As the final key change, Microsoft would provide more insights on available updates, ensuring you know exactly what's being updated.
“Often, driver updates would have similar, if not identical, titles. To help provide you with more insights, we have added the device class to the driver title – ensuring pending or installed driver updates clarify whether they apply to display, audio , battery, extension, HDC, or other applicable driver update classes,” explained Hanson.
In addition to these changes, Microsoft said it will try to unify updates so that users won't have to deal with multiple system updates in a month.
With these changes, Microsoft is simply giving you more control and making updates far less disruptive to your workflow. That said, Microsoft is clear that updates remain critical for security, performance, and system stability — so the intention isn't to skip them altogether, but to plan them around your schedule rather than be ambushed by them at the worst possible moment.
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-Fran- I'll take the little wins. Good on you MS for realizing not all your customers are drooling idiots. Some of us have bibs around our neck for it. Regards. Reply
USAFRet The current forced updates are the direct result of being able to turn the updates off, back with XP/Vista/7. People that do not know enough to be able to work safely, WILL have the updates turned off, because some fool told them to. Reply
Rabohinf USAFRet said: The current forced updates are the direct result of being able to turn the updates off, back with XP/Vista/7. People that do not know enough to be able to work safely, WILL have the updates turned off, because some fool told them to. Right. And we cannot let the morons make that decision, can we. We must intervene on their behalf and disable their decision making abilities. Reply
emitfudd My work laptop has Windows 11 and I have noticed that when there is a pending update and I neglect to install it for a few days, my laptop becomes unresponsive until I CTR/ALT/DELETE and am forced to choose the update and shut down or update and restart option. This has happened multiple times. Reply
Math Geek my guess is this is an acknowledgement by them that 75% of the updates are untested and causing more problems that they solve. so allowing them to be "paused" at least lets the user avoid the unexpected issues from such update debacles. would love to be able to go back to being able to pick and chose what updates to install instead of the all or nothing method adopted. that way you can give it a week and chose the ones that don't actually break the OS and ignore the others until the patches get patched to unbreak what they broke. Reply
USAFRet Math Geek said: my guess is this is an acknowledgement by them that 75% of the updates are untested and causing more problems that they solve. so allowing them to be "paused" at least lets the user avoid the unexpected issues from such update debacles. You can already pause, for 35 days. Thats what I do. Let other people and my nonessential system be the guinea pig. This changes that to sort of indefinite. Reply
Math Geek "Secondly, and most likely the answer to most complaints, users can now schedule updates for specific days or pause them indefinitely, in increments of up to 35 days. The initial 35-day extension limit remains, but this time, upon expiration, you can extend for another 35 days, and you can keep doing this as many times as you like." so still gonna make you keep clicking the button every month, but i guess it's better than nothing. my guess is at 35 days it will turn off the pause, auto-update and then ask if you'd like to extend the pause once it's done with the update. lol Reply
USAFRet Math Geek said: "Secondly, and most likely the answer to most complaints, users can now schedule updates for specific days or pause them indefinitely, in increments of up to 35 days. The initial 35-day extension limit remains, but this time, upon expiration, you can extend for another 35 days, and you can keep doing this as many times as you like." so still gonna make you keep clicking the button every month, but i guess it's better than nothing. my guess is at 35 days it will turn off the pause, auto-update and then ask if you'd like to extend the pause once it's done with the update. lol And before long, someone will come up with a script to auto-extend. Reply
Dr3ams In the last 26 years I have had zero problems with updates from Microsoft. All the update problems I experienced were in the 90s. I don't know why others claim to have so many issues. It's an easy operating system to work with. Reply
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