advice on these available updates

donnajunkie

ok, as one or two know I had an issue with an update on my pc recently which has made me paranoid. throughout 12 years of owning a windows vista pc I never had one issue with updating. currently the following updates are available and I am seeking advice on what to expect for each one, will there be things i have to do along the way and if so what? what to do if something goes wrong? is there a best order to do the updates in? should I ignore any? what bad things could happen if I ignore them or on the flipside if I install them and get problems?
updates available via hp,
Realtek Bluetooth audio driver for windows.

Realtek hd audio driver.

Realtek lan driver.

Realtek rtl8xxx series Bluetooth driver for windows 10 (DCHU).

windows update,

windows 10 version 1903.

Kronkis

Personally i would install them all, including the latest important Windows 10 update.

Do that last though, as it will take a while compared to the others.

debitcardmayhem

Have you ever backed up said pc? You can always save your current drivers to external device too. I am on a mobile device at the mo and don’t have access to my normal copies , but I suggest that you make a backup since you said you are paranoid. There is a post on here where i detailed? Driver backup will search in a while
Here https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/68426-backup-restore-device-drivers-windows-10-a.html

donnajunkie

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Have you ever backed up said pc? You can always save your current drivers to external device too. I am on a mobile device at the mo and don’t have access to my normal copies , but I suggest that you make a backup since you said you are paranoid. There is a post on here where i detailed? Driver backup will search in a while
Here https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/68426-backup-restore-device-drivers-windows-10-a.html

That looks daunting.
The reason i am worried is during the process of an update for a graphics driver it gave 4 items and i had to select one. It was all about current driver,new driver etc. I didnt have a clue and selected what i thought was best. Afterwards the pc would not start up properly. I ended up having to select reinstall windows to solve it. I simply want to avoid any catastrophic problem like that.
Will all those available updates just download and install or will they have options or tasks along the way that i need to know what i am doing? Things like these updates should be accompanied by instructions in my opinion. If its just download and install then it could just say that but if theres more they should cover that too.

donnajunkie

Can i create a back up disc of the operating system like you could with windows vista?

donnajunkie

I have created a restore point. Would that ensure i can reverse any disasters?

Carrot007

donnajunkie wrote: »

I have created a restore point. Would that ensure i can reverse any disasters?

Maybe. But I am of the view a new win 10 install every year or so is a good thing. More so for people that install random programs they forget about. But good for anyone to have a good clear out.


It's not the pain it used to be back in the day, download latest iso/usb and do it. (having your docs on a different drive helps and why woudl you have them on the system drive! (mine tbh are on a sperate linux server, but that's just me, I have 2 other windows drives full of random stuff, but a reinstall is not a problem!).


(most spelling etc corrected, some bad may remain!)

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donnajunkie wrote: »

I have created a restore point. Would that ensure i can reverse any disasters?

In short, NO!
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the long version, it is useful, but if you get an encryption malware virus, a disk failure, the os decides it need more space and sneakily wipes it, it gets corrupt the it is of no use. Also on the Home version a restore point does not cover the whole drive.

Also you must be able to boot into windows to get at that restore point, but there might be other ways, but when shtf, you often need something simple that works, like windows backup.

donnajunkie

that wrote: »

In short, NO!
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the long version, it is useful, but if you get an encryption malware virus, a disk failure, the os decides it need more space and sneakily wipes it, it gets corrupt the it is of no use. Also on the Home version a restore point does not cover the whole drive.

Also you must be able to boot into windows to get at that restore point, but there might be other ways, but when shtf, you often need something simple that works, like windows backup.

Windows backup?

that

Windows backup is one of many, If does not hurt to do a restore point, but you want a backup. You want something from what you can easily restore
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3011736/how-to-create-an-image-backup-in-windows-10-and-restore-it-if-need-be.html

Personally I would choose acronis, or something else, and have both a file and a volume level backup. Windows backup works, and is free.

If you are a business user and your infrastructure goes down the pan, MS will only apparently support MS backups, and the rest is on you, but MS wont touch other backup types.

Frozen_up_north

Backing up drivers can be pointless as older drivers may not be compatible with the latest update of Windows. The much safer bet is to make regular backups of the whole drive.

I personally use Acronis True Image, which for example, can be configured to save the first backup, then only retain the last two full backups. Otherwise your backup drive can soon be full.

Keep a note of the hardware in your computer, for example an added graphics card. That way if you end up with a Windows generic graphics driver, you know where to check for the manufacturers latest driver. You might expect Microsoft to automatically install the latest drivers for everything... sadly they don’t.