Chapter 5

Managing updates

What’s new in Windows Update

An overview of how Windows 10 update works

Managing Windows Update

Deferring and delaying updates

Troubleshooting update problems

In Windows 10, the Windows Update service delivers security fixes, performance and reliability improvements, and updated device drivers, just as its predecessors have done for two decades. But Windows 10 also assigns a crucial new role to this core feature. In the “Windows as a Service” model, Windows Update delivers regular upgrades to Windows 10, with new and improved features alongside the bug fixes.

If you’re accustomed to using Windows Update in earlier versions of Windows, you might be startled by one major change in Windows 10. Whereas Windows 7 and Windows ...

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