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Greetings everyone in the lounge, due to personal reasons I stopped following daily Woody’s site for a while, and I was wondering if Woody ever blessed the 1709 upgrade.
Currently my plans are holding into 1703 until 1803 becomes stable enough.
I’m still on 1703 on my production machines.
I intend to move them to 1709, using a copy of the ISO that I saved a couple of months ago, when I have some spare time. That hasn’t happened yet, but probably will over the July 4 holiday.
I continue to actively block 1803 on all machines, except for one test machine.
For most people, there are few – if any – benefits to upgrading.
I’ve been using 1709 on 3 machines (4 until I upgraded one to 1803) with out issue for months. So far on my test machine I have not had any problems with 1803. Just lucky I guess.
HTH 
I was one of those hit with the unexpected upgrade to 1709 on my HP laptop but I have to say that it has caused no problems for me.
Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).
I believe you can still upgrade version to version (without having to reformat/clean install) by running the ISO and Setup from within Windows. You’ll have to find a 1709 ISO, as anything from MS now is going to be 1803. I may be able to help you there, if you cannot find one on your own.
What I have seen of 1803 (on the work Machines), errm well its fine except P2P (Workgroup) Networking is a big Grrrr for me but that’s another story (strangely not with any other “Windoze” version just 2×1803 Machines). 1803 saw the demise of “Home Group,” If you need .net 3.5 it seems to be a DISM command to install these days ever since 1709. 1803 new features seem to be fine but really not had a chance to “play” with them, being a work place machine, but doesent seemed to be plagued with the real “Howlers” that previous new versions of Win10 been plagued with in the past.
Hey if 1703 is working fine for you “hang in there” until 1809 you should have quite a few new features to actually make it worth updating to, but as its Win10 you’ll never know what the next version will bring alas.
If that can make you feel better, Zaphyrus, you won’t be alone running 1703 until October where it will loose support. That way, you can happily skip a version if 1803 ends up good enough and maybe skip another version again next time.
If you value mostly stability and upgrading as less often as possible, staying on 1703 is a good idea, in my view. It still gets patches, but the new things in it aren’t as new anymore, so it is likely more bugs have been ironed out.
That is what I am doing and have been doing and it has served me well. I really don’t look forward to forced web searches on 1803.
that’s reassuring to know Alex,
To be honest I had a bad experience last year when i was forced to factory restore my computer, and had to stay with Windows 1507 for 2 months. and sadly since Windows 1507 had alot of bugs I was forced to upgrade to 1703. So I feared that if my computer was out of support my windows would be full of bugs. right now I know that Windows 1507 was full of bugs. so being out of support with 1703 shouldn’t be a bad experience.
you’re gonna need to hide any & every new version of KB4023057 with wushowhide.diagcab
the 1709 version of Win10 is actually stable now than it was several months ago. might as well make the upgrade to v1709 now before October 2018 when Microsoft will end support for the 1703 release of Win10 Home & Pro.
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