A question about preparation for patching

To all:
 
I've never seen this explicitly mentioned but I thought I'd post the
question.
 
How many people reboot their machines just before applying a patch that
requires again a reboot?
 
In my opinion, this would clear out any weird settings and changes
hanging around and remove any doubt whether a crash was caused by the
patch or had been waiting there before.
 
Is this a better idea than just patching and THEN rebooting?
 
Comments?
 
many thanks,

--
Mark-Allen Perry 
ALPHA Systems
Marly, Switzerland

 


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