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Hi MS Gurus,
For some unknown reasons, I encounter said subject. To ease your understanding, please refer to attached 3 x jpg file for details.
I would appreciate it if you could kindly show me what I have missed and the settings I need to check in Windows 10 Professional Version 21H2 and OS build 19044.1620 to enable the search to show the MS Patches I need to select to install in my laptop.
Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Eddie Loh
Press Search for Updates again and then view Installed Updates. You should see a list.
These are my updates:
What he meant is that he should get Windows updates (in installed or new panel), but he doesn’t.
This is mostly likely because Updates are paused.
If the OP is using WUMgr then why would you do this?
The OP used pause so he ddin’t get any updates with WUmgr.
Wumgr doesn’t stand on its own. WUmgr uses Windows Update and conforms to any Windows Update settings (pause, defer, metered, notify, drivers updates, TRV..).
There are no pause, notify… settings in WUmgr, so you can’t select when to download/install updates with WUmgr.
Notify=2 let you know that there are new updates, then you can use WUmgr (when you are ready to install) and hide updates you don’t want and download and install the ones you want.
You can always use wumgr to check for updates manually.
I have Windows auto update setting in wuwmgr set to disabled.
Whenever I want to see if update are available I press the check for updates button in wumgr.
Then I can select which updates to install or hide if I wish.
So what is the point of setting notify=2 in GPEdit configuring automatic updates?
Mine is set to disabled.
@Eddieloh, the originator of this topic, could not get the WUmgr manual check for updates to work, so your statement…
You can always use wumgr to check for updates manually.
…simply isn’t true!
As was pointed out by @alex5723, WUmgr is NOT a standalone program, it uses the existing Windows Update process (regardless of whether you have Windows Auto Update disabled in WUmgr or not.)
So, if Windows Updates is paused (which it was for @Eddieloh), then a “manual check for updates” in WUmgr will not work until the Windows Updates has been unpaused (which @Eddieloh did but then encountered the problem where Windows tried to “automatically” download and install all the pending updates.)
The suggestions to set notify=2 in GPEdit and others made in this thread were specifically meant to help @Eddieloh prevent that from happening when he “unpaused” Windows Updates so he could get WUmgr’s manual check to work.
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