Filehippo Update Checker - Free Beta - List Of Available Updates
Over at filehippo they are offering a free beta program that will check your system and provide you a list of software updates that are available for your system. They also promise that no personal data will be sent back to them. This service is currently in beta testing and they list the PC requirements needed including .net 2.0 needs to be installed. They also provide a link to do this as well.
Filehippo states that their service is:
“Welcome to the new filehippo.com Update Checker!
We’re currently beta testing this exciting new addition to our website and have released it as a public beta for everyone to download.
What is it?
The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.
But it gets better…
The client is FREE, only 100kb to download and only takes seconds to run! In fact on our test machines the process is complete in under 2 seconds!”
Does it work? Sure does. And it is fast as well. The nice part is that you have the choice of updating only the softwares you want and not the whole ball of wax. 
Give it a try here.
This is a very cool update checker. I’ve already used it regularly. Not like Cnet have something like this before and that time it was so annoying with any update that I don’t even heard and want it. As far as I’m concern FileHippo have made simplicity at its best.