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Keep your Windows software up-to-date with Filehippo

Posted in Tech by Derek at 10:01 pm
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I remember working with Windows as my primary operating system and the constant need for software updates. Thankfully, Filehippo wants to help ease the burden of having to update software with the appropriately named Filehippo Update Checker.

The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.

By the way, if you haven’t checked out Filehippo yet, I urge you to do so right now. The entire site is worthy of a bookmark seeing as though no other website compares when it comes to one-stop-software downloading.

8 Responses to “Keep your Windows software up-to-date with Filehippo”

  1. Brandon says:
    4/3/2007 at 10:28 pm

    Whats the OSX version of this? Pretty sure i heard of one once… i know most of OSXs software has autoupdates but im sure theres a few hidden programs of mine that might need an update.

  2. Ronald Heft says:
    4/3/2007 at 11:03 pm

    @Brandon:

    AppUpdate: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/appupdate.html

    or

    AppFresh: http://metaquark.de/appfresh/

  3. Myke says:
    4/4/2007 at 12:42 am

    Im kinda scared of any application that takes note of information on my computer then exchanges it with its server…

    Are we sure its safe?

  4. Per-Erik Broz says:
    4/4/2007 at 2:59 am

    Crashes on my computer (Vista x86-32). I’ll continue to use Secunia’s Software Inspector:

    http://secunia.com/software_inspector/

  5. vanessa anderson says:
    4/4/2007 at 4:05 am

    68

  6. vanessa anderson says:
    4/4/2007 at 4:06 am

    this is cool.

  7. vincent says:
    4/4/2007 at 6:01 am

    crashes on my computer (xp sp2 up to date)

    V

  8. Matt says:
    4/4/2007 at 6:30 am

    thats pretty cool. Works well enough for me.

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