Action1: Home Use?

[LeMarchand]

Last weekend was "update weekend" at home when I make sure the five Windows machines in the house are patched and have up-to-date software. I got to thinking about whether it would save me time to set up Action1 for this. I can't see any licensing/T&C type reason why not. Has anyone done this and was it useful in an environment that likely has a higher incidence of more esoteric software?

[pete]

I use it to make sure the parent's devices are up-to-date, with occasional ad-hoc remote support.  Their setups are pretty vanilla.

 

I have it on the gaming PC at home and told it not to fiddle with drivers on that computer.

[TwistedHelixis]

I have it at home on 3 kids computers, my PC and my wife's laptop. I also use A1 for the school. 

[chrisgreenwood]

On 11/06/2026 at 15:50, TwistedHelixis said:

I have it at home on 3 kids computers, my PC and my wife's laptop. I also use A1 for the school. 

 

what is it like for schools? may be considering it as a replacement

[LeMarchand]

31 minutes ago, chrisgreenwood said:

 

what is it like for schools? may be considering it as a replacement

 

I've deployed it at all 3 of my schools and I find it really useful. When it's first set up there may be some kickback as it finds a lot of stuff to update.

[DrCheese]

13 minutes ago, LeMarchand said:

 

I've deployed it at all 3 of my schools and I find it really useful. When it's first set up there may be some kickback as it finds a lot of stuff to update.

What's the cost for over the 200 endpoint trial? (If you are above that!) - Reddit says it flies up after that >.<

[chrisgreenwood]

i think our endpoint count is over double

[LeMarchand]

15 hours ago, DrCheese said:

What's the cost for over the 200 endpoint trial? (If you are above that!) - Reddit says it flies up after that >.<

 

Never asked as each school is it's own entity (I have 3 contracts) and the one with the highest Windows machine count is barely above 100.

[Arthur]

On 11/06/2026 at 13:46, LeMarchand said:

I got to thinking about whether it would save me time to set up Action1 for this.

 

PatchMyPC have a free and automated updater app specifically for home PCs.

 

https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater/ 

[LeMarchand]

20 minutes ago, Arthur said:

 

PatchMyPC have a free and automated updater app specifically for home PCs.

 

https://patchmypc.com/product/home-updater/ 

 

Last time I tried PMPC I wasn't impressed though maybe I should give it another go as it looks more polished now. I think when I tried it it wasn't finding as many updates as UCheck, which is my "final check" tool. I can't remember what I used before UCheck but it worked really well until I was forced to swap because the dev just suddenly shut up shop. I suspect that they were made an offer to fold the project into a commercial project.