For anyone reading this that doesn't know about it, here's a great script that increases the size of the recovery partition by 250mb so that you can install KB5034441. I used search and replace in...

Sledgehammer 2.7.0 released March 24, 2020
Project page and download link.

Sledgehammer_2.7.0.zip
SHA256: 86454b41094ce7c510806d7ec40e84d3c0c92195a3490a440c92adda71d5cc65
Changelog:
1) Updated...

Hi, I'm the author of Sledgehammer. Windows Update Manager (WuMgr) registers Microsoft Update automatically in the script so that it always finds Office 2010 updates. I would like to remove Windows...

Sledgehammer doesn't corrupt any files, it removes permissions from them so they cant be read or overwritten. Sfc can't read the files or restore them, so it gives errors. These errors are harmless....

I got a notification of a review of Sledgehammer by ghacks which I post in its entirety:

FYI,
Control Windows Updates with Sledgehammer (formerly WUMT Wrapper Script)
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WUMT/WuMgr wrapper script has been renamed to Sledgehammer.
Sledghammer 2.6.0 final is here!
Waiting on updates to show at Major Geeks and Softpedia.

Sledgehammer 2.6.0 Windows 10 update control...

I see. I suppose there are multiple ways of checking whether the OS is x86 or x64. In a somewhat related tale of confusion, I learned the variable for the windows folder as %systemroot%, but I...

I'm checking the architecture of the OS.
I decided early on to not check for "Program Files (x86)" because some programs are hard-coded to install in that folder and will create it if it doesn't...

@Matthew Wai I showed your solution to the non-english path name problem to @rpo at MDL forum who wrote the vbscript portion of the wrapper script code (I'm a horrible vbscript programmer and can...

No reason, I just didn't know how. Now I do since you showed me. The script is already a mixture of CMD and VBScript so I'll fix it. Thanks.

This is the part of the script that creates the xml using whatever path the script is in.

:: Create automatic Windows Defender Update "WDU" task that updates Defender only if it's enabled and...

I edited my post above to show what happens when you try to import an xml with non code page 1252 characters in the path name with schtask.exe in a batch or cmd script to create a task.
Note the...

Excellent work. I'll definitely check it out.

Matthew, I hope you don't mind me answering this one.
For some reason, and I've asked experts, it's impossible to create a task from a batch script or VBS file to create a task from an XML file if...

Open notepad++ or whatever editor you're using as administrator, and edit it that way. Or copy the file to your desktop, edit it, and move the edited file back to the original folder.

Matthew Wai Maybe because of your modifications allowing notifications? There's no other way that I know of to allow notifications without checking for updates first. Run the script and hide the 1809...

Correct. I installed Windows Update Assistant in my VM. It threw an error because it couldn't write to the UpdateAssistant(V2) folders, but it created the %systemdrive%\Windows10Upgrade folder and...

I don't see how it could.
The way to be sure is to run the script to lock the folders, then try to install update assistant from here.

Why are you clicking continue to get access when you're trying to prevent access? I still don't know what version of Windows 10 you're doing this on, but in 18309.1000 this is what happens if I click...

I edited my post to say I don't have access after clicking continue in your screenshot. Try my script without your modifications and tell me what happens.

Edit: I'm testing this in an early...

These commands in the script lock those folders. It requires the variable %nsudovar% to be set, and for nsudo to exist in the script folder.

%nsudovar% -ShowWindowMode:Hide -Wait -U:T -P:E...

No it's not. I've got 18309.1000 in VirtualBox. I just checked and the script won't allow me access to the UpdateAssistant or UpdateAssistantV2 folders. Are you using script version 2.5.5? That's the...

Some history of the script: The first version for 10240 RTM just disabled the windows update service. That soon stopped working in later versions of windows 10. I thought about it a while and decided...

@Pedro147 I think you should specify that you're using @Matthew Wai's fork of the script when you're asking for assistance to eliminate any confusion.

Thank you @EdTittel. You're good people and I appreciate your kind remarks. I wish we could have lunch sometime.
Edit: It appears that removing file permissions still works fine in 19H1 unimpeded,...