It seems the recommendation for a cold storage electrum wallet is a newly installed operating system on machine that has never been on line.

I'm re-using a spare laptop.

I've formatted the disk on another computer and setup Windows 10, downloaded from Microsoft.

Following the Windows setup, I now have a question.

There are almost certainly Windows updates which are not in the installation I downloaded. Also, things like laptop display drivers could benefit from being updated. That said, the laptop, stand-alone, appears to work OK.

The question is, should I just use the machine as is, or should I go online for the updates, before installing electrum?