How often does a Win10 release ISO change?

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The title pretty well says it. Once Microsoft releases a feature upgrade ISO, how often do they tweak it and make changes and are they always documented in the release file name? Right now release 1903 ISO is V1 (Win10_1903_V1_English_x64) so I assume it's been updated from initial release at least once. I'm mostly curious to see how often I should be refreshing my ISOs.
 
I remember 1803 was released in April 2018. Microsoft has never been perfect on scheduling "service packs" to their OS. Whenever I install a WIN OS I always make sure I have the latest iso to throw on my external drive. I have an external drive that has an iso folder to dump latest file into and has a feature to emulate a dvd drive (virtual ODD). Check this out http://www.zalman.com/contents/products/view.html?no=212

What are you using to boot off of @Diggs?
 
Diggs said:
The title pretty well says it. Once Microsoft releases a feature upgrade ISO, how often do they tweak it and make changes and are they always documented in the release file name? Right now release 1903 ISO is V1 (Win10_1903_V1_English_x64) so I assume it's been updated from initial release at least once. I'm mostly curious to see how often I should be refreshing my ISOs.
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I use UUP downloader to create updated ISO's. The Media creation tool will also do that for you by downloading and bulding an upgraded ISO.
 
Diggs said:
The title pretty well says it. Once Microsoft releases a feature upgrade ISO, how often do they tweak it and make changes and are they always documented in the release file name? Right now release 1903 ISO is V1 (Win10_1903_V1_English_x64) so I assume it's been updated from initial release at least once. I'm mostly curious to see how often I should be refreshing my ISOs.
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They typically don't. Only when they had a release rollout that had problems installing is it replaced. It really isn't needed with the cumulative update system. You install the latest build and during the install, it will grab the current cumulative update during the install process. If you don't have internet during install then you get that ONE update during the first connection to the internet. Now there may be updates for drivers or Windows Defender that is separate from the cumulative update but you will not get the tones of updates that Windows 7 had.
 
I've only seen it change when they make a major release. As Porthos suggests, use of the UUP Downloader will get you actual current media, which can be updated with every single patch, when the patch launches.
 
I don't download a new ISO for every machine and I don't check every time I install Win10. It's not the download that's the problem. It's how often does the ISO change for a given release to warrant a new download.
 
Windows 10 only changes for each BUILD number. So far I think TWICE they have withdrawn a released build and issued a replacement. But that is the rare exception, not the rule.
 
As far as we know its subject to change whenever there is critical or significant updated added to a version.
 
March and September updates are the biggest ones for MS, Mostly it covers up any type of GUI updates as well as fixing add and remove features through the updates, I will always suggest to keep the system upto date before jumping on these updates, for example it is not safe to jump up directly from 1803/1809 to 1909, you system should be first updated to 1903 plus all the recent security patches before updating to 1909
 
What? No... You can take any version of Windows 10 to current, heck you can take any version of Windows 7 or 8 to current. There is no reason to waste time stopping in the middle, if a machine is behind you feed it the most recent USB install media and run setup.

More over, 1909 hasn't released yet.
 
Just a quick off topic mention here regarding ISO emulator etc., Some USB chipsets that use the Innostar chipsets can actually have multiple virtual DVD/ISO, it's all handled by the USB firmware. You keep a small partition open to house utils etc. I think there were two ways to run it, one was permanent ISO burning which meant it was read only, perfect for infected systems. The other allows you to use a utility to swap drives.

I believe the virtual drive is persistent across reboots.
 
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