Windows 10 Preview on Surface Pro 3
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Apps (Hub / Metro / Modern interface) will survive. The settings for them are tucked away for you. The Apps themselves download or are refreshed automatically from the Store.
Programs (Desktop) may not survive. You may have to install them again.
I keep install sets of my programs in a /OneDrive/Software folder structure, so that they are always available for me in case a Build corrupts or destroys them.
I also keep backgrounds in /OneDrive/Pictures/Backgrounds_SP3
Apps (Hub / Metro / Modern interface) will survive. The settings for them are tucked away for you. The Apps themselves download or are refreshed automatically from the Store.
Programs (Desktop) may not survive. You may have to install them again.
I keep install sets of my programs in a /OneDrive/Software folder structure, so that they are always available for me in case a Build corrupts or destroys them.
I also keep backgrounds in /OneDrive/Pictures/Backgrounds_SP3
Windows 10 will include junkware. It will include Candy Crush, and Microsoft is looking for more partners for more apps to include 
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/14/candy-crush-saga-coming-to-windows-10/
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/14/candy-crush-saga-coming-to-windows-10/
mitchellvii
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Windows 10 will include junkware. It will include Candy Crush, and Microsoft is looking for more partners for more apps to include
http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/05/14/candy-crush-saga-coming-to-windows-10/
One man's junkware (Candy Crush) is another man's raison d'etre.
CC is my absolute favorite colossal waste of time and mental stimulation whilst on the can.
Good. Promote a company that steel people work, and sue them.One man's junkware (Candy Crush) is another man's raison d'etre.
CC is my absolute favorite colossal waste of time and mental stimulation whilst on the can.
mitchellvii
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Don't see how including an app for the world's most popular game is going to hurt MS here.
Do I understand right, you have installed your programs on OneDrive or only stored the setup-Files there? Is it possible to start PhoteShop or MatLab from OneDrive?!
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Setup files only.
lhauser
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Yes, I keep install files on a flash drive... it's too slow to download all that stuff from OneDrive. A few might be a version or two behind, but that's easily remedied.
Wait pressing the purple button on the pen brings up OneNote 2016? What about pressing the second button, does it bring up the spin wheel for options?
I have that option chose, have done many clean installs and upgrades but can not get it to work on my SP3.
I just tried using it, but its not entirely brilliant. I found that it just changes the colour based on what colour the taskbar would overlap. So I've an almost entirely red background, but because of a little bit of blue sky (I have taskbar at top of screen) it selects a blue theme, which doesn't quite mesh. Maybe they should have the option to have it select colour based on what it will cover up, or select colour based on the general colour of the background, kind of like when you can filter Google images by colour and it just finds the most dominant colour.
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