The Windows 10 October 2018 Update brings a host of Accessibility improvements
- by Cathy Guerrero
- in IT&Software
- — Oct 5, 2018
The NavigationPreloadManager interface provides methods for managing the preloading of resources, allowing you to make a request in parallel while a service worker is booting-up, avoiding any time delay. On the software side, leveraging DXR (and by extension, Nvidia's RTX technology) requires the latest Windows 10 build and updated GPU drivers.
Starting with the October 2018 Update, you no longer have to click the section title to access additional settings. First rolled out in the 2017 Fall Creator's Update, users can now customise the page theme colour with Irlen colours in any ePub or webpage when in reading view. "Available now in the Windows 10 October 2018 update".
Your second option is to download Microsoft's Update Assistant straight from its site. Driver updates and countdowns to system restarts are suppressed while in Game Mode.
In addition, the firewall now will show notifications for Windows System for Linux processes.
Earlier this year, Microsoft unveiled Timeline, a Windows 10 feature that kept track of which files and webpages you were accessing, and when, so you could figuratively trace your digital steps and find what you were looking for.
In this new release, the security feature is introducing several improvements, including performance enhancements to make the experience feel faster and smoother on Microsoft Edge.
[Windows Defender Application Guard][vGPU][Surround]: Surround can not be enabled from the NVIDIA Control Panel when running Edge Browser with Application Guard over vGPU. Additionally, if your computer is an organization-managed device, you'll now be able to check the settings that have been configured by your IT administrator.
Microsoft has been experimenting with ways to bring phones and PCs together for a little while now, but its efforts have been haphazard, with numerous apps such as Continue on PC appearing on iOS and Android.
Deleting the app on your phone will break the bridge and you will have to link again by installing the Your Phone companion app.
Since Microsoft has already begun rolling out the update, your opportunity to take matters into your own hands has gotten a lot smaller.
There is also expanded previews for all search results to include apps, documents, email people and more. Additionally, you can now have multiple items held on the clipboard and can choose which gets pasted into your document or entry field by using Win+V.
Whatever you do, don't click the Confirm button to go ahead with the installation of the Windows update - because it will fail.
Born in southern Alabama, Jared spends his working time selling phones and his spare time writing about them.
Microsoft bought ace to-do app Wunderlist in 2015 and, as is the way with these things, it was then turned into a not-as-good version when Microsoft To-do was launched.
