Do you trust Lenovo updates?

I've been pretty well pleased with the T530 I got in September. The ThinkVantage Tools popped up a few months ago and told me I should update the audio driver. After I did that the sound was horrible, weak, flat and tinny. The Dolby Advance Audio v2 that came on the computer was gone. After hours and hours of frustration, I somehow wound up with Realtek Enhanced Audio, which is not as good as the Dolby but better than what I'd been hearing.
I'd still like to get Dolby Adv Audio v2 back (if not Dolby Home Theatre v4) per this thread:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/T530-need-to-reinstall-Dolby-Advanced-Audio...
and this one:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/General-Discussion/Dolby-Home-Theater-v4-for-most-Lenovo-Laptops/td-p/62...
A few days ago Lenovo suggested updating Access Connections and the Fingerprint reader.
Since then Access Connections has been flaky, doesn't work half the time, and often fails to connect. And I can't figure out a way to go back to what I had before, which was working fine.
The fingerprint reader now seems sluggish and very slow to open, fails to read a finger scan much more often than before, and now it frequently requires 2 or 3 successful scans before opening a web page. Again, I don't see a way to go back to the previous version, which worked pretty well.
That's 3-for-3 Lenovo-recommended updates that have left me worse off. What's the deal?

I too have seen problems created by updating. I have not updated everything on mine that has been release.
- Bluetooth driver
- Nvidia GPU package (a long time debugging it presumably) I arrived at my own solution and sticking to it. Some people have indicated a bug in some BIOS releases and unable to circumvent the problem bricking the motherboard. This should automatically fall into a warranty repair for any system/series regardless of age.
There should be driver preinstalled packages of the earlier sets in a onboard folder from which the system was built up from. Located and reinstall from there. Check the SWTOOLS folder for one or others for original versions. You may have to uninstall the existing package and device first though.
I have back off into rushing into anything new. Especially when its working as it is and my performance is acceptable.
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I have T530 and windows 8 x64 on it, I have noticed that after some time of using it I was unable to connect to PPTP VPN or my SSL VPN.
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I understand your frustration, so let me be honest with you about what the situation is. Quite frankly, Lenovo is focused on Win8 (and soon, Win8.1), and not Win7. The Win7 preloads haven't changed much since Win8 came out one year ago. There have been a couple of emergency driver updates, but it's just not a good use of business resources to update the Win7 preload regularly. The future is Win8+, so that's where we are spending our resources.
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I use Lenovo's System Update program (SU). You might have a smilar version called Lenovo updates? There is a Lenovo driver utiltiy around, which I am clueless about.
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