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.

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.

Version 1.05 is ready for download: AutoPatcher now works by downloading the updates straight from MS instead of distributing the updates packages themselves. The only problem it seems to have is that ...

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: 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 ...