Some say that Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system is better than Windows 8 because of the company’s decision to bring back the Start Menu and offer better support for keyboards and mice. That’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following build 15058, some changes to the language in the Windows Update settings indicate that Microsoft may be returning to the era of automatic updates, at least for some fixes, with the Creators ...