UpdateStar keeps your software up to date

Posted Oct 10th 2007 2:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Windows, Shareware, Freeware, Beta

There are plenty of ways to check to see if your software needs updating. You can manually visit the website for each program you run on a regular basis. Or if you'd rather use a method that doesn't take all day, you can install an application that will check for updates automatically.

While we like File Hippo Update Checker and AppSnap, UpdateStar might just take the blue ribbon when it comes to freeware software updaters. UpdateStar won't automatically download and install software like AppSnap, but it makes up for that deficiency by offering a huge library of programs. It catches all sorts of installed and updateable software that the other programs miss.

UpdateStar will automatically scan your PC and search for any of 8000 applications. When it detects those programs on your computer it will check to see if newer versions are available. When you click on an application you get a brief description and a link to download the newer version.

Odds are you'll still have a few applications on your PC that UpdateStar will miss, including any application that didn't have an installer file. But of the update checkers we've tried, UpdateStar appears to be the most powerful.

[via gHacks]

Tags: appsnap, file-hippo-update-checker, software-updates, updatestar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

10-10-2007 @ 5:32PM

Kat2 said...

I just ran all 3 side by side. FileHippo found 6 possible updates and 4 more beta updates. I don't like the interface of AppSnap, which found 5 updates. UpdateStar found zero. I don't know if it just doesn't like Vista or what. I'll stick with FileHippo.

10-10-2007 @ 6:34PM

Chris Moroz said...

Thanks for the reviews! I've been wanting these services since years ago when McAfee killed of Oil Change.

12-19-2007 @ 8:09AM

radito anoran said...

good shareware

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