UPDATES

Updates make all the difference when booting a computer. 

When you are booting your computer up you find out each day that the boot is slower and slower. Let us say that you already upgraded your hard drive and ram and the computer is still slow, upgrading to the next update is prolly the main reasoning for the pc not booting. Either firmware is out of date, or bios is out of date, maybe it is the video card that is causing the problem. 

Updates do make all the difference when booting a computer,  because there is something update that you are missing. 

Types of updates:

There are plenty of types of updates that is prolly causing the problems and here are just a few:

1.  BIOS update - Upgrades the bios to latest updates 

2.  Firmware Updates - Firmware applies to hardware in the system that controls the functioning of certain devices. 

3. Application Updates - Some application updates help boot the pc to provide faster responses to the pc and make it more efficient to complete tasks. 

4.  Security Updates - These updates help improve vulnerabilities within the pc and address specific needs like security vulnerabilities, bug fixes, and new features.

5. Service Pack Updates - Improvements to the UI or programs within the system that helps with bug fixes, performances, and new features

6. Hotfix Updates - Updates for specific issues and problems that cause for attention.

7. Cumulative Updates - regular updates that help programs and system perform better. 

8.  GPU Updates - Graphics Processing Units have updates to upgrade the video card to run better on a system and improve performance (Custom builds or Built in)

Most of these updates can be updated manually but they are not automatic. 

Once you set the main part of the updates to automatic, most of these other updates you will have to set to manual. Although these updates will have to be placed manually, they only need to be done at least once per year to stay up to date. 

Operating Systems that are not applicable to updating

• Windows 9x series

  • Windows 95 (1995) - Support ended on December 31, 2000, and ending extended support on December 31,  2001, making this OS an "obsolete" product. 

  • Windows 98 (1998) - Support ended on June 30, 2002, and ending extended support on July 11, 2006.

  • Windows ME (2000) - Support ended on December 31, 2003, and ending extended support on July 11, 2006.

• Windows NT-Based Versions

  • Windows 2000 (2000) -  Support ended on July 13, 2010, and no other security updates and technical support. 

  • Windows XP (2001) - Support ended on April 14, 2009, and ending extended support on April 8, 2014.

  • Windows Vista (2006) -  Support ended on April 10, 2012, and ending extended support on April 11, 2017.

  • Windows 7 (2009) - Support ended on January 14, 2020, with extended security updates ending on January 10, 2023

  • Windows 8 & 8.1 (2012 - 2013) - Support ended on January 10, 2023 and no longer receives any security updates or technical support.

Operating systems that soon to be ending updates

• Windows 10 (2025) - Support will end on October 14, 2025 and will no longer receive security updates or technical support.

Future updates to end

• Windows 11 (2021) - ETA support will end in 2031. 

• Windows 12 (2025) - ETA support will end in 2035.

Running one of these pre-Windows 10 Operating systems and running slow, this is the reasoning why. 

If you would like your computer up-to-date and running smoother, come see us and will will update your personal computer and set your pc up for automatic updates.