Click popup to install updates instead of show updates
Every day users are overwhelmed by the information given by default when updates are found. The names and version numbers of update files, filenames, locations, the choice not to install an update, even the number of updates, are all things that intimidate every-day users.
Instead of "show all updates", the updates popup should read, "Click this popup to bring your system up to date", with a link at the bottom for power users that reads "Inspect updates first". Clicking elsewhere in the popup will begin installing all updates found without displaying the list data (equivalent of right-click "install all updates"). Clicking the "inspect" link will bring up the regular "show updates" dialog.
This makes updates less intimidating and frustrating for every day users who correctly feel they should read all information in a popup before clicking "ok" but don't understand what they're reading.
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There is a righ-click menu option "install all upgrades" that seems to be doing exactly what you want (unless I miss something). -- mvo
Michael: the point is that the current update display is overwhelming for every-day users, most of whom insist on reading every piece of text in every popup/dialog box and few of whom will automatically think to right click instead of left-clicking the default action. Basically, my suggestion is that the "install all updates" action you mentioned (currently only accessible from a context menu) should be the default action listed in the "updates found" popup bubble. -jdbartlett