[Burned Phoenix]

Microsoft killed the Autopatcher project some months ago which was a shock to everyone who used their monthly Windows Update collections to update their computer(s) which had several benefits such as downloading the updates only once and not connecting to a Microsoft server at all.

The Autopatcher team was busy and have releases an early beta of a software they call Autopatcher Updater. The process of obtaining the updates has been changed. The Autopatcher Updater lists the latest updates for the operating system and Microsoft Office and downloads the files from Microsoft and Autopatcher afterwards.

New version of AutoPatcher Updater

Since this is a beta some problems emerge every now and then in particular a Runtime Error bug for some users which will probably resolved in the next release.
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[Freka]

Sweet!

[Seventh Surfer]

No Vista version?

[THRiLL KiLL]

sweet news!!!!

[Trinity_Blood17]

Damn Yes!!! I have waited months for this. I hate using windows update cause you have to restart the system every time. Can't wait and I am going to download now.

[MeToo]

This is not correct. All the updates are downloaded from Microsoft.

This is the major difference from the old Autopatcher. This way there is no redistribution of copyrighted software without Microsoft's permission.

Please correct your post, Burned Phoenix.

The advantage of the current Autopatcher is that you download all the updates once and then can install them on others using a pen disk and therefore saving bandwidth and time!

[ThunderROM]

It's agreat news!

[timbertide]

Good, but "Windows Update" works fine for me.