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Ask Slashdot: Any Idiosyncrasies of the New Windows 10 April 2018 Update?
shanen wants to know if anyone else has noticed any idiosyncrasies of the new Windows 10 April 2018 update, which was released on April 30th (global rollout on May 8): Only two machines so far [are running the new version of Windows 10], but I already noticed a few peculiarities. Do you have any to share? Here are mine so far:
1. Microsoft prefers tightly linking the machine to a Microsoft account, for example via Outlook.com. If you have a machine that is not linked that way, the antivirus software will now attempt to force a link to a Microsoft account. And what is that new PIN supposed to be about?
2. Accessing a gateway on the wrong private network can produce a hard freeze, forcing a hard reset from the power down state. Possibly a serious security vulnerability to the point where I'm not sure I should share the details in public.
Anything you've noticed about the new Windows 10? (Now I have to get back to dealing with the new OS X update and the latest Ubuntu...) Some of the new features include the ability to resume past activities in timeline, a file sharing feature with nearby devices, a rebuilt Game Bar with a new Fluent design UI, and a diagnostic data viewing tool in the Security and Privacy section. If you want to get the update before the global rollout, you can do so via Check for Updates under Windows Update.
1. Microsoft prefers tightly linking the machine to a Microsoft account, for example via Outlook.com. If you have a machine that is not linked that way, the antivirus software will now attempt to force a link to a Microsoft account. And what is that new PIN supposed to be about?
2. Accessing a gateway on the wrong private network can produce a hard freeze, forcing a hard reset from the power down state. Possibly a serious security vulnerability to the point where I'm not sure I should share the details in public.
Anything you've noticed about the new Windows 10? (Now I have to get back to dealing with the new OS X update and the latest Ubuntu...) Some of the new features include the ability to resume past activities in timeline, a file sharing feature with nearby devices, a rebuilt Game Bar with a new Fluent design UI, and a diagnostic data viewing tool in the Security and Privacy section. If you want to get the update before the global rollout, you can do so via Check for Updates under Windows Update.
Had a drive letter assigned to one of the system partitions and received notifications that the drive was almost out of space. I removed the drive letter using diskpart.
Uninstall the CheckPoint VPN client first if you have it installed.
During the upgrade process, it took an exceedingly long time than normal for a system with an i7 and NVMe drive (about an hour). Turns out that after it booted up, my entire TCP/IP stack wasn't working with any of my NICs. (Yellow bang next to all of them in device manager). The issue was te CheckPoint VPN client. Only until after I uninstalled it and rebooted did the issue clear up.
As for the long installation time, it was timing out attempting to communicate online at which point it was never going to.
Life is not for the lazy.
First off my Dell notebook went flawless upgrading and surprisingly fast with SSD. Only noticeable issue was possibly Chrome browser hanging sometimes with some sites. My wife's HP notebook had a more significantly long upgrade taking over two hours to download and upgrade. But her's runs way more apps and has significantly more files besides having a slow (5400) spin drive. The other issue is of course the upgrade reverts some defaults back to Microsoft products. Like PDF viewer which I set to Chrome and it defaulted back to Edge. This is a typical and expected complaint of upgrading and it appears Microsoft has still not learned to respect the users choice of defaults. Otherwise I don't give a shit about any of the new features, or Edge or anything other then don't break the shit I use!
I have a couple of older laptops and machines that are no longer supported by the drivers in Windows 10 automatic upgrades. Yet, they still try to apply themselves again. And again. And again; wasting gigabyte bandwidth and hours of time with each futile attempt.
Thank {deity} for the Windows tool that allows you to selectively disable major "upgrades" like this.
I think I know what is wrong. You installed Windows on it.
Just more of the same problems. Windows screwing up some problems with DAX drivers and Virtual Serial ports. The temporary fix is to uninstall the software with a program like Revo, remove everything involved with the programs, then reinstalling them all over again.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Review the minidump files to find the offending driver or subsystem that's causing it. For an easy to view breakdown, you can use NirSoft's BlueScreenView
Life is not for the lazy.
Damn. Can I return it to the store? Please advise.
Logitech Setpoint customizations (such as Universal Scrolling) no longer works in UWP apps. It still works fine in desktop apps such as Internet Explorer but does not work in: Microsoft Edge, or the Office365 version of Office 2016. It worked fine the day before 1803 was installed. Uninstall/reinstall of Setpoint and the Logitech mouse driver does not fix it.
The other thing I noticed is that it is no longer possible to select the color black for your Windows 10 theme color, it forces the color to be gray instead.
-==- Buy a Mac and leave me alone!
Switch to the "Semi-Annual Channel" rather than the "Targetted" one in the Windows Update Advanced settings. If you want a truly stable system you shouldn't be using the Targetted channel. If you don't have this option, upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, you're a tech head on a news for nerds site. Chances are you shouldn't be running the version targetted at common folk anyway.
Oh please, be realistic, it's not like any other OS is that much better.. And don't give me that Linux crap, it's even worse than Windows is. Any self-respecting programmer knows there is no holy grail OS, not Linux, not Windows, not OS/X or whatever OS you can think of. Any decent, self-respecting programmer knows how hard it is to actually develop a good OS, and knowing the infinity of configurations windows has to run and what customers want it's a hell of an acomplishment that it runs this smoothly on 99% of the hardware (just like linux does also a good job).. I do know you're a closeminded non self-respecting programmer, otherwise you wouldn't have made such a stupid remark.
No OS is perfect, it's true. But Linux has one thing going for it that neither Windows 10, iOS or Android have: it's not designed to put my ass under surveillance and rape my privacy behind my back.
I'll take any OS designed with honesty in mind, however flawed, over an OS backed by big data any day of the week.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
It uninstalled RSAT yet again
Installed those bullshit UWP apps again
Enabled Cortana again
Made the web search from the Start Menu harder to remove
Searching Internet Explorer on Start bring Edge up each time
Timeline is broken, disable when I removed the UWP garbage, or only works with a handful of apps.
All kinds of new bullshit to turn off in Settings
Turning back off all of the things that were turned back on
Added folders back to This PC
Still cant search when trying to set a default program by extension in Settings
One descent feature I found was the ability to force scroll bars to always show.
So all kinds of them.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
I upgraded my desktop, and I don't see any issues. I haven't tried any of the "new features"; they didn't seem compelling to me.
My laptop, though... The hard drive is encrypted with VeraCrypt, and the usual update process fails, of course.
The canonical solution is to un-encrypt your drive, do the update, then re-encrypt it. Since encrypt the whole drive takes about 12 hours, I'm not doing that.
However, I found this nifty little page:
https://github.com/th-wilde/ve...
I created an install directory from the Microsoft page, copied this into it and ran it. It patches the Windows files with the Veracrypt drivers. Then run setup.exe in an administrator cmd shell, and there you go.
I hope... It's well into the process now, "Working on updates 12% Don't turn off your PC. This will take a while. Your PC will restart several times".
Normal major update, in other words.
If it fails, I'll post the tale of woe here, but it looks like it's going OK. I've seen several postings on GitHub that it works with 1803.