Windows 10 Version 1903

What’s new in version 1903 of windows 10? Known as the May 2019 Update or Version 1903, codenamed as 19H1 during development, features speed improvements, a light theme, and lots of polish. The stable update began rolling out on May 21^st 2019 and became available to all users as of June 6^th 2019.

How To Get Update To Windows 10 Version 1903

Browse to Windows Update, click the option for “Feature Update to Windows 10, Version 1903”. According to Microsoft everyone now have the option to get this update via Windows Update.

Brief Introduction and Features of Windows 10 Update Version 1903

1.      Speed Improvements

Spectre, a design glitch in CPUs which allows programs to escape their restrictions and read other program’s memory spaces has been patched by windows to help block spectre attacks, but those patches reduced PCs performance. Windows 10 update version 1903 has now practically eliminated those performance penalties and speed up your PC. In short, after this update your PC should get faster and you don’t even need to think about it. Microsoft explains here how these optimizations work. 

2.    Storage Reserved For Updates

If your PC doesn’t have enough space to install updates then windows update gets failed. To counter this issue Microsoft has reserved 7 GB of your PCs storage for windows update and programs can also save temporary files here. When Windows requires the space it deletes temporary files and performs the update.

3.    Improved update notifications

Whenever an update requires you to restart your device, you’ll see a colored dot on the Power button in the Start menu and on the Windows icon in your taskbar. 

4.    Intelligent active hours

To further enhance active hours, users will now have the option to let Windows Update intelligently adjust active hours based on their device-specific usage patterns. You have to enable the intelligent active hours feature for the system to predict device-specific usage patterns. 

5.    Update rollback improvements

With update version 1903 of Windows 10, you can automatically recover from startup failures by removing updates if the startup failure was introduced after the installation of recent driver or quality updates. If a device is unable to start up properly after the recent installation of Quality of driver updates, Windows will then automatically uninstall the updates to get the device back up and running normally.

6.    Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

·       Attack surface area reduction: Users and administrators can configure devices with advanced web protection that enables them to define allow and deny lists for specific URL’s and IP addresses.

·       Next generation protection: With this update version of Windows 10, defender controls have been extended to protection from ransomware, credential misuse, and attacks that are transmitted through removable storage.

·       Integrity enforcement capabilities: This feature enables remote runtime attestation of Windows 10 platform.

·       Tamper-proofing capabilities: This version uses virtualization based security to isolate critical ATP security capabilities away from the OS and attackers.

·       Platform support: ATP’s functionality of Windows Defender has been extended to support Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients, as well as macOS, Linux, and Windows Server.

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