Sunday, June 14, 2015

Windows 10 No Longer Updates Differently

A few months back, I explained how Windows 10 updates differently (not through the normal Windows Update channel). That post was written when Windows 10 was a very different product, so the facts presented there are no longer accurate.

Newer preview builds of Windows 10 are now delivered alongside standard Windows updates, which can be found in the Metro settings app. (Apparently, the Windows Update found in the desktop Control Panel is gone. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.) If a new preview build is downloaded, a Metro-style notification box will appear telling you Windows has to restart to install it.

You can force Windows to check for new preview builds by setting your build acquisition speed appropriately (to "fast" if you want all the features and all the bugs) and then checking for updates as usual.

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