That’s because it’s initially working in the background scanning and assessing your software. It will take a little while, just 5 seconds or so, for Patch My PC’s main interface to show up. Simply double-click the downloaded executable to run: Click image for full size Patch My PC – Download & Usageĭownload is a mere 1.7 MB single executable which scans 100% clean through Virus Total and locally through both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and Zemana AntiMalware. There are several programs available that will check your software for updates, and some which will even proceed to download and automatically install those updates for you, but I have never come across one of these types of programs as effective and configurable as Patch My PC – but wait, there’s more – Patch My PC is also free, PORTABLE, and very small in size. This is particularly true of the more popular and widely-used programs, which represent a potentially lucrative target base for attackers.Ī lot of programs already include their own automatic or manual updater but you might be surprised at just how many don’t, and even in cases when an updater is built-in, they can often be unreliable. That’s why it’s important to always apply security patches as soon as possible, in other words… keep your software up-to-date. Despite the best efforts of software developers, some programs can (and do) include vulnerabilities which can potentially be exploited by cyber-criminals. I've long through someone could do well to use Chocolatey as the source of truth for a ConfigMgr metadata stream.One of the common factors invariably included in advice from security experts is to always keep software up-to-date, and there is a very good reason for that.
Chocolatey is the closest thing I know of but it's ConfigMgr integration isn't free/great.
There's some crowd-sourced community efforts ( CMPackager, RuckZuck, Chocolatey) out there that have been mentioned here but none of them have any kind of critical mass to support 100s of apps. To say nothing of the initial app install which in many cases require some amount of customization/configuration. Further complicating matters is that not every org is going to want apps packaged with the same options. It's populating that stream with app data that is a tireless, never ending, grind that takes a high level of skill to do right. The cold-hard reality is that delivering a stream of 3rd party update metadata isn't that hard. Yea, there's no real 'free' alternative here.
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