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Well I installed the new version which found 2 apps that the prior version did not tell me needed updates. However I had to stop the 2nd update since the app, PowerToys never seem to update. Powertoys had a spinning circle yet Patch MYPC app itself showed a greyed out Start Uodater button. I had to kill off Patch My PC. The same thing happened when I ran Patch My Pc 5.0.1 a second time. It showed PowerToys needed an update. When I clicked Start Updater, it appeared to down the PowerToys update, but the update was never finished.  I opened Power Toys (Preview) app. It told me there was an update available. I let it update and it finished without an issue.

Sorry but that did not work.

Here is the options I had enabled for the software. I scanned for changes and PatchMyPC started to do a silent install and it over wrote the default PDF handler.

According to PDF X-Change there is no command line parameter for silent installs to prevent it from becoming the default PDF handler. I find it strange that they do not have such a parameter as they have so many other settings one can modify.

"No - our installer would always try to set itself as the default handler for .pdf files."

Yes it is still happening. I disabled PDF X-Change from being updated automatically by Patch MyPC.

Every time Patch MY PC runs its scheduled weekly check and updates PDF-XChange Editor I discover that the default PDF app has been changed from the SumtraPDF to PDF-XChange Editor. I first thought it was PDF-XChange but its author assures me it is not their app that is doing the change. This only happens when PatchMYPC runs a check and finds that there is an update to the app and installs it. Using Windows10 Pro 22H2 here and PatchMY PC is 4.5.0.4

Thanks for the help. Discovered that I somehow had WinMerge installed twice and the other apps even though they were current versions installed had not updated the version numbers during installation. Hopefully, I have fixed a nagging issue with another app PDF XChange Editor where it would become the default PDF handler after Patch MyPC updated the software.

This is what PatchMY PC is out of date. The only app that is out of date is AnyDesk and that is because I have intentionally have placed that app on ignore.

Patch MYPc is saying WinMerge is out of date at version 2.12.4 when the left hand panel shows WinMerge is at 2.16.30! Same thing with SumatraPDF it is actually at 3.4.6

Been using Patch My PC for a a while now and for some reason every time it does a scheduled update to PDF XChange Editor it makes that application the default app for PDFs. I have another app that I prefer to open PDFs files with. How can I prevent this behaviour? I had contacted the PDF XChange Editor people and they assured me it was not their app that is making this change.