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Title: feature request
Post by: btech92 on August 15, 2015, 08:12:32 PM
is it possible to add an option which you use to enable/prevent updated applications from automaticly opening right after an update (e.g. skype and teamviewer)
they keep opening after they are updated, which is really anoying.
Title: Re: feature request
Post by: Support Team (Patch My PC) on August 16, 2015, 07:28:39 PM
This is something we have looked into a lot, but unfortunately unless their installer offers a switch for this there isn't much we can do.
Title: Re: feature request
Post by: btech92 on August 20, 2015, 06:03:30 PM
oh, that is too bad. :(

and it's not possible to emplement an "kill" command? like with when you enable the option  "Kill applications automaticly when updating them". but then at the end of the individual update?  with a few seconds or miliseconds of delay since they don't open right away :)
but even so, i think this would be too much work to do this for each app which does not support this by default. unless it's done for all apps in general.
Title: Re: feature request
Post by: diedjee on August 22, 2015, 10:12:42 AM
Might it be possible to send a signal to the Skype process?
(Of course only if Skype was not running/active before the upgrade)

I've included some interesting url pointers:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/813086/can-i-send-a-ctrl-c-sigint-to-an-application-on-windows

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683155(v=vs.85).aspx

http://serverfault.com/questions/151196/how-is-the-windows-kill-process-works
Title: Re: feature request
Post by: Omar (Patch My PC) on August 06, 2017, 08:16:56 AM
We now are using a switch for Skype to not launch after installing, And TeamViewer now doesn't run anymore after installing. So these 2 now doesn't launch after installing but others may do, As the main admin said "unless their installer offers a switch for this there isn't much we can do".
Title: Re: feature request
Post by: lezerogan on August 30, 2017, 08:55:17 AM
certainly not critical, but it will be nice if PatchMyPc program will remember its own 'last window position'