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Editor to share with you how to prevent strangers from upgrading Windows 10 but secretly take up your bandwidth. I believe most people don't know much about it, so share this article for your reference. I hope you can learn a lot after reading this article. Let's learn about it together.

Windows 10 P2P upgrade

In the past, Windows Update simply connected to the network server provided by Microsoft to download and update the necessary patch files or applications, but the new version of Windows 10 preset will turn on the "updates from multiple locations" function, which is commonly known as "delivery optimization", which allows us to download Windows Update files from other people's computers in addition to Microsoft servers. And your own computer will automatically provide updated files to other unknown computers to download the parts they need.

Does that sound awesome? This is the kind of P2P download mechanism used by eMule, BT, Thunderbolt and other software. The advantage is that the download speed of the update may be faster, even if Microsoft's server is not afraid of traffic jams. Drawbacks.. That is, it will eat up some of your network traffic more or less, and if you share it with your computer with your mobile 3G/4G network, you will probably be sucked dry soon.

I guess Microsoft dares to launch such a feature, it should be particularly enhanced in terms of security (anyway, there is no lack of this piece of loophole … )?

But in fact, Windows 10 only provides two options in the "updates from multiple locations" section to turn it on / off and allow only the local area network or the entire Internet to download. There is no way to limit the use of bandwidth, nor can you configure the duration of file sharing or other additional functional adjustments.

Windows 10 simplified Chinese version download: click here (free download, official Microsoft version).

So, if you live in an environment where many Windows 10 computers want to save external bandwidth during updates in this way, you can turn on the option to update only local network computers, and if you have only one computer at home, or even if you have limited network bandwidth and do not want to waste much bandwidth / traffic, you can choose to turn it off altogether.

Then, it is hoped that one day no talented hackers will disguise Trojans or viruses as normal Windows Update updates (although they have been split + verified) and share them with other computers around the world (meaning that people who use pirated software from unknown sources should worry about it first).

Setting method:

Step 1: click the start button in the lower left corner of the desktop, and then click Settings on the start menu.

Step 2: after opening the Settings menu, click the bottom Update and Security icon.

Step 3: click "Windows Update" in the Update and Security menu.

Step 4: in the WINDOWS update menu, click Advanced options.

Step 5: click in the Advanced options to select how to provide updates

Step 6: click the original "on" button and set it to "off".

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