- [Instructor] Let's look at updating.
Microsoft is constantly fixing issues
and making improvements to Windows
and making those changes available as free updates.
To get to your update settings,
you'll need to go to Settings.
So I'll go to the Start menu and open Settings there.
Then on the left side,
you'll need to go to the Windows Update category.
Now on this screen, you may see a list of available updates
that have not yet been installed.
You can also click this button to check for updates.
If there are new updates available,
they will either start downloading immediately,
or you may need to click a button to start the installation.
Now, the updates you see here will generally
be fairly small updates and security patches.
In Windows 10, Microsoft also published major updates
to add new features and improve the user interface.
These were called Feature Updates
and they generally came out twice a year.
Since Windows 11 is a new product,
we don't yet know if they will release feature updates
in the same way for Windows 11.
But if it does work that way,
those feature updates will appear as separate items
on this page and will not install automatically.
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.
If Microsoft does do feature updates
like it did in Windows 10, it's good to install them
so you always have the newest features in Windows.
Just make sure you have an up-to-date backup first
and don't run the big feature updates
if you're in the middle of a big project,
because they can change the way some things work
on your computer.
But those smaller updates and security patches may download
and install automatically.
If you need to stop the computer
from running automatic updates,
you have this option here to pause updates for one week,
and some updates require you to restart your computer.
You may see a button here to do that,
or if you go to the Start menu and you go to Shut Down
or Restart your Computer,
you may see these options change to Update and Shut Down
and Update and Restart.
That's when some small updates have been downloaded
automatically and are ready to install
the next time you shut down or restart,
or you may also occasionally see notifications
pop up on your screen asking you to restart the computer
to finish some automatic updates.
Now, an automatic update that suddenly wants
to restart your computer can be annoying,
so there is the Active Hours feature.
We can see that by going to Advanced Options
and then to Active Hours.
So you can leave the automatic settings here,
or you can manually change your active hours.
Windows will not attempt to restart the computer
to install an automatic update during these hours,
which should make these updates less intrusive.
Most updates are pretty small.
It's those big feature updates that take more time to run,
but you can choose when you're ready to install those.
You can let the smaller updates work automatically
or manually check for them here.