Thanks everybody for your priceless hints. I'll try to accomodate most of them and I'll continue to participate in clean energy project to such extent as it suits my particular situation. Thanks again,

Stefan Lohaza

No patch of MS is important enough to do a boot immediately upon application. If your system was clean before, it will be still in a few hours or days [the AV did not stop, WD did not stop, the FW did not stop to function], similar to ibsteve2u, I've been telling off my virtual soap box, plan the boot [set update to manual apply], as what I described in the "I Confez" thread. Set all unstarted CEP2 tasks to suspend, set the checkpoint save [write to disk] to 60 seconds ** and let the running CEP2 task(s) finish and replaced by those that do quickies (Clean water is excellent for that). Did the very thing when applying the last Linux 3.0.0-14.16 kernel replacement. Obviously, if the sole crunching is with CEP2, that's not an immediate option on a multicore device. Mind you, it's the 3rd checkpoint that takes the long hours, past that, toward the last few of 16, the checkpoints are generally not far apart and can be well monitored with BOINCTasks or activating the <checkpoint_debug> log flag to choose the best point to stop the BOINC service *** [ideally so the client gets full attention to close running tasks, particular the heavy CEP2], then do the Windows boot, which I've on last one had to cycle twice for a total of 10 minutes, on Windows that is. Linux just zooms through, back up in a minute.

** For those only running CEP2, the WtD setting is ineffective
*** On Windows 7/8 this can be easily done as admin from the Tasks Manager, Service tab.

Edit: Of course, how I do it and feeling save enough to wait with booting may not be how it feels to you. If MS thinks it's so overly important, why wait for patch Tuesday? In Linux world, they get notified for update in Ubuntu within 24 hours through the Update Manager. Then I got KSplice running to get kernel patches inserted in a bootless environment. Just crunching on and BOINC set to pause if the non-BOINC CPU load gets high (The infamous low default of 25% now upped to 50%).

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IE webbrowser users could be. Do AV/WD/FW not shield from these exploits? Anyone shopping at untrusted sites?... I'm highly reluctant to reveal any banking info to any good Joe? Yes, by all means, as I said in the first line of the Edited in para, others may feel different. And of course thanks for the MS Patch highlight link. There's a reason these days why I do this sparse internet shopping off the Linux machine.

We have a Patch Tuesday thread floating in the Chat Room. Maybe port it there and not continue to take this thread further off the topic, my fault to extend that path here.

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It was my mistake to continue this topic on of patch day [which still if they are so very critical, why not send out instantaneously? Is everyone so trained that we're waiting with our internet shopping till MS feels it ready to insert the fixes?]

You did right bringing it up in the first place, so gonna leave it at that.

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Yesterday I stop CEP2 for the same raison. I turn off my computer after 5 hours and at the restart I have only 37 minutes ...