Patch Tuesday...

...if you dare...

The thing about doing your updates on Patch Tues. is that Microsoft could come out with updates all the way up to 12:00, so what most people do is leave their system on over night.

You have to make sure your sleep mode is off and what will happen is the updates will come in through the night and morning.

By Wednesday it should be saying a restart is needed, and you should then restart. In the meantime do your morning activities, bathroom, coffee then come back to it and should be waiting for you to login.

However, we don't do that, and don't recommend it, but we understand that it happens. The outcome is usually positive, but there is, has, was, be, being, been clause to consider.

Usually the failure is you've lost internet connection, or your malware program has stopped something from loading, and/or sometimes a combination of the two :-D

Microsoft could also have a problem with one of their updates that will need patching, but before then could cause computer software problems, or security problems.

In other words your system could become inoperable all because of a simple Ok/Cancel question that wasn't answered...

We usually wait a few days before updating to make sure there weren't any issues with the updates and when we have time to monitor them.

Think of doing updates like general maintenance, but better because you don't have to go anywhere.

Updates are easy to do, plus you don't have to go anywhere and they only take a few minutes if you keep up with them.

Updates Pending...

1 Cumulative
14 security updates
5 Updates for Windows
1 Windows Malicious Software Tool

Optional
1 Update for windows

We did them in that order as well, first the 14 Security Updates then, 5 Updates for Windows, 1 Cumulative, 1 Windows Malicious...scanned and rebooted to make sure there weren't any more important updates then I did the 1 Update for Windows under Optional.

Had a MSE update and a NVIDIA driver update. Did the MSE update through windows, but did the NVIDIA driver update using the GeForce Experience.