Patch My PC

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2.5 2.5

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Average User Rating:

3.9 3.9

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Version:

4.0.0.2
Total Downloads:

43,788
Date Added:

Feb. 25, 2018
Price:

Free

File Size:

1.65MB
Downloads Last Week:

77
Platform:

Windows
Product ranking:

#47 in Operating Systems & Updates

Editors' Review

by Download.com staff / November 04, 2014

Patch My PC provides an all-in-one tool for keeping all of the programs on your system up-to-date. The program scans your system and immediately lets you know if urgent updates are needed for any of your software.

Pros

Convenient functionality: With this program, you can just devote a specific time to checking for and installing updates and then ensure that your normal work will no longer be interrupted with update messages.

Installing effective updates: In our tests, any of the programs we tried to update were successfully brought up-to-date.

Cons

Extremely cluttered interface: Information is displayed in an extremely cramped fashion, which is both overwhelming and difficult to read.

Disabled features: Not every feature in the program is enabled automatically. Some require that you download additional components, which is not mentioned in the original installation.

Bottom Line

If you're the type of person who often forgets about updates and lets many programs get out of date, this program might be your solution. It lets you manage updates in an effective and unified manner.

Publisher's Description

From Patch My PC: Features: - Updates over 300 common apps including portable - Ability to cache updates for use on multiple machines - No bloatware during installations - Applications install/update silently by default no install wizard needed - Optionally, disable silent install to perform a manual custom install - Easy to use user interface - Installs 64-bit apps by default on 64-bit windows - Optionally choose to install 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows - Change updated and outdated apps color for color blindness - Option to automatically kill programs before updating it - Portable and only about 1.5MB - Create a baseline of applications if installing on new PC's - Quickly uninstall multiple programs - Scan time is usually less than 1 second - Set updates to happen on a schedule - Skip updates for any application you don't want to update - Suppresses restarts when performing application updates.

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"Works great for patching and even installing common s/w"

shealy January 06, 2015 / Version: Patch My PC 2.6.0.7

2015-01-06 18:10:39 | By shealy

Pros

I found the program super simple and effective to use.

Cons

The Windows Update ran comparatively slow compared to the program update.

Summary

Try it! We loved it. Now we are going to check on the vendor's commercial update program.

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"Free & easy!"

January 03, 2015 / Version: Patch My PC 2.6.0.7

2015-01-03 21:12:17

Pros

Found updates and installed easily.

Cons

Only updates a select group of more popular programs.

Summary

Disregard reviewer who said had to purchase, I think that was for another program by his description.

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"not a free program"

sean.littler.3 December 25, 2014 / Version: Patch My PC 2.6.0.7

2014-12-25 09:07:15 | By sean.littler.3

Pros

There are no pros

Cons

Claims there is 758 errors on my pc uses scare tactics to get people to buy this program.

Summary

If there was 758 errors on my pc it would not function at all.

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"Fast, efficient, super-lightweight update application."

Random007 March 28, 2013 / Version: Patch My PC 2.3.0.2

2013-03-28 23:16:41 | By Random007

Pros

No install. Works well. Supports the usual suspects of software found on most PCs. Ad-free freeware. Install on a network share and run on any computer on a LAN.

Cons

In a muti-user environment, the same updates will have to be downloaded again and again - no getting around that without a caching proxy. The list of 'other' software is a bit arbitrary.

Summary

Wile it can't support every program ever written, it does deal with the most common ones. Quiet, fast and effective: highly recommended. (While the authors should not have written reviews or replied to the more deranged comments here, that doesn't detract from the excellent functionality of the program.)

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"I have Firefox v.12, but it reports that I have v.10."

changboh7 May 26, 2012 / Version: Patch My PC 2.1.1.6

2012-05-26 15:11:07 | By changboh7

Pros

Fast automatic patching.

Cons

Reports wrong version(v.10) of Firefox when you already have correct version (v.12)

Summary

Manual intervention needed to correct wrong reporting.
Otherwise an excellent automatic software patcher.

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"Great Utility"

Moshbmx February 18, 2012 / Version: Patch My PC 2.0.8.1

2012-02-18 08:17:17 | By Moshbmx

Pros

Very useful for updating a existing PC and installing common software after a fresh install! It's portable

Cons

Could add more supported languages.

Summary

Great Tool will use from now on

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"Easy to use"

marie41792 February 18, 2012 / Version: Patch My PC 2.0.8.1

2012-02-18 08:13:06 | By marie41792

Pros

Updated all programs it detected easy to use

Cons

I didn't notice anything

Summary

Useful Program!

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"Does not do a complete job."

wmanning February 15, 2012 / Version: Patch My PC 2.0.8.1

2012-02-15 07:47:10 | By wmanning

Pros

Appears to be "very" easy to use

Cons

Does not seem to update all the software it finds - it wouldn't even update itself when I started it

Summary

I would not recommend this product

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"Good idea but runs like an early Beta - lots of bugs"

Lyzonlightheart January 23, 2012 / Version: Patch My PC 2.0.7.5

2012-01-23 15:29:14 | By Lyzonlightheart

Pros

This program is a very good idea for updating many software utilities and windows updates within one utility program. PatchMyPC catches a lot of program updates overlooked by another good program, FreeApps. The initial start-up and search engine of PatchMyPC is good, for the interface shows what programs need updating, and what the newest version is of each specific program.

Cons

1. The main user interface is lacking adequate status information about what step PatchMyPC is at or currently performing.

2. There is often no information listed in the status area about which program is currently being reviewed or updated.

3. Checking or unchecking boxes in the options section sometimes results in unhandled errors, causing PatchMyPC to go into a crashed or semi-crashed state.

Summary

I think this is a good program for those folks who are technically savy, for you may have to fix some errors caused by this program or program updates that don't work.

My over all recommendation is to wait about 3 to 6 months from the date of this post before trying PatchMyPC on your computer. Once the bugs are resolved, this will be a great utility program anyone could use who is running a Windows based computer to help keep their software up to date.

Updated on Jan 23, 2012

Also, please note that 3 of the reviews were written by PatchMyPC. The developers of this software may be trying artificially boost the review results. If this is actually the case, I would stay completely away from this product because the developer has no integrity.

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"usefull software for update some programs"

capitanflorius June 28, 2011 / Version: Patch My PC 1.1.4

2011-06-28 10:13:59 | By capitanflorius

Pros

Portable, completly free, vork well
It can make window update also and other things

Cons

It is limited in software hat we can have.

Summary

Therefore this software is usefull for many users

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What's new in version 4.0.0.2
Design Changes Added a jump menu to jump to any of the application groups Added ability to change updated and outdated app color for color blindness Added context menu for each applications checkbox that contains options to: Disable auto updating of app Enable auto updating of app Uninstall app Add as auto-install Remove from auto-install Open description website for app Added icon to the Re-Scan Installs Apps button App groupings can now be collapsed and expanded. Each application checkbox now contains an icon of the application Improved icons throughout each panel Improved the options menu Improved the scheduler menu Left navigation buttons More modern UI New app groups "File Archivers" which includes archivers apps moved from the "Utilities" group. "Hardware Tools" which includes hardware utilities moved from the "Utilities" group. "Documents" which includes document related apps moved from the "Media Tools" group. Release Notes link is now in "About" tab. Uninstaller columns will now auto resize with form Improvements: Improved logging Improved the download speed from some application by adding a "UserAgent" string in the download request Information icon will appear when there are apps checked to be updated. This will show you what apps will be installed. Major improvements for the search bar Many other improvements and fixes When choosing to cancel updates... we will immediately cancel the download. You can now change the log folder in the settings Added support for DavMail (x64) Removed "Malwarebytes Junkware Removal Tool" (Portable). Fixes: Fixed an issue where Patch My PC would get hung in the background when running under SYSTEM context for the scheduled task Many other bug fixes New Applications Added Advanced Uninstaller PRO AeroAdmin (Portable) AnyDesk AnyDesk (Portable) Atom (GitHub Text editor) Auslogics Disk Defrag Bitdefender Anti-Ransomware Bitdefender USB Immunizer (Portable) BitTorrent BleachBit Chrome Cleanup Tool (Portable) CutePDF Writer Everything (x86) & (x64) Freeplane GitHub Desktop ImageGlass Java SE Development Kit (JDK) v8 Java SE Development Kit (JDK) v9 Lightworks (x86) & (x64) Mailbird Microsoft .Net Framework Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 - 2017 Microsoft Visual Studio Code (x86) & (x64) MusicBrainz Picard OBS Studio PDFCreator SABnzbd ShareX SpeedCrunch VNC Server VNC Veiwer Winaero Tweaker Windscribe Zotero

What's new in version 4.0.0.2

Design Changes Added a jump menu to jump to any of the application groups Added ability to change updated and outdated app color for color blindness Added context menu for each applications checkbox that contains options to: Disable auto updating of app Enable auto updating of app Uninstall app Add as auto-install Remove from auto-install Open description website for app Added icon to the Re-Scan Installs Apps button App groupings can now be collapsed and expanded. Each application checkbox now contains an icon of the application Improved icons throughout each panel Improved the options menu Improved the scheduler menu Left navigation buttons More modern UI New app groups "File Archivers" which includes archivers apps moved from the "Utilities" group. "Hardware Tools" which includes hardware utilities moved from the "Utilities" group. "Documents" which includes document related apps moved from the "Media Tools" group. Release Notes link is now in "About" tab. Uninstaller columns will now auto resize with form Improvements: Improved logging Improved the download speed from some application by adding a "UserAgent" string in the download request Information icon will appear when there are apps checked to be updated. This will show you what apps will be installed. Major improvements for the search bar Many other improvements and fixes When choosing to cancel updates... we will immediately cancel the download. You can now change the log folder in the settings Added support for DavMail (x64) Removed "Malwarebytes Junkware Removal Tool" (Portable). Fixes: Fixed an issue where Patch My PC would get hung in the background when running under SYSTEM context for the scheduled task Many other bug fixes New Applications Added Advanced Uninstaller PRO AeroAdmin (Portable) AnyDesk AnyDesk (Portable) Atom (GitHub Text editor) Auslogics Disk Defrag Bitdefender Anti-Ransomware Bitdefender USB Immunizer (Portable) BitTorrent BleachBit Chrome Cleanup Tool (Portable) CutePDF Writer Everything (x86) & (x64) Freeplane GitHub Desktop ImageGlass Java SE Development Kit (JDK) v8 Java SE Development Kit (JDK) v9 Lightworks (x86) & (x64) Mailbird Microsoft .Net Framework Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 - 2017 Microsoft Visual Studio Code (x86) & (x64) MusicBrainz Picard OBS Studio PDFCreator SABnzbd ShareX SpeedCrunch VNC Server VNC Veiwer Winaero Tweaker Windscribe Zotero

General
Publisher	Patch My PC
Publisher web site	http://www.patchmypc.net
Release Date	July 10, 2015
Date Added	February 25, 2018
Version	4.0.0.2

Category
Category	Utilities & Operating Systems
Subcategory	Operating Systems & Updates

Operating Systems
Operating Systems	Windows Vista/Server 2008/7/8/10
Additional Requirements	Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Download Information
File Size	1.65MB
File Name	PatchMyPC.exe

Popularity
Total Downloads	43,788
Downloads Last Week	77

Pricing
License Model	Free
Limitations	Not available
Price	Free

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