• MS-DEFCON 2: Lock down Windows updates

    Posted on August 8, 2016 at 09:35 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    With the August Patch Tuesday coming up tomorrow, now’s a good time to make sure you have automatic updating turned off. Follow the instructions on the Automatic Updates tab above for details.

    Before you ask… I’ll take the Windows 10 Anniversary Update down to MS-DEFCON 2, just like all the other versions of Windows (and Office, too, for that matter). Functionally, that won’t change anything, eh?

    I’m moving to MS-DEFCON 2: Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don’t do it.

    For those of you running Windows 7… I promise I’ll have a simplified guide to speeding the Windows Update scan, in InfoWorld tomorrow.

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