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The Drawback of Windows Updates
I am looking for some thoughts and opinions on installing Windows Updates.
I certainly understand that they are necessary. However, occasionally after installing updates I will have issues with the OS. Sometimes they are minor, other times they are major. I understand that they may be coincidental, so that is why I am looking for opinions on how to handle them.
A quick example, a colleague in my office had not updated his computer in a while. There were over 100 critical updates. After updating, the computer's performance was poor, i.e. slow. We are an engineering office, so we are constantly running AutoCad. Our computer specs are are Windows 7, Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.80 GHz, 8 GB RAM and 1TB of hard drive space, or better. Anyway, since I did not have much time to deal with his issue, so I told him to restore to a point prior to the updates. After doing so, his OS was done. The computer would get past the pulsing Windows graphic, go to a black screen and then re-boot. The repair would not work and I had no system image or recovery disc to use (I have another thread on that :) ). I was able to recover all his data via a SATA adapter and then reformat the computer.
Having said all of that, why do we get updates to fix bugs when it's possible I can have such troubles? I have set all of our computers not only notify when updates are available and I always create a restore point in order to go back if a problem occurs after updating, but even then I may have troubles.
Is there a better method than straight updating?
Are there resources that can alert me to volatile updates?
I am the quasi IT guy in our office and do not have nearly enough time to repair over 30 workstations if such problems occur.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Rob