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

[GoodBytes]

14 minutes ago, Delicieuxz said:

The anniversary update completely borked my Win 10 OS. The screen was flickering every 5 seconds or so on boot up, and it kept resetting to the login screen. Also, when I'd login at the login screen, the desktop background would be mostly obscured by a green mess, and some error messages about various apps and services would pop up, and within 10 - 15 seconds, the screen would revert to the login screen.

 

I tried some things, that didn't change anything, and then eventually reverted to the previous build, using the boot loader. Thankfully, that worked to restore my Win 10 as it was before the update was installed. However, now I have a problem, in that I can't update without ruining my Win 10 OS, though MS will eventually try to force my PC to update. It's as if, after disregarding people's own say over their PC systems and updating, that Microsoft is now turning people's own PC systems into its hostages.

Well, this is the same stories as when a new Service Pack of Windows comes out. You always have some nice set of users where the upgrade just fails... maybe it is some set of old bugs that Microsoft never managed to fix (post in the user feedback the most detail you can.. hopefully with others with issues, it will be fixed for the future, once and for all)

I really don't know why... but my point is, despite the issue with previous version of Windows, people managed to upgrade... meaning they basically did a clean install. The good news, is that now we can install Windows 10 Anniversary Update directly, and not have to install Windows, then upgrade to the new service pack.

[Hobox]

Anyone have the Android notifications working?

[The Benjamins]

updated my VM2 with no issues time to do my PC, and VM1, VM3, VM4

[TetraSky]

Alright, I used the media creation tool to "upgrade" to this update.
FAILED.

 

The anniversary update tool didn't work, the media creation tool didn't work... I'm done trying to get this stupid ass update.

[MSWindowsinside]

I've upgraded 11 PCs so far and 5 VMs, went seamless. I'm really not sure how people screw things like this up, espescially if you consider how old some of my hardware is..

[SansVarnic]

My PC anniversary update went flawless.

Seriously, no hiccups.  

 

[sorry guys I know you all hate me now...]

 

But on the the other side of the coin; I had to WDRT my wife's BLU phone to upgrade it. I was getting this error constantly so I fired up the WDRT found a firmware update (a very minor update) and that fixed the problem. Freaking took all day.  

[AlTech]

4 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Oh interesting.... Maybe, there is a delay in syncing servers with the latest ISO?!

 

I think it's due to bandwidth concerns. And availability concerns.

3 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

MS have stated they'll update the MCT to the latest version so anyone who wants to force the update can do so.

 

I've also just finished an MCT Upgrade, still on 1511?

Yeah.

 

4 hours ago, hoboX10 said:

I used the media creation tool to try to force update, but it is still just last November's update version of Windows 10, version 1511. Am I missing something?

Same. I used the Media creation Tool to recover from Redstone and it was still on 10596.164

[AlTech]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Excellent stuff, MCT is currently downloading

I don't think it's been updated yet though.

[AlTech]

11 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

My PC anniversary update went flawless.

Seriously, no hiccups.  

 

[sorry guys I know you all hate me now...]

 

But on the the other side of the coin; I had to WDRT my wife's BLU phone to upgrade it. I was getting this error constantly so I fired up the WDRT found a firmware update (a very minor update) and that fixed the problem. Freaking took all day.  

Well done.

 

I had Successful update using Insider Preview then after a restart I had a BSOD and then I had Windows Secure Boot violation and had to reinstall Windows.

Fortunately it recognized that I had activated Windows before.

[DildorTheDecent]

Ayyy W10.1 is near ready here

[Delicieuxz]

Here's a short video of what happened on my machine after the anniversary update installed. It also did other stuff, behaving differently with different login attempts:

 

 

[TetraSky]

Was able to upgrade, gave it one last shot(after it failed twice), it decided to work, for some reason.

[grayperview]

I am unable to upgrade, i get error code 0x80070057....I have googled it, unable to find a solution....i have used media creation to create an ISO, i may just do a clean install anyway....

[EarthboundHero]

Is there an easy way to  find the UWP app installers? I want the Netflix app, but I really don't want my Microsoft account connected to my PC. 

 

Also, Netflix isn't working in Edge since I upgraded. Saying something about missing components. Media Feature Pack got uninstalled. Needed it for my N version of Windows.

[Fetzie]

Update done via Windows Update, seems to be running OK. First thing I did was set Windows to the "dark theme".

[Nowak]

Updated my laptop. Everything's working fine, except Cortana, which is MIA.

 

 

These are all of the settings that I have in search settings. Only one thing about Cortana. Apparently this isn't an uncommon issue, too, based on /r/Windows10.

[AlTech]

8 minutes ago, Daring said:

Updated my laptop. Everything's working fine, except Cortana, which is MIA.

 

 

These are all of the settings that I have in search settings. Only one thing about Cortana. Apparently this isn't an uncommon issue, too, based on /r/Windows10.

How did you update?

[Nowak]

Just now, AluminiumTech said:

How did you update?

Windows Update.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Daring said:

Windows Update.

I haven't received the update...........

 

 

[thexzenon]

Just went for a clean install and I was a bit creeped out when it automatically logged me into my Microsoft account. It seems to have got the drivers a lot faster than the initial version of Windows 10 so that's a good start, but it'll take some time to see how much faster this new build is.

 

Also how in the hell do I hide the Action Centre button? It looks so out of place between the date and the hide-all button in the corner.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, crisro996 said:

Just went for a clean install and I was a bit creeped out when it automatically logged me into my Microsoft account. It seems to have got the drivers a lot faster than the initial version of Windows 10 so that's a good start, but it'll take some time to see how much faster this new build is.

Afaik it shouldn't be faster per se. it should just have new features and bug fixes.

1 minute ago, crisro996 said:

 

Also how in the hell do I hide the Action Centre button? It looks so out of place between the date and the hide-all button in the corner.

You can't. It's an integral part of Windows 10.

[Sunshine1868]

I'm updating as we speak.. did a "Check for Updates" on Windows 10 and got "Feature Pack 1607"

 

it is taking quite a while... I am in the Northeastern USA if the rollout is geographically based

[Arty]

43 minutes ago, Daring said:

Updated my laptop. Everything's working fine, except Cortana, which is MIA.

 

 

 

These are all of the settings that I have in search settings. Only one thing about Cortana. Apparently this isn't an uncommon issue, too, based on /r/Windows10.

delete user account and make a new one. 

[Nowak]

8 minutes ago, Arty said:

delete user account and make a new one. 

I'd rather install Linux on my laptop than go through that again. Ugh.

[Arty]

2 minutes ago, Daring said:

I'd rather install Linux on my laptop than go through that again. Ugh.

was easy for me i had all my settings on my domain, :).