Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Free tool to keep up with the everlasting patch cycles (for home users)

We have seen non-stop release of Adobe Patches . Now, we have Microsoft and Oracle releasing patches.


How do we keep up with them.

I use a free software called "PatchMyPC.exe" .
The good news is that this is a stand-alone EXE and it does a decent job.

This tool allows software that can be exempted from Patching.

I normally exclude Chrome, Firefox and Malwarebytes (as they can be updated from within the App).

It is not a perfect solution but it can list a range of products for which patch is available and will patch them for you.

One downside is that it sometimes downloads the entire package and re-installs (instead of just the updates)


I generally run this every alternate day just to know, what tools have new updates/patches


Give it a shot.




You can get it from:
https://patchmypc.net/download

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