CO-Release Build 21370 is out to Dev Channel

Nothing is ever recommended that involves mucking about in the Registry.

Cheers,
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As in "each to their own" or "Personalization" or "Customise".  I 'm sure we all know configuring & usage is subjective & in Windows there are usually/often a few ways to accomplish the same thing.

Heck, I have no tiles & really don't even > Strat for much of anything, hardly ever... doesn't make it right or wrong.  But someone can have an idea someone didn't know & that they might like.

Exactly Drew! There is no right way, only what works for yourself. That's what makes windows great.

I did like your concept of Settings on taskbar, tried it for awhile, kept finding myself still using Start. Hard to break old habits one gets stuck in  :-)

The example I showed for Settings is in couple vm's, preferred it over pinning to taskbar for ease and opening to page desired, but then again, will I use this on my main desktop, not likely. This is where your suggestion makes much more sense (safer) which I did try on main.

Not a fan of the new Windows Tools popup window (work in progress), find that too cluttered and disorganized compared to the old menu. For myself, find it more of a frustration to find the tool I require with these old eyes. Will end up going to "\ProgramData\Start Menu\" and restore menu items for the administrative tools I tend to use.

Great it works out for you; not here, too Menu driven. Don't like the aspect of opening a window to search for a tool in all that clutter.

Regards,

I got two message while running trouble-shooter(I don't remember exact words but similar):

1. You device configured properly but could not reach internet
2. You firewall settings may block the connection

I disabled Defender, disable firewall, no success.

However I made it work now by rolling back to previous build and then update again to 21370. Not sure why it did not work on first time.

Looking at yor taskbar you need to use the Hidden ^ area on your taskbar so you have some room for other icons.  Like USB removal, Security, Bluetooth, Mail.

Hi Lawrence,

For once I agree with you.   lol

We all have our own preferences, personally like to keep my tray nearly empty with commonly used programs pinned to taskbar. I really find the weather displayed with N&I handy. Still playing around with the popup settings to see if I have any use for updated news items. Normally first thing I do is read up on all the news in browser anyhow.

Regards,

I sure don't like this alternative 😎

Thanks CK.

 Downloading now on test desktops 1 & 2,