Messages

1

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

« on: December 24, 2023, 12:43:44 AM »

Thanks Curson for the explanation, and 00Eraser00 for the confirmation and additional info.

I think there's also a separate issue with portable apps, though I can't reproduce it now. Presumably portable apps are found by scanning for all program files - how else would they be found? And if so UCheck should be able to report where they are. Or are portable apps detected some other way?

I ask because after installing UCheck and running an initial scan it was reporting an old version of PuTTY (0.78), and a very old version of Mozilla Maintenance Service (115.5.0), both with "Location: Unknown." I eventually concluded:

• The PuTTY install is a subset included with WinSCP. The UCheck message disappeared on its own after I installed PuTTY 0.80 to update the regular install, though the 0.78 files are still part of WinSCP
• The Mozilla Maintenance Service installs are due to 2 separate portable Firefox installs. I deleted the maintenanceservice.exe files from each install which seemed to resolve the issue, but restoring those files hasn't caused UCheck to start alerting on them again.

So what is the logic for detecting and reporting on out-of-date portable installs?

Thanks.

2

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

« on: December 23, 2023, 01:25:06 AM »

I recently started using UCheck (Premium), and mostly it works well. However, for multiple apps it shows "Location: Unknown". Examples:

• In the Updates list: Mozilla Maintenance Service [64 bits]: It shows a very old version, with no location. The standard installs are current, so I have no way to find this old one.
• In the Installed list: Various apps installed in standard locations have the Location field empty, e.g., Notepad++, PuTTY

UCheck must know where the files are, to have checked the version. Why doesn't it show that path under Location?

Thanks.