You can and I agree that the risk is small but it's still a risk - advice is to switch off internet access before disabling a firewall for any length of time.

Also the schedule and prompt...

Not practical though that. Microsoft's default settings and their recommendation is that you install updates automatically which means you get no warning most of the time and so no opportunity to...

I posted this another thread but I started out following this one so thought it may be useful here too...

Got the same problem on a brand new Lenovo after 1511 update was installed on March 3.
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Got the same problem on a brand new Lenovo after 1511 update was installed on March 3.

I rolled back the install to check the problem went away (it did and I could instantly get on line again). ...