Win10ActiveHours vs packer-plugin-windows-update

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Win10ActiveHours		packer-plugin-windows-update
	Project
2	Mentions	3
37	Stars	288
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	5.1
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
PowerShell	Language	PowerShell
MIT License	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

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Win10ActiveHours

Posts with mentions or reviews of Win10ActiveHours. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-15.

If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2021

The idea to regularly update "Active Hours", so that Windows can never update, implemented as a simple script https://github.com/marcosbozzani/Win10ActiveHours still works for me to this day.
Do you want Linux phones?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2021

> Perhaps the answer is as simple as "there's a setting buried somewhere that all technically-literate Windows users change"
With all the editions and versions of Windows 10, there doesn't appear to be a single definitive answer to that.
I for one settled on https://github.com/marcosbozzani/Win10ActiveHours , which prevents reboots by scheduling a task to update Windows' own "Active Hours" twice a day.

packer-plugin-windows-update

Posts with mentions or reviews of packer-plugin-windows-update. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.

winrm issues with packer
2 projects | /r/devops | 13 Feb 2023

I am working on creating Windows images (Windows is not my strong suit but I digress) with Packer. I am using https://github.com/rgl/packer-plugin-windows-update provisioner as the last step to update Windows and this is where my build fails most of the time - I get an i/o error
Hashicorp Packer - VMware timeout over 1h
2 projects | /r/devops | 26 Feb 2022

I have been using this for the last 2 years. Works like a charm

What are some alternatives?

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Solaar - Linux device manager for Logitech devices

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packer-vsphere-iso - A collection of Windows Server builds using HashiCorp Packer and the vsphere-iso Builder

spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt

GmsCore - Free implementation of Play Services

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows