• Install Windows 7 updates

    Posted on March 9, 2009 at 04:58 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Reader CK wrote with an interesting question:

    I always check your website when I need to update my computer, but I recently installed Windows 7 and I’m not sure which updates to install. Should I always install all of them, because it is a beta and there might be problems? Or should I just wait and see? I’m not even sure if the updates you post are the same as the ones for Windows 7, so I really don’t know what I should do.

    Yes, absolutely, install all Windows 7 updates as they come down the pike. At the beginning of the beta there was one “critical” update (critical to me anyway) that prevented Windows Media Player 12 from lopping off part of your music files. Since then, Microsoft has issued a handful of test patches, just to make sure the wheels are greased.

    You can do Microsoft a favor – and yourself a favor – if you treat Windows 7 just like any other version of Windows, and have Auto Update “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them.”

    We’re waaaaay beyond the point of having any influence on the behavior of Windows 7, but if there’s a show-stopper bug in “Check for updates,” the more people who have that setting enabled, the more likely it is that the Windows 7 dev team will notice.

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