Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

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It's a very hard - maybe impossible - balance to strike: Making the PC an Appliance Any Idiot Can Drive vs Exposing Systems Configurability (and hence opportunity for messing things up).

Regarding setting an ethernet connection as metered: Those who do update their systems and who bother/care to check will have seen this capability exposed in Settings of Version 1703.

There are other/additional settings exposed in 1709, based on feedback and telemetry.

So, if you want more control over your Windows, update to the latest version. ;)
 
Arthur said:
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Regarding setting an ethernet connection as metered: Those who do update their systems and who bother/care to check will have seen this capability exposed in Settings of Version 1703.

There are other/additional settings exposed in 1709, based on feedback and telemetry.
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Oh Arthur, you don't want to tell us that there is an option to disable Microsoft 'Telemetry', aka Bitcoin/cryptocurrency mining.
.LOL.
 
Beginners might find God Mode useful for accessing many settings in one place.

To activate, simply create a new folder and name it
Code: 
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

then click on the folder.

Oh, you have to be an Administrator.
 
Geoff.D said:
Suffice to say, that IF you have changed anything in Group Policy AND you do not restore ALL the defaults BEFORE you go through an update process, you cannot say what is available in a vanilla version and what is not.
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Well, it is complete nonsence. We all know that a any major update will reset our user setiings to defaults and GPE settings is ignored. How you can claim it is a workable platform? As an ordinary user I shouldn't have to resque to the GPE after all, such things should be available straight away from the user interface and duly respected. And why it the issue after all? It put an additional burden on the administrative work (even it is a true - I think it is a blatant lie, explained in the next paragraph).
Geoff.D said:
The fact is that it is possible in WIN 10 Pro to set ANY network to a metered connection and this has always been possible. It is even possible in WIN 10 Home. Whether this is because you choose to use group policies or registry edits or whatever else you find on the Internet it is possible.
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This is a blatant lie or misinformation at least. I made number of installations from the original 1607 Pro ISO. Immediatelly applied the latest cumulative updates to 1607. At a different time, always the latest cumulative update (so it was a number of them). In none of these cases I could set a metered connection for Ethernet adapter connection. GPE settings was applied afterwards - not before (if you think it was an issue).

However in all cases Windows started to download updates despite of disabling it in GPE.

Geoff.D said:
sajunky has such an ingrained prejudice against all things Windows that he has completely lost his objectivity on these matters.
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I am not prejudiced. Unlike others forum members I have just no business interest to promote crappy software that only brings number of customers to the repair shops, so they can fill up their pockets and smile. So please withold your derogatory remarks in future.

I am tired with trying all settings that do not work or work in (other) obfuscated way. A metered connection term is one of them. Many bloggers just do copy/paste a known solutions from previous windoze. There is absolutely no quarantee that these solutions currently work or will work on the future builts. As an example, the version 1607 has completely ignored Group Policy settings for disabling automatic updates. On some builds Microsoft even explicitly admited the fact that is known from our experience. Examples and screenshots were posted at times discussions took place.
 
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vorman said:
yes my first choice also. Funny thing is the Windows Update Assistant says I am up to date.
Yet the built in Windows Update Centre found the update immediately after release and began downloading.
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You probably don't have the latest one.
 
SharkBait said:
But this one won't fit on a flash drive as the install.win file is bigger than 4GB...?
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I always download two separate ISO's for the reason of the nasty bug in the mixed 64/32 bits boot code. If you have already downloaded combined version ISO, just delete one of the source folder you don't need.
 
sajunky said:
I always download two separate ISO's for the reason of the nasty bug in the mixed 64/32 bits boot code. If you have already downloaded combined version ISO, just delete one of the source folder you don't need.
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It's been a while since I have seen anyone running a 32bit OS anyway. I know they still exist, though, but then I would suggest doing you what you said, download both ISOs.
 
Or just click the ISO to load it into Win's virtual DVD drive, and execute from there. No need to use a flash drive to upgrade an existing installation.
 
Arthur said:
Or just click the ISO to load it into Win's virtual DVD drive, and execute from there. No need to use a flash drive to upgrade an existing installation.
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+1 Use the flash drive because I work on more than one PC.
 
sajunky said:
I always download two separate ISO's for the reason of the nasty bug in the mixed 64/32 bits boot code. If you have already downloaded combined version ISO, just delete one of the source folder you don't need.
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what is this so-called nasty bug?

Only maintain 64-bit machines but intrigued about what this bug is supposed to be?
 
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