wingetautoupdate/README.md

# Winget-AutoUpdate (WAU)
This project uses the Winget tool to daily update apps (with system context) and notify users when updates are available and installed.

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/96626929/150645599-9460def4-0818-4fe9-819c-dd7081ff8447.png)

## Intallation
Just [download latest version](https://github.com/Romanitho/Winget-AutoUpdate/archive/refs/tags/v1.7.4.zip), unzip, run "install.bat" as admin to install by default.

## Configurations
### Keep some apps out of Winget-AutoUpdate
- #### Black List
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):
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).
- #### Or White List
From 1.7.0 version, you can update only pre-selected apps. To do so, create an "included_apps.txt" with the apps' ID of the apps you want to auto-update and run the `Winget-AutoUpdate-Install.ps1` with `-UseWhiteList` parameter. Related post: https://github.com/Romanitho/Winget-AutoUpdate/issues/36
### Default install location
By default, scripts and components will be placed in ProgramData location (inside a Winget-AutoUpdate folder). You can change this with script argument.
### Notification language
You can easily translate toast notifications by creating your locale xml config file (and share it with us :) ).
### When does the script run?
Scheduled task is set to run:
- At user logon
- At 6AM Everyday (with the -StartWhenAvailable option to be sure it is run at least once a day)
This way, even without connected user, powered on computers get updated anyway.
### Log location
You can find logs in install location, in log folder.
### "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:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/96626929/155092000-c774979d-2db7-4dc6-8b7c-bd11c7643950.png)

Eventually, try to reinstall or update app manually to see if new version is detected.

## Update WAU
### Manual Update
Same process as new installation : download, unzip and run "install.bat".

### Automatic Update
A new Auto-Update process has been released from version 1.5.0. By default, WAU AutoUpdate is enabled. It will not overwrite the configurations, icons (if personalised), excluded_apps list,...
To disable WAU AutoUpdate, run the "winget-install-and-update.ps1" with "-DisableWAUAutoUpdate" parameter

## Advanced installation
You can run the `winget-install-and-update.ps1` script with parameters :

**-Silent**  
Install Winget-AutoUpdate and prerequisites silently

**-WingetUpdatePath**  
Specify Winget-AutoUpdate installation location. Default: `C:\ProgramData\Winget-AutoUpdate\` (Recommended to leave default)

**-DoNotUpdate**  
Do not run Winget-AutoUpdate after installation. By default, Winget-AutoUpdate is run just after installation.

**-DisableWAUAutoUpdate**  
Disable Winget-AutoUpdate update checking. By default, WAU auto updates if new version is available on Github.

**-UseWhiteList**  
Use White List instead of Black List. This setting will not create the "exclude_apps.txt" but "include_apps.txt"

**-Uninstall**  
Remove scheduled tasks and scripts.

## Custom scripts (Mods feature)

The Mods feature allows you to run an additional script when installing or upgrading an app.
Just put the script with the App ID followed by the "-install" or "-upgrade" suffix to be considered.  
`AppID-install.ps1` and/or `AppID-upgrade.ps1` (if it differs, otherwise the "-install" mod will be used for upgrade)
and put this in the Mods directory  
> Example:  
> If you want to run a script just after installing ".NET Desktop Runtime 6", call your script like this:
> `Microsoft.dotnetRuntime.6-x64-install.ps1`

In the case of ".NET Desktop Runtime 6" it spawns a new process and this we will have to wait for completion of before moving on to checking if the installation/upgrade suceeded or not. - (this seems to be handled in Winget Version: v1.3.0-preview)


## Help
In some cases, you need to "unblock" the "install.bat" file (Windows Defender SmartScreen). Right click, properties and unblock. Then, you'll be able to run it.

## Optimization
Feel free to give us any suggestions or optimizations in code.