Windows 8.1 Update Available

[evilfantasy]

This is the new OS update for Windows 8.1 Update 1 (KB2919355).

This update includes 2 security updates KB2922229 and KB2936068. They can be found by running Windows Update. If they are not showing in your updates they should be pushed to your computer sometime today. You may be prompted to restart the computer following the KB2922229 and KB2936068 updates. You will then receive KB2919355 that is the actual Windows 8.1 Update 1.

Important! This is a new OS being installed so back up your personal files and folders before beginning the update. Save the backups somewhere other than the computer you are updating. For example save backups to a flash drive or cloud service.

* If you decide to install the updates manually from the Microsoft Download Center website be sure you have all previous Windows updates installed. Unless you are a System Administrator or IT Professional it's usually best to let Windows Update download and install updates instead of updating manually.

More information: Windows 8.1 Update – important refinements to the Windows experience

Get security updates automatically. Turn on automatic updating in Control Panel.

[SuperDave]

Now if they could only get some half decent card games my wife would be happy.lol

[soybean]

Thanks for the heads-up on this, evilfantasy.   

[patio]

I read somewhere there is no path back to 8 from here after the update...
If true i think it stinks MS hasn't mentioned it.

[soybean]

This is the new OS update for Windows 8.1 Update 1 (KB2919355).

This update includes 2 security updates KB2922229 and KB2936068. They can be found by running Windows Update. If they are not showing in your updates they should be pushed to your computer sometime today. You may be prompted to restart the computer following the KB2922229 and KB2936068 updates. You will then receive KB2919355 that is the actual Windows 8.1 Update 1.

On 4/11/14, 10 Windows updates come to me via the usual alert; they included the 2 security updates, KB2922229 and KB2936068, but not KB2919355.  So, just today (4/13), I opened the Windows Update panel and clicked on "Check for updates".  That lead to "Windows 8.1 Update for x64-based Systems (KB2919355)" appearing in the panel.  Download size: 887.6 MB. 

[evilfantasy]

Windows 8 doesn't notify you of available updates like previous versions so it may have been setting there for days. They just set there until you find them. I use a small tool called Windows 8 Update Notifier so I know when updates are ready sometimes before they are pushed out to the built in Windows Update.

The newest version has more controls then the earlier version I posted about in this topic. You can now just check a box to have it run at startup and to install Windows Defender updates.

[BC_Programmer]

The update has been on MSDN since build, but I wasn't able to get the .msu files to work properly. They installed but nothing changed after a reboot.

The updates available from Windows Update itself, once they were made available, worked fine though.

[soybean]

Windows 8 doesn't notify you of available updates like previous versions so it may have been setting there for days. They just set there until you find them.

  Generally, I haven't seen any difference between Win 8 and previous versions with regard to notification of available updates.  From one perspective, I would say Win 8 is actually better in this regard; it will display a notification even before logging on to Windows. 

In the case of the huge "update 1", or KB2919355, as I said in my previous post, it did not appear on my Win notebook PC until after the two updates, KB2922229 and KB2936068, that had to be installed before KB2919355 could be installed, were installed.  And, yes, Windows did not alert me to KB2919355 until I manually clicked on "Check for updates".  But, to conclude from this instance that Windows 8 is worse than previous versions may not be a sound conclusion, in my view.  Such a conclusion needs a longer track record and I am not seeing that so far. 

[One Sock]

* If you decide to install the updates manually from the Microsoft Download Center website be sure you have all previous Windows updates installed.

So what you're saying is that, unlike Win XP service packs, the 8.1 update does NOT include all the previous updates? Does it include ANY previous updates?

[BC_Programmer]

So what you're saying is that, unlike Win XP service packs, the 8.1 update does NOT include all the previous updates? Does it include ANY previous updates?

No, you need the previous updates for it to even appear.