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At this time Patch My PC can generally only support software that's "installable". In other words, come with an installer in form of .exe/.msi where the installer places the software in consistent and predictable locations on disk and registry data.
This idea is to add support for software which are non-installable (aka "portable " or "standalone") software / .exe's. This software can generally be placed anywhere on disk and launch simply by calling the .exe without an installation process.
Please comment below with software you know that requires this, e.g.
RDCMan by Sysinternals: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1483
Google Chrome Driver https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-2516
Microsoft Edge Driver Updates https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1734
For an initial implementation of PMPC deployed portable apps, I wouldn't mind it if shortcut creation had to be handled by the customer as a post script. I also wouldn't have any objection to only supporting portable apps for deployment, and saving the complexity of patching/updating for another feature request.
I'm assuming that some level of detection based on files would need to be complete first, via:
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1591
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-5728
Here are some additional examples of non-installable applications:
Eclipse IDE
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1631
Rufus
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-3796
Fiji
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1736
Apache Maven
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-5938
FFmpeg
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1355
we need this also for the sysinternals and nirsoft utilities!
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-3113
https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/sysinternals#files
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/m/Microsoft/Sysinternals/Suite/
just install/extract stuff to c:\pmpcportapps\* :) now more seriously maybe just add catalog support for zip/portable content and let users specify the install path aka copyto folder with a right click option and add file detection method somehow?
+1 on Chromedriver - we have users constantly complaining that their version of chromedriver is out of date and since we've got Chrome in PatchMyPC, its always the latest version
there are some must have like nearly all the sysinternals and nirsoft tools/apps comes to my mind but there are for sure lot’s of others
+1