Build 5920 INstallation problems

[Gerold Krommer]

Hi,

I'm facing some weirdness installing the latest build, some of it can be my fault...

1. The download is a zip instead of the normal exe. Not a big deal, but then the download instructions that appear while downloading are not accurate. But I admit this might be a problem for extreme computer illiterates only.
2. When running the exe, the warning 'app is not from MS store do you want to install anyway' comes up. Whatever I click (go to store, install anyway, change settings), this stalls and nothing happens. When I set the install exe to Windows 8 compatibility, it works. This might be some weird setting on my laptop, I just wanted to let the community know...

I will try installing on my second computer...

/Gerold

[Gerold Krommer]

Ok. Happens on laptop, but not on deskside... so it must be a local setting.

[Tim Green]

Ok. Happens on laptop, but not on deskside... so it must be a local setting.

The laptop is probably running Windows in Microsoft's weird, crippled S mode that only allows Windows Store apps by default. See more about that here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... baebeebc85

You might also be running an ARM laptop with Windows on ARM:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/

These machines have ARM processors, the same as the ones in most Android phones. There is a version of Windows for these chips, but they cannot run normal Windows X86 processor programs natively. They have to be executed in an emulator that translates all the X86 instructions needed by Windows programs into ARM instructions for the ARM processor. Currently the performance of X86 programs on the emulator on these machines is really, really bad. It can be better -- Apple has demonstrated this with their M1 Apple Silicon processors, which are also ARM-based -- but the ARM chips available for Windows machines are years behind the Apple versions in performance and capabilities, and it is much, much harder to make Windows perform well on them as well. This may change, but it is going to take a few years before Qualcomm and the other non-Apple ARM manufacturers manage to catch up.