UpdateStar 2.2.596 Beta  beta

Publisher's Description:

UpdateStar lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software you are using on your computer. This way you make sure to always use the most up-to-date software, maximizing your every-day user experience. It covers all of your freeware, shareware, demos, commercial software, and includes special offers.

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Reviewer:	JWvanLohuizen	Apr 13, 2008
Version:	2.0.464 Beta
I used to really like UpdateStar and at first I was very patient even when getting slow responses from technical support. I even have tried hard to help them to get things right and even offered to help them more directly without charge. While they did use a couple of very small suggestions most were ignored. I even sent in correction submissions for 2 months on 2 programs that were merged into one and when they finally separated the two, all of the updated information that I had submitted including corrected links and a complete description for the one I use was deleted and so all that was available was that the program existed and what version I had on my computer. Thanks Guys. However, I was told that they were only in beta and to give it time. Well they have had lots of time and it has become nearly useless. I have lost all hope. I have tried in vain to get them to stop listing Vista OS only driver and software updates when I and most others are using XP. Why can't they just look at the OS installed and list the update accordingly. That's not how it works. They can't even list the latest update for the version that I have installed. They can only list the latest version that you can buy as an upgrade. I am sure they get a kick back if you buy it. So if I need to upgrade an older version I have to manually find it. However, the worst flagrant uselessness is listing beta versions!!! I have tried until I am blue in the face to get them to never list beta versions as upgrades since most people should never use betas because they don't understand enough to know when a beta might not be working and could be causing them to loose data or creating system problems. Also betas are sometimes not even available to the public so telling someone that the only update available is a beta is just a time and space waster. These have no link listed to update, so what's the point here? They are now even listing updates that don't exist except in a blog or something. Take Seamonkey browser (formerly Mozilla), for example. Despite the fact that the latest version of Seamonkey is v1.1.9 they have listed Seamonkey 2.0 alpha 1 preview for sometime now as the latest and now list Seamonkey 2.0.1 as the latest version. This despite the fact that Seamonkey 2.0 hasn't even gone to the beta stage yet let alone have a stable public release and so 2.0.1 isn't even on the horizon. And as a further side note to emphasize my point. Seamonkey 2 alpha preview, despite my objections, installs on top of Seamonkey in the registry so it becomes the default turning off Seamonkey 1 and crates new bookmark locations and profile locations that are not compatible with the other. This means that if a use uses the alpha for some time then they have to reinstall the first version to get it working again and all the new information is only stored in the new locations and wont be available to the original Seamonkey. So any novice would have shot themselves in the foot and probably had to pay someone to fix the unfixable. Now back to my original points: Finally a really big problem that wont go away is the listing of programs as being outdated that are not. They should be working with the software companies if the information isn't plainly available but this isn't always the case. In some cases they just aren't looking in the right place. The final result is that now all of the programs that I need the latest version on have to be turned off because I have a really long list of stuff that is of no use and rarely do I find one that is really an update. I would rate it a zero but that isn't an option here. I guess it looks nice but the menus are cluttered and confusing at times and a major change that I suggested to fix this was outright blown off. So despite their hopes and claims I suggest you pass on this one since they are either too dumb or too arrogant to get it right and they refuse any real help.
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Reviewer:	jafo818	Mar 28, 2008
Version:	2.0.464 Beta
I uninstalled UpdateStar in favor of SUMo. However, I might go back if they fix some of the bugs that annoyed me.
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Reviewer:	portezbie	Mar 28, 2008
Version:	2.0.464 Beta
Update notifier or filehippo update checker are better
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Reviewer:	The MAZZTer	Mar 19, 2008
Version:	1.2.312 Beta
This program does what it claims to do and it does it well, but I can't help but want MORE. First of all, the interface is too much. The Office 2k7 interface was invented to help users more easily find options that were previously buried in Office 2k3. UpdateStar does not have a problem with too many options... in fact I think it would benefit from a simpler interface. Also while being able to track new versions of some programs and offer download and website links to some is nice, you still have to download and install each program by hand. A more automated approach would have been appreciated. There are plenty of obvious problems with this... some installers can be run silently to automatically install into a specific folder, others cannot and harder, hackish methods would have to be used. Perhaps a community-driven system where users could submit definition files they make for automatically downloading and installing specific programs would work for this. Regardless, this tool is useful and does its job. I just wish a tool called "UpdateStar" would actually UPDATE something.
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Reviewer:	Linux4	Jan 15, 2008
Version:	1.2.312 Beta
Very Helpful Program and i Think it will Become Better.
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