Category: updates

How to Pause Updates in Windows 10, and Why You Might Want To

Sometimes you’re working on a project that’s so important, you can’t afford to be interrupted by anything, let alone Windows installing updates and, worse, asking for you to restart the PC. It’s easy to pause updates in Windows for up to 30 days. From Settings, open Update…

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Taming and Controlling Windows Update

Windows Update can sometimes be a pain. While it’s both necessary and helpful to have security and stability updates automatically delivered to your PCs, this all too often results in restarts and downloads happening at the most unhelpful times. Fortunately it’s very easy to control…

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Free up Space by Deleting Feature Update Files

When a new Feature Update is installed on your PC, a copy of your existing Windows installation is kept as a backup, just in case what is effectively a new version of Windows causes a problem and needs to be uninstalled. This backup can take…

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Control How Windows Updates are Delivered

Windows Updates can be annoying, especially if you have a low-bandwidth Internet connection. Fortunately Windows 10 includes controls to help you manage how you receive updates on your PCs, and from where they come. Opening Settings and navigating to Update & Security and then Delivery Optimisation is…

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Uninstalling and Delaying Windows 10 Feature Packs

The semi-annual feature packs for Windows 10 bring new features and functionality at the end of every April and October, but they can also change some of the ways in which Windows works on your PC, and sometimes this can slow down or intrude on…

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Install Windows Feature Packs on Low-Storage PCs

Twice a year Microsoft release a Feature Pack for Windows 10, these are the equivalent of Service Packs for older versions of Windows. The difference is that where new features would come along every three or so years with a new version of Windows, and…

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Removing Problematic Windows Updates in Windows 10

Windows Update is essential, it keeps your PC safe and secure from malware, exploit hacking, and it keeps things stable, reliable and up to date. However not all updates install without a problem, and this is because as there is a virtually infinite number of…

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Quickly Fix Windows Update Problems

Sometimes Windows Update can cause problems, such as refusing to download or install updates to your Windows PC. This normally happens because a file or configuration corruption has occurred within the Windows Update system, but the good news is that these problems can be very…

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