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Zdnet’s Ed Bott has put together an article he calls – . Ed says if you are “Looking for technical information about Windows 10 releases, new features[See the full post at: Windows 10 information hub]

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Wow, enough info to fill a book, but without having to publish a new edition every six months!

Ed’s put a lot of good info behind a paywall in the past, but thankfully this info isn’t behind one.

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[E Pericoloso Sporgersi]

Oh goody!

Only … it starts off in a frustrating manner: The link “Download Windows 10” doesn’t work.

Neither do the links “Compare business features in Windows 10 editions” and “Windows 10 release history (official)” lead to anything useful.
All I get is from these 3 links is:

1 Desktop Win 11
1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)

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• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by E Pericoloso Sporgersi.

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All the posts here just ignoring me, gave me … erm, well, pause.

I went looking for the unreachable http://www.ojrq.net.

I found it in my HOSTS file.

Problem resolved!

1 Desktop Win 11
1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)

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Ed Bott has links about Win 10, and one of them leads to getting Sysinternals.

Question:  At work, on my Win 10 1903 64-bit machine, when I open a Word document, the PC shows me the doc full-size, but then its focus goes somewhere else, so if I start typing, I discover I’m not in the doc that is right in front of me, but it’s not clear where I am or what stole the “focus” of the machine.

Can Sysinternals help us figure out what is stealing the machine’s “focus”?

Thanks.

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I recommend you start a new topic in the Windows 10 forum where it is likely to get more attention.

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Elly

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[Seff]

Thanks for the link, there’s clearly a wealth of information there that could prove very useful.

However, people should make sure that the advice is up to date before placing too much reliance on it. I found I was reading an article that had been “extensively revised and edited to reflect changes in Windows 10”, and with the last revision dated 3 days ago, in which it was stated that Windows 10 updates can only be deferred for 30 days with Pro and Enterprise versions and not with the Home version. That’s seriously misleading!

Ask any questions here first, would be my advice!

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The difference is in the terminology.
“Pause” is available to all versions and both Home and Pro, with a maximum of 35 days delaying updates. Pause begins when you click the “Pause” button and cannot be reused until pending updates are installed (except in the case of manipulating the system).

“Defer,” which works differently, is available only to Pro, Edu and Ent. Defer begins when the update is released. Quality updates can be “deferred” a maximum of 30 days and Feature updates up to 365 days. Defer does not have the restrictions on reuse once it’s set.

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Thanks for the clarification PK. I’m still getting my head round some of these Windows 10 oddities.

I still think, however, that the article needs updating to reflect the introduction of the Pause ability for the Home version. At present it says:

“If you’d rather let the rest of the world test each month’s security and reliability updates before you OK the install, you should be running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, not Home. With those business editions, you can defer updates by up to 30 days.”

No mention of Pause at all.

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… and you can’t “defer” updates in Win10 version 2004 at all, without resorting to Group Policies.

Windows updating is a moving target.

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[Alex5723]

I went looking for the unreachable http://www.ojrq.net

It seems that URL was in your HOST for a reason.

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[Alex5723]

Alex5723 wrote:

I went looking for the unreachable http://www.ojrq.net

It seems that URL was in your HOST for a reason.

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Oh yes! It keeps me away from a potentially malicious site.
I left that entry in the HOSTS file.
To avoid redirection I won’t use Ed Bott’s links
(like https:// click.linksynergy. com/deeplink?id= IokOf8qagZo&mid= 24542&u1=zd-1b3fa22922df43c99f1fe183a9df4db8–&murl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fsoftware-download%2Fwindows10) , but copy and strip them to the bare target URL’s, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

1 Desktop Win 11
1 Laptop Win 10
Both tweaked to look, behave and feel like Windows 95
(except for the marine blue desktop, rgb(0, 3, 98)

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This article like any other can be outdated almost immediately. On top of that, the confusing terminology used in updating Windows 10 and the moving target makes it even more difficult.

Ed Bott often directs his articles to IT pros and businesses but not always. Yet another point of confusion because it is not always clear who the audience is.

Still, IMO it is a good reference and starting point.

--Joe

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Elly

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