Windows 10 1607, also known as Anniversary Update

With the introduction of the 1607 release, the upgrade Update Progress UX was refined and visually adapted to a multi-boot update process. At first look, you will hardly spot the differences. Before this change, the upgrade UX was just like the bare-metal setup process. with a black screen and grey round circle.

Together with this refining, the upgrade process itself was also improved. It is now 15-20% smaller and therefore faster. When compared to previous upgrade times between 60 and 120 mins, since 1607, it is down to between 30 and 90 minutes, and on very fast hardware down to 17 minutes.

Before this release, the Start menu was customizable, but not the taskbar. Now there is the possibility to pin/exchange up to five icons on the taskbar. But you will need to recreate the required XML files.

Besides the graphical changes, pay attention to the new driver signing requirements for better security.