You might have a point there with your box Curt ;-)
But, Windows has a nice little utility that will patch you system for you and pop up a nice little box near the clock that says system patched too... Windows Update works quite well actually. Now if it was only turned full on by default.
On 2 recent occasions that I can recall a "windows update" broke windows.
Once it disabled the NIC altogether and on another occasion it caused IE to run slower than a one legged cat, trying to bury a turd, on a frozen pond.
So as a result I no longer leave "install" by default, and instead I "download and notify" then every other day read all the "A serious blah blah -- allow attackers to take over the entire machine remotely blah blah" and manually patch
Rick
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