{"id":418,"date":"2013-01-04T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=418"},"modified":"2013-01-04T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T07:49:59","slug":"windows-update-notification-tool-for-windows-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/windows-update-notification-tool-for-windows-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Update Notification Tool for Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was apparently part of the <a title=\"Building Windows 8: Minimizing restarts after automatic updating in Windows Update\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\/archive\/2011\/11\/14\/minimizing-restarts-after-automatic-updating-in-windows-update.aspx\">5.82% of Windows 7 users who preferred to be notified about updates<\/a> rather than have them installed automatically. Annoyingly, Windows 8 no longer displays the familiar balloon tip and notify icon when new updates are available, instead placing a notice on the lock screen (which I almost never have occasion to see on my desktop). I found this frustrating enough that I decided to write a small unmanaged program to mimic the basic functionality of the old notify icon. It also supports automatic installation of specified updates (identified by their Knowledge Base ID \u2013 I use this to install Windows Defender definition updates). You can find out more and download the tool here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Quppa.net: Windows Update Notification Tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quppa.net\/wunotify\">Windows Update Notification Tool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was apparently part of the 5.82% of Windows 7 users who preferred to be notified about updates rather than have them installed automatically. Annoyingly, Windows 8 no longer displays the familiar balloon tip and notify icon when new updates are available, instead placing a notice on the lock screen (which I almost never have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/windows-update-notification-tool-for-windows-8-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Update Notification Tool for Windows 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[171,174,178,186,187],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-windows","tag-windows-2","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-update","tag-wuapi","tag-wunotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}