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Windows 10'due south May 2021 Update was released on May xviii, 2021. Equally always, Microsoft is slowly rolling this update out to Windows ten PCs, bit by bit. Windows Update should automatically install the 21H1 update on your PC, only information technology may have a few weeks. Here's how to become it correct at present.

We recommend you wait for Windows Update to automatically install this update on your PC. This is a particularly small update with very few changes, so in that location's no reason for most people to rush the process. If you look, you volition have less take a chance of encountering a show-stopping bug on your PC.

How to Get the Update From Windows Update

Y'all can check Windows Update for the update, although it may not announced if Microsoft hasn't approved information technology for your PC'due south hardware and software configuration nonetheless.

To check, head to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update. (You can open the Settings app by pressing Windows+i.) Click "Check for Updates."

If Windows Update offers the update to your PC, you lot will see a "Feature update to Windows 10, version 21H1" section below the "View optional updates" link. To install the update, click the "Download and install" link.

If you don't run into this option, Microsoft may not yet be offering it to your PC through Windows Update. Or, your PC may already take installed the update. Hither's how to check which version of Windows 10 you have installed.

Click "Download and Install" under the Feature Update section.
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How to Force an Upgrade to the May 2021 Update

if you desire to upgrade correct at present, yous can do so with Microsoft's Update Assistant tool. Head to Microsoft's Download Windows 10 page and click the "Update Now" button to download information technology.

If there is a newer version of Windows 10 available—in this case, version 21H1—the updater volition offer it to you. Y'all'll see a message similar "This PC is running version 20H2. The latest version is 21H1."

Warning: Past using this tool, you're skipping Microsoft'south slow rollout process and increasing the risk that you will encounter bugs on your PC that may otherwise take been fixed earlier your hardware got the update.

Click the "Update At present" button to install the update on your PC.

The Windows 10 Update Assistant showing an upgrade to 21H1.

If you encounter a bug, you tin uninstall the update and go back to your old version of Windows 10 from Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. Still, yous must do this within the first 10 days afterwards yous install the update. Here'southward how to uninstall the October 2020 update—information technology'southward a process that will work for any big Windows 10 Update.