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Hi i was wondering if any one could help. I click on apup and installation takes about 10 secs, says it has completed but it hasnt installed the program anywhere?? No error message just a 10 sec install.....any ideas?

thank you in advance

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See if this post helps at all - Read Here!

If you still have troubles, let us know at what point you're getting stuck.

Btw, APUP nor AutoPatcher themselves really install - they are portable tools. APUP does require an internet connection to work, other than that, it is pretty straight forward.

ive followed that and still the same problem it lets me select windows, autopatcher updater and engine then it goes to the nxt page and says it has finished installing with the progression bar. Installation only takes about 10 secs but then it is not in my program list or windows folder and with no desktop icons.

-> Installation only takes about 10 secs but then it is not in my program list or windows folder and with no desktop icons.

There is no installation process, you extract the zip file to a location, then you run apup.exe to download a release to the \modules folder where you extracted the zip. You wont find a shortcut on the desktop or a listing in Programs, you can create a shortcut yourself and put it on the desktop or add an AutoPatcher group in Programs.

If you have no \modules folder in your apup directory, can you dbl-click 'hit_this...cmd' to run APUP with logging, select the release, try to download it. When done post the apup.log file (found in the apup folder). It sounds like APUP is having trouble connecting to the internet.

In the link from my first post there is info about creating and posting log files if you need help.

so where am i going wrong then? I do the windows updates and it says they have been completed and computer restarts. Run program again and same updates need downloading and also still in the microsoft windows update list.

where are you running apup from? apup is unable to run properly if in any part of the patch there's an non-english character, like ç, é, à, etc, meaning that an folder "Usuários" (Users), isn't good to run apup from. due that issue, you hit next and apup finish the download process in a few seconds, but nothing was downloaded. so please, follow mike instructions

also, doesn't matter how many times you run apup, the scripts still will be in there, doesn't matter if you already have them or not

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running from c parent downloads. have two login names parent and child. dont no if these are default logins as windows 7 was already pre-installed. anyway to change scripts? thanks

This is where we need you to be specific, we can't see what you see so we need you to be clear and if possible provide the things we ask for, in this case the log file. Screenshots help too otherwise we are guessing at what is taking place at your end. Fire up APUP, provide a screenshot of the selections window, download the release, when it completes, before you close APUP get another screenshot, post both along with a log file. I'll be honest, I don't even know yet if you have any files in the modules folder, did APUP download anything, you really haven't said. I have no idea how far you've got APUP to work for you

AutoPatcher and APUP work pretty simply - extract the zip to a short path - c:\apup - run apup.exe, select a release, download a release. When problems occur it usually is due to the location (APUP has issues with networks), path names (very long or non English characters), security software (blocks program from running) etc. As long as the OS will let apup.exe run, you have an internet connection, and you aren't breaking any of the aforementioned rules it should work, if not - please be specific with your setup, security software, admin rights, exact path.

Here's a couple of screenshots...

The first is what I see when APUP connects to the internet and provides the releases list - do you get this far?

The second screenshot is what I get when APUP finishes a download, in this case the release was already complete so not much to download. The key here is amount 'fetched' or downloaded. How much was downloaded for you - nothing, some, all - please check the \modules folder in your APUP directory. You may see an error message at this point too.

The third screenshot is AutoPatcher loading the release, in this case XP SP3 x86 English - can you load a release in AutoPatcher?

Just to keep from confusing anyone reading this post, I deleted the images