Thank you! I understand WUMgr better now.

Ok, help me to understand. Up to this point I have been using wushowhide to do the monthly updates on a Win10 Home machine with great success.

I wish to give WuMgr a run this time around.

1.  Does metered connection need to be set to off prior to running WuMgr? and can it be          permanently be left off after the reboot?

2.  Do we need to resume updates in Settings/Update & Security if previously paused for a set period?

Cheers

Over on the “wumgr options panel settings for Win10 Pro. What do you use?”  thread I posted my settings.

Once WuMgr is set up properly you won’t even see the Windows update screen, and don’t need to use metered connection.

The only time you will see any updates offered is when you run WuMgr. Then you can pick which ones you want to install, and install them. If you want to hide the ones you don’t want, you can. But then you have to examine them the next month, if still there.

Once you have the updates you chose installed, then that is all you have to do until the next month.

Matador wrote:

Does metered connection need to be set to off

Do not change any existing settings. WuMgr does its own thing independent of WU settings.

Run WuMgr and click the search button (arrows forming a circle).
You will see a list of available updates and can select any and choose an action for those.

cheers, Paul

In WuMgr under the Auto Update tab I have the following settings greyed out.

Block Access to WU Servers

Notification Only

Download Only

Scheduled Installation

Does anyone have a clue why?

Cheers

It’s the same for me on W10 Home with no registry hacks.

cheers, Paul

I had to do a reinstall of Win10 and started doing updates via WUMGR.

2022-04 Update for Windows 10 Version 20H2 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057)
seems to be stuck on In Progress. It doesn’t help if I do a restart

which won’t let the following install
2022-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 20H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5013942)

The Trash icon is grayed out so I can’t delete 2022-04 Update

Any thoughts? that might help?

Hello Susan and all your team,

I fully admit that I’m not conversant in using wumgr as I’m not able to download the updates ( “authorization failed”  “access denied “etc…

Thus I raise the white flag and ask you how to uninstall this software ?

I tried through Windows without success. I have a 5-year old ASUS portable PC with Win 10, 64 bits) which was updated with standard MS Windows updates through the end of April.

I tried through CC Cleaner: the file is unknown

And trying to erase the file gets me a note like: Unable to uninstall this file is used in another application. Although I had gotten out of wumgr and erased its shortcut…

Many thanks for your help.

And thanks for all your work in this Newsletter which is a great help.

Courteously yours,

Genaker

One thing to (possibly) watch out for: early this month, I brought a Windows 10 laptop up to version 21H2. IIRC, the previous installed version was 2004, meaning that (if I understand these things) my Windows 10 was now out of support. Instead of going through the usual patch/updating process, to get 21H2 I had to go to a Microsoft page to download the new version.

With this as background, I note that the next time I looked at the laptop, Windows was telling me that some updates were required, as if WUMGR had been disabled. Launching the program confirmed that, indeed, the radio button in the Auto Update tab down on the left was now UNselected.

Selecting that radio button again brought the updating process back to the desired state (meaning: with the user in control of the process).

When moving to a new version of Windows 10, make sure to keep an eye out for the possible disabling of WUMGR, perhaps if the one you currently have has gone out of support.

Cybertooth wrote:

When moving to a new version of Windows 10, make sure to keep an eye out for the possible disabling of WUMGR

WUmgr is a portable app.
There is no way Windows update can tamper with any settings in WUmgr.
The settings are in Windows update.

Cybertooth wrote:

Thanks, @Alex5723.

Disabling the Windows Update service, sounds like it would be something that would change a Registry value, is that right?

 

No that I know of.

Running a “trial” Windows 11 PC here, and would like to run with WuMgr. I’ve searched around, but can’t find any mention of how the “regular” Windows update option(s) should be set, i.e. paused, resumed – and any other settings which might affect the proper operation of WuMgr. Thanks in advance –