We have a Windows 7 PC that houses a Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCIe tuner and runs Windows Media Center.
Installing the monthly "Patch Tuesday" Windows Updates has always been a nail-biting experience for us, since often enough we'll have a problem getting cable channels to display again after a reboot. But back in January, the problems were so big and resistant to solution that I ended up doing a System Restore and vowing never to do Windows Updates again.
We almost ended up getting a cableco DVR. 

As of today there are dozens of updates waiting to be downloaded. I'm not extremely concerned about it, as we use the PC almost exclusively for WMC. Once in a while we'll go into Netflix or Hulu to watch a show that WMC missed recording, but that's about it -- no e-mail, heavy Web surfing, or anything else is done on that PC. We do keep our antivirus (Norton Internet Security) up to date, and I do install the latest version of Adobe Flash.
But I'm curious to know how other WMC users handle this issue of Windows Updates. Do you keep your computer up to date? Do you ignore the monthly patches? Something in-between?
Thanks!
Installing the monthly "Patch Tuesday" Windows Updates has always been a nail-biting experience for us, since often enough we'll have a problem getting cable channels to display again after a reboot. But back in January, the problems were so big and resistant to solution that I ended up doing a System Restore and vowing never to do Windows Updates again.
As of today there are dozens of updates waiting to be downloaded. I'm not extremely concerned about it, as we use the PC almost exclusively for WMC. Once in a while we'll go into Netflix or Hulu to watch a show that WMC missed recording, but that's about it -- no e-mail, heavy Web surfing, or anything else is done on that PC. We do keep our antivirus (Norton Internet Security) up to date, and I do install the latest version of Adobe Flash.
But I'm curious to know how other WMC users handle this issue of Windows Updates. Do you keep your computer up to date? Do you ignore the monthly patches? Something in-between?
Thanks!