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  #1  
Old December 15th 15, 07:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Cy Burnot
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Default Build Number?

How-To Geek says I can find the build number, etc. like this:

Use the Settings App

The new Settings application also offers this information in a
user-friendly form. To launch it, click or tap the Start button and
select Settings.

Navigate to System About and scroll down. You’ll see the “Version” and
“Build” numbers here.

Edition: The “Edition” line tells you which edition of Windows 10
you’re using — Windows 10 Home, Professional, Enterprise, or Education.
If you’d like to upgrade to Windows 10 Professional, you can upgrade to
the Professional edition from within Windows 10. Switching to Windows 10
Enterprise or Education editions will require a complete reinstall and a
special key that isn’t made available to normal home Windows users.
Build Number: Look at the “Version” and “OS Build” lines. If you
have the original version of Windows 10, you’ll just see “OS Build
10240”. This was the initial release of Windows 10. If you have the
“November Update” version of Windows 10 — Windows 10’s first big update
— you’ll see a new version number scheme here. It’ll say “Version 1511
(OS Build 10576.29)”.
The “1511” is the key. This number identifies that you’re using the
build of Windows 10 released in November (the 11th month) of 2015. If
Microsoft were to release a build of Windows 10 in April (the 4th month)
of 2016, its version number would be “Version 1604”.

I have Win10 Home and there are no lines for "Version" or "OS Build"!!

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Old December 15th 15, 07:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_3_]
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Default Build Number?

Cy Burnot wrote:

How-To Geek says I can find the build number, etc. like this:


click start and type winver is pretty easy ...


  #3  
Old December 15th 15, 07:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Cy Burnot
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Default Build Number?

Andy Burns wrote on 12/15/2015 1:04 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:

How-To Geek says I can find the build number, etc. like this:


click start and type winver is pretty easy ...


Anything that you already know how to do is extremely easy! :-)

I see Version 10.0, build 10240.

Is that the latest?

Thanks.
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Old December 15th 15, 08:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_3_]
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Default Build Number?

Cy Burnot wrote:

I see Version 10.0, build 10240.


No, 10586.29 is.

Microsoft consider 10240-10586 to be "major", the .29 is a new minor
version number they're using.

In reality 10586 is window dressing, it has one feature I like (changing
title bar colours) but that ought never to have been removed in the
first place, and should have been a few hundred kB to add back, not a GB
of re-install ...


  #5  
Old December 15th 15, 08:11 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Cy Burnot
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Default Build Number?

Andy Burns wrote on 12/15/2015 2:03 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:

I see Version 10.0, build 10240.


No, 10586.29 is.

Microsoft consider 10240-10586 to be "major", the .29 is a new minor
version number they're using.

In reality 10586 is window dressing, it has one feature I like (changing
title bar colours) but that ought never to have been removed in the
first place, and should have been a few hundred kB to add back, not a GB
of re-install ...



Should normal updating install (or offer to install) that?
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Old December 15th 15, 09:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_3_]
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Cy Burnot wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

10586.29


Should normal updating install (or offer to install) that?


Yes it should, no doubt it's staggered to avoid crippling the WU
servers, but it's been at least a couple of weeks now ... have you done
anything to thwart Win10's updates?

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Old December 16th 15, 02:38 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
. . .winston[_2_]
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Cy Burnot wrote on 12/15/2015 2:11 PM:
Andy Burns wrote on 12/15/2015 2:03 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:

I see Version 10.0, build 10240.


No, 10586.29 is.

Microsoft consider 10240-10586 to be "major", the .29 is a new minor
version number they're using.

In reality 10586 is window dressing, it has one feature I like (changing
title bar colours) but that ought never to have been removed in the
first place, and should have been a few hundred kB to add back, not a GB
of re-install ...



Should normal updating install (or offer to install) that?

If you've been on 10240 since Nov 12, then you should already have
received at least one of these cumulative updates - 10586.3, 10586.10,
10586.14, 10586.17 - before 10586.29 the latest available via Windows
Update.



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  #8  
Old December 16th 15, 07:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Cy Burnot
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Default Build Number?

.. . .winston wrote on 12/15/2015 8:38 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote on 12/15/2015 2:11 PM:
Andy Burns wrote on 12/15/2015 2:03 PM:
Cy Burnot wrote:

I see Version 10.0, build 10240.

No, 10586.29 is.

Microsoft consider 10240-10586 to be "major", the .29 is a new minor
version number they're using.

In reality 10586 is window dressing, it has one feature I like (changing
title bar colours) but that ought never to have been removed in the
first place, and should have been a few hundred kB to add back, not a GB
of re-install ...



Should normal updating install (or offer to install) that?

If you've been on 10240 since Nov 12, then you should already have
received at least one of these cumulative updates - 10586.3, 10586.10,
10586.14, 10586.17 - before 10586.29 the latest available via Windows
Update.


It's doing an update right this minute.
  #9  
Old December 16th 15, 08:27 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Cy Burnot
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Default Build Number?

Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 1:49 AM:
. . .winston wrote on 12/15/2015 8:38 PM:

If you've been on 10240 since Nov 12, then you should already have
received at least one of these cumulative updates - 10586.3, 10586.10,
10586.14, 10586.17 - before 10586.29 the latest available via Windows
Update.


It's doing an update right this minute.


10586.29 is installed.
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Old December 16th 15, 01:18 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default Build Number?



"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...
Cy Burnot wrote:

I see Version 10.0, build 10240.


No, 10586.29 is.

Microsoft consider 10240-10586 to be "major", the .29 is a new minor
version number they're using.

In reality 10586 is window dressing, it has one feature I like (changing
title bar colours) but that ought never to have been removed in the first
place, and should have been a few hundred kB to add back, not a GB of
re-install ...

Can you point me to where I can add color to title bars? I have searched all
through the Settings menus and have come up empty (kinda like my lily white
title bars).
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Old December 16th 15, 01:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_3_]
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Default Build Number?

SC Tom wrote:

Can you point me to where I can add color to title bars? I have searched all
through the Settings menus and have come up empty (kinda like my lily white
title bars).


Start, Settings, Personalisation, Colours
pick an accent colour
then scroll down and enable "show colour on Start ..."

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Old December 16th 15, 01:36 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
SC Tom[_3_]
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Default Build Number?



"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...
SC Tom wrote:

Can you point me to where I can add color to title bars? I have searched
all
through the Settings menus and have come up empty (kinda like my lily
white
title bars).


Start, Settings, Personalisation, Colours
pick an accent colour
then scroll down and enable "show colour on Start ..."

Thanks, I found it after I posted. The problem (or I guess the solution to
the problem) was that I had to turn it off, then back on for it to "take." I
had been there before, and set the color I wanted, but it never affected the
title bars until today when I switched it off/on.

Now if they would allow us to round off those sharp corners. . . :-)
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Old December 17th 15, 08:18 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
. . .winston[_2_]
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Default Build Number?

Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 2:27 AM:
Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 1:49 AM:
. . .winston wrote on 12/15/2015 8:38 PM:

If you've been on 10240 since Nov 12, then you should already have
received at least one of these cumulative updates - 10586.3, 10586.10,
10586.14, 10586.17 - before 10586.29 the latest available via Windows
Update.


It's doing an update right this minute.


10586.29 is installed.


You're current.

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  #14  
Old December 18th 15, 09:18 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
. . .winston[_2_]
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Default Build Number?

.. . .winston wrote on 12/17/2015 2:18 AM:
Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 2:27 AM:
Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 1:49 AM:
. . .winston wrote on 12/15/2015 8:38 PM:

If you've been on 10240 since Nov 12, then you should already have
received at least one of these cumulative updates - 10586.3, 10586.10,
10586.14, 10586.17 - before 10586.29 the latest available via Windows
Update.

It's doing an update right this minute.


10586.29 is installed.


You're current.


Not any more 10586.36 is current

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msft mvp windows experience
  #15  
Old December 18th 15, 02:52 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Cy Burnot
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.. . .winston wrote on 12/18/2015 3:18 AM:
. . .winston wrote on 12/17/2015 2:18 AM:
Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 2:27 AM:
Cy Burnot wrote on 12/16/2015 1:49 AM:
. . .winston wrote on 12/15/2015 8:38 PM:

If you've been on 10240 since Nov 12, then you should already have
received at least one of these cumulative updates - 10586.3, 10586.10,
10586.14, 10586.17 - before 10586.29 the latest available via Windows
Update.

It's doing an update right this minute.


10586.29 is installed.


You're current.


Not any more 10586.36 is current


OK, thanks.
 




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