Jeff,
we see that you do not know how this program works. Nothing gets not installed without your knowledge - unless you operate your laptop with your eyes closed ;)

William Cameron, it works with Windows 10.
What's the error you get ?

This has been the case for many years with GOTD
The software companies think you're going to fall in love with their stuff and actually pay money for software you probably don't need.
But... there are a few programs, maybe 1 or 2, that were so good I broke down and bought them. One of them was Sublight - a subtitle software.

True!!! I installed a giveaway software before that automatically updates softwares. It updated all my giveaway softwares and now all of them requires a serial key to use all functions.

Roy,
You are right. Competing programs indicate whether the software they would like you to update is freeware, shareware or commercial. That way you would know not t update a particular software that will thereby become useless.

Philip, great ! :)

darr, please contact me directly : contact [AT] kcsoftwares.com and we'll work this out together.

Well I use Patch My PC it's free. https://patchmypc.net/ I don't work for theses guys or gain anything.

Jason St Pierre, have you compared with SUMo in terms of features & performance ?

Therese, thank you for using SUMo !!!

Luis, there is NOTHING about drivers here ....

Luis, Haha, good point.

Luis, Love it. Very good analogy.

Karel, it's not always true (bugs, security flaws,...)

Karel, i agree but only for drivers. softwares are ok to update.

Marcel, yes.

Karel, 'Bulls Eye', always said and forever true!!

Newer is not always better, be it driver or application.
Nowadays most pc users think that a new program update fixes all ills, but forget that it may introduce new ones due to new bugs or incompatibilities with other programs, etc.
Always back up your stuff before you upgrade and always upgrade one thing at a time. Today's software is just another tool, use it if you got the skill. Remember with a hammer you can built a cabinet or demolish the kitchen. So, always evaluate the suggestions of software like this (SUMo, DUMo, etc)........just my 2 cents.

soft user, thank you !!

kc4cop, further elaboration:

The readme file states "No free upgrades to future versions". Of course that standard rhetoric.

The only way I could register the program was to use "giveawayoftheday" as a registered name. The readme file did not state this.

kc4cop, free upgrades in the 4.5.x branch BUT paid upgrades to 4.6.x or 5.x

kc4cop, this means automatic self update for SUMo (since it gets updated almost weekly)

No, THE most important thing is: BACKUP, BACKUP, and BACKUP.

Mike OD, you position is noted. Nothing profound but noted. But, what does that have to do with updates?

Mark C, are you still blocked ? Have you tried the portable zip version has a workaround (also accepts the GAOTD licence)

ilikefree, there's an ignore list. I agree with you on one thing: I have many programs on my computer that are older versions, because the "latest" updates are nothing but bloatware.

CJ Cotter,

Can you give names of programmes where updates
are nothing but "bloats" Can't think of any !

Updates are important since they fix bugs
and often give new functions

You are free NOT to use the "bloat", if any

Tobiasson, Oslo, Norway, Europe

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xilolee, thanks !
Portable will be fully "portable" soon :)

xilolee,

Thank you for the info. I have deleted my "portable" version of SUMO and the extra folder it created. A true portable program does not create these extra folders.

gpc111, that's what i will improve !

Kyle,
Great. Come back here when you get that worked out. I will download and use the new and improved PORTABLE version

lidl1, thanks !

Kyle, Speaking of updates, I have disabled update check on this program and it still attempts Internet access every time I open it. Why? I haven't even scanned yet so I cannot believe it's looking for updates for my computer since it hasn't even scanned yet so why is it asking for Internet access when I open it?

Trying 2 b Helpful, Licence verification

Evgeny, yes but what about the others ? And here, you have the opportunity to find that there is an update BEFORE having to use the program, and to waste time installing updates when you do not plan to.

Software updates have a great many bug fixes and improvement including new features, aside from the usual security issue hole fixes. If you only use your system for surfing the net, or for facebook, and other 'social' scams, which are security holes themselves, and do not have any software that you actually use, then you're right. Why update them? But if you do, then updates are absolutely necessary!

Kyle, well, what do you mean by others? Like a new version of Audacity? Thanks, i can update what i need myself.

Mike OD, OK, i see your point.

Robert Garofalo, your link is not working. I'd recommend to try SUMo is your case :)

Hi Kyle,
Sorry, that link doesn't work because the bracket on the end was appended to the URL.
Correct link: http://saleensoftware.com/Updater

Thanks!

Nigel, do you have more feedback to share on SUMo ?

Kyle,

What more do you want to know?
I used to use, and still do, "file Hippo", but SUMO notifies me of many more updates on the three rigs I use. Unfortunately it notifies of paid programs too which you don't always want to be updating. That said, you can hide those updates, but only until the next SUMo update, which is approximately every two to four weeks. Then, they re appear until you hide them again.
There must be some reason it updates so often, but that is beyond my understanding when such as "File Hippo" may not update in a couple of years, so anything you hide from notification there, stays hidden.

The free version doesn't give you a download link like the paid version, or "File Hippo" so you have to go to the program's download page. Also, as with AVG antivirus, or Process Lasso to name two in particular, it can notify you of an update availability before the actual vendor's program shows an update available.

Anything else?

adif, I found that IObit screwed up my computer on win 7 pro 64 and have never used it since. So you have a valid point.

Yaknala, 100% of the problems are from windows auto-update. You had great system on the evening , come on next day and one software wont run and you can't continue your project.

Adrian, I've read that it's not possible to actually turn off automatic updates on Windows 10. There is a workaround but is a nuisance (install a wireless card and tell Windows you are on a metered Internet connection)...

adif: No-one should *ever* allow Microsoft to run automatic Windows Updates. No-one.

Microsoft counted on user gullibility so as to get Windows 10 installed on millions of computers whether the computer owners wanted the Operating System or not . . . and then having suckered 'em into accepting it, made it as difficult as possible for the user to reassert control of the machine she or he had bought with their own money by deliberately obstructing their ability to turn off automatic Windows 10 updates thereafter. (For those who would like to control Windows 10 rather than having Windows 10 control them, see note below.)

Windows Updates for computers other than those on Windows 10 should always but always be set to Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them. As to what to choose, simply copy the KB code number(s) that you see in the Updates list and copy 'em into any search engine. A host of reference resources exist out there on the 'Net which will tell you if a KBxxxxxxxxxx update you're being offered is fit for purpose (and if it's actually a genuine update rather than an advertising promotion in disguise, seeing as how after the snake-oil selling of Windows 10, Microsoft has lost the trust of countless computer users worldwide.) One such resource is:

https://www.askwoody.com

where the site's users flag up the latest updates and each KB is tested before you have to deal with it. This same resource also offers Update control guidance here:

https://www.askwoody.com/automatic-updates

Note: this is by no means the only reference resource out there.

As to today's offering, my own experience of this kind of software is that it can cause unnecessary headaches where older computers are concerned. Context is all, and where some happily-running computers are concerned, the latest isn't axiomatically the best for that machine, or that user.

adif, When I used the IObit one from Shareware it was showing up on Heimdal as a bug. Itried to clean and clean, but I could NOT get the auto update from Windows. That just stopped and always failed.
Nothing to do with auto windows update.
It was just something that screwed up my whole system and took a few good things either away or made them not work. And yes I know it is a sister site to this one, but Heimdal is a good security system and they even checked it out for me.
Nothing I did could change the fact that auto updates or manual updates would be able to install.
So as far as I was concerned a complete flat and re-install all the systems minus Iobit.
That to me is a real pain in the rear end.......

adif, so well said!!

MikeR, always you give good advice and backup the rational of your opinion. Always looking forward to your comment......just like I used to for Giovanni, Asraf and some other ones from years past. Always wonder where Giovanni has gone !!!!!
See you next giveaway ;)

Yaknala, like MIKE OD said in his post "No, THE most important thing is: BACKUP, BACKUP, and BACKUP."

It has worked miracles for me since WIN 95 and the time I learned that a HIVE is not just for bees !!
Oh, and SAM wasn't only the name of a guy !!

So, GAOTD can we see some ACRONIS, PARAGON, EASUS, AOIMEI etc, etc, etc here some time soon !!
I am up to me eye balls with video converters and driver updaters ;)

Thanks !

MikeR,
Thanks for sharing.