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Windows 10 Creators Update

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The Windows 10 Creators Update brings 3D for everyone, the best experience for 4K gaming and for game broadcasting, and a faster way to connect with the people that matter most. Get a first look at these features and more, coming early 2017 for free to over 400 million Windows 10 PCs. - Microsoft

Feature highlights

Night light (Blue light reduction, on/off manually and scheduled)

New OOBE (Out Of Box Experience - the wizard(s) that guide you through the initial setup & install of Windows)

Native USB Audio 2.0 support

New keyboard shortcut: Win + Shift + S (select an area on your screen and an image of it is copied to your clipboard)

Can now create folders in the Start Menus tile area

Game mode (preliminary testing seems to indicate it helps with FPS dips/minimum FPS)

New inbox app: Paint 3D

You can now buy books through the Windows Store (and read them In Edge)

The Win32 Windows Defender has been removed and Windows Defender systray icon replaced with Windows Defender Security Center icon

"Pick up where you left off" (requires Cortana)

Game Bar now provides support in full screen for an additional 88 titles

On-screen touchpad

Updated Bluetooth API with GATT Server, Bluetooth LE Peripheral role and unpaired Bluetooth LE device connectivity support

Features

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Windows Update experience

Numlock setting, UAC settings, startup shortcuts, custom (registry) scan code mappings, optional components, custom printer names and folders pinned to the Start Menu are now preserved through updates

Apps that have been de-provisioned from your OS image won't install again automatically unless you reinstalled them yourself

Apps you have previously uninstalled will no longer be installed with every new upgrade

Windows Update will now ask you to schedule a pending update if no good timeslot to automatically update can be found

Unified Update Platform (future updates can be smaller now => faster download and install)

Ability to defer/pause cumulative security updates for 7 days - thanks /u/oftheterra !

Shell

Lunar calendar support in the Taskbar-Calendar flyout

You can now connect to a VPN from within the Network fly-out after selecting it

New default tile layout for clean installs

New Share icon

New share experience / Share UI

Improved high-dpi scaling in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and Disk Management

Desktop wizards like "Map a network drive" and "Extract from zip" will now scale properly when moving from one monitor to another

New per-application enhanced scaling mode - thanks /u/oftheterra !

Improved the system tray logic to be more robust when bad data is presented

Notifications in the Action center now support inline progress bars

Behavior of the scrollbar has been improved for apps using the Creators Update SDK (Apps targeting 15063+)

The "Settings" entry in the taskbar context menu has been renamed "Taskbar settings"

The "All apps" button in Start will now show a badge with the number of new apps

Cortana

You can now set Cortana to not listen when Windows + C is used

When searching for an app in Cortana, it will now show you commands that work within that app

(Cortana) Time-based reminders can now be recurring every month or year

Cortana can now shut down, restart and lock your device

Cortana can now change the volume of your device

If the device is idle, saying "Hey Cortana" will show a full screen UI optimized for long distance reading

UWP and Apps

New inbox "Quick Assist" App. Request remote help from friends or assist friends remotely even on Home Edition

New inbox "Mixed Reality" App - thanks /u/oftheterra !

Apps can now implement compact mode, which allows an app to be shown on the screen in a small window on top of the window that's currently in focus (like "Picture-in-Picture"-mode on many TVs)

Apps can now make custom groups for notifications

Apps can now overwrite the timestamp in their notifications

New rendering technology for all UWP apps

Reliability improvements to UWP apps

Alarms from 3rd party alarm apps can now break through Quiet Hours

Settings app

New "Apps" settings page/category that consolidates many previously scattered settings

New "Gaming" settings page/category

You can now hide the apps list in the start menu

Custom accent color picker

Custom background color picker

Many Settings moved around

You can now set websites to open in apps if the website allows it

"Wi-Fi Sense" and "Paid Wi-Fi Services" have been merged into the new "Wi-Fi Services" on the "Wi-Fi" page

A new option has been added under "Storage" to allow you to let Windows remove unused temporary files and files that have been in the recycle bin for longer than 30 days

Dynamic lock

PCs will no longer have to reboot after turning on Developer Mode

Settings up Windows Hello now provides visual guidance which tracks your face in real-time

Improved design on the Printers & scanners settings page

Improved design on the storage usage settings page

Custom scaling factors now possible

"Theme" section in settings

"Enhanced" telemetry/diagnostics choice removed

Many more (custom) gestures for precision touchpads including custom key macros

You can now let Windows block most non-Store apps or ask for confirmation before installing

Under "Restart settings" you can now require Windows Update to show more notifications before restarting

Windows Update has a new icon, resembling the outline of the Windows-logo with two circling arrows in it

Hyper-V

You can now override the scaling in Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Hyper-V instances will now remember your zoom level for the next session

You can now resize Hyper-V windows in Enhanced session mode

Other

Windows Hello recognition has been improved

Improved video playback quality on the target device when using Miracast to connect between a high-DPI PC to another high-DPI device

Registry editor got an address bar (and new keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl + L)

Narrator keyboard shortcut changes

Narrator can now explain context of whatever it is reading

OAuth is now supported for Yahoo Mail accounts

Improved many translations

Rainbow flag emoji added

Support for spatial sound (e.g. Dolby Atmos)

Beam.pro livestreaming now built-in to the GameBar

Windows will now respond better when Win + L is pressed when playing a full screen game

The Alt + F4 Shutdown dialog has been improved to better handle DPI changes with external monitors

Updated advanced properties in Sounds control panel to allow you to select 24 and 32 bit at 176400Hz, and 16, 24 and 32 bit at 352800 Hz as the default format for devices that support it

The Trusted Platform Module Management control panel has been updated to provide more info when the TPM is "Not ready for use" or "Ready for use, with reduced functionality"

Snipping tool can now be used completely without a mouse

Installing Bash on Ubuntu on Windows will now install version 16.04 instead of 14.04

Many many WSL improvements lead to better compatibility - for example ifconfig works now!

You can now launch Windows binaries from a WSL command prompt

... and Linux binaries from Windows by calling "bash.exe -c "

The "Open command window here" context menu item has been replaced with "Open PowerShell window here"

Command Prompt has been replaced with PowerShell in the Win + X menu by default - same in File Explorers extended context menu

When you turn off Wi-Fi you can now set it to turn back on automatically on a timer

Can now set all audio to be mono

You can now disable Microsoft from using diagnostic data to provide a tailored experience

On devices with more than 3.5 GB memory, service hosts will be split into individual processes

When one process fails, it will no longer take down the whole service host

Task Manager will give a better overview of what Windows is doing in these background processes

It will be easier to troubleshoot which process is causing issues for both IT pros and Microsoft

Process will now all have their own individual permissions, improving security

Improved precision touchpad recognitions for left and right clicks, two-finger taps, improving pin-to-zoom and two-finger tap detection

Improved recognition for 3 finger gestures for precision touchpads

Improved framerates when the Game bar is being shown on full screen games

Wi-Fi Calling has been added

Improved scaling for games that have a different aspect ratio than the native display resolution

Braille

Ink Workspace: improved performance and reliability plus small improvements to usability

Microsoft Edge

Edge will now open the Connect pane when clicking "Cast media to device"

Improves the behavior of the "Find on page" feature to show the found result more central in the page

eBook Reader (incl. reading books aloud)

Automatically blocks flash

Full color emoji

WebRTC 1.0 now on by default

H.264/AVC is now enabled by default for RTC

Re-deferral support

Chakra JIT is not out-of-process by default

Support for SharedArrayBuffer and WebAssembly behind the Experimental JavaScript Features flag

Web Notes has a new icon and works like Ink Workspace now

Set tabs aside (and share them!)

Run .exe download without saving it

New PDF toolbar + search

Improved performance, reliability and support for todays and tomorrows web standards and new technologies

You can now import and export favorites from and to a file

In addition to "Alt + D" and "F6" You can now also use "Ctrl + O" to move focus to the address bar

Noteworthy bugfix: When using the "uBlock Origin" extension, Edge would sometimes prompt to download websites instead of opening them - that is now fixed!

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Articles

Reddit, Windows10: Creators Update changelog

Microsoft: Windows 10 Creators Update

PC World: Windows 10 Creators Update: The 5 biggest changes

Engadget: Microsoft's Windows 10 Creators Update lives up to its name

The Verge: Windows 10's Creators Update arrives on April 11th

The Verge: Windows 10 Creators Update: all the new features Microsoft didn't mention

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