How to Perform Updates in Windows 11

1. Go to Windows desktop and click the Start button

2. Click on Settings and wait for the Settings window to appear

3. On the left pane, look for the last option that says “Windows update” and click on it

4. Wait for the Windows Update window to appear

5. On the right side of the window, click the Check for updates button

6. Right after clicking the Check for updates button, you will see an animation notification that says “Checking for updates…” on the top part of the window
          a. This process could take from a few seconds to a few minutes

7. Once updates were found, they will be shown in an ordered list under the previously mentioned animation and they will immediately begin being downloaded by Windows Update
     a. Sometimes some of these updates would fail to download. In those cases, a Retry button in blue would appear on the right side of the update name. Click on it to try to  download them again.

8. After the downloading process of a specific update has been done, Windows Update will start installing it right away.

9. When update is done being installed, the “Installing” status on the right would change to “Completed”

10. Some updates would require the Windows operating system to be restarted in order to be fully installed. In those cases, their status on the right would be changed from “Completed” to “Pending restart”.
a. In this article we have such an example

11. Manually restart the Windows operating system

12. As you can see in the screenshot below, Windows is automatically installing the update that has been pending restart mentioned in stage 10.

13. Once the start-up update has been installed, Windows should start normally.

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