Tim Kennedy

Tim Kennedy is an independent developer whose open-source catalog currently centers on Windows Update Viewer (WUView), a lightweight utility that parses the local Windows Update database and presents patch history in a sortable grid. The tool is aimed at system administrators, help-desk staff, and power users who need to audit which cumulative updates, servicing stacks, or driver packages have landed on a workstation without scrolling through the Settings panel or parsing event logs. Typical use cases include pre-deployment validation, troubleshooting rollback errors, and producing compliance reports for patch-management policies. Although the portfolio is deliberately narrow, the project demonstrates the publisher’s focus on forensic clarity: WUView surfaces hidden columns such as KB ID, install date, result code, and uninstall notes, then exports the filtered view to CSV for further analysis in Excel or Power BI. The single-exe release keeps deployment friction low, while the GPLv3 license invites community forks that could expand the codebase into broader Windows-servicing utilities. Tim Kennedy’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest version, and can be queued alongside other applications for unattended batch installation.