You might assume Windows updates are all automatic, and you'd be correct,
for the most part.
However there are some updates that are not downloaded automatically like feature updates
and you'd have to go and download them manually.
I'm Daniel and in this tutorial
I'm going to show you how to get these updates and what's included in them. So stick around.
So if you're not already sure how to check windows updates, you would just go in your start menu under
the cog wheel, and update and security, and it may take a few seconds and it'll tell you if there's
any updates available or if you are up to date, such as it says here with a little green check mark.
Or it's actually a green circle with a white check mark if you want to get really technical
and it says when it checked last. So we're all good, sounds great, but let's look down a little further.
There's a feature update and when you look a bit further down here there's a link to download and install.
So these would not install automatically until you click download and install.
Microsoft has changed the way the updates are delivered multiple times over the years.
So they had updates that were mandatory, pushed down, some recommended,
you could pause them, you could postpone them, and then they took away the postponing feature
and then they add it back in and then they've got feature updates that are not installed automatically
but you have to click the button to download and install.
But at some point in time, which is unknown, they're going to decide that it's required
and they're going to push it down because the older version that you're on is not supported anymore
and they're going to force you to get that next feature update.
So rather than wait until they push it on you.
You really want to stay up to date as best you can.
So if you go in here periodically, you can see if there's an update available and you can download and install that feature update.
So let's look back at my screen here and we'll find out what's actually in these updates and
how important they are.
So before clicking download and install, you might want to go in to see what's in this update.
So if we click on this link, it takes you into their website here which show you some of the key features.
They don't get into great detail.
As you scroll down, you'll see that one of the big feature updates now
is using an external camera as the default for Windows Hello security.
So if you didn't have a built-in webcam and you want to make use of the camera for facial
recognition, then you can use an external camera now with this.
Also they've made some improvements to the windows security that's built in
for how it handles the scanning of documents so that you can get access to things much faster.
So here it shows the Windows Defender application guard allows you to open documents faster
while still checking for possible security concerns.
Although if you're using your own antivirus program, then that should be doing the job anyway.
So this is assuming you don't have your own antivirus installed and you're using their built-in security.
But further down again you can see to learn more about this update. So we can go into their blog.
So in the blog it gives you a little bit more detail about what's included in here.
and it reiterates again about the Windows Hello with the multi-camera support.
So you can use an external camera.
The Windows Defender application guard performance.
They also include an update to the Windows Management Instrumentation and Group Policy Service.
It says it's going to be updating the performance on that.
Not sure exactly how that's going to be improved and what all it's going to be affecting
but it's definitely something that sounds good, where any kind of management services
that need to run in the background are not going to be slowing you down.
So it's great to know that that's not going to be a huge bottleneck.
On another blog post that Microsoft has, I'll have it linked in the description below.
It's got information about the actual 21H1 update in here, that go into a little bit more detail.
Rather than just talking about the external camera capability,
and the Windows Defender updates and that, they're going into many other updates which there's quite
a lot here. There's too many to mention, but you can go through this and see that they're definitely
fixing a lot of stuff in this update and that just shows why it's very important to stay up to date
and have the latest security fixes.
Because as you know from some of my other video posts I've done,
that the vulnerabilities is what gets hackers into your computer.
So you want to stay all patched up so that you do not have these vulnerabilities exposed.
If you don't have the feature update for the 21H1 listed in here or whatever the latest one is at the time you're watching this video,
and you know that there's a new one out there that you want to get, and it's not here.
You can go on to windows download page here, which I'll have linked below in the description as well
and you can run the update from here and it'll download using the update assistant.
It may take a little bit longer because then it has to scan your computer to find out what you have,
what you don't have and download the latest one.
Versus the windows update directly, it would already know what you have and that's why it's there showing.
If you scroll down a bit further, you'll see that you can create a windows 10 installation media.
So if you want to be able to install Windows using the latest feature update on any computer,
then you can download the tool here and create an ISO file that you can then make a bootable USB or CD from there.
Looking at the Wikipedia site here, you can see the windows 10 version history from when they came out, going from 1507;
and they started changing the naming or numbering convention, after the October 2020 update.
They started naming it after the year. So it's 20H2. So they had the 20H1
and jumped into H2. Then they had now the 21H1. Which of course came out in May 2021.
So later this year, we're planning to get the 21H2, which will have another bunch of feature updates,
including some security patches and such. So when you're ready to get this update. If you do have
it in here. You can just hit download and install, and it just looks like it's installing the same
as it does with any other Windows update that you would run
and it'll prompt you if and when it's ready to reboot.
So in summary, it's a good idea to stay on top of your windows updates for not only the feature updates;
But the security, the stability, and the overall performance of your computer.
The feature updates are just a really nice to have feature.
Sometimes...
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Thanks so much for watching. We'll see in the next one. Bye for now.
That's pretty good!
What was i gonna say about it?
and we just cut this part of the video out. Which is why it's great we got video editing.