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MANAGING YOUR SOFTWARE
Configuring and Managing Windows Update
Microsoft is constantly working to improve Windows 10 with bug fixes, security patches, new program versions, and device driver updates. All these new and improved components are available online, and Windows checks for updates and patches quite often.
Over the past few years, Microsoft has been making the Windows Update mechanism more and more assertive. In many ways, this is good, as history has proven that most users never proactively take any action to update their software, and hundreds of millions of virus-infected computers are the result. So, unless you go to fairly extreme measures (which we describe later in this section), installing updates is no longer optional; you ...
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