Owners of Samsung PCs will begin receiving automatic software updates from Microsoft again soon, after Samsung said it will end its practice of blocking automatic Windows Updates on its computers. "We will be issuing a patch through the Samsung Software Update notification process to revert back to the recommended automatic Windows Update settings within a few days," Samsung said Friday.

Earlier this week, researcher Patrick Barker reported on an auspiciously named application called "Disable_Windowsupdate.exe" that runs on Samsung PCs as part of the company's SW Update service. The program disables automatic updates from Microsoft's software patching service.

Samsung's software update app was designed in order to prevent Windows Update from installing default drivers that would break features like USB 3.0 ports.

Anyone who hasn't already uninstalled SW Update will have their Windows Update settings reverted to apply updates automatically when the company patches its service.