Windows 10 Spring Creators Update.

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Well the black screen for a second or so during games came back and is worse, it happens more than once now and seemingly randomly.

It's not a great problem once you know that it only affects games and that it's only going to last a second. 

Although it still makes you wonder every time it happens if it is going to come back.

There are a few strange non-critical oddities with 1803. 

For instance Settings tells me at times that "These settings are controlled by your organisation" (or similar wording). That's a message you see on Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro editions - but this laptop is Win10 Home so there is no 'Organisation'.


I've not had the one where it says I'm on the Insider programme (yet).

I expect they'll get patched over the months, just in time for Redstone 5 to come along with a new batch of quirks. :lol:

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Those words should disappear when you do a manual update. Just about everyone I know seen that writing (in red) when doing the 1803 update.

1803 might not like you nukecad :lol:

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They are are little glitches, just about what you expect when coders are working in a rush. You tend to miss/forget little details.

PS. Do you like my new avatar? 

(The old one didn't fit properly in the circle, this one's better but still not quite right, I may have to play a bit more).

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It's a good avatar :)

Did you turn off Settings..Apps....Apps for websites?

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Not sure what you are meaning there, but my Apps for websites shows 2 entries for maps and one for Edge, and those are all turned off.

I've been working on padding the white space around my favourite avatar images and seeing if the forum will then accept them without cropping too much.

Edit - That's better.

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Well regarding the Apps for Websites setting, I was just checking if yours were off too. In general 1803 is working very well for me

As regards your avatar, it shows up better on MBAM forums than it does here.

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Well the MBAM forums got the Invision update earlier and seem to have sorted out more of the problems. 

They also don't have that cropping thing when you load a new avatar image, I think it's that that cause the problem here.

My avatar here is slightly different, and you may note that I've played some more and animated this one.

TBH The MBAM one may animate even better, I'll give it a try.

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There you go, I'll leave it at that for a while.

(Apart from going and putting it on MBAM as well - no I won't, I forgot that avatar editing has been blocked on MBAM except for higher groups).

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Just to revisit this.

The issue I reported with the blank screen when playing the solitaire games has been fixed, and a few other niggles like the time it took to stack the cards at the end of a game.

To get the upated 'fixed' version- uninstall the current one, then reinstall from the MS store.

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Microsoft Added An Address Bar to the Registry Editor in the April 2018 Update. So for instance if you needed to get to this key from instructions on a website

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

just copy and paste it into regedit's new address bar and press enter.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-added-an-address-bar-to-registry-editor-in-the-april-2018-update/

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Before you would've had to use a third party tool, or even Regjump which is by them after acquiring Sysinternals

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Thought I was going crazy for a minute as I could have sworn I'd been using the registry address bar longer than that. Seems I wasn't, the article has an update as it was the original creators update (i.e. November 2017) it was added, but it's one of those simple features that really should have been done even earlier than that IMO.

Also to revisit my prior post here, my system freeze when gaming issues have been resolved. Not 100% sure what changed to fix it, I suspect it was HWiNFO which I use to monitor temps etc as others seemed to be experiencing similar things when used in combination with latest (at the time) Nvidia drivers and both have had updates since then, so that's my best guess as to the real cause.

I'm actually looking forward to the next update now, hoping that tabbed window/workspace feature MS have apparently been working on for the last 2 updates makes the cut. I forget exactly what they call it, but essentially it's meant to allow windows to be grouped in a single window and represented with tabs in that window. I don't care so much for having different windows grouped but I do hope it means I can just use explorer tabbed without relying on a 3rd party file explorer or explorer add-on to achieve it.