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UCheck / Re: UCheck shows "Location: Unknown" for multiple apps

« on: January 13, 2024, 06:20:21 PM »

Hi Curson,

I agree completely with your reply: The relevant program owners should be contacted and asked to include all of these subkeys in the Uninstall key during installation and also the program owner should ensure that the relevant subkeys are updated as required after a program update is installed. It is not uCheck's responsibility to add subkeys to the Registry that should have been added by the respective program's owners. uCheck is a software updater, not a software updater and registry repair program.
I was merely replying to the OP to explain why uCheck was not finding the path under Location and to provide information allowing the path to be manually added to uCheck if the OP wished to do so.

In any regard, adding the program's path to the location is only a cosmetic operation ie it does not affect uCheck's ability to determine the currently installed version. It is more important that the DisplayIcon and DisplayVersion keys are present and that the DisplayVersion key shows the correct version currently installed.

Thank you.

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UCheck / Re: UCheck shows "Location: Unknown" for multiple apps

« on: January 13, 2024, 02:45:23 AM »

Hi,
To fix uCheck (v 5.2.2.0) not showing a location for some programs, I examined the registry and found that for those programs the data for the registry string key InstallLocation was blank or the InstallLocation key was not present in the program's

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ or

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ registry key. Once I added this to the registry, uCheck showed the location for all those programs

I wonder would this also solve the problem where certain programs, because they do not update their registry DisplayVersion key when they update, so after they update they are shown by uCheck as not up to date, a well discussed example being Macrium Reflect.   

For example, this allows uCheck (and the Programs and Features Control Panel app) to show the location for MKVToolnix:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MKVToolNix]
"DisplayIcon"="C:\Program Files\MKVToolNix\mkvtoolnix-gui.exe"
"DisplayName"="MKVToolNix 82.0.0 (64-bit)"
"DisplayVersion"="82.0.0"
"InstallLocation"="C:\Program Files\MKVToolnix\"
"NSIS:StartMenuDir"="MKVToolNix"
"Publisher"="Moritz Bunkus"
"UninstallString"="C:\Program Files\MKVToolNix\uninst.exe"
"URLInfoAbout"="https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/"


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UCheck / Re: ==> Erroneous detection / Application support request <==

« on: November 13, 2023, 05:24:04 PM »

Hi,
I have two programs that uCheck is reporting as the latest version but are in fact alpha and beta versions -  screenshot and scan report attached. They are:
1. Total Commander
2. Python

With Total Commander the problem is that the latest final version is 11.02. The version before that was 11.02 beta 6, hence the version that uCheck finds - 11.02.6. I assume uCheck thinks that 11.02.6 is a greater number than 11.02 so it must  be a later version, which is not the case.
With Python, the current production version is 3.12. Version 3.13 is an alpha build which Python does not recommend you use in a production setting.



Keep up the good work with uCheck. After support for SUMo ended, uCheck and WingetUI, out of all the many program updaters out there, were what I settled on, and WingetUI is a bit buggy.

Thanks.