{"id":2276,"date":"2014-12-28T23:53:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:49:18","slug":"updatepatch-multiple-windows-software-in-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/updatepatch-multiple-windows-software-in-one-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Update\/Patch multiple Windows software in one shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many downsides of using Windows is that there is no central way of updating all software installed on the computer in one shot. In Debian I can do an &#8216;apt-get upgrade&#8217; and it will upgrade all the software installed on the system to the latest versions available. <a href=\"https:\/\/patchmypc.net\/download\">Patch my PC<\/a> attempts to give you the same functionality on a Windows system. It has support for around 100 different applications and it can install or update them automatically when you run a scan. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried it out because I don&#8217;t have a Windows machine, but it is recommended by the folks at <a href='http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/patch-my-pc-updates-tons-of-windows-programs-at-once-1673293549'>Lifehacker<\/a> so it should be stable and work as advertised. <\/p>\n<p>However please use it at your own risk, I am not responsible if this manages to destroy your computer or summon an imp. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many downsides of using Windows is that there is no central way of updating all software installed on the computer in one shot. In Debian I can do an &#8216;apt-get upgrade&#8217; and it will upgrade all the software installed on the system to the latest versions available. Patch my PC attempts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}