WingetUpgradeNotification

Checks the amount of programs that have available upgrades through winget and notifies the user to update at boot.

This program is made in .NET 8.

Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Spok5508/WingetUpgradeNotification

Build

dotnet build --configuration Release

Install

Create a shortcut to WingetUpgradeNotification/bin/Release/platform/WingetUpgradeNotification.exe and paste it in the windows startup folder

C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Notification behaviour

• Hover: Displays number of available upgrades.
• Left click: Runs winget upgrade --all in user shell.
• Right click: Closes the notification tray icon. Disregarding the prompt to update.