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Home Updater: Add Support for ARM-Specific Application Installers in Home Updater
The Patch My PC Home Updater itself can now run on ARM-based devices, which is great progress. However, today it does not detect or update ARM-specific installers for applications that provide native ARM builds. This means updates may still instal...
Avoid modifying DisplayName to account for the application architecture
To avoid duplicate entries in ARP: Either add a value under the app in Uninstall (may be problematic) or do something like: HKLM\SOFTWARE\PatchMyPC\InstallersARCHAppGUID = <GUID>Architecture = <ARCH>
Home Updater: Disable creation of Patch My PC shortcut on update
The Patch My PC team misinterpreted https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-5151 I would like an option to have Patch My PC to not create a shortcut for itself when it itself updates. Currently wen the Patch My PC home updater updates, it pu...
Home Updater: re-scan each app right before download
Oftentimes when there are a bunch of applications to update, at least one of them autoupdates itself while other ones are being updated. In order to minimize downloads, I would find it helpful, if the home updater would re-scan each app it intends...
Extend 500 Character Limit for "Additional Argument"
We have an application that, to enable to the needed features, takes a bunch of arguments - the specific length of characters in this case is 886. We must fall back on utilizing the On-Prem publisher for this application.
Build a function to check which has the newest update version, the MSI or the EXE
For example, VLC Media Player, as I am aware, has its latest MSI update from November 2023, while the EXE version was updated in June 2024. It would be nice to have a recommendation on which installation type has the newer updates in the app deplo...
Home Updater: Retain Installation Path During Upgrade of Home Updater Itself
https://forum.patchmypc.com/index.php?msg=21623 Request to improve the MSI installer for Patch My PC Home Updater to retain the existing installation path during upgrades, rather than resetting or defaulting to the standard install directory (C:\P...
Increase the character limit for custom command lines in Patch My PC Cloud
The 250 max character limit for additional command line arguments in the cloud publisher is limiting. Please can this limit be lifted so customers can pass longer API/Auth tokens or MSI parameters (as an example).
Home Updater: Group Applications by Category in Home Updater (App Library Tab)
Summary Add an optional feature in the Home Updater settings that allows users to group applications by category in the App Library tab. Details Current State:Right now, users can filter apps by category, but all apps are still displayed in a sing...