I’m going to show you how to do updates in Windows 8 now.
If you click on the Start menu
or press the Windows key and type in Update Settings,
and then if you go on Windows update settings,
and click on Choose How Updates Get Installed.
And then you can make your choice here
as to whether or not you want them to be automatic.
I recommend that they are automatically installed
and downloaded.
You can choose just to download the updates
and then you decide whether you want to install them.
That's not necessarily the best thing to do,
but if you want to check them before you install them.
And I would also check this as well:
Give me updates for Microsoft products.
That will update Internet Explorer, Office, Excel, Word,
which is important to do.
If you want to view the details of the patches click on View Update History,
and then you can see here the KB number
which is a unique identifier for the update,
which you can search for.
If you want to check for updates,
you just simply click on
Check Now and it will start checking.