Last night when I shut down my less-than-6 months old computer, Windows installed 18 "critical" updates. Yeah, I'll say they were 'critical' - now when I boot up the machine I get an error "Windows sockets initialization failed."
I have brought the machine to work today (a Dell 15R laptop) and will spend some 'quality' time on the phone with Dell, I am sure. But at least I can download drivers and stuff here at work and transfer them over to the laptop.
Ugh, good luck with that.