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Patch reliability is unclear. Unless you have an immediate, pressing need to install a specific patch, don't do it. |
I can only say that having build computers since ’94 that the “features” of new motherboard where settings can be made to the BIOS from within Windows can appear to be very dangerous to the operation of the motherboard features, probably has to do with the coming full UEFI, leaving BIOS behind.
There was a thought this might delete the detected BIOS information from the Windows registry for some valid reason. So after testing inside a virtual machine, fortunately this command does not work and it generates an error message:
ERROR: Description = Provider is not capable of the attempted operation
Be glad for certain nonfunctional user requests. 
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