what's new since 1909 well actually quite a lot we now have
electric cars we've got the internet we've got tv commercial jetliners
oh you mean windows 1909 to windows 2004 well in today's video we're going to see
what microsoft has added in its feature update and if the
features are worth updating for but i will say the revamp of the mouse
cursor settings especially if you're a gamer or have a
mouse without minor dpi adjustments this can help out a lot so this new
feature alone with 20 increments of sensitivity adjustment versus the
original 11 in itself is worth updating windows 2004
for though let's get into the rest of these changes
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so first off if you want to check to see if you can update to windows 2004
then you will need to be on either update 1903 or 1909
first and if it's still not there and available after that
then microsoft apparently isn't rolling it out to your computer yet
as they don't feel comfortable doing so that is it could bug out or it is a
known issue with your current cpu motherboard
and or graphics card configuration for instance on my 7980xe main rig that i'm
using at the moment it simply doesn't have the option to update to 2004.
though besides the mouse cursor another feature that they've rolled out that
is pretty good is the reset this pc now includes a cloud download option which
if selected will reset windows from the current version
you have updated to rather than the original build
that the install was done on say for instance if you use the usb stick
that's installed 1903 and you select the cloud option it'll now
update to windows 2004 if you've previously updated this os
to windows 2004 this can save you a lot of hassle and time
and personally it's a welcome addition to the list of features
you can also now enable passwordless sign-in from microsoft accounts on your
windows 10 device by going to settings accounts sign in
options and selecting on under make your devices passwordless
enabling passwordless sign-in will switch all microsoft accounts on your
windows 10 device to modern authentication
with windows hello face fingerprint or pin but for me personally i do this on
computers already that i sell and on benchmark rigs for example i just
have the pc offline first when i install windows and
then from there i just install windows with no
password but this will definitely make things better for say computers that are
in the household that multiple people use
and they're sick of typing in passwords all the time there's also the pin
sign in option for safe mode which previously was just your password and
it's now supported on all major browsers including chrome and firefox but what
about opera previously windows defender is now
renamed to microsoft defender and has system management mode which it
will scan and check your registry and io that's
input output so basically it's becoming more intense in the way it checks and
protects your system which is a good thing for some
especially if you are very blase about how you use your computer
application guard for microsoft office will also be rolled out in this
update soon though it's not available as i currently am doing this video
and as for your start menu you can now search using the start menu itself
without having to open up a browser how well this feature works for you is well
up to you i personally really like it if you want to search for some
quick info for instance currency rates if i want to convert the aussie dollar
to usd on the fly i can quickly do that now in the start
search menu and it does a really good job
there's also been a major update to the prediction of spelling and on top of
that the algorithm used for indexing which if it detects high disk usage
which is great if you can't afford an ssd for example
it will minimize the system indexing and free up system resources
this can of course in particular help laptops
and low potato pcs so another welcome addition with 2004 windows update
windows also allows you now to rename your virtual workspaces
or virtual desktop and cortana has had an overhaul where apparently it has much
better performance and has a new speech mode on top of that though you
will have to sign into your microsoft account
so if you're like me and you don't use a microsoft account on a lot of your
computers then this won't even be there to begin
with the home group option has now been removed from the give access and
performance tabs and there's also provide feedback tab
when you right click on services in task manager though speaking of task
manager this has received an update in its own
which it now monitors your gpu temperature
and also displays the model number of your ssd for example though the
temperature readout didn't work on my 5600 xt
and also the gpu scheduling update which we'll talk about soon
didn't work on the amd gpu either though as for graphics we now have
this hardware accelerated gpu scheduling option allowing your gpu to manage its
own memory better according to microsoft which is supposed to drop latency even
and improve graphics performance though the results are currently mixed
from what i'm seeing most are showing no improvements at this point in time
so if you guys want i can perhaps throw in some old potato gpus when i test this
feature out and i've known microsoft for instance
with game mode and stuff like that in the past
to have their features more tailored towards helping out potato style
computers rather than the high-end stuff so just like the gpu
temperature readout this wasn't showing on my 5600 xt though
apparently there is a registry hack that you can manually put in if you want
to get this to work though i don't really recommend doing registry hacks
especially if you want to reverse some things in
the future can cause issues the directx 12 also now has an update
for ray tracing with tier 1.1 from 1.0 which improves the efficiency of
pipeline state object additions includes the
introduction of inline ray tracing and improvements to ray tracing execution
which has an adaptive algorithm to sense the number of rays decided in proportion
to the gpu execution timeline honestly this all sounds to me like
directx 12 is getting ready for an upcoming launch of the xbox
series x though some other interesting improvements here also include texture
streaming in other words prioritizing what textures are loaded at what detail
levels stated in mips and on top of that there
is texture space shading which if a redundant space is deemed
useless it simply won't draw at saving resources
there's also the new directx mesh shader this has now been improved to reduce the
steps to two instead of previously six where the input assembler vertex shader
and whole shader now all compute from the amplification
shader and tessellation domain shading and geometry shading
are now compressed into the mesh shader this allows for more culling in these
original six steps according to microsoft and it allows for
more detail at the same frame rates so now going back to the optional
features page here you can multi-select read out additional information
and browse via the latest actions button everybody's favorite notepad
and honestly i use notepad a lot so this is a good addition for me
it's got an update as well you can now wrap around text find and replace things
and you also have text zooming line numbers and column numbers
are also visible down the bottom by default
and there's also a star to show changes are not yet saved and you can send
feedback to to microsoft within notepad itself
there's also utf-8 encoding and the ability to control shift in a
new notepad window ctrl shift save as dialog ctrl shift w to close the notepad
window there's also some bug changes that have
been fixed and if you didn't know they existed
then that's good in the settings tab the network status display has now been
revamped to show more information about your network connections
showing how much data is being used easier and what connections are now
being connected to what on the fly then windows has also
improved wsl 2 linux networking applications using localhost and windows
sandbox has made bug fixes and more control
great for installing and testing unverified apps for example
and microsoft edge has had some improvements as well
bluetooth pairing has been sped up so you don't need to go to notifications to
finish pairing microsoft have also introduced a thing
called desktop analytics a cloud-based service that requires
an e3 or e5 license which i don't personally own so i can't really tell
you about this feature app volume and device preferences has received an
update it's now a little more usable though i still much prefer the sound
control panel personally and you can now take off suggestions too
in notifications and actions and if you're into networking with cameras
you've now got native support for that too
the magnifier though this has received some updates with the keep mouse pointer
settings option offered and there's also now a reading
option to change the way magnifier behaves
it also has support for dark themes and has play selected text and
caps lock or insert options available disk cleanup can also apparently now
backtrack changes though i couldn't see this
option available and there's been improvements to foreign language ime
namely korean japanese and chinese eye control has also been
updated you can now drag and drop pause and it has more open source support and
more support from things like joysticks etc
delivery of updates now gives you the option to throttle based on absolute
bandwidth very handy feature for gamers in my
opinion especially if you have australian internet like i do
you can throttle this setting so if you're playing games and there's a
windows update that suddenly pops up in your face you
won't have to worry about skipped frames or anything like that
because it won't be using up all your bandwidth narrator itself has also
received a plethora of improvements too too many to list in this video to be
honest though you can now select from new
options including donor now increase pitch and say cap and now for
the last of the updates which is personally one of my favorite is now the
narrator has the text cursor page and this gets a cool aesthetic update
which can help show the cursor easier and you can now select from different
colors and i'm really digging this one i'm going to leave it on legit and so
there it all is with the changes to windows 2004
from 1909. if you guys enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like
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have you had any troubles with this update so
far and are you enjoying these new changes do let us know but i will say
one thing i mean it's still a little buggy i mean
i'm trying to change my mouse settings in the original menu
and then i go back to the other menu and it starts changing by itself so there
will be some bugs if you want to update to this newest
update when it first is released and this happened with 1909
and even 1903 before that but overall i think some of the changes
here are definitely a welcome addition mainly for the mouse and the dx12
updates but with that out of the way if you guys have stayed this far
and you're enjoying that content and you want to see the moment of drops then be
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windows 10 2004 optimization guide for gamers coming out
very soon can't wait to bring that one for you and
i'll catch you in another tech video very soon
peace out for now bye [Music]
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