Significantly enhance WAU's usability for home admin users while maintaining enterprise-grade functionality. Benefits from not having to manage the settings in several places when testing etc. (great for developers)... ...a perfect companion for those supporting the community (if the community actually uses it!) - being able to ask for a screenshot of the settings because it comes with all included (even a screenshot function masking potentially sensitive data)!

WAU Settings GUI (for Winget-AutoUpdate)

Provides a user-friendly portable standalone interface to modify every aspect of Winget-AutoUpdate (WAU) settings

Dependencies

This project depends on the following repository:

Winget-AutoUpdate: has all the settings this project can handle/modify/save/restore/share and document.

If WAU is not installed, the GUI prompts at startup to download and install it with standard settings.

Description

Significantly enhance WAU's usability for home admin users while maintaining enterprise-grade functionality. Benefits from not having to manage the settings in several places when testing etc. (great for developers)...

...a perfect companion for those supporting the community (if the community actually uses it!) - being able to ask for a screenshot of the settings because it comes with all included (even a screenshot function masking potentially sensitive data)!

Configure WAU settings after installation, including:

Update intervals and timing
Notification levels
Configuring list and mods paths
Additional options like running at logon, user context, etc.
Creating/deleting shortcuts
Managing log files
Starting WAU manually
Screenshot with masking functionality for documentation
GPO management integration
Real-time status information display showing version details, last run times, and current configuration state
Developer tools for advanced troubleshooting:
- Task scheduler access
- Registry editor access
- GUID path exploration
- WinGet system wide installed application list
- List file management
- MSI transform creation (using current showing configuration)
- Configuration backup/import (i.e. for sharing settings)
- Uninstall/install WAU (with current showing configuration)
- Manual/automatic check for updates (checks automatically every week as standard, can be managed via config_user.psm1)
- Direct access to the WAU Settings GUI install folder

NB: Must be run as Administrator (exe and shortcuts have the flag set)

Automatic Installation

Use WinGet CLI from Command Prompt to install the latest released WinGet version:
```
winget install KnifMelti.WAU-Settings-GUI --scope user
```

This will install a Portable WinGet Package (with alias: WAU-Settings-GUI) to:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\KnifMelti.WAU-Settings-GUI_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe.

Manual Installation

Download and extract Sources\WAU Settings GUI
Standalone Installer/Portable (i.e. no need to install)
Detects if running from USB drive, etc.
Run WAU-Settings-GUI.exe:
- Select a base directory for the installation or run directly in portable mode

Running

After installation, WAU Settings GUI starts (if installed by WinGet you must start it via an ordinary Command Prompt using the PortableCommandAlias from WinGet: WAU-Settings-GUI)
If WAU is not installed, it will prompt to download and install with standard settings
If a local list is not found, it will prompt to create a new one
In the GUI you now have ☐|☑ Start Menu shortcuts / ☐|☑ WAU Desktop shortcut / ☐|☑ App Installer shortcut options showing the current installed WAU configuration
Configure every setting to your preferences and Save Settings
The WAU Settings (Administrator) shortcut has now been created under Start Menu\Programs\Winget-AutoUpdate folder (along with the other WAU shortcuts) or on your own Desktop (pin to taskbar when running maybe?) depending on your choice
In config_user.psm1 you can set the AUTOUPDATE_CHECK variable to $true/$false to enable/disable version autoupdate check once every AUTOUPDATE_DAYS and other user-specific settings (i.e. colors)
Copy/move config_user.psm1 to the modules folder to enable it

Updating

Dev Tools (F12): Click the button [ver]
Checks automatically every week as standard (can be managed via config_user.psm1)
If an update exists, WAU Settings GUI will ask if you want to download and install the new version
Before installing a backup of the current version will be created in the ver\backup folder
WAU will also update in user scope with every new released WinGet version of WAU Settings GUI
- If you want to play it safe (not really necessary) you can create a KnifMelti.WAU-Settings-GUI-preinstall.ps1 script in the WAU mods folder to shut down WAU Settings GUI before updating:
```
Get-Process powershell | Where-Object {$_.MainWindowTitle -like "WAU Settings*"} | Stop-Process -Force
```
- Or disable the WAU updating via your excluded_apps.txt:KnifMelti.WAU-Settings-GUI
Alternatively, you can use WinGet CLI from Command Prompt updating to every new release of WinGet version of WAU Settings GUI:
```
winget upgrade KnifMelti.WAU-Settings-GUI --scope user
```

Uninstallation

Use Programs and Features in Control Panel to uninstall WAU Settings GUI
Uninstall can be done from CMD too (/UNINSTALL or /UNINSTALL /S parameter) using UnInst.exe in the WAU Settings GUI install folder, e.g.:
```
"C:\WAU Settings GUI\UnInst.exe" /UNINSTALL /S
```
This will remove even the WinGet Portable package from the source, so it will not show up in the WinGet list anymore
WAU will be automatically reinstalled afterward restoring the original current showing shortcuts.

Screenshots

Managed by Registry (local):

Dev Tools (F12):

Managed by GPO (central/local):

WAU Settings GUI KnifMelti

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