Microsoft Windows 8.1 Setting Windows Automatic Update

Configuration of Automatic Updates in Windows 8.1

Windows automatic update provides a way to help keeping Windows up to date with the latest patches, service packs, and other updates. Depending on the automatic update setting, the Windows automatice update can be a little more automatic or a little more manual.

Steps To Configure Windows Automatic Updates

1. To open Windows Update window for setting
   1. Activate the right edge charms bar by swiping in from the right edge of the screen, or by moving the mouse pointer to the lower-right corner or upper-right corner of the screen and then moving the mouse pointer up or down accordingly.
   2. Move mouse to highlight the charms bar.
   3. then tapping or clicking "Settings" to open the setting charm,
   4. tapping or clicking "Control Panel" to open the control panel window,
   5. and then tapping or clicking "System and Security" to open system and security window,
   6. then tapping or clicking Windows Update to open the windows update window.
2. Tap or click "Let me choose my settings" or "Change settings" to choose how updates get installed. Some possible options are
   1. For Important updates, click "Please select an option" to select an option.
      1. Install updates automatically (recommended): Choose this option to have Windows Update automatically check for, download, and install important security patches.
      2. Download updates but let me choose whether to install them: Choose this to have Windows Update automatically check for and download important updates but not install them. You'll have to explicitly choose to install the updates either from Windows Update or during the next shutdown process.
      3. Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them: With this option, Windows Update will check for and notify you of available updates but you'll need to manually approve the download and installation of them.
      4. Never check for updates (not recommended): This option disables Windows Update completely in Windows 8, 7, or Vista. When you choose this, Windows Update won't even check with Microsoft to see if important security patches are even available. Here are what some of those other checkboxes mean, not all of which you'll see, depending on your version of Windows and how your computer is configured:
   2. For Recommended updates
      1. Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates: This option gives Windows Update permission to treat patches that Microsoft "recommends" the same way as patches thought to be "critical" or "important" and download and install them as you've selected in the drop-down box.
      2. Allow all users to install updates on this computer: Check this if you have other, non-administrator accounts on your computer that actually get used. This will let those users install updates too.
   3. For Microsoft Update
      1. Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows: Check this option, which is a bit more wordy in Windows 7 & Vista, if you own other Microsoft software and you want Windows Update to handle updating those as well.
      2. Show me detailed notifications when new Microsoft software is available: This is pretty self explanatory - check it if you want to get notifications, via Windows Update, when Microsoft software you don't have installed is available for your computer.
3.  click OK to continue.