Microsoft puts kibosh on a four-year-old “offline Windows Update” tool popular with administrators and consumers, saying it fears the utility could be avenue for malicious software. On the same day ...

Windows: AutoPatcher, the small but powerful utility that makes it easy to install Windows updates while offline, and on multiple systems, has added support for Windows 7, giving users more control ...

A day after Microsoft Corp. shut down a free alternative to Windows Update, the program’s 20-year-old developer said he is talking with the company about what it would take to resurrect his project.

Microsoft forced a popular alternative to Windows Update off the Internet Wednesday after sending the maker of AutoPatcher cease-and-desist e-mail. The free utility has been removed from its download ...

Some of you may never have heard of AutoPatcher. Well, how many of you have received a new computer with Windows XP SP2, and immediately hooked it up to the Internet to download all the post-SP2 ...

Windows only: Ever since every sysadmin's favorite offline Windows patching program AutoPatcher had the plug pulled on it by Microsoft, those without constant Internet access or looking to keep ...

Reinstalling Windows is never a fun process, especially the part just after the installation when you have a seemingly endless list of critical and optional software updates to download and install.

Autopatcher, a benign and quite useful tool that has made management of Windows networks easier for many sysadmins, has been shut down. At least insofar as obtaining Microsoft patches it has been, as ...