![]() They’re unlikely to happen to you specifically, but again, “unlikely” isn’t the same as “guaranteed that they will not”. Some failures will be minor annoyances and others will be major stumbling blocks, but they will happen. My sense is that the headlines blow this number out of proportion to reality, but there will be some number of machines for which the update will fail. Be it monthly quality and security updates, or twice-yearly feature updates, they generally install and work well for most people. Scary headlines to the contrary, most of the time, you want the updates offered. As soon as you hear that a new Windows Update is on its way, take a full image backup of your machine.īut consider setting up that daily regimen while you’re at it. If for some reason you’re not backing up regularly, now would be the time. If something fails, you can simply revert to the backup taken the prior day. Honestly, this should be no additional work for you if you’re following my recommendation that you take daily image backups 1. Naturally, I recommend you back up your system prior to taking the update, no matter how it arrives. On my other machines, I’m letting things sit so I can experience the automatic update path as well. I pro-actively downloaded the update to get it on those two machines. I’ve had no problems, and I currently have no hesitation installing it on other machines. In the case of this specific update, I’ve installed it on two machines - Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro - and both installations are working and working well. ![]() Based on experiences I’ve heard with the last several updates - including a delay to this one - I expect we’ll be asking ourselves the same question every six months, when Microsoft rolls out another. The update being released is the “1903” feature update. ![]() The question of the hour is, of course, do you? Or, you might be one of those who don’t want the update at all - at least not yet. It’s in that in-between state right now: you can get the update manually right now by downloading it from Microsoft, or you can wait a week or so for it to start rolling out automatically via the normal Windows Update mechanism. ![]() As I write this, the most recent Windows 10 feature update has been released. ![]()
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