Windows Skip Ahead build 16362 - Kind of 16288 Plus

On Sept 13 MS released Redstone 4 branch build 16362 of Windows 10 to members of the Skip Ahead group.

 This build included many of the same "fixes" as the rs3.release build 16288 that was distributed on Sept 12 as well as an "Improved Boot experience" and some updates to Windows Narrator.

 As with the 16288 rs3.release build - the update process was slow.  When you consider that for most enthusiasts - we are running multi-core, machines with SSD - it is simply amazing that it can take well over an hour to perform an update when it take less than 30 minutes booting from an USB.  And the download piece is not the laggard.

 So one thing I noticed immediately after booting was that traditional lock screen clear keys like Space Bar and Enter weren't working.  Only a left mouse click cleared the screen to present Login.   This only seemed to occur with first boot - after reboot it worked fine.

 Otherwise for the most part it's like running 16288 except with the rs.prelease watermark...

 All in all the Skip Ahead program isn't really providing much insight into the Redstone 4 branch.   I don't think we'll know much about Redstone 4 until MS Ignite in a couple weeks..



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