Good Bye YYHX Updates, Hello Windows Checkpoint

Making Those KB Articles Even Harder To Find

Microsoft is yet again changing how you get Windows Updates, to save bandwidth and storage space while likely making it more difficult to determine exactly what update you might have received.  Windows checkpoint cumulative updates will be automatically downloaded to your machine, once Win11 24H2 has been installed.   You can test it right now, if you install Windows Insider Preview Build 26120.1252.  This change will affect both servers in addition to general Windows machines.

The idea is to switch to smaller, incremental updates that include only changes added since the previous checkpoint cumulative update.  That will certainly save on bandwidth and space, as well as reducing the time you spend watching an update climb up to 100% during a reboot.  On the other hand, it is unclear what might happen if the installation of one of these Windows checkpoints goes awry.  If it couldn’t install properly, you may never be able to install any new updates from that point on; everyone knows that Windows Update works 100% of the time, right?

If you use WSUS, Windows Update for Business or similar solutions you will retain the ability to opt out, so at least there is that.