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#91

Home Updater: General Support and Troubleshooting / NirLauncher is downloading as ...

Last post by Dan Gough (Patch My PC) - October 03, 2025, 10:13:09 AM

(Reported via Discord) NirLauncher is downloading as a zip file and is unable to launch:

[Mozilla Thunderbird ESR]

#92

Home Updater: General Discussions, Questions and Updates / Re: Thunderbird esr version se...

Last post by Omar (Patch My PC) - October 03, 2025, 06:21:38 AM

I use Thunderbird 140.1.0 in the "esr" version (Extended Support Release). This version is maintained with security updates, but does not receive new features as often as the "normal" version. This version is therefore recommended for use in companies.

The current PatchMyPC Home Updater (V. 5.2.3.0) criticizes the version status and claims that my actual version 140.1.0 is currently outdated. PMP recommends version 141.0. However, there is currently no version 141.0 esr available.
PathMyPC does not seem to be aware of the difference between the two Thunderbird versions ("esr" and "normal").

Mozilla Thunderbird ESR is added in the home updater now Mozilla finally fixed the name in v140.3.1

#93

Home Updater: Report Bugs and Issues Not Related to Installing Apps / Re: Updating Brave wipes Sync ...

Last post by Samour - October 03, 2025, 04:53:38 AM

It is much better now with version 5. Sync profile is no longer disappearing but there are a few issues:

• Update detected when there isn't one (likely a beta version being detected)
• Updating doesn't actually update the version
• Update messes with some preferences (e.g. bookmarks bar becomes hidden)

None of these issue occur when using Brave's native updater

#94

Home Updater: General Support and Troubleshooting / Nirlauncher is not installing ...

Last post by FlameBlitz - October 03, 2025, 03:31:08 AM

Nirlauncher is being downloaded as a zip, and when i try to open the zip, it says it's in unknown format or damaged. It's password-protected too, maybe that's the reason it's getting damaged when installing with home updater?.

https://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/index.html

#95

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Microsoft OLE DB 18.7.5 cm...

Last post by Dan Gough (Patch My PC) - October 03, 2025, 02:20:04 AM

Assuming you are looking at the English x64 variant here, you can try adding the following script to uninstall any previous versions before updating:

https://patchmypc.com/scupcatalog/downloads/scripts/Uninstall-Software.ps1

Script arguments:

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-DisplayName \"Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server\" -VersionGreaterThan 18 -VersionLessThan 19 -Architecture x64 -HivesToSearch HKLM -WindowsInstaller 1 -AdditionalMSIArguments IACCEPTMSOLEDBSQLLICENSETERMS=YES -UninstallAll
If that makes an improvement for you we'll consider adding it to the catalog - however this update has been out since May and nobody else has reported it so far. Then again only a handful of customers reported the similar issue with the ODBC package that we could no reproduce either, so we haven't yet got to the bottom of this!

#96

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Advanced Insights - Dual B...

Last post by tomholland - October 02, 2025, 10:32:28 PM

I've run into a similar issue on a couple of rugged laptops with dual batteries, and it looks like only one was being surfaced in Insights as well. Good to know the WMI provider is actually enumerating both, even if it's not showing in the UI yet.

slope

#97

Home Updater: Report Detection Issues or Installation Issues / Windows PC Health Check

Last post by dennisk - October 02, 2025, 02:51:41 PM

I just upgraded my wife's Win 10 Home laptop to the latest version of Patch My PC Home (5.3.1). I installed it and ran it. It told me that Windows PC Health Check needed to be updated, so I let it rip. It installed a 2nd copy of Windows PC Health Check under AppData/Local/PCHealthCheck in stead of overlaying the earlier version. Was this intentional?

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

Thanks,

Dennis

[New Features]

#98

Home Updater: General Discussions, Questions and Updates / 5.3.1.0 (02-October-2025)

Last post by Justin Chalfant (Patch My PC) - October 02, 2025, 08:13:13 AM

https://patchmypc.com/release-notes/production-release/home-updater-releases/#h-5-3-1-0-02-october-2025

This release introduces several major enhancements including new language support, ARM architecture compatibility for applications, and improvements to scheduled tasks and diagnostics.

New Features

Added UI localizations: Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Italian (Machine-translated).
Added support for ARM-based app versions.
Added support for cancelling a single running update/install operation in the app catalog.
Added ability to customize color for status labels.
Added 'Open install location' context menu option in the My Apps tab.

Improvements

Updated the setting Prefix the log file name with the hostname of this computer with an option to append the machine name at the start.
Updated the Check and Notify scheduled task to exclude apps with auto-update or auto-scan disabled from notification count.
Improved portable apps extractor to support self-contained archives bundled within .exe files.
Updated recommended configuration for the Update Apps scheduled task.
Enhanced diagnostic ZIP export to include scheduled task details.

Fixes

Fixed an issue when creating a restore point during app updates.
Fixed an issue when cancelling the updater with at least one portable app in the update queue.

#99

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: Microsoft OLE DB 18.7.5 cm...

Last post by L.A - October 01, 2025, 11:50:48 PM

Hi - we had the same issue reported by a handful of customers for ODBC several months ago, but we were unable to reproduce it. We resolved it there by using a pre-install script to remove the previous version with IACCEPTMSODBCSQLLICENSETERMS=YES before we install the new version.

I'm unable to reproduce it here either with OLE DB (whether or not I installed the previous version with ADDLOCAL=ALL), but we could potentially resolve the issue with a script in a similar way.

Could you tell us which OS version and language you're running please, just in case that has an impact?

Hi!

Thanks for getting back. Ye its a very strange problem, as the offical text from MS suggest that the cmdline should be this, as you do it .

We are using Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 23H2, Swedish language, i've also been trying it on my own PC which is eng with swedish pack installed ontop of it.

#100

Commercial/Paid Products: Support and General Questions (ConfigMgr and Intune) / Re: How will Intune Updates wo...

Last post by Chris (Patch My PC) - October 01, 2025, 04:00:39 PM

Hello,
You will want to use the "Update Only" assignment in addition to your available or required assignment.
https://docs.patchmypc.com/patch-my-pc-cloud/cloud-deployments/deploy-an-app-using-cloud/cloud-assignments-deployment-tab

This will create the same package that would be created via the publisher under the "Intune Updates" tab.

Hope this helps!