Thursday 11 August 2011

Batch Script to Force Windows Update Downloads

This Script was written by Ron Williams so whole credit gose to him for this wonderful script.

Here is the script, save as a .bat file, and run at will!:
@echo off
REM ======================================================================
REM
REM Batch File
REM
REM NAME: Force Auto Updates Download
REM
REM AUTHOR: Ron Williams ,
REM DATE  : 4/8/2009
REM COMMENT  : Replace [proxyserverIP]:[proxyserverPort] with the ip and port of
REM              your proxy server in the format 192.168.1.2:8080  (no brackets)
REM ======================================================================
proxycfg -p [proxyserverIP]:[proxyserverPort]
net stop wuauserv
REG DELETE "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v LastWaitTimeout /f
REG DELETE "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v DetectionStartTime /f
Reg Delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v NextDetectionTime /f
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /detectnow

Orignal Post is on Ron Williams.IT.blog.

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