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bothered, any update that requires restarting will restart the PC

instantly. Turn this on if being out of date gives you anxiety.

Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish
updating. When you’ve got an update that requires a restart, but

your PC hasn’t yet restarted, you’ll see a Windows Update icon
with an orange dot in the system tray as a reminder.

Pause updates. As described previously.

Choose when updates are installed. This option, available only in

the Pro, Enterprise, Education, and S versions of Windows, lets
you fine-tune and extend the delays. You can hold off on installing
“feature updates” (like, say, the October 2019 Update) for up to a
year, or “quality updates” (bug fixes and security patches) for up to

a month. (Clearly, there’s some overlap with the “Pause updates”
feature. Also clearly, Microsoft has had a lot of complaints over the

years about updates and restarts being shoved down our throats.)

Delivery Optimization. Every time Microsoft sends out an update,

it has to send out hundreds of millions of copies. That an
unbelievable amounts of identical data flooding out over the
internet airwaves. If you’ve got several PCs, each of them has to
download that same data, redundantly, from Microsoft.

In Windows 10, your PC can join thousands of others in a peer-to-
peer network, passing bits of update code to one another. In other
words, all those machines become part of Microsoft’s distribution

system, passing along bits of Windows updates to other people.
Now one of your computers can download an update and then pass

pieces of it along to the others without having to download them
again.

Overall, the idea can save huge amounts of bandwidth and storage

on the internet. It can also get these updates to you faster, with a
much lower consumption of internet data if you’re on an office
network.