Windows 1903 - just reverted back to 1809

[mobiuus]

as usually another big os update and again BEHOLD it came with few hick ups
like taskbar color is stupidly flat grey and there is nothing i could do to make it black...
while scoping the net for a possible fix bsod happend which i hadn't see for years...
thank God i could revert back...

what a bunch of nagging lazy folks at microsoft

 

[SL2]

You should try notebookreview forums, they love bashing MS every minute of the day, year after year.

 

[mobiuus]

did i just hurt ur feelings?

 

[bogmali]

Please stick with the topic

 

[SL2]

I don't know which one of us is the most sarcastic one right now. Anyway, the taskbar color seems to be a widespread issue.
I'd recommend upgrading to the next Windows version after a few months. As for BSOD's, it could be anything, but drivers is one thing to check when you have a new version.

 

[EntropyZ]

Glad it's really working out for Microsoft, they themselves chose to stick with just one OS with multiple revisions, and for what? The quality control is all over the place, it's like a steam beta game at this point. I think Service packs worked better more often than not, even though you won't get anything new for a while.

I'm still on 1709, there's almost no reason to upgrade. Drivers or software gets broken, and "features" are added that I won't use and get added to multiple scripts released by people to remove that bloat.

They have the insider program, don't they have enough test rabbits to do this on... What a fail.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

What was the BSOD?

 

[xlollomanx]

What was the BSOD?

Black Screen Of Dead. In short words, when your pc freeze

 

[FYFI13]

I'm still on 1709, there's almost no reason to upgrade. Drivers or software gets broken, and "features" are added that I won't use and get added to multiple scripts released by people to remove that bloat.

That's a bit off topic, but sometimes i wish Microsoft had 2 editions of Windows 10:

1. Literally bare-bones OS (Firewall, Task Manager, Task Scheduler, Registry Editor, LSC, Device Manager, File Explorer, Notepad and probably that's it) for advanced and corporate users
2. Full-blown desktop environment. Just install OS, setup all online accounts and you have everything, from email reader to your periods predicting calendar.

This would stop all the moaning and would be fairly easy to maintain.

Black Screen Of Dead. In short words, when your pc freeze

Blue Screen Of Death. And his asking what was error code, not what it means...

 

[Kursah]

Black Screen Of Dead. In short words, when your pc freeze

He's inquiring to what the error was, not what a BSOD is, if you re-read FordGT's post. There's usually an EventID in system logs and a 0x00000xx code, sys or dll, etc. related to the BSOD bugcheck entry that can help diagnose the issue and resolve a resolution.

 

[erixx]

Wanting Huawei Windows 1903

 

[SL2]

That's a bit off topic, but sometimes i wish Microsoft had 2 editions of Windows 10:

You're describing LTSC, more or less, but yeah, I agree. It would be awesome if regular users could get that without having to do a lot of tweaking.

Two new versions each year is too much tho. One would be enough, and would it would hopefully have a bit fewer bugs at launch.

 

[Mescalamba]

Hm, they do make long term servicing brach. It makes kinda difficult to use anything from store (still can be done) and its locked into 1607. But you still get security updates.

Ive made radical decision to use that cause updates of regular Win 10 just f*cked up themselves too much. Im not doing anything super important, but I do like to come to my PC and find it working as it was yesterday, not encountering some new magnificent bug or BSOD.

As for legality of such things, couldnt care less (I do own Win 10 legal copy tho).

MS could make fortune on some LTSB for "normies".

 

[hat]

I think I'm still on the version prior to the infamous 1809 update. I have my shit delayed so hopefully I don't get these issues.

 

[SL2]

its locked into 1607

1809 is the latest one, with 17763.316 being the latest ISO.

[DISCUSSION] Windows 10 Enterprise (N) LTSC 2019

Official MDL Thread on Build 17763 https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/77945/ Download + Hash...

forums.mydigitallife.net

 

[phanbuey]

u can change the color of the taskbar... altho i do have to say the light mode is kind of ugly. I want my classic shell back.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

really not surprised m$ botched another update.

 

[Space Lynx]

I just did a clean install of 1903, got a new 9700k and 1080 ti in mail last week. 0 issues so far and loving it. All I do is game, so I don't really care what the UI looks like. I never bother with anything except changing the power plan to custom/high performance.

 

[Kursah]

I have heard from several folks that the old Classic Shell no longer works as of 1903. Or at least for now. They haven't tried Open Shell yet as I've suggested, and I have adjusted to the Win 10 start menu after 4 years that its no big deal to me.

I look forward to upgrading and testing. I was able to get 1809 on the first release without losing data, seeing if I can't push my personal system luck.

 

[xorbe]

1. Literally bare-bones OS (Firewall, Task Manager, Task Scheduler, Registry Editor, LSC, Device Manager, File Explorer, Notepad and probably that's it) for advanced and corporate users

Gonna need calc.exe and minesweeper.exe, boss!

 

[GoldenX]

That's a bit off topic, but sometimes i wish Microsoft had 2 editions of Windows 10:

1. Literally bare-bones OS (Firewall, Task Manager, Task Scheduler, Registry Editor, LSC, Device Manager, File Explorer, Notepad and probably that's it) for advanced and corporate users
2. Full-blown desktop environment. Just install OS, setup all online accounts and you have everything, from email reader to your periods predicting calendar.

This would stop all the moaning and would be fairly easy to maintain.


Blue Screen Of Death. And his asking what was error code, not what it means...

It does, get LTSC or Server.

Hm, they do make long term servicing brach. It makes kinda difficult to use anything from store (still can be done) and its locked into 1607. But you still get security updates.

Ive made radical decision to use that cause updates of regular Win 10 just f*cked up themselves too much. Im not doing anything super important, but I do like to come to my PC and find it working as it was yesterday, not encountering some new magnificent bug or BSOD.

As for legality of such things, couldnt care less (I do own Win 10 legal copy tho).

MS could make fortune on some LTSB for "normies".

Current LTSC is 1809, 1607 is the older version now.

You should try notebookreview forums, they love bashing MS every minute of the day, year after year.

When the 95% market share OS fails constantly after each updated version, we get the right to complain.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Something seriously wrong with MS and their stupid update.

I was prompted to update to the latest version of Windows 10. I choose "pick a date" and never saw any prompt to actually pick a date. I didn't think anything else of it. I come back to my server a short while later and I can't remote into it, so I connect it to my TV and I see it's on a do not restart Windows is updating screen....WTF? So I wait....the do not restart screen goes away and my system goes to a black screen and powers off. It never restarted like it should based on past experiences with these updates. I waited for a good while before I bothered turning the system back on - it comes back up and.....goes immediately windows repair screen.

Repair doesn't work.
System Restore doesn't work - no restore points found
I check the drive via command prompt - my 4TB drive is empty! Oh joy!

To make things worse, I was in the middle of doing a backup on a new HDD (dog knocked the tower hard when going on one of her apeshit "I have to run really fast and nothing will stop me" modes, she leapt the side of the couch and into the small area in the corner that the tower sits on a small table. The system wouldn't boot into windows. I swapped drives and the system loaded up. One drive won't spin, but no worries, the backup worked so I got a replacement and it came in the other day) when Windows decided it would update and restart my system even though I choose to not update. So, now my new HDD has nothing on it still and my main HDD appears to be an empty shell.

I'm sitting through the grueling process of EaseUS Data Recovery to see if it can pull up all the data on my main HDD for my plex server. So far it's found 450GB out of around 2.25TB that I had with the scan process over the past 30 minutes (only around 10 hours left) - thousands of hours of movies/TV shows/pictures.......I hope I can recover all the videos, I don't want to spend hundreds of hours ripping my DVDs and Blu-Rays again.

I have horrible luck when it comes to Windows 10 updating on my plex server. This is why I haven't put Windows 10 on my gaming rig.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Blue Screen Of Death. And his asking what was error code, not what it means...

He's inquiring to what the error was, not what a BSOD is, if you re-read FordGT's post. There's usually an EventID in system logs and a 0x00000xx code, sys or dll, etc. related to the BSOD bugcheck entry that can help diagnose the issue and resolve a resolution.

Indeed. Usually with major Windows 10 updates, the problem is a driver that isn't ready for it. The erring code/module is usually a dead giveaway for which driver isn't ready.

 

[Space Lynx]

I never update anything with my hard drives attached, learned my lesson many many years ago.

 

[rtwjunkie]

I have heard from several folks that the old Classic Shell no longer works as of 1903. Or at least for now. They haven't tried Open Shell yet as I've suggested, and I have adjusted to the Win 10 start menu after 4 years that its no big deal to me.

I look forward to upgrading and testing. I was able to get 1809 on the first release without losing data, seeing if I can't push my personal system luck.

If it doesn’t, then Start 10 will. Stardock updates right before or right after every new W10.