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Well, here’s a nice surprise. After grudgingly moving from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on my laptop (mainly to have the same OS as is what on my wife’s laptop, in order to be better able to help her) I discovered a nice surprise.

The CD/DVD drive on my laptop has not worked for at least a year, even after uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, removing it from Device Manager and letting it find it again on reboot and re-set it up again, etc. I just noticed - after the Windows 10 move, the built in CD/DVD drive works again!

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Windows 10 - The Hardware Necromancy Update

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@demagogue the solution I posted based on your finding that registry key has now been posted on tons of websites, ghacks, reddit a bunch of times, and was just added to Winaero Tweaker. You helped a lot of people get rid of a windows annoyance. Pretty cool!

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I finally got my Bash working. As it turns out, my PC had downloaded the Anniversary update but had not installed it. So my Cortana wasn’t broken after all!

So I installed the update and did all the various and sundry machinations and lo and behold, yeah, I gots me a bash shell. Very cool!

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lol. This is exactly why I wouldn’t have posted, had I been able to get the scheduler to work myself :-) Be interesting to see referral tracking for links to your post. I’d also be interested in the odds of Microsoft putting this workaround out of it’s misery now it’s gone mainstream. Nice to see that ghacks gave you a credit link for your steps.

I see people say that the lock screen comes back after several minutes. I’ve never seen it come back.

Also when googling to see people discussing this, I saw that on reddit someone confirmed you could rename the lock app and it would fall back to the logon screen (or set a policy to disable it if you had the right version of windows). Glad someone else confirmed this, as I wasn’t willing to try it.

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Renaming, it would be replaced with an update. I tried that security policy and it didn’t work-- the lock screen came back after being locked for 30 seconds or so, it was really weird.

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Have you experienced the lock screen returning for the task scheduler approach?

Isn’t renaming/deleting the app effectively the same as setting a registry key value? You can do both in the task scheduler and create a state going forward where it shouldn’t be displayed. If it comes to this approach, ideally there would be some validation like fetching the key from the registry and identifying if the filename is still the same, and then doing the rename/delete. I’ll see what happens with further updates before I proceed with looking into it.

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No, the task scheduler approach works 100%-- except when you reboot your computer.

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Is there a way to disable the sound Windows 10 makes when you exit? In Windows 7 I’d go into the Sounds menu, and there was a Windows start sound you could assign and a Windows exit sound you could assign, but I don’t see those events listed in the Sounds menu in Windows 10.

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Err, Win10 doesn’t have a shutdown sound.

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Learn something new everyday!

Then again, my Win10 PC more or less never shuts down except in the [exceedingly rare] case of a hard lockup or mandatory updates at 4AM.

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How do I know if I have the Anniversary update installed? Is it the kind of thing where it automatically updates you?

I have my PC set to auto update, but it’s not clear to me if I got the Anniversary update or not. How would I tell?

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Just type system info into the search (cortana) and it will bring up what version of the OS you are running. It should say build number 10.0.14393 and version 1607.

I had to force windows to update to the Anniversary version, it didn’t do it automatically for some reason.

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I don’t have that version yet and nothing has seemingly changed since I first installed, so I guess I also somehow missed the anniversary update?

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It just started rolling out last Tuesday. It’ll take some weeks / months for it to automatically go to everyone.

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I had to manually update by clicking on the “Learn More” link on the Check For Updates screen.

Also, I had to manually disconnect wi-fi after the download to get the install process working correctly. I have no clue why I had to do that but googling the error message provided that as a potential solution. Had to perform that disconnect step on all three of my Windows 10 computers.

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If you’re not seeing it in Windows update yet, that’s probably intentional. There are some signals which block the upgrade due to known compatibility issues and such which can be circumvented by using the manual method. So I’d recommend just waiting if you don’t see it yet.

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Thanks lordkosc! I don’t have that version. How did you kick off the manual install? I know Windows update downloaded something the last time I checked, but it’s not clear to me how to kick it off.

UPDATE: Ah, never mind @lordkosc I think I will just wait for it to appear. Who needs extra hassle, right?

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Ah, good enough for me.