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There are innumerable reasons why someone would not want Windows to automatically apply any and all updates blindly. Most rational people with a modicum of computer knowledge will opt to set Windows to automatically check for updates, but let them review the list before manually applying them.

The problem is that there are some updates that we may in fact want automatically applied such as Windows Defender/Security Essentials definitions. Most people will usually want to automatically update those.

The Windows Update configuration dialog seems to only let you turn everything on or off.

I don’t suppose that there is any way to configure updates per-item so that some things like malware definitions are automatically updated?

I fear there may be no way to do this for two reasons:

  • While the configuration dialog exposes a limited set of options, the registry settings don’t seem to offer any more flexibility.
  • Allowing this would require some sort of item-specific identifier to distinguish items which seems not to be the case per this question.
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You can try to script updates on command line, on remote computers you can do that with psexec - there is a command line tool called wuinstall that can do that - gives you complete control over every update you install, you have to be a bit fit at shell scripting though.

If you check the documentation on the website (http://www.wuinstall.com), there are lot of options to select updates - simplest way would be to call

wuinstall /install /match "Internet Explorer"

to only instal IE updates - you can also filter by product, KB-Numer or regex

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