Patch My PC Ideas & Feedback
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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 sometimes wreck your setup - I would want to do those manually so I at least know I'm potentially going to have issues). I can go through and disable automatic updates for all of those applications of course, but then I can only disable the ones that are both currently installed and currently supported by PMPC. This makes me concerned that I will forget I had PMPC set to auto-update apps, and somewhere down the line it will start updating something I didn't want it to update.
The (easy?) fix for this: I'd like to change the behavior of PMPC so that rather than explicitly disabling the apps I don't want, I can go through and explicitly enable the apps I do want.
Note I'm not suggesting that the default out-of-the-box behavior be changed for PMPC, I just want the option to adjust its behavior in the settings.
Should PMPC not want the feature as requested by Jeremiah Wilterdink, how about adding a switch to the Home Updater's Settings under Technical Options: "Disable Auto-update for all newly added packages"? Then Jeremiah would one time need to run through all his apps installed and supported by the Home Updater and disable Auto-update for those where he wants no Auto-update, but he could be sure that new packages eventually added would not start auto-updating once added to the Home Updater catalog.
My reason why I want either solution to be implemented: I am a Chocolatey user and do not want to drop Chocolatey in favour of PMPC, primarily because Chocolatey supports many apps that I use which PMPC does not support. But I have eight apps which PMPC does auto-update which Chocolatey currently does not support. So, I want to use Chocolatey for the eight apps, silently, automatically, fire-and-forget. But the risk is that apps are newly added to PMPC Home Updater, which I do already patch through Chocolatey with no chance for me to notice this before it happens. Two patching systems patching the same software comes with quite some risk. It can leave inconsistencies in the Registry. It can cause the Uninstall not to function properly. It can even break the patching of that app.