1801

Huh. I had an option to upgrade my current Win10 to the latest build, but it appears to have gone away. I am still on 10240.

1802

Same here. All I’m getting now are Windows Defender definition updates. I’m no longer being offered the 1511 upgrade.

1803

Which is kind of silly for me since I did a clean (currently unactivated) install. It certainly might make more sense for those who upgraded though.

I was reading this morning that they may have pulled 1511 completely, including Windows Update, because of bugs.

1804

Hey y’all, I can’t seem to find a way to do this, but do any of y’all know how to turn off the Win10 upgrade notification thingy in my system tray? I am not interested in upgrading, and the only way I found to remove it all was to uninstall some specific Windows update, which didn’t actually work.

Thanks!

1805

Specifically, Windows 10 allows you to roll-back to your previous build.

If you upgrade directly from Windows 7 or 8.1 to 1511, then you can roll back to 7/8.1

If you upgrade from 7/8.1 to Windows 10 RTM, then you can roll back to 7/8.1

But if you upgrade from 7/8.1 to 10 RTM, and then from 10 RTM to 1511, you can only roll back to your most recent previous build (10 RTM). So that’s why, if you’ve upgraded to 10 RTM within the last 30 days, 1511 won’t be rolled-out to you via Windows Update.

Separately, yes 1511 has been pulled for unexplained reasons.

1806

E! Tonight is reporting that 1511 has been diddling updates numbered 17 or less in the Redmond Campus parking lot, though the police have refused to comment thus far.

1807

Do you know if it’s been pulled from both the media creator tool and Windows Update, or just the tool?

1808

Both as far as I can tell, after failing to install it a dozen times over a period of days WUpdate just says I am up to date…

1809

I just noticed my CPU-Z and Speccy programs were removed silently as a result of this update. What other programs were affected?

1810

Only the Media Creation tool has been pulled. 1511 has not been revoked. It continues to be distributed via Windows Update in stages.

1811

1511 once again available in Media Creation Tool. Microsoft says it’s because four privacy settings were inadvertently reset by the original 1511 version.

1812

“inadvertently”

1813

Okay, let me tell you a story.

I replaced my 500GB 840 EVO this evening with a 1TB 850 EVO and did a clean install. Now, this is my primary desktop, which had been running 8.1 with Media Center, so when it upgraded to 10 in July it activated as Windows 10 Pro. And when I did a clean install back in July, it still activated as Windows 10 Pro.

So I swap out the SSDs and do a clean install using the new Media Creation Tool. Installs in about 10 minutes. Windows boots up and I check activation and it’s activated… as Windows 10 Home. Seriously??? All I did was swap out the SSD. The motherboard, CPU, RAM, GPU, everything else is the same.

I manage to get a support agent in a browser chat and explain the situation. So, like, remember back in the day when all you had to do was call the 800 number and rattle off some numbers. Hahahahahahahahaha

Oh, man, so the support agent is like, okay, do you still have your Windows 8.1 Pro key? (I did, and gave it). They then asked for permission to remote access my computer, so I’m like really? But I say yes because I might as well see what happens.

They send me a URL for the remote access client, I run it, and type in the code I’m given. The agent connects and is controlling my computer (there have been several times where they ask for permission and inform me they’re not going to look at any of my files, and they suggest that I pay attention to the screen to make sure nothing untoward happens).

So the agent does something with the command line and I get that CALL THE 800 NUMBER utility for activating Windows, except I don’t need to call because the agent is just looking at the installation ID.

After a minute they inform me that everything checks out and that they’re going to update my system from Home to Pro using a new Windows 10 key. They type some more stuff in command line and basically launch the built-in upgrade tool and type in a new key, my computer installs the upgrade and restarts, and I’m at Windows 10 Pro. And the remote access session relaunches and the agent is like letting me know I’ve got Windows 10 Pro. I get a new key that I’m told to save.

The entire process took like 20 minutes.

I mention that I plan on upgrading another computer with a new SSD and whether I have to do this all over again, and they said if I have to validate a Windows 7/8 key, then yes.

Hmmmmm

1814

Yeah I just upgraded my HTPC to a Skylake 6100t and Windows 10 is pretty pissed about that.

1815

You’re lucky you have a key. As an Insider who tested Windows 10 I was supposed to get the final version free but I was using it on a system that came from Vista Ultimate and lost my activated status in Windows ten after swapping some hardware. After spending half an hour talking to MS support their current solution for me is “buy a new key.”

1816

Where did you hear that?

1817

From Microsoft Support.

1818

Makes you want to test the next one, am I right?

1819

It appears the media creation tool with Nov update is back. The explanation for all this revolves around a bug which is now supposed to be fixed:

The bug in question related to the following four settings, which, if turned off by the user, were set to their default ‘on’ setting after applying the update:

Let apps use my advertising ID
Turn on SmartScreen Filter for web content
Let apps run in the background
Sync with devices

There’s an update coming through Windows Update for those of us who did manage to get the update installed when it was available.

1820

Oh good.

I wasn’t about to bother unless I had an easy clean install ready to go from the beginning. They could have just said that when they yanked it in the first place.