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  2. Windows Update - Wikipedia

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    Windows Update Agent on Windows 10 supports peer-to-peer distribution of updates; by default, systems' bandwidth is used to distribute previously downloaded updates to other users, in combination with Microsoft servers. Users may optionally change Windows Update to only perform peer-to-peer updates within their local area network. [27]

  3. WinDirStat - Wikipedia

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    Steve Bass of PC World provided a brief review of the 1.1.2 release of WinDirStat, summarizing its usefulness: "Windirstat is [a] colorful and nifty tool to check the makeup of your hard drive -- especially if you're looking for immense files. It scans your drive and produces a treemap that shows each file as a colored rectangle that's ...

  4. CHKDSK - Wikipedia

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    CHKDSK can be run from DOS prompt, Windows Explorer, Windows Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell or Recovery Console. [10] On Windows NT operating systems, CHKDSK can also check the disk surface for bad sectors and mark them (in MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 9x, this is a task done by Microsoft ScanDisk).

  5. Background Intelligent Transfer Service - Wikipedia

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    It is most commonly used by recent versions of Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services, and System Center Configuration Manager to deliver software updates to clients, Microsoft's anti-virus scanner Microsoft Security Essentials (a later version of Windows Defender) to fetch signature updates, and is also used by ...

  6. Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft expects an MSR to be present on every GPT disk, and recommends it to be created as the disk is initially partitioned. [4] The GPT label for this partition type is E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE. [2] The Microsoft-recommended size of MSR (which Windows Setup uses by default) is different for each version of Windows:

  7. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    [374] Columnist Kim Komando argued that "Microsoft might in the future run scans and disable software or hardware it sees as a security threat", consistent with the Windows 10 update policy. [379] In September 2019, Microsoft hid the option to create a local account during a fresh installation if a PC is connected to the internet.

  8. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space. It was introduced in Windows 98 and has been a part of Microsoft Windows ever since. In 2018, Microsoft introduced a second cleanup utility 'Storage Sense' in the Settings app with Windows 10 version 1803, but Disk Cleanup ...

  9. Windows Desktop Update - Wikipedia

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    Updates to the Windows Desktop Update were part of IE 4.0 hotfixes and service packs. Later, shell security updates for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 included both the update to the Windows Desktop Update version and the original version. Sometimes the Windows Desktop Update version and the update to the original version were packaged separately.