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The Egg wrote:I only made a brief attempt, but couldn't get my main rig to list it. Unplugged all removable drives and all prior updates installed. I'm probably better giving it a week or two anyhow, in case there's any showstopper bugs.
The Egg wrote:I only made a brief attempt, but couldn't get my main rig to list it. Unplugged all removable drives and all prior updates installed. I'm probably better giving it a week or two anyhow, in case there's any showstopper bugs.
bthylafh wrote:I had to use the media creation tool to upgrade from 1803 to 1809 on mine. I expect the same will be true for 1903.
captaintrav wrote:My sample size is pretty small outside of work where we manage the updates ourselves, but I have yet to see *any* machine in the wild that got 1809 offered through Windows Update. I wonder how MS is going to approach rolling out 1903.
bthylafh wrote:The Egg wrote:I only made a brief attempt, but couldn't get my main rig to list it. Unplugged all removable drives and all prior updates installed. I'm probably better giving it a week or two anyhow, in case there's any showstopper bugs.
I had to use the media creation tool to upgrade from 1803 to 1809 on mine. I expect the same will be true for 1903.
demolition wrote:captaintrav wrote:My sample size is pretty small outside of work where we manage the updates ourselves, but I have yet to see *any* machine in the wild that got 1809 offered through Windows Update. I wonder how MS is going to approach rolling out 1903.
I have received 1809 through WU on two of my personal laptops and my parents also got it on their desktop PC. I also got it on my work laptop, however since that is an Enterprise version that might be controlled in some other way. So my personal statistic says that most computers get it, but my main desktop PC is apparently odd in some way. An even more curious fact is that I upgraded my desktop PC about a year ago with a new motherboard and CPU but the problem persists.
TwistedKestrel wrote:I like the (minor) visual tweaks, and the brightness slider on the notification panel is a good idea. It feels like DPI scaling behaviour got worse somehow, though
captaintrav wrote:demolition wrote:captaintrav wrote:My sample size is pretty small outside of work where we manage the updates ourselves, but I have yet to see *any* machine in the wild that got 1809 offered through Windows Update. I wonder how MS is going to approach rolling out 1903.
I have received 1809 through WU on two of my personal laptops and my parents also got it on their desktop PC. I also got it on my work laptop, however since that is an Enterprise version that might be controlled in some other way. So my personal statistic says that most computers get it, but my main desktop PC is apparently odd in some way. An even more curious fact is that I upgraded my desktop PC about a year ago with a new motherboard and CPU but the problem persists.
Interesting. Maybe its geographic or something else. I've installed 1709 from media about 15 times, installed no extra software, and every time got upgraded to 1803, a few more updates and then nothing. My Surface is on 1803 and all it has is Firefox and Office installed. Was asked to repair a machine where some update hosed the machine, 1803 again.
DancinJack wrote:The Egg wrote:I only made a brief attempt, but couldn't get my main rig to list it. Unplugged all removable drives and all prior updates installed. I'm probably better giving it a week or two anyhow, in case there's any showstopper bugs.
You're not very likely to get it right away from the "check for updates" button. I wouldn't worry.
Chrispy_ wrote:My biggest gripe with DPI scaling on Windows is that Microsoft usually guesses the scaling value wrong, and then sets that wrong value as the default for every single user that ever logs on.
The display reports its physical size and resolution, and that would be enough to ensure that printed 10pt font always appears at the roughly the correct size.
But no, Microsoft attempts to guess how far you are from the display and take that into account too, and it's always wrong.
13" 3200x1800 display? Logically that would look about right at 200% scaling but microsoft often seems to choose 250% or higher to provide such a low information density that we've regressed to the bad old days of screen real-estate shortages when to use a 720p desktop resolution
How about a 65" HDTV? Microsoft arbitrarily picks 300% for me at home. Based on what? An effective 720p resolution again?
Years ago, Windows used to complain that the interface wouldn't fit on screen properly at vertical resolutions below 768 pixels, and yet their scaling values always seem to assume that everyone has poor vision and needs gigantic fonts, making 3K, 4K, 5K and 8K displays emulate the information density of an inadequate 1280x720 resolution from two decades ago.
It's bad enough that it always guesses wrong but it's even worse that you can't set the default (logpixels registry value does NOT persist reliably through updates, sadly)
The Egg wrote:I only made a brief attempt, but couldn't get my main rig to list it. Unplugged all removable drives and all prior updates installed. I'm probably better giving it a week or two anyhow, in case there's any showstopper bugs.
arunphilip wrote:The Egg wrote:I only made a brief attempt, but couldn't get my main rig to list it. Unplugged all removable drives and all prior updates installed. I'm probably better giving it a week or two anyhow, in case there's any showstopper bugs.
Check the known issues in 1903 to see if any of those are applicable to your situation. e.g. BattlEye anti-cheat.
One of the most notable issues was that users that had a USB drive or memory card attached weren't able to upgrade to Windows 10 version 1903. This issue is fixed with this week's Patch Tuesday update. The cumulative update will be bundled into the upgrade package that you'll get from Windows Update.
LostCat wrote:https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-resolves-issues-that-prevented-upgrading-to-windows-10-version-1903One of the most notable issues was that users that had a USB drive or memory card attached weren't able to upgrade to Windows 10 version 1903. This issue is fixed with this week's Patch Tuesday update. The cumulative update will be bundled into the upgrade package that you'll get from Windows Update.
I still don't know what would actually trigger that bug. I have tons of external drives hooked up.