What Are All Those Updates?

If you use a Windows computer, you most likely have been prompted by a pop-up message to update your Adobe or your Java or your HP, Norton, AVG, McAffee, or a Windows Update. What does this all mean? Should you accept the updates? Read below for a tip:


I'm teaching a class on this: Monday, May 23, 9:30-11:00am, Ramsey. $25

In the meantime, here's a tip on how to adjust the Windows Update that automatically downloads or prompts you to restart:
By default Windows is set to automatically download and install updates. This saves you the trouble of checking for updates and installing them every now and then.
But the problem is that, once the updates are installed, windows needs to restart your computer (reboot).
Windows usually sets itself to reboot in 10 minutes, but it also gives you the option to postpone it. If you are working on something important, you can postpone the reboot.
If you have some important and unsaved work in progress and you have to leave your computer for a little while, and right at that moment, windows installed some updates and restarts, you lose all the in-progress work.
Here is a simple and easy adjustment to avoid the above annoyance.
1. From your Start Menu, type windows update in the search box, and hit enter.
2. Click the changes settings option at left.
3. Change the setting to download updates but let me choose whether to install them.
4. Click ok.
From this point forward, Windows won’t reboot without your permission, though it may still prompt you about installing the downloaded updates.
For more information, attend the "What Are All Those Updates?" class on 5/23/11 at The PC Teacher, Ramsey. http://www.thepcteacher.com/The_PC_Teacher/Events.html
Happy Clicking,

Betsy

The PC Teacher
http://www.thepcteacher.com/
bcoyne@thepcteacher.com





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