Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Windows Optional updates are not compulsory updates but are made available to users when they are available. While many PC users and IT admins choose to install the updates manually, new policies ...

I've got no domain as we're a Novell shop.<BR><BR>I want all the machines to download and install the critical updates every Friday.<BR><BR>My problem is the user that everybody logs in as is simply a ...

Windows 11 users who've been avoiding the problematic 2024 update now have little choice but to accept it. Last Friday, Microsoft revealed that Windows 11 24H2 officially reached the last phase of its ...

I have Java for a couple of programs I use, and I like that it can notify me of updates and grab them automatically. Problem is, for security reasons I run under a user account, and as I rarely log in ...

With iOS updates seemingly rolling out every other day, it can be hard to keep up. Sometimes, you might not even realize that your phone is multiple updates behind until you’re in a group chat filled ...

On iPhone and iPad, Apple provides users with granular control over the downloading and installing of system software updates. This article takes you through the options. In earlier versions of iOS, ...

The procedure for automating Windows Updates described in your July 12 column (www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 3029) might work for single PCs, but how can you do this if you have 500 PCs? I use ...

Frequent operating system updates have become a fact of life. Since it launched in October 2022, macOS 13 Ventura has had 20 releases, more than one per month. In our latest Do You Use It? poll, we ...