Patch Lady – 1809 could be worse

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Just when you think you are having a bad day, someone comes along proving that things aren’t so bad after all. Take in point the poor 1809 workstation
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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well Susan there was this article from Softpedia news in late March calling 1809 a “flop”

https://news.softpedia.com/news/windows-10-october-2018-update-slowly-becoming-microsoft-s-first-windows-10-flop-525470.shtml

though MS has just posted a new cumulative update for 1809 earlier today April 2 – KB4490481 that contains a bunch of new fixes.

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I voluntarily upgraded from Windows 10 Home version 1803 to 1809 on 12/27/18 by clicking on “Check for Updates” and was gratified that the download and installation didn’t take as long as the upgrade from 1709 to 1803: the download (which is interactive, not a package) took about 25 minutes instead of nearly 40 minutes and the whole process, including install and reboot, was only about 2.5 hours instead of 3.5 (intel core i7 7700HQ laptop with 128 Gb SSD and 1 Tb hard drives, 25 Mb/sec wi-fi connection). I haven’t had any real problems or complaints since install; but I am neither a gamer nor connected to any server, just a home user. My only annoyance is in the event viewer warnings regarding some problem with how version 1809 updates the live tiles in the start menu, which apparently is different than the way 1803 did it; but something was left unchanged (perhaps in the registry) which causes dozens of load and unload failure warnings after every boot. Version 1809 Home edition, like 1803 Home, continues to attempt to provision and start the setup process for Windows Hello for Business after every boot and fails, generating event warnings for that.  There’s no way to fix that in the Home version, though. Also, apparently because I have an administrator log on with no password set up at log on and no Windows/Microsoft ID set up, just a fast straight administrator automatic log on, I continue to get two or three audit failure warnings every time I launch the browser. None of these warnings or errors have ever interfered or inhibited how I use the laptop, though; they are merely annoyances which I wouldn’t even know about if I never launched the Event Viewer (which is apparently how Microsoft would prefer I did it). Microsoft’s Windows 10 Team seems to not care much about Event Viewer warnings, probably because they know that the whole thing gets replaced every six months, anyway.

 

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