AnandTech: Windows 10 Anniversary Update: The Road To Redstone

[PowerEngineer]

Survived the online update, but Microsoft once again took it upon itself to delete the Win 7 games. Glad I saved that install package.

 

[JackMDS]

Yeah it does it every time that there is a major (Fresh,or in-Place) Install even have somehow you alreadymhave them in Win 10.

The expectation is that the user would switch to the same game available for the Modern (metro) side of the OS.

Problem is that those are "Crappy" and the free ones have Ads.

 

[Elixer]

For those slackers, MS is still allowing win 7/8 keys to activate win 10.
Still no hard date for when they will stop this.
HD/SSD also plays no role in activation process as it did before.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/75754/windows-10-activation-questions-answered

 

[postmortemIA]

For those slackers, MS is still allowing win 7/8 keys to activate win 10.
Still no hard date for when they will stop this.
HD/SSD also plays no role in activation process as it did before.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/75754/windows-10-activation-questions-answered

That link also confirms what I've suspect for a long time, and MS was very quiet about it: you can't move your Windows 10 key (now called digital entitlement) from one to another PC. So essentially MS has made that your Windows 7/8.x retail key is transferring to OEM Windows 10 key. Not sure if you still can use your retail key on another PC.

 

[cmdrdredd]

That link also confirms what I've suspect for a long time, and MS was very quiet about it: you can't move your Windows 10 key (now called digital entitlement) from one to another PC. So essentially MS has made that your Windows 7/8.x retail key is transferring to OEM Windows 10 key. Not sure if you still can use your retail key on another PC.

Right and I figured this is how it was. You get one install on one system and that's it. Change motherboard and I have to buy a new license which hopefully is cheap enough.

 

[sweenish]

Yeah it does it every time that there is a major (Fresh,or in-Place) Install even have somehow you alreadymhave them in Win 10.

The expectation is that the user would switch to the same game available for the Modern (metro) side of the OS.

Problem is that those are "Crappy" and the free ones have Ads.

I find the Windows Store versions to be superior. You see ads on the launch screen, and they're strictly static. There is no nagging at all once you're in a game.

The thing that irks me though, is that if you felt strongly enough to pay to get rid of the ads, they want a subscription and not a one time payment. So instead of some money, they get none from me. That annoyance aside, though, the games are really much better than they were before.

 

[PowerEngineer]

That link also confirms what I've suspect for a long time, and MS was very quiet about it: you can't move your Windows 10 key (now called digital entitlement) from one to another PC. So essentially MS has made that your Windows 7/8.x retail key is transferring to OEM Windows 10 key. Not sure if you still can use your retail key on another PC.

I'm not sure that's actually what that link says, and last month I successfully installed and activated a clean version of W10 on a completely new desktop PC using the the W10 key from the upgrade of my W7 retail license used on my old desktop.

 

[tidy]

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[Ketchup]

Broke bridged Ethernet mode on Vmware. Had to go to switch the VMs to NAT. And it told me that my HP printer was running with minimal features. Other than that, everything went fine.

I just wanted to report that this has been fixed in the latest update. I can now go back to bridged mode and the internet and local network connections are perfectly fine.

 

[IGBT]

AT: Windows 10 Anniversary Update: The Road To Redstone

I just checked my laptop. Apparently this Win 10 1511 laptop is still up to date, so the Anniversary Update isn't available for me yet (2016-08-02 10:30 ET).

I'll probably update this laptop right away, since it's not a mission critical machine. I made sure to create a restore point already, but others have mentioned that such a restore point is probably not so useful for an update this big.

How do you confirm that the anniversary update is installed??

 

[Dahak]

How do you confirm that the anniversary update is installed??

Easiest way is go to run and type winver and it should say version 1607 (build 14393.x) where x changes depending on what cumulative update is installed

 

[IGBT]

It appears my Dell didn't auto update like is has with win 8.1 and then win 10 upgrade..does that suggest the computer isn't compatible with the win 10 update or Dell doesn't want it to update?

 

[IGBT]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/31...inst-windows-10-anniversary-update-grows.html
Given the massive testing and repeated refinement that brought us Windows 10 Anniversary Update, you’d think the rollout would proceed with few debilitating problems. But you’d be wrong. From common installation problems to minor irritants to significant data destruction, reports of problems are mounting up.


You should consider dodging the update until Microsoft irons out the worst difficulties.

 

[Dahak]

It appears my Dell didn't auto update like is has with win 8.1 and then win 10 upgrade..does that suggest the computer isn't compatible with the win 10 update or Dell doesn't want it to update?

As your post below mentions, it might not be bad that it does not auto update.
As for the reason it could be a few, just did not get targeted yet as they are doing a rolling update, could be for some reason the hardware in the machine causes it to flag not to get it.

There is nothing stopping you from doing the update manually, its just the automatic update has some checks

 

[IGBT]

This is the last autoupdate my machine shows: KB3150513 dated 8-31-2016

http://www.infoworld.com/article/30...another-windows-10-update-enabling-patch.html

 

[Puffnstuff]

I just installed 10 using the assistive technologies approach on my sons w7 machine and it worked very well. I had to double install 7 ultimate since it was the retail upgrade to vista which was a pain but he'll never have that problem again. He was convinced that 7 was what he wanted until he used 10 with classic shell which made a believer out of him.

 

[IGBT]

this showed up this morn. on win 10 updates.
http://sihmar.com/2016/09/13/new-update-kb3185614-windows-10-build-10586-589/

Microsoft is now seeding cumulative update KB3185614 for Windows 10 1511 users. Many Windows 10 users are still waiting for Anniversary Update to appear in their Updates. For those users, Microsoft is rolling out Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems (KB3185614).

 

[Puffnstuff]

I used the windows upgrade assistant last night to upgrade my niece's machine from 1511 to 1607 because WU wouldn't do it.

 

[Dahak]

I used the windows upgrade assistant last night to upgrade my niece's machine from 1511 to 1607 because WU wouldn't do it.

Do you mean WU wont do it as its not shows up or wont do it as it fails?

If its not showing up, don't forget that this is a rolling release where they push it out through WU in waves, not everyone will get it right away

 

[Puffnstuff]

Her laptop was offline for several months which had her way behind and WU wasn't showing 1607 as an update so I went to the tool to circumvent all of that.

 

[quikah]

They are blocking the update on systems with configurations that have known bugs until they are fixed. Don't be so quick to push the upgrade unless you are OK with possible issues.

 

[bruceb]

My Toshiba laptop finally updated to build 1607 ... it tried about 3 times via windows update and on the 3rd try it finally went through. But it took almost 2 hours for all the updates to occur. So far, so good, had to redo a few tweaks.

 

[MongGrel]

I'm not really sure where I am these days, have been running the insider previews since WIN 10 came out, is one of the pre RS releases.

Have Evaluation copy Build 14926.rs prerelease 160910-1529 running on the main from yesterday.

I'm am but a Microsoft guinea pig

Runs pretty well with all the old stuff in here though.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I updated my niece's new hp laptop today to 1607 using the upgrade tool which works better than the media creation tool on an existing build.

 

[IGBT]

Another anomaly surfaced in my win-10 box.. "Update and shut down" and or "update and restart" fail to clear the "update" advisory in the start / shut down or sign out start button. Nothing new shows up in the "View Installed Updates".