That little bubble at the bottom of the screen again means that new Microsoftupdates are waiting for your computer.  Don’t ignore it — take advantage of this important feature, and install the Microsoftupdates offered for your PC.  Doing this regularly and with the right precautions will keep your computer running smoothly and help prevent security threats to your PC.

Step 1: Find Available Updates for Microsoft

If it’s been a while since you took the time to run Microsoftupdates, then you will want to use the update scanning tool on Microsoft’s website to find all the updates you may have missed.  These will fix software and operating system glitches and security loopholes, ultimately minimizing errors and optimizing your computer.  If many new updates are listed for your computer, begin by choosing the most critical updates and move on to the lesser ones as time allows.

Step 2: Don’t Interfere while Running a Microsoft Update

Before you begin installing Microsoftupdates, close all programs that are open on your computer, including unnecessary programs running in the background.  To ensure that the updating process goes more smoothly, you also may want to temporarily turn off your virus protection software.

Do not try to use your computer while the updates are installing as this may interrupt the process and create errors.  Do make sure to reboot the computer when it’s called for, though, or the updates will not install properly.

Step 3: Clean Up the Computer After Yourself

Every time you update programs, new entries are made in the Window’s registry.  Unfortunately, the updating process does not include automatically clearing the entries from the registry that are no longer needed.  Instead, new data is simply added to the vast collection of registry entries, which eventually leads to problems like file errors, blue screen messages, and computer freezes. Once the updates have been installed on your computer, run a registry cleaner to clean up after Microsoftupdates and avoid errors later on.

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