Windows 10: 2004 May 2020 Feature Update

A couple of weeks ago I received a notification that the latest feature update was due to be installed on my computer 2004. I postponed the update for a week because I was working on something. But a week later when I pressed "update and restart" on the main menu, nothing. My computer just restarted like normal. When I "checked for updates" there was just a cumulative update and a security update available, which I installed. "Check for updates" shows no sign of any feature update. Did Microsoft withdraw it for some reason? Two feature updates a year is kind of a pain, but I like to stay up to date. My last feature update was December, I think. I use Windows 10 Pro.

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Administrative Templates for Windows 10 May 2020 Update (2004)

Read more and download: Download Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 May 2020 Update (2004) from Official Microsoft Download Center


See also:

• How to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004
• Known and Resolved issues for Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004
• What is new in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004
• Features removed and deprecated in Windows 10 version 2004

 

How to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004

I presume the total absence of any tiles is your personal choice, as is removing the Search, Cortana and TaskView icons from the task bar. Seems you are a minimalist. Not my style, but I'll respect your choice.

You link definitely shows the Start, there's no doubt because on the left it includes the power button, a user icon, etc. but it doesn't show the All apps list as your 1909 screenshot does. This lack of an All apps list in your 2004 could be explained by turning off 'Show apps list in Start menu' in Personalization > Start. But that is not the case in your link, if it were there would be three icons at the top left of Start (the 3rd will show the All apps list). But yours has just the one icon, meaning that the All apps list should be displayed already. Here I show how that looks in 2004, first without the All apps list, them with.







What appear to be happening is that Search that is appearing on the Start menu on top of the All apps list. Now there is no setting provided by MS to make Search appear on Start, but there is in third-part apps such as Classic Shell or Open Shell. Do you have one of those installed?

Whatever the problem is, it is definitely this Search box (minimalist again, everything turned off except Top apps) you are seeing as a part of Start. How it got put there seems unique to your system, but it's not any setting MS offers (or would have changed in the 2004 upgrade) that has done this.




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Features removed and deprecated in Windows 10 version 2004

Source:

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...moved-features
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...cated-features

See also:

• How to get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004
• What is new in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004
• Known and Resolved issues for Windows 10 May 2020 Update version 2004