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Is there any reason to install optional updates?  Having read about the problems with KB4535996, which was presented to me as optional, I skipped it and had none of the reported problems.  Now I am presented with KB4541335.  Looking at MS’s documentation at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4541335/windows-10-update-kb4541335, I see no issue that affects me, so I’m going to skip this one as well.  Is there any downside to skipping an optional update?

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We recommend only installing the Security Updates issued on Patch Tuesday, with few exceptions (KB4551762 issued on 3/12, two days after Patch Tues on 3/10 being one of the few exceptions).
The updates released on C. D, and E week are non-security Optional installs. We recommend not installing them.

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Re: KB4551762

Many Thanks to PKCano for this very clear advice, especially since I have tried to install this update and got an error reply ( Erreur 0x800f0922 ) which gave me goose-skin…

Thanks for all your Help

Genaker

 

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I always skip optional updates and driver updates, unless I have a specific reason to install one of those types of updates.

Group "L" (Linux Mint)
with Windows 10 running in a remote session on my file server

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