The Vivaldi browser missing publisher name in free Patch My PC - Home Updater

[midimusicman79]

Hello.

As a home user on Windows 10, I use the free Patch My PC - Home Updater, which usually works well. Still, recently, upon installing the new version 5.0.5.0, the Vivaldi browser is missing its publisher name in the List View, while all my other software is OK.

However, it is worth noting that I also use the Vivaldi Portable browser, but just for the record, I chose to NOT detect it in the free Patch My PC - Home Updater, so it should NOT affect this.

Could you please fix this issue?

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards,
midimusicman79

[Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)]

Hello.

As a home user on Windows 10, I use the free Patch My PC - Home Updater, which usually works well. Still, recently, upon installing the new version 5.0.5.0, the Vivaldi browser is missing its publisher name in the List View, while all my other software is OK.

However, it is worth noting that I also use the Vivaldi Portable browser, but just for the record, I chose to NOT detect it in the free Patch My PC - Home Updater, so it should NOT affect this.

Could you please fix this issue?

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards,
midimusicman79

Thanks for reporting we are looking into this.

[midimusicman79]

You are welcome!

[dking02]

Actually there are 49 non-portable apps which are missing their Publisher/Vendor name. Additionally, all 99 portable apps in the Apps Library are missing this data.

See the following attachment (.pdf) for the full list of the currently affected apps:
Home Updater Apps Missing Vendor Data.pdf 

[Omar (Patch My PC)]

Actually there are 49 non-portable apps which are missing their Publisher/Vendor name. Additionally, all 99 portable apps in the Apps Library are missing this data.

See the following attachment (.pdf) for the full list of the currently affected apps:
Home Updater Apps Missing Vendor Data.pdf 

This was done on purpose since the vendors of these app they either changing their Publisher name with every few releases, or they don't have a Publisher name at all, and we have to leave it empty in any way so the apps can actually get detected.

[Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)]

We will take a change request here, we think we can handle this better to always show Vendor in the UI.

[Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC)]

You can track this idea and process by voting up https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-6121