The Definitive Guide to Keeping Your PC Up to Date – Updates – Lifehacker

Keeping your computer—including its operating system and all the installed third-party software—up to date is extremely important, but it needn’t be a hassle or inconvenience. Here’s a look at three tools you can use regularly to keep your system current.

The Windows operating system and all the software we use on it are constantly evolving, due in part both to the efforts of programmers across the globe making their software better and counteracting the efforts of hackers trying to exploit software. Keeping on top of updates, big and small, helps keep your computer more secure.The following guide will help you set up your computer to automatically update itself when possible, and keep your software current and secure. We’ll be highlighting three tools here to help remove the hassle of updating from your shoulders and automate it to keep it off your mind.

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