Well, you can always roll back with system restore, so I would say, do the updates and if something goes awry then just restore back to before you updated. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: D!J!X! To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx ; ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:47 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Windows updates question Hello guys, I just did a fresh install of windows xp sp2. There's a possibility that I might be able to purchase sonar 5 from a friend as he is getting a protools workstation. My question is, should I leave the installation as is, or should I install all the updates that are available on windows update? This pc is not connected and will not be connected to the net, however it does have onboard lan and I was wondering if there would be any improvements to the audio stuff if I did the updates...I personally think that since they are just bunch of security stuff and what not, I can do without, but you never know...anybody have any suggestions/ideas/anything to say? If not then I'll just leave sp2 as is and install the rest of the software. I do have the latest drivers for all the hardware so that's no problem, and the latest version of the software I'll be using... Thanks, D!J!X!