Quality updates (also are referred to as “cumulative updates” or “cumulative quality updates”) are the mandatory updates that your computer downloads and installs automatically every month through Windows Update. Usually, every second Tuesday of every month (“Patch Tuesday”).

What is a Windows 10 quality update?

Windows monthly quality updates help you to stay productive and protected. They provide your users and IT administrators with the security fixes they need, and protect devices so that unpatched vulnerabilities can’t be exploited. … Reliability and vulnerability issues can occur when only a subset of fixes is installed.

What is the difference between a quality update and a feature update?

Quality updates are mostly security fixes and are installed after one reboot, whereas feature updates are installed in steps that require more than one reboot to complete. There are four phases in a feature update installation.