An experience of upgrading to 20H2 - comments/advice appreciated

Hi, having just upgraded from 1903 to 20H2, I've quickly noted a few oddities, so any helpful comments from those who've trodden this path will be appreciated- thanks!



I stayed with 1903 for ages, deftly avoiding all the caffufle about Windows search in early 1909 builds. Updating to 20H2 on my Thinkpad T440S was relatively painless, however:

a. No driver for my PCI port. Tried Drivermax, Snappy Driver too.
Resolved via MS Catalog via hardware id. Ref. Try3's useful post.

b. All my reminders which had been set using Cortana and Calendar have been lost.
How do you set reminders in 20H2? Used to be by voice via Cortana, but I understand that's different in 20H2.
3rd party solution needed?

c. Cortana reports: Sorry, but Cortana is not available in English (United Kingdom) at this time.
All UK language packs checked.
Resolved: downloaded and updated Cortana from Store; once done and notification received that it had been updated, I was prompted to sign in to Cortana.
Here is how you can fix the "Cortana is not available" issue in Windows 10 May 2020 Update(version 2004) - MSPoweruser
As expected, Cortana is more useless than previously:
'Remind me to buy bananas tomorrow'
'Sorry, I can't help you with that'.
Goodbye, Cortana.

d. Settings has a banner


Resolved ... not to be taken up! Hide using Vivetool (not mach2)
Don't activate the "Let's Go" button in the Windows 10 Settings application - gHacks Tech News

e. Search in file explorer now no longer highlights correct syntax in blue.. a feature lost when MS changed search.
I expected this, but it's a disadvantage.

Minor things:
a. The screen glared at me most unpleasantly as I recall some years ago- integrated graphics settings had been reset to default, and took time to readjust.

b. Looks like an installation of O&O Disk Image has some sort of driver issue - I don't need it, so can uninstall.
- fixed- when I ran the program and was prompted to restart for necessary reconfiguration.

dalchina said:

a. No driver for my PCI port.
b. Unknown device now listed in Device Manager.

my ditty - search for drivers by HardwareID - TenForums

Denis

Thanks, useful guide- tutorial material? Perhaps throw in as a last chance and exceptional option only using a driver updater tool.

Solved the PCI port driver from the MS Catalogue.

@dalchina

Two versions of this, here... DISABLE the Settings Header Banner

Ah, thanks, that banner, I remember seeing versions of it mentioned. Just looked that one up..
Don't activate the "Let's Go" button in the Windows 10 Settings application - gHacks Tech News

"Let's go" sounds so inviting... !

The mach2 option failed: the vivetool one succeeded. Thanks.

dalchina said:

Ah, thanks, that banner, I remember seeing versions of it mentioned. Just looked that one up..
Don't activate the "Let's Go" button in the Windows 10 Settings application - gHacks Tech News

"Let's go" sounds so inviting... !

Just added that info to my post on the subject.

Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Note mach2 failed (just amended mine as you posted).

dalchina said:

Note mach2 failed (just amended mine as you posted).

Post #5 in that topic, says that Mach2 was fixed. However, some "other" setting of mine has the Settings banner disabled, so I can't test. I can only turn the banner... ON, then OFF. :/
Thanks for the update.

That was quite a while back- seems a moving target... when I say failed, I mean mach2 ran ok.. I then reopened Settings and the banner was still there- just no effect.

Vivetool succeeded.

Oh the joys of Windows!

At least it seems to have been a relatively painless 2 build upgrade... so far!

dalchina said:

That was quite a while back- seems a moving target... when I say failed, I mean mach2 ran ok.. I then reopened Settings and the banner was still there- just no effect.

Vivetool succeeded.

Oh the joys of Windows!

At least it seems to have been a relatively painless 2 build upgrade... so far!

I also ran the enablement package (Brink), for 21H1... nothing seemed to break from that either.
However... since I'm NOT in the Beta Channel, my Windows Update is confused.

It won't give me 21H1 updates, because I fail the Beta channel test, and it won't give me 20H2 updates because it "sees" 21H1. Everything still works manually, but it is confusing.

I assume that April or May's actual 21H1 Feature Update will fix that.