File Hippo…
If you’ve been following The Digitante and installing every piece of software I’ve recommended along the way, you probably have over 25 new programs installed on your computer. You could probably spend one night a week trying to update all these programs to the newest version available, but that wouldn’t be The Digitante way.
Programs of all types come out with new versions which add features, increase usability, fix bugs, and increase the security of their wares. For this reason, you should try to be up-to-date at all times. Many programs have automatic updates or update checking built in, but certainly not all do.
We are going to check out File Hippo, a program that automatically updates all your installed programs, keeping track of that stuff for you.
As per usual, the first thing you need to do is head to the link above and download the file. It is super small and takes almost no time to download. The only decision you really need to make is if you want File Hippo to run when Windows starts up. Since it is a very small non-intrusive file, it probably wouldn’t hurt to run it at start up. Plus you would get up-to-date notification of new updates on the programs on your computer.
Once installation completes, File Hippo will proceed to check what you have installed. A bubble will pop up in the lower right corner. Once you click on the bubble, you will be lead to a web page that will contain your results. Here are mine:
You’ll notice it shows beta updates in addition to regular updates. Beta programs are ones that are still being tested and may crash or have other issues, but they also will have new, cutting-edge features. If you don’t want to use beta software, you can select to not show beta software, as shown below.
The only thing left to do is click the green downward pointing arrow next to each program and install the updated version.
You’ll need to excuse me now, I’ve got some software to get updated.
Do you have any annoying programs that don’t automatically update (I’m looking at you, PDFCreator)? Are you even concerned with keeping your programs up-to-date?
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