How to keep your software up to date

Almost every PC installed with lots of software, but some people never keep track on the version changing and update release from the software site.

It’s important to keep the software on your computer up to date, why? Good question. As many people know that software is upgrade from year to year. Developer tries to enhance their software from day to day to shoot user requirements, new version should be the solution for the concern. And fixing bugs for existing version and release some updates are regularly task for software house, which mean updates are really important for better software run on your computer.

But some people say that depending on the number of programs that you have installed on your computer, which could be a daunting task involving visiting numerous websites and switching windows back and forth while checking version numbers.

Well, I am going to introduce some tools to help you achieve this goal. Which I found it useful for that.


1. filehippo.com Update Checker
filehippo.com Update Checker is a software to check updates, it allow you to run and check on the updates for software on your computer. This tool allow you to check the updates when you are really free, and just run this program and you will get all the updates from the owner's site.


2. Secunia Personal Software Inspector (BETA)
PSI is a tool that continuously monitors your computer and notified you when there is some updates for your software or Version changing. This software will installed some monitoring tool and running on computer's system tray.

3. Updatestar
UpdateStar is the program that lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software. Whether it be Freeware, Shareware and commercial software products, UpdateStar covers all of your software. UpdateStar knows more than 80.000 software products and lets you know once an update is available for you. No more wasted time reading hundreds of newsletters or searching websites for newly available updates. You want to stay up-to-date with your software? Use UpdateStar. It's free

For me, I don't really prefer some tool to be run at my system tray. So, I will go for filehippo.com Update Checker. run it when I am free, to minimize memory usage when doing other things.