Wednesday, August 3rd 2016

Microsoft Rolls Out the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

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Microsoft late Tuesday rolled out the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, marking 1 year in the market for the operating system, and with it, ending the Windows 10 Free Upgrade offer. The new update bears the internal version 1607, with build 14393. The update is several gigabytes in size, and effectively replaces your existing Windows 10 installation.

The update adds new features to Windows Ink, the stylus-based live notes app; Cortana, the voice assistant, which can now be accessed right from the lock-screen, and is integrated with even more apps; and Windows Hello, the in-built biometric ID system, which has been integrated with many more third-party services, such as Dropbox; improvements to Windows Defender, the anti-malware tool; and various under-the-hood improvements that increase performance and energy-efficiency (lower battery usage).

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113 Comments on Microsoft Rolls Out the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

#101
Recon-UK
R-T-BYou're damn right I have something to hide. Pretty much anyone with a bank account does. It's all fun and games until a server holding your bank details gets hacked.

Arguements like I'm witnessing here are born out of complete ignorance, and are the precise reason identity theft is at an all time high... :shadedshu:



Licensee's ARE customers.
Just use TOR browser and you can get up to all your bad habit's there.
That includes:

Murder.
Illegal porn.
Buying drugs.
sicko
sicko and probably more sicko.


Using Windows to do this? you are dumb.
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#102
Frick
Fishfaced Nincompoop
R-T-BYou're damn right I have something to hide. Pretty much anyone with a bank account does. It's all fun and games until a server holding your bank details gets hacked.

Arguements like I'm witnessing here are born out of complete ignorance, and are the precise reason identity theft is at an all time high... :shadedshu:
To be fair, if they can get access to your bank account that way you're having the wrong bank.
Recon-UKJust use TOR browser and you can get up to all your bad habit's there.
That includes:

Murder.
Illegal porn.
Buying drugs.
sicko
sicko and probably more sicko.


Using Windows to do this? you are dumb.
Yeah, those activists under oppresive regimes really are sick. Burn them all.



ON TOPIC, the upgrade went smooth and no settings changed. I like how you can now define "active hours" in Windows Update yourself. You can' set it for longer than 12 hours though. There's also an option to set your own restarts time, if it's due for a restart. That is good. Also, the telemetry option is greyed out for me. Have no idea why.
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#103
MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
Nobody99SSDs still get fragmented and if you don't have a fast PCIe SSD you will notice the slowdown especially when transferring data to-and-from a single drive. I imagine RAID would be faster.
Data on an SSD is not fragmented where did you get that from. Its flash memory, how can it be fragmented?
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#104
G4M3B0Y
Update isn't working properly for me. Install process is fine, but then it BSOD's with CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED before it gets to the login screen. Have to wait for it to restart twice and then revert to the last build. Guess I'm not missing out on much anyways.
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#105
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
MxPhenom 216Data on an SSD is not fragmented where did you get that from. Its flash memory, how can it be fragmented?
Files can become fragmented on an SSD the same exact way that they do on a rotational media drive, such as resaving a file that's bigger but, the old file doesn't have enough contiguous free space around it to keep the file all together as opposed to getting fragmented. The difference is that fragmentation tends to cause far fewer performance issues on SSDs because "seek" latency is so low, you don't really notice it.

With that said, I doubt that fragmentation would ever show up on a benchmark that's directly reading the drive and not files.
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#106
95Viper
Nobody99SSDs still get fragmented and if you don't have a fast PCIe SSD you will notice the slowdown especially when transferring data to-and-from a single drive. I imagine RAID would be faster.
Correct... Yes, they do.
MxPhenom 216Data on an SSD is not fragmented where did you get that from. Its flash memory, how can it be fragmented?
They do. However, it is not like fragmentation of a physical platter.
AquinusFiles can become fragmented on an SSD the same exact way that they do on a rotational media drive, such as resaving a file that's bigger but, the old file doesn't have enough contiguous free space around it to keep the file all together as opposed to getting fragmented. The difference is that fragmentation tends to cause far fewer performance issues on SSDs because "seek" latency is so low, you don't really notice it.

With that said, I doubt that fragmentation would ever show up on a benchmark that's directly reading the drive and not files.
Yes, true. However, it does affect an SSD; but it is not seek time as in a HDD . And, it can cause slow downs that are measurable.

Also, windows 8.1+ defrag is smart enough to deal with it.

Here is a nice article that Scott Hanselman wrote, after some investigation and discussing with Microsoft: The real and complete story - Does Windows defragment your SSD?

More info for those who want it:

Windows, SSDs and Defragmentation: the definitive answer

To Defrag or Not to Defrag–That Is the Question for SSD<-- An older article for info and some performance charts
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#107
R-T-B
Recon-UKJust use TOR browser and you can get up to all your bad habit's there.
That includes:

Murder.
Illegal porn.
Buying drugs.
sicko
sicko and probably more sicko.


Using Windows to do this? you are dumb.
I'm guessing my point went completely over your head.
FrickTo be fair, if they can get access to your bank account that way you're having the wrong bank.
Maybe, until you consider how blanket the Windows 10 keylogging is.

Another example, still. Daddy looks at good ol' fashioned legal porn. Kid gets on computer and gets targeted ads for such porn. Congrats! You just unwittingly exposed a minor to porn.

There are A MILLION reasons this is a bad idea.
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#110
Melvis
Is there a ISO out yet for this Anniversary Edition yet?
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#111
bug
MelvisIs there a ISO out yet for this Anniversary Edition yet?
Have you looked? The ISO was the first thing made available.
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#112
Melvis
bugHave you looked? The ISO was the first thing made available.
Yeah ive looked lol thats why im asking on here :slap: and if I get the ISO direct from MS its an older version.
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#113
RejZoR
It appears you can still upgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 if you still have the update EXE which is not available on Microsoft page anymore because the offer ended in July. Hihi :) So, you just had to download that updater in time and you can still use it now :)
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