I am Jake Risman, director of IT services at san diego computer techs, a computer support company based in San Diego CA.

This is the first in a series of many web blog videos I will be releasing several times a week.

Today’s topic is how to update microsoft windows

Updates are necessary to make sure your computer is running smothly and all of your security is up to date. There are also enhancements in the
code that are available, that are released periodicaly.

So here is how to do that:

First click down here under start menu and go to control panel.

From the control panel you will find something that says windows update. This is a tutorial for windows Vista only.

When you click on windows update, make sure that when you click change settings, it says install updates automatically on dates that you specify. I choose a time when I am no longer in the office.

It then checks for updates, and once it checks for updates you can either install them, or specify them to install automatically.

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We finally have a windows 7 release date obtained from Microsoft. The scheduled date now is October 22nd 2009. Even though this is great news for people I would not recommend starting to use windows 7 quite yet. The reason for this is because just as when Microsoft first released Windows XP, and then Windows Vista, they do not have a great track record for releasing Operating Systems without bugs in them. Here at San Diego Computer Techs we typically recommend customers to wait till at lease Service Pack 1 comes out until the go and switch their operating system. Also make sure that all of your software and hardware is compatible.

If you are thinking of changing your Operating System please follow the link to run a compatibility check on your system:  Click Here