Sunday, November 9, 2008

Keeping your programs up-to-date - the easy way

Trying to keep all your programs up-to-date can seem like an endless task.

The annoyance is amplified by unwanted notifications that your don't have the latest version of some program which is needed to do what you need to do right now, usually when you have no time to mess around downloading or updating programs.

Enter FileHippo.com Update Checker - a program (in Beta although it seems to work fine) which you can have running all the time which sits in your system tray and lets you know when (and how many) updates are available for your programs. I just updated about ten programs to the latest versions. (It also notifies you when new Beta versions are available - you can turn this off if you want).

You can also customize results by right-clicking the system tray icon and selecting (not surprisingly!) "customize results".  This lets you exclude programs from FileHippo's search.  Selections can also be reversed.

Worth downloading I think.

Jason

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