 beta 10074

Windows 10 build 10074 is the first Insider Preview build of Windows 10, which was released to Windows Insiders in all rings on 29 April 2015.

Editions and keys[edit | edit source]

New features and changes[edit | edit source]

• New system sounds have been introduced.
• The context menu has been updated in some places.
• The navigation buttons in the Settings app have received changes.
• The Network icon has been updated.
• Closing an application in Tablet Mode now takes the user to the Start screen.
• Multi-tasking improvements (Alt+Tab, Task-View, Snap Assist).
• Personalization options in Control Panel have been removed, as the applet was only intended to be used for switching themes. However, this change would be reverted in build 10546.
• Express settings have been updated in the OOBE.

Search and Cortana[edit | edit source]

• The search icon has received an update.
• Accent color has been removed from the search box.
• Start and Cortana are now more integrated.
• New experiences in Cortana powered by Bing Instant Answers.

Music and Video Preview Apps[edit | edit source]

• Full screen mode has been added to the Music app.
• Movies, TV shows and TV seasons can now be downloaded via the Video Preview app on up to three devices.

Bugs and quirks[edit | edit source]

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Changing the resolution and resizing the taskbar may cause the Start menu to open.

Settings[edit | edit source]

In Update & security, clicking on «For developers» causes the Settings to crash.

Translations[edit | edit source]

The non-English versions of this build have translations missing in some places.

Polish version[edit | edit source]

The Polish version mistranslates «Power» as «Moc», instead of «Zasilanie». This mistranslation would be fixed in the RTM build.

Korean version[edit | edit source]

The Korean version mistranslates «Windows» as «창» (chang), instead of «창문» (changmun). This mistranslation would be fixed in the RTM build.

Simplified Chinese version[edit | edit source]

The Education SKU of the Simplified Chinese version unintentionally uses «Microsoft Confidential» branding.

Updates[edit | edit source]

• 10074.1.fbl_impressive_cxe.150425-1755 (KB3061161)
  • Released on 29 April 2015

Gallery[edit | edit source]

• Boot screen

English version[edit | edit source]

• Install now

• EULA

• Installation type

• Disk partitioning

• Installing

• Getting ready

• OOBE

• Post-OOBE

• Lock screen

• Login screen

• First boot

• Start menu

• Start screen

• Task View

• System Properties

• Volume flyout

• Search

• Music Preview

• Video Preview

• Non-functional bootloader due to expired timebomb

Japanese version[edit | edit source]

• Desktop

• Start menu

• Start menu opened as a result of changing the resolution

• Start menu opened as a result of resizing the taskbar

Login screen[edit | edit source]

• Lock screen

• Login screen

Korean version[edit | edit source]

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Start menu

• winver

Russian version[edit | edit source]

• Language selection

• Starting setup

• EULA

• Disk partitioning

• OOBE

• First logon animation

• Desktop

• Desktop with winver

• Action Center

Simplified Chinese version[edit | edit source]

Enterprise SKU[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• EULA

• OOBE

• Desktop

• Start Menu

• Action Center

• File Explorer

• Store

• Settings

• Desktop with winver

• System Properties

Education SKU[edit | edit source]

• System Properties with winver

Home China SKU[edit | edit source]

• Desktop

• winver

Traditional Chinese version[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• winver

Polish version[edit | edit source]

• Language selection

• Starting setup

• EULA

• Installing Windows

• OOBE

• Desktop

• Desktop with winver

• Start menu

• Settings

• About

• System Properties

• File Explorer

• Action Center

Finnish version[edit | edit source]

• Desktop

• winver

French version[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• Desktop

• winver

Czech version[edit | edit source]

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Start Menu

• Settings

• winver

Swedish version[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• OOBE

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Start menu

• winver

German version[edit | edit source]

• Lock screen

• Login screen

• Desktop

• winver

Dutch version[edit | edit source]

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Start menu

• Task View

• winver

Turkish version[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• Post-OOBE

• Lock screen

• Login screen

• Desktop

• Start menu

• winver

Spanish version[edit | edit source]

• Post-OOBE

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Start menu

• Action Center

• Task View

• winver

Brazilian Portuguese version[edit | edit source]

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Start menu

• winver

Italian version[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• Post-OOBE

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Action Center

• winver

Thai version[edit | edit source]

• Post-OOBE

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• Action Center

• Task View

• winver

Canadian French version[edit | edit source]

• Setup

• OOBE

• Lock screen

• Desktop

• File Explorer

• winver

External links[edit | edit source]

• Official announcement

Hi everyone from the Build 2015 conference happening right now in San Francisco! If you haven’t already, check out Terry’s blog post about all the Windows 10 announcements we made today. If you’re at Build this week or at Ignite in Chicago next week – keep your eye out for me and say hello!

Today we have a new build available to both the Fast and Slow ring for Windows Insiders (that means we’ll have ISOs available too for those of you who like a clean install.) With this build we continue to evolve the features and design for Windows 10, and you’ll see a lot of subtle changes and improvements, many of which were influenced directly by Windows Insiders. One of those changes is the reintroduction of some Aero Glass elements in the UI, but there are many more things throughout the product as well. We continue to use your feedback directly day to day in how our feature teams operate, and we hope that Windows 10 will be the best version of Windows yet because you had a direct hand in its creation.

One other subtle change that you’ll notice is that we’ve changed how we talk about the builds from “Technical Preview” to “Insider Preview” to reflect the importance of the Windows Insider community in how we’re building Windows 10.

And speaking of Windows Insiders, we were super excited to host the 10 winners of our Windows Insiders to Campus contest in Redmond last week and hear their thoughts on the program and the product. We’ll share more on that soon.

Here is what’s new

Some of the things that Joe demoed on stage earlier today during the Build keynote are not yet included in this build and will be in future builds. But we still have a bunch of new stuff for you to check out!

General UX improvements: We made a bunch of UX improvements with the last build and you’ll see even more in this build. For example, you’ll notice a new Live Tile animation for Start in addition to some performance and stability improvements for Live Tiles.

We’ve done work to better support high DPI displays. And we know many Windows Insiders are running multi-mon setups – often with 2 monitors with different DPI. You will start to see some work we’re doing to make sure core UX components in Windows scale correctly on both your monitors so things look nice regardless of DPI.

We’ve also heard loud in clear that many Windows Insiders want to see Aero Glass from Windows 7 make a comeback. We’ve been working out how to satisfy this request, and are trying some things out with this build to see how you like them. We’re running a little A/B test with this build. 50% of you will normal transparency on the Start menu and taskbar while the other 50% will see a blur effect on the Start menu and taskbar (like frosted glass). If Windows Insiders really like the blur effect, we will add it to more areas and even consider making it the default instead of standard transparency. Which one did you get? Send us feedback about it via the Windows Feedback app!

Even more improvements to Continuum: We’re continuing to make Continuum better and invest in a simplified taskbar. Additionally when you close an application in Tablet mode, we take you back to the Start screen instead of the desktop as you would expect when using a tablet. You will see general polish on snapping, and the shared divider between two snapped windows now let’s you adjust the size.

Multi-tasking improvements: We’re continuing to refine and complete our mulit-tasking experience with Windows 10. Check out Alt-Tab, Task-View, and Snap Assist. Snap Assist also now supports the ability to close a window during Snap Assist.

New default Windows sounds: We’ve heard a lot of feedback from people that they want some fresh system sounds for Windows 10. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Visual refresh for Cortana: You will see a visual refresh for Cortana in this build that makes the experience feel more ingrained into the overall Windows experience. Start and Cortana are now more tightly integrated. As you start to search for an app from within Start, Cortana can seamlessly take over and bring back the right result. The new Windows split view control has been added to Cortana’s left rail, offering quick access to key Cortana functionality like the Notebook, Reminders or Feedback on how Cortana’s doing. This split view control helps anchor Cortana to the rest of the Windows UI and provides navigation consistent with many other Windows first party applications.

New experiences in Cortana: We are making available some new and updated experiences in Cortana powered by Bing Instant Answers. Cortana will aim to answer your question while you’re still typing. Here are a few questions you can try:

• Weather – “Seattle Weather”
• Finance – “MSFT stock”
• Dictionary – “define astounding”
• Calculator – “48*92”
• Flight Status – “UA 238”
• Reference – “how tall is brad pitt”
• Showtimes – “movies near me”
• Tech Help – “memory in my computer”
• Time Zone – “time in London”
• Unit Conversion – “42 ft in meters”
• Chit Chat – “tell me a joke”

Updates for the Music and Video Preview apps: We’ve also shipped updates to these apps. The Music Preview app (3.6.999.0) has some UX improvements including a more immersive Now Playing experience with a true full screen mode. With the Video Preview app (3.6.999.0) – you can download movies, TV shows, and TV seasons and check progress, pause, resume, cancel the download. You can also download, delete, and even re-download videos as many times as you want on up to three devices (we’re planning to increase the number of devices you can download content too!). Closed captioning for purchased content now appears. You will see a list of new features when you first launch these app after each update!

Xbox app April 2015 update: The Xbox app for Windows 10 has been updated (your version number should be 4.4.9014.0 or higher) with new features like Game DVR for PC games, screenshots, a Live Tile, user profiles, and real-name sharing. Oh and the drivers for Xbox controllers are now included with Windows 10, so you no longer have to download and install controller drivers on Windows 10. For more on this month’s Xbox app for Windows 10 update as well as the new Avatars app – read this blog post.

Windows Store Beta improvements: We’re excited about delivering a single unified Store experience in Windows 10 which we’re talking more about this week at Build. We’ve made some improvements to the Store Beta which is now a blue tile instead of grey. Xbox Live games should be working and so are in-app purchases. Apps you purchased on a PC running Windows 8.1 will now show up in the Store Beta on Windows 10 as owned (and vice-versa). We’re also expanding the Store Beta from 41 markets with the addition of these new markets: Afghanistan, Åland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bahrain, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bonaire, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Iceland, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Malta, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela.

Discovering features and apps in Windows 10: We are investing in easy “bite-sized” learning and discovery experiences so that users can get more out of Windows 10. This ranges from tips and tricks on the Lock screen, to helping users discover high quality apps through Start, the Lock screen and Cortana. Be confident that you won’t miss out on new features and enjoy the ease of having high quality apps curated for you. It’s optional, and if anything doesn’t strike your fancy, you can provide feedback directly, such as whether you like an image or an app. These new experiences will be rolling out over time, so you may not see them in your market yet.

Here are some things we fixed

• You can now launch Win32 (desktop) apps from the Start menu again. Sorry about this bug!
• You should be able to download music in the Xbox Music and Music Preview apps.
• When you minimize an app playing audio, it should continue playing in the background.

Here are some known issues

• Developers cannot enable Developer Mode in the Settings app for installing and testing apps on this build. We’ll enable this in an upcoming build. In the meantime, you will need enable your device for development using the Group Policy Editor.
• There is an issue in this build preventing some games from playing in full screen mode. We’re working to get a fix out via WU as soon as possible.
• The People app continues to crash. We’re planning to release an update for the People app through the Store Beta that fixes this.

We hope you’ll agree that 10074 has some nice improvements and is another step forward towards delivering a great Windows 10 release. Please put it through the paces and keep sending us feedback on the things that you like and the things you want us to keep working on using the Windows Feedback app. I hope that you’ll also download the development tools released at Build and will build some terrific Universal Windows apps as well!

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Microsoft has made available Windows 10 build 10074 for participants of the Windows Insider Program. We brought you an exclusive first-look at this build yesterday, and now you can get your hands on it too. Build 10074 features improvements to Cortana, the user interface, new Windows sounds, and much more. Oh, and the return of Aero Glass!

“ISO files of the April Update (build 10074) are now available for download. You’ll still receive this update automatically via Windows Update, but if you prefer a clean install or you want to install on a virtual machine, you can download an ISO file instead.” So how do you download it?

• Head over here to download the ISO of build 10074.
• When the download is complete, transfer the ISO file to installation media such as a USB flash drive or DVD.
• Boot your PC from the installation media, and then follow the steps to perform a clean install.

One of the new features in this build is the return of Aero Glass, but not everyone will get it right away. Here’s what Microsoft had to say:

“We’ve also heard loud in clear that many Windows Insiders want to see Aero Glass from Windows 7 make a comeback. We’ve been working out how to satisfy this request, and are trying some things out with this build to see how you like them. We’re running a little A/B test with this build. 50% of you will normal transparency on the Start menu and taskbar while the other 50% will see a blur effect on the Start menu and taskbar (like frosted glass). If Windows Insiders really like the blur effect, we will add it to more areas and even consider making it the default instead of standard transparency. Which one did you get? Send us feedback about it via the Windows Feedback app!”

You can also head over to Windows Update and download the new build, regardless if you are a fast or slow ring participant. If you’d rather have more control over your installation, you can snag the ISO instead. You can also watch our video walk-through of the new build below. Enjoy!

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