Patchmypc updater

#1 midimusicman79 Sec & Web Browser Enthusiast BC Advisor 6,461 posts OFFLINE Gender:Male Location:Norway Local time:01:41 PM Posted 01 November 2023 - 02:00 PM Nowadays, keeping one's 3rd-party software continuously updated is essential to avoid malware infection. To alleviate this task, one can use one or more Software Updater Programs as REFERENCES.One such tool, KC Softwares Software Update Monitor (SUMo), was a popular alternative until October 31, 2023.However, after it has reached End-Of-Life (EOL), one can instead use several similar alternatives:UCheck Free/Paid, PatchMyPC Free, RuckZuck (Free) Software Package Manager for Windows.DISCLAIMER: I am NOT affiliated with any of the above software vendors and developers. Good luck! Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit V. 22H2 (19045) Retail Desktop PC, EAMH Paid/EEK, MB 5 Prem., and Unchecky, MDFW, FF with uBO/AG, Grammarly Free, MBBG, and Acronis True Image Essentials, RuckZuck, PatchMyPC, UpdateHub, UniGetUI, UCheck, and Winget. I have 29.5 Years of PC Experience. Back to top"> Back to top BC AdBot (Login to Remove) BleepingComputer.com Register to remove ads #2 giusan70 giusan70 Members 12 posts OFFLINE Local time:02:41 PM Posted 12 November 2023 - 01:52 PM i want to thankyou for your post.From 31 of october i tried all the most popular software updaters, but i haven't found any that are as good as sumo.in your message you reported a software unknown to me: RuckZuck (Free) Software Package Manager for Windows.In my opinion ruckzuck is the one that is closest to sumo. Thanks for letting me know Back to top"> Back to top #3 midimusicman79 midimusicman79 Sec & Web Browser Enthusiast Topic Starter BC Advisor 6,461 posts OFFLINE Gender:Male Location:Norway Local time:01:41 PM Posted 12 November 2023 - 01:56 PM You are welcome, giusan70! Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit V. 22H2 (19045) Retail Desktop PC, EAMH Paid/EEK, MB 5 Prem., and Unchecky, MDFW, FF with uBO/AG, Grammarly Free, MBBG, and Acronis True Image Essentials, RuckZuck, PatchMyPC, UpdateHub, UniGetUI, UCheck, and Winget. I have 29.5 Years of PC Experience. Back to top"> Back to top #4 Sampei_Nihira Sampei_Nihira Members 703 posts OFFLINE Gender:Male Location:Italy Local time:01:41 PM Posted 13 November 2023 - 05:40 AM

Latest Version Patch My PC (Home Updater) 5.1.0.0 LATEST Review by Marian Marinescu Operating System Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11 User Rating Click to vote Author / Product Justin Chalfant / External Link Filename PatchMyPC-HomeUpdater.msi Patch My PC (Home Updater) is a free, easy-to-use, portable program that keeps over 300 common third-party applications up-to-date on your Desktop PC.Let us take the tedious work out of installing and keeping your apps up-to-date to and stay more secure!Patch My PC’s mission is to simplify how enterprises create, manage, update, and deploy third-party applications within System Center Configuration Manager.Patch My PC Updater is a portable application meaning that it doesn’t install on your Windows PC.HighlightsStay SecureHackers target vulnerabilities in outdated software to compromise your PC.Save TimeSave time by automating the installation and updating of over 300 applications!IT Pro OptionsPlenty of options for IT Pro’s to make their day to day jobs easier.PortableA portable app and less than 2MB.Quality TestingUpdates are tested thoroughly for detection, installation, and malware.Main Features Updates over 300 common apps check, including portable apps Ability to cache updates for use on multiple machines No bloatware during installations Applications install/update silently by default no install wizard needed Optionally, disable silent install to perform a manual custom install Easy to use user interface Installs 64-bit apps by default on 64-bit windows Optionally choose to install 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows Change updated and outdated apps color for color blindness Option to automatically kill programs before updating it Portable and only about 1.5MB Create a baseline of applications if installing on new PC’s Quickly uninstall multiple programs Scan time is usually less than 1 second Set updates to happen on a schedule Skip updates for any application you don’t want to update Suppresses restarts when performing application

There are a few companies I really like, Recast Software with their reports and right click tools, 2PintSoftware, leading the way with their peering and delivery optimization tools, and Patch My PC with their amazing patching service. I have a personal lab for testing ideas and staying current with technology. It consists of a HyperV host, several VM clients, and several physical clients. During OSD, I install several applications using a PowerShell script [Blog | GitHub] leveraging Ninite.com, but once installed, I needed another method to keep these devices patched (along with my family’s personal devices), that’s where Patch My PC Home Updater comes in!OverviewPlan: Use Patch My PC Home Updater to keep lab & personal devices updated.Solution: Deploy Patch My PC Home Updater to devices, configure, and create scheduled task using PowerShell Script. – Completely silent and hidden from userScript Sections:Download Patch MY PC Home Updater to deviceConfigure Device to Patch & Install any other Apps I wantCreate Scheduled Task to Run Home Updater weekly.Deployment Mechanism: Intune – Proactive Remediation – Logging to c:\programdata\intune\logsScriptsDetection Script [GitHub]: Looks for Patch My PC scheduled task, if not found, sets non-compliant (Exit 1)Remediation Script [GitHub]Downloads the Home Updater: Custom PatchMyPC.ini configuration fileCreates Scheduled TaskBreak down – Variables:This tells where the log goes, where to find the home updater, where to “install” the updater and the Scheduled Task Name.Break down – PatchMyPC.ini File: (small portion)This allows you to set any of the settings you want the tool to use. Feel free to manually create one of these with the tool itself, then copy your custom settings into this area. By Default, the updater will search your device and update anything it finds, however, you can also have it update (or install) anything that isn’t currently already installed by “uncommenting” the line. In this example, I uncomment VLC so that it will be installed and updated even if it isn’t on the machine.At the end of the script, it then builds the config file based on that information:Break down – Scheduled Task:Here it creates the Scheduled Task based on the Name in the Variable (PatchMyPC). It runs daily at 9:15PM, under the SYSTEM Context. It will only run if Network Connection present and will time out after 30 minutes. And that’s it. Once you’ve added it to your proactive remediations (or ConfigMgr Configuration Items), it will then do the rest for you.On the EndpointLog file:Scheduled Task:When Scheduled Task Runs:There you have it, a simple way to keep your apps in your Lab or Personal systems updated.I highly recommend having your IT group look into their enterprise solution for your work environment. They have a great offering and amazing support. I receive no funding or

So, PMPC-HU has completely deleted its most important, most useful, defining feature... the caching of the installers, such that we can download once, install/update many, using a USB stick, network share, etc. Saving heaps of data, time, money, carbon.This feature completely separated PMPC from every other application that offered software installing & updating!!!It's why it got well known, why it such a large userbase!!!But now it's deleted this advantage from the rest of the field.The reason to choose PMPC has almost disappeared.Especially when you look at how unusable the new dumbed-down version is too... NO CATEGORIES for 500+ Apps!!! Imagine if the Yellow Pages removed the categories! LOL FFS!So if PMPC doesn't have the feature we want, need, now we're left with the task of finding an alternative, and to move to that.Does anyone know of any free software that was equivalent to what PMPC-HU was? Hey @topbanana, we've seen your repeated posts about the missing offline caching feature in Home Updater. We understand it's frustrating. Our forum is focused on what Patch My PC currently offers and offering support for that, so if you're looking for alternatives that still provide caching, you'd likely get better input in broader IT communities. For new feature requests, you can request that on our UserVoice for Home Updater. We are already tracking your request for caching installers and having a portable version.Thanks for the feedback and your past support. We wish you luck finding the right tool for your needs.Edited for clarity on new feature request should go to our UserVoice Quote from: Justin (Patch My PC) on February 16, 2025, 08:29:11 AMHey topbanana, we've seen your repeated posts about the missing offline caching feature in Home Updater. We understand it's frustrating. Our forum is focused on what Patch My PC currently offers, so if you're looking for alternatives that still provide caching, you'd likely get better input in broader IT communities. Thanks for the feedback and your past support. We wish you luck finding the right tool for your needs.So you think i was the only user that used the caching feature?PatchMyPC was famous for having this caching feature!Users need the caching feature. And it should be turned on by default.By not having it, your new version is wasting our time, our data usage, our bandwidth, our money, wasting bandwidth on the internet, wasting bandwidth on the publisher's servers, and increasing the

Energy usage and carbon footprint.Are you informing me that PatchMyPC - Home Updater will never get this functionality back? Are we even allowed to post alternatives on this forum? If a moderator says it's ok, I have some suggestions while we wait for version 5 to add the simple lines of code to skip the file deletion step at the end of the install process. Quote from: xenon2000 on February 17, 2025, 09:21:56 AMAre we even allowed to post alternatives on this forum? If a moderator says it's ok, I have some suggestions while we wait for version 5 to add the simple lines of code to skip the file deletion step at the end of the install process. We haven't had any reassurance that they will give us back the one feature that led us to use their software in the first place...So if they're not going to, then it should be correct that we can assist each other to find other pieces of software that does offer the feature, that is no longer supported by PMPC. It would also be a good look if the employees of PMPC were to chime in and make suggestions... So "Sorry guys, we can't offer this functionality any more, but you might try option a, option b, or option c, as they do off the feature". This would earn a lot of respect.I'd like to know what suggestions you have that we may consider. I think it is more appropriate to talk about alternatives on Reddit or alternativeto dot net. I think this is an easy add specifically don't delete the file, we will be planning some features in our next sprint soon, and I'd recommend upvoting this feature to get notified as we make progress on this request: from: xenon2000 on February 17, 2025, 09:21:56 AMAre we even allowed to post alternatives on this forum? If a moderator says it's ok, I have some suggestions while we wait for version 5 to add the simple lines of code to skip the file deletion step at the end of the install process. Quote from: topbanana on February 17, 2025, 09:45:46 AMI'd like to know what suggestions you have that we may consider.No one that works there will give you suggestions...it's unrealistic to expect.I think they have received the message, so no further need to continue banging on them by posting the same

Add on toInnovative Solutions, "Advanced Uninstaller PRO". I presently don't use this program and I uninstalledit. Hopefully that will eliminate the NAG to buy it. Back to top"> Back to top #11 midimusicman79 midimusicman79 Sec & Web Browser Enthusiast BC Advisor 6,459 posts ONLINE Gender:Male Location:Norway Local time:07:39 PM Posted 30 May 2023 - 12:41 PM Thank you for the clarification, and Good luck, dryflycaster! And please, let us know how it goes! Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit V. 22H2 (19045) Retail Desktop PC, EAMH Paid/EEK, MB 5 Prem., and Unchecky, MDFW, FF with uBO/AG, Grammarly Free, MBBG, and Acronis True Image Essentials, RuckZuck, PatchMyPC, UpdateHub, UniGetUI, UCheck, and Winget. I have 29.5 Years of PC Experience. Back to top"> Back to top #12 dryflycaster dryflycaster Topic Starter Members 5 posts OFFLINE Local time:02:39 PM Posted 01 June 2023 - 07:54 AM It has now been a little over 48 hours since I uninstalled "Advanced Uninstaller Pro" and I have not received any further Daily Health Check popups, so I am considering this issue to be cleared and closed.Thank you to everyone that took the time to offer suggestions on how I might eliminate this problem. _bill Back to top"> Back to top #13 midimusicman79 midimusicman79 Sec & Web Browser Enthusiast BC Advisor 6,459 posts ONLINE Gender:Male Location:Norway Local time:07:39 PM Posted 01 June 2023 - 08:14 AM You are welcome, dryflycaster! Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit V. 22H2 (19045) Retail Desktop PC, EAMH Paid/EEK, MB 5 Prem., and Unchecky, MDFW, FF with uBO/AG, Grammarly Free, MBBG, and Acronis True Image Essentials, RuckZuck, PatchMyPC, UpdateHub, UniGetUI, UCheck, and Winget. I have 29.5 Years of PC Experience. Back to top"> Back to top