[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 RS3 - Fall Creators Update - Build 16299.15

Their game is obvious, hide the functional and useful settings so far out of view that people are forced to use the new crappy settings panel, another reason I stuck with RS1 (LTSB), every new release pushes the Win32 part of the OS further back, it's like they took a look at facebooks privacy settings and thought "That's how you hide settings, we'll do that!"

Same with most of the things they're doing now, locking features to certain Windows 10 releases and not others to force people to upgrade, locking games to the store etc

Thanks but no thanks

 

Windows upgrades have regularly been a problem for many, see Vista vs XP, see 8 vs 7, and now RS2/3 vs RS1

When MS make it better, it's not a problem, when they change things for the sake of changing them and essentially make things more confusing, complicated, and long winded to get to the same places as you could in less clicks before, then it becomes a problem

I love new Windows releases, I hate when they do stupid stuff like this, this app crap / XAML is functionless and annoying and just like the start screen of 8 I predict will not last forever either, not to mention they based 10 on a dead mobile platform for some obscure reason, then discontinued it

Real Windows releases last the test of time such as XP and 7, as you see they refuse to die, dumb releases like Vista and 8 die quickly

EDIT - Android releases IMO have just progressed and become better each release

 

Actually the ads / games / telemetry are not the main reason I won't upgrade to RS2/3, it is literally because of the design choices, apps and XAML have no place on desktop PCs, so when I am forced to piss about with them in order to finally get to the Win32 setting I want I just say no, and refuse to even play their games

And I don't believe it has anything to do with people not being able to adjust to a new environment, that's the same argument that has been repeated every single time a new OS is released that is worse than the last, and some people can't accept that it's just not liked by everyone and their dog

Considering a lot of us grew up with DOS, I'd say we have 0 problem adjusting to new environments, we just don't like dumb changes that make things worse

When it comes to designing an OS, the main thing should be making things more easily accessible in less time, and improving functionality and improving performance, Windows 10 is doing the complete opposite, they are just adding more and more bloat, removing useful features, complicating access to important settings and overall just making a complete joke out of the name "Windows", for no reason other than to push that dumb app crap they seem to think is the future on PCs

Professional used to be the SKU everyone wanted, now it's no different to Home other than GP and maybe a few different settings

I mean come on, they are bundling app games into the Enterprise SKUs too, tell me which businesses would be overjoyed to find their employees playing Candy Crush? lol Not to mention they are gonna likely be on a domain and locked from installing games anyway

The Windows team as they are right now have lost the plot, plain and simple, mucking about on social media, they've turned Windows 10 into one big piece of malware, a fresh install of 10 Pro takes forever to tame and stop bugging you with retarded popups for everything under the sun that you never needed in the first place, and stuff that you disabled in OOBE still popping up and running regardless, "Something went wrong with your default apps, so we reset them all back to our crappy ones", really? Why not just reset them back to the ones I had set in the first place?

Nope, I don't want any of it, had enough of what they're doing to 10, I`ll be sticking with LTSB 2016 for as long as possible

 

Figured out that these are indeed coming from Firefox. It isn't the "crash the entire browser with black screen" thing anymore, but rather a split second white flash that can be, and indeed was, missed by blinking at the wrong time. SFC and DISM came back clean so not much to worry about it seems.

 

Try changing a default app for an extension via the CP. It instead takes you to settings and you can't even browse your own PC for programs. Store only. procreating fail o/s.

 

Why I can't see Cortana button in my Settings? Also why some movie files like .mpeg, .mpg don't have thumbnails?

 

Use Icaros for thumbnails. It'll generate a thumbnail for almost everything you throw at it.

http://shark007.net/forum/Thread-New-Release-3-0-2-FINAL

 

What about Cortana? I'm from Europe so maybe Cortana is disabled by default in Settings for that region?
Or maybe I can't see it because earlier I've disabled Cortana in Creator's Update?

Is everything here normal? It looks like this:

 

Amen to that! Also DOS was an excellent OS, did exactly what it was meant to do, nothing more, nothing less.

Which reminds me, I used to read a PC mag called PC Format. On their editorials page a reader once wrote that his son had erased his hard drive by accident by trying to get the bundled CD to start.
Tried all sorts of things like "start pc format", "run pc format" until he remembered a command that surely works:

format

Not sure if it ever took place, but the editor replied that they'll urgently change their name to PC Scandisk

 

Yeah, it's fine. Cortana's settings are in the last button (magnifying glass).

 

It seems that now I can select 60 hertz in games where before I could only select 59 or 59.94 hertz, after many years it seems that this solution has finally been solved.

 

Pretty much similar reasoning to yours, and have been happily using LTSB for a long time now without issues (apart from the fact that even after enabling the Windows Store, it won't allow me to download and install Forza 7, saying I have to have CU installed).

The main worry I have is if Microsoft starts telling nVidia to stop making drivers that support Windows 10 prior to CU, and forcing people to upgrade. Even then, if there are modded drivers being made, I'll happily switch to them.

With no improvement & even more issues piling up now with RS3, there is absolutely no incentive for us to switch out of LTSB and head back 10 PRO.

 

As long as Nvidia has corporate customers on 14393, there shouldn't be such a problem. I can't imagine game devs and other kinds of software developers not preferring a stable environment!

 

Rumor has it....Soundblaster Z drivers are bad in RS3 (Maybe that was my problem)

Another guy told me he couldnt install Z drivers and when it did...he had unresponsive desktop/File Explorer like me..

Some little proof right here:

http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=742038

 

And you will still get the same 59.94 refresh no matter what you'll select.

 

My SoundBlaster Z card is working absolutely fine in v1709 build 16299.19 as it was in the previous v1703. Didn't have to reinstall the drivers or anything. The only thing I did have to do was change the default audio device to the Z as NVIDIA driver installs have an annoying habit of switching it to the monitor audio (even though it is disabled all the time). I really wish NVIDIA would fix this.

 

The stuttering I had before the update is gone now my games are smooth like silk and I do not have to use CRU to force 60 hertz.