Let windows update drivers under bootcamp?

I've got a copy of windows running under boot camp. Windows wants to update out dated drivers. I'm a bit leary about letting it do so, and am assuming that bootcamp is taking care of all the video, network, keyboard and all the other drivers.
Should I let windows do it's evil to create the world it needs to run smoothly, or should I let bootcamp protect it's perimiter and do all the driver updates in Lion?

Keep Windows current. Keep it backed up. Make sure it is creating restore points.
Boot Camp is not takiinng care of everything, though some things Wiindows can't do (video) without you uninstalling and updating the gpu driver first. Which you should have done as soon as you installed Windows.
You can always rollback or boot from the Windows DVD and restore.
Keep Windows current and patched. There were a lot of updates each Patch Tuesday. Same as you would keep Lion current with Flashback and other security and drivers.

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As the topic says ^^

Shouldn't have a problem, but when you download the Lion installer, don't install it right away.
Click on the icon in the Dock and "Show in Finder" then right click on that and "show package contents"
Read here to copy the dmg installer, make multiple copies and burn disks in Disk Utility, you can then hold c and reboot off the installer disk and use disk utility and install Lion, it's faster than a internet download install from the Recovery partition that needs your id and all that to be current.
http://www.eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/

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Well I guess I answered my own question…it’s NOT safe to let Windows update its system software. My Windows 8.1 installation was (operative word "was") stable until I let windows updates do their thing and after installing 41 “Important” updates and a restart I received the infamous "Error_System_Thread_Execution_Not_Handled" message. After two restarts the system went into automatic repair mode and thankfully uninstalled the 41 updates and the system returned to normal operation.
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Someone must have cracked this code; I just can’t find any evidence of it.

Windows Vista Tip - Updating Drivers, all you really need is a network or wifi driver

So just what do I mean by this? Often times, on Windows Update, Drivers are already available for your device, so why not just install a NIC or WiFi driver and let Windows Update take care of the rest of the dirty work? You have to update your computer anyway so why not.
Worth a try and much easier then searching left and right for those drivers.
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And you attempted to fix any bad sectors, yes?
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Disk drives: the manuf. own utility (WD Lifeguard etc) is best tool to find problems, map out bad sectors, restore a drive to health.
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Regards,.

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How to switch to Target Display Mode under BootCamp?

Hi there,
I am running Windows 7 x64 under bootcamp and want to be able to switch to target display mode.
I can achieve this when running OS/X by hitting Command-F2.
Is there a way to switch to target display mode from within Windows 7 under bootcamp?
I would like to do this so that I can easily switch to target display mode whilst using Windows without having to restart my machine.
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