Microsoft lets Windows users off the update leash
April 8, 2019, By Danny Bradbury
Windows users, you know those mandatory OS updates that sometimes break your computer and leave you steaming at the ears? Microsoft is making some big changes that will finally give you more control over them.
The company is changing the way that Windows Update downloads and installs releases, enabling users to delay them.
In older versions of Windows, users could choose which updates they wanted to install. Home editions of Windows 10 bucked that trend with a single ‘check for updates’ button that downloaded and installed everything. Not clicking the box wouldn’t save you from forced updates; the OS would eventually go and get them anyway.
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