Creators Update - Discussion of new changes and quirks

JohnnyGui · 26 Apr 2017

lmaneke said:

I don't have that problem

Weird that it doesn't work for me or alphanumeric. Could you please show what settings comes up when clicking the Advanced Settings link in the new Windows Defender?

lmaneke · 26 Apr 2017

JohnnyGui said:

Weird that it doesn't work for me or alphanumeric. Could you please show what settings comes up when clicking the Advanced Settings link in the new Windows Defender?

Ok. Well, it worked twice, and now it's not working anymore. It was bringing up a window "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security".

I found a workaround to get there.

Start
Windows System
Control Panel
Windows Firewall
Advanced Settings

That would be the same Window that showed up. Appears to be a bug

lmaneke · 26 Apr 2017

It needs to be reported in the feedback hub, which I will do

Bree · 26 Apr 2017

alphanumeric said:

Yes, works, or doesn't work in this case, as you posted. I get the prompt to allow this app to make changes, click yes and nothing happens.

Prseumably, like most 'advanced settings' in the Setting app, it's meant to (but fails to) open the Control Panel. You can still get to it yourself by Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Firewall

elbmek · 26 Apr 2017

Since I went to creator, had visual problems with black screen when game loading, games not loading and freezing screens but think it nvidia associated, all these problems are visually related. So I am taking out my Geforce 1060 6GB GTX and putting in an AMD Radeon RX 580 which was released the other day, picking mine up from an online store locally tomorrow £229. Nvidia can go to hell, I should have learnt my lesson the last time I tried Nvidia.

JohnnyGui · 26 Apr 2017

lmaneke said:

It needs to be reported in the feedback hub, which I will do

Great, thanks!

Some other bugs that I've found:
1. Is it just me or does the slideshow option of the Photos app make the initial picture that you're starting with a tad bit blurry?

2. Something very minor but it has been there since the beginning of Windows 10.
When opening the Mail app, clicking the Settings icon and choosing any setting in the sidebar and then going back to the main sidebar settings again (clicking the "back" icon), for some reason you'd have to click twice on any other setting that you're wishing to go to.

Al Airone · 26 Apr 2017

l33twannabe said:

Don't want to start another thread, so I'll join the discussion here. I'm not sure if it's a bug or it is supposed to be like that, but double click on Windows Defender icon in system tray doesn't actually do anything, at least for me. In order to get to Windows Defender I have to right mouse click on the icon and choose "open". Kind of annoying and doesn't feel right.

I don't know if you ever got an answer but - here's one: yes, it is a bug. It is a "known issue" according to the notes released with the latest Insider build. In fact this condition has persisted through several Insider builds. Presumably it will get fixed sometime "soon".

tomseys · 29 Apr 2017

tomseys said:

Yeah I'm not getting the notifications either. Did an email reset and went in and flipped all the settings back and forth and it doesn't work. If they get this creators update working properly, I definitely will not update to the next thing in september until I absolutely have to.

I got so frustrated with this and other creator issues that I reinstalled Windows 8.1 over Windows 10. That had its own issues (update problem etc) that I had to get through one by one. The mail/people app on Win 8.1 really sucks, holy cow. One issue I had was that I could not add another outlook account. Seems a very common issue. Did all the fixes and nothing worked. So I decided to upgrade back up to Windows 10 creators. Cleaned it up a little and it works great. Notifications and mail synching are fine now. I'm going to block future feature updates as long as I can with the hide/show tool and other methods.

lmaneke · 15 May 2017

xxxdannyxxx said:

I got the same update a minute or so ago but no change for me unfortunately. Tried uninstall and reinstall and no better for me.

Cheers Danny

Danny,

I'm not sure if you found your own fix for the Weather tile not working, but I found a fix and the tile has been working for the last few days.

Open the app, and at the top of the screen, it will give you the option to pin your location to the start menu. Pin it, and remove the other tile that no longer works. This has worked for me.

Thanks

xxxdannyxxx · 15 May 2017

lmaneke said:

Danny,

I'm not sure if you found your own fix for the Weather tile not working, but I found a fix and the tile has been working for the last few days.

Open the app, and at the top of the screen, it will give you the option to pin your location to the start menu. Pin it, and remove the other tile that no longer works. This has worked for me.

Thanks

Yes I discovered the same thing, that seems to fix it. My people app still looses its live tile every few days but an uninstall and reinstall brings it back. A clean of the live tile cache doesn't. A bit of a pain but at least it can be fixed.

Danny