Windows 10 Creators Update available through the Update Assistant

Tony K · 07 Apr 2017

xxxdannyxxx said:

Hi Guys

Upgraded via the Update assistant with no issues except a slow download. Does anyone with location services active have the location icon permanently on in the taskbar. It pops up about ten minutes after a reboot and never goes off. I cant track down whats using it. Any ideas anyone.

Danny

Hi there. Most likely Cortana I would guess, but it should only appear once in awhile.

xxxdannyxxx · 07 Apr 2017

HippsieGypsie said:

Hi there. Most likely Cortana I would guess.

That was my first thought but after switching off cortana's location tracking and all app location tracking it still pops up unless I turn it off totally.
Are MS tracking who or where people have upgraded I wonder

Danny

Tony K · 07 Apr 2017

xxxdannyxxx said:

That was my first thought but after switching off cortana's location tracking and all app location tracking it still pops up unless I turn it off totally.
Are MS tracking who or where people have upgraded I wonder

Danny

MS will know individual devices that upgraded via digital validation I would imagine. This may be a buggy release, so your problem may show up with other users or may be fixed upon a future update.

In the mean time, have you rebooted a few times to see if that fixes it?

Are you signing in with a MS account?

alphanumeric · 07 Apr 2017

I've done 3 Update Now's, Home, Pro and Education. And one setup.exe from a mounted ISO, Education. No gotcha's that I am aware of. I will be doing some clean installs at some point. Battling a bad case of the flue at the moment though. It's putting a bit of a damper on my enthusiasm at the moment.

Has anybody done a Clean Install of Education? I'd like to know if Cortana was installed? In the AU, no Cortana, after the upgrade to CU she's there. Not sure if that was a glitch or intended?

Would also like to know if OEM embedded key (namely Windows 8 keys) are still being auto detected on a clean install.

reddice · 07 Apr 2017

xxxdannyxxx said:

That was my first thought but after switching off cortana's location tracking and all app location tracking it still pops up unless I turn it off totally.
Are MS tracking who or where people have upgraded I wonder

Danny

I turn it off and then only turn it back on when a service needs it. The location icon now stays on all the time which is annoying to have on the taskbar.

alphanumeric · 07 Apr 2017

reddice said:

I turn it off and then only turn it back on when a service needs it. The location icon now stays on all the time which is annoying to have on the taskbar.

Settings > System > Notifications & actions > Get notifications from these senders > Location > set to Off?

jimbo45 · 07 Apr 2017

Hi there

Clean install with a Windows 8 key using ISO also seems still to work fine (old key from Technet) -glad I kept those !!!!

Not sure how much longer the "Free update" from W7 / W8 / W8. will keep working for though !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

alphanumeric · 07 Apr 2017

I've got a red *Some settings are hidden or managed by your organization. message showing on some settings windows.

magilla · 07 Apr 2017

cereberus said:

Interesting little but useful small change in disk management.

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Yes I had noticed this. At first I thought something was wrong.

alphanumeric · 07 Apr 2017

cereberus said:

Interesting little but useful small change in disk management.

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I'm only seeing that on my UEFI Laptop. No extra entries on either of my Legacy BIOS Desktop PC's.