Windows 10 October 2020 Update is now available with an updated Start menu and more

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Microsoft is remission its Windows 10 October 2020 Amend to over a billion users today. Much like last year, this additional Windows 10 amend of 2020 is other of a Signification Pack than a major release. Microsoft has, however, made some likeable tweaks, including a refreshed Start menu, some Alt Tab changes, as well as the bundling of the new Chromium-powered Microsoft Edge.

The better visual extravagate is, of course, the updated Start menu. Microsoft's new fabricating kills off the solid pink trailing app logos as well as adds a cellophane deeds to tiles instead. The end result is unaffectedly a Start newsprint that's functionally the same, except that's a lot easier to scan to find your apps.

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New Alt Tab interface.

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Microsoft's additional significant extravagate is how Alt Tab works. Traditionally, you use Alt Tab to roll through desktop apps that are ajar in Windows, except the list now includes all ajar tabs in Microsoft Edge. Microsoft is conventionalities Windows 10 users to switch-over rearmost to the dummy Alt-Tab experience, though.

The final important distension is related to PC gaming. Microsoft has never made it easy to set up as well as domination pathfinder twain ante in Windows, leading to mucho forgetting to impute 144Hz or higher modes on their monitors. You can now switch-over to higher twain ante directly aural the Windows 10 settings panel (Settings > Tessellation > Display, Meliority brandish settings). It's preferable than jumping into a legacy interface coltish in settings or having to domination this from AMD or Nvidia's apps.

Microsoft's other improvements to Windows 10 with this October 2020 Amend are plane other minor. Notifications now include app logos at the top to scandalize them easier to manage as well as identify, the taskbar has been decluttered for new Windows 10 users, as well as tablet orate no longer shows a notification if you're utilizing a 2-in-1 laptop.

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New pathfinder twain rate setting.

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While the Windows 10 October 2020 Amend is bettering today, there's a episode you nimbleness not be common-sense to install it neutral yet. Microsoft typically takes a bit-by-bit fosse to its Windows rollouts, as well as this one is arriving in the average of a pandemic where everyone is relying on laptops as well as PCs other than before.

"We are demography a moderate seeker-based rollout fosse to the October 2020 Update," explains John Cable, Microsoft's leading of Windows Servicing as well as Delivery. "We are throttling availability over the coming weeks to ensure a reliable download sensibleness therefore the amend may not be offered to you seize away. Additionally, some devices nimbleness presuppose a congeniality kegger for which a safeguard maharishi is in place, therefore we will not oomph the amend until we are confident that you will presuppose a gratifying amend experience."

If your device is instanter supported, then you can determent for the Windows 10 October 2020 Amend in the Windows Amend section of settings (Settings > Amend & Security > Windows Update). Otherwise, this latest amend should communicated in the coming weeks.

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