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(Video here) It’s squirrel away time. Time to download a copy of Windows 10 21H1 and ensure you have a copy in case you need it to do a repair install
[See the full post at: Tasks for the weekend – September 18, 2021 – it’s squirrel away time]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Susan has been suggesting the move to 21H1 for over a month now.
The easiest way is to set TRV to 21H1 and let Windows Update take care of it.
If you use Windows Update to do the Feature Update today, you will get the September update(s) as part and parcel of the upgrade automatically. Right now, the September updates are all at level 2 of “Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don’t do it.” I take that to include performing a Feature Update at this time.
Also, in post #2390610 just above, PK said
The easiest way is to set TRV to 201H1 and let Windows Update take care of it.
I added the bolding for emphasis above. The 201H1 for the setting is a simple, human, typo so please ignore it. I’m sure that PK meant to type “21H1” instead for that setting being referred to.
Mods (Susan, PK, et. al.): If I’m somewhat misguided in the last sentence of the first paragraph of this post, please feel free to correct me.
I’ve never uninstalled a Feature Update, so ‘m not sure just what problems may arise for you, especially since you said that…
I went ahead and did feature update today on 3 of 5 systems.
This has created an unintenstional mess.
I have checked on my systems and have found that I can uninstall the last feature Update I installed (the one from 20H2 to 21H1), using the “Programs and Features” app within Control Panel and then clicking on “View installed updates” in the upper left corner of the window. In that list is where the Feature Update to 21H1 is listed and, when I clicked on it to highlight it, the Uninstall option appeared above the listing of all of the installed updates. This shows that you should be able to uninstall it.
However, if you do choose to uninstall the Feature update to await MS-DEFCON 3 or higher, please start a new topic for guidance from those here who can better help you should you experience problems uninstalling it or after uninstalling it and rebooting.
Check printing make sure you can print. If you can, leave it on. Otherwise yes you can roll back off a feature release within 10 days of installing it.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
At the top of the master patch is is always the feature release version I’m recommending. As you can see either 20H2 or 21H1 are fine.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Done. I now have a shoebox full of these .iso files, in my closet next to my Palm Pilot and install disks for Office 2003.
Huh? My Windows 10 Home system information says I’m running “Version 10.0.19042 Build 19042”. Is there a site at which I could easily get a kosher media creation tool for that? Merci.
You can get any Windows 10 ISO from heidoc.net or using Rufus
If your computer has Win already on it, it will activate automatically. The license is digitally tied to the machine online. You don’t need a key.
You can Google “Windows 10 ISO download” and it will show you the MS website to get the ISO. But it will be an ISO for whatever the current version is, which may not be the version you have at the moment. So it you save the ISOs each time, you will be able to install the version you want.
That’s an interesting idea, but what’s the catch? MS is not giving away Win 10 for free.
Yes, it does.
If you don’t have a Windows license the ISO file won’t help you much.
If you have a Windows 7, 8.1 license you can upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
If you have a Windows 10 license (which is “written” in a component on your motherboard) you can download and choose the version you want to clean install/upgrade/repair..
The license has to be a Retail license to move/transfer it to a different computer.
To get the skinny on your license, open a command prompt and type
slmgr /dlv
and hit Enter. After a very short delay, you’ll get a message box something like this:
In the Windows Secrets days there were a couple of discussions about OEM/Retail licensing. As it turned out at that time, upgrading an OEM Windows 7 Home license to Pro via the option available in Windows transformed it into a Retail license.
Also, taking advantage of the Microsoft offer to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 8/8.1/10 transformed OEM licenses to Retail. To put this observation to the test, I migrated a Windows 10 installation to my NAS successfully about six years ago, it’s still running and still licensed, even after some hardware upgrades.
YMMV
So it you save the ISOs each time, you will be able to install the version you want.
If your computer is running well with the latest Windows 10 version and you squirrel away an .iso of that version just before the next succeeding version is released is there any reason to keep .isos of older versions of Windows 10?
Personally, I like to keep the ISO or install media from the last 2-3 versions (the ones that are not EOL). I’m a pack rat.
But that’s up to you.
I had the same problem several months ago until I reformatted my USB flash drive from FAT32 to exFAT. Alex5723 alerted me to the fact that FAT32 supports file sizes up to 4GB. The .iso that I was trying to save to the USB flash drive was larger than than that.
Jun and Aug patch are not compatible and July is marked as Defer . I am very confused about what was actually installed today. win 10 pro ver 21H1 build 19043.928 is what winver gives me.
I downloaded the ISO yesterday (as instructed)
How do I get a newer build installed?
Sorry for the confusion. Very sorry
I would like to know what the bld number would be if patched up thru aug ….
Here is the info from my system. My first upgrade to this new common core operating system was 20H1 (I skipped 2004) on April 10. I upgraded by changing TRV to 20H1.
Then my next upgrade was to 21H1 on August 5. I upgraded by changing TRV to 21H1.
You can see the history of Features Updates and the last CU patch that I have applied (the August patch KB5005033 on Sept 11)
You can also see the build info here: It’s 19043.1165
and why the patch for Aug (as found in master patch list) will not install on my current bld.
Maybe the information in the Support page for KB5005033 will help, especially the section “How to Get this Update” and right below that “Before installing this update”.
Here in my installed updates section about the SSU that was installed.
Normally, the SSU installs with the CU in Win10. But there was an SSU issued in August, KB5005260 for people that had skipped installing some SSUs because of PrintNightmare.
I would suggest trying to install it first, restart, give it a few minutes to finish bootup, then try installing the August CU.
Many thanks to WCHS and PKCano
I am now running ver 21H1 build 19043.1165 on 2 Laptops.
It seems to have taken a long time to install the CU after a short install time for the SSU. Had me worried after ~15min of no mvmnt but then Bam! And it was done!
Appreciatively,
D
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