Windows 10 Gets Its March Cumulative Update

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Windows 10 Gets Its March Cumulative Update
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/106864/windows-10-gets-march-cumulative-update

by PAUL THURROTT
Posted on MARCH 14, 2017

After taking last month off, Microsoft is back on the normal Patch Tuesday schedule. And among the updates heading out today are cumulative updates for all of the supported versions of Windows 10.

If you’re on Windows 10 version 1607 (which is to say, the Anniversary Update), you’ll seeKB4013429 among the updates you’ll receive today. This update adds no new features, as usual, but fixes a number of bugs and increments the OS build number to 14393.953. You might also see KB4013418 and some other updates as well. (And if you’re on an older Windows 10 version, you will see slight different updates.)

According to Microsoft, KB4013429 includes the following changes:

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The update seemed to go well on my Win 10 VM test system…

Screen grab: http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Win10/14393/14393.953.png

Note that this test system is just that – for testing Win 10, not for real work.

For the first time on my test system yesterday I noticed that the SuperFetch service was continually reading files from my system drive when the system was idle (it normally stops when the cache is pre-filled with files you’re likely to need).

Also, there have been confirmed reports that MS Dynamics CRM 2011 is negatively affected by the March updates, though it’s not clear whether the problem extends to Win 10 systems. It sounds like the root cause of that still needs to be identified.

I suggest that people with Win 10 systems that they need to rely upon should still heed Woody’s MS-DEFCON 2 level and put off updating until the dust settles. I’m sure that once Woody feels enough time has gone by and others have verified that the latest updates haven’t broken anything else he’ll move the MS-DEFCON level to 3 or more.

-Noel

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