Silent install overrides Default App Windows10 22H2

[frustrated]

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.

[Omar (Patch My PC)]

Sorry for the late reply, is this still happening?
Also this is 100% on the vendor's side! their silent install makes the app the default one! if they have a command line that we can use to prevent that, then I'll be happy to add it  

[frustrated]

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

[frustrated]

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."

[Omar (Patch My PC)]

Yeah that's not cool  
In this case you can disable silent installation for PDF X-Change so you can manually uncheck the "make default app" button, until hopefully they provide a command line for this later!

[frustrated]

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.

[Omar (Patch My PC)]

Sorry about this! But we actually just released the Home Updater v5.0.0 now! and this issue is fixed in it  it's a totally new app now! please let us know what you think!  
https://patchmypc.com/home-updater 

[frustrated]

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.

[Omar (Patch My PC)]

Some apps just takes a long time to update, if you waited it will be done eventually.