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Home Updater Features

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7 VOTE

Home Updater: Create application templates to export and import selected apps for installation

This feature existed in the older v4 version of Patch My PC Home Updater, and it would be great to bring it back. The idea is to allow users to select a set of apps they always want to install, export that list to a JSON or similar format, and the...
Justin Chalfant 7 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SHIPPED
6 VOTE

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...
John Walter 7 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SHIPPED
4 VOTE

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...
Justin Chalfant 6 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SHIPPED
4 VOTE

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...
Justin Chalfant 6 months ago in Home Updater Features 4 SHIPPED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: disable silent update universally in settings

have an option to disable 'silent update' universally, in settings. why force people to go through every app to turn it off? It could then be turned on in individual apps when desired. edit: never mind. I see that this is already an option. someon...
astro46 about 2 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SHIPPED
3 VOTE

Home Updater: Append computer name to end of Logs instead of prefix

Version 4 appends the computer name to the end of the log files. Which keeps all the logs together when viewing files in alphabetical order. But now installed MSI Version 5 puts the computer name at the beginning of the log file name so now logs f...
Guest 12 months ago in Home Updater Features 2 SHIPPED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: Outdated Apps Notification

If the scheduled updates feature is disabled, a notification would notify the user that there are outdated apps, which would serve as a prompt to launch PMPC and select which apps to update. Methods: Pop-up notifications An indicator on the taskba...
David Milligan 5 months ago in Home Updater Features 3 SHIPPED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: Add a Startup Manager (Startup Apps, Scheduled Tasks, Services, etc.)

Description: We are considering adding a Startup Manager feature to Patch My PC Home Updater and would love your feedback! The idea would be to give you an easy way to see and control what runs automatically when your PC starts.This could include:...
Justin Chalfant 6 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SHIPPED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: Some Apps Don’t Show Publisher Name in Home Updater

We’d like to improve the Home Updater so that all apps show a Publisher (vendor) name in the UI, even if it's not used for detection. Right now, some apps don’t show a publisher at all, which can be confusing. This mostly happens with portable app...
Justin Chalfant 6 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SHIPPED
1 VOTE

Home Updater: Improve Screen Reader for Buttons and Labels Support in v5

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to bring to your attention an accessibility issue that has arisen with the recent update of Patch My PC Updater. As a user who relies on the NVDA screen reader for navigating applications on Windows...
Justin Chalfant 8 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SHIPPED