On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 06:25:24 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

Obviously it's a highly controversial upgrade, maybe it's best to not
ever upgrade to it, but Microsoft is already talking about the 1904
upgrade. I haven't been offered this upgrade yet. Microsoft usually
doesn't allow an upgrade between two non-adjacent versions. Just
concerned that I may get stuck on 1803 forever, or I'm going to be
offered the 1809 just weeks before 1904 is offered to me, and I'd have
to go through two major upgrades soon after each other.

So far I've got one machine up to 1809. I did it manually on 2/5/19;
Windows Update did not push it to me. Only the usual annoyances: network
share settings were put back to defaults and a few associations switched
back to modern apps from my choices. Happens almost every update. I don't
understand why it's so hard for MS to just preserve my settings.

Also, Epson V300 scanner drivers were removed in 1803, and this persists
in 1809. You have to install them manually, and there are serious issues
with them, which is probably why they're no longer included. It'll still
work, but the driver can lock up your scanner to the point that you have
to pull out the power jack to get it back.

Two of my other machines have Windows 10 Home edition on them. Neither of
them have been pushed 1809, even on a consumer update schedule. My other
desktop is on 1803 and set to a business update schedule, so I don't
expect 1809 to be pushed onto that until around when 1903 launches.

But nothing controversial happened on the one machine I did update. It
still takes too damn long, but it worked (almost) perfectly. There's no
burning need for an upgrade, but I'll bet it goes fine.

One notable thing broke: Network discovery for workstations in Explorer.
Your computer may not show up on the network workgroup until you restart
the Function Discovery Resource Publication service. Even a "delayed
start" doesn't work any more. I have to do it every time I reboot.

Easily fixed. I set up a script that launches at any login to restart the
service. If you need to know how to do that, let me know: it can be fixed
with a batch file and Task Scheduler.

And hey, new stuff! 1809 has done away with the "recovery partition" (at
least on the machine I upgraded), so there's that. Now it's much easier
to overprovision an SSD because they don't mess with your trailing space
on the drive. They've also done some nice things with apps (a sort of
Device Stage like descriptive panel) in the Start menu when you use
search, and they've added an updated snipping tool. Other (minor) Start
menu issues that I've had have been fixed. There's probably more in the
release, but that's what I noticed so far.

So, thumbs up! Do it. But back up your system drives first. Do *not* rely
on MS's rollback function. I've had complete failures with that,
requiring a bare metal restore from backup.

--
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