Sound security practices include monitoring and maintaining your application and operating system patches or updates. Microsoft updates are categorized as important, recommended and optional. Recommended patches are designed to make your software more efficient. Important updates provide code revisions or repairs that increase the privacy, dependability and security of the application or operating system. Optional updates are considered non-critical and are installed at your discretion. Turn on Windows Update to automatically install important and recommended updates. Finding the updates installed on your computer is not difficult. Writer Bio
