Windows 10 1903

Windows 10 19H1: The complete changelog

Everything New in Windows 10’s April 2019 Update

Windows 10 1903 comes with setup error improvements

 

MS having the audacity of "commanding" a MINIMUM of 7 GB of my expensive SSD storage, right... one more reason to stick to LTSB/C from now on....

 

TBH, I've always been pretty apathetic about how Win 10 looks, but those light theme screenshots made my eyes throw-up

 

19H1, sounds like that flu virus: H1N1, H1N2 and that 7 GB reserved space is really stupid idea: won't make any difference whatsoever for people who have plenty of space, but will royally mess people short on space, they may not be able to install their programs now, that otherwise could fit, in anticipation of some future (3-6 months in the future) MS update, they may or may not want.
How gracious of them to allow people even with win home edition to pause update, gee maybe we could even get to choose if we want the update to begin with, one can dream?

 

19H1 = 2019 Half 1

 

I felt W95/W98's High contrast theme looked modern at that time!

Half baked white chocolate cake.

 

So do i have to put in the dumpster the 128 GB ssd i got? I'm already around 45-50 GB free of space and i don't even got alot of stuff installed. It's just windows taking up 26 GB of space already, if i update it will be 33 GB occupied and less space for installing my applications or even thinking of moving some videos/files over the SSD.

 

Why you think you own M$'s own property? Of course, they (not you) have the right to do whatever they want

 

Same with Apple as Macintosh HD instead of Papusan's Mac HD.
Enable Reserved storage regtweak:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ReserveManager]
"ShippedWithReserves"=dword:00000001

Disable Reserved storage junk:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ReserveManager]
"ShippedWithReserves"=dword:00000000

The regtweaks are available at chef koch's github repo.

 

As others already mentioned: disable reserved space and you could disable, or at least control updates (easiest way is to set your wifi as metered connection). Also clear all the other garbage MS dumps on your computer and you'll be fine.

 

yep, and with every new W10 version the list of tweaks and tunables doubles, because we have to reverse/disable/remove more and more CRAP!

 

Yes, my Tweaks & Fixes had like 15 tweaks/fixes. Now look at the list, you have to do at least 50 steps before the OS is considered to be even usable

 

I did not see that. How do i actually disable reserved space?

 

Some of them does cause conflicts with some third party software esp. Removal of Cortana,Game mode and some pesky SW.
I integrated only half of your tweaks and apply some of them post install.
Any suggestion for music players on Win 10? I tried foobar2k but UI is confusing when coming from Groove Music. Although I prefer iTunes Grid based album view which is easy to scroll and play. I'm retiring most UWP apps in favor of better Win32 apps. It looks like Win 10 consumer version will be similar to LTSC in another 8 years.
I also tried Clementine which has same UI as Foobar2000. I do use iTunes for syncing iPhones but its too resource intensive whilst playing music.

 

Refer Post #12.
IN case you want full regtweaks https://github.com/CHEF-KOCH/regtweaks

 

One of the main attractions from the very beginning of Windows (at least for me) was the fact that you could adjust and change a lot of things (try to do that on Android or iphone without root), but none of the tweaks is really necessary, if you don't want to do them. Even the 7GB reserved space is just another nonsense but irrelevant for most: right now my Windows install is taking about 55GB, out of which at least 25 -30GB is useless. 9GB is restore, which the only one time I tried to use didn't work, another 10GB is Winsx, again useless (I don't remember ever rolling back the driver, normally I would uninstall or restore from backup), then whole bunch of metro apps, which don't work too well, then logs, traces etc which again mostly nobody ever look at etc etc. Come to think of it, the 7 GB reserved space is not the biggest wasted space. My biggest fear is that they will lockout the user completely, like it's done on Android and iphone, so l would need to break into my own computer, to actually do any of those tweaks, since they're making it more and more obscure.

 

I've cleared off 20-40GB of Windows update junk file that kept downloading updates to latest builds even after multiple failures. Dism Cleanup also cleaned up several GBs and after that I was able to update Windows to newer builds.

 

Hi Vasudev, I think it was you recommending DISM++ to me in another thread and thank you, been using it since then and cleared massive amounts of junk, but those GB numbers are after the cleaning.
My problem right now is that my new Win10 laptop writes about 1TB/month and I can't wrap my head around, hows that even possible with the light use that it is experiencing so far. My older Win7 laptop uses 1/3 of that with same use pattern. Either the SSD has firmware error and overstates the usage, or this Win10 is very busy doing nothing. BTW anybody know when MS will finally fix DCOM permission error for runtime broker, it's been there like forever on every W10 computer I have with 6-10 errors logged per hr.

 

Is it on RAID 0+1? With RAID writes will be more to ensure higher data reliability and performance. If your SSD is not MLC, the SSD might run out of spare NANDs due to heavy writes.
Try disabling windows update using WUMT wrapper script or windows update blocker with protect service settings.
DCOM is a important component in every windows version, have you tried SFC /scannow in safe mode?

 

No RAID, SSD is Samsung 3 bit MLC (I think it's OEM version of 960 EVO with 981 controller), updates are disabled with OOSU10 and with WIFI set to metered.
SFC is the first thing I run, comes back clean. If you google error 10016, you get many hits going back to 2017. The fix is to change permissions, but I'm reluctant to do so, since I don't fully understand why. I have 2 runtime brokers on my PC, possibly one is left over from before fall update and therefore lacking proper permission on updated system. I'm hoping 19H1 will fix some issues, but I may be overly optimistic LOL.

 

I hope DCOM services in services.msc is set to Auto or Manual.

 

DCOM is full auto, I only disabled few services, that I deem unsafe to run, like remote registry or "user experience". What I don't understand is why runtime broker is even running, since it supposed to check metro programs permissions and as far as I know I do not run any Metro programs and have deleted or disabled most of them. I think I need to look at all programs and services running and kill the metro app that I somehow missed.
I'm pretty sure the #10016 DCOM error is MS fault, since it shows up on all 4 Win10 laptops we have at home and they all are setup differently, for example my wife's laptop is almost stock from factory with very few tweaks, my kids laptop is updated from Win8, my laptop is updated from Original Win10 disk and another one is 2 months old HP with most tweaks in place.

 

One solution to all the problems here: install Linux, and cold-turkey stop using Windows and associated closed-source applications.

MS Office—LibreOffice
MS Word—TeX/LaTeX, and any editor of choice (Vim, TeXStudio, TeXMaker, etc)
MS PowerPoint—LaTeX Beamer
Adobe Lr: RawTherapee, DarkTable
Adobe Ps: GIMP
Adobe Ai: Inkscape
Maya/3DSMax: Blender

Steam and SteamPlay exists on Linux. If you need Windows, VM in. Get an AMD CPU and an AMD GPU, and run Linux. Or use Windows happily! I'm personally quite pleased with the changes in Windows 19H1. I can see some people who'd like the white theme. It's just an option, gents; don't use it if you don't want to.

 

Usually you install windows just to be able to read docx,xlsx and pttx correctly in MSO instead of being garbled text in LO!

 

Who needs .docx when you have .tex?

 

Find a W10 PC with least usage, do a MR image backup. Use regownershipex from winaero and this guide
Another alternative would running regedit.exe in TrustedInstaller mode using Nsudo and change the permissions in regedit itself w/o getting any errors. Do you see any apps in Appx section of dism++?

 

TeX is really good for very long docs. 90% of the install base use docx.

 

Unfortunately, that suggestion isn't always practical , especially with some types of laptops where driver support is lacking.

Case in point - http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/how-to-install-nvidia-graphics-driver-in-linux.827193/

 

Please Microsoft, leave Windows Search alone ghacks.net | Feb 3, 2019

Microsoft released a new preview build of the upcoming Windows 10 version 1903 feature update yesterday; it included, among other changes, a new top apps listing in Search.

Windows 10 users who run the build get a list of popular applications that they use the most on the device on top of the search results.

The top apps are displayed when users open the results so that they may be launched right away without firing off a search first.



The addition of top apps feels like a change for change's sake, and less like something that would be of benefit to the majority of Windows 10 users.

 

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So let's say I'm searching for some document and then I will get list of irrelevant apps on top as a result? I'm sorry to say, but what kind of idiot would come up with something like that?
That's exactly why I would never ever use Bing for search, because it's results seem like randomly picked subjects by somebody who doesn't even speak english, that's why I eliminated option of looking in store to open unknown file extension, as it is complete waste of time. That win search is broken already as it is: no matter how many times I search for gpedit, it always comes up empty and I have to type full gpedit.msc to find what I'm looking for, but I think this tops it all up.

 

Try Everything Search. It finds anything on your computer instantly with 0 delay like the Microsoft Search: https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.4.1.932.x64.zip


I just put the portable version in my Software folder which contains portable apps then create a shortcut and drag it to my taskbar

 

I love portable apps and don't use anything else, unless there is absolutely no other way, so will give it a try. And maybe I'm overthinking this, but my problem with this latest revelation is this: Either MS people who came up with this nonsense are complete idiots, or they think Windows users are idiots and will click on anything and everything. Not sure which one is worse.
And keep in mind, Windows is not free, like Android that supports itself on advertising, this is paid OS.

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The major features of Windows 10 version 1903

 

Total shock... can't say more.. we are entering into deep deep dark hole... better to say a wormhole... I better learn to do my own version of Linux ..

 

aside from that abysmal reserved storage function i couldnt really care less. LTSC all the way baby! at least until they manage to screw that up as well...

 

For now 19H1 might be even more buggier than 1809. I'm on 19H1 older builds because newer builds didn't fix regressions. So, no point in wasting time!
As for disabling Reserved storage using Chef Koch's tweak didn't work for me 100% because Reserved storage takes cumulative space (PF+swap+Hiber+WU), after applying chef koch's tweak I had to reduce PF to 4096 from Auto and still Reserved space was being used! So, I decided to do a defrag using MS defrag cmd line version with /A and voila the locked Reserved space was disabled! Dx9,Dx 10 and some older dx11 has some stutters and doesn't exit properly 99% of the time. All games and benchmarking applications must be put to use dGPU otherwise they run on Intel GPU with single digit FPS. At first I thought my PC was a goner!

 

build 18362 for 19H1 is out
almost getting closer to RTM

 

I doubt it, RTM will be late this time due to multiple checks. BTW, the current 18362 has a bug and doesn't display App list in Settings > System > Apps

 

Microsoft’s definition of RTM needs to be revised. Microsoft has been pushing out beta software for some time. Really pathetic that the majority of Windows users have no idea that they are subsidizing a massive company’s R&D effort with the fruits of their lives.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...eta-gamma-rtm-and-preview-for-software-releas

 

I'm using 19h1 on my main PC and I dare say 19H1 is garbage for general usage because most SW including perfectly fine VM images doesn't work. I'm running VMware 15 using Win 8 compatibility mode to prevent black screen issues.

 

EDIT: Older Dx9/10/11 are exiting cleanly on build 18362.1 w/o resorting to forced shutdown due to blackscreen issues.
Un-fixed issues:

• Every apps/games on Nvidia Optimus Prime autobot needs to be manually specified to use dGPU in Graphics settings under Game mode settings in settings app.
• VMware still doesn't detect and install the same build 18362.1 and copying sumatraPDF makes VMWare to crash and become unresponsive! For VMware to work correctly, I'm running latest update 15.0.3 under W8 compatibilty mode. Otherwise all you get is blackscreens. I updated VMware tools to 10.3.10.
• Settings > Apps section crashes Immersive control panel aka Settings app.
• Reserved storage also uses storage space reserved for PF and I had to decrease PF value to a fixed value rather than dynamic value to disabled Reserved storage completely.

Sorry I could find only these issues on Pre-alpha build.

 

on the other hand, I've clean installed 19H1 build 18362 x86/32bit on an old Dell inspiron e1405 laptop using an Intel Core Duo T2700 processor with 4Gb of RAM and it's surprisingly stable. (fwa ha ha, hee hee hee!)

edit: and I'm not using any VM at all

 

Yeah I test custom built ISO w/o bloat so I use a VM to see if it boots or not! I also have W7 in a VM for legacy websites.

 

maybe the VMs are not yet compatible with 1903 and those have to be updated to work with it
1903 has not yet been officially RTM'ed and the month of March is nearly over

https://news.softpedia.com/news/so-is-windows-10-version-1903-ready-or-not-525494.shtml

 

I doubt it. I have tried Alpha builds of RS2,4 and 5 in VMWare w/o official support/updates. Its some problem with W10 using different strings to identify itself to VM.

 

this blog from MS regarding build 18362 has been updated Tuesday 4/2:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...ncing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-18362/

 

Windows 10’s “Stable” April 2019 Update Will Cause BSODs in Some Games Howtogeek.com | April 3, 2019

Windows 10’s April 2019 Update contains a change that causes some PC games to crash Windows with a blue screen of death. Not all games have fixed the problem, but Microsoft has confirmed it’s releasing the update anyway.

Okay, let’s be fair here: Most affected PC games have fixed the problem and won’t freeze your system. But some will, and we don’t know which. This change feels like a betrayal of Microsoft’s commitment to backward compatibility. It’s especially galling considering Windows 10 users have no way to opt out of these updates if they play an affected game.

 

For now, I'm using Compatibility set to W7/8 for all SW and games made for W10 w/o causing BSOD and crappy performance/stuttering because W10 decides to run everything on iGPU and you need to explicitly choose dGPU. On older games, I use W7 compatibility.
I suspect v1903 will be much worse than v1809, most used general apps breaks or refuse to work w/o W8 compatibility.

 

I'm sure Micro$lope will try all tricks in the book's to lure people over on their coming OS Tragedy! http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ql-findings-fixes.828164/page-2#post-10891393

 

new announcement about v1903 today April 4:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...rience-with-control-quality-and-transparency/

called the "May 2019" Update