

Turning that option on will help in keeping all your Microsoft products updated.There is a small battery integrated into your computer’s motherboard to keep the PC clock running even when the computer is turned off. Similarly, option in the Microsoft Update section controls whether or not to update other Microsoft products installed on your computer. Selecting the check box for the option “Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates” will ensure that you get additional software updates apart from the important updates. In the Windows Update settings page, you’ll find a Recommended update section. As the title says, selecting that will stop checking or downloading of updates. The last option for important updates is “Never check for updates (not recommended)”. Unless you don’t know what you are doing, don’t use that option. The third option is “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them.” In my view, the third option is for experts.

The second option says “Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.” Selecting this option means all latest updates for Windows 8 will be downloaded but you can control when to install them. As I said above, Install updates automatically is the recommended setting for important updates.

The important updates are often crucial for bug fixes, performance and stability. Microsoft’s Windows Update delivers both important and recommended updates for a system.

But it can be easily enabled or disabled. By default automatic updating is enabled during setup of Windows 8. So, when settings are right, Windows 8 can download and install important updates automatically. Did you know that Windows 8 can automatically check for available updates? Yes, just like other Windows operating systems, it supports Windows Update service.
