Windows 10 Anniversary Update - Here is everything you need to know - OUT NOW!

[atrash]

Should I force update my SP4 or should I just wait for the update to appear normally in the Windows Update?

[AlTech]

Just now, atrash said:

Should I force update my SP4 or should I just wait for the update to appear normally in the Windows Update?

I did a force update on my desktop and nothing bad happened 

 (By the way I'm buying the Surface Pro 4 any day now).

[GoodBytes]

13 minutes ago, Tech Inquisition said:

Upgraded my systems/notebooks no issues, except for a compatibility issue with DAEMON Tools, but I uninstalled that.

Even updated my wife's AIO and no issues there.

People still uses Daemon tools? I thought it stops as Windows can mount ISOs. I guess for old old games with disk DRM...

[Tech Inquisition]

12 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

People still uses Daemon tools? I thought it stops as Windows can mount ISOs. I guess for old old games with disk DRM...

To be honest, I actually forgot I had it... LOL... never used it as it came with the Asus Mobo software

[Hadowken]

@GoodBytes

 

So I just downloaded and upgraded my windows 10 to the latest anniversary update. After the update, I tried opening my most used games and I noticed a significant lag on CSGO, turned on net graph and it seems to be showing that it's getting capped at 30fps. Last night I was playing CS:GO and is getting well above 250 fps.

 

I've searched about it and read that I should disable "Game DVR" in the Xbox app. Haven't tried this yet, but I would like to know some other work around for this issue, just in case disabling game DVR doesn't work. 

 

Oh, and I also opened dota2 but It seems to be smooth, at least on the main menu. Haven't tried playing in the new update though. 

 

Will try disabling game DVR first when I get home. 

[GoodBytes]

7 minutes ago, Hadowken said:

@GoodBytes

 

So I just downloaded and upgraded my windows 10 to the latest anniversary update. After the update, I tried opening my most used games and I noticed a significant lag on CSGO, turned on net graph and it seems to be showing that it's getting capped at 30fps. Last night I was playing CS:GO and is getting well above 250 fps.

 

I've searched about it and read that I should disable "Game DVR" in the Xbox app. Haven't tried this yet, but I would like to know some other work around for this issue, just in case disabling game DVR doesn't work. 

 

Oh, and I also opened dota2 but It seems to be smooth, at least on the main menu. Haven't tried playing in the new update though. 

 

Will try disabling game DVR first when I get home. 

It could be that you have the always record Game DVR  option enabled. You can disable that

[NumLock21]

Got it running on my desktop, so far so good.

I don't get the purpose of the "expand" function in the start menu. Is there suppose to be like some most use programs or just empty space?

I like how you can now for Windows update, set active hours so it won't automatically restart.

 

For my laptop, that missing 3GB reappeared after running a repair install. And the update continue to download from where it left off. It tried to install, but it failed.

Might need to do a clean install, something I would like to avoid. Going to try other methods to get it working.

 

 

 

 

[GoodBytes]

9 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Got it running on my desktop, so far so good.

I don't get the purpose of the "expand" function in the start menu. Is there suppose to be like some most use programs or just empty space?

I like how you can now for Windows update, set active hours so it won't automatically restart.

Ah! The "Expand" is for your Recently Added apps list. You have that because you have too many to display. The point is to avoid displaying a massive list.

[tonyeezy]

When I updated last night I noticed a few strange things like my monitor overclock being stuck back at 60hz as well as my digital vibrance being reset back to default. The other thing is the Windows.old won't allow me to delete it due to permissions and doesn't appear in disk clean up. Aside from that everything seems pretty normal. My CSGO is running just fine like before I know the guy a few posts up mentioned his was capped at 30fps.

 

And am I losing my mind but after I updated, my Chrome updated too I believe; is the blue highlight color on the address bar darker now?

[SImoHayha]

Its seems the new update screws over people using windows 10. By not allowing to disable the lock screen, preventing microsoft ads and having microsoft download apps to your computer like candy crush. 

[tonyeezy]

1 minute ago, Ramamataz said:

Its seems the new update screws over people using windows 10. By not allowing to disable the lock screen, preventing microsoft ads and having microsoft download apps to your computer like candy crush. 

Was wondering where on earth Candy Crush came from the other night as I was uninstalling some stuff LOL.

[SImoHayha]

2 minutes ago, tonyeezy said:

Was wondering where on earth Candy Crush came from the other night as I was uninstalling some stuff LOL.

Looks like Windows 10 is starting to get more fishy and fishy. Who knows if they'll install something else to monitor people or hell what if a hacker manages to exploit that and upload malware to a user's computer without knowledge?

[GoodBytes]

Windows 10 always had "ad apps" (I'll call it that) like Candy Crush. They are not really installed. they only install if you click on them. You just unpin them. They are more like links. These ad apps depends on your location or Windows region.

 

Windows Spotlight, if enable (the feature that show you different lock screen backgrounds each day based on feedback you give on the lock screen), will showcase a Windows Store app every now and then. These ads in particular pays for the license fees of these background, and push people to discover the store. I know some people got some, I never did (I do use the Store.. so maybe that is why I don't see them, or no company is paying Microsoft for ads for Canadians due to small number).

 

Both of these things were announced by Microsoft at the BUILD event before Windows 10 was released, and covered here in the news section.

[TheGosuStandard]

I thought dark mode would be more like this forums night theme......

[Doughnutnator]

Thanks for the info. Updated today, then used "disk cleanup" to delete all the garbage on my SSD. Got 20GB free, all my files and programs work like they used to.

 

So far so good, tested benchmarks and I get expected performance, boot time is amazing now, just like when I clean installed W10 for the first time.

 

Hope it works for everyone, seems their update waves are good enough, I live in Mexico and got the update today in the morning (just decided to install it later to check everything) Hope things keep like this, improving.

[Serin]

Just finished updating - seems to have broken my right clicks and dialogue boxes in chrome/paint...

[jasonvp]

My Windows Update still hasn't pulled the Anniversary yet.  Yesterday, I attempted the manual update through MS' website.  The installer downloaded the ISO, began the install, rebooted the machine, did some more work on the install, and then rebooted the machine again.  What I was left with was: my original Windows 10.  I was able to replicate this about 5 or 6 times before I just gave up.

 

I'm likely doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what, yet.

[tbake0155]

10 hours ago, Ramamataz said:

Its seems the new update screws over people using windows 10. By not allowing to disable the lock screen, preventing microsoft ads and having microsoft download apps to your computer like candy crush. 

get-appxpackage -Name *candycrush* | remove-appxpackage

 

 

Open powershell and run that command.  I can't stand that kind of crap on my system either. Here's some more you could run:

 

get-appxpackage -Name *store* | remove-appxpackage      

get-appxpackage -Name *bing* | remove-appxpackage     

get-appxpackage -Name *solitaire* | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage -Name *advertising* | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage -Name *zune* | remove-appxpackage

 

You can search for all packages using get-appxpackage.  And you can remove them individually by using remove-appxpackage [full package name].  The commands above will remove several packages at once, any package that contains the string between the ** symbols.  Also, you may have to run those commands as all users on your system.  I have two users, an admin and a normal user.  I ran all of those commands with both users in order to remove all of the packages for both users.

 

I wish you could remove cortana and xbox but you cannot.  I have however fully disabled cortana through group policy so I'm satisfied.

 

 

@GoodBytes Some people want a clean professional system, not a junky OS pre-loaded with software they will never use.  Unpinning can hide the candycrush but I don't want to hide it, I want it off of my system.

 

 

EDIT: I forgot one of the worst ones!!!

 

get-appxpackage -Name *skype* | remove-appxpackage

[Grx]

The phone features will be the soul reason why I will update!

I always lose my phone and respond 2h late to messages so it will be very useful to have it on my pc!

 

I also hope that when I look for an app on the start menu it will show me the .exe and not the bloody .dll files

 

Thank you for the list btw!

[Sintezza]

15 minutes ago, tbake0155 said:

get-appxpackage -Name *candycrush* | remove-appxpackage

 

 

Open powershell and run that command.  I can't stand that kind of crap on my system either. Here's some more you could run:

 

get-appxpackage -Name *store* | remove-appxpackage      

get-appxpackage -Name *bing* | remove-appxpackage     

get-appxpackage -Name *solitaire* | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage -Name *advertising* | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage -Name *zune* | remove-appxpackage

 

You can search for all packages using get-appxpackage.  And you can remove them individually by using remove-appxpackage [full package name].  The commands above will remove several packages at once, any package that contains the string between the ** symbols.  Also, you may have to run those commands as all users on your system.  I have two users, an admin and a normal user.  I ran all of those commands with both users in order to remove all of the packages for both users.

 

I wish you could remove cortana and xbox but you cannot.  I have however fully disabled cortana through group policy so I'm satisfied.

 

 

@GoodBytes Some people want a clean professional system, not a junky OS pre-loaded with software they will never use.  Unpinning can hide the candycrush but I don't want to hide it, I want it off of my system.

 

 

EDIT: I forgot one of the worst ones!!!

 

get-appxpackage -Name *skype* | remove-appxpackage

 

Thats why i talked about Windows10 Enterprise LTSB above.

The LTSB version does not come with all those modern apps bloatware installed.

There is also no Cortana and no Edge included either.

So i´m realy currious how much data collection and telemetry tracking there is still left in the LTSB version without all that crap included.

[GoodBytes]

14 minutes ago, tbake0155 said:

Some people want a clean professional system, not a junky OS pre-loaded with software they will never use.  Unpinning can hide the candycrush but I don't want to hide it, I want it off of my system.

I know this. And no, unpinning removes the link to download it. It will be your only option, and it will not be actually installed. Assuming you did click on it and it is install, then uninstalling it, will remove any trace from it, which is the beauty of Universal Apps.

[Accursed Entity]

I take it back... since the update my GPU idle temps always go up to 70c... I thought  it was the driver and I updated it using DDU for a full clean but it keeps doing it...

[Hoppa]

For those who are complaining about the data collecting etc, but still need/want to use windows.

May I suggest "Windows 10 LTSB", it's everything you want without all the crap.

Truly the best version of windows.

[NumLock21]

Got it working on my laptop without reinstall.

Downloaded the Windows Anniversary Update ISO and upgraded from that.

 

 

 

[Alex Ban]

In conclusion , nothing new, just some useless stuff packed in 5GB. Im not gonna update.... i like windows how it is right now so i wont clean my c:/ so it can't be installed... sry