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The May 2019 Update

The May 2019 Update isn’t a ground-shattering overhaul. But it does
represent hundreds of tiny steps forward:

New good looks. The May 2019 Update offers a choice of dark- or
light-colored themes, which affect the color of the Start menu,
taskbar, notification tiles, Action Center, and so on. Many of the

Windows starter apps can inherit your choice here.

This update also advances a design philosophy Microsoft calls
Fluent. It’s a lot of subtle stuff—drop shadows, shading, depth

effects—that conspire to make Windows look more modern.

And on a new installation of Windows, the right side of the Start
menu is cleaner and simpler: fewer preinstalled apps, fewer blinky

Live Tiles.

Cleaned-up search. The Cortana voice-assistant icon is no longer

part of the search box; it sits separately on the taskbar, where it
belongs. And the Search panel itself has had a dramatic visual
overhaul, making it much easier to pinpoint what you want to find

and where you want to search.

As a bonus, Windows 10 is no longer limited to searching your
Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop
folders; it can index everything on your PC—every file and folder.

Windows Update updates. After complaints that Microsoft has
been ramming updates down our throats, the company has made

some changes. Big new six-month upgrades like the May 2019
Update are now optional. And you can now pause the installation

of Windows updates for up to a week even on the Windows 10
Home edition, just as you’ve been able to (for up to 35 days) on the
Pro and Enterprise editions.

Windows already lets you define “Active hours”—your work hours
—during which you don’t want updates to require restarting your