Patch My PC is a Windows application for finding and updating supported software on a home computer. Its Home Updater edition combines an installed-app view with a software catalog, so it can maintain programs already on the PC and add applications that are missing. Home Updater is free for personal, non-commercial use; the company’s business patch-management products are separate.
How Patch My PC detects installed apps
Patch My PC matches installed application information against its supported catalog and identifies programs with available updates. My Apps collects detected software, while App Library includes the products available for installation. Search and category filters help narrow either view to the applications you want to manage.
A rescan refreshes the available updates without closing and reopening the program. Updated and outdated status labels distinguish the results, and their colors can be customized. Coverage follows the catalog: an application must be supported for Home Updater to manage its updates.
Updating and installing applications
You can update an individual application or select several programs for a batch operation. Patch My PC downloads the required packages and runs installations silently by default, avoiding a separate installation wizard for each selected item. It can download several applications in parallel and suppress restarts during the update process.
Silent installation can be disabled when you want to make choices in an application’s own installer. There is also an option to close programs before updating them. Per-app controls let you exclude particular software from automatic updating or scanning, allowing the rest of the supported applications to remain under routine maintenance.
The same App Library handles new software. Selecting an application that is absent from the computer adds an installation rather than an update.
Scheduled updates
The scheduler runs application updates at a chosen time and frequency, including daily or weekly schedules. Additional settings let a missed run take place as soon as possible and allow updates when nobody is logged in.
Patch My PC also offers a scheduled check that notifies you about outdated applications. This provides an alternative to automatically installing every available update. Command-line modes can run needed updates with the interface visible or without a graphical window.
Portable apps
For supported portable applications, Patch My PC uses a chosen Portables Location rather than a normal installed-program destination. Packages arrive as executable files or ZIP archives, and compressed portable packages can be extracted after downloading.
Portable detection has a specific boundary: Home Updater recognizes and updates portable apps originally downloaded through Home Updater. It does not discover every portable program copied onto the computer independently. Managed portable applications can also be removed from the app catalog or Uninstaller view.
App lists
Patch My PC can export a selection of applications from one device and import it on another for installation. Separate JSON export and import controls transfer Home Updater settings.
Uninstaller and Startup Manager
The Uninstaller provides search and multiple selection for removing several installed applications in one operation.
A separate Startup Manager controls which applications launch with Windows, bringing startup entries into the same utility used to maintain the software catalog.
