The software updater is only available within the commercial Professional version of CCleaner, although Piriform has reduced Professional to $14.95, down from $24.95, saving $10 to celebrate the launch of the software updater. You can select multiple tools to update and CCleaner will work through each one.
If CCleaner finds an update, it will automatically download the new installer and update an application. As was Adobe Brackets, Directory Opus, Firefox and even tools such as Avast SecureLine and Avast Cleanup, from the owner of CCleaner.
Chrome was ignored in CCleaner 5.55 Professional. As an example, we’re running Chrome 72 on our test PC and v73 was available. Although Chrome, Firefox and other browsers auto-update, most software update tools warn you if the installed version has an update available. Sadly, as we’ve found with many software updaters, it ignored most of the software from our test PC, only finding BurnAware and IcoFX (which it correctly identified as out-of-date). So it’s not using FileHippo.Ĭheck for updated applications with CCleaner 5.55 Professional We manually checked against the FileHippo website and it still had BurnAware 11.8 listed. We were assuming – or guessing – this is based on Piriform’s FileHippo database (Piriform is owned by Avast, which in turn also owns FileHippo), but when we ran CCleaner 5.55 Professional, the software updater correctly noted we had BurnAware 12.0 installed, but claimed no update was available, when BurnAware 12.1 was already released. IObit recently released a standalone Software Updater tool this year which we wrote about this month.ĬCleaner 5.55 is here and the big new feature is a software update module. With this in mind, and software developers running out of key ideas to add to future revisions to encourage paid upgrades, we’re seeing ‘Software Updater’ tools being released to the market or added to system maintenance applications. Most applications do not have a software update facility, so unless you go checking, you’ll often never know it’s been updated. Install software on your computer and you’ll be forgiven for not having the spare time to search for updates.
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