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Home Updater Features

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8 VOTE

Home Updater: Option to disable auto-update by default

I'd like to get PatchMyPC set to run automatically and update my apps on a schedule. However, I have a number of apps that I don't want it to update as I'm concerned it will cause issues with those apps (for example, I have heard OBS updates can s...
Jeremiah Wilterdink 11 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: download updates in background

I have silent update turned off for most apps. I have to wait for update to download, go through update process with one app, then wait for next app to download before it starts to update. why not have apps downloading in background, so they may b...
astro46 about 1 month ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: force app update windows to over pmp window

some app update process windows (when silent install is disabled) (in one case: Irfanview) appear under the patch my pc window. there is no way to know they are they, and the app sits forever in "updating" mode because it can't continue process. A...
astro46 about 1 month ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
3 VOTE

Home Updater: Remove App Library Listed App

There are a few apps listed that I would never want to even mistakenly install, a nice option would be just to hide the availability of user selected apps on the App Library list.
Guest 5 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
6 VOTE

Home Updater: Subfolders in Portable Apps folders should be scanned also.

I just found out that when I select 'portable applications' my subfolders are not visible. To keep a somewhat larger collection of portable apps organized it is really necessary to group them into categories (and even subcategories). This seems li...
Guest 11 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
2 VOTE

Home Updater: Option to Restart application after updating

Please add an option to auto start (restart) an application after updating. For example, after updating qBittorrent, start the application again automatically.
Shawn Larkin Larkin 5 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SUBMITTED
4 VOTE

Home Updater: Support Applying Windows Updates

Feedback from a webinar for a user interested in Home Updater being able to apply Windows Updates in addition to the third-party apps.
Justin Chalfant 11 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
13 VOTE

Home Updater: Allow beta version for specified apps.

Some apps have important new features in their betas.Some apps are no longer being developed, but the last release happened to be a beta (e.g. Winamp 5.8 beta)Some apps are developed really, really slowly (e.g. Teracopy)Some apps just remain in pe...
Top Banana over 5 years ago in Home Updater Features 2 SUBMITTED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: Small version changes

Right now, there are only two version groups, "Outdated" (red) and "Up to date" (green). Would it be possible to distinguish between significant version differences (red) and very minor differences (yellow/orange)? For example: 4.7.1023 vs 5.0.0 o...
Guest 6 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: Another commandline option to open PMPC GUI with custom settings off

For example, scheduled task updating only works if "When opening PMPC, automatically start updating outdated apps" is enabled. I think a different toggle here would be helpful, mostly because I don't want apps to start updating just because I open...
Guest 11 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED