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# Winget-AutoUpdate (WAU)
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This project uses the Winget tool to daily update apps (with system context) and notify users when updates are available and installed.
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## Intallation
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Just [download project ](https://github.com/Romanitho/Winget-AutoUpdate/archive/refs/heads/main.zip ), unzip, run "install.bat" as admin.
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## Configurations
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### Keep some apps out of Winget-AutoUpdate
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You can exclude apps from update job (for instance, apps you want to keep at a specific version or apps with built-in auto-update):
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Add (or remove) the apps' ID you want to disable autoupdate to 'excluded_apps.txt'. (File must be placed in scripts' installation folder, or re-run install.bat).
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### Default install location
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By default, scripts and componants will be placed in ProgramData location (inside a Winget-AutoUpdate folder). You can change this with script argument.
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### Notification language
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You can easily translate toast notifications by creating your locale xml config file (and share it with us :) ).
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### When does the script run?
Scheduled task is set to run:
- At user logon
- At 6AM eveyday (with the -StartWhenAvailable option to be sure it is run at least once a day)
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This way, even without connected user, powered on computers get updated anyway.
### Log location
You can find logs in install location, in log folder.
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### "Unknown" App version
As explained in this [post ](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/1255 ), Winget cannot detect the current version of some installed apps. We decided to skip managing these apps with WAU to avoid retries each time WAU runs:
Eventually, try to reinstall or update app manually to see if new version is detected.
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## Update WAU
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### Manual Update
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Same process as new installation : download, unzip and run "install.bat"
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### Automatic Update
A new Auto-Update process has been released from version 1.5.0. By default, WAU AutoUpdate is enabled.
To disable WAU AutoUpdate, run the "winget-install-and-update.ps1" with "-DisableWAUAutoUpdate" parameter
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## Help
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In some cases, you need to "unblock" the "intall.bat" file (Windows Defender SmartScreen). Right click, properties and unblock. Then, you'll be able to run it.
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## Optimization
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Feel free to give us any suggestions or optimizations in code.
