Windows 11 not automatically updating.

[wigster]

Anyone else having this? It stopped automatically updating about a month ago, I have to manually check for updates.

 

[D-Ranged]

I usually find the opposite issue with Windows 11 .

Have you checked you haven't accidentally disabled it in the settings, or changed the schedule?

 

[mingeroonie]

All fine here, I tend not to change much and just let it do it's thing

 

[Glanza]

Have you paused updates by mistake? Not got any issues with updates here.

 

[wigster]

No I haven't paused updates first thing I checked.

Strange, shall leave alone and see if it sorts itself out.

 

[PaulM]

A long shot but check you haven't accidently set your network connection set as a metered connection, I did this once and by default Windows Update doesn't check for updates on a metered connection

 

[Murphy]

First thing you probably want to check is when was the last time it checked for updates, assuming you've not run a manual check today type 'Get-WindowsUpdateLog' into a powershell window and that will save a log to your desktop. Open the log and scroll down to the bottom where it should have today's date, i say should as Windows should/normally checks for updates daily so there should be timestamps shortly after you first booted up this morning.

 

[wigster]

A long shot but check you haven't accidently set your network connection set as a metered connection, I did this once and by default Windows Update doesn't check for updates on a metered connection

I did have a check but it's not on a metered connection.

First thing you probably want to check is when was the last time it checked for updates, assuming you've not run a manual check today type 'Get-WindowsUpdateLog' into a powershell window and that will save a log to your desktop. Open the log and scroll down to the bottom where it should have today's date, i say should as Windows should/normally checks for updates daily so there should be timestamps shortly after you first booted up this morning.

Thanks will have a look at that. Last time I did a manual check was on the 26th December.

 

[wigster]

Used powershell after reading everything it looked like it was updating and removing updates. I checked one last time and this time it actually said it had checked for updates.

 

[D-Ranged]

A long shot but check you haven't accidently set your network connection set as a metered connection, I did this once and by default Windows Update doesn't check for updates on a metered connection

I did this once as it was killing my crappy internet connection when I was trying to work during the day, downloading updates.

Forgot about it, then tried installing Forza 5 a year later, which would only download at about 90kb/sec on my new 900mb line.

Turns out, the MS store also gets throttled if you turn metered connection on!