Should I let Windows 8.1 Update Nvidia Video Drivers?

Loading Windows 8.1 to a secondary hard drive in my Early-2009 Mac Pro via Boot Camp was a frustrating exercise. But after four tries it took when I found out that there were problems with the Nvidia graphics board driver. During the final successful install I turned off the automatic Windows update and let Boot Camp do the whole thing and the installation took...the machine boots nicely into Windows and has been stable so far.
In the Windows desktop system tray there appeared a notification that a Nvidia driver update was available. Based on my experience with the installation I'm reluctant to let it do that update.
I also get a notification that there is a Boot Camp driver update but when I click on it the browser simply goes to the Boot Camp page but there's no indication of WHAT driver is supposed to be updated.
So my question is - once I have a nice stable installation should I let Windows update this driver in particular and for that matter the normal system type updates (I'm guessing yes to the latter). Does the Boot Camp software on the Windows side take care of this kind of thing? I can't find anything that documents this issue; there's lots of discussions of how to install but not much about maintenance afterwards.
Thanks in advance!

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.
The original issue was a video driver conflict of some sort which was resolved by turning off Windows automatic updates during installation and letting Boot Camp install the proper drivers.
Can anyone explain in simple terms the relationship between Boot Camp driver updates and Windows system updates? I’m unable to update my Windows software because when I do so it breaks the system. There must be a way to select “safe” updates otherwise Windows will always remain at the state it’s in w/o updates.
Someone must have cracked this code; I just can’t find any evidence of it.

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