10 replies to this topic

[wroot]

I think we could have an option to hide not needed releases in "Available realeases" screen. Personally, i would never need portugese versions. So ther could be some option to hide them from my view.

[Cyrus]

Some people do need those releases. I suppose apup could have a settings page, but only Antonis could create that.

[Paxtez]

A 'Right Click -> Hide Release' option seems like it would be simple to fix.

Maybe even a command flag apup.exe /forceenglish.

Or it defaulting to the checkboxes that were checked last time.

[Cyrus]

The right-click option and remember-last option would require a regestry entry or .ini file, which I think they want to avoid, but the command line flag should be able to be done easily.

[homes32]

I also would like to see the option to define a default language and remember the items that were checked.

an .ini file would do this best as it allows for easy editing and portability.

[wroot]

 homes32, on Jun 24 2008, 06:20 PM, said:

I also would like to see the option to define a default language and remember the items that were checked.

an .ini file would do this best as it allows for easy editing and portability.

Yep, ini or similar cfg file would be ok. I often use apup on systems that i dont want to download updates for, so automatic detection is only disturbing. E.g. as an admin i launch apup at Win2003 server (serving apup share), and i want to download XP SP3 En, Vista SP1 En, Office 2003 En etc. And every time i have to be sure to check everything i need and not to miss anything.

[bizzybody]

 Pardeep, on Aug 18 2008, 09:44 PM, said:

with thanks and regard

Pardeep

It'd be very nice if it started with NONE checked. It always starts with the entries for itself and Vista English checked. Shouldn't an updating program know when itself doesn't need updated?

Another help would be if it could only show updates that apply to a specific version of Windows or Office as well as a specific language. Startup switches would also be useful for all that. I have folders for 2000, XP, Vista, Office and Office 2007 because each one is big enough for its own CD-R.

I'd love to be able to just launch APUP in each folder with everything pre-set so I don't accidentally download the wrong stuff, like everything for Vista into my XP folder. (I just did that the other day so I deleted it all to download the XP stuff 'fresh'.) I wouldn't mind making batch files for each. IF there's an update to APUP, have it break out of the batch with a note that there's a new APUP to download.

XP SP3 updates + Adobe Reader 9 + all the .NET stuff + DirectX + the Addons package now is 691.87 megabytes.

P.S. Two things the UI sorely needs, the contents of the window ought to resize with the window and the columns should sort and resize the same as columns (are supposed to) do in all Windows programs.

[Cristiano]

> Shouldn't an updating program know when itself doesn't need updated?
apup knows how to do that. but in order to do that, an check script is needed, that it's what apup does. if an update or none of the files are needed, nothing will be downloaded. would be better if that was an hidden process?

> the contents of the window ought to resize with the window
we are already working on that. but no promises

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[Netizen]

 Cristiano, on Dec 4 2008, 07:51 AM, said:

> Shouldn't an updating program know when itself doesn't need updated?
apup knows how to do that. but in order to do that, an check script is needed, that it's what apup does. if an update or none of the files are needed, nothing will be downloaded. would be better if that was an hidden process?

> the contents of the window ought to resize with the window
we are already working on that. but no promises

Maybe it should be a hidden process, since it bugs some people to see it checked by default.

In any case, a first time user needs the first two items checked, and if there's an update, it should download it automagically... so yeah, I'd think if it was hidden, it wouldn't hurt anything at all....

[bizzybody]

 Netizen, on Dec 18 2008, 08:07 AM, said:

Maybe it should be a hidden process, since it bugs some people to see it checked by default.

In any case, a first time user needs the first two items checked, and if there's an update, it should download it automagically... so yeah, I'd think if it was hidden, it wouldn't hurt anything at all....

The last time there was an APUP update, that's all that was available in the list. So I had it download that, closed APUP and restarted it. Then I got the usual list with APUP, Autopatcher and Vista downloads already checked.