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Has Anyone Downloaded and Installed the Creators Update?
I'm just curious if anyone's done this, and if so, did you notice any problems afterward? Did you notice any advantages to Windows 10 after installing this update? If you know, how large wa...
A few things I have noticed and ran into...
This time around, the Creators Update (Windows Version 1703) didn't uninstall any of my programs, however, a few lost their registration, and had to be reactivated. Still annoying, but not as bad as before where programs had been fully removed and no notes left behind. I have only noticed this with a few programs, seems they may be storing registration information somewhere in the registry that is being overwrote during upgrades.
Some things I have noticed and have done...-Went back into Settings > Privacy and checked to make sure all the settings I wanted applied, are still applied. A few changed, most didn't.
-Your default applications are reset back to default during the upgrade... Chrome set as default browser? You're going to have to tell Win10 under Settings > Apps what you want for defaults again.
-Noticed there's a new section in settings, "Gaming", went in and turned the "Game Bar" off as I don't need that annoying thing when gaming, and I also disabled "Game Mode"
-Wired connections can now be set to metered! Settings > Network & Internet > Status > Change Connection Properties > Set as metered connect
-Those that use natural daylight instead of 100w equivilent lightbulbs for their room lighting might find the Settings > System > Display > Nightlight option useful. It allows you to change the color tone of your screen so that it's not as stressful on your eyes being the only bright object in the room. Allowing for a more warm coloration, or cooler, depending on the options you chose under "Night Light Settings".
All of that aside, while writing this out and poking at things to make sure information was accurate, I noticed something... When looking at the "Data Usage" under network, I have used over 10TB in the last month! ROFL
Most of it was me backing things up, and poking around in my server... Next up was Chrome at 670GB, but that was me streaming from my server. lol
Win10 doesn't care much about the license and which version of Win10 gets installed... But Microsoft does recomend registering your Win10 install with a Microsoft Account (Outlook/live/msn/hotmail) before doing a clean install now. Makes reactivating easier. If you are on 15xx and clean install at 17xx, your system should activate just fine online.
C0RR0SIVE wrote:Win10 doesn't care much about the license and which version of Win10 gets installed... But Microsoft does recomend registering your Win10 install with a Microsoft Account (Outlook/live/msn/hotmail) before doing a clean install now. Makes reactivating easier. If you are on 15xx and clean install at 17xx, your system should activate just fine online.
I'm not really sure what you mean by registering my Windows 10 install. It's activated with a digital license and connected to my Microsoft account.
Edit: I'm also concerned as to whether a 1607 system image will be allowed to be restored to a drive that just had 1703 on it. If I upgrade and don't like it, for whatever reason, I can revert back to my previous build, then use the system image to restore it so it doesn't have all of the upgrade and downgrade extra junk left behind. If I do a clean install of 1703 from the get go and don't like it, for whatever reason, I'm concerned that I may not be able to use that 1607 system image to restore it. I know that restoring with a system image can be REALLY sensitive, and it doesn't like it when you aren't restoring an image to a drive that doesn't have the exact same thing on it. I don't know if a different build would trip it up, but it's not really worth the saved 3.5GB or so to find out. I'd rather just do the upgrade, then the clean install later if it turns out it runs well and I like it. The clean install because, as we all know, in most cases, a clean install runs much better than an upgrade.
I meant activating not registering.
wildcats198308 wrote:I meant activating not registering.
Who are you replying to? I don't believe you mentioned anything about registering anywhere.
If you do the upgrade you can always use the Go back to earlier build option in Recovery.... Settings - Update & Security - Recovery. I did that on my system and I do not have the Windows.old folder.
I'm aware of that. The concern I have is with performing the clean install from the start. My original concern with that is that it may not activate due to my digital license being tied to the current build (1607) on my computer. Corrosive is saying that it should activate as the build shouldn't matter, but I have other concerns, as well. If I perform the clean install of 1703 and, for whatever reason, I need to go back to 1607, I won't be able to if restoring with that system image is dependant on what was most recently on the disk. It probably isn't dependant on that, but I don't want to take that chance.
If I upgrade instead and don't like it, I can just downgrade, then restore with the 1607 system image to get rid of all of the junk that will be left over from the upgrade/downgrade process. I like a clean system.
But, now that I think about it, the Windows 10 ISO I presently have is 1607, so if I couldn't use the 1607 system image to restore the drive if I need to, I could just use that. That would surely activate, and I could then use the 1607 system image to restore and be right back where I started before all of this.
I know...I think of too many things that could go wrong. LOL.
Edit: In the end, I think the safest thing is to perform the upgrade. Then, if I like it and everything works properly, perform the clean installation.
Up to you how to do it... Here's what happened to me...
Computer was on Win7, took the free upgrade offer, went to RTM. A month or two ago I decided to reformat, I was using a Threshold ISO to restore to, while on the Aniversary update. System activated and worked fine. I am now sitting on the Creators Update... Win10 doesn't really care much about which version at all, as long as it's able to contact Microsoft and verify your computer. If you are one of the ones with a Win8 OEM Laptop, your activation key is stored inside the machines UEFI BIOS, which is better than what I have, which is just a machine ID...
As far as "upgrade" vs "clean install" goes... Upgrades are essentially clean installs now, but retains whats possible of the program data. Every registry key minus a few critical ones (ones related to computer name, domains and so on...) is refreshed for the new revision, all drivers during upgrades are reinstalled if possible, and so on.
