Windows 10 is here and with it a change that may surprise some home users used to handling windows updates on their own. Microsoft will not support manual updates on windows 10 Home PCs. Instead of all updates are automatically downloaded to your system and then scheduled to install when your PC is inactive.
There are some expectations and workarounds to that, but for most of us updates are a compulsory affair. The one thing that Microsoft will let you do, is decided when your system actually restarts to install the updates.
Just click on the advanced options below the windows update screen. You'll see a drop down menu at the top of the previous screen. If an update is ready to go, click the select a restart time radio button and adjust the fields to your liking. You can choose any time which is suitable for your, you can choose restart in next week to restart your computer. If you you would rather restart right away there's a restart now button towards the bottom of the Screen.
Keep in mind, this tweak doesn't pause update restarts, it only notifies you that a restart is required soon. Windows will schedule its own reboot first and you must override it manually by scheduling you own.
With windows 10, Microsoft is switching to the concept of "windows as a service." Under this model, the operating system is never "done". It will continuously receive feature updates, as well as Microsoft's usual security patches. At least that is what Microsoft says will happen.
For regular users, You must stay with the Microsoft's current latest updates as they roll out. There is a power user utility to manually block particular updates if they mess up your system and you can get around silently downloaded updates if you are on a metered connection.
For the most part, you must take the updates as they come. They may not be much of a change for most of you, as windows 7 and 8.1 both have automatic updates features that silently install changes in the background. The difference in the older systems compared to windows 10 is that Microsoft offered a manual update option which is no longer exist.
There are some expectations and workarounds to that, but for most of us updates are a compulsory affair. The one thing that Microsoft will let you do, is decided when your system actually restarts to install the updates.
Scheduling Restart the Windows 10
Click on the start menu first, open the settings applications and select update and security => windows update. As you'll see an option on the screen above there's already an option to choose a restart time to finish installing an update. But we want to make sure we get notified every time the system asking about reboot. That we don't have to constantly check-in with the settings application to see if an update is ready for installation.Just click on the advanced options below the windows update screen. You'll see a drop down menu at the top of the previous screen. If an update is ready to go, click the select a restart time radio button and adjust the fields to your liking. You can choose any time which is suitable for your, you can choose restart in next week to restart your computer. If you you would rather restart right away there's a restart now button towards the bottom of the Screen.
With windows 10, Microsoft is switching to the concept of "windows as a service." Under this model, the operating system is never "done". It will continuously receive feature updates, as well as Microsoft's usual security patches. At least that is what Microsoft says will happen.
For regular users, You must stay with the Microsoft's current latest updates as they roll out. There is a power user utility to manually block particular updates if they mess up your system and you can get around silently downloaded updates if you are on a metered connection.
For the most part, you must take the updates as they come. They may not be much of a change for most of you, as windows 7 and 8.1 both have automatic updates features that silently install changes in the background. The difference in the older systems compared to windows 10 is that Microsoft offered a manual update option which is no longer exist.
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