Windows 10 Redstone 5

BRUH.......xbox games on PC https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/200140/microsofts-evolving-gaming-strategy-takes-a-giant-step-forward

This could be a positive at least as a whole red stone 5 update for every versions. If Microsoft ca make this happen then I'm excited to play Halo series on my PC and every other xbox 360 exclusives!

Earlier this year, Microsoft made a peculiar announcement on the Windows Insider blog related to gaming. With build 18334, Microsoft said they were bringing new technology to Windows 10 and were offering up State of Decay for free to try but that’s all the information that they provided.

Wanting to understand more, I started poking around and asking for more technical help to dig out the information needed. Thanks to help from NazmusLabs and Rafael, I was able to better understand what is happening and thanks to a few people familiar with the company’s plans, we can piece together the puzzle.

When you download State of Decay, the oddities begin immediately. Instead of downloading from the Microsoft Store server, serverdl.microsoft.com, where all content comes from including PlayAnywhere titles, the game downloads from assets1.xboxlive.com.

What it looks like Microsoft is doing, instead of porting each Xbox feature back to the PC one by one, they are simply dumping the entire Xbox one installation/servicing plumbing and making it the primary installation for Windows.

When you extract the installer from the Store after downloading, you will discover that it is using the .xvc file format. While that may not sound familiar, Microsoft introduced this format around 2013 specifically for Xbox One games. Further, you can now install this file format using PowerShell in 19H1; I never thought I would write the words “PowerShell can now install Xbox One games” but here we are.

When you install State of Decay, you get a legacy DX installation setup prompt that does a classic, non-sandboxed, and non-store based installation of DirectX dependencies to your system directory. You can see what this looks like in the screenshot at the top of the post.

On the surface, what it looks like Microsoft is doing is collapsing any differences between PC and Xbox gaming to make it the same experience on both devices. The company is in the process of making the delivery mechanisms based on the Xbox infrastructure, appears to be making it possible to run Xbox games on the PC, and replacing the existing Store PC games infrastructure on that of what Xbox has built.

And this isn’t some half baked port to the Windows ecosystem either. Much like the Xbox does, this updated mechanism supports delivery optimization too.

This is a substantial development process for Microsoft and not something that happened overnight. While it certainly looks like developers will be able to use a single binary package to target and Xbox and PC, I believe the larger ambition is to make the gaming experience the same on both PC and Xbox.

If Microsoft can make this a reality with performance being top notch on both platforms, it means the addressable market for Xbox and PC gamers is going to be the same which makes it a much more lucrative target than other platforms.

 

@Mr. Fox

Remember that ISO I posted a couple of days ago? It does indeed have E enterprise with the latest updates:

 

Windows 10 Cumulative Update - March 1, 2019—KB4482887 (OS Build 17763.348)

Download Cumulative Update:

http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._826158e9ebfcabe08b425bf2cb160cd5bc1401da.msu

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[ 2019-02 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.7.2 for Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64 & x86 (KB4486553) ]

http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._0c3111b07c3e2a33d66fed4a66c67dec989950a0.msu

 

Only 1 or two months before Micro$oft start throw out next version of it's OS Spybox tragedy. And the old current version is still plaged with huge amount of flaws!!!

March 1, 2019—KB4482887 (OS Build 17763.348)

Improvements and fixes Win 10 - 1809

• Enables “Retpoline" for Windows on certain devices, which may improve performance of Spectre variant 2 mitigations (CVE-2017-5715). For more information, see our blog post, "Mitigating Spectre variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows".
• Addresses an issue that may cause the Action Center to suddenly appear on the wrong side of the screen before appearing on the correct side.
• Addresses an issue that may fail to save some inked content in a PDF in Microsoft Edge. This occurs if you erased some ink quickly after starting the inking session and then added more ink.
• Addresses an issue that displays the media type as “Unknown” in the Server Manager for storage class memory (SCM) disks.
• Addresses an issue with Remote Desktop access to Hyper-V Server 2019.
• Addresses an issue that causes the republication BranchCache to take more space than it’s been assigned.
• Addresses a performance issue when establishing a Remote Desktop connection from a web Remote Desktop client to Windows Server 2019.
• Addresses a reliability issue that may cause the screen to remain black after resuming from Sleep if you close a laptop lid while disconnecting the laptop from a docking station.
• Addresses an issue that causes the overwriting of file on a shared folder to fail because of an Access Denied error. This issue occurs when a filter driver is installed.
• Enables peripheral role support for some Bluetooth radios.
• Addresses an issue that may cause printing to PDF to fail during a Remote Desktop session. This issue occurs while attempting to save the file and redirect drives from the client system.
• Addresses a reliability issue that may cause the main laptop screen to flash when resuming from Sleep. This issue occurs if the laptop is connected to a docking station that has an indirect display.
• Addresses an issue that displays a black screen and causes a Remote Desktop session to stop responding when using certain VPN connections.
• Updates time zone information for Chile.
• Addresses an issue that fails to register USB cameras correctly for Windows Hello after the out of box experience (OOBE) setup.
• Addresses an issue that prevents the Microsoft enhanced Point and Print compatibility driver from installing on Windows 7 clients.
• Addresses an issue that causes Termservice to stop working when Remote Desktop is configured to use a hardware encoder for Advanced Video Coding (AVC).
• Addresses an issue that locks a user account when you move applications to a shared platform using App-V.
• Improves the reliability of the UE-VAppmonitor.
• Addresses an issue that prevents App-V applications from starting and generates error 0xc0000225 in the log. Set the following DWORD to customize the maximum time for the driver to wait for a volume to be available:”HKLM\Software\Microsoft\AppV\MAV\Configuration\MaxAttachWaitTimeInMilliseconds”.
• Addresses an issue with evaluating the compatibility status of the Windows ecosystem to help ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows.
• Addresses an issue that may prevent some applications from displaying the Help (F1) window correctly.
• Addresses an issue that causes flickering of the desktop and taskbar on Windows Server 2019 Terminal Server after using the User Profile Disk setup.
• Addresses an issue that fails to update a user hive when you publish an optional package in a Connection Group after the Connection Group was previously published.
• Improves performance related to case-insensitive string comparison functions such as _stricmp() in the Universal C Runtime.
• Addresses a compatibility issue with parsing and playback of certain MP4 content.
• Addresses an issue that occurs with the Internet Explorer proxy setting and the out of box experience (OOBE) setup. The initial logon stops responding after Sysprep.
• Addresses an issue in which the desktop lock screen image set by a Group Policy will not update if the image is older than or has the same name as the previous image.
• Addresses an issue in which the desktop wallpaper image set by a Group Policy will not update if the image has the same name as the previous image.
• Addresses an issue that causes the TabTip.exe touchscreen keyboard to stop working in certain conditions. This issue occurs when you use the keyboard in a kiosk scenario after replacing the default shell.
• Addresses an issue that may cause the new Miracast connection banner to remain open after a connection is closed.
• Addresses an issue that may cause virtual disks to go offline when upgrading a 2-node Storage Space Direct (S2D) cluster from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019.
• Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character of the Japanese Era name as an abbreviation and may cause date parsing issues.
• Addresses an issue that may prevent Internet Explorer from loading images that have a backslash (\) in their relative source path.
• Addresses an issue that may cause applications that use a Microsoft Jet database with the Microsoft Access 95 file format to randomly stop working.
• Addresses an issue in Windows Server 2019 that causes input and output timeouts when querying for SMART Data using Get-StorageReliabilityCounter().

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4482887

 

The retpoline fix for the Spectre mitigations was the most interesting part of this release for me. Up until a few weeks ago I was quite excited by the prospect that this retpoline fix could mean a restoration of all CPU performance lost from the Spectre updates, but alas I found out those few weeks ago that retpoline does nothing to improve performance in CPUs from Skylake onwards (ie. 6700K onwards). I've updated my Windows to this latest version & I can indeed say that there has been no performance improvement with my Skylake desktop in CB15, nor in any of the Physics tests in 3DMark Firestrike nor in 3DMark Timespy. I haven't tested it yet on my sandy bridge laptop, but the 2920XM in my laptop should benefit from this retpoline update. I'll update my laptop & edit this post later today or tomorrow with those laptop results.

EDIT: updated my sandybridge laptop with the retpoline fixed windows update: no performance improvement in Cinebench 15! Previous testing before any of this Spectre nonsense came on the scene showed that I lost 3% performance in Cinebench, and this retpoline fix was supposed to bring that all back, but it hasn't brought any of the performance back! Has anyone else tested this retpoline fix on their PC's? You'll need to have an Intel system older than Skylake to theoretically see an improvement.

 

Couldn't put up with their update and few issues, so I updated to 18346 Win 95's High Contrast White theme
Anyone can download it here https://uup.rg-adguard.net/

 

Boost Windows 10 Performance with Retpoline Spectre Mitigation. Of course for older gen processors. Post results if you test it.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...atches-and-more.812424/page-120#post-10875969

 

Win10 1809 second February cumulative update, KB 4482887, blamed for “crazy” performance drops in some games
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...and-announcements.826887/page-4#post-10876885

 

Windows 10 Update KB4482887 (Win 10 Version 1809 - Build 17763.348), has been confirmed by Micro$oft to severely hamper performance in certain games.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...and-announcements.826887/page-5#post-10877256

 

<begin rant>
1809 sucks so bad it couldn't even do something as simple as adjust my clock for DST properly (or at all)
<end rant>

 

17763.349 can't be any worse than the previous build 17763.348 which Micro$h4ft said the gamers should uninstall. No drop in score (Stock clocks).

KB4492978 Windows 10 1809 17763.349 (manual download) Guinea pig version

 

Anybody else getting a problem activating their MS Office stuff? I'm still on 1803 (build 17134.523), and I keep getting a 0x80072EFD error.

I've tried the solutions from online threads regarding that error, but between O&OSU, WPD, and some other tweaks I've done in the past, I don't quite know how to pinpoint what's blocking the verification.

 

1) Re-enable telemetry
2) undo all changes done by WPD to block Microsoft Addresses
3) Ensure the Windows update service is set to Manual and running
4) Undo all changes done by O&O Shutup10
5) Reboot

 

I guess MS just really wanted to spy on me.
Here's what I did:

1) Turned on telemetry using Autoruns.
2) Turned on telemetry and other Microsoft stuff in WPD Privacy settings.
3) Turned off all the Firewall Rules in WPD.
4) Ran a MS Office program (I used Excel and PowerPoint).
5) Activation/verification popup no longer triggers upon opening of any MS Office program.
6) Reversed all the changes I did from steps 1 to 3.

I guess it was something within WPD as I didn't even change anything with O&OSU 10. I didn't even have to reboot.

 

Blocking Micro$h4ft and Telemetry IPs is no longer safe. It WILL break many things including Windows/Office activations and sometimes Skype and the Windows Store.

 

Grab MS toolkit next time if MS bothers you with activation. Type in your activation/digital key into MS toolkit and activate it. 19H1 has a bug and MSO 2016 always asks for Accept license upon startup. I have synced the license with onedrive so I can't find my license key where I stashed it.

 

That's a bummer. I'm waiting if 19H1 is any better.

I'll see how the MS Toolkit is. I don't think I've used that before. I don't know which version of Windows 10 should I be using right now. I thought waiting for 19H1 would be the best option, but I haven't got any proper pointers if my hunch is right.

 

19H1 is Redstone 6 aka v1903 or whatever April Update 2019. Its true alpha version I'm using for daily usage and perform very well than Public beta version.

 

KB4489899 Cumulative Update - 12 March

Spoiler: Changelog

Improvements and fixes

This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:

• Addresses an issue in Microsoft HoloLens with tracking and device calibration that has affected some users. You may notice improvement 10-15 minutes after installing this update, but we recommend resetting the holograms for best results.
• Addresses an issue that may cause users to receive “Error 1309” while installing or uninstalling certain types of MSI and MSP files.
• Addresses an issue that may degrade graphics and mouse performance with desktop gaming when playing certain games, such as Destiny 2, after installing KB4482887.
• Security updates to Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Windows Shell, Windows App Platform and Frameworks, Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers, Windows Server, Windows Linux, Windows Hyper-V, Windows Datacenter Networking, Windows Storage and Filesystems, Windows Wireless Networking, the Microsoft JET Database Engine, Windows Kernel, Windows, and Windows Fundamentals.

If you installed earlier updates, only the new fixes contained in this package will be downloaded and installed on your device.

For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, please refer to the Security Update Guide.

2019-03 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems (KB4489899)
2019-03 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 for x86-based Systems (KB4489899)
2019-03 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 for ARM64-based Systems (KB4489899)
2019-03 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB4489899)


2019-03 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems (KB4489907)

 

known issue with KB4489899

a workaround is posted in MS support KB article 4489899

 

Why did they even release it in the first place if it's bugged...i guess i'm skipping updates until 19H1. I already had to uninstall KB4482887 because of perfomance issues, now another bug that they could've fixed before release but they decided to keep it open until end of March. lul

 

Breaking this filth (other than product activation) is a benefit, LOL. I've eliminated the non-LTSC Windows 10 from both of my systems and replaced the cancer version of Windows 10 with Linux.

I wouldn't hold my breath on 19H1 being an improvement. Every release of Windows after Windows 7 SP1 to present (Windows 8 forward) has been a downgrade in one or more ways. Skunks don't change their stripes and it seems like their supply of incompetence has no limits. Question: What is the "WPD" you mentioned?

 

https://wpd.app/

 

I have the sound problem symptoms right after installing the new update. I play all games with music player in the background and suddenly sound (in both) simply stops, I alt+tab from the game and music player MPC-HC is unresponsive. Alt+tab back to game and sound is normal. But no way to use MPC-HC in the backgrund no more while gaming.

The workaround as per Microsoft ... well in music player I have default sound device selected (already) and if i want to use Razer Headset, I have to select it in sound options so all effects go through Razer Synapse (surround, vibrating etc.).

So the update before the last introduced lag in Metro Exodus, got rid of it, this one (KB4489899) breaks sound. I tried to play only game or only music player, and I do not get the soud drop symptoms anymore.

WTF is happening to Windows 10...

 

It is becoming everything the Redmond Retards want it to be. Extra special... What, you can't see that , bro?

 

Unstable OS that they couldn't figure out for years, Fix one thing, break another, and the story goes on...the never ending BETA POS OS

 

The alpha version is better than public consumer beta versions. Only issue is dx9 and some dx10/11 won't exit cleanly and put Win10 to black screen and only workaround is to use Ctrl+alt+del or ctrl-shift-esc to use task mgr and quit the games/apps.

 

Hmm. And, considering that... it's better, in what way? Since 95% of all games are DX11 or older API, or another API (not DX12) that's a pretty damning defect.

 

Well yeah, they need to figure it out themselves! not gonna waste my time in putting up screenies and providing detailed system snapshots because I removed feedback hub on all my W10 builds.

 

I hear that. On my system, the only time it ran well was when I first purchased it. That was version 15XX I believe. Ever since the "anniversary update" it's just been a continuous slide downhill. Seeing that multiple audio device bug automatically turned me away from this recent update. I still have to look at a big red X on my NAS drives so I really don't need yet another "workaround" (could you just imagine going to you car dealer and hearing "we know there's a fuel leak, but if you just do this, you and your family probably won't get burned to death")

 

Guys, is there any way to uninstall windows updates after using DISMx64 windows updates installers cleanup?

I tried Googling, read DISMx64 manual ... no clues.

What I tried:

I went to DISMx64, and re-installed manually downloaded last two updates kb4489899 and kb4489907.



Restarted and tried uninstalling them through WIndows and also DISMx64, but it throws following messages.
I also tried uninstalling both at the same time (security update and cumulative update in DISMx64), with the same result.



So it gives me an option to uninstall them, but throws an error, and they stay installed.

The sound problems are starting to get really annoying, and now in MPC-HC if a song in playlist finishes playback, the next song plays 'muted' and MPC-HC stops responding.

From now on, honestly, I do no more DISMx64 cleanup for Windoes updates, unless I find a workaround to be able to uninstall them or the updates are working without causing issues.

 

Once uninstalled through Dism/Dism++ there is no way to uninstall it. Its permanent. That's why, wait for a week before you run uninstall.

 

I have warned about that you risk run into this mess before. Some will be screwed if they don't know what they do. Or read how the tools works. And for the records... In short it's even not needed (Only needed if you run the same OS version for a long time). And if you still want... Only 1 week after is too soon.

 

I never used that DISM cleanup method. It's pointless with today's high capacity storage at relatively cheap prices. What are you trying to get man? 500MB? Not worth this BS.

Please format your taptop

 

DISM cleanup really helps not space wise but several copies of older dll files are compressed or removed and new files are placed with fixes and win 10 can use newer patched version transparently!
If you're developing softwares WinSxS is a boon otherwise you are filling up the disk with useless files.
Older W10 only cleaned up <500MB but newer ones spit out 1.3GB or more if subsequent Dism cleanup sessions are missed (Full reset or partial reset)

 

The sound issue is gone now somehow LOL Thanx for suggestions !!! I left the last WIndows update as installed a.k.a. not permanent (better say in a state that it can be uninstalled).

Laptop works as intended.

 

You got a point.. I do that regularly to have Compacted OS which will help me do DiskImaging faster & backup size is much more smaller anything wrong happened... quick restore within 5 minutes

Like messing with the RAM settings corrupts or nukes my OS regularly so... it really helps to have small sized Windows OS for quick backup & recovery saves time

 

If you need it.

https://www.howtogeek.com/405868/how-to-enable-remaining-battery-time-in-windows-10/

John.

 

KB4465065: Intel microwavecode updates



2019-02 Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 for x64-based Systems (KB4465065) Download

 

That's good, no new microcode required for Skylake then, still on C6 - which I got through my motherboard manufacturer & BIOS. Perhaps C6 has not been released through Microsoft before though (don't know), so it might be new from that perspective.

 

looks like the redstone 5 (1809) version of Win10 will not install nor run on very old laptops with Intel Pentium Ms + Intel 915gm graphics chipset as noted in this Ten forums topic (got update error on SAFE_OS phase when attempting to upgrade to v1809)

should the OP in that ten forums thread just throw in the towel and replace that old laptop with a new one?

 

Windows 10 1809 Redstone 5 (build 17763.379)

 

Looking forward for your tamed Windows 10 1903 .. ^_^ Using you OS gives me 0 issues with MS.. Thank you.. keep up the great work.. ^_^

 

not happening anymore. the MSMG toolkit is one heck of a buggy tool now.

After removing a few Windows Store apps, it starts throwing these errors every now and then:



MSMG has lost it and I don't trust his tool anymore and NTLite is another buggy mess which breaks the OS once you remove a few things.

 

I'll stay in 1809 until msmg sort things out.. ^_^

 

expired link, Ultra male (and it's 64bit only)

here the direct links to the 17763.379 consumer edition ESDs (US English only) ( x64/64bit) ( x86/32bit)
slightly smaller downloads than ISO downloads

use ESD decrypter tool from esd-decrypter-wimlib-43.7z to convert the ESD file to an ISO file

more ESD links from this other forum post about 1809 Redstone 5

 

Link fixed and I only post 64-Bit ISOs.

 

Windows 10 1809 17763.404 (KB4490481) + SSU (Servicing Stack Update KB4493510)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4490481 (Read the Improvements and fixes + Known issues in the link). Too much to add into the posts

Direct Download links... Remember install the Servicing Stack Update first.

• windows10.0-kb4490481-x64.msu (164,84 MB)

• windows10.0-kb4493510-x64.msu (14 MB)

 

and here are the 32bit/x86 versions of KB4493510 and KB4490481 (hey I do use a 32bit/x86 Win10 OS on older machines that can't handle a 64bit OS)

ditto for ARM64 versions of KB4493510 and KB4490481 as well

 

KB4489192 .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.7.2 for Windows 10 1809
April 3, 2019
Yesterday Microsoft released not only the KB4490481 for all, but also a cumulative update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.7.2 for the Windows 10 1809 17763 and Windows Server 2019. Luckily, there are currently no known problems

Direct download links...

• windows10.0-kb4489192-x64.msu 64.6 MB
• windows10.0-kb4489192-x86.msu 34.3 MB