Threshold update Nov. 2nd? Has anyone got this?

The rumor is it'll be part of updates after "Patch Tuesday" on the 10th of November aka a week from today. Remains to be seen if the rumor comes true, obviously.
 
I played around with an Insider build that had the new stuff. Beyond bug fixes it adds an IM program, universal app version of Skype (which IS nice), and the ability to tinker with window border colors.
Everything I've read still says next week - which is also Fallout 4 day.
 
It was delayed. They're testing 10576 in the fast ring now. I moved to that because the TH2 one of 10565 would not install. Luckily they fixed that issue in the new build.


As a note though, the update does appear to reset your privacy settings to full ON (I was full off before it). So you'll need to run back through those to get to where you want them to be.
 
On a Win10 home laptop, build 10586 is being downloaded via automatic updates. I hope it doesn't crash.
 
Update took about 45 minutes to download and install.

Fucking thing reset some of my privacy settings to default.
 
I love hearing the words "roll out," which usually translates to "fuck you, you're not getting it on release date" for me.
 
I hate the seemingly random process of launching updates for Windows 10. It works the same way with the previews. Early versions seemed to be on an hour by hour schedule by time zone. Now it's just random.
 
Just created new install media and started the install. They removed the ability to skip the license key section and now require you to enter a Windows activation key. I used my Windows 8 key without an issue, though I feel removing the option to skip and have Windows activate automagically is a bit of a regression.

I wiped my hard drive and started over. My install was only a few days old anyway.
 
Update failed on my main PC (via WU), boots to a black screen. I had to use system restore to get things up and running again. Tried again and same thing. Don't really feel like doing a clean install so guess I'll just hold off...

Not showing up yet for my Surface Book.
 
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Hmmm...

Downloaded the update, installed the update, update failed, still on 10240.

How come the update process works just fine on that other free OS, but the OS I paid good money for just can't seem to manage it? And even when it does I need to reboot and wait while Windows installs update 1 of 40....:rolleyes:
 
I've checked 4 machines. Applied it successfully to a Skylake build and a older Acer laptop. A newer Dell H80 series tower I started the install but it just stopped downloading and now I cannot get the downloader to even recognize there is an update. Another newer HP system with Enterprise does not have the update available either.
 
Yeah, I can't get it to recognize the update either.

Awesome OS this one...
 
Greggy_D said:
Update took about 45 minutes to download and install.

Fucking thing reset some of my privacy settings to default.
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It fucked up some of my file associations too. And privacy settings. And many more things.

I don't really recommend anyone update to this yet.. Do a fresh install with the update on the disc/usb drive already.

Cause this is basically an upgrade like going from 7 to 10 w/o a fresh install.
 
No major issues to my existing install, but I think this was a pretty half-assed update.
Those Skype-based apps are a total joke. They have almost no functionality, they're sparse, and they divide functions among 3 different apps instead of one. Just integrate the older Windows 8.1 Skype app and call it done.

The other things are fine, though. I just think that after all of the talk of integrating Skype and a messaging program that we'd get something akin to Skype for Business instead of these horrid apps.

I'm also a little confused why Windows still has a old Win7 style icon for my Blu-Ray drive when there is no disk, but when I have a disk - it's a Win10 style icon. That's been an issue since the Windows 10 betas. Seems like that would have been fixed in this update considering they updated most other leftover icons.
 
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I created an iso (post update) using the media creation tool, and it is only 3.05 GB. 10240 was around 3.9 GB...
 
Im confused is this just an update? Or do you have to do a clean install? I honestly dont feel like formatting again! No way Im installing all my steam and origin games again!
 
It's both an update AND a clean install. If you already have Windows 10, it'll simply apply as a service-pack style update.
At the same time, your media will also work as a bootable clean-install media, too.
 
What the hell is this shit? I don't understand why a "minor" update is acting like a full install, re-installing your drivers and all of this BS. My external DAC now no longer works; I presume they changed something driver-related. I tried re-installing the old driver and there is still no sound.

Seriously, fuck this. Can you imagine the Redstone update? Pretty sure it's going to blow my PC up.
 
Font smoothing also seems to be permanently on for right-click context menus (desktop, taskbar, File Explorer, etc.). Can someone please fucking kill Microsoft's "designers"?
 
I'm having a lot of problems with this "update" which was essentially a full in-place OS upgrade that pretty much screwed my system. It resetted Windows 10 to a default state, added a lot new bloat and reinstalled all the apps I had previously uninstalled.

Many applications are broken now and either don't start at all or just freeze up after a second. I can't even access the Settings app sometimes it would just crash when I try to open certain settings like the Apps & Features or Storage section.

I did a clean reinstall today with media based on this new build, it didn't help, the problems remained. Theres also a weird flickering and screen freeze during the UEFI boot animation that didn't happen with the previous build.

Thanks god I still have an ISO from the 10240 RTM release, which worked absolutely perfect for me until yesterday. I guess I will clean install that one without a network connection and then enable defer upgrades so I wont get this mess of an update for a couple months at least until they fixed it.

I can't believe this was released to public and if full in-place upgrades are the way Microsoft is going to deploy every feature update for Windows 10 I will probably look for an alternative OS in the long run.
 
Milena said:
I'm having a lot of problems with this "update" which was essentially a full in-place OS upgrade that pretty much screwed my system. It resetted Windows 10 to a default state, added a lot new bloat and reinstalled all the apps I had previously uninstalled.
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Don't think I could of said it better.

The update went flawlessly for me but the changes it made to my OS irritated me. I had to change my privacy setting again, remove old apps again and a few other tweaks that it reverted to default.

I can't believe that in 2015 Microsoft cannot do an OS kernel upgrade without reinstalling Windows.
 
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