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Home Updater Features

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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...
Justin Chalfant about 5 hours ago in Home Updater Features 0 PLANNED
1 VOTE

Append computer name to end of Logs instead of prefix for Home Updater Portable

This was added/fixed in Nov 2024 for the MSI of version 5 to match the portable version 4, but now with the Portable version 5 it doesn't have the same feature as the MSI. See the original idea below. Portable Version 4 appends the computer name t...
Guest 1 day ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
2 VOTE

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...
Michael Ionescu 4 days ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
49 VOTE

Home Updater: Add Support Other Language?

It would be nice to have an interface with the most common European languages ​​like French, Italian, Spanish, German...
Guest 4 months ago in Home Updater Features 6 ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
19 VOTE

Home Updater: Clearer view of what's happening during updates

I just downloaded the new version, and while it's certainly much more visually appealing, it's much more difficult to see which apps are getting updated and where things are in that process than the old version. Some sort of details progress would...
Ben Frey 3 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
47 VOTE

Home Updater: "Enable Download Only Mode" in version 5

I saw there was a setting for each individual app, but I would like the ability to globally turn off auto install for all apps, like in version 4. I tried going to Settings and disabling "Silently install and update applications". When the m...
Justin Chalfant 10 months ago in Home Updater Features 0 CONSIDERING / BACKLOG
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 8 days ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
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 8 days 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 8 days ago in Home Updater Features 0 SUBMITTED
23 VOTE

Home Updater: Sorting apps + Download Size

You have to add a sorting for the applications in the library according to the category, with the addition of the (expand - hide) feature if you want to hide a category for easy searching. also please restore the download size of the applications.
Ahmad Hesham 10 months ago in Home Updater Features 1 SUBMITTED