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Windows is using your internet to send updates to strangers — here's the setting to stop it

Your Windows PC might be doing something you didn’t expect. While you’re browsing, working, or gaming, it is quietly sending pieces of update files to other computers around the world. It sounds ...
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Microsoft to enable Windows 11 updates to be skipped during install or even paused indefinitely by users

The world must be turning upside down since Microsoft is giving users unprecedented control over Windows 11 updates. To say ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 KB5079391 update rolls out Smart App Control improvements

Update March 30, 05:43 EDT: Microsoft has temporarily paused the KB5079391 rollout due to 0x80073712 errors during installation. Microsoft has released the KB5079391 preview cumulative update for ...

Microsoft Is Testing a Way to Delay Windows Updates Indefinitely

Microsoft is overhauling the Windows Update experience with a new option to pause all updates for up to 35 days. You can keep ...
TweakTown

Microsoft is automatically updating Windows 11 24H2 to 25H2 using machine learning

We all know how aggressive Microsoft can be when pushing Windows updates. You can be in a hurry to fire off that work email, or to jump on the game with the boys, but as soon as you turn your PC on, ...
Neowin

Windows 11 is getting much-needed Windows Update improvements, here is the first look0 0

Windows 8.1 was the last operating system to offer nearly full control over its update mechanism. Do not want updates? No worries, go to the Control Panel and turn them off. However, in 2015, things ...

Windows 10: A guide to the updates

Here's what those enrolled in the Windows 10 Extended Security Updates program need to know about each monthly security ...