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UCheck / Re: UCheck shows "Location: Unknown" for multiple apps
« Last post by DrStrange 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
« Last post by Curson 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
« Last post by Curson on January 13, 2024, 03:37:05 PM »
Hi lmacri, mrhappy1525,

Thanks your both for your feedback.
Quote from: lmacri
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.

Quote from: lmacri
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
« Last post by Curson 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: UCheck shows "Location: Unknown" for multiple apps
« Last post by DrStrange 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: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77
« Last post by mrhappy1525 on January 12, 2024, 07:19:29 PM »
Hi

From the logs in UCheck

************************* Updates *************************
Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.121
 
  • Available Version        : 120.0.2210.133
  • Wow6432                  : Yes
  • Portable                 : No
  • update_location          : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application


I went in to MS and did the update all good.

Just need it to detect it as the 64 Bit Version.

From About Microsoft Edge.

==
Microsoft Edge
Version 120.0.2210.133 (Official build) (64-bit)
====

Now disappeared from Pending Updates.
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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77
« Last post by lmacri on January 12, 2024, 01:40:17 AM »
Quote from: Curson on December 26, 2023, 06:11:59 PM
... We will change the way these are detected in UCheck next release.

Hi Curson:

I updated to the latest UCheck Free Portable 64-Bit v5.2.2.0 (released 09-Jan-2024) and can confirm that UCheck is no longer incorrectly recommending BETA / Preview updates for my MS Edge (Stable Release Channel) browser.

My main concern now is that I have the latest MS Edge v120.0.2210.133 (released 11-Jan-2024, see release history at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-relnote-stable-channel) but UCheck currently reports that the LATEST version is the older v120.0.2210.121 (released 05-Jan-2024).  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.

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) but I personally am not overly concerned about this since I would never use UCheck to install / update / uninstall my MS Edge browser.  I use Firefox as my default browser and if UCheck eventually reports that MS Edge requires an update I will trigger the update manually in MS Edge at Help and Feedback | About Microsoft Edge.  Here's an excerpt from my latest UCheck scan log:

     Microsoft Edge (32 bits), version 120.0.2210.133
          Uninstall           : HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Edge
          Location            : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application
-----------
Dell Inspiron 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.3803 * Firefox v121.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.23110.3-1.1.23110.2 * Malwarebytes Premium v4.6.8.311-1.0.2242 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * UCheck Free Portable 64-bit v5.2.2.0
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General Discussion / Re: Introduce yourself
« Last post by Paige Lee on January 05, 2024, 09:03:30 AM »
Hello Everyone!I'm Paige new in there! Hope you all are doing great and having a wonderful day ;)
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UCheck / Re: Foxit PDF Editor Version 2023 vs 13
« Last post by 00Eraser00 on December 27, 2023, 10:24:35 AM »
Hi Curson,

Thanks for the information. I upvoted the issue on GitHub and will be waiting for the implementation.

Regards.
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UCheck / Re: Microsoft Edge (32-bit), version 120.0.2210.77
« Last post by Curson 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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