- A brand new patch is being quietly pushed to Home windows 10 (and 11) PCs
- It’ll drive upgrades in sure circumstances to maintain the PC in assist
- This replace will imply extra nag prompts coming to your PC
Home windows 10 customers – and people operating an out-of-date model of Home windows 11 – are getting an replace stealthily pushed to their PCs that can enable Microsoft to drive a future replace to the OS (to maintain it in assist), and likewise to nag customers about assist operating out, too.
Neowin noticed the deployment of patch KB5001716, which the positioning notes has been quietly put in on Home windows 10 PCs following the discharge of the October cumulative replace. (It was additionally pushed to Home windows 11 model 21H2 gadgets, which ran out of assist over a 12 months in the past).
The patch is an replace for Home windows Replace, basically, and Microsoft notes: “When this replace is put in, Home windows might try to obtain and set up function updates to your gadget whether it is approaching or has reached the top of assist to your at present put in Home windows model.”
Microsoft additionally observes: “After this replace is put in, Home windows might periodically show a notification informing you of issues which will forestall Home windows Replace from maintaining your gadget up-to-date and guarded towards present threats.”
Which means KB5001716 will enable notifications to be offered to Home windows 10 (and 11) customers telling them that their gadget is operating an unsupported model of Home windows that’s previous its sell-by date for updates and is subsequently insecure. For Home windows 10 customers, this possible interprets into additional badgering to maneuver to Home windows 11.
In some instances, given the primary level Microsoft notes, the replace might also be pressured in your PC (finally), as we see occurring when any given model of Home windows 10 or 11 runs out of street and is not supported for additional upgrades.
Evaluation: Repeat efficiency – the odd historical past of KB5001716
What Microsoft is doing right here is making an attempt to maintain your gadget safe, so in some methods, it’s a wonderfully comprehensible measure. As you might recall, Home windows 10 has lower than a 12 months of assist left now.
Nonetheless, there are issues with the method right here: particularly the stealthy method by which the replace turns up on PCs. After checking for updates, this one seemingly simply lands in your system – increase – with none warning.
What’s additionally odd is that in case you seek for KB5001716 on the net, you’ll discover that there’s a historical past of this replace mysteriously showing on PCs. As reported on numerous boards corresponding to Reddit, KB5001716 turned up in April 2024, and was piped to PCs earlier than that in October 2023 as effectively.
What provides? That’s a superb query. Presumably, these are revisions of KB5001716 – tweaked updates – which might be being redelivered to Home windows 10 (and 11) PCs. Nonetheless, in some instances previously, there have been errors brought on by the reinstallation, which seemingly conflicted with earlier installs of the patch ultimately. Should you’ve just lately acquired a message that KB5001716 failed to put in in your PC, that is more likely to be what’s occurred.
The obvious remedy for these eventualities is to go to the Home windows Replace web page (in Settings) and click on on View replace historical past, then click on on Uninstall updates on the prime of the panel. Now, scroll again to seek out the beforehand put in KB5001716, then choose and take away it. Reboot, head again to Home windows Replace, and test for updates once more – whereupon the newest model of KB5001716 (for October 2024) ought to set up okay (hopefully).
There’s seemingly no getting round this replace, as it’s a obligatory improve for Home windows Replace (it’s doable that it could do different issues within the background, too, other than the reminders to improve and every little thing else talked about within the assist notes).
We should always make clear that this gained’t drive a Home windows 11 improve on a Home windows 10 PC which isn’t appropriate with the stricter necessities for the latest OS – however it’ll possible proceed to nag you about upgrading (to your personal good, Microsoft would clearly argue).
Certainly, we’d be stunned if it fired up any improve for Home windows 11 routinely, even when the PC in query was appropriate – however, we guess, maybe this might occur. Usually pressured upgrades are for function updates, although, which means new variations of your present working system, like 24H2 which just lately arrived as this 12 months’s annual replace for Home windows 11. Migrating to a complete new OS, like leaping from Home windows 10 to 11, is a a lot larger transfer.
