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Has Anyone Downloaded and Installed the Creators Update?
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
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.
