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To Update or Not to Update?
Every time I turn on my PC there seems to be another raft of 'important' updates ready for me to download. I wonder what the general view is on what to do about them? At one extreme there are people who doubtless install everything relevant that comes their way. At the other, those who take an 'if it aint broke, don't fix it' approach.
What is true is that I have never, ever (knowingly at least) had any security issues on my PC in the past 10 years attributable to the fact that I haven't installed the latest Windows updates. On the other hand, I have on several occasions had PC problems that have manifested themselves immediately after installing updates, and I have had to use System Restore to get things running properly again. I even had to restore a C drive disk image after I installed Win7 x64 SP1 - a number of unwanted problems afterwards, which oddly System restore wouldn't fix. I couldn't help thinking, why exactly did I install SP1, things were just fine beforehand? For now I've called a halt to installing updates - I seem to have started to expect the worst every time I do so (though of course most updates I have installed have been fine).
So, by way of a sort of 'poll', I'd be interested to know what people think...
Martin