Whats New in Windows 10 May 2019 Update

This month, Windows 10 is releasing new update Windows 10 1903 with some of the new features you might be interested to have. Some of them are long waiting features finally coming to Windows 10 with its 1903 release. When you are planning to upgrade your copy of Windows 10, please make sure you should have at least 32GB of free disk space. This releases required more disk space than before. So without discussing further, let’s see what’s new in Windows 10 May 2019 update.

WINDOWS SANDBOX

If you are a tech savvy person and continuously do experiments on your machine and tired of resetting your machine because of experiment failure. It’s time for you to get yourself free from this problem. In May update Microsoft has introduced Windows sandbox which allows you to run a virtual machine on top of already installed Windows 10. This will help you to do experiments without worrying about your Windows 10 already installed on your computer.

YOU CAN NOW PAUSE UPDATES

Windows 10 May addition will now allow Windows 10 Home users to pause the Windows 10 update for a set number of days. This is a good feature as this will allow you to ensure that the released update is working fine and you are good to install the update on your computer without impacting anything. And if there is an issue, you can pause the update till it gets fixed before installing the update.

RESERVED SPACE FOR UPDATES

Microsoft has now reserved disk space in Windows 10 May update for its updates. Microsoft thinks that it will help users getting stuck with updates failure because of running out of disk space during the update process. Many people will surely not like this feature as it will consume their 7GB of disk space. When you are using low disk space SSDs it’s very hard to leave 7GB of disk space.

NEW LIGHTWEIGHT THEME

With Windows 10 May update, you will have a lightweight Windows theme that will change the way you see at your monitor. This light desktop theme makes a good contrast with Windows 10 dark theme we are used to of seeing every day.

NEW LOOK FOR START MENU

In May update, Microsoft worked on the start menu to make it more useful. To keep it safe from any other issues in the operating system, this time Microsoft comes up with start menu’s own process called StartMenuExperienceHost.exe. This process will handle all of the start menu related operations. This will make the start menu work faster and smoother as we all know that the start menu is not just a start menu now.

CORTANA IS SEPARATE FROM SEARCH BAR

May 2019 update, Cortana the personal assistant is no more integrated with the search box. As we all know that Cortana can now perform many tasks so keeping that in mind Microsoft put it out from the search bar. Now you will have its separate settings as well as separate group policies. Now search will do a straight forward search in Windows.

PASSWORDLESS LOGIN

Windows 10 now allow you to go passwordless. This means you don’t need to enter the password to login to your Windows 10. Windows 10 will directly SMS you the PIN on your registered mobile number. Once its setup with Windows Hello, you don’t need to enter the password anymore.

AUTOMATIC TROUBLESHOOTING

Windows 10 is now introducing advanced troubleshooter where it will allow you to perform the advanced level of troubleshooting. It will also give you the best recommendations.

SCREEN MIRRORING FOR ANDROID PHONES

Windows 10 May update will allow its users Android users to mirror their phone screen on desktop using low energy peripheral role which is normally available at some of the Samsung phones.