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Scheduling update downloads with Windows 7?
Well, I had eight wonderful years of high speed Internet goodness. It was a great run but it has ended. I remarried eighteen months ago and moved into my wife's (now our) beautiful home on the other side of town. Well, what I didn't realize was that it was just outside the city limits into the county and, even though we're not out that far, it might as well be the sticks as far as the Internet is concerned. There are no wired options at all. I've been back on dial-up for over a year and it is killing me. We've finally decided to go with HughesNet satellite Internet service for a couple of years in hopes that the local Ma Bell affiliate might get DSL into our area by the time our contract expires.
For those not familiar with HughesNet, they have a very small bandwidth cap. Our service plan has a cap of 425 MB per rolling 24 hour period. It'll be fine for general surfing but will rule out large downloads and updates. They do have a free window between 2 AM and 7 AM EST every day though and I have a download manager set to download only during the free window. The only problem I see is not being able to schedule Windows updates.
Is anyone aware of any way to "schedule" OS update downloads? It seems like Microsoft would've added this feature by now but it's never been there. You can pick when you want the updates to install but Windows pretty much downloads whenever it wants to, which sort of defeats the purpose here. Does anyone have any ideas or know of any third party tools that may help with this? Thanks for any info anyone might be able to provide.
Sincerely,
- Byron Followell