I tend to do critical updates 10-15 at a time, depending on the download size, aiming for around ~30-50MB each time.
Had a meeting yesterday with a guy from Microsoft, re: some issues where having here.
SP1 was mentioned, and he said the Beta is available now. But the final will not be available before this christmas.
One thing that is very important, but overlooked, is the fact that you should not install all at once. Do it manually, a few at a time. Because they will boot the computer, conflicts occur which cause problems if too many are done at once.
i disagree with the few at a time theory, i have windows update set to notify but not install, and always have installed all updates without ever having a problem. so its your call!
Do yourself a favor. Make a restore point and a backup before you do.
Ken J
My personal preference is to install a few at a time, that way if you find you have a problem, you can use the various system restore points created to go back to a time when all was ok with your computer.
If you are running Windows Security Essentials as your AV then I believe that unless you install critical updates, then WSE will NOT work properly. Someone correct me if this NOT correct.
WSE should work properly without critical updates, with a big however.
The however being, if the machine then becomes isolated from software sources, (network, cdrom, usb) then there should be nothing to break it, even 3 years down the track.
But you are correct, that critical updates are marked critical because they are critical to prevent wares from breaking it.
You could call WSE a pane of glass, and critcal updates are a sheet of 2-ply plywood infront.
It will stop the cricket ball. And when it finds out a soccer ball exists, you need more plywood.
Or just dont live with kids.
Well, all seems to be in order. I got through all Important updates except for the September batch (waiting for more info on these as some seem to have had problems). What I've tried so far is working fine.
I've found it is safe to set Updates to Automatic and then check the Optionals about once a month to see if any newer drivers have been delivered which are valuable to performance.
No problems with any Updates on a couple of hundred Win7 installs.
Greg, you using a WSUS server?
For a couple hundred win7 installs, then getting updates for all of them must chew through bandwidth
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