WebSite-Watcher 2010 has several improvements to check for and install new program versions.
Beside the optional automatic update check you can now also look for new Final or Beta versions in the Help menu (“Check for new version…”).
When a new version has been detected, you are asked if you want to install the new version automatically or if you only want to open the download page to download and install the setup manually.
If you select “Install Now”, then WebSite-Watcher will automatically download and install the new version with just a minimum of mouse clicks. Concretely, WebSite-Watcher downloads the setup package and calls the setup afterwards, no need to select the setup folder and other configurations during the setup, this is done automatically.
This new update functionality has been introduced in WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.0 Beta-4). Beta-5 will be released in a couple of days, then you’ll be able to test this new feature.
Just used the automated update process. It worked, but it would have been better if you could close down Website-Watcher automatically once I’ve made the choice to do that in the dialog. It was a little confusing when the message came up saying that the update would proceed if I closed Website-Watcher.
@Snowbound , have you selected “Install Now” or “Install Later”?
If you click the “Install Now” button, then WSW should be closed automatically and the new version will be installed. If you click “Install Later”, then you have to close WSW manually to proceed with the setup.
But I saw that a wrong text is displayed once the download is completed. This will be fixed.