Monthly Archives: February 2019

When ‘Uninstall individual update Windows 10/2016’ in BatchPatch Fails to Remove an Update

By Scott | Published: February 28, 2019

Unfortunately there are cases where remotely removing an update from numerous computers can prove to be more challenging than it seems like it ought to be, especially when you have a great tool like BatchPatch at your disposal. BatchPatch has a built-in feature Actions > Windows updates > Uninstall individual update (requires KB ID) – […]

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Deploying a Registry Key / Value to HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) or All Users in HKEY_USERS (HKU)

By Scott | Published: February 11, 2019

A question that comes up periodically is “How can I deploy a registry key or value to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) hive of the registry on a target computer or group of computers?” If you were to follow the tutorial at this link to deploy a .reg file to target computers, you might have unexpected results […]

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Copying Files from Target Computers to the Local BatchPatch Computer

By Scott | Published: February 6, 2019

Occasionally someone asks how they can use BatchPatch to copy files from target computers back to the BatchPatch computer. While BatchPatch has a built-in function for copying files to target computers, it does not have a built-in function for copying files from target computers back to the local BatchPatch computer. Fortunately even when an action […]

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