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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
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.
Yes. My laptop is OEM and originally had Windows 8. I learned about it storing the product key the first time I went to reinstall Windows 8 and couldn't find such to activate it. I called Dell and found out about it being stored in the BIOS. I didn't know they were doing that until I got that computer. My desktop, however, is another story, and it activates with the digital license utilizing the machine ID, like yours.
Being that it worked for you, it will probably work for me. After thinking about it for a while, though, I think I might update my desktop first. I don't use my laptop much, and if I update it but don't use it on a regular basis, how am I going to know if I like it? With my desktop, I use it enough that in the ten days given to revert to the previous build, I should know whether I like it or not.
Either way, I'm still going to wait untiil the 2nd or 3rd to do this, as that will be a couple of days before my data reset.
I did the Creators Update on a new Dell Inspiron AIO and upgraded to Gen 5 on the same day (4-14).
I didn't have a choice..the Gen 5 install was already scheduled and the Creators Update came up that morning and downloaded and did it's thing in a couple hours. Everything went perfect will both installs...no problems at all.
Only problems I've found was that I can't cast from from edge browser any more even though the option is still there and will still cast from file explorer though.
