KB4023057 Microsoft Update Health Tools Installed?

jdUnionngarden said:

@Matthew Wai
Thanks very much; I'll check out WUMT

and will stay tuned here for any other thoughts/replies.
Best,

You can download wumt here. As far as I know, this won't have provision specifically for Windows Defender updates.

I've been using Matthew's cmd & vbscript solution which you can get here. It automatically checks WD updates every 6 hours and notifies of the availability. It will automatically launch wumt if you so choose.

Matthew Wai said:

That could be misleading.

Actually, it automatically installs definition updates without notification.
It notifies you of other available updates.

That's odd. Whenever I start my PC in the am, usually from a sleep state, I often receive a window informing me of available updates and asking if I want to launch wumt. I hit OK, wumt starts, checks for updates and displays available WD virus definitions for download.

I'll look to see if I have a pic.

Still looking for the notification pic and wumt pic showing KB2267602 offering, I'm sure I have it. Here's a pic of the update history from wumt.

Matthew Wai said:

I suspect you have not imported the scheduled task of updating WD.
Right-click on the Start button -->Windows PowerShell. Run the following command:

Get-ScheduledTask "WDD_Updates"

If it cannot find "WDD_Updates", run "Import Scheduled Task.cmd" to import the tasks again. Note that "WDD_Updates Task.xml" will be imported as long as Windows Defender is running at the moment.

The following shows the correct output when "WDD_Updates" has been imported.

I never have to install definition updates manually. They are always installed automatically in the background without notification.

Interesting...

It does appear to have the WDD updates set.






I have to admit, I installed the cmd/vb script on 2 PC's and the installation on my primary required some tweaking.
For some odd reason, it didn't create and populate C:\# .
I read the script files after it didn't function and manually created C:\# and copied files to it.
For whatever reason, it works like a charm but I receive notifications for updates and WD definition file updates.
I'm not so certain I want to change that feature. I get piece of mind seeing the WD updates.






I might like to understand why it works differently so as I might fix it properly at a future date.

erpster4 said:

this KB4023057 update got re-issued (aka. re-released) again sometime this February 2021.


Topic: KB4023057 lives on @ AskWoody

I've seen it on 3 PCs in the past week. Fortunately, they are all fixed with Matthew's cmd & VB script. That makes the update easy to hide with wumt.

Just for information.

I Installed KB4023057 [ Windows Update Health Tools ] as a test using WUMT and then Restarted.

I then tried to Uninstall it using WUMT and it said it was Uninstallable as per the screenshot below . . .



However, I did Uninstall it from Settings => Apps => Apps & Features and then Restarted . . .



I then decided to run the WUMT again to see if the Update became available, but it did NOT.