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PatchFactory is a comprehensive and innovative software updating and delivery solution, ensuring that your end-users always have the latest version of your software. PatchFactory performs almost any updating task, including synchronizing files, running an installer, updating your software, and even performing a custom action to keep your customers up-to-date and to significantly reduce your end-user support costs. In its latest release, PatchFactory v3, AgenSoft developers have taken a truly innovative approach making it possible not just to create one patch or update for a certain software version, but also monitor all the software products, product versions and version components that may have been changed and may have different location on the end-user's machine. This innovation is based on the advanced functionality of the new release that includes a version tree, inheritance of properties within product versions and difference manager. The innovative patch building features include cumulative patching to bring all in-field versions up to date using a single self-extracting executable, comparing files with size up to 2^63 Bytes (8589934592 Gb) and flexible control under ratio "time/result" with the help of different comparing methods selection. Among the new patch applying features are customizable dialogs, a familiar wizard-style runtime interface, use of key files and MD5 checks to ensure accuracy, international language support, silent install and silent uninstall with no user interaction required, which can be useful for system administrators and other programs calling the Update Installation program, smart automatic version check to determine the installed version, automatic Rollback at patch applying to guarantee that the end-user's system is successfully updated and Rollback / Uninstall of the update after installation, support for passworded and encrypted installs.
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