And, what then happens if I turn off my PC during such an installation? The update, while in progress, is essentially hidden from the user?

Thank you for the replies.

Yes, I have Windows 10 Home. But the download did happen during my Active Hours. And, I understood the "Preview" updates were always optional. Did Microsoft change its...

Is it just me?

This update was installed in the background yesterday even though I had not requested it.

The first I knew about it was the Notification that a Restart as required. And, as far...

[Has a previous reply been removed? I thought I saw anther one last night]

Sorry for the late reply, guys, I was checking a few things.

As you suggested, I ran chkdsk (after remembering that ...

^^^
That would be ideal - and I have found a Brink tutorial that removes those "trending searches"
Turn On or Off Search online and include web results in Windows 10

Thank you ...

I've turned off Search highlights and it's better. I now have Recent search results on the left-hand side and "Top Apps" on the right. :-)

But, below that I now have the (awful)...

For this window:
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Is there anyway I can customize the info on the right-hand side?

And suppress the continual nagging about MS Edge? ;)

Recently, when I try a Search in File Explorer, it stops responding and I have to terminate it. Here is today's crash report:


Source - Search application
Summary - Stopped working
Date -...

Got it, thank you. I am OK if I know that updates are in progress. I was more concerned about those silent updates. When closing down (in a proper way) I sometimes see that the DDE Server is...

Thank you for the links - they make things clearer. And I shall stop clicking [Check for Updates] and go via "Windows Update Settings" instead.

My last question on this is, related to my posts...

Thank you all. Now I understand the mechanism better. Yes, it is Windows 10 Home.

I did not realise that [Check for Updates] meant "Apply them" too :). And I thought that as the status was...

Several hours ago when I Checked for Updates, there were two:
2022-10 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5018482
and
2022-10 Update for Windows 10...

Understood. Thank you for your help and patience.

Shame that the Task Manager (and Resource Monitor) do not make that difference clear ;)

My apologies for not being clear in my first post.

What I meant was: given the memory used by the processes shown in the Task Manager (sorted into order of memory use) screenshot comes to about...

Here are the RAMmap screenshots - it does not look to me that anything is running riot.

And a useful link: ...

Will do. Which one of the 3 .exes should I use?

^^^^
And now 1,000 times that 4MB is not enough :)

Thank you guys. The usage does seem high to me, Looking at my first screenshot, there must be hundreds of processes of 4MB or less if the total usage is 58%. I'll have a look at the memory upgrade...

Here is the Performance tab, along with the current Processes view. Is there an explanation of those various numbers (Compressed, Committed, Cached etc) somewhere

And the start-up apps - nothing...

This ACER Aspire 3 laptop has 4GB memory (and a 2GB Page file). After booting and before running any user applications (I do have Norton Security and Acronis True Image installed and they do start...

Thank you all. Any thoughts on my questions Q2 and Q3?

^^^^ First time that I've noticed it.

Today, I had two Windows Updates:

https://i.imgur.com/jv6Wt8X.png

At this stage the first has completed installation and was awaiting a restart. The second was almost installed.

You can see...

This may be a silly question but does not "Uninstall" from Settings / Apps & Features or from the Start menu work?

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I'm back ;)
After a while, the Windows.old folder has been auto-deleted. But there is still a discrepancy between
(a) the "Used space" as shown in Properties for C: and
(b) the "Size on Disk" as...