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Enable Automatic App Updates in Windows 8

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Video: Enable Automatic App Updates in Windows 8

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The first thing that we need to do is go to the store
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To do this, we need to first click the lower-left corner of the screen to access the start menu.

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Then, we locate the Store icon and click it
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If we don't have the Store icon among the tiles, we can browse through all applications
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We can do that by clicking the down arrow button on the lower-left corner of the screen.
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Then, we locate and click Store
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We wait for it to load.

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Once it has been finished, we need to move the mouse cursor to the upper-right corner of the screen
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We click "Settings" in the charms menu
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Now, we need to click "App updates"
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In this video, we will see that "Automatically update my apps" is set to "No".
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We need to click the toggle under "Automatically update my apps"
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If we want to turn automatic updates off, we need to click the toggle again
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This will turn automatic updates off.
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