"You Can Now Upgrade to the Windows 10 Creators Update Early"

Yeff wrote:
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 20:27:44 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Yes I knew the setting was coming, but I was expecting it to default to
powershell (from the insider rumours I'd heard) but it defaulted to
keeping command prompt, which saved me the bother.

Gotcha.


I see "Settings : Personalization : Taskbar", containing a
setting which affects Start.

When it could have been put in "Settings : Personalization : Start".

And that solves the Powershell versus Command Prompt problem,
but still didn't have an effect on making Control Panels
show up. I don't see a setting for that one. Maybe they hid
it in the recycle Bin :-\

Paul

Rene Lamontagne wrote:


I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded
it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31
minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is
fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and Admin
command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK.
So Far OK but too soon to tell.

Rene

It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed.
There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released
for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come
afterwards).

I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my
ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup
test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was
missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade
install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive
for a few more days, so I can go take a look again.

This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one.

https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif

Paul

"Monty" wrote in message ...

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:48:12 -0400, Yeff wrote:

http://www.windowscentral.com/you-can-now-upgrade-windows-10-creators-update-early

"Microsoft has today opened the floodgates to anyone who's interested in
updating to the Windows 10 Creators Update early by releasing an updated
Media Creation Tool that does exactly that, update you to the Creators
Update. The Media Creation Tool actually has two functions, upgrade a
current installation or create new install media for clean installing on
another PC."

The direct download link is he
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10"

Thanks for the direct link - I have now updated two 64-bit PCs and am
downloading for a 32-bit update. The first two took about 1.5 hours
each from start to finish.


"Windows 10 Creators Update Common Installation Problems and Fixes"
http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-creators-update-common-problems-and-fixes

On my PC, I-5 2400 3.1GHz and 8 GB of ram, a 1 TB HDD Hitachi 7200rpm . Win
10 HE 64bit
Took me about 5 min to dl the .exe file and another 45 min for it to install
..
Then when a reboot was required, it took almost 2 more hours and I didn't
have any other programs running except Avast.
Overall, it was about a 4 hour process. I think my HDD must not be as fast
as it should be. Many times the Disk is at 100%.
I also noted that my System Restore was tuned off (after the update) and all
Restore points were missing. Check yours after you install the update.
No other noticeable improvements or worsening of programs after the install.
Best of luck.
--
Buffalo

"Buffalo" wrote in message news

"Monty" wrote in message
.. .

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:48:12 -0400, Yeff wrote:

http://www.windowscentral.com/you-can-now-upgrade-windows-10-creators-update-early

"Microsoft has today opened the floodgates to anyone who's interested in
updating to the Windows 10 Creators Update early by releasing an updated
Media Creation Tool that does exactly that, update you to the Creators
Update. The Media Creation Tool actually has two functions, upgrade a
current installation or create new install media for clean installing on
another PC."

The direct download link is he
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10"

Thanks for the direct link - I have now updated two 64-bit PCs and am
downloading for a 32-bit update. The first two took about 1.5 hours
each from start to finish.


"Windows 10 Creators Update Common Installation Problems and Fixes"
http://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-creators-update-common-problems-and-fixes

On my PC, I-5 2400 3.1GHz and 8 GB of ram, a 1 TB HDD Hitachi 7200rpm . Win
10 HE 64bit
Took me about 5 min to dl the .exe file and another 45 min for it to
install .
Then when a reboot was required, it took almost 2 more hours and I didn't
have any other programs running except Avast.
Overall, it was about a 4 hour process. I think my HDD must not be as fast
as it should be. Many times the Disk is at 100%.
I also noted that my System Restore was tuned off (after the update) and
all Restore points were missing. Check yours after you install the update.
No other noticeable improvements or worsening of programs after the
install.
Best of luck.

I just dl'd the .exe to my Computer and ran it from there, not from a DVD ,
etc.
--
Buffalo

On 4/6/2017 4:11 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:


I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded
it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31
minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is
fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and
Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK.
So Far OK but too soon to tell.

Rene

It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed.
There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released
for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come
afterwards).

I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my
ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup
test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was
missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade
install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive
for a few more days, so I can go take a look again.

This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one.

https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif

Paul

Yeah, first thing I did was run Winver to make sure it did install, it
all seemed to happen too quick.
The control panel is missing from the right click menu but I keep a
couple shortcuts around just for redundancy, I did set Command prompt to
Powereshell and back to CMD just to see if it worked ok, and it does.

Rene

On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:53:06 -0400, Nil
wrote:

On 05 Apr 2017, Yeff wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

http://www.windowscentral.com/you-can-now-upgrade-windows-10-creators-update-early

"Microsoft has today opened the floodgates to anyone who's
interested in updating to the Windows 10 Creators Update early by
releasing an updated Media Creation Tool that does exactly that,
update you to the Creators Update.

That's interesting... but I don't mind waiting.


I don't mind waiting either. It's only five more days to Update
Tuesday.

On 4/6/2017 2:11 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:


I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded
it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31
minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is
fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and
Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK.
So Far OK but too soon to tell.

Rene

It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually installed.
There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released
for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come
afterwards).

I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my
ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup
test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was
missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade
install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive
for a few more days, so I can go take a look again.

This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one.

https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif

Paul
How are you getting win10 to install in a VM?
Way back when, I tried to get win7 installed in virtualbox
to update to win10
to get the free digital entitlement for vbox.
I was never successful getting
that to happen. It just wouldn't activate.

mike wrote:
On 4/6/2017 2:11 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:


I just installed "Creator" 1703 (15063.13) All went well, I downloaded
it to a 16GB USB 3 stick and installed from there, it installed in 31
minutes and I set all 5 security switches to Off, My control panel is
fine as I had a shortcut on the desktop. By the way my command and
Admin command prompts are still in the context menu and are working OK.
So Far OK but too soon to tell.

Rene

It sounds like you've already run "winver" to verify it actually
installed.
There should be 15063.0, plus some updates have already been released
for it (because it's frozen before it ships, and the updates come
afterwards).

I did a clean install in a VM, because my hard drive with all my
ISOs on it was offline, and I needed *something* for a HomeGroup
test. So I downloaded 15063 for my test VM. And the stuff was
missing from the right-click start menu. Mine wasn't an upgrade
install, more a clean install. I still have the VMs on hard drive
for a few more days, so I can go take a look again.

This is a comparison between the new right-click menu and the old one.

https://s12.postimg.org/l7cxgl799/Creator_So_Far.gif

Paul
How are you getting win10 to install in a VM?
Way back when, I tried to get win7 installed in virtualbox
to update to win10
to get the free digital entitlement for vbox.
I was never successful getting
that to happen. It just wouldn't activate.

No, mine wasn't activated.

You could have tried some slmgr commands, to
change keys, then entered the Win7 key. I don't
know if the internal identifier used by the VM is
considered unique enough for a Digital Entitlement.

Paul

NY wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message
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mike wrote:
A blank USB flash drive with at least 5 GB of space

And bewa if it's like other Windows installation tools, it won't
recognise the existence of Sandisk USB flash drives. It ought to be
modified so it will write to any drive (HDD, flash) that can
subsequently be used for booting, rather than being restricted just to
flash drives (only only some makes of those).

I hit this problem when I was investigating how to reinstall Win 10 on a
dead PC. I encountered the "USB drive not found" error even when I could
see it in Windows Explorer, and researched the problem. It was an
unbranded drive (embedded in a novelty penguin !!!) but I wonder whether
they'd used Sandisk chipset. As it happened, I was able to resurrect the
PC without needing to reinstall - a crucial system file had disappeared
so I put back a copy from another PC.

SanDisk Cruzer Edge 8 GB drives worked fine
- created by Media Creation Tool
- booted properly for UEFI and Legacy

--
....winston
msft mvp windows experience