Help Understanding Autopatcher
Posted: Wed May 03, 2017 2:19 pm
I recently stumbled across Autopatcher and had some questions about how the application works. I will be updating a few machines that are basically identical. Rather than updating them separately, I would like to download it once and transfer to all of them manually.
One of the machines already had the most recent Windows Updates (i.e. Clicking check for updates produces no new updates, optional or otherwise). I would like to have all these currently installed updates prepped to be moved to another machine.
With all the updates installed from Windows Update, I ran Autopatcher and gathered the updates for several things. It is a Windows 7 (x64) machine, so I checked the Autopatcher Windows 7 SP1 (x64) box. .NET Framework, Microsoft Security ENU addon, Microsoft Redistributes and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
After downloading, I wanted to compare what was downloaded versus what is currently installed. I checked some 5 items in the download folder against what was currently installed. To my surprise not a single item (of the 5) in the folder was installed on the machine.
So what is Autopatcher actually doing when it is downloading Windows Update? Can I set it up to obtain all updates for a machine so I can transfer them to a computer and apply the same patches?
One of the machines already had the most recent Windows Updates (i.e. Clicking check for updates produces no new updates, optional or otherwise). I would like to have all these currently installed updates prepped to be moved to another machine.
With all the updates installed from Windows Update, I ran Autopatcher and gathered the updates for several things. It is a Windows 7 (x64) machine, so I checked the Autopatcher Windows 7 SP1 (x64) box. .NET Framework, Microsoft Security ENU addon, Microsoft Redistributes and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.
After downloading, I wanted to compare what was downloaded versus what is currently installed. I checked some 5 items in the download folder against what was currently installed. To my surprise not a single item (of the 5) in the folder was installed on the machine.
So what is Autopatcher actually doing when it is downloading Windows Update? Can I set it up to obtain all updates for a machine so I can transfer them to a computer and apply the same patches?