In this video, I'm gonna show you 4 ways to ensure your software stays up to date.
Reason you want to do this is for better security and stability of your computer.
I made mention of this in a previous video about how to protect yourself against hackers.
So I'll link that above and below.
You might want to bookmark that or open it up in another tab so you can watch that after
this video.
IObit is one of many different software applications that will help you to identify what software
programs need to be updated on your computer.
And that's what I'm showing you here in this video.
Which you can see in the screen shot here, that it pops up an alert down in the bottom
corner by your time.
Alerting you which programs need to be updated.
Let's have a quick run through.
The first thing you're gonna want to do is go to IOBIT.com, go up to the must have tools
and then go over to the iobit software updater and download the free edition.
You'll see a link there for the free download.
It'll download the program, which you can then run.
Once it's installing, you wanna probably check off the bottom two recommendations so it doesn't
install other bloatware or adware for you.
You can even go into customize and choose further options there if you wish.
And then just hit install and let it run through.
You'll maybe even see another prompt at the end that you can decline.
So when you start the program you'll see the 3 applications we were prompted about earlier.
You can select which ones you want or all of them.
But you can only update 2 programs per day, through this application on the free one.
Otherwise you have to upgrade to the pro edition as you can see here.
So we'll just choose two programs and click the update now button at the top.
Then you'll begin downloading the actual installer files.
Then it will run the install for each of the applications.
You can see that it's showing that it's updating.
What the current version is and what the new version is of each program.
Some of the programs will update quietly in the background where others will pop up like
this and make you run through the installation wizard.
So you would just follow the prompts, just like you would with any normal install.
Until all the programs are updated.
When it's finished you'll have a message saying that the programs where updated and you can
view the details or go back.
You'll see the one remaining program that we still have yet to update, as well as the
two that were updated showing the current version.
So rather than waiting until tomorrow to run this update here, or purchasing the pro edition;
we can run this update manually, just like you can with any other program.
So like most programs, you can go through the help menu under about.
Then you'll see the about information for that program which includes the current version number,
and if there's any update available, you'll see a button to update it right from there.
A 3rd method of ensuring all your software is up to date is just annually going through
the list of all your software.
If you see a year next to the name of the program, that's real easy.
Because then you can tell, how close it is to the 10 year mark.
And that's kinda the magic number for when software expires and not supported anymore.
So you don't want to let it go that long.
You can scroll through and see most programs don't have a version or a year.
If they have a version number, you can at least look on their website and see if there's
something that's newer.
Aside from that, seeing some programs like the Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable,
it may have some really old versions.
But you want to be careful not to delete those, because they are programs that are designed
to work with other software programs that you have installed on your computer.
If you remove any of those, that other software program may not work.
Which software program is that I'm talking about?
We don't know.
You would have to try and see what happens.
You would want to make sure you have a backup first of your computer, ensuring that you
have a full image backup and any software available to reinstall.
A 4th way of doing things is simply take it in to your local computer shop and have like
an annual tune-up done.
You can ask them specifically to look for any outdated software and to make recommendations
if something needs to be updated or even replaced if it's not supported anymore.
At the same time they can be just giving it a nice overall tune-up, checking the hard
drive, blowing dust out of the computer and that sort of thing.
So it's really good to have a good annual clean-up, tune-up sort of thing.
Sort of like a spring clean-up that you would do at home.
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