The Windows 10 October 2018 update has been discontinued

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At its Oct. 2 Surface event, Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 10 update will be available immediately. Microsoft did not insist as much on publishing the latest features of the latest update as in previous cycles. So what exactly is under the hood of Redstone 5?

It turns out that a number of things, although most of them fall into the category of minor improvements. There is a new dark theme for Explorer if dark mode is enabled (shown below), active folders can be renamed to Start, and a new "Safe Delete" feature will tell you if running applications are running on a network. External GPU. Stopping an external GPU while running an application is usually a bad idea. In the best case, the application crashes. In the worst case, the whole system hangs. Notifications like this should help avoid this kind of problem.

There is a new Windows screen capture tool (accessible via Win + Shift + S), and copied content can now be sent to an optimized version for the clipboard cloud that synchronizes between devices and with the cloud (this feature is accessible via Win + V). . Wireless displays are now supported in three different modes (gaming, productivity and video) and the Microsoft game bar has been thought to have been redesigned with new features that will provide additional performance information. A word about the real performances improvements, but it's not surprising: the game performance of Windows 10 have already been optimized and, if there was much to do to simplify the task, Microsoft would have integrated into its general features. rather than a mode related to the ability of the game bar of the company.

Storage Sense can now move files in online mode only if they have not been accessed locally, saving space; pen users can write directly into text boxes; and here's an interesting piece: "Users can now visualize the real world with Windows Mixed Reality using a built-in camera with headsets." The mixed-reality headsets do not have fired sales, but this type of built-in camera feature could make VR headsets easier to use one day. At the very least, this could lead to fewer trampled cats.

Another welcome change, if it works? Windows Update is now supposed to use machine learning to determine when to install updates or not. We will see how effective this is. I was not seduced by Microsoft's earlier efforts to determine whether restarting a machine is a good idea or not.

Windows Central has a full description of these and other enhancements, including various minor enhancements to Edge (the "View in Folder" option has finally been added to the browser's download tab). When a tab plays the volume, it turns on when you hover over it – and the tabs can be disabled preemptively. before they start playing audio from a pop-up menu.

Overall, there do not seem to be many key features in this update. But there are many small improvements in the quality of life in various applications and capabilities. Find / Replace in Notepad, for example, now supports the loopback feature, a feature the application never had before. Unfortunately, you can now also "Search with Bing!" In Notepad, a feature I'm almost certain no one has ever asked who uses Notepad during the Year of the Lord 2018.

Well. Nothing is perfect.

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