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Windows Update Automatic Update Client updates Windows computers Microsoft software including the operating system and Microsoft Office.

Windows Update is software designed to help keep your computer current and more secure by automatically downloading and installing the latest security and feature updates from Microsoft.

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  • Jason Jason 3 months ago 5 out of 5 Icon_thumb_up

    It's wayyy better than the XP-and older updaters since you don't need to use crappy IE and go to MS's site to update.

    I just wish there was a "STFU and stop asking" button for the restart dialog. I hate it popping up every 4 hours.

  • Matt Hewitt Matt Hewitt 4 months ago

    So much better than the web based one in XP and previous versions of Windows.

  • Eroticus Eroticus 5 months ago 1 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    work perfect with out updates too !!!

  • JohnCrenshaw JohnCrenshaw 6 months ago 1 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    !@#@&*%!!!!! Blasted software thinks it knows better than me. I can't tell you how many times I've come back to my computer in the morning just to find that this "indespensible tool" has rebooted it for me EVEN THOUGH I HAD A DOZEN APPS RUNNING AT THE TIME!!!!! (Thank heaven for Firefox session recovery.) And there is NO way around it, unless you are willing to forgo the automatic updates (which are more or less announcements to hackers of the holes they can exploit on computers that aren't updated yet, making it both a must have, and a must not have.) I asked MS to do SOMETHING about this once. Little surprise, they are in denial that it is even a problem.

  • mattfast1 mattfast1 9 months ago 4 out of 5 Icon_thumb_up

    Meh, most of the time I don't have to restart anymore. Good for keeping my boxes up to date with all of microsoft's junk.

  • funkenstein funkenstein 9 months ago 1 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    nope, always manual for me. Doesn't give you optional and hardware related updates.

  • gynlorf gynlorf 10 months ago 2 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    uh oh, this is not the place where I should be :O *trys to think of happier thoughts where popups don't bug you every 5 minutes*

  • Xorgye Xorgye 10 months ago 2 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    Mostly of the time, it does as much good things as it does bad things... so in the end it leaves me where i started, and that's something i don't like :)

  • scrapstyle scrapstyle about 1 year ago 4 out of 5 Icon_thumb_up

    With a change in registry settings, Windows doesn't auto restart. Change the “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers” DWord value to 0. Updates are fun again. Whee.

  • DDeaD DDeaD about 1 year ago

    Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot. Please reboot.

  • EvilWalksWithMe EvilWalksWithMe about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 Icon_thumb_up

    I love it. And rely on it. In vista it's so much better... plus in vista, it doesn't just force a restart which is nice :)

  • ktvyeow ktvyeow about 1 year ago 1 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    Great until it starts to ask you to restart your computer.. and then if you don't choose anything within 3 minutes, it automatically restarts your computer closing anything that you have open..

  • ktvyeow ktvyeow about 1 year ago 1 out of 5 Icon_thumb_down

    Great until it starts to ask you to restart your computer.. and then if you don't choose anything within 3 minutes, it automatically restarts your computer closing anything that you have open..

  • conga conga about 1 year ago

    What can I say... who doesn't love automatic updates?

  • alireza_a4 alireza_a4 about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 Icon_thumb_up

    سيستم خودتونو به روز نگه دارين

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