Filehippo

I don't have an answer for it then. Sorry.

Try to put the program into the startup programs. Find the program.exe e.g. in Program Files on C and do a "send to" desktop. That creates a shortcut of the program on the desktop. Then press "Start" and type: shell:startup and press enter. That will put the startup folder on your desktop. Drag the shortcut from before into that folder and close the folder. Now the icon should appear all the time in the notification area.
If it appears only in the notification box, click on the little arrow under it and drag the icon onto the taskbar.

cestode said:

thanks whs
That sounds a bit complicated for me but I'll try tomorrow morning and post the result
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Cestode

It is actually very simple. All you need to do is to move a shortcut of the program.exe into the startup folder. I have given a bit more verse assuming you might not have done a similar operation before. And dragging the shortcut from the notification box to the taskbar (if required), should be simple too.

Sympatico said:

Personally I'd drop FileHippo, PSI Secunia is far better but even then I wouldn't have it running in the background, as much as it wants to. I'd set it up that it runs once a week as a scheduled task.

That is not a bad idea. Just make sure you run Secunia either manually or as a scheduled task as Sympatico suggests. Else it can be somewhat a pain in the neck.

Secunia PSI will look for insecure, and end of life programs. But if an older version is not insecure, it won't tell you a new version is available. Fillehippo Update Checker tells you when a new version (or Beta version if you so choose) is available for Apps you have installed. Not quite a comparison. I generally check File Hippo every day since only takes a second, but I have the Update Checker exe, not installed. A Guy

OK, didn't want to leave you hanging if you want to go further. I set mine to start with windows. At 1st I got the icon for the hippo and his eyes blinked. But then the notification icon turned to the green one on the left in this pic



Clicking on it did bring up the update page, but no hippo after a few seconds. Is it possible that yours is changing as well? I have no experience with it before, so can't say if this is a change.

Also, when windows has started, with the checker setup per all the advice above (set to start with windows) do you show this process in task manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc)?



There are other update apps that I have tried, I like Filehippo, so I stuck to it, but it only shows updates for programs you have installed that Filehippo also carries. Here are some other update apps:

Free Sortware Update Monitors

A Guy