Patch Tuesday | March 2017 ?

Many hard drives, and even motherboard utilities, also have free backup programs. I agree, there's nothing better than being able to restore your computer to what it was say a month ago. I usually have to settle for more like several months, ago, since I don't do it as often as I should. But even that is a lifesaver. I use both the Windows utility (if I'm feeling brave), but the best IMO is Macrium Reflect Free. That saved me once when Windows refused to see the image that it had itself created. So get Macrium or another third party app and you'll sleep at night.

Hello Everyone, I have never used Macrium or the other programs, I was wondering seeing as I have done
all the windows updates to November,2016, do they image all of these to, or is it just the rest of the system. Sorry for my ignorance on this.

ethel said:

Hello Everyone, I have never used Macrium or the other programs, I was wondering seeing as I have done
all the windows updates to November,2016, do they image all of these to, or is it just the rest of the system. Sorry for my ignorance on this.

If, for example, you did a full system image today (3/23/17) it would copy your hard drive and include everything currently installed including the Nov 16 Windows Updates. If you had to use this system image on, say, 3/31/17, your computer would be restored to the same configuration as 3/23/17 (when the image was made.) If you made any changes to your computer between 3/23 and 3/31, those changes would not be included in the 3/23 image. That's why it's advisable to make a new image after making changes, adding updates, new software, etc and you're satisfied your computer is working the way it should. Hope this helps.

Another groovy thing with images is that your documents, music projects etc. will be preserved. You can also choose the restore point you want. Say, you installed an app that really messed up your computer. The day before that, you installed some apps you like, and want to keep. You can restore it from the point of the bad app, keeping the good ones.

The reason a third party program is better than Windows' own utility is that the latter doesn't always work. It is maddening when you have made an image, and Windows says it can't find it. That won't happen with third party apps, they actually work.

Thank you everyone for your help, I will download Macrium Reflect. I have a 160gb portable drive that I
can use to store the image on.

Hi to all
I have been holding back on this March update - I was offerred the KB4012215 Rollup but not the KB4012212 important.
I ran a 'check for updates' three times last night and was informed that there are no updates available for my computer.
This morning the same - dont know whether to cheer or get worried.
Has anybody else done a recent check for updates?
Antioch

I did update checks just a sec ago... according to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894199
there should be updates for Internet Explorer and .NET but because of

Enabled detection of processor generation and hardware support when PC tries to scan or download updates through Windows Update.

I dono if I am being blocked from seeing new updates or not as I did not see any in Windows Update.. >_>

Melchior said:

I did update checks just a sec ago... according to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894199
there should be updates for Internet Explorer and .NET but because of
I dono if I am being blocked from seeing new updates or not as I did not see any in Windows Update.. >_>

The two updates you're referring to aren't delivered through Windows Update. The deployment info states they're only delivered through WSUS and Catalog, so you'd have to manually install those.
Probably due to the fact that they're not needed on many home systems. I've looked at the descriptions and they don't apply to my usage.
If you want to install them, you'll have to get them from the MS update catalog:

Microsoft Update Catalog

ok, I will check that delivery method next time when I see updates there...

and here I was getting all worried about this and that... lol