Massive Patch Tuesday Next Week

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shammyjack wrote: »

You are very brave people installing Microsoft updates as soon as available !

I prefer to wait at least a week for any errors and conflicts to become apparent, its saved my bacon and a lot of hard work a few times in the past.

Microsoft patches have a habit of screwing up your PC on first release but lucky for Mr Gates there are lots of very clever people out there to rectify his cockups for free .


shammy

Making regular backups is the best way to ensure nothing that happens to your computer is a catastrophy :cool:

shammyjack

I do backup but reverting to a backup still takes time.

Waiting a while for bad updates to be sorted takes no extra time and effort.

A good firewall and AV plus running sandboxed keeps my PC pretty secure.


shammy

JABWootton

Installed updates on Win 7 Pro and have not been able to see any significant changes (Wasn't expecting to)

Still waiting for November when Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is released (Apparantly it is 1.3GB big as at 7th August 2010) seems to increase approx 200mb per month.

JasX

shammyjack wrote: »

You are very brave people installing Microsoft updates as soon as available !

I prefer to wait at least a week for any errors and conflicts to become apparent, its saved my bacon and a lot of hard work a few times in the past.

Microsoft patches have a habit of screwing up your PC on first release but lucky for Mr Gates there are lots of very clever people out there to rectify his cockups for free .


shammy

It also leaves you for a week completly unprotected against known and published holes in your operating system that malware and viruses can use to install themselves onto your machine without necessarilty needing much interaction from you.

Given virus writers rush these out in alot less than a week I think you're the very brave one.... not had any problems with security patches for a good few years now, and unless your doing something 'mission critical' or unusual that is likely to conflict grab them as soon as they're published

ih8stress

Just checked and I've got 14 of them. Do you have to install these ones manually? (My pc is set up for the important ones to automatically install but it hasn't done so, yet).

I've also got some 'optional' ones to do. I've tried googling in the past to glean info on these but when you are not very 'techie' it can be abit daunting. Can anyone recommend a good techie website which lists these, and gives comments on their pros and cons.

Thank you.

gaming_guy

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i8change

Originally Posted by ih8stress
Just checked and I've got 14 of them. Do you have to install these ones manually? (My pc is set up for the important ones to automatically install but it hasn't done so, yet).

Same here with Windows 7 Home Premium, they are there with check marks by them. Think I will wait and see what happens.

The son said his Win 7 Laptop updated when he Shut down so not sure why my PC hasn't, it has for other updates.

Stompa

Hmmm, after applying the patches I seem to have an odd quirk with XP. There's a period of a minute or so (immediately after startup appears to have completed) when neither OE or IE8 will run properly.

If I attempt to run OE during that minute then the window opens but the pointer has the hourglass attached and sits there for a minute or so before reverting to the normal arrow and working as normal. If I instead wait a minute or two after startup before running OE then it works fine.

If I attempt to run IE8 during that minute then the application simply doesn't run. If I instead wait a minute or two after startup before running IE8 then it works fine.

It's almost as if Windows is waiting for startup to fully complete (though there doesn't seem to be much happening in Task Manager) before permitting OE or IE8 to work.

[Deleted User]

gaming_guy wrote: »

:eek:

I thought that 300mb+ for the XP SP3 update was big enough. If it is 1.3GB (probably highly unlikely though) then it'll take me around a day to download it on my connection. I hope it isn't much more than 400MB otherwise i'll have to set up WSUS or some form of caching as several machines downloading a huge update will kill my internet connection.

The final size of the service pack will be determined by the updates that have already been installed, therefore a typical WU installation will have significantly less to download to be completely up to date.

mr_accountant

Stompa wrote: »

Hmmm, after applying the patches I seem to have an odd quirk with XP. There's a period of a minute or so (immediately after startup appears to have completed) when neither OE or IE8 will run properly.

If I attempt to run OE during that minute then the window opens but the pointer has the hourglass attached and sits there for a minute or so before reverting to the normal arrow and working as normal. If I instead wait a minute or two after startup before running OE then it works fine.

If I attempt to run IE8 during that minute then the application simply doesn't run. If I instead wait a minute or two after startup before running IE8 then it works fine.

It's almost as if Windows is waiting for startup to fully complete (though there doesn't seem to be much happening in Task Manager) before permitting OE or IE8 to work.

i have windows XP on sp3 and my computer does EXACTLY the same on IE8 after microsoft updating, the IE8 does not start for around 2 mins after clicking on the link.

so what i do is run ad-aware scan on smart scan- then close the computer ( not restart- but shut down) then restart it and it does the trick. Now IE8 starts in around 15 seconds and mozilla always takes around 20 seconds and is unaffected by these silly updates.