Chapter 5
Managing updates
An overview of how Windows 10 update works
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 this release also assigns a crucial new role to this core Windows 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 8.1 users were ...
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