Per philo:
On all Windows machines used for work I'm turning off auto-update...then
will manually update on /my/ schedule and not Microsoft's.

Based on past experience I predict that you will still get burned -
albeit not as frequently.


A few months back an update ruined one of my wife's work computers...
and though I repaired the damage, it took a lot of work on my part.

The project was so critical that we had /two/ other machines ready to
put on line with the same software and data.

I had an update go bad on a Windows 7 VAIO laptop that took it down for
almost a week before I figured out how to get it back. Can't recall the
details, but it was a Windows Update gone wrong.

At the time I was whining in various fora and kept hearing "Well, it's
not happening to anybody else, so you must have done something wrong..."

But I did not do anything except click "OK" for proceeding with the
updates.
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Pete Cresswell