When you update Windows 11, you often encounter the situation of having to restart your computer repeatedly. Although you can choose not to restart your computer immediately, it is sometimes annoying, but this situation will change soon. Windows 11 24H2 can use a new feature in the Windows Server version called “Hotpatch” to install monthly updates without restarting the system.
Windows 11 is getting updates that don’t require a reboot
If you are an ordinary Windows user, you must be familiar with Update Tuesday. If there is no update that week, it will be regarded as the second Tuesday of every month. Microsoft will send patch updates and security updates to your computer. In addition to improving the security of Windows 10 / 11 computers, these updates sometimes add new features. While this feature is welcome and helps keep your computer secure, it also brings with it something unwelcome: rebooting, which has inspired countless memes and complaints online.
Luckily, the days of complaining about reboots appear to be coming to an end. Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature called “Hotpatch” that will get rid of the cycle of rebooting every time the computer is updated. Dev Insider EditionTest on. This is not the first time Hotpatch has appeared, it has already existed on Windows Server and Xbox, but this will be the first time it appears on ordinary computers.
according to Official article from Microsoft, Hotpatch works by patching running process memory code without restarting the process, which installs the update directly on the system without restarting the system. However, users must reboot every three months because Hotpatch starts with a cumulative update as a baseline, and Hotpatch updates can be installed on the system for the next two months without rebooting. For example, if you install the cumulative update for January, your computer will restart this time. In the next two months, you can theoretically continue to use your computer without restarting when there are updates.
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You may be understandably cheering this development, and those complaining memes will go away, but we do recommend rebooting regularly, and the occasional full system reboot will help resolve most issues and make it run faster. Faster.
