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#1

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Registry access problem wi...

Last post by latimers - Today at 03:32:05 PM

Still haven't found a solution to this.  Which is a shame because I found PMP really useful.

[VS Code]

#2

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / User level installations of Vi...

Last post by dking02 - Today at 01:35:40 PM

VS Code provides both user and system level setups, with user setup being the preferred installation on Windows according to Microsoft. When Home Updater detects that a user level installation of VS Code is outdated, Home Updater downloads the system installer for the update and installs a machine-wide setup of the new version of Visual Studio Code, resulting in configuration of both machine-wide and user level installations on the machine. The existing but outdated user level installation is left in place, but Home Updater does not detect its presence on subsequent rescans even though there is a separate uninstall entry for it in the registry. Home Updater will simply display that Visual Studio Code is now up to date. Conversely, if the user subsequently manually updates the user installation to a version ahead of the system level installation, Home Updater detects the user level installation as the latest version and leaves the older system installation in place. In either case, Home Updater is unable to detect the presence of the older installation if a newer installation of the other type is installed.

This behavior and implications thereof should be documented and a user prompt issued before starting the installer. If Home Updater could detect dual system-user installations (as UCheck does), the user could be prompted to manually update the older installation from VS Code's built-in "Check for Updates" option. Alternatively, since a system level installer is always downloaded for an update, the user could be prompted to remove the user installation.

PowerToys is another supported app which provides separate machine-wide and user level installers.

References:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/windows
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

#3

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Windows 11 is removing patchmy...

Last post by Computer_Commando - Today at 10:21:23 AM

Since yesterday (5-14-25), the icon disappeared from the desktop on 3 different computers.  It occurs shortly after startup.  I can recreate the shortcut, but what is deleting it?

I turned on a 4th computer & it's not gone, yet.
Here's one way it gets deleted:  Launch Patch MyPC Home Updater-->About-->Check for Updates.
If it finds an update & installs it, the desktop icon is deleted.  Then you have to manually create it.

I think this is another way it occurs...
When updates are checked & nothing new is found, the shortcut is deleted unless you have manually created the shortcut, then it does not get deleted.

#4

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: portable version of new ap...

Last post by egaudill - May 14, 2025, 03:47:34 PM

Thank you very much

#5

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Window Size and Position

Last post by OldNavyGuy - May 14, 2025, 10:10:18 AM

Does nothing in version 5.

Works on the new portable version.

Windows 10 22H2.

[6 years ago]

#6

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: Help! Windows 8.1 suddenly...

Last post by OldNavyGuy - May 14, 2025, 09:57:20 AM

Hello. First time posting here but I would really appreciate any help with this problem. So first the laptop I am having problems with is a Lenovo y50 that came with windows 8.1 pre-installed. Recently I have been having problems opening the pc setting app as it would immediately crash. This was not a big deal to me since I could still access settings from the control panel. However the bigger problem comes in that now I have an activation issue.

So all of a sudden my laptop, which has been running windows 8.1 for a few years now, says that windows is not activated and that I should go activate it. It shows the windows 8.1 build 9600 watermark on the right hand side. I cannot personalize anything and on the pc info it says windows is not activated even though it was for the past few years.

I went to cmd prompt to find the product key and even used a third party key finding software to find the value. But when I went to input the product key, Microsoft kept saying it it's not right.

I was worried this might mean I have a virus on the computer but I did a malware bytes scan and it found nothing. And I did a disk check scan and repair just the night before. I currently use this laptop mainly for playing games and browsing the internet, both which still works. I really don't want to do a clean restart on my laptop since I have a lot of files on here from over the years. However I am concerned that not activating windows will cause future problems. I would be grateful to anyone who could offer some help because this is really bugging me. Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I did a sfc/scan and a dism scan thanks to Fjeuber for recommending this but I got the fact that there r some corrupt files from the sfc scan. So I did a dism / online/ cleanup-image /rstore health, and I get error 0x800f081f. Not sure how to proceed from here.

This was posted on reddit 6 years ago...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/c5mgnk/help_windows_81_suddenly_needs_activation_again/

#7

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Window Size and Position

Last post by rjmolloy - May 14, 2025, 09:52:54 AM

Does nothing in version 5.

#8

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: portable version of new ap...

Last post by Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC) - May 14, 2025, 09:18:15 AM

The portable version is now available for download. You can find the link in the comments for this feature request: https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-5114

#9

Home Updater: General Discussions and Questions / Re: Help! Windows 8.1 suddenly...

Last post by barkerxavierr - May 13, 2025, 07:04:26 PM

I can't find any new updates

Sprunki Retake

#10

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / Re: RUSTDESK

Last post by Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC) - May 13, 2025, 07:39:15 AM

Can't update RustDesk without PatchMyPc app hanging stuck on stupid. Dude like this used to work! WTF!

Could you please attached the log file from: "C:\ProgramData\PatchMyPC\PatchMyPCHomeUpdater.log"