Fall Update has started to roll out.

nightmare99 · 21 Oct 2017 at 17:29

Have you tried to clean install Office?

Destination · 21 Oct 2017 at 17:44

@nightmare99
I will do that next.
I have to ensure I have all my outlook settings backed up, everything else is fine, just want to make sure i don't lose any outlook stuff.
Someone officy remind me, is it just the psts i need, or another config file as well?

Destination · 21 Oct 2017 at 20:39

I think a full reinstall would have worked, uninstalling was pain as something somewhere had been corrupted, so when i got it all uninstalled, I ended up simply installing Office 2013 as I had a version of it not on any machine currently.
I am a little closer to current, but it'll be a while to get used to all the new features and different ways of doing things.

What was very nice, uninstall 2007, install 2-13, and outlook remembers all the accounts it used to have and automatically updates and uses the old active and archive pst file too.
handy!

IT Troll · 22 Oct 2017 at 09:05

My boot time and login-to-desktop time are scary fast since installing FCU. They're weren't particularly slow before.

Phil2008 · 22 Oct 2017 at 17:33

nightmare99 said:
Office 2007 is now end of support (although I have seen it work without issue on Win 10 1709).

Im still using Office XP 2002, hehe. But then again I rarely use office.

Leebone · 23 Oct 2017 at 11:17

How do you know if your getting the fall update if you install via usb media creator?

Elevon · 23 Oct 2017 at 11:49

Leebone said:
How do you know if your getting the fall update if you install via usb media creator?

In System it will tell you the version of Win10 installed ie Fall edition update is version 1709.

Leebone · 23 Oct 2017 at 12:19

Elevon said:
In System it will tell you the version of Win10 installed ie Fall edition update is version 1709.

Apologies, i meant before you install?

marc2003 · 23 Oct 2017 at 12:56

Right click the .exe you downloaded>Properties and check the details tab for the version number. It should be 16299.15. If you've already downloaded the ISO then you can mount it and check the version of setup.exe in the same way.

Leebone · 23 Oct 2017 at 13:38

marc2003 said:
Right click the .exe you downloaded>Properties and check the details tab for the version number. It should be 16299.15. If you've already downloaded the ISO then you can mount it and check the version of setup.exe in the same way.

Thanks, ill take a look when i get home.

mikeo · 25 Oct 2017 at 18:40

Anyone know how big this download is??? As mines just started to download and it looks like it could be a bigie to me.

marc2003 · 25 Oct 2017 at 18:47

The media creator downloads a compressed ESD file which is converted to ISO and is around 3GB. The full ISO is around 4.4GB.

(assuming 64bit as anyone on these forums wanting 32bit needs to taken out back and shot

)

mikeo · 25 Oct 2017 at 21:23

marc2003

Thanks for that.

Had a bit of a panic initially, as it seemed to install OK. But then nothing seemed to work properly!!! Poo ahoy me thinks. Took a couple of restarts and then it seemed to sort itself out. At the moment, I can't really see much of interest to me. Maybe changes under the hood (EG. security wise) may have occurred that are always worth having.

killsta · 26 Oct 2017 at 14:02

Does anyone know how I can install the previous Creators Update (build 1703) onto a fresh Win 10 install?

My Razer Blade has been returned from repair, however I can't install the Fall Creators Update on it as it doesn't work on Razer systems yet....

marc2003 · 26 Oct 2017 at 14:40

You can download the ISO from this site... (it generates links to microsoft's servers - perfectly legit)
https://tb.rg-adguard.net/index.php

Assuming you have a USB stick, use rufus to write it...

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

killsta · 26 Oct 2017 at 18:45

Cheers. Luckily WU installed the first Creators Update first, then after it installed I managed to defer all other 'feature updates' for a year

Phil2008 · 26 Oct 2017 at 22:35

I have just checked for updates today and still no fall update?. But do I want it though?

shamus21 · 27 Oct 2017 at 12:30

Phil2008 said:
I have just checked for updates today and still no fall update?. But do I want it though?

I would wait it out to many issues it has been rushed out again.

Phil2008 · 27 Oct 2017 at 14:10

shamus21 said:
I would wait it out to many issues it has been rushed out again.

Will do, plus I have changed this to "Current Branch for Business" so hopefully it wont be appearing anytime soon.

Danny75 · 28 Oct 2017 at 20:51

If anyone had Superfetch and/or Windows Search disabled, may want to check in Services to see if they have been re-enabled with the Fall update (was the case on my system).