Patch my PC Home Updater is a free, easy-to-use program that keeps over 300 applications up-to-date on your computer. It is an easy way to update or install a large list of programs on to your computer.

A key component of staying safe online is keeping your computer up-to-date. Hackers love targeting outdated software. Outdated software often contains security vulnerabilities, bugs, and other issues that are often resolved in the latest version. These are some of the reasons why it’s essential to keep the apps updated (or “patched”).

When you open Patch My PC Updater, it will scan your system for outdated programs.

Whether you are a computer novice, semi-tech savvy, the go-to tech person for your family and friends, or an IT professional, Patch My PC’s Home Updater will make patching your applications nearly effortless.

The PatchMyPC user interface

PatchMyPC’s simple user interface is easy to navigate and will automatically detect any supported applications that have available updates. Any applications shown in green are already up to date, and applications in red show an outdated application that has an update available. But that’s not all that it’s good for, oh not by a long shot. Have you ever needed to reinstall all of your applications or needed to reformat your computer? With PatchMyPC you can also search for, and select multiple applications that can be installed automatically for you!

That sounds great and all, but how exactly does this help you? It’s an excellent question and one I am happy to answer. Updating your third party applications is just as important as getting the latest updates for your operating system. Hackers can often take advantage of out of date applications just as much, if not more so then missing Windows updates. By keeping your applications and system up to date, you’re making it that much harder for hackers to compromise your system or data.

Overview of options

Heading over to options tab for PatchMyPC, we get a great set of options that we can enable or disable with one click. All of the options are pretty self-explanatory but there are a couple I would like to mention.

• IT Pro Caching Mode
  Allows you to have all of your downloaded updates copied to another  directory. This is especially useful if you have computers that do not have network access or slow internet connection speeds.
• Export Settings To PatchMyPC.ini
  Easily set your settings and preferences across all of your devices.

The PatchMyPC Scheduler

By far my favorite tab in the application is the PatchMyPC Scheduler. This will allow you to easily set up a scheduled task to have all of your programs updated as often as you want to! Easily turn on and off your schedule, setting your preferred time of day for updates and let PatchMyPC do the rest. The program can be set to run as soon as possible if it happens to miss a day and is in my opinion the bread and butter of this program.

And that’s all there is to it! Once you have PatchMyPC set up and running on a schedule, it will autonomously update all of your programs in the background for you. These updates will make it all the more difficult for a hacker to take advantage of your computer, and make the internet a little safer.

You can download the free version of PatchMyPC from https://patchmypc.com/home-updater