AutoPatcher is Dead :: Another Great Idea Killed Off by Big Business
AutoPatcher is one of the best sites known to man, for Windows users anyway. The site enabled you to download cumulative Windows Updates as a bundle. What does that mean? Probably easier with an example:
Without AutoPatcher:
You decide that today is a great day to rebuild your PC. You install Windows, go to Windows Update and start downloading the updates… go out for coffee. Come back a few hours later and reboot and finish the rest.
With AutoPatcher:
Install Windows and run AutoPatcher after you select the updates that you want installed, install them and reboot. Continue finishing the install.
That’s right! AutoPatcher allows you to download all the updates in one hit and keep them for a rainy day. No Windows Update and no waiting for ages for it to happen. Invaluable for those family tech support sessions on dial-up! In fact you don’t even need an internet connection. Or I should say that it did…
No more folks! According to AutoPatcher’s Latest News they received a take-down notice from Microsoft today, to remove the download page. Which they have appeared to complied with. Damnit! But I am almost positive that there are other ways to obtain the latest releases.
Well Microsoft, this was and is a bloody good idea and valued by users and geeks everywhere. Since you have shutdown this great idea how about offering it through your servers? It’s OK we know that it wasn’t your idea, we can keep that between ourselves. But then you would probably rather watch us all cry tears of despair as we watch the updates come through at 26kbs… Prove me wrong Microsoft!
Nice job guys and I know there will be more than a few of us that are sorry to see you go 
Dave
Don’t forget to Check Out the Latest Show While you are Here!
August 30th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Bloody microsoftery
August 30th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I don’t even WANT to comment on this one. But you all know how I feel about this.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:58 am
[...] Tra post celebrativi, proposte di alternative e trucchi per chi si volesse ancora dotare del programma, la blogosfera pullula di opinioni sulla vicenda. Su una cosa in molti concordano: la dipartita di AutoPatcher creerà non pochi problemi agli utenti privi di una connessione flat veloce. Perché non offrire un servizio simile sui server Microsoft? Tags: AutoPatcher, Microsoft, Windows Update Sphere: Related Content [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Bloody MS… sometimes I just wish they would leave well enough alone. (Just taking a couple minutes to check in from Hiroshima.)
Looking forward to listening to the #60 when I get home… (no place to load up the file to the iPod at the hotel…)
August 31st, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Send complaining mails to Microsoft! And go for Linux!
Thanks to Autopatcher teams for their great FREE work.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Hey Keith - hope you are having fun! GGP 60 went off
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:42 am
Definitely a good idea, but after they release Service Pack 3, won’t creating a new slipstreamed install CD do the same thing as autopatcher?
September 4th, 2007 at 3:04 am
No not really Jeff. The main reason is that AutoPatcher actually updated every month, so you have the latest and the greatest.
I am not holding my breath for SP3 either