Windows 10 Fall Creators Update- October 17th

I was like fuck it, I am going to install it on all my machines at once and see what happens, lol.
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BulletDust said:
You must have impressive internet.

25mbps here and if I did that the connection would be fully saturated and useless for anything else.
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300mbps. I was able to download the updates on 4 machines while I watch Netflix HD.

This was the first one I started the update on about 2 hours ago, it's going really slow on this HP, lol.
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Did a clean install today. Man there was shit ton of bloat installed. Several games and the amount of Microsoft apps is crazy. I spent as much time clearing out the junk software alone as I did setting up the rest of the system.
 
polonyc2 said:
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: the 10 best new features
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TL-DR patting themselves on the back for bringing back the OneDrive placeholders feature which already existed 2.5 years ago before they removed it, and a few fixes to Cortana/Edge which most people ignore anyway. Oh, and emoji's. *jerkoff motion*
 
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I've been poking around after doing the update. There doesn't seem to be anything with any "Wow" factor. Not for me, at least.
 
Wyodiver said:
I've been poking around after doing the update. There doesn't seem to be anything with any "Wow" factor. Not for me, at least.
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I was reading about the update features, none of it really stands out as game changing to me.
 
Yeah kind of a letdown. I hope there were under the hood improvements. Well, at least it didn't bork my system.
 
Mine has stopped downloading at 96%. It been 20 minutes and no movement and there is no disc or network activity at all.
 
3 out of 4 machines updated with no issues. My Dual Xeon machine didn't complete the update. I went to check on it after a couple of hours and it was just sitting there with no display on any monitor.
I hit the reset button, it started to boot into Windows and then started to revert back to the previous windows installation.
So it is back up and running but I am going to hold off updating this machine again.
 
Yeah, I always cross my fingers and toes. Mine seems fine, so far. These updates shouldn't be so nerve wracking.

(I have everything backed up to an external HDD, and a set of DVD's, my point is that I just don't want any grief from a "Creator's Update." Especially this one.)
 
I finally got it installed but just like the last creators update, it messed up my video card and sound card settings and reset some Windows settings I had changed.
 
misterbobby said:
Mine has stopped downloading at 96%. It been 20 minutes and no movement and there is no disc or network activity at all.
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Same, 75%.

Advanced Options, pause updates, go back, make sure it's "up to date" then go back and unpause. Worked like a charm.

As an aside, 2017, fully updated Windows, and we still have to do shit like this? Come the f on
 
B00nie said:
I wish they would upgrade to 5G soon so I could run 2Gbit/s instead of the current 160Mbit/s :D
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I could get great speeds if I ran 4G as opposed to FTTN, but 4G reception is my area is so bad I'd go backwards. The other problem is the backhaul from the towers is usually so congested during peak times that speeds vary wildly.
 
BulletDust said:
I could get great speeds if I ran 4G as opposed to FTTN, but 4G reception is my area is so bad I'd go backwards. The other problem is the backhaul from the towers is usually so congested during peak times that speeds vary wildly.
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I'm lucky to live in a non congested area. My other option would be either to pay 8000 bucks for optical or get unreliable 6Mbit/s ADSL. Too much distance to the nearest junction.
 
I did the Xeon again and it it completed this time.
There are 3 updates available right after the upgrade finishes btw. It requires a reboot so might as well get those done right away.
 
Wyodiver said:
Yeah, I always cross my fingers and toes. Mine seems fine, so far. These updates shouldn't be so nerve wracking.

(I have everything backed up to an external HDD, and a set of DVD's, my point is that I just don't want any grief from a "Creator's Update." Especially this one.)
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I have my machines' system drives backup up so if anything happened I could restore the image to the drive and be up and running in no time.
 
Wonder why it doesn't show the Quadro card in my Plex Server on the right?

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Zepher said:
Wonder why it doesn't show the Quadro card in my Plex Server on the right?

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In my limited time running a Quadro card, the data reported by the Nvidia drivers was far greater than the data reported by a run of the mill GeForce card, perhaps as a result the data is located in different memory locations and Windows 10 can't 'see' it?

You run a Quadro card in your server? Wouldn't you just RDP to it?
 
BulletDust said:
In my limited time running a Quadro card, the data reported by the Nvidia drivers was far greater than the data reported by a run of the mill GeForce card, perhaps as a result the data is located in different memory locations and Windows 10 can't 'see' it?

You run a Quadro card in your server? Wouldn't you just RDP to it?
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I do remote into it but sometimes I need to actually use a monitor if the machine doesn't load up. It's an older Quadro card, FX580 single slot PCI powered one.
 
BulletDust said:
You must have impressive internet.

25mbps here and if I did that the connection would be fully saturated and useless for anything else.
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One of the biggest reasons to use the flash drive installation method. That said, even my Athlon 5350 Windows 10 Pro NAS box had the feature update ready to go but, I still used the flash drive, just the way I prefer to do it.
 
No issues with either the last preview release or the final that got pushed yesterday. It downloaded for me in about 15 minutes, but installation took closer to 20.
Some of the visual tweaks (like having lines in the "All Programs" menu) seem to have been removed for the final. A couple modern apps have different icons, too. I forgot all about not having the right click control panel access, so I had to bring that back. Somewhat related, several control panel functions (like the "Default Programs" area) have been mostly ported over to the Win 10 Settings menus.
 
Only took about 15 minutes to install on my PC from initiating download to final reboot using the standalone updater tool from Microsoft, going from 1607 to 1709. Running well so far. No noticeable changes. All my group policies seem to be intact.
 
The Radeon presets for multi monitors are missing after the Oct.17 update.
Selecting the Eyefinity quick setup seems to work OK for triple screens, discard it to revert to a single screen.
Windows display options settings, works fine to create non Eyefinity multi monitor groups.

Updating to the 17.10.2 AMD drivers, allows you to bring up the Eyefinity Advanced Settings again.
 
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ManofGod said:
One of the biggest reasons to use the flash drive installation method. That said, even my Athlon 5350 Windows 10 Pro NAS box had the feature update ready to go but, I still used the flash drive, just the way I prefer to do it.
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At 25mbps, my connection can do a surprising amount at once. But start one instance of Windows update and it brings the Internet to it's knees! I have no idea just how Microsoft managed to create such an Internet killer.
 
Zepher said:
I do remote into it but sometimes I need to actually use a monitor if the machine doesn't load up. It's an older Quadro card, FX580 single slot PCI powered one.
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Fair enough. I recently migrated my server to Ubuntu 16.04, the idea was to just chuck all my NTFS shares in there and life would go on as normal, I forgot Linux can't share NTFS partitions as there's no way to set permissions correctly - So now I have the fun job of migrating 5TB of media (fairly tame by the standards of some, but still a PITA) to Ext4 partitions. :(

TVheadend is bloody awesome for TV serving duties with a cheap and affordable PlayTV dual tuner.

Sorry, off topic.
 
God I'm always afraid of these updates usually they cause my eyes to kill for months on end untill Nvidia catches up with the drivers.
The last CU was just bad when the Nvidia 1080ti came out at the same time if perfect now but now Microsoft is making you update unless I know you can temp. stop in in the settings but that isn't good enough for me.
 
bigdogchris said:
Did a clean install today. Man there was shit ton of bloat installed. Several games and the amount of Microsoft apps is crazy. I spent as much time clearing out the junk software alone as I did setting up the rest of the system.
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That sucks they don't have yet the audacity to improve the GUI for Microsoft Edge the real window blind.
I'm downloading this POS update I hope it doesn't mess up everything.
 
Windows Experience Index was the closest thing Windows added to evaluate system for power users yet they take it out.

Just installed it: Windows Fall CU

Doesn't seem to be too harsh on the eyes
Microsoft Edge you can drag icons to the Favorites Bar finally...no colored themes I won't use it.
 
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