Work on the Creators Update advances at fast pace

Mar 18, 2017 06:15 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft is working at full speed towards completing work on the Windows 10 Creators Update, and with the release expected to take place on April 11, the company has just made a big step towards reaching this important milestone.

The company has published today new ISO files for Windows 10, allowing users to start from scratch or perform a clean install of build 15058.

Just like before, the new Windows 10 build 15058 ISO images are available in 5 different versions, namely Home, Enterprise, Education, Home Single Language, and Home China, each in two flavors, x64 and x86.

With Windows 10 Creators Update already in an advanced development stage, these ISOs definitely come in handy, especially in the case of users who experience issues and prefer to attempt to repair them by simply performing a clean install. Of course, the images are specifically aimed at insiders, but retail users can also use them in a virtual machine to get a taste of what’s to come in the Creators Update.

Windows 10 license still required

Another important thing that users need to have in mind is that although they are for the preview version of the Creators Update, these ISOs still require a license, so unless Windows 10 was previously activated on your system, you could only use them for a maximum of 30 days.

“You will need to install the Windows 10 Insider Preview build on a device that has been previously activated with Windows 10 or with a Windows 10 product key,” Microsoft explains.

Also, note that once you install this preview build with the ISO, you can no longer downgrade to your stable version of Windows. “After you install Windows 10 Insider Preview, you won’t be able to use the recovery partition on your PC to go back to your previous version of Windows,” Redmond says.

The Creators Update is projected to launch in just a few weeks, so if you don’t feel like experimenting with the ISOs, it shouldn't take too long until the stable update is released.