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Home Updater: General Support and Troubleshooting / Re: v5 not respecting the opti...
Last post by ashearera - September 11, 2026, 06:52:30 PMI'm not sure why this was marked as solved, 13 months later and there are still apps not respecting this setting. Just did Discord and Kindle tonight and they clogged up the desktop with icons.
#2
Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: .dll files
Last post by Michiel (Patch My PC) - September 11, 2026, 08:04:50 AM@Monty It looks like you enabled Smart App Control in your Windows Security app. For more information about this, please visit:
Smart App Control has blocked part of this app
To turn off Smart App Control:
Smart App Control has blocked part of this app
To turn off Smart App Control:
- Open Windows Security on your PC.
- Go to App & browser control.
- Click Smart app control settings and turn it off.
- Restart your computer.
#3
Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / .dll files
Last post by Monty - September 10, 2026, 05:14:19 PMI am having problems with various different programs, including Patch my PC Home Updater, O&O Shutup 10++, Winhance and Audacity not working/refusing to open. There are several others additional to these. They all used to work fine before this problem started a few months ago.
They bring up a notification from Windows security titled "Part of this app has been blocked." It then states that some features of the program may not work because we can't confirm who published the .dll file that the app tried to load. It is essentially the same message for each programme, it just mentions a different .dll file, but the extension is always .dll . For Patch my PC, the file is ModernHomeUpdater.Controls.dll .
So, what is a .dll file? How can I deal with this issue so that I can run the programmes again?
Thankyou for your help.
I hope I've posted this on the correct forum page.
They bring up a notification from Windows security titled "Part of this app has been blocked." It then states that some features of the program may not work because we can't confirm who published the .dll file that the app tried to load. It is essentially the same message for each programme, it just mentions a different .dll file, but the extension is always .dll . For Patch my PC, the file is ModernHomeUpdater.Controls.dll .
So, what is a .dll file? How can I deal with this issue so that I can run the programmes again?
Thankyou for your help.
I hope I've posted this on the correct forum page.
#4
Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Trouble downloading Archi ...
Last post by Spencer (Patch My PC) - September 08, 2026, 09:20:11 AMThis has since been resolved! Here is the new download redirect link that has been added to our catalog as of 9/8/26.
https://patchmypc.com/downloads/redirects/Archi-Win64-Setup.exe
https://patchmypc.com/downloads/redirects/Archi-Win64-Setup.exe
#5
Home Updater: General Support and Troubleshooting / we are sorry but there was an ...
Last post by WacoJohn - September 07, 2026, 06:26:06 AMSee attachments for screen shot and zip file.
#6
Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Trouble downloading Archi ...
Last post by Spencer (Patch My PC) - September 04, 2026, 10:28:43 AMIt looks like they use redirects which typically change every few months! We are adjusting the redirect in our catalog now which should resolve that issue momentarily!
Again, thanks for bring this to our attention and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Again, thanks for bring this to our attention and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
#7
Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Trouble downloading Archi ...
Last post by Spencer (Patch My PC) - September 04, 2026, 10:25:50 AMHello!
Thanks for bring this to our attention! I was able to confirm that the link is no longer working and have reached out to our app team so they can replace it with a known working link. If a working link cannot be found, then we may need to remove the product.
We'll keep you posted once I have more information from the app team!
Thanks for bring this to our attention! I was able to confirm that the link is no longer working and have reached out to our app team so they can replace it with a known working link. If a working link cannot be found, then we may need to remove the product.
We'll keep you posted once I have more information from the app team!
#8
Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Trouble downloading Archi upda...
Last post by KLUSA - September 04, 2026, 10:16:02 AMIs anyone else getting a similar error message when downloading the new Archi update?
An exception occurred WebClient reported an error during download (https://patchmypc.com/downloads/redirects/Archi-Win64-Setup.exe). Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found..
An exception occurred WebClient reported an error during download (https://patchmypc.com/downloads/redirects/Archi-Win64-Setup.exe). Exception: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found..
#9
Home Updater: General Support and Troubleshooting / Re: Value cannot be null.
Last post by RichardM333 - September 02, 2026, 05:15:09 AMWhen I was encountering the problem, my earlier Windows 10 64 Pro version was 1803 (OS Build 17134).
Patch My PC did not update some programs, and the list was growing.
My current feature update is Windows 10 64 Pro Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.7663) with all updates.
Patch My PC works fine with no problems.
Patch My PC did not update some programs, and the list was growing.
My current feature update is Windows 10 64 Pro Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.7663) with all updates.
Patch My PC works fine with no problems.
#10
Home Updater: General Support and Troubleshooting / Re: Problem with previewing a ...
Last post by dking02 - September 02, 2026, 12:02:31 AMOn Tuesday, 01-Sep-2026 @ approx. 2230 & 2300 Pacific time, I experienced an additional occurrences of the 'Fetching preview ...' problem - this time when drafting this and another reply. In these cases, the problem would occur when trying to display a preview of the draft and would not occur the next time I tried to display the preview of the very same draft (after having saved the text and reloaded the web page). Therefore, the occurence seems random and possibly related to other loading on the server or some other system issue, in addition to possible sensitivity to length of the message as mentioned earlier.
This situation is quite annoying. Please fix.
This situation is quite annoying. Please fix.