Outdated software often contains security vulnerabilities, bugs, and other issues that are often fixed in the latest version. These are some of the reasons why it is essential to keep your Windows applications up to date and there is software that can do it for you.
In case you haven’t heard of it yet, we’re talking about Patch My PC, a program that should be essential on your PC to keep everything up to date with the minimum of effort.
All Windows updated with Patch My PC
Patch My PC is a practical, free and portable program with which we can keep more than 300 types of third-party applications on our computer updated and have essential programs such as Adobe Reader, Chrome or Firefox, Java or QuickTime always up to date.
The advantage of using this program is that it simplifies the way we manage and update the third-party applications that we have installed on our computer, making it the most comfortable way to eliminate applications that we don’t need and always keep the ones that we need updated.
The program will check if we have the latest version of all supported programs , updating them automatically if necessary. In addition, it includes a series of additional tools to have everything related to the management and administration of installed programs in a single place, so that we can also check if Windows updates are available through its Update service, uninstall programs or modify the that are executed when starting our operating system.
Simple use and no installation required
Patch My PC is a simple and very easy-to-use tool that doesn’t even require installation and occupies a minimal amount of disk space (about 1.5 MB) , so we can take it anywhere and use it on any computer No problem.
The operation is simple, having to scan your PC to detect obsolete programs . These outdated programs will be shown in red, updated programs will be shown in green, and uninstalled programs will be shown in black. Indeed, with a couple of clicks you can directly download and install any other program that Patch My PC is compatible with. These are all additional features of Patch My PC Updater:
- Updates to over 300 common verified apps, including portable apps.
- Ability to cache updates for use on multiple machines.
- No bloatware during installations.
- Apps are installed/updated silently by default, no installation wizard is needed.
- Optionally, disable silent installation to perform a manual custom installation.
- Easy to use user interface.
- Install 64-bit apps by default on 64-bit Windows.
- Optionally choose to install 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows.
- Change the color of updated and outdated apps for people with color blindness.
- Option to automatically kill program processes before updating them.
- Portable and weighs only about 1.5 MB.
- Quickly uninstall various programs.
- The scan time is usually less than 1 second.
- Set update times so that they happen at a certain time and that it does not bother when we are actively using the computer.
- Skip updates for any apps you don’t want to update.
- Suppress reboots when performing app updates.