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Windows 10 October 2018 Update Adoption Is Very Slow

The newest Windows 10 build, more commonly known as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is available again for download. And, according to the latest reports released by AdDuplex, its adoption is improving at an extremely slow pace. Indeed, Microsoft is gradually deploying its updates around the world as more bugs are fixed, but also because users are probably more cautious and do not rush to install the new builds.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update Adoption Is Very Slow

The Windows 10 October 2018 Update rolled out initially in early October, but Microsoft removed it a few days later, after encountering a critical bug causing private data loss, as some users reported back then. As some users experience deletion of several files in the Documents library, Microsoft has remover all download links to test patches as part of the Windows Insider program.

The second version of the October 2018 Update update rolled out earlier this month (November), but its market share is not growing as fast as Microsoft wants. According to some reports, only 3% of Windows 10 computers are currently running the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, compared to just 2.3% in October.

Older Windows 10 Versions Are Starting To Lose Ground

The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) is now the third most used version of Microsoft’s operating system, but it is far behind others. The Creators Update (version 1703) only works on 1.5% of computers worldwide.

The adoption of the new version 1809 (Windows 10 October 2018 Update) is expected to boost in the upcoming weeks, as Microsoft will push it to more devices around the world. The slow deployment of this update is occurring because the Redmond-based tech giant is gradually fixing all the reported bugs.

In addition to all that, AdDuplex reports revealed that, among the Surface devices, the most popular model remains the Surface Pro 4 with 25.3% market share, followed by the Surface Pro (2017) with 18.6%. The new Surface Pro 6 adoption is growing rapidly, boasting a 5.2% market share, at the moment.

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Windows 10 October 2018 Update Conflicts With Specific Intel Drivers

Microsoft’s operating system update, Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is already the company’s worst release to date, according to many reports from both IT specialists and regular users. After the update rolled out, it began to come to light the multitude of bugs it contained, culminating with the error that deleted the personal files of some users.

In the middle of this month, Microsoft released a supposed version that corrected these bugs, but others have remained untouched and are still causing a lot of problems for users. Facing with this humiliating situation, Microsoft has chosen to block the Windows 10 October 2018 Update for some users because of some conflict with specific audio drivers of the computers that upgraded to the new version.

Some users have witnessed that the sound on their computers shuts down unexpectedly, while others have observed that their screens turn darker with no apparent reasons. Also, the most unfortunate users are still experiencing the deletion of personal files caused by Windows 10 October 2018 Update, although they installed the patch that supposedly fixes this issue.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update Still Causing Problems For Users

Microsoft has come out to report on some compatibility problems between its Windows 10 October 2018 Update with several Intel drivers released in September. The giant tech company points out that these activate functions that are not compatible with Windows and therefore cause the failures.

Those affected drivers include versions 24.20.100.6344 and 24.20.100.6345, which cause Microsoft to be blocking the Windows 10 October 2018 Update on specific computers, as well as advising users to contact technical support to disable the incompatibility. To find out if your computer is affected by this issues, you have to go to the Device Manager, display the Screen Adapters tab, right-click on the Intel drivers and click Properties.

There you must check the version of the driver and, if you find one of the before-mentioned ones, contact Microsoft for help.

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Microsoft Re-launched Windows 10 October 2018 Update With Bug Fixes And Improvements

Microsoft has re-launched Windows 10 October 2018 Update after fixing the bugs that caused the update’s withdrawal twice and the delay in its deployment. At the time of launch, Microsoft’s vice president for Windows OS has promised to improve software quality and delivery of these seasonal updates.

The new Windows 10 October 2018 Update will roll out gradually and, for the time being, only for users who manually update their operating system or those who downloaded the media creation tool and/or ISO.

If all goes well and severe bugs would not be reported again, Microsoft will gradually offer the upgrade to a broader market of Windows 10 users in the upcoming weeks, until a global deployment would be implemented via Windows Update.

Microsoft Re-launched Windows 10 October 2018 Update With Bug Fixes And Improvements

Besides the known bug fixes and security updates that cover the last two months, there are no relevant new features beyond those of the original Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Also, some stability improvements have been implemented.

Many users complained about the lack of quality control within the Insider testing program of the initial Windows 10 October 2018 Update. In accordance, Microsoft has promised to update the Feedback Hub tool so that the testers can report the level of bugs’ severity.

Some testers reported, before the Windows 10 October 2018 Update release, some of the most severe bugs in this version, but none of the reports received too many affirmative votes. Most users complained about poor interface performance or customization.

Along with the re-launch of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Microsoft’s vice president Michael Fortin has posted an official blog entry titled “Windows 10 Quality Approach to a Complex Ecosystem. Basically, it promises to improve the quality of software and the delivery of these updates.

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Microsoft Launched KB4464455 For Windows 10 October 2018 Update To Fix Some Bugs

Although initially, Microsoft was happy after the staging of its most recent update, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, little by little all that enthusiasm lowered due to the severe errors that users worldwide reported. That’s why the giant tech company had to correct those bugs with the new KB4464455. Accordingly, Microsoft launched a new Build, but only for the Windows Insider program’s members, to check out the fixing of the bugs the users detected in the last major update of the renowned operating system.

For example, the severe issue found in the Task Manager, which causes incorrect details to be displayed in the processes tab, was ruled out in the new KB4464455 update. In particular, this was a problem that Microsoft itself admitted after the launch of the Windows 10 October 2018 update for the members of the Windows Insider program. Somehow, this error reached the final release of the update.

On the other hand, the new KB4464455 update also solves a series of errors with various third-party antivirus solutions, as well as some compatibility bugs with multiple drivers, although no further details were provided in this regard. Reportedly, it also fixed a problem that, occasionally caused the IME to not work in Edge sessions, as well as a bug that made program unresponsive after waking up PCs from the sleep mode.

Microsoft released KB4464455 to fix bugs of the recent Windows 10 October 2018 Update

However, you must keep in mind that this new KB4464455 version does not bring any new features to the Microsoft’s operating system, as was to be expected, since its primary objective is to improve the performance of the software before Microsoft resumes Windows 10 October 2018 Update’s global implementation on devices around the world.

The problems with the most recent major update have not stopped. That until the giant tech company had to pause delivering the Update after the finding of a severe bug that caused the deletion of users’ personal files after installing the patch. That was unacceptable for Microsoft.

Although Microsoft has already solved this problem, for the moment, the Windows 10 October 2018 Update is still available for some of the Windows Insider program’s members, as others high-level testers are already probing the upcoming Windows 10 Redstone 6.

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Ccleaner Is Not Working Correctly On Windows 10 October 2018 Update

It is clear that Ccleaner is not going through its best moments, nowadays, and everything comes from its purchase by Avast and changes that have been included, such as data collection. However, Ccleaner was the best cleaning and optimization tool for Windows and is still a popular software. Now, this application must face a new problem, as it does not work correctly in the new Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

On Tuesday night, Windows 10 October 2018 Update is reaching all users. This new version of Windows comes with many changes and many improvements both visually and under the hood. Although so far no compatibility problems with common programs have been detected after upgrading to this version, some users complain that Ccleaner is not working correctly under Windows 10 October 2018 Update.

Ccleaner can not clean files in the new version of Windows 10

Users who still use this application to clean and optimize Windows have started complaining that, after upgrading to Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Ccleaner has stopped working correctly.

When users try to perform cleanup, the program is unable to remove specific content, such as recent files, system events or registry errors, among other items. Also, the user is prompted to close Edge, even if Edge is already closed.

These problems can be seen on any computer running Windows 10 October 2018 Update and the latest patches and the latest version of Ccleaner. Luckily, the company has already found the problem and claims to be working to fix it as soon as possible with a new update.

Windows 10 Storage Sense should make you forget Ccleaner

It is true that Ccleaner has been, in the past, one of the best applications to keep computers clean of junk files or to optimize PCs’ performance in a few clicks. However, for some time now this tool is no longer what it used to be, and in addition to not being as effective as it has been once, it started collecting data on its users.

For a year now, Windows 10 has had its own cleaning tool, the so-called Storage Sense. This tool, included by default in Windows 10, in the Configuration menu, takes charge of cleaning the hard disk of temporary and unnecessary files to have your equipment always ready without having to depend on other applications. It is also useful for optimizing your PC, so, since Ccleaner is not working correctly in the new Windows 10 October 2018 Update, you have one more reason to ditch Ccleaner.

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