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

« on: January 20, 2024, 10:32:19 PM »

Hi DrStrange,

Thanks for the clarifications.

Regards.

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

« on: January 13, 2024, 03:53:32 PM »

Hi DrStrange,

You are right.
Manually feeding the Uninstall applications subkeys fix the issue.

However, it's not a method that is practically sustainable.
First, messing with applications entries is not recommanded but let's imagine UCheck to do it, it will pose two major issues :

• UCheck does not know the information to add. We would need to create a second database and a routine to check and add missing informations and registry values periodically.
• After an update, the Uninstall subkey content is also updated, which mean we would need to find a way to synchronize new information added by the update with the existing values of the secondary database.

In summary, it would be a lot of work on our side and a great source of potential issues with wrong names, pathes, and versions.
We believe it is more productive to contact editors and ask them to properly fill their subkey when installing/updating their application.

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77

« on: January 13, 2024, 03:37:05 PM »

Hi lmacri, mrhappy1525,

Thanks your both for your feedback.

Unfortunately, it's not unusual for VERSION to be greater than LATEST for many of my fully "Compatible" applications, and I assume this is because the automated bots that scan documentation on the web looking for new releases of "Compatible" programs can be very slow finding this information.

There is two reason for this. Indeed your scrapping bot only check a specific application for update a few times a day. Also, official documentation or changelog update may be delayed a lot.
With bad timing, we can miss an application update for quite some time.

UCheck v5.2.2 still detects my 64-bit MS Edge browser as a 32-bit application (see attached image, scan log and debug log)

The task is indeed still prending. Because of hollidays, we are running late on schedule.

Regards.

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General Discussion / Re: Introduce yourself

« on: January 13, 2024, 03:27:56 PM »

Hi Paige,

Welcome to Adlice.com Forum.
Have a nice day too.

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77

« on: December 26, 2023, 06:11:59 PM »

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for their feedback.
We will change the way these are detected in UCheck next release.

Regards.

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

« on: December 26, 2023, 06:09:28 PM »

Hi JD4923,

Presumably portable apps are found by scanning for all program files - how else would they be found?

Indeed.

Or are portable apps detected some other way?

Portable apps are located by enumerating the filesystem. Installed appplications are enumerated using the Registry.

Subset applications should ultimately not be listed. It's the job of the main application to keep them updated.

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Foxit PDF Editor Version 2023 vs 13

« on: December 26, 2023, 05:56:48 PM »

Hi 00Eraser00,

At the moment, it's not possible.
However, a feature request to implement this was submitted : https://github.com/AdliceSoftware/UCheck/issues/26

Regards.

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

« on: December 23, 2023, 10:01:06 PM »

Hi 00Eraser00,

I'm pretty sure that Notepad++ was reporting location before.
It looks like a regression to me.

I will ask Tigzy to look about this. In the meantime, no need to post the full list, we need to review the code first.

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77

« on: December 23, 2023, 09:54:33 PM »

Hi lmacri, 00Eraser00,

What is the expected location of dumpbin.exe?

It's in the PATH.
Sorry about that, I should have made myself clearer.

Sysinternals Suite https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite

Then, how about this :

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sigcheck.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe
Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77

« on: December 23, 2023, 07:20:35 PM »

Hi lmacri, 00Eraser00,

This is indeed probably a bug with the parser, but I'd still like to check this.
Is the dumpbin.exe utility installed on your system ?

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: IrfanView Updates wrong architetcure

« on: December 23, 2023, 07:14:39 PM »

Hi 00Eraser00,

You are very welcome.

Regards.

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

« on: December 23, 2023, 07:14:01 PM »

Hi JD4923,

Welcome to Adlice.com Forum.
UCheck use Windows Registry to check for installed applications and their respective version number. For example :

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Everything]
"DisplayName"="Everything 1.4.1.1015 (x64)"
"UninstallString"="C:\\Program Files\\Everything\\Uninstall.exe"
"Publisher"="voidtools"
"EstimatedSize"=dword:00000c00
"DisplayIcon"="C:\\Program Files\\Everything\\Everything.exe"
"DisplayVersion"="1.4.1.1015"
If the "UninstallString" and "DisplayIcon" fields are empty, RogueKiller has no way to know where the application is located.
These fields are populated by the application installer, so there is no way for us to fix this at the moment.

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77

« on: December 22, 2023, 09:23:54 PM »

Hi lmacri, mrhappy1525,

Sorry about that.
I didn't notice the issue request.

However, I don't see how MS Edge will ever be a "fully supported" Compatible app when this browser is built in to the Win 10 / Win 11 OS (at least here in North America).  Users would not normally use UCheck to install, update or uninstall this program (when SUMo reported MS Edge was outdated I would manually update from within the browser at Help and Feedback | About Microsoft Edge) so I assume that MS Edge will always be classified as a Community app in future versions of UCheck.

You are right.
To be blunt, I think it will stay a "community" application for quite some time. Without a download working link, we can't support it fully.

Another related question is Microsoft Edge a 32 or 64 bit app?

I think it should be a 64-bit process. Would you agree to run some test to confirm this ?

Regards.

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RogueKiller / Re: Possible false positive

« on: December 22, 2023, 04:25:25 PM »

Hi Faergor,

Thanks.
Toolbar was used to monetize their Free version.

Regards.

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UCheck / Re: Maintaining Multiple Program Versions While Excluding Scans of Old Versions

« on: December 22, 2023, 04:20:06 PM »

Hi Chuck,

This is not possible at the moment because exclusions are based on names only.
It should be possible to check for names + major version number. Could you please open a feature request on UCheck bug tracker ?

EDIT : Apps that release yearly (TurboTax, AutoCAD, Visual Studio) get detected as outdated when latest edition is updated

Regards.

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