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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
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...
