- [Instructor] Let's take a look at updating.
Microsoft is constantly fixing issues
and making improvements to Windows
and making those changes available as free updates.
To see your update options you'll need to go to settings,
so I'll go into the start menu,
click the gear button to go into settings,
then I'll go to the category for update and security.
On the left side I want to make sure
the subcategory labeled Windows Update is selected.
Now this may show a list of available updates
that have not yet been installed
or you click this button to check for updates now.
If there are any new updates available,
they will either start downloading immediately
or you may need to click a button to start the installation.
The updates you see here
generally will be monthly updates and security patches,
these are usually pretty small updates.
But Microsoft also publishes some major updates
that add new features and improve the user interface,
these are called feature updates.
And the April 2020 update is one of those feature updates.
These generally come out twice a year,
they do not install automatically
and they will appear on this page,
but you will need to choose to install them
when you're ready,
because they generally make big changes to your computer
and they usually take much more time to install.
It's good to install feature updates
so you always have the newest features in Windows,
just make sure you have an up-to-date backup first
and don't run updates
if you're in the middle of a big project
because they can change the way
some things work on your computer.
The smaller monthly updates and security patches
may download and install automatically.
If you need to stop the computer
from running automatic updates,
you do have this option to pause updates for seven days.
And some updates require you to restart your computer.
You may see a button here or you may also occasionally
see notifications pop up on your screen,
asking you to restart to finish some automatic updates.
An automatic update that suddenly wants you
to restart your computer can be annoying,
so there is this active hours feature
or you may see a prompt like this,
if you've never set up active hours.
Either way, you can click on the button here
to change active hours
and this will allow you to set the times
when you typically use the computer.
Windows will not attempt to restart the computer
to install an update during these hours,
which should make those updates less intrusive.
It's a good idea to come in here
and set the active hours to the times
when you typically will be using your computer.
And when you're done
just click the back button up here in the top left
to go back to this screen.
Most updates are pretty small,
it's those big feature updates that take time to run
but you can choose when you're ready to install those.
You can let the smaller updates work automatically
or you can check on the manually here.