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<blockquote data-quote="plat" data-source="post: 859954" data-attributes="member: 74969">I&#039;m running v. 2004 now, it&#039;s quite stable.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what hardware you have but there are&nbsp; &quot;optional updates&quot; that feature various drivers from Intel and AMD (yes, AMD driver offered on an Intel machine <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite119" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />).&nbsp; I don&#039;t touch them with a ten foot pole.&nbsp; What I do, I download the drivers I need beforehand, clean-install, then access Windows.old to retrieve them.&nbsp; Very easy.&nbsp; So, I don&#039;t know whether that driver update feature is going to make it to the 2004 release. I&#039;m siding with others who say:&nbsp; Wait until 2004&#039;s ISO is officially released and then cleanly install it.&nbsp; Right now it needs various refinements:&nbsp; too many ESENT warnings typical of these beta builds, shutdown is prolonged several seconds compared to 1909, notices with yellow exclamation marks&nbsp; that &quot;updates are in progress&quot; when there are none in the queue, and so on.&nbsp; Under the hood, who knows.&nbsp; 1909 is superior in performance to beta 2004 on here at the moment.&nbsp; That I can tell you. Windows re-partitioned my drive&nbsp; when I installed an earlier Insiders build over v. 1909 a while back and I ended up with 2 extra recovery partitions.&nbsp; I merged them with the C partition via diskpart and promptly got a boot failure. When I re-installed Windows 1909 via USB ISO, the partitions were back to the normal 3.&nbsp; So, I would be careful there, very careful, and let Windows handle the formatting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="plat, post: 859954, member: 74969"] I'm running v. 2004 now, it's quite stable. I don't know what hardware you have but there are "optional updates" that feature various drivers from Intel and AMD (yes, AMD driver offered on an Intel machine :rolleyes:). I don't touch them with a ten foot pole. What I do, I download the drivers I need beforehand, clean-install, then access Windows.old to retrieve them. Very easy. So, I don't know whether that driver update feature is going to make it to the 2004 release. I'm siding with others who say: Wait until 2004's ISO is officially released and then cleanly install it. Right now it needs various refinements: too many ESENT warnings typical of these beta builds, shutdown is prolonged several seconds compared to 1909, notices with yellow exclamation marks that "updates are in progress" when there are none in the queue, and so on. Under the hood, who knows. 1909 is superior in performance to beta 2004 on here at the moment. That I can tell you. Windows re-partitioned my drive when I installed an earlier Insiders build over v. 1909 a while back and I ended up with 2 extra recovery partitions. I merged them with the C partition via diskpart and promptly got a boot failure. When I re-installed Windows 1909 via USB ISO, the partitions were back to the normal 3. So, I would be careful there, very careful, and let Windows handle the formatting. [/QUOTE]

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