Windows 10 Creators Update – Here is everything you need to know - Out now

[AlTech]

10 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Update

Microsoft said that Windows 10 Creators Update will NOT be released in March, and the official release date target is April 11.

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-creators-update-microsoft-announces-rollout-will-begin-on-april-11

 

It would seem that Microsoft is fixing some final kinks in the update, and that the version number will have a decimal point: 15063.x

Good that they are taking their time, and make sure everything is right, and not rush to meet a deadline, and cause issues to many users.

You know what else ends on April 11th?

 

Windows Vista SP2 Extended Support .

 

[Sniperfox47]

15 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Update

Microsoft said that Windows 10 Creators Update will NOT be released in March, and the official release date target is April 11.

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-creators-update-microsoft-announces-rollout-will-begin-on-april-11

 

It would seem that Microsoft is fixing some final kinks in the update, and that the version number will have a decimal point: 15063.x

Good that they are taking their time, and make sure everything is right, and not rush to meet a deadline, and cause issues to many users.

But... but... but... 1703!?!!

[GoodBytes]

2 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

But... but... but... 1703!?!!

The version is a lie!

[Sniperfox47]

Just now, GoodBytes said:

The version is a lie!

I guess I don't mind waiting an extra 2 weeks. As long as I'm not baked *shiver*

[AnnoyedShelf]

They didn't remove Telemetry.

 

Into the trash it goes.

[Guest Kloaked]

9 minutes ago, AnnoyedShelf said:

They didn't remove Telemetry.

 

Into the trash it goes.

Unplug from the internet then, mate.

[themctipers]

im ready for windows 10 to not be compatible with my 

• mouse
• keyboard
• cpu
• gpu
• ram
• motherboard
• ssd
• monitors
• webcam
• microphone
• 3.5mm audio output
• privacy

[HelplmChoking]

So basically, Defender got a little better, the awful, redundant Settings app got more junk it didn't need, Edge is marginally better and DPI scaling is maybe better. Everything else seems very minor, and not much to really care about. I don't care that you separated my start menu, Cortana never has been and likely never will be available in NZ, I don't use UWP, I've never once been interrupted by an update and Game Mode won't do anything for me...

 

Great job Microsoft, a whole bunch of junk and very few meaningful additions. A proper UI redesign would be nice, Windows is seriously ugly these days. At least Bash is pretty useful, only because I actually know how to use it.

[HelplmChoking]

13 hours ago, Doobeedoo said:

Pretty good set of updates though.

Unified settings would be great, merge Control Panel entirely with Settings, also File Explorer dark theme would be awesome to have.

As far as Themes would be amazing if it's like a visual styles supported too, you know such detailed customization etc.

Wish to see how improved Game Mode will be with time. It's a neat feature and good it's there.

Windows update... updates are improved too, so that's good.

 

Agree with you about the settings, either put it all in settings, or remove the damn app. There's no need to have things duplicated across them, especially when I invariably get dumped into Settings when I wanted ctrl panel and then can't do anything useful.

For themes, I'm hoping it's more than just accent colour, desktop background and screen saver. I'd love to see ways to actually change the visual style across the OS.

[imreloadin]

So I looked through this whole thread and nobody has asked the most important question.

Is this going to reset all of my default applications and file associations when I do the update?

I'm not too thrilled about the idea of playing the role of free tech support for everyone in my family when pdf files start opening in Edge again...

[Sniperfox47]

1 minute ago, imreloadin said:

So I looked through this whole thread and nobody has asked the most important question.

Is this going to reset all of my default applications and file associations when I do the update?

I'm not too thrilled about the idea of playing the role of free tech support for everyone in my family when pdf files start opening in Edge again...

I'm pretty sure the update that corrected that was in the insider builds about a month after the anniversary patch. So this update should reset it one last time, but all future upgrades will be more selective of how they mess with the registry.

[imreloadin]

Just now, Sniperfox47 said:

I'm pretty sure the update that corrected that was in the insider builds about a month after the anniversary patch. So this update should reset it one last time, but all future upgrades will be more selective of how they mess with the registry.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck, well guess I better get everyone setup with teamviewer now so when this thing rolls out I can fix everything again...

[Sniperfox47]

2 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck, well guess I better get everyone setup with teamviewer now so when this thing rolls out I can fix everything again...

On the plus side the fix also simultaneously fixed the Windows Store reinstalling all the apps you've installed and later uninstalled after every upgrade, so this should also be the last time they have the Windows store download the 300 free apps that they tried for 2 minutes before uninstalling.

[imreloadin]

3 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

On the plus side the fix also simultaneously fixed the Windows Store reinstalling all the apps you've installed and later uninstalled after every upgrade, so this should also be the last time they have the Windows store download the 300 free apps that they tried for 2 minutes before uninstalling.

This is true. Hopefully MS finally has their shit together this time

[TheKDub]

I might actually go for this update on my laptop. I just hope that the anti-spyware tools will get updated pretty soon to follow up with it.

[Gravesnear]

On 3/28/2017 at 10:37 AM, BachChain said:

Because 30+ Svchosts is much easier to read than 15 I already have

I am rather looking forward to that. On my 800kbit internet it would be nice to see which process is completely saturating my bandwidth

[AnnoyedShelf]

1 hour ago, Kloaked said:

Unplug from the internet then, mate.

It's called a joke....

[suicidalfranco]

2 hours ago, imreloadin said:

So I looked through this whole thread and nobody has asked the most important question.

Is this going to reset all of my default applications and file associations when I do the update?

I'm not too thrilled about the idea of playing the role of free tech support for everyone in my family when pdf files start opening in Edge again...

of curse it will, don't you have a powershell script ready to launch after every windows update at this point?

[AlTech]

5 hours ago, Rangaman42 said:

So basically, Defender got a little better, the awful, redundant Settings app got more junk it didn't need, Edge is marginally better and DPI scaling is maybe better. Everything else seems very minor, and not much to really care about. I don't care that you separated my start menu, Cortana never has been and likely never will be available in NZ, I don't use UWP, I've never once been interrupted by an update and Game Mode won't do anything for me...

 

Great job Microsoft, a whole bunch of junk and very few meaningful additions. A proper UI redesign would be nice, Windows is seriously ugly these days. At least Bash is pretty useful, only because I actually know how to use it.

Game Mode will be useful.

 

Edge improvements are highly welcomed, improvements to OOBE, Cortana etc are highly welcomed.

 

Windows 10 re-design might come out by End of 2017.

[GoodBytes]

7 hours ago, Rangaman42 said:

Agree with you about the settings, either put it all in settings, or remove the damn app. There's no need to have things duplicated across them, especially when I invariably get dumped into Settings when I wanted ctrl panel and then can't do anything useful.

For themes, I'm hoping it's more than just accent colour, desktop background and screen saver. I'd love to see ways to actually change the visual style across the OS.

I didn't mention it, but more settings got moved from the Control Panel to the Settings panel. At this point, you should never/rarely need to touch the old Control Panel. Control Panel has been removed from the "power menu" (Win+X), replaced with Settings as well.

 

[Master Disaster]

8 hours ago, imreloadin said:

So I looked through this whole thread and nobody has asked the most important question.

Is this going to reset all of my default applications and file associations when I do the update?

I'm not too thrilled about the idea of playing the role of free tech support for everyone in my family when pdf files start opening in Edge again...

So hang on, your app defaults only reset after a major update? Your lucky, my app defaults reset pretty much once a week and seemingly for no reason. I've been pretty lucky in that I've not encountered a lot of the issues others have had with Win 10 but the default apps resetting is the bane of my life.

[GoodBytes]

15 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

So hang on, your app defaults only reset after a major update? Your lucky, my app defaults reset pretty much once a week and seemingly for no reason. I've been pretty lucky in that I've not encountered a lot of the issues others have had with Win 10 but the default apps resetting is the bane of my life.

That's fixed too. The only time Windows will reset to default a file association, now, is if your registry for that item got corrupted, or not properly registered by a software that doesn't follow Microsoft documentation. This usually affect Windows XP and older code, as how the file association system is made has been changed since Windows Vista.

[imreloadin]

8 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

of curse it will, don't you have a powershell script ready to launch after every windows update at this point?

Scripting isn't my strong point so sadly this is not the case

[Tieox]

Really looking forward to it, could do with getting it done today as I've got to be swotting up over the next two weeks for my car theory test.

 

Possible to grab it using the Insider Slow Ring?

[GoodBytes]

38 minutes ago, Kierax said:

Really looking forward to it, could do with getting it done today as I've got to be swotting up over the next two weeks for my car theory test.

 

Possible to grab it using the Insider Slow Ring?

Yup. Also, if you really can't wait for joining in the insider ring (may take up to 24h), the ISO (Insider Preview) file is already out. But be aware that if you go in the Insider Preview, you'll need to clean install to get out.

 

ISO Insider Preview - Build 15063: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewadvanced?tduid=(b5dffe3a8c7f2c4aaf5d2bef8450ac4d)(259740)(2542549)(UUwpUdUnU47396)()