automatic updates

There is a problem with the latest Windows 10 automatic update. After it installed my internet did not work. The windows troubleshooting program identified "windows socket registry entries required for net connectivity are missing" but was unable to correct the problem. It is a fairly new...

Insider Preview - Windows 10 Tech Preview Windows 10 Tech Preview Microsoft just went nuts announcing in a new Blog that Windows 10 is to be a 'recommended update' meaning if your windows update settings are set to auto it's being installed whether you like it or no...... Sent from my HP 7...

Dev Center has now integrated the functionality previously available in pubCenter to simplify how to create, manage and track your Microsoft advertising ad impressions and revenue. In addition, Microsoft Advertising and Windows ad mediation have been merged into one single SDK, the Microsoft...

My daughter has had her new computer for a month, running Windows 8. It seems no one set up the automatic update (it's all in Turkish so someone has to do it for me) so now, when we couldn't download windows 10 we realised this was because we needed to first update 158 updates to windows 8...

A recent update to Windows 10, KB3081448, returns control to Home edition users over automatic app updates. read more Continue reading...

Turns out you can control the delivery of universal drivers from Windows Update on your Windows 10 systems. read more Continue reading...

A bug in the Windows 10 Store is keeping some users from getting automatic app updates. read more Continue reading...

Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 and 64 bit operating system has not downloaded a windows update since KB2929437 on April 29, 2014. Update set to automatic but I get an icon that says Windows cannot automatically check for updates. When I manually check it tells me to restart my computer to download...

Is there a way to halt a previously requested upgrade, before it begins automatically?

Hi i have recently had my pc turn off suddenly then it goes into a screen where windows is loading but then it says preparing automatic update, after that it says diagnosing your PC then it goes into a menu, i am open to restoring my PC if it will fix the problem but done know how to as i have...

It seems that Microsoft bring out a new operating system every 3 years or so. It is getting impossible to keep up with it. The recent new version of Windows is Windows 10 which I have tried one of the builds a few months ago. While I found that all of the software that I used on Windows 8 works...

I just saw this http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/06/16/why-windows-10-upgrades-automatically-on-windows-7-and-windows-8/?utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix it should prove interesting for the unsuspecting. Joe

Operating system: Windows 7 SP1 Problem: The Get Windows 10 app is not shown in the notification area after accomplishing all the conditions. Description: I've read the Windows 10 Q&A page and I've read the possibilities why the app could not show up. I used to have the automatic updates...

Assume I enabled auto-update resp. search manually for updates of my 64bit Win 7 Pro system. How can I exclude certain updates (e.g. KB3035583 as one example) forever from being installed? Is there an exclusion list file which is accepted by built-in Windows Update Service? Peter

No Icon has appeared. I have a legit OS of W7 Pro, with all the latest updates including the one necessary to get the Icon. I have tried everything that has been posted including the command prompt route and nothing works. Is it that I will not be able to use W10? Is there a way to test this...

I have been running windows10 for almost a year. Im an old retired coder with 45 years under my belt. Until windows 10 came along ( this latest build) I had little love for windows. That has changed. Windows 10 is awesome, Microsoft finally got it right. Uninstall all your tuneup software and...

My Windows 8.1 was updating automatically until it received KB3000850 0n 3/21/15 . That update failed with error code 80246013 (Which supposedly means that the Windows Auto Update service has stopped) I went to services.msc and found that both Windows Update and Background Intelligent Services...

Yesterday after downloading the recent updates and restarting, my task bar was white and running in safe mode with a pop-up telling me the laptop had failed to connect to a windows service. I had to restore to an earlier point but I kept getting the automatic update and each time the same...

So i just got a Windows update last night when i shut my computer off. Im not sure if i set it up to automatically update when i installed windows as i ran into quite a few problems when installing and kind of rushed through things when i finally got it to work. However i wanted to check the...

I spent all day getting my computer up and running again. I finally had everything working and was testing Dragon Age Inquisition, the last thing I installed. The computer dropped out to a black screen and started to reboot. Then it said you computer cannot boot, you will need installation...