Microsoft’s revised-revised Windows 10 upgrade scheme entails the &ldquo now;major” of the entire year release in the initial half, accompanied by a “minimal” of the entire year release in the next half.

The 2020 “major” release – edition 2004 – started rolling back out a month or more, and the issues we’re seeing could fill up a written book.

Microsoft lists 11 officially acknowledged Known Problems with version 2004. One of these, with the DISM order, includes a manual workaround. If a machine is apparently affected by the other 10, Home windows Update shouldn’t provide version 2004 at this time – and Microsoft provides stern warnings that you shouldn’t make an effort to manually install 2004, if it doesn’t come by means of Home windows Update.

Not one of the 11 Known issues were reported since problematic before the release.

Microsoft’s pressing out version 2004 with a leisurely price – that’s very good news for everybody. However the current hiccups lead to sobering reading.

Confusion on the ‘Update is on its method’ message

Microsoft started showing “Upgrade is on its method” text messages all the way whenever we were jumping from edition 1809 to 1903 back again. (Notice Mayank Parmar’s article from Windows Newest published this past year.)
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The nagging problem then, as at this point, will be that no specifics are usually had by the message. While we’re told that “your device isn’t prepared for it quite,” there’s simply no indication of why or even how, or what you can do to create amends.

A lot more than that, the information appears on some devices and not upon others, and it’s never clear why it seems on all. On AskWoody, we’ve been considering combos of deferred and paused up-dates, hardware and motorists and software, and come up with bupkis.

What’s painfully apparent: (1) If you note that message, you gained’t become offered the version 2004 upgrade through Windows Revise yet just; and (2) the information isn’t linked to a specific group of deficiencies on your own machine. Indeed, the information should say, “Home windows isn’t ready for the computer,” of placing the shoe on another instead, erroneous foot.

Searching for clues concerning the message, @abbodi86 came up with a startling discovery – it looks as though the message is controlled by the “UNP Campaign Supervisor,” WaaSMedic services, and/or WAAS Evaluation/UpdateOrchestrator. Clicking Look for improvements doesn’t make a difference, nor really does clicking Resume updates.

Base line: If you don’t see the information, don’t be worried about it. And when you do see the information, don’t either be worried about it. Ahem.

Latest Surface area PCs don&rsquo just;t get it

A major contender for probably the most bizarre group of blocks: Microsoft won’t automatically revise to version 2004 alone Surface Professional 7 and Surface Notebook 3 computers – received’t provide it to “ Install and download.” Right here’s the state pronouncement:

Errors or even unexpected restarts for a few devices making use of On Always, Always Connected

Some devices utilizing the Always On, Connected feature may have compatibility problems with Windows 10 always, version 2004 (the Windows 10 Might 2020 Update). Affected devices could have several On Always, Connected capable system adapter always, like the Microsoft Surface Professional 7 and Microsoft Surface area Laptop 3, and may receive mistakes or unexpected restart or shutdown.

safeguard your update encounter To, we’ve applied a compatibility hang on Home windows 10 devices with impacted motorists or firmware from on offer Windows 10, version 2004.

That’s not absolutely all.

Surface Book 3 owners obtain the regular, “The Windows 10 Might 2020 Update is on its way” observe (the screenshot above), but no offer to improve. (Thx, @Barb) In accordance to Mark Hachman at PCWorld, exactly the same notification appears at first glance Book 2. Version 2004 also doesn’t create the Windows Update quality at first glance Pro Surface area or X Studio 2. No upgrade emerges for any of these.

Those are all the most recent versions of Microsoft’s own equipment.  In order to upgrade to Earn10 edition 2004 on some of Microsoft’s newest machines, you need to proceed through a forced, guide install – which, explicitly, isn’t recommended.

Speaks volumes, eh?

Optane Oops

Microsoft hasn’t confirmed it, but lots of people are reporting main problems with Win10 edition 2004 running upon PCs with Intel’s Optane memory space. (Optane runs on the special kind of storage chip that caches hard disks.)

Mayank Parmar on Windows Latest runs down a large number of complaints. He concludes:

During the up-date process, Windows 10 gets rid of one Optane Storage Pinning file from these devices, nonetheless it would still make an effort to run it which results in multiple errors and also performance issues.

one is showed by The article message set off by 2004 that says, “Struggling to load DLL ‘iaStorAfsServiceApi.dll.” He supplies a guide workaround that hasn’t already been endorsed – or acknowledged – by Microsoft actually.

More problems

Right now there’s a well-documented bug within the version 2004 upgrade that knocks away syncing between Outlook calendar and iCloud calendar.

Reddit has many complaints about bugs, performance problems specifically, Start menu lags, slower boots, corrupt user profiles, USB issues, Bluetooth problems, blue screens of varied stripes, and the most common sound issues.

Most discouraging: Several difficulties were reported upon the Feedback Hub, however they fell on deaf ears apparently.

If you hit a nagging problem, be certain to tell us on AskWoody, and upload a Feedback Hub report.

It’s a large update – 4 GB – so that it won’t go simple over many connections straight down.

At this point, all the nagging problems seem to be self-inflicted, although we’ve had some scattered reports that individuals are being upgraded to Win10 version 2004 without clicking “Download and install.”

With the dearth of worthwhile new functions and the ease of blocking the update, there’s simply no justification for “normal” Windows users to set up Win10 version 2004 yet just. Sit and wait before dust clears back.

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