When to update?

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I’ve been following Woody’s column for a long time in a trade Journal I get at work. I go way back to the DOS V3.0 era when life seemed “easier”.

I’ve been using a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit for a few years now. I do manual Windows update. It bothers me tremendously when I read there is a buggy patch. Watch out for this, watch out for that, don’t do that, check which chip you have first, etc.

I still have KB4483187 in my list of available updates. Last Dec I think Woody mentioned this update could cause problems. IF Microsoft fixes a patch, do they change the KB number? If not, how can we tell when a previous buggy patch has been fixed?

By the way, the important patches Microsoft lists for me are: KB4483187, KB4487078, KB4489878, KB4474419 and KB890830. I know I should patch eventually, but Microsoft’s track record bothers me.

David

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MS do not rename patches, only the release date changes.

There have been several times since December when patching has been given the green light (Defcon 4), so you should have patched by now.
I would make sure you have an image backup on an external disk, then patch away, except for KB4493132.

cheers, Paul

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