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Windows 10 occasionally checks with Microsoft Servers, if there are new Windows 10 updates available, and if any new updates are offered by Microsoft, then Windows automatically download and installed the new updates for you. But you can also manually check for new updates for Windows 10.

To check Windows 10 for new updates, click the Start button, and then click Settings. From the Settings window, click Update and Security Settings, and then click Windows Update. Under Windows Update, click Check for Updates link.

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If any new updates are available, they will be offered to you for download and install. If you need further information about any update, you can then click on Details link.

Microsoft gives each update a Knowledge Base number, and to learn more about a Knowledge Base Update, you can use your favorite search engine for the same. If Windows updates displays that your PC is up to date, it means that all the updates which were available are already installed on your system





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You can also configure some other Windows Update settings by clicking on Advanced Options. Here you can specify that either Windows download and install the updates automatically, which is already the default option, or it notifies you about when your computer needs to be schedule for restart. You can also ask Windows to check for updates for other Microsoft Products while updating Windows.

You can even tell windows to defer upgrades, which means that Windows will not installed any new features for several months. Like, Microsoft recently released new version and latest build of Windows 10. If you defer windows upgrades, then those kinds of new features will not be available to you automatically for several months.

From Advanced Options window, you can also view your windows update history by clicking on, view your update history. Here you can see that which updates have been installed successfully, and which updates get failed to installed.

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Windows will retry to install the failed updates when the next time you check for updates.

If you click the Uninstall Updates link, then it will open Program and Features applet of Control Panel, from where you can uninstall all, or a specific windows update.





You can even uninstall the latest preview build of Windows 10, and can revert back to the previous release. If there are more than one PC using Windows 10 over your local network, then you can also configure that Windows Updates are delivered throughout your network. If you turn on this feature, then your PC may get or deliver Windows Updates to or from other Windows 10 computers available on your network in addition to Microsoft Servers.

This feature can help speed up the update process, when your local area computers will be exchanging windows updates with each other, instead of separately downloading from Microsoft Update server.

If you are interested in testing the new Windows Insider Builds, then you can also configure the setting by clicking, Getting Started under Get Insider Preview Builds. But do note that, there could be some major consequences to upgrading to Insider Preview Builds, as these builds are not fully tested and you may require to completely reinstall the Windows from scratch if something went wrong. You should not try this feature on your regular working computer.

If you think that the latest build is giving you problem and not working as the way you want it, then you can also revert back to the previous Windows Build. For instance, I recently upgraded to latest windows 10 Build, 10586. So if I plan to revert back to the previous build, I can do this right from the Settings window, by clicking on Recovery from the left side pane. Here I can ask Windows to revert back to previous build.

So, this is how you can configure Windows, 10 Updates and you have the choice to update

Windows automatically or manually.