AUState replace by other entries like BalloonType, etc.?

[Jimmy B]

I had asked before what happened to AUState in the registry for Microsoft
Updates, and was told by Torgeir (thanks!) that v5 of Windows Update does
away with AUState. This makes sense. When I look in the registry where
AUState was and where AUOptions is, I see new entries such as BalloonType,
BalloonTime, etc. My guess is these are Microsoft's replacements for
AUState that give more information. Does anyone know where I can find
documentation on these new entries? For example BalloonType shows a value
of 5, but what does that mean? I've easily found AUOptions and AUState
documentation, but because BalloonType is so new I can't find any. Could it
be that BalloonType and AUState numbers mean the same thing?

Windows Update entries are located here for anyone interested:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto
Update

The reason I ask is that I'm writing software to tell me what's going on
with different computers on my network.

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

I had asked before what happened to AUState in the registry for Microsoft
Updates, and was told by Torgeir (thanks!) that v5 of Windows Update does
away with AUState. This makes sense. When I look in the registry where
AUState was and where AUOptions is, I see new entries such as BalloonType,
BalloonTime, etc. My guess is these are Microsoft's replacements for
AUState that give more information. Does anyone know where I can find
documentation on these new entries? For example BalloonType shows a value
of 5, but what does that mean? I've easily found AUOptions and AUState
documentation, but because BalloonType is so new I can't find any. Could
it be that BalloonType and AUState numbers mean the same thing?

Windows Update entries are located here for anyone interested:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate
\Auto Update

The reason I ask is that I'm writing software to tell me what's going on
with different computers on my network.

Hi

I can't find any documentation on the BalloonTime registry value, but
it is not a replacement of AUState, that I am sure of.

It looks like the file ReportingEvents.log in the folder
%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\ReportingEvents.log is what have taken
over for the AUState value (in a way). Note that the text in the file
goes pretty far out to the right, be sure that your editor does not
wrap long lines).

(%windir% is typically C:\Windows)

 

[Jimmy B]

Thanks again Torgeir! I like how Microsoft makes us developers guess about
changes they make to the OS sometimes.