Well, it's that time of the year again where Windows 10 gets a somewhat major update they do this about every six months
so twice a year and this time the major new build number is
1909 and interestingly this time Microsoft didn't release a big major feature updates with lots of new visual features and stuff that you might
Necessarily notice. It's more of a service pack type update with a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff and a lot of quality of life and quality
Updates to the operating system, so there might not be a lot of major new features
But there are still some minor ones that you might notice so it's still worth going over them
So, you know what's going on. Now the first big change you'll probably notice is how the update itself is actually delivered
So usually what would happen is with these?
semi-annual major updates
They would pretty much just install automatically and obviously Microsoft had a lot of issues in the past with some things breaking
There was that one catastrophe where files were getting deleted. So Microsoft actually kind of wised up and made it
So now these semiannual every six months major updates are actually optional to a point
So now every time one of these major updates becomes available now in the Windows Update settings
You'll see that it's actually shows up as optional
So if you check for updates
It won't actually install this update unless you specifically go to the optional part and you can see specifically it says optional updates
Available and then you can click to download and install it and then that will actually install
the major update now one big thing to keep in mind is the update will only be
Optional so long as your current major build of Windows 10 is still under support which usually lasts about 18 months
So I believe that would make the last one
1803 which was from the beginning of last year
So if you do have that version of Windows after that falls out of support, you will be automatically upgraded to 1909
So you can basically put off these major updates for about 18 months and then it will force you to update now
I think that's a lot better system because hopefully after 18 months you would think that the kinks would be completely worked out
so now you can rest assured that you won't be forced to update to these major new versions if you don't want to and this
also may be the start of a new update schedule that window ten will go on from now on where there's a
major new feature update in the first half of the year and then more of a
Quality of life Service Pack type update in the second half of the year like this one is we'll have to see how that plays
Out over the next few years. But anyway, let's get into these new features and some changes in this new version
So the first new feature change has to do with the windows sandbox, so that was released in a previous build
I believe the most recent major one and now it allows you to have a little bit more control over the actual
isolation and the sandbox
so for example
You can actually have a different version of Windows 10 running in the sandbox to test things out than the hosts version
So I haven't actually tested this out myself because my computer does not play well with virtualization
But this could theoretically mean that maybe you're running a different build in the sandbox
Which might be helpful if you're a developer
One feature you might notice is if you bring up the calendar you click on the time and bring up the calendar
There's now a new option in the flyout menu to add a calendar event right there
You can just click on that add an event on a date right from that
Also there have been a few different changes to notifications
so for example
You can actually disable notifications from specific apps and websites in the notification bar when it pops out
There's like a little gear and then you can just turn that off and also there's going to be a manage
notifications button at the top of the Action Center that will bring up the
Notifications and actions setting page so you don't have to like navigate through the settings anymore
You can take it from right there
Another change is that when you do a search now from Windows Explorer, it'll be a little bit different
So it'll actually use the same search as the taskbar search like the window search
It's called so now you'll be able to see files that are not just locally stored
but also from the cloud like through onedrive like office 365
Whatever before I guess that would not show up if you search through Explorer only through the Start menu taskbar
So now you'll get the consistent results between the two and also if you click in the search bar
It'll now show most recently searched for things in there
That'll pop up one small change for the Start menu is now when you bring it up and you hover over those left side buttons
It'll now just expand out to show what those buttons are
Now one significant feature that was added is support for third party virtual assistants to the Start menu now
I don't believe this has been taken advantage out by any of these but this theoretically could mean that like the Google assistant or
Amazon echo will be able to be added to your Windows 10 Start menu
not just
Cortana or whatever and I believe the Amazon echo is probably going to be the first one I've heard that will be doing this
There's also been some performance improvements. So for example now Windows 10 will apparently better
Distribute workloads over the CPUs favored cores, this is all automatic
It goes on in the background so you don't have to worry about it
But you could see a performance increase theoretically you might not notice it but whatever and also apparently certain processors will have better
power management, so
Probably this is gonna count only towards laptops, but you might see an improvement in battery life
Then the results of some enterprise
Level features that most consumers are gonna not give a crap about at all
For example in Windows 10 S which I've talked about in the past is like a really lockdown version that normally would only allow
Microsoft Store apps to be running now
It will allow you to set a policy in enterprise that would allow some
Win32 apps to run even on Windows 10s and also they improved security on air and 64 devices by now allowing
The Windows Defender credential guard to run on a RM 64 another feature that's more enterprise side of things
Is that the Windows virtual?
desktop feature which allows you to basically run some apps and entire versions of Windows from the cloud with a juror is
generally available so you can pretty much run that I think and in any case
I guess there were restrictions on it before
but now if you want to do that you can and then they actually removed some features but none of them are really
significant for example there apparently removing the my people
In the shell or the taskbar that was a thing they were doing for a while. I guess they're gonna be
Depreciating that or removing it all together very soon. And then there was other stuff like packaged state management
Oh
No
not packaged state management anything but that
Stuff we don't really care about and that's pretty much actually it so not a lot even considering
This was a so-called major update there probably was a lot of bug fixes in the background
But I don't think anything that they've really talked about is gonna be a really eye-opening
So hopefully this means it's a probably safe upgrade considering it was mostly focused on bug fixes anyway
so it would be a real screw-up if you updated to it and then it broke usually I
Say it's probably better to wait on these major updates even this one
That's probably not a bad idea, but really bits fought to you
so anyway enough of that but a video I did make recently that was pretty fun that I recommend watching next with what happens if
You delete the windows folder the windows directory while windows is running. It was pretty fun experiment
So you'll just be able to click on that pop-out right there?
So thanks so much for watching guys, and I'll see you in the next video