Have you all updated W10 1511 to W10 1607 Anniversary Edition

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The title say it all but how was the experience i.e. is all sweetness & light now that you are 1607 or do you wish you still on 1511???

I ask because I am on 1511 and there have a various 1511 related updates but no 1607 offered yet. Though I have downloaded the 1607 updater here https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/12387?ocid=update_setting_client

TIA for the user insights & experiences :)
 
It went okay on the PC under the telly and seemed to cure the networking problems that it had had since this time last year.
 
On 1607 with my Dell laptop and working fine :)
 
All of mine are on 1607 and have been for some time, no problems.

Three came through windows update automatically at various times, one I forced with the downloadbale updater.
 
1607 on my laptop. Once I'd changed some of the settings back to what they should have been and killed a few things (Cortana) it was fine, apart from having to wait a couple of days for my own lock screen image to appear, rather than one of the defaults, every time it does another update.
 
Back on 1511. My laptop was auto updated to 1607 and caused all sorts of issues e.g. clicking on start did nothing, search didn't work, couldn't open apps, struggled with control panel.
I did a lot of googling for solutions but ended up going into safe mode and restoring to previous version which runs fine.
Good luck with your update!!
 
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Yelkrub said:
Back on 1511. My laptop was auto updated to 1607 and caused all sorts of issues e.g. clicking on start did nothing, search didn't work, couldn't open apps, struggled with control panel.
I did a lot of googling for solutions but ended up going into safe mode and restoring to previous version which runs fine.
Good luck with your update!!
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I found I had to reapply a few vendor drivers post update. Might be worth trying to keep the machine up to date.
 
neil_g said:
I found I had to reapply a few vendor drivers post update. Might be worth trying to keep the machine up to date.
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I've been thinking of giving it another go with the update box brownie has downloaded.
I had to take my battery out to be able to shutdown the machine last time though as nothing else worked:(
 
Thanks for all the user insights & experiences :)

For now I will wait and see how the 1511 updates progress.......and look out for 1607 in the list!

As the likelihood or requirement for me to roll back to W7 is very unlikely I was keen to get fully up to date as soon as practically logical. That is why I downloaded the 1607 updater as well as the "full" 1607 installer...........but I will bide my time for now to at least make sure 1511 is fully patched and as stable as it should be :)
 
My laptop (wife's old windoze 7 machine, now w10) won't successfully update from 1511 to 1607 for some reason. Tried twice now and it won't have it. So for the time being at least I'll stick with 1511. In fact I have now disabled automatic updates (via the Services page), otherwise it keeps downloading and trying to update to 1607.
 
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GeeJay57 said:
My laptop (wife's old windoze 7 machine, now w10) won't successfully update from 1511 to 1607 for some reason. Tried twice now and it won't have it. So for the time being at least I'll stick with 1511. In fact I have now disabled automatic updates (via the Services page), otherwise it keeps downloading and trying to update to 1607.
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Pretty sure there's a simple fix for that, look in your update history and locate the one that failed.

Google the kb number and error code for installation issues, pretty sure that's how I found the solution.
 
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neil_g said:
Pretty sure there's a simple fix for that, look in your update history and locate the one that failed.

Google the kb number and error code for installation issues, pretty sure that's how I found the solution.
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Thanks, must have another go at that.

One of the errors is associated with Windows Defender. Did a search on the web, found a potential fox, but that didn't work and so far I haven't had the will to sit with it for hours to sort it out. Hence leaving it on 1511 for now.
 
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neil_g said:
Pretty sure there's a simple fix for that, look in your update history and locate the one that failed.

Google the kb number and error code for installation issues, pretty sure that's how I found the solution.
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Hi Neil

For future reference?

Are you saying that in W10 the updates history will show which KB failed or are you refering to the what on W7 was an updates.log file? If the latter can you advise the 'path' to find it???

PS Over the years with W7 there were occasions when the system fell over because of one KB in a slew of updates screwing up and the only way I ever found the culprit was to do a restore and then doing a selective elimination update to find the the little beggar, it used to take hours to go through the process! :(
 
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GeeJay57 said:
Thanks, must have another go at that.

One of the errors is associated with Windows Defender. Did a search on the web, found a potential fox, but that didn't work and so far I haven't had the will to sit with it for hours to sort it out. Hence leaving it on 1511 for now.
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FWIW I am not using Windows Defender as I have ESET Smart Security as my 'defense system' ;)
 
I'm trying to think what fixed it, but it's essentially the issue that the update repeatedly trys to install and fails. I seem to remember it was pretty common and Ms have release a fix patch for it?
 
I'm usually one of the first to update, but given how they killed powershell last time and took their time in getting it resolved I've held off this time. Too many ongoing projects to chance it
 
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