From the course: Working with Computers and Devices

Keep your operating system up to date

From the course: Working with Computers and Devices

Keep your operating system up to date

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- [Narrator] An important part of making sure your computer and its programs continue to run smoothly is to periodically check for and install updates to your operating system. For example, both Microsoft and Apple frequently release updates to their Windows and Mac OS operating systems, often fixing bugs and adding new features. To check for updates in Windows 10, go to the start menu, to settings, and select update and security. Make sure Windows update is selected and then click check for updates. As long as you're connected to the internet, Windows will check for system and security-related updates. If any updates are available, you'll see the progress of them being downloaded and you'll have the option to install them, which often involves restarting your computer. So it's a good idea to make sure you're not working in other applications or on any projects when you're checking for and installing updates. You can see I currently see this message saying that I'm up to date, meaning there are no system or security updates available, but notice there is a feature update available to my version of Windows 10. And if I'm ready to install that, I can click download and install now to begin that process. And you can see now we'll go through the process of updating Windows. But again, if you don't see any available updates, it means your computer is already up to date. But you can still check back here periodically to see if any updates have been released. Again, it's a good idea to install updates to make sure your computer continues to run smoothly.

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