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There are plenty of tools around to check your PC for missing updates, but most have significant issues. Soft4Boost Update Checker is good at detecting updates, for instance, but it won\u2019t download or install them \u2013 that\u2019s left up to you.<\/p>\n
OUTDATEfighter<\/a>\u00a0(from the makers of SPAMfighter) is a little more ambitious. Not only will it find updates, but it can also download and install them for you. There\u2019s a Windows update checker as well. And the program is free, so there are no annoying omissions and you\u2019re not forever being nagged to \u201cupgrade\u201d.<\/p>\n Getting started is simple enough: launch the program, click \u201cScan for Program Updates\u201d and it\u2019ll examine your installed applications, compare their installed versions against a central list, and produce a report listing available updates.<\/p>\n Installing all these updates is as easy as checking the Name box, and clicking \u201cUpdate Selected Software\u201d. OUTDATEfighter then downloads the various files and launches them for you. These won\u2019t be silent installations — you\u2019ll have to work through each setup program, just as normal \u2013 but overall you should still save plenty of time.<\/p>\n If you want more control over your updates, it\u2019s also possible to select particular files from the list. And if OUTDATEfighter can\u2019t download an installer itself, or you need to keep the file to use elsewhere, then the program also provides a direct link to the official download page (click the \u201cInformation\u201d icon, and click \u201cLink\u201d).<\/p>\n Elsewhere, an Uninstall tab lists your installed applications and can launch their uninstaller with a click.<\/p>\n An \u201cUpdate Windows\u201d tab seems to be an equivalent to the regular Windows Update tool, listing \u201cImportant\u201d and \u201cOptional\u201d updates and installing whatever you select.<\/p>\n And there are a few useful configuration options, including an \u201cIgnore List\u201d which tells OUTDATEfighter to ignore particular programs which you\u2019d rather manage yourself.<\/p>\n In our tests, OUTDATEfighter detected only an average number of updates. And for some reason it couldn\u2019t install a Chrome update; we tried repeatedly, but each time were told \u201cDownload failed: try again\u201d. Maybe it was a temporary issue, or something related just to our setup, but there was no way to tell.<\/p>\n We had issues with the \u201cUpdate Windows\u201d module, too. The regular Windows Update tool said our test PC required only one \u201cImportant Update\u201d, but OUTDATEfighter listed eight, most of which weren\u2019t important at all (a fax tool for our all-in-one printer, for instance). Not only does this increase the chance that you\u2019ll install files you wouldn\u2019t otherwise have touched, but it also makes it harder to spot the worthwhile updates amongst the rest.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t necessarily a critical problem. The ability to batch download all your available updates is very convenient, and we\u2019d certainly recommend giving\u00a0OUTDATEfighter<\/a>\u00a0a try, just to see what the program can do for you.<\/p>\n We would also recommend you leave the Update Windows function alone, though. Or at least check what each update does before you agree to install it.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> ARENA Creative<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n There are plenty of tools around to check your PC for missing updates, but most have significant issues. Soft4Boost Update Checker is good at detecting updates, for instance, but it won\u2019t download or install them \u2013 that\u2019s left up to you. OUTDATEfighter\u00a0(from the makers of SPAMfighter) is a little more ambitious. Not only will it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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