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AutoPatcher is back
By Martin English | December 18, 2007
Once upon a time, AutoPatcher was the go to program for downloading and installing Windows Updates without connecting to Microsoft’s servers. Say you’ve got a bunch of PCs that you need to update and you don’t want to take the time to connect each to the internet and download updates one by one. Just use AutoPatcher, download the latest updates, burn the results to a CD and carry it from computer to computer.
But a few months back Microsoft effectively shut down the AutoPatcher project, saying that you could only install Windows Updates from Windows servers.
Now the AutoPatcher team is back, with a new utility that downloads updates directly from Microsoft’s servers. AutoPatcher Updater is still in early beta, but it appears that the developers are getting around Microsoft’s objections by requiring you to download updates on on the machine which you are updating. Once you’ve downloaded the updates, you can run AutoPatcher.exe to install them. While this might all sound a lot like the built in Windows Update utility, the new AutoPatcher at least gives you a bit more control over your updates.
[via gHacks]
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