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but you guys got another video here for
you should you
update to windows 10 october 2020 update
version 20 h2 we're going to be covering
all of your questions that i get in the
comments section
about uh updates and whether you will
want to update or whether you should
update
and what versions are available and what
version you may be running we're going
to cover all that in this video
says first go to the search box and type
winver
and this will tell you basically what
version of windows 10 you are running
now there's quite a few versions
available
for people to run some people are
regular updaters of windows 10 they like
to get the latest and greatest updates
from microsoft by updating right away
and some people just hold off and stick
with
a more older version which is more
stable but they still get the same
support as you would
if you was running a modern day version
so let's take a look here this version
here
is 2004 uh version 2004
operating system build that is the
number right there
that is the version that i'm running on
this system
now i didn't update to windows 10 2004
right away i waited for a good few
months because there was a lot of
problems
regardless of what people will tell you
on the internet
there was quite a few problems and they
had to fix those problems
before i rolled out that update now
with microsoft they have changed the way
you receive your updates now when you
click on the update section here
once they start rolling out uh these
updates
you will get a little box here which
will show you basically
um your update is available for you and
you
you can opt in to update right away
a while ago they used to just force it
upon you and
basically you'd wake up in the morning
and you'd either wake up at a blue
screen
or an updated version of windows 10
which you might not have wanted
and now you get a bit more control
now if you don't see that here maybe
you've paused updates or you've got some
sort of block
on your updates to stop it updating and
you won't receive those until you
put your settings back to default and
that way you would then
be notified when there's latest update
is available to you
you might also see a view optional
updates here and sometimes
you might see something in here which
you can update as well
so let's move on to whether you should
be
updating to the latest version we'll
cover all that in this video
as well so first off let's cover
how to update right away if you don't
want to wait
now if you're one of these people that
are chomping at the bit to get the
latest and greatest
updates from microsoft then you can go
to their website
if you don't want to wait it for to be
populated
and rolled out by microsoft you can go
to their website
and see windows 10 october 2020 update
that means
this is the version 20 h2
version of windows and you will be able
to then click on update here
it will download this upgrade executable
file you click on this
and this will then open up the upgrade
to the latest version of windows 10.
if you look here it says one of the best
features of windows 10
is that it keeps getting better every
update well that's debatable
i suppose but this pc is not currently
running
the latest and the most secure version
of windows 10
and you can see here it also says that
this pc is running version 2004
the latest version is 2009 which is what
we was talking about version 20 h2
and uh it will sell you here we can help
you get the latest security enhancements
and feature improvements
by clicking on this button here so if
you want to do that you can then click
on this
and it will then go through the motions
and allow you to
um update your version so starting to
update here
and you can generally see it will start
to download and get it ready for me
i can cancel this anytime by clicking on
the cancel button
if i want to i can also minimize this if
i wanted to
and basically go ahead and update to the
latest version so that remember this
will be
version 20 h2
so i'm just going to cancel that for now
and uh just cancel that for
the time being for this video so let's
move on to the next section here
is what the differences are between all
of these
updates so you can understand how it all
works
so taking a look on the windows 10
release information here this will give
you all of the information i get asked
all the time about
updates and whether it's safe to update
and whether i should update
and you have to sort of make some
decisions for yourself
at this stage because there's many
different pieces of hardware
and there's many different pcs out there
that have got different software and
hardware installed on them
and some people have trouble free
updates and they don't have any problems
whatsoever
on the other hand you do get a majority
of people that might have a problem
and have some sort of issue where the
menu might not work the search might not
work you know just
going off random things that have
happened in the past
and unfortunately there's no way of
telling whether that would happen to
your system or not
and some people don't have any issues at
all i don't know how why that is
it just is the way it is but windows 10
whether you believe it or not has been
played with lots of bad problems with
updates in the past so looking at the
versions here
this will tell you roughly what versions
are
and when they're supported and how long
the support lasts for those versions
and there's another misconception where
people seem to think that if you don't
update you're at risk
and that's not quite true you will still
receive
updates and security patches for that
version of windows 10.
if that wasn't the case microsoft will
pull it from
its support and you would not receive
any more updates for that version
some people seem to think that you have
to keep updating all the time right away
to get the latest security patches for
that operating system but you can still
stay
on version 1909 right up until 2021
uh that world 11 for the fifth 2021
and still receive updates and security
patches for that version
of windows 10. and again you can see
here
even for 1903 this is right up until
december so
8th of december 2020 that's when 1903
will cease any sort of support for it
you won't get any updates anymore for
that
you will have to decide whether you want
to roll out the update to the next
version
and again the differences between
updates here
so people might be thinking that 20 h2
is a
major update and this is not a major
update this is what
we class as a minor update the major
update was
2004 and if you've updated to 2004 that
was a major update with
a you know a big load of patches and
fixes and stuff like that
now what i would say is if you're
already on microsoft 2004
version uh then the update 220 h2
will be very small and minor you won't
see
a lot of feature changes on there i have
done a video on some of the updates
that you do get with that and it was
only about
you know two or three that were really
sort of decent changes and all the rest
of them were just minor changes
but that is all you can expect from 2004
to 20 h2
now you'd have already already received
a lot of your
updates and patches for 2004 so the
update path
220 h2 shouldn't be so much of a problem
hopefully you won't see many problems if
you're updating from
2004 to 20 h2 because it's only a minor
update
on the other end if you're jumping from
1909
uh or 1903 to to there
then the update will be a major update
because you will have to install
uh the 2004 part because they're part of
the same
update they just got some extra added
features
added into them you will have all the
patches and features and fixes
for that 2004 version they will also
come down
in that 20 h2 as well so that is what
you can expect if you're jumping from
1909 to 99 or 1903 to those versions
there would be a major update to those
whereas if you're jumping from 2004 to
that
it's not so much of a big deal i love
the bit the way it says microsoft
recommends
you gotta love that their optimism uh
is great so also another thing here
which i wanted to cover here
is this area up here which you can now
see
an area where it shows you the known
issues and notifications you can read
these for yourselves i get asked the
question
all the time about uh you know is it
safe to update
to 2004 well when there was a major
uh problems with windows 10 2004
in fact i thought it was played with
problems and they did
actually fix a lot of those problems
there was more than this
as you mentioned in my previous videos
you see me
uh go through a massive list of updates
and patches that they've done and fixes
they haven't put it all on here there
was a lot of problems with it
and they did actually fix a lot of those
uh resolved issues as well
they might not show every single uh
problem here but you can see there's
quite a big list and these
uh have been resolved here so they are
getting better
at fixing problems and they are getting
better
at rolling out these updates it's
getting a little bit more
acceptable uh compared to having it
forced upon you the way it was before
and then
messing up your system if you're
wondering whether the
uh defragging problem has uh
been fixed then yes it has that's been
uh fixed and there's a bunch of other
fixes that have been
uh fixed and resolved here so hopefully
the jump to uh 20 h2 from 2004 won't be
such a
a big problem hopefully because a lot of
the fixes were fixed in 2004
so again that's going to come down to
you whether you want to update right
away or whether you just want
microsoft to roll out these updates
which they will do
once they start rolling them out you
will start seeing them uh
pop up in your updates and security area
here you'll start seeing them
show up here for the latest versions
unless you've got it all paused
so let me know in the comments section
below whether you're going to be
updating
your system or whether you're just going
to hold off normally what i like to do
is hold off
for a couple of months on uh updates
just to make sure and keep an eye
on those um errors that may pop up now
and again
and keep an eye on the internet and see
how things are going
and generally i normally look at
people's pcs and see whether there's
issues there and if there is i'll just
generally wait
uh before i start rolling out my updates
on my system all i want is a stable pc
and basically the version 2004
has now been problem-free for me i'm not
having any issues
so i'm sort of dubious about updating to
even that minor update of 20 h2
right away i just don't want any sort of
problems so i just may hold off just for
a little bit
and then update to that a little bit
later on and see how that goes because
it is only a minor update and it's not
really going to have a lot of major
changes to it
anyway i think that's going to be about
it for this video so i hope this one's
been informative to you
i hope that you have a safe update if
you are going to update
my name has been brian from brighttech
computers dot co dot uk thank you for
all the people
that have joined my youtube members
group i really do appreciate
it thanks very much and i shall see you
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