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Old April 5th 20, 07:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jim Dell
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

I am wondering if it’s just my desktop & laptop that are displaying this
anomaly.
When checking the windows version and build number there are multiple
ways to check.
One is modifying the registry by changing the value of
1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop PaintDesktopVersion.to 1.
That cause the windows version and build number to be displaying in the
lower right hand screen above the task bar.
On mine is shows 18362_19h1_release 190318-1202

But if I check the version from a command prompt with the command winver
I get
1909 18363.720

And is I check it via Setting System--About I get 1909 18363.720

Why don’t all 3 agree?

Jim
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Old April 5th 20, 08:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
😉 Good Guy 😉
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

On 05/04/2020 19:17, Jim Dell wrote:
I am wondering if it’s just my desktop & laptop that are displaying
this anomaly.
When checking the windows version and build number there are multiple
ways to check.
One is modifying the registry by changing the value of
1.Â*Â*Â* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop PaintDesktopVersion.to 1.
That cause the windows version and build number to be displaying in
the lower right hand screen above the task bar.
On mine is shows 18362_19h1_release 190318-1202

But if I check the version from a command prompt with the command
winver I get
1909 18363.720

And is I check it via Setting System--About I get 1909 18363.720

Why don’t all 3 agree?

Jim


They don't agree because you must have once installed the Insider
version.Â* The registry entries are never wiped clean by the operating
system.Â* People use 3rd party tools such as cCleaner and others but
these are rarely required.

when you do a clean install then you will get all 3 methods tally with
each other.

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Old April 5th 20, 09:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

On 2020-04-05 1:17 p.m., Jim Dell wrote:
I am wondering if it’s just my desktop & laptop that are displaying this
anomaly.
When checking the windows version and build number there are multiple
ways to check.
One is modifying the registry by changing the value of
1.Â*Â*Â* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop PaintDesktopVersion.to 1.
That cause the windows version and build number to be displaying in the
lower right hand screen above the task bar.
On mine is shows 18362_19h1_release 190318-1202

But if I check the version from a command prompt with the command winver
I get
1909 18363.720

And is I check it via Setting System--About I get 1909 18363.720

Why don’t all 3 agree?

Jim


Winver from search or command prompt is the proper way to check.

Version 1909 (OS Build 18363 720) would be correct.

Rene

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Old April 5th 20, 10:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Boris[_8_]
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

Rene Lamontagne wrote in
:

On 2020-04-05 1:17 p.m., Jim Dell wrote:
I am wondering if it’s just my desktop & laptop that are displaying
this anomaly.
When checking the windows version and build number there are multiple
ways to check.
One is modifying the registry by changing the value of
1.Â*Â*Â* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
PaintDesktopVersion.to 1. That cause the windows version and build
number to be displaying in the lower right hand screen above the task
bar. On mine is shows 18362_19h1_release 190318-1202

But if I check the version from a command prompt with the command
winver I get
1909 18363.720

And is I check it via Setting System--About I get 1909 18363.720

Why don’t all 3 agree?

Jim


Winver from search or command prompt is the proper way to check.

Version 1909 (OS Build 18363 720) would be correct.

Rene



Yes, I'm also at 1909.18363.20, per winver.

But, SettingsAbout tells me that 1909 was installed on 7/16/2019, while
SettingsUpdate and securityView update history tells me the correct
date, 3/31/2020.

Maybe the user is supposed to know something 'special' about how Windows
came up with that 7/16/2019 date, that that date means something that's
not intitive to a rational user who expects to see 3/31/2020.

Or maybe it's a bug.
  #5  
Old April 5th 20, 10:02 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Boris[_8_]
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Boris wrote in
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https://postimg.cc/gallery/T6MmsNxRene Lamontagne

wrote in
:

On 2020-04-05 1:17 p.m., Jim Dell wrote:
I am wondering if it’s just my desktop & laptop that are displaying
this anomaly.
When checking the windows version and build number there are multiple
ways to check.
One is modifying the registry by changing the value of
1.Â*Â*Â* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
PaintDesktopVersion.to 1. That cause the windows version and build
number to be displaying in the lower right hand screen above the task
bar. On mine is shows 18362_19h1_release 190318-1202

But if I check the version from a command prompt with the command
winver I get
1909 18363.720

And is I check it via Setting System--About I get 1909 18363.720

Why don’t all 3 agree?

Jim


Winver from search or command prompt is the proper way to check.

Version 1909 (OS Build 18363 720) would be correct.

Rene



Yes, I'm also at 1909.18363.20, per winver.

But, SettingsAbout tells me that 1909 was installed on 7/16/2019,

while
SettingsUpdate and securityView update history tells me the correct
date, 3/31/2020.

Maybe the user is supposed to know something 'special' about how

Windows
came up with that 7/16/2019 date, that that date means something that's
not intitive to a rational user who expects to see 3/31/2020.

Or maybe it's a bug.


https://postimg.cc/gallery/T6MmsNx
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Old April 6th 20, 12:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

Boris wrote:

Yes, I'm also at 1909.18363.20, per winver.

But, SettingsAbout tells me that 1909 was installed on 7/16/2019, while
SettingsUpdate and securityView update history tells me the correct
date, 3/31/2020.

Maybe the user is supposed to know something 'special' about how Windows
came up with that 7/16/2019 date, that that date means something that's
not intitive to a rational user who expects to see 3/31/2020.

Or maybe it's a bug.


https://postimg.cc/gallery/T6MmsNx


1909 is a fake update. It takes 1903 18362 and makes it 1909 18363.

The operation consisted of two steps.

1) An install step "staged it".
2) When the user wants to update, the user "flips a switch",
and the remaining step of the update takes place.

And then you're at 18363.

That gives the possibility of at least two date stamps.

The next upgrade is 20H1 19041, which is already in the hands
of Insiders on some Ring. And that's a real upgrade, versus 1909
which was a fake.

Paul
  #7  
Old April 6th 20, 12:56 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Boris[_8_]
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

Paul wrote in :

Boris wrote:

Yes, I'm also at 1909.18363.20, per winver.

But, SettingsAbout tells me that 1909 was installed on 7/16/2019,
while SettingsUpdate and securityView update history tells me the
correct date, 3/31/2020.

Maybe the user is supposed to know something 'special' about how
Windows came up with that 7/16/2019 date, that that date means
something that's not intitive to a rational user who expects to see
3/31/2020.

Or maybe it's a bug.


https://postimg.cc/gallery/T6MmsNx


1909 is a fake update. It takes 1903 18362 and makes it 1909 18363.

The operation consisted of two steps.

1) An install step "staged it".
2) When the user wants to update, the user "flips a switch",
and the remaining step of the update takes place.

And then you're at 18363.

That gives the possibility of at least two date stamps.

The next upgrade is 20H1 19041, which is already in the hands
of Insiders on some Ring. And that's a real upgrade, versus 1909
which was a fake.

Paul


Who would've guessed (how convoluted this could be)?

So no bug, just a quirky feature.

Thanks.
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Old April 6th 20, 12:59 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jim Dell
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Default Windows 10 anomaly

😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:


They don't agree because you must have once installed the Insider
version.Â* The registry entries are never wiped clean by the operating
system.Â* People use 3rd party tools such as cCleaner and others but
these are rarely required.

when you do a clean install then you will get all 3 methods tally with
each other.

Yes I did start with an insider edition.
Thanks.
 




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