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Home Updater Features

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Home Updater: Add Category and Web Page attributes to exported app list files

Please include "Category" and "Web Page" (URL) attributes in app list template files (Home-Updater-App-List-nnn-App.json) exported by Home Updater in addition to the existing attributes (Name, isPortable, isArm, Version, Vendor, IconURL). These tw...
dking02 about 2 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
9 VOTE

Home Updater: Show Apps Not Installed

You can select to show only those app installed i.e. My Apps, but it would be useful to see a list of those apps that you don't have installed.
David Ratcliffe over 1 year ago in Home Updater Features 2 SUBMITTED
7 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 over 1 year ago in Home Updater Features 1 SUBMITTED
9 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 almost 2 years ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
8 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 almost 2 years ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
4 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 year ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
19 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 6 years ago in Home Updater Features 2 SUBMITTED
2 VOTE

Make the portable edition truly portable

Tattooing the Task Scheduler with tasks in my opinion makes the portable edition not really portable. For me, a portable application does not write permanent configuration changes to the device it ran on.
Guest 8 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
1 VOTE

Setting: On close minimize to task bar not surviving on re-start of PMP home

I have to enable this setting every time I start PMP: "When clicking the close button, minimize to the system tray instead of closing." The setting always remains on -- a good thing.: Minimize to system tray instead of the taskbar
John Dove 4 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
1 VOTE

Hide minimized icon

When PMP is minimized or closed and the setting is set to Minimize to taskbar, a small black icon appears on the bottom left of the desktop, instead of just minimizing.
John Dove 4 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED