With Windows 10, system updates will now occur regularly in the background. Like Gmail or Facebook, these updates will be automatic and mandatory. If you want to try to delay these updates, enable the ...

Windows 10 Home users may soon lose some of their already limited ability to prevent Microsoft from forcing automatic system updates on their PCs. While there’s no official way to prevent updates in ...

Windows kept picking the worst moments to install updates, so I took back control in the only way that truly stuck. This is how I harden and fine‑tune my system, so updates happen on my schedule, not ...

For the past couple of weeks, various sites have suggested using a trick to turn off Windows 10’s forced updates. If you are using a Wi-Fi connection, the theory goes, you can turn off forced updates ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

After the disaster that was August patching, we’re all hoping for some respite this month. But given the specter of patches past, it would be good to get out of the mainstream for now and wait for the ...

It's generally advisable for most users to always install the latest operating system updates, but there are legitimate reasons why some people would prefer to do them manually instead of having them ...