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If you want to manually download the 1803 and install it using the manual download process, the iso is now out. Also be aware that if you manually go
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – 1803 is now officially available]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
They’re pushing this to the public already? This is crazy. Time to fire up the popcorn I guess. As Flounder said in the movie Animal House, “Oh boy, this is gonna be great!”.
I feel like Rudolph in that as much as I’d like to play in the reindeer games, I have too much going on right now. Maybe later this week.
Update: I couldn’t resist when you said they are pushing it to home users already. I have a laptop at work running home edition. I fired it up, ran windows update and sure enough 1803 is now downloading.
Red Ruffnsore
Well, you know where to come for warmth and get your eyes dried. 
Damage so far:
1. AMD Radeon Settings crashing post-update – had to be reinstalled to fix it
2. HP DeskJet printer driver suddenly gone – had to be reinstalled
3. Search Index gone (but I had witnessed it earlier sadly, rebuilding as we speak)
4. I’m guessing File History index gone as well (I had witnessed it earlier sadly), will have to be re-synced which is really a waste of time and resources…
Hmmm… someone being busy with important work related stuff here, huh?
I think I managed to hide this on Win10 Home:
1. Run the Show or Hide Troubleshooter (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3183922). Choose to hide updates. The feature update does not appear.
2. Go to Settings > Update and Security > Windows Update. Click Check for updates. The feature update will appear and start preparation.
3. Run the Show or Hide Troubleshooter again. This time the feature update is listed. Hide it.
4. Turn off the network (I turned on Airplane Mode). The feature update continues “Preparing to install.” (I tried rebooting at this point but after the reboot, it just continued “Preparing to install”.) Eventually it changes to “Awaiting download.”
5. Turn on the network. Windows starts Checking for updates again. The feature update is no longer listed and does not download.
Bottom line: you can’t hide it until it detects that it should install, but after that, hiding it does seem to work. The feature update does not have a KB number but it does have an Update ID: {bd352700-9e34-4bed-9827-280d92737ef9}. It’s currently at Revision 1. If that is updated, you may have to re-hide it.
Also see the wushowhide section of this Computerworld article.
Also note this in Mary Jo’s ZDNet post:
Q: Is Microsoft estimating how long the rollout of the April 2018 Update might take?
A: “The April 2018 Update will begin rolling out on April 30 in a measured, deliberate way to ensure quality experience for all. It will begin with devices that are ready for the April 2018 Update based on specs to ensure the highest levels of compatibility and rollout to the nearly 700 million devices running Windows 10 over time,” said a spokesperson.
Q: Is Microsoft estimating how long the rollout of the April 2018 Update might take?
I’d say about 6 months.
-Noel
Wellllll. It took 2 hours and 15 minutes to my desktop screen. I manually ran windows update and from that point it took 1 hour and 45 minutes before I was prompted to restart. Then ran for another half hour doing the update that users will see. This is an i7-3517u with 8 gb of ram and an ssd hybrid drive. So it’s not that old. I have quite a few older desktops so if I ever push this to those computers I may need a 3 day weekend. And will I get calls from people asking why their pc is running so slow during that period that Windows Update is doing behind the scenes work?
So to summarize. No blue screen. I guess a successful update as far as Microsoft is concerned. My day is done. I’ll play some more tomorrow.
Red Ruffnsore
Just hide 1803 via wushowhide. I needed to set “advanced options” to “semi-annual channel (targeted)” & feature deferred to 0 so wushowhide could see the update. Then set “advanced options” back to “semi-annual channel” and & feature deferred to 365. I am at 1709 now.
They’re pushing this to the public already? This is crazy. Time to fire up the popcorn I guess. As Flounder said in the movie Animal House, “Oh boy, this is gonna be great!”. I feel like Rudolph in that as much as I’d like to play in the reindeer games, I have too much going on right now. Maybe later this week. Update: I couldn’t resist when you said they are pushing it to home users already. I have a laptop at work running home edition. I fired it up, ran windows update and sure enough 1803 is now downloading.
Tried to stop to the update to W10Home.1803, disabled the win.update.service too….. the b****y thing just started to download and install.
After all, there was nothing to tell or decide , *makes me angry*
Feeling more safe with this latest and safest OS? Think NOT
{by the way: no blue screens, yet}
regards Fred
Hi Woody,
Yes, I was running Win 10 Home 1709. I went to Windows Update and checked for updates. It found 1803 and installed. I believe that you have to manually check for updates in Windows Update. Perhaps if you leave it alone, it won’t install?
Either way, it took about 60 minutes from start to finish (getting to desktop). So far, it seems ok, but I am not crazy about the Timeline feature.
Yes – exactly. I think that they partially shipped an Insider preview build with all the quirks and limitations. Because it has to be April because it’s called April update. Dead giveaway – look at your feedback frequency in Settings-Privacy-Diagnostics & Feedback…… Set to automatic (obviously!), greyed out… and “Windows Insider program manages this option”.
They actually shipped an insider build version (either wholly or in part) to millions of home users. It is beyond belief.
In a small Windows 7-only environment, the upgrade to Win10 1803 was just offered through WSUS for four Win7 machines. Three are Win7 Enterprise with expired Software Assurance (I’ve seen this before). One is Win7 Pro. Another Win7 Pro machine shows that the upgrade is “not applicable.” I wonder how WSUS determines that a machine is eligible for the (free?) Win10 upgrade.
Whoa!
Any indication that it’s free? In other words, that you’ll end up with a”genuine” copy?
Whoa! Any indication that it’s free? In other words, that you’ll end up with a”genuine” copy?
No; in fact, there is a popup that requires me to agree to a license. See the screen shots in this post: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/how-to-really-truly-block-the-pushed-upgrade-to-the-next-version-of-windows-10-version-1803/#post-183036. Still confusing–how can an upgrade to a genuine license, offered by Microsoft-supplied WSUS software, not be genuine?
On Windows 7 machines, are you using any software, such as GWX Control Panel, to prevent Windows 10 installation?
I’d forgotten about that, but yes, all Win7 machines, including those that WSUS is offering to upgrade, include two registry values, created as follows:
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx /v DisableGwx /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate /v DisableOSUpgrade /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
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