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SUS or Something Else?

Used to use AdventNet Security Mgr Plus to deploy patches to workstations, but now am running Windows 7 on my domain, and this product requires remote registry to be active.  Don't want to do that...so I need a new product.

Tried SUS but it's a big waiting game (wait to detect the systems after GP configures them, schedule the updates, hope for the best)

 I prefer downloading the patches automatically, but deploying the patches manually (right-click, deploy, or "deploy all" by a group.)  SUS is...TOO automated.  What should I use instead?
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Maybe I'm doing something wrong, then...I made the GP changes to point a system to my development SUS server, and it took about 3 1/2 hours before it showed up in the SUS console as detected, and another 2 hours before it finished a scan to determine the patch level..is this typical?  I have selected option 4, automatically download and schedule update.
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I'll give the command line a shot.  Going to miss Manage Engine tho :(
A command I have found so useful is the following - this ensures the update runs straight away:

net stop wuauserv
REG DELETE "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v LastWaitTimeout /f
REG DELETE "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v DetectionStartTime /f
Reg Delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v NextDetectionTime /f
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /detectnow

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720477(WS.10).aspx