Ramblings of an old Doc

 

On August second, the following features are being added (along with various ‘fixes’ for current bugs).

They’re summarized in two articles from TechRepublic:

The first cites “Windows Information Protection” (a.k.a. Enterprise Data Protection):

“1. The feature uses containerisation file techniques to keep personal and enterprise data separate, as well as imposing various controls over who can access which data.

2. Windows 10 Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP), a service for detecting online threats and attacks. While Windows 10 already includes the Windows Defender antivirus, this new service will attempt to spot emerging threats by analysing large amounts of security data and suggest responses to breaches. WDATP has been tested by 300 enterprises ahead of launch.” – TechRepublic

My take is that number one will be made available to Home users, while one and two will be made available for Enterprise users.

For more regarding the big five changes, I’d suggest looking at the second article in Sources, below. They include extensions and changes to Edge:

“Supported extensions include AdBlock, Evernote, the LastPass password manager, Microsoft Translator, which automatically translates pages into more than 50 different languages, an extension to augment mouse gestures support, and the Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Another extension will allow users to create, edit and view Office files from inside the Edge browser, without having to install Microsoft Office.

Outside of extensions, the Edge browser will allow users to pin tabs for their favorite sites and web apps, so they always have a tab open in the browser.” – ibid

The Start Menu:

The broad design of the Windows 10 Start Menu will stay the same, with the familiar list of application shortcuts on left and the menu of tiles on the right.

However, there are changes. The new look Start menu makes the 'All Apps' list visible by default on the left-hand side. At the top of this permanently visible 'All Apps' list, are a selection of the user's 'Most used' and 'Recently added' apps. Microsoft says the change should reduce the clicking and scrolling needed to access apps. The menu's Power, Settings and File Explorer links have been squashed into the far left of the menu, and now appear as icons on a left-hand rail, rather than an icon and a label. The look of the Start menu in tablet mode has also been overhauled, turning the 'All Apps' list into a fullscreen menu, reminiscent of the Windows 8.1 Start screen.” – ibid

There are more…take a look at the first article in Sources. They include Taskbar tweaks, a “cleverer Cortana” (AI), Windows Hello extended to apps and the web with an extended biometric login, a new hub for digital pens, a customizable action center, more control over when updates happen (no deferring for Home users, but control over when the reboot happens with “Active Hours”). Also an improved Settings app, and features being migrated from the control panel to other areas like Network and Internet category. A Quick Assist app with transferred control to the other person. Easier activation. Better security…for Enterprise E5 users…not Home users. There are also technical improvements like access to the command line interpreter and allow W10 to run a variety of Ubuntu software without a virtual machine or third party tools. There are more…so, give the articles a look.

 

 

Sources:

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-anniversary-update-to-land-on-august-2nd/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-build-5-big-moves-you-need-to-know/


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on Aug 03, 2016

RedneckDude

At this time, I cannot run WindowBlinds on the latest version of Windows 10.

Now I'm kinda glad I haven't updated my OD Sub yet, besides having to rob the kids piggy bank to do it. I posted a thread because ShadowFX went a bit wonky with the update. Is any one having any issues with Iconpackager? (fingers-crossed)

on Aug 03, 2016

I did a registry cleansing of my All In One rig, and the installed WB 10.0.7 and now all is well. 

on Aug 03, 2016

Downloading the update now. He he...

on Aug 03, 2016

RedneckDude

The above seems only to be happening on my HP All In One. All my other rigs are fine.

Interesting. The laptop is HP. 

on Aug 03, 2016

Took 90 minutes to download. On the splash screen it says you can choose when to start the update. That didn't happen, it started the update right away. Up to 3% now.

on Aug 03, 2016

DrJBHL

DaveBax...no. That isn't correct. Hankers and I.D. installed the update yesterday with no problems at all. I'm sure Jafo updated his W10 also...doubt he had a problem.

I think Neil would have said something about any such problem.

Due to all sorts of reasons I haven't even fired up the Win 10 machines since the update's been available...

I have 4 of them to do over the weekend and I'll let you know how they go.

As is its wont,... Win 10 will update flawlessly on 2, maybe 3, but will be an utter cock-up on the 4th.

It's The Way Of MS Windows ....

on Aug 03, 2016

Started the download at 5:20, by 10:00 all done. Now the kicker. Live folders reverted back to Windows default. When I reapplied the icon pack I got a black screen. Lasted for a few seconds then had my desktop back. Attempted to restore the icon pack again and got another black screen. This time did a reboot and now the icons are back. WindowBlinds however seems to be unaffected.

on Aug 04, 2016

OK...answer.

What happened was that after signing in, I interrupted the transfer of the User Profiles.

The misapprehension? That W10 Anniv. Upgrade was done installing because it asked me to sign in (it recognized who should sign in, right?).

 

So...my fault mostly (like 95%). MS's fault a little bit: It should have had one of those warnings "MS is rebuilding profiles on this machine. Do not interrupt.". After all, it did that in other places during the installation.

Will probably have to do a clean install. I think the data is ok, though.

It has nothing to do with WIndowBlinds or its version.

on Aug 04, 2016

I got a large update yesterday, but as far as I could tell, nothing changed. I thought that the start menu would be different with the AU, but it remained the same.

 

So how do I find out if I have the AU or not?

on Aug 04, 2016

StartMenu/Search box

Type winver [enter]

Window pops up telling you what version of Windows you have, Anniv updated is Version 1607

on Aug 04, 2016

DaveRI

StartMenu/Search box

Type winver [enter]

Window pops up telling you what version of Windows you have, Anniv updated is Version 1607

 

Thanks!

on Aug 04, 2016

I hadn't heard about this "anniversary Update" before. I checked my machines and none of them have updated to it. Even when I have them check for updates they all say they are up to date... Not that I'm in any hurry to have MS screw with my systems some more but thought this odd based on reading others here have it, not counting those that did the manual install.

on Aug 04, 2016

I'm so glad to have Win7.

on Aug 05, 2016

Windows downloaded the update but the computer was not turned off since last monday, so i guess, it will install when I restart in the near future?

 

on Aug 05, 2016

I had to download the update directly from MS since it wasn't available from Windows Update yet.

It installed without issues on my physical Windows 10 machine, but when I tried to update my two Windows 10 Oracle Vbox VMs in my main PC (still running Windows 7, btw) it failed with a 'not enough disk space' error. The VMs have 32 GB virtual disks with about 17 GB available, but this thing is humongous and wants at least 20 GB *free* on the target drive.

I had originally created the VDIs as fixed-sized, and that format does not support resizing. So now I'm currently cloning the VM's virtual hard drives, converting them from fixed-size to dynamic in the process, so I can then resize the clones and finally have enough disk space to install the anniversary update. Sigh.

I was also curious about the new Dark Theme in Windows 10 which I actually think looks good (for a change) but became terribly disappointed to learn that it does not change the white color of title bars and window backgrounds in normal Win32 applications, which remain exactly the same. It only applies to UWP apps, and even then not to all.

Another half assed job by Microsoft. Sigh.

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