Appupdater is simple and very useful tool designed to provide advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. Appupdater automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. Appupdater is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.
Features:
* Upgrades can be fully automatic (daily checks), no user intervention required
* Auto-detection of previously installed applications
* Install, Upgrade, or Remove software
* Support for offline use/USB device
* Support for Windows/UNIX/Linux/MAC OS X platforms
* Proxy support
* Support for package installation lists or computer profiles in a corporate environment
* Create your own custom repository if desired (not required)
* Dependency support
* Metalink standard based XML repository files
* Support for use of external Metalink download programs, such as Aria2
* Automatically feedsback installed version information to the server
* Not limited to programs in the registry or with embedded version numbers
Via - Lifehacker
This sounds useful. Will give it a try!
I stopped updating Windows for a while now, it was consuming my hard disk space. But good utility.