Toshiba Qosmio Laptop JUST STARTED crashing on sleep

I thought I'd found a topic in this forum about crashing when the laptop goes to sleep, but I can't find it now...

Laptop is a couple years old. HAS ALWAYS WORKED FINE....... DID NOT CRASH ON SLEEP. Running Windows 7 home premium with SP1.

No new software. No new hardware. No new NOTHING in months.... EXCEPT the other day MS wanted to install a dozen or so updates. I installed the important ones. This is the ONLY thing I know of that's new on this box.

Now, when it goes to sleep, it must crash because I've got to reboot from startup.

I have no errors in the windows logs. I have no errors in the device manager. I have no dumps (unless they're somewhere other than windows/minidump). I have no disk errors.

Is it reasonable to think one of those updates did something undesirable? If so, does the MS update create a restore point before it updates? So far, I haven't found any restore points.

Can someone who can find it, point me at the topic that'll walk me through getting whatever information is needed to find out why this thing is crashing?

It appears I have no system restore points on this laptop.

I was apparently mistaken in my thinking that MS would do a restore point BEFORE installing updates...

As far as the updates... I NEVER let it install automatically. I just notifies me. And I VERY rarely install the optional stuff. This was ONLY the dozen or so "important" updates.

Unfortunately, I'm sitting in a campground at Monument Valley, and the Internet connection is "poor" at best. I think I have the system specs updated...

I don't think it's a system issue. I'm considering going into programs and undoing updates 1 x 1 from the last time I did updates...

OK, today, I have a data signal, so I can get back to this....

As for the updates - it "said" there were 13 important updates. When I checked in Programs, there were dozens of "updates" applied on 3/11, which is when I let MS do the updates.

Prior to seeing your reply, I went in and selected an area of updates and removed them. There were 7 or 8 that (as I recall) were "windows"... There were dozens for Office, but I ignored those....

Anyhow, AT THE MOMENT, the laptop is no longer crashing when it sleeps... I have no idea whether or not removing the half dozen updates did it, dumb luck, some other setting I haven't thought about, or some kind of cosmic convergence... BUT, for the moment, it's not crashing.

Security on here is Microsoft Security Essentials.

If it starts crashing again, I'll get a screen shot BEFORE I remove any updates......

OH, and just for fun, MS wants to do more updates! I DON'T think it'll let it do anything to the box until I get back home in 3 or 4 weeks. I also know now that I need to create a restore point before I let MS mess with anything!