I would love to see an option to have an audio notification when an update begins. Useful for those of us who need to free up resources to allow faster updating...

But you do have a flashing globe already.

Yes but my Taskbar is hidden! Found a sort of solution by making a system Tray dock (object dock) at top of screen always on top.

We have an 'update done' pop up - how about an update started one? I don't know much about code, but wouldn't it be possible if there is already pop up's?