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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
My laptop runs good with Windows 10 1607 Anniversary Update and all other previous builds of Windows 10 that I installed. But when I installed 1703 it did not work. My Wireless adapter and Ethernet adapters would not work. I tried reinstalling the Drivers and still didnt work. I tried using a USB Wireless Adapter and could not get that installed either, but it also was an older adapter - I didnt try the other one that I have which is newer. Its kinda stupid all other Builds worked perfectly. So just because one Build works doesnt mean the next or other up-coming Builds will work.
I want to install it on my Laptop again and mess around with it more. I always run out of paitence with it and forget about other things to try and then go back to previous the Build and then remember stuff I can try. (I use my Laptop daily pretty much so I like to keep an working version installed)
I purchased Windows 7 when it first came out so I have the original installation disk and Product Key. BUT I also downloaded the Windows 7 SP1 version since the disk that I have is the original version. The last time I did clean install a message came up saying my system was no longer supported because I did not have SP1 installed. It did eventually come up in Windows Update but instead of having to download it every time I now have a full version.
It's interesting that the first two builds of Windows 10 would work properly on the laptop, but 1703 would not (at least with the network card and wireles adaper). You'd think that any Windows 10 build would be compatible with any Windows 10 driver. Perhaps it is a "glitch" that they will fix with a patch.
I, personally, have not found any active advantage to using 1703 over 1607. There are most likely some improvements that I'm not aware of and wouldn't notice unless I was looking for them, though, so I'm sure there are advantages to using it.
I hope you're able to figure out how to get your network card and wireless adapter to work with 1703.
Yea I don't see much of a change in the builds to make a network card not compatible when it was in the past... I have been also using Windows 10 longer than its been released to public. I was using Insider Preview Builds for maybe a year before the release, also with no issue on my laptop. All builds and versions I ever installed all had internet connection. Some Insider Preview Builds had other issues which I had to end up going back to previous builds (testing software you will run into some issues). I also posted on Microsoft Forum about this issue and others have had the same problem and no fixes were found other than using a USB wireless adapter (which I tried but with a 2008 version adapter which isn't exactly compatible with Windows 10 and couldn't get drivers to update) A Microsoft employee replied that my system is not being supported or tested by Dell for Windows 10. Also said that I would have to go back to previous build and block the Creator Update from Windows Updates. So sounded like they could care less. ... They wanted people to upgrade now making changes where older systems are not compatible to force people to purchase new systems is what I think... My laptop runs great I am not buying something else unless the motherboard or something major quits working.
1703 is suppose to be more secure so I'm sure theres stuff that benefits that you don't exactly see. Have you read the site I linked in a previous post with what's new in Creator Update? The site lists a lot of things. It goes on and on.... I got tired of reading it and started just scrolling and it went forever before reaching the end. The feature for Metered Connected on an Ethernet connection is one thing I am excited to see. (When I get around to installing it on my desktop I will probably end up using Ethernet connection since I will be able to set it to metered now and not have to go through registry to change it manually, which I was always afraid to mess with before so just used a WiFi adapter)
Believe it or not... they make more internal changes for networking than you would think... There is a reason people with Dual Intel GBit NICS that want to do load balancing are upset with Win10... It's pretty much the first major OS that has stripped all those functions from that part of the OS in favor of SMB Multi-channel which sucks horribly on mixed networks.
I bet they changed something that would require a driver update if you are having NIC issues.
Also, yes, I am one those people that hate Win10 for removing load balancing features as I could really use a 2Gbit uplink to my local file server...I did read some of the site you posted, but like you, I didn't read all of it. I read the basics.
I, personally, won't bother with setting anything of mine to metered. I've never used enough data to be at the point where I needed to be concerned with controlling the data usage being caused by updates and whatever else Microsoft does, though, so far, the Smart Technologies used by Gen5 don't seem to be saving me as much data as it did with Gen4, so I may end up using more data overall. I can most definitely see the advantage in it for some, though, especially when there is the occasional large update.
