WuMgr (Update Manager for Windows) is a tool to manage updates of Microsoft products on the Windows operating system. It uses the “Windows Update Agent API” to identify as well as download and install missing updates. It allows the user fine control of updates on modern (Windows 10) operating system versions, comparable to what windows 7 and 8.1 offered.
This functionality should be included in Windows by default, and the fact that it isn’t is just one of the many laughable deficiencies Windows is riddled with. And speaking of laughable deficiencies in Windows, a third party user interface to the optional and limited winget package “manager” has recently been updated.
I’ve moved to Windows 11 from macOS, but having also had plenty of experience with Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. And despite a couple of annoying, frustratingly non-configurable additions (taskbar size/position, start menu recommendation area, widgets), as well as needing to hack around for hours just to get hybrid sleep working again, Windows 11 is a huge improvement to everything that came before IMHO, and just keeps getting better with every update. The new Notepad and Terminal are nearly perfect, the new and 99% “done” Settings are a revelation, the new Windows Store is *finally* simple and fast to navigate and use, the new Explorer is a breath of fresh air, and the window snapping features are better than even the best macOS paid utilities. And best of all compared to previous versions is Windows Update – they seem to have finally gotten a grip on making updates simple and simultaneously non-intrusive to administer.
I tried out this Windows Update Manager tool and to be honest, it doesn*t seem to do anything that the normal Settings app doesn*t. and with a less intuitive interface at that. Not to mention, the last release was in 2019. I really don*t get what the big deal is.
I use WuMgr for the simple reason it doesn’t force updates on me I don’t want. The UI is nonintuitive and has some quirks (bugs) – but it works and works simply. I do wish he’d update it, though.
It’s not a deficiency. You not being in control is by design.
Welcome to 2019
Allow me as someone who spent years cleaning up the messes in both home and SMB to say…I fricking LOVE that Windows 10 doesn’t allow Joe and Jane Normal to control Windows Updates! I mean good grief people, don’t you remember your history? All the worms and viruses and malware that would infect 100s of 1000s of machines that could all be traced back to “Morons refuses to run Windows Update, known and patched flaw is used by malware writers to make bug which spreads like an STD”.
So complain all ya want but a good 90% of the PC work I do now is hardware related, they need more RAM or storage or need an SSD upgrade, before Windows 10? 90% of the work was nothing but malware and in damn near every case it would come down to users never updating their systems or expecting a trial copy of Norton that expired 3 years ago to protect the system. Thanks to Windows 10 and Defender the only ones I see getting infected anymore are those that go out of their way to disable security ala “The Dancing Bunnies Problem”, Joe and Jane Normal are safe.