v1.9.4

Honor PC Helper 1.9.4

Driver window:

• The rows are labelled by what the device is. The monitor, the virtual display and Windows Studio Effects all sat under "Graphics", so a camera effects component and the panel read as display drivers. The monitor now carries its own label and Windows Studio Effects sits with the camera.

v1.9.3

Honor PC Helper 1.9.3

Driver updates:

• Drivers and BIOS are matched to the exact model again. The shortcut that maps a machine to its HONOR support catalog also accepted the platform code, which several models share, so a MagicBook 16 2026 (JGC-N) was shown the catalog of a MagicBook Pro 14 2026 (ZQC-P). A machine is now identified by its own model code and processor, and every other machine resolves its catalog from the HONOR product tree as before.
• This is what made an audio driver stay out of date however often it was installed: the offered package was built for a Realtek codec, and the machine has a Senary one, so the installer had nothing to update. The right package is offered now.
• For the same reason a BIOS update could be offered that the model's own support page does not list, because it belongs to a different board. A BIOS version from another model can no longer appear.

v1.9.2

Honor PC Helper 1.9.2

Charge limit:

• The chosen charge range is restored after wake. On some models the battery controller drops the thresholds when the lid is closed and opened again, and the tray menu then showed "Disabled" because that is what the EC reported. The app now re-checks the thresholds three times over the first ten seconds after wake and writes the chosen range back if it is gone — through the background task, so no UAC prompt appears.
• The mode picked in the menu is stored separately from the mode read out of the EC, so a firmware reset can no longer overwrite the choice.
• The modes are now named by the level they stop at - "Home (up to 70%)" instead of "Home (40-70%)". Both thresholds are still written to the EC, but the lower one does not describe what a person sees: with a limit set, connecting the charger below that limit starts charging straight away instead of waiting for the battery to fall to the lower number.

v1.9.1

Honor PC Helper 1.9.1

Driver export and import:

• The driver window can now save every third-party driver installed in the system to a single zip archive, and put drivers back from such an archive or from a single .inf file. Both operations run pnputil in a child process elevated once through UAC; the window reports how many packages were transferred and whether Windows asked for a restart.
• The export archive is the one to keep before reinstalling Windows: it does not depend on HONOR's catalogs still serving packages for the model.
• After an import the device inventory and the update check are rebuilt, so the versions on screen are the ones now installed.
• New command-line arguments --export-drivers <archive.zip> and --import-drivers <archive.zip|folder|file.inf>.

Driver window:

• The window now opens at its final height. The device list is built while the tray icon starts, so the rows are laid out before the window is shown instead of a second after it, and the window no longer grows in front of you.
• The list stays the same list across an update check. Row titles come from the local device inventory only; the check now merely fills in the release date, the available version and the colour, instead of rewriting every name with the title of the HONOR package.

v1.9.0

Honor PC Helper 1.9.0

Download size:

• The portable executable is now compressed: 117 MB → 49 MB. Startup time is unchanged.

Responsiveness:

• The tray icon appears immediately after launch. Everything that talks to WMI and HID — the touchpad readers, the Fn+P event subscription, the first sensor read — is now brought up in the background instead of on the way to the first painted icon.
• The tray menu no longer enumerates every HID device in the system each time it opens: the touchpad is looked up once and the result is kept until the device is reconnected.
• Applying a setting from the menu no longer waits in 50 ms steps. The privileged task is polled from 5 ms, and its registration is verified once per session instead of on every command, which also removes a Task Scheduler COM call from each sensor refresh.
• The four tray icons are drawn once and reused, so a burst of system theme notifications no longer redraws them.

Driver check:

• Requests to the HONOR catalogs are compressed and reuse connections; the slow Win32_PnPSignedDriver inventory is enumerated in a single pass.
• Version and identifier parsing uses compiled regular expressions.

Fixes:

• The driver window no longer leaks font handles every time it is opened.
• A sensor read or a display wake-up that happens within a few seconds of booting is no longer swallowed by its own rate limit.
• A touchpad setting written to a device path that went stale is retried once against a freshly enumerated device.
• The log file is rotated to .1 instead of being deleted when it reaches 1 MB.

Documentation:

• The READMEs now describe what each menu item actually does, which interfaces and endpoints are used, where settings, logs and downloads are stored, the command-line arguments, and how to uninstall.

v1.8.3

Honor PC Helper 1.8.3

Application updates:

• Updating the portable executable no longer asks for administrator rights. Windows allows a running exe to be renamed, so the new build is put in place by the application itself; the elevation prompt is left only for the case where the executable lives in a write-protected folder such as Program Files.
• After such an update the application no longer restarts with administrator rights. The new build is started by the ordinary user process, the way it was started before the update.
• The update no longer depends on a PowerShell helper and no longer waits for the application to exit before replacing the file, so the restart is immediate.
• If the replacement fails, the previous build is put back instead of leaving the folder without an executable, and declining the elevation prompt is treated as a cancelled update rather than an error.
• Downloaded update files and the replaced build are removed on the next start instead of being kept in the local application data folder.

v1.8.2

Honor PC Helper 1.8.2

Driver list accuracy:

• Installed driver versions are now read from the right device. Short keywords are matched as whole words, so "Microsoft Input Configuration Device" is no longer mistaken for the neural processor, and the Gaussian & Neural Accelerator of older platforms is no longer reported as the NPU.
• When several devices belong to one HONOR package, the version shared by most of them is reported instead of the highest one found, and vendor drivers are preferred over the generic Windows ones.
• Chipset, graphics, camera, fingerprint, monitor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Smart Sound are detected by device class and hardware ID as well as by name, so localised Windows installations and AMD, NVIDIA and non-Intel models are recognised.
• A package is only announced as an update when its version can actually be compared with the installed one. Undetected components, build dates against driver versions and unrelated numbering schemes are shown for reference instead of being offered as updates that will not install.
• Package versions are read from the most detailed number in the package title, so an operating system suffix is no longer mistaken for the version.
• The log now records the detected version of every component and every offered update, which makes model-specific reports easy to check.

v1.8.1

What's new

Minor fixes

v1.8.0

Honor PC Helper 1.8.0

• Driver and application update checks now bypass stale localhost system proxies left behind by stopped VPN/proxy clients.
• Fixed slow and unreliable driver checks on HONOR ZQC-P/C233: the app now opens the model's official support catalog directly instead of timing out while scanning the full product tree.
• Added Driver management: Honor PC Helper identifies installed HONOR/OEM drivers and downloads verified packages from HONOR's official services.
• Laptop models are matched dynamically by hardware identifiers, processor and memory against HONOR's regional support catalogs; there is no hard-coded model list.
• Update-platform and support-catalog checks are independent, so one unavailable HONOR service no longer blocks the other.
• Honor PC Helper now checks its own GitHub Releases page and can replace and restart the portable exe when a newer release is available.
• Driver packages are downloaded over HTTPS. Checksums are verified when HONOR provides them, and extracted installers must have a valid Authenticode signature before they can be saved.

v1.7.2

What's new

• The config.json settings file is no longer read. Its three options had sensible values already, and the file was one more thing to keep next to the exe: the sensor refresh interval and the touchpad brightness gesture are now built in, and a leftover config.json is simply ignored.
• The brightness step of the left-edge touchpad gesture went from 5% to 3%, so a swipe adjusts the backlight more gently. This applies to the fallback path only - on machines where the HONOR firmware handles the step it stays at the firmware's 10%.