I am new to this software and forum. 1st of all many thanks for your efforts to offer such a nice tool.
Before using it I have a couple of questions.
1. is it possible with WSO to install only the important updates, not additionally the "recommended updates" ?
2. do I get again Win10 advertizements after using WSO or does this require to manually exclude some Microsoft patches.
if manually, could you kindly show me an example file for Win7 that works ?
3. people reported that their updates worked again after using WSO. Does it work again regardless of the Windows Update configuration ?
I dont like the modus to update automatically and prefer to use to search for updates but to determine the time for download and installation on my own.
4. Use of WSO. I generated now everything on an USB stick. Shall I simply execute WSO from there with Admin rights in the currently running system ?
5. Can I let it run multiple times, i.e. a week or month later ?
wsusou will just install the updates marked as security-relevant by MS. This does not include the "recommended updates" except for the new update rollups. We're currently working on a feature, which is able to exclude them automatically.
No. wsusou does not (and never did) include any GWX stuff. Also the updates have been removed from Windows Update. So no problem there.
- set Windows Update to "never search for updates"
For installation start .\client\UpdateInsteller.exe with admin-rights on the target system.
Sure you can. But remember to update the repo using UpdateGenerator, if you need new updates.
Whats does this message mean after executing UpdateInstaller ?
>Installation successful. Please reboot your system now and recall Update afterwards.
Does thie means I need to run Update.cmd as Administrator ?
Warning: Windows Defender definition file (..\wddefs\x64-glb\mpas-feX64.exe) not found.
Installation successful. Please reboot your system now and recall Update afterwards.
This is now when I run .\Update.cmd as Administrator.
Now some other things happen.
that something different seems to happen.
Between each run I did a reboot.
Warning: Update kb2993928 (id: f6c4261c-9fae-442c-9bfc-7b37ba42f806) not found.
Warning: Update kb3205406 (id: 7876a462-9794-4da7-8e33-bf095741188a) not found.
Warning: Update kb3205402 (id: 5036bd76-3251-49ba-ad86-a99b00853ad4) not found.
The only thing that I do not understand in regards to this tool, why it seems to be necessary to run it multiple times.
Tool just prompts you to reboot and start the update installer again after reboot. Not all updates may be installed at once and reboots may be required multiple times.