Windows 10: Upgrade or Clean Install Windows 10 Fall creators update

Hallo, my name is mochaffff.

I want to ask about upgrading from windows 10 home to windows fall creators update, so my laptop acer swift 3 i7 is preloaded with w10 home, and i want to upgrade it to w10 fall creators update, but im confused how do upgrade it bcs i dont want to lose the license of my windows that i use. shoud i use windows upgrade installer on microsoft website? or i do clean install but if i did the clean install is my license gonna be wiped out?

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Disk bloat in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Is it my imagination, or does the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update consume an additional 20-30GB of disk space over the previous Creators Update release? Unfortunately, I didn't log my disk usage before the upgrade, but now my C: drive has 56GB of stuff, and I know it wasn't anywhere near that full before. I've run "Disk Cleanup -> Clean up system files" and selected everything on the list, including remove previous version of Windows. I also emptied my Recycle Bin, my Temp folder, \Windows\Temp folder, and \Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder. Finally, I ran Wise Disk Cleaner to delete assorted application garbage.

Has anyone else noticed the bloat in Fall Creators Update?

 

New install Windows 10 (issue solved)

It's good that you're not experiencing any issues. Unfortunately many folks are, a quick Google search will show the same info im offering the OP.

Heres a couple examples:

Here

Here

It's basically what I mentioned above, small issues here and there ,but nothing to end your day.. for the most part.

I know it's anecdotal, but for my experience 95% of the time it's perfectly fine. The issues I've run into wouldn't be enough for me to roll back , but they would be enough (had I not installed it yet) ,to avoid it for another couple weeks which is why I'm suggesting it to the OP

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update problems and complaints

• Installation problems with the Fall Creators Update
• Microsoft Edge problems with the Fall Creators Update
• Drivers problems with the Fall Creators Update
• Experience problems with the Fall Creators Update

keep in mind, as of recently, the FCU is installed on 5% of devices roughly.....

 

Disk bloat in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

FYI - The new version is 1709.

I had some spare time at work this morning, so I upgraded my test machine from Creators Update (1703) to Fall Creators Update (1709). Here are the results:

Creators Update
After cleaning up the system files and removing the hibernation file.
125GB of free space

Fall Creators Update
After the upgrade was complete.
112GB of free space

After cleaning up the system files and removing the hibernation file.
129GB of free space​
The end result is all over the map: some people have more free space, and others have less. My test machine gained 4 gigs of space. I'd like to know what causes some computers to keep unnecessary files after the upgrade. In the meantime, I'm going to fire-up a disk space analyzer and find out what's hogging my drive.