I am glad that I never had any problems with any updates. Many of the updates are for protecting against viruses and things. Criminals and terrorists never stop trying to steal and cause mayhem!
My friend Michelle that I wrote articles about repairing some of her devices, had her auto-update turned off and never optimized or updated her laptop HDD. It took me several hours to download all of the updates and optimize her HDD.
But I do try to make sure that even if something bad happened, I would not lose much data. And I made a mistake before using the word "copy" for my backup HDD when I really meant "clone".

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Thanks Mihai, See my reply below the other posts. It somehow got shifted further down (;)

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Understood, you go extreme into safety control Robert. You do not take any chances. I have several computers that can't be all online. But I do keep backup images on external harddisks just in case. Sadly it were Windows 10 updates from Microsoft that recently corrupted many computers that my ICT shopowner friend had to restore because of the terribly going wrong Microsoft update(s)! Some people even came into his shop frequently because of several wrong going updates. And it now looks as if they are trying to make every user subscribe on Windows on a yearly payable fee. Similar to what they've done with Office 265. If those updates are needed so frequently it somehow just does look like Windows was designed badly from the start. And it also happens that Windows programs just do not work like the integrated burning software tool my friend used to burn some CD's. All he got were expensive coasters afterwards and I had to use other burning software on his computer to fix this.

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That's why I update my HDD so often. Whenever I have new updates for my computer, I optimize my laptop HDD and then copy the OS into my 1T backup HDD that is in the enclosure. If my laptop HDD ever crashes, my backup HDD is ready to go and I will not have very much that I would need to recover from the original HDD.
I normally backup my HDD a couple of times a week. But I also backup my HDD immediately after new updates, and immediately after uploading many photos or uploading e-books, etc..

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I guess John, that they just did the same thing or maybe were able to re-flash the original Bios with the right version.
I ordered a couple of good internal hdd drives through miniinthebox or lightinthebox in the past for my laptops thinking they would be WD drives made in other countries. But to my big surprise according to the text on top of the drives they were made at Western Digital in Roermond which is just about 24Km from my hometown Weert. And it took a lot of weeks for them to arrive!

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I did the same thing Robert by making a standby copy of my 500GB 2.5 inch internal HDD drive. But the fact that Windows needs those security updates frequently could be a problem if my spare 500GB copy drive no longer is up to date if replaced with my constantly updated internal used drive if needed. Same thing goes for the viruskiller programs that need those new upgrades too.

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