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Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update
The Register ^ | Mar 22, 2018 | Shaun Nichols

Posted on 03/23/2018 5:06:44 AM PDT by dayglored

At some point next month, just in time for Spring, Microsoft will start to emit the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update to everyone's PC.

Avid Reg readers will be aware of what's forthcoming for the Redmond operating system. If you're just tuning in, well, see the aforementioned link, and strap in for these highlights. When the OS upgrade is released proper, we'll be on the scene with the full details. In the meantime, here's your need to know:

  1. Microsoft reckons the operating system will take, on average, 30 minutes to install, which is much shorter than usual.

  2. The OS will feature a thing called Timeline, which presents a summary of what you've been up to over the past 30 days, with on-screen links to apps and documents.

  3. You can share files with physically nearby devices using a wireless feature called Nearby Share.

  4. Shell and other bits and pieces of the desktop will look nicer. You may be forced to use Edge, though, but at least you can mute the browser's tabs.

  5. The Photos app in Windows 10 will be updated to use the High Efficiency Image File Format, a change that promises to improve the quality and compression of pictures.

Exactly when this update – codenamed Red Stone 4, aka version 1803 – will land, and what's actually in it, is anyone's guess right now as Microsoft is being coy about the final change log. The software is largely expected to roll out from April 10, that being the month's Patch Tuesday.

Our advice? Hold off until the initial bugs are ironed out, and the exact feature list is cemented in. Alternatively, grab betas from the Windows Insider stream of updates and play with it to your heart's content. ®


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: springcreatorsupdate; windows10; windowspinglist; windowsupdate
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...Here it comes!
1 posted on 03/23/2018 5:06:44 AM PDT by dayglored
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To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
Windows 10 Spring Creators Update... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

2 posted on 03/23/2018 5:07:18 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored
They've certainly been "emitting" something...
3 posted on 03/23/2018 5:09:14 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: dayglored

About two weeks ago, my windows ten update started freezing at 82%. I had to turn off my pc and let it restore to the previous version. Takes a couple of hours.

I now have to be careful to turn off the wi-fi access every time I leave the computer or it will, at some point, try to complete that update and fail.

I need to turn off the auto update, or I can just hope this one works.


4 posted on 03/23/2018 5:16:10 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: dayglored

Seems like BOHICA. Why does it seem as the years go by, the contents of updates from MS and Apple get less interesting and more annoying?


5 posted on 03/23/2018 5:21:12 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dayglored

If you work in marketing at Microsoft you are living a charmed life.

You can be as lazy, foolish and obnoxious as you like because your means of convincing the public about new ‘features’ is to force them down users’ throats.

It’s fair to say that MS have always been an imitator not an innovator but they have really lost their way with all the Hobson’s choices they’ve been offering.


6 posted on 03/23/2018 5:24:38 AM PDT by relictele
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To: RightGeek

Somebody can walk past your computer and download everything you’ve done for the last 30 days.

What’s not to like?


7 posted on 03/23/2018 5:42:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: robroys woman

I had some issues where it said I had to update my BIOS to get the update to work - had to hunt it down through the manufacturer site but did it and it hasn’t hiccuped since.


8 posted on 03/23/2018 5:47:36 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: trebb

Yes. I found a fix for mine too. At least one that is apparently supposed to work, but have not had the time to implement. It’s springtime in KY. I’m grading my driveway, mowing my five acre lawn and building trails in my woods. This computer stuff is for wintertime.


9 posted on 03/23/2018 5:49:31 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: dayglored

A month or two ago, whenever I booted up my computer it would open up to Internet Explorer and go to my home page. It would also open up my last Word document I was working on. Anybody know how to turn that feature off?


10 posted on 03/23/2018 6:02:57 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: dayglored

“Timeline”

Apparently, the govt is not satisfied with a website history.


11 posted on 03/23/2018 6:18:36 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: dayglored
The OS will feature a thing called Timeline, which presents a summary of what you've been up to over the past 30 days

I don't like the sound of that. But, I only use Win10 for work so, no biggie. Let 'em look. It's Linux for me at all other times.

12 posted on 03/23/2018 6:31:47 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: robroys woman

I just tell Windows that the Network Connection is metered and so it won’t auto-update.


13 posted on 03/23/2018 6:33:49 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Startup?


14 posted on 03/23/2018 6:38:13 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: jeffc

Thanks. That’s a real time saver!

I just did it. It did warn me that some stuff will act differently. We’ll see.


15 posted on 03/23/2018 6:51:37 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: fruser1
“Timeline” Apparently, the govt is not satisfied with a website history.

Though it will take a while, I've become convinced that in general the safest way to communicate is with "snail mail."

16 posted on 03/23/2018 7:22:53 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: robroys woman
Download and install NEVER 10 and say goodbye to Windows trying to ram their virus into your PC:

Never 10

17 posted on 03/23/2018 7:25:05 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Henchster

I already have 10. I really like it - for the most part.


18 posted on 03/23/2018 7:51:20 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: dayglored

All I know is that every time Windows 10 updates, my 8 year old laptop works better and faster.

I’ve run Linux on it, and, still do occasionally, but, it doesn’t run as good as W10 does now.

I’ll let the update run.


19 posted on 03/23/2018 7:53:43 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: dayglored

Win 10 stopped running(blue screen all the time) on my 2 Dell C521s after the Creators Update ,LOL


20 posted on 03/23/2018 7:56:49 AM PDT by butlerweave
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