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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 892907" data-attributes="member: 69368">In the vast majority of cases that is probably very sound advice, unless you have insights to all of the build 2004 issues.I checked for 2004 yesterday on a fairly recent i5 desktop, its not available for it yet either. I suspect this has a lot to do with it -I&#039;m not going to change any of my settings just to suit Microsoft and get 2004 now. I&#039;ll wait for them to release a version which can work with all of the options we choose to take up, or not, when setting W10 up in the way that we choose.If Microsoft are trying to rein in some of the options we have been able to take up until now, that is a different matter. Not that I have any proof that this is the case, its just my long standing cynicism of what big tech companies might really be up to. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite121" alt=":cautious:" title="Cautious&nbsp; &nbsp; :cautious:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cautious:" />I&#039;ve just used the MediaCreationTool to download W10 for a friend&#039;s family PC, it got messed around by their kids downloading crap. Windows Explorer amongst other things does not work and they have no recent backup (I&#039;ve told them many a time to do that regularly! ) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite119" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />. A brand new install seemed like the best way to go. I had to use MediaCreationTool 2004 on another PC and I&#039;ve got a version of 2004 for &#039;a different device&#039;, there were no options to choose 1909. The PC in question is quite old and I really doubt whether it will cope with 2004, and vice-versa, or indeed whether it will install properly. Fortunately I have a backed-up copy of 1909 to use. It seems like Microsoft haven&#039;t covered all bases with the current download options available yet. I know that the W10 installation process checks for updates etc, I&#039;m not sure if it will rollback to an earlier version of W10 during the install process if it detects that the device is not ready for 2004, and vice-versa. Does anyone know if that happens?Edit - punctuation error!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 892907, member: 69368"] In the vast majority of cases that is probably very sound advice, unless you have insights to all of the build 2004 issues. I checked for 2004 yesterday on a fairly recent i5 desktop, its not available for it yet either. I suspect this has a lot to do with it - I'm not going to change any of my settings just to suit Microsoft and get 2004 now. I'll wait for them to release a version which can work with all of the options we choose to take up, or not, when setting W10 up in the way that we choose. If Microsoft are trying to rein in some of the options we have been able to take up until now, that is a different matter. Not that I have any proof that this is the case, its just my long standing cynicism of what big tech companies might really be up to. :cautious: I've just used the MediaCreationTool to download W10 for a friend's family PC, it got messed around by their kids downloading crap. Windows Explorer amongst other things does not work and they have no recent backup (I've told them many a time to do that regularly! ) :rolleyes:. A brand new install seemed like the best way to go. I had to use MediaCreationTool 2004 on another PC and I've got a version of 2004 for 'a different device', there were no options to choose 1909. The PC in question is quite old and I really doubt whether it will cope with 2004, and vice-versa, or indeed whether it will install properly. Fortunately I have a backed-up copy of 1909 to use. It seems like Microsoft haven't covered all bases with the current download options available yet. I know that the W10 installation process checks for updates etc, I'm not sure if it will rollback to an earlier version of W10 during the install process if it detects that the device is not ready for 2004, and vice-versa. Does anyone know if that happens? Edit - punctuation error! [/QUOTE]

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