What is a patch

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program or application

has problems or needs tweaking then you'll often hear of the software company releasing a

patch for that software

. You can

download patches

fix your software

and these patches are generally much smaller files than the actual software. We tell you more about patches in this episode.

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Show Notes

- A patch is a program that fixes problems in the main program and is generally much smaller than the actual program.

- Simply run the patch like any other program and it makes changes to the program in question.

- In some cases the problem in a program can't be fixed with a patch.

- In cases like that the company would release a new version.

- A patch has the benefit of being much smaller than the program it's fixing.

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