Thats why its an 'optional' update, its your decision to install it or not.
You might want to relay this message in the following ng:
microsoft.public.windowsupdate
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"Gary Mount" <gary_mount@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>I had a new optional update show up in Windows Update dated September of
>this year.
>
> "ATI Technologies Inc. - Video - RADEON 9600 SERIES
> Installation date: ?12/?29/?2007 5:17 AM
> Installation status: Successful
> Update type: Optional
> ATI Technologies Inc. Video software update released in June, 2007
> More information:
> http://winqual.microsoft.com/support/?driverid=20064802
> Help and Support:
> http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub"
>
> This update caused DreamScene to have a black background and no video.
> This update seems to be the same one that was dated August of this year
> that I installed and the same problem occurred.
> I installed the latest drivers after installing that update the first time
> and my DreamScene was back to normal.
> This time I used a restore point to get back to normal.
>
> Seems to me that this update shouldn't become available to download an
> install if it is causing system instabilities A novice might not know what
> is causing his system to crash and possibly corrupting it so badly that he
> can't even restore his computer, which is what happened to me a couple of
> weeks ago when I installed that update.
> I didn't know what had caused my problems at that time, as I couldn't
> investigate the problem as I had to reinstall Vista from scratch.