Windows 8 is a more advanced version of the previous Windows 7. However, it has not liked many users due to the fact that it has a new design. It does not have a favorite multiple button "Start" and the usual interface.

Microsoft decided to go to meet users and released next version - Windows 8.1. She became the best version of the new operating system, as it was completed more the usual interface and the "Start" button, and also optimized - now the computer does not slow down if it was 8-ka on it. But the question often appears: how to upgrade Windows 8 to improved new version. For this there is one free and easy way to Microsoft.

How to upgrade to new version

Windows 8 update is available to all users on free based. Check the ability to get a new version on your computer through special application "Score".

But before running and updated, you need to prepare a computer to this procedure.

Preliminary preparation

First of all it is necessary to make backup data. Because if anything goes wrong - all the necessary files may be lost. Does it make sense to risk? So transfer all the most important data for you on any removable medium so that no trouble has occurred.

By the way, it will also pre-prevent account On Microsoft. For correct windows work 8.1 It will be necessary to enter at the very end of the update process.

Updating the old version

Then you should update your Windows 8 by setting the most important packages. If there are no, the new version of the operating system simply does not want to be installed on your computer. So you have to pre-put fresh packets with updates.

To do this, click on the right mouse button on the "My Computer" label and in the drop-down menu to click on the "Properties" section. Immediately the System window opens, which reflects all the parameters of your device. In the left list, you should find the Windows Update Center and click there.

Next step - Search newest updates For the operating system. Windows 8 update will be produced if there are fresh packs for it. To search them, you need to click on "Search for updates" in the list on the left. As soon as it is over - the inscription will appear slightly right. important updates: ... ". Click on it.

After that, the list will open where all the necessary updates will be listed. You can install them if you note everything and click on the appropriate button. Downloading and installing (including with a reboot) does not occur instantly, so you have to wait for some time. The procedure must be repeated until important updates stop being located.

Directly update to a new version

After that, you can safely go to Windows Store And download the new version of the system to your computer. If you get to the main page of the store, you must find the offer to upgrade to the new version. It should appear immediately, if available for this device. You must click on this offer.

The user will be asked to download the version for one language, you must click on the corresponding button and wait until a large file will be downloaded. The progress of this action will be displayed on a special scale. At the same time, downloading will not limit the ability to work on the device up to the start of the update. It is marked by the appearance of the strip through the entire screen with a proposal to restart the computer. Therefore, it is undesirable to start any important thing for the device if the download process was started - it still will have to interrupt it.

While the computer is updated, can pass several hours. Therefore, it is profitable to put installing Windows 8.1 for the night. And in the morning you have to configure new system Under yourself - personalize it, set some parameters and enter credentials.

Why not update

Sometimes it happens that the operating system simply does not give the owner to upgrade to the new version. This may be several reasons:

• You have not fully installed all important updates. Perhaps some update you accidentally missed in the process. Go to the update center and try to find new packages again. If they never appear - try to install more and optional updates. Suddenly helps.
• Your Windows 8 is not activated. Download official update Only users who have a licensed and activated operating system are installed onto a computer with a subsequent installation. Otherwise, the update will not be available.
• Download stops on some definite percentage. This is possible due to the overload of Microsoft servers, and almost nothing depends on the user. It remains only to wait until the channel is free enough for normal download.
• There is an error in the process with the code 0xC1900101 - in this case it is necessary to free up the computer, that is, disable everything peripherals From him, except the most necessary for work.
• Your computer lacks a hard disk space. Clean it from superfluous. For a correct update, a minimum of 10 gigabytes is required, but better a little more.
• Disconnect the antivirus. It is also able to slow down the update process.
• If the store displays that the computer is incompatible - you're a combination of Win + R and enter the wsreset.exe command. This will clean the store's cache, which in some cases helps.

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Like other versions of Windows, Windows 8.1 receives its share of periodic updates, some of them are critical, others are not. In any case, it is important to configure Windows 8.1 so to be sure that you will get all the necessary updates.

Microsoft usually highlights the second Tuesday of the month, called Tuesday Patches to post the latest updates for various operating systems and other applications. Most updates are intended to correct errors, closing holes safe and installing various background functions. The update interface in Windows 8 and 8.1 is slightly different from others. versions of Windows. In this article, I will explain how to go through the update process in Windows 8.1 to make sure that you are correctly configured.

In the version to Windows 8, you got access to the update screen via the control panel. Open the Control Panel and click on the Windows Update icon. On Windows Update Screen, you can configure several parameters (link in the left column). In Windows 8.1, you can continue to go to the "Control Panel" to get to the update function. But the same options are also available through the computer settings screen, so let's look at this screen.

In Windows 8.1, click on the "Charms" panel, and then click on "CHARMS Settings". In the settings panel, click on the link to change the computer settings. On the Computer Settings screen, click on the latest update and recovery option. Make sure that Windows updates are highlighted.

Let's first look at the parameter "Select the method of installing updates", click on this link. Click on the drop-down list of important updates and you will see four options: install updates automatically (recommended) "," download updates, but the installation decision is made by me "," Search for updates, but the decision on download and install is accepted by me "and" not check availability updates (not recommended). "

What option to choose? Microsoft naturally wants you to choose the first option and this is usually the best choiceSince it makes the update process more carefree for the user. There were cases in past Windows updates, when problems arose, requiring them to delete or generating Microsoft upload another update to correct the first. That is why for some it can be more convenient to download or check updates, but not to install them automatically. I keep the first option enabled and still think that this is the easiest way.

Before we proceed to the next step, it's time to explain the various categories of updates. Microsoft divides its updates into three categories: Important (critical), recommended and optional. The first two categories include updates that you just need to install, the third offers updates that are desirable to have, but they are not absolutely necessary. For example, the correction of the boom in the security system or error will be considered an important update.

By default, important and recommended updates are installed automatically if you select the option automatic installation. However, you can change this behavior. On the "Select Installation Method of Updates" screen, you can take a tick from "Recommended Updates", which means only important updates will be installed automatically. However, I advise you to save this checkbox installed so that the recommended updates also installed automatically.

Updates are considered as optional, must be selected and installed manually. For example, in the August update of Windows 8.1, you need to select it manually if you want to install. This update in the list of available updates looks like "Update for Windows, 8.1 (KB2975719)".

On the screen "Select a method for installing updates", you will also see the Microsoft Update option. If you use another software Microsoft, for example, Office, install this tick so that you can receive updates for these other products.

When you finish the choice how to install updates, click the "Apply" button, and then press the button with the left up arrow to return to the previous screen.

Now it's time to see if there are no updates for you. To do this, click the "Check Updates" button. If there available updates, Windows will give you to know that he found new updates and establish them for you.

You have several options. If you want to install updates right away, click the "View details" link. Scroll to see all ready to install updates. Remember that you need to scroll through the entire list fully to see any additional updates, such as the August update for Windows 8.1 or updates for Windows 8.1 (KB2975719). Install checkmarks for these updates if you want to install them.

Now you can scroll to the top of the screen and click on the "Install" button if you want to install all updates right now.

Well, but what if you are in the process of important work and do not want to interrupt the update string? This is where the automatic process comes into the game. You do not have to call the installation personally. Windows will track updates that will be installed and at a certain point will install them.

The next time you reboot or turn off Windows, you will probably see the option to update the OS. Or the next time when entering Windows, you will have a reminder that the updates are waiting for the installation. The whole point of this process is not to interrupt the workflow annoying and long-lasting update process.

It also means that you will not even need to check the computer's settings screen for updates. Windows will eventually establish them automatically. In Windows 8 and 8.1, you can restart and update immediately or you can postpone the restart and update process for up to three days.

Update for Windows for some is still a sick question. But at least in Windows 8 and 8,1, you can control the process in such a way that this process passed unnoticed for you.

Hello everyone! If for some reasons you have disabled automatic update In Windows 8.1 and, accordingly, the operating system is not updated, and you have a situation when you need to install any concrete update (for example, it is necessary for the game or for the program.), but you do not know how to do this, then this material will be useful to you, since in it I will tell you in detail how you can manually install update on Windows 8.1.

So let's start. I will install an update to 64-bit operating windows system 8.1 She is in the editorial office " Professional».

As an example, I will establish a very important storage set of updates KB2919355 ( what this update can read). The presence in the system of this update is mandatory for all the following updates.

Where and how to download an update for Windows 8.1?

In order to download the update, you must first know exactly what you need for the update, i.e. For example, in our case it is KB2919355 for 64 discharge Windows 8.1.

Download the Windows operating system updates is recommended only from the official Microsoft download center, so in order to find the update you need to go to the official site of Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/.

Then simply in the search bar on the site, enter the update number is desirable to indicate the discharge of the operating system, in our case it would be possible to write " KB2919355 x64." Next, in the search results in the section " Downloadable files»You will find a link to the download page.

Of course, it was possible to take advantage of the usual search engine On the Internet, but in this case there is a chance to get to another site that will offer to download any incorrect update or just there will be a bunch of advertising.

Here official page Downloads for Updates KB2919355 for 64 discharge Windows 8.1.

After switching to the page you can immediately press " Download».

Then, as this set of updates, you must select all updates, and they will need to be installed in a certain order, but we will talk about it slightly below, click " Next».

As a result, all marked files are loaded and you can go to the installation.

Installing the update KB2919355 for 64 discharge Windows 8.1

The composition of this update includes 7 files, each of which must be launched and installed in the following order:

1. clearcompressionflag.exe;
2. Windows8.1-Kb2919355-x64.msu;
3. Windows8.1-Kb2932046-x64.msu;
4. Windows8.1-KB2959977-x64.msu;
5. Windows8.1-Kb2937592-x64.msu;
6. Windows8.1-kb2938439-x64.msu;
7. Windows8.1-Kb2934018-x64.msu.

Step 1

First, you start the ClearCompressionFlag.exe program, it simply prepares the operating system to install updates.

Step 2.

Now go to the installation of the most important update, i.e. Run file Windows8.1-Kb2919355-x64.msu. First, the screen displays the information that the autonomous Windows update installer prepares the installation.

If you have the following message, it means that you have no mandatory update of KB2919442, in order to continue it must be installed ( it is installed as well as all other updates in this material.).

Step 3.

If everything is fine, then you will immediately appear the window in which you must confirm the installation of the update KB2919355, click " Yes».

As a result, the update installation will begin.

Step 4.

After some time, the update installation program will ask you to restart the computer, click " Reload now».

During the reboot, the update will continue.

And how the computer will fully load, installing the update KB2919355 will be completed.

Installation of updates KB2932046, KB2959977, KB2937592, KB2938439, KB2934018

All other updates that we downloaded are set exactly as well as the update of KB2919355, so I will not describe the entire process of installing all these updates, I will not show the unique screenshots of the installation process.

Installing the update KB2932046.

This is a package of new features of the Windows 8.1 operating system. After installing the update, you will need to restart the system.

Installing the update KB2959977

Update for Windows 8.1. This update also requires a reboot of the system.

Installing the update KB2937592.

Another package new windows functions 8.1.

Installing the update KB2938439

Package of new features of the operating system. After installation, you will need to restart the system.

Installing the update KB2934018.

Also a package of new features of Windows 8.1. It will be necessary to restart the system again.

After installing all updates, you can go to Windows Updates ( Control Panel -\u003e Windows Update -\u003e View update log) And see which updates are installed on your system.

I have it all, I hope, the material was useful to you while!

Good day Dear readers and blog subscribers and canals, remember not so long ago, I told you how I solved the problem that Windows 7 is looking for updates for a long time, so I caught this and in the eight. How do you know I try to give my assemblies every quarter with operational microsoft systems, sewing new updates in them, to keep a fresh image at any time and do not waste time on updates. So in the eight before the glitch with an infinite update was not, but apparently and there came the insidious hands Microsoft, and today I will show you how I decided infinite windows Update 8.1 I will try to highlight this topic as much as possible for each can be able to establish fresh safety patches.

Why is the endless update of Windows 8.1

And so let's understand why Windows 8.1 update center makes an endless search for updates that does not lead to anything but to spending your time and nerves. There are several reasons that we then consider in detail below:

• Damaged updates in the C: \\ Windows \\ SoftWaredistRibution folder
• Microsoft servers are not available
• Problem with Windows 8.1 Update Center
• Buggy update
• Not installed Windows update agent

I will tell my preservation. As I wrote above, I began to collect a fresh build of Windows 8.1. I made a clean installation of Windows 8.1 and naturally the first thing I climbed into the system update center. Up to this point, I have never had problems with their download and installation, but now I have been squeezed familiar to Bole, in the form of an ever running green slider, I even waited for a day for the purity of the experiment, but the picture has not changed.

For the sake of the purity of the experiment, I looked at network activity, it was zero and appeals, and I did not find downloads from Microsoft servers.

Let's now understand what you need to do that your Windows 8.1 update center stops the infinite search for updates.

We clean the SoftWaredistRibution folder

Infinite search for Windows 8.1 updates, may be due to damaged updates that managed to download in the background or could be downloaded before. To get rid of them, I advise you to delete the contents folder C: \\ Windows \\ SoftWaredistration.

Update for Windows 8.1 for X64 processor systems (KB3065988) - https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/download/details.aspx?id\u003d47738

Update for Windows 8.1 for systems based on x64 processors (KB3138615) - https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/download/details.aspx?id\u003d51209

I want to note that installing data offline updates packages, follows only with the Windows Update Service

To do this, press Win + R and enter services.msc. And press ENTER.

As a result, you will open the service tooling, find the Windows Update Center at the bottom, click on it with the right click and select Stop.

And even to avoid glitches with infinite search from the additional updates themselves, put in setting the parameters, item "Do not check the availability of updates"

As soon as the service finishes its work, you can start installing updates that are corrected in the Windows 8.1 update center. Infinite search for updates. First, set KB2999226, then KB317342 and only then KB3172614.

Wizard installation of autonomous updates does not require anything from you.

At the end, you will see that the installation is completed.

Do the same with KB3173424

and with KB3172614, but in contrast to the rest, this is a storage package of corrections for July 2016.

Once the KB3172614 has been established, you will see an offer, a reboot, to apply corrections, do it.

After rebooting, go back to Windows 8.1 update center and try to search for updates, in my case it was a victory, I was able to detect 189 important updates in my case.

If when installing updates, you have a very long hanging window with download and you are worried that nothing happens, then to understand whether Windows 8.1 updates are downloaded or not, you can check the following things.

Open resource monitoring, go to the disc tab and make sure that the appeal folder winsxsYou can also check whether new files appeared in the C: \\ Windows \\ Softwaredistribution \\ downloads folder.

By the way, when searching for updates, you can see the error 80244019, as it decides, I have already told, but before trying the methods described there. Check out that.

Go to settings for parameters.

And make sure you have to install updates automatically (recommended)

If you already have these updates or installs, you did not give results, you will help you install a monthly security system for the security system for Windows 8.1 systems under the KB4048958 code, you can download it by reference http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com /Search.aspx?q\u003dkb4048958 and kb4057401 http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q\u003dkb4057401

Troubleshooting Windows Update Tools

As we know on the latest Windows 10 Redstone operating system, they are far from ideal. The number of glitches in the system over the past year has grown very much, plus Microsoft has shifted all the forces on the top ten and thereby worsened support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. If the described methods with the installation of KB did not help you and you have in Windows 8.1, the update search is spinning infinitely, then try using the troubleshooting tool.

To do this, go to the control panel\u003e Troubleshooting

In the System and Security, click Troubleshooting using the Windows Update Center.

Your operating system will try to detect problems that you can call an infinite search for updates in Windows 8.1, in parallel can still find something. In general, the remedy is very good, and in some cases can greatly help.

Even to perform a task, the problem of eliminating problems may ask you to run it with administrator rights, do it.

Since when installing for example, the same antivirus solutions or hypervisors may be affected by the TCP / IP stack,

I also advise you to try to disable your antivirus, at the time of trying to set updates, maybe it impedes access to Microsoft servers

I hope the methods described above will be able to help you in eliminate the endless search for Windows 8.1 updates and you can close all security loopholes in it, in general another stone In the garden of the Microsoft, shameful comrades throw their old products with official support.

How to update windows 7 to windows 8? This is a question that worries more and more users. The fact is that the "eight" conquers more and more fans. It enjoys a huge distribution worldwide, including in Russia and Ukraine.

Of course, each computer has information that needs to be saved. Therefore, the question is, it is possible to update Windows 7 to Windows 8 - this is an important and urgent topic to date. You can do it. Moreover, there are several ways to update.

Computer preparation

Before moving to the update, it is worth find out if your PC is ready for this. Whether programs and drivers can work normally on the new operating system. Thanks to the Special Assistant Update from Microsoft, it is possible to make it extremely simple.

To begin with, visit the official site of Microsoft and download the update assistant. Immediately after launch, he starts scanning your PC, as well as everything software installed and equipment. As a result of the scanning, the program will provide information on whether the available software can work on the new version of the OS.

If any programs need to reinstall, the assistant will warn about it and give a list of programs that will not work normally on the "eight".

So, if the computer has been checking, you can go to the update.

How to update

There are two ways to update the "seven" to Windows 8:

• Using an update assistant.
• With help .

In any case, first you will have to buy an operating system, after which you can install it or write it on a portable drive. The first option is to upgrade to Windows 8 with Windows 7 through Microsoft Assistant. After purchasing the OS via the site, you will be sent an email with reference and activation key. The link leads to the update assistant already known to us.

After starting the utility, the computer will start scanning a compatibility with a new OS.

• Set now.
• Create a media for installation.
• Set later from the computer.

If you select the first item, the OS will continue to install. At the same time, you will be offered another three options for further action:

• Save parameters and user personal data.
• Save personal data.
• Do not save anything.

If the PC has important data and programs that need to be saved, then select the first option. If it is important to save only personal data, then the second. The third option sets a new operating system, removing the old one.

Upgrade Windows 7 to the "eight" using Microsoft Assistant is the easiest option. But what if you have a boot drive?

How to update the Windows 7 operating system to windows 8 independently: video

Update with boot drive

Also, as in the first case, you can update Windows 7 from a portable drive to Windows 8 directly from the "seven": that is, you do not need to restart the computer and configure the BIOS. Simply insert the drive with operating system And run the setup.exe file. As a rule, the system automatically offers to do it. But if this did not happen, then open file manager, Select the appropriate media and run the file manually.

Next will start the update wizard. You also have only to carefully read the prompts on the screen and perform simple actions. The first is a question of installing recent updates. Here you can choose any option, but it is better to refuse to save time, as you can update the system after installation.

Now you need to choose what will be saved. There are three options here:

• Save windows settings, Personal data and applications.
• Save only personal files.
• Do not save anything.

The first option is an update with saving all parameters and data. Choose it and click "Next". Now the program scans the computer and checks all components for compatibility with the new OS. If any errors occur, you will receive a report and a prompt about which applications you need to delete or reinstall.

In the process of installing the PC will reboot several times. Wait until the assistant updates the OS. After the process is completed, you will only need to configure the parameters of the new operating system.

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