Nexus Ultimate History


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    Winstep Software Technologies

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Version 24.4 build 1175 - April 28, 2024 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated Spanish language file.

* Updated Chinese (Simplified) language file.

* The Windows 11 22H2 CPU usage mitigation settings will now only appear on the CPU Meter settings panel if running under the affected systems (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2).

* Added option to show password when typing a new password to the Email Checker module settings dialog.  

* Universal Apps can now also be set to 'Run As Administrator' in the Item Properties dialog.

* 'Allow Multiple Instances' setting in the Item Properties dialog can now also be applied to Universal Apps. Allows launching multiple instances of the same application without having to press SHIFT or double-click even if 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' is active.

* Added 3 additional fish types to choose from for Wanda.

* Added another possible option to the License Key Troubleshooter, where a license key file exists in the proper folder but is for the wrong product. 

* Language names in the About tab now always list the English name first.


Fixes:

* The Command Prompt (Admin) and Windows Power Shell (Admin) items in the context menu of the 'Start Menu' internal command were not launching those applications elevated. 

* UAC prompt no longer appears minimized in the taskbar when launching applications that require elevation from menus.

* 'Media Mute' internal command introduced in v23.11 would change to an invalid 'CD Control' internal command upon restarting the application.

* If the 'Combine dock icons with running applications' was enabled, it was possible for an icon on the dock to remain flashing for attention even after the associated application had already been closed.

* The hide animation of a Grid Stack was stealing the focus from an application launched through it, which could cause full screen games launched from a Grid Stack to minimize to the taskbar immediately.

* If the "Disable all animations" setting under the General Preferences tab was checked a Grid Stack would pop up without being sent to the foreground, which could cause it to appear behind other windows.

* From Windows 8 onwards trying to rename a file using a name that already exists no longer resulted in a prompt asking the user if he wished to append (x) to the filename, the operation would fail with an error instead. The Winstep application now detects this situation itself, offers the actual prompt to add (x) to the target name and forces a rename collision if the user agrees. 

* The application could crash if a live thumbnail right click context menu got unexpectadly unloaded. 

* The URL used in the Weather module first time setup for IP to Country conversion was no longer working.



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Version 23.11 build 1172 - December 8, 2023 - Official Release


New Features:

* Added partial Danish translation.

* Updated Spanish language file.

* Updated Czech language file, updated language name to Èeština.

* Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file.

* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Added new 'Reset Reserved Screen Areas" Internal Command. This will reset any areas reserved for shelves, docks, etc - useful when Windows gets confused about areas of the screen that should not be covered by maximized windows. It will also reset any multi-monitor and per-monitor tasklists.

* The 'Renew Now' button will now also appear on the About tab of Preferences if the user's upgrade subscription has expired and he is running a version that no longer works with his current license key.

* Added all the Windows 10/11 Start button right click menu options to the contexct menu of a 'Start Menu' internal command.

* Added new 'Use Legacy Mode' setting, disabled by default, to the CPU Module settings dialog.

* If running on Windows 8 or above and 'Use Legacy Mode' is NOT enabled, the total CPU usage percentage displayed on the CPU Meter is now the same as that displayed on the Task Manager of Windows 8 onwards.

* System Interrupts is now also included in the list of processes and their CPU usage.

* Added "Check Service Communication" option to the Troubleshooting Options dialog. Verifies that the Winstep service required to perform actions that require admin privileges (such as installing a theme font) is operating properly.   

* All Windows Settings internal commands now have individual icons instead of all sharing the same icon.

* Added new 'Settings' tab type, displaying all the Windows 10 and 11 Settings categories.

* Under Windows 10 and 11 the default shelf now has a Settings tab instead of a Quick Launch tab.

* Changed the wording of the uninstall survey.

* Added support for per-monitor tasklists: docks, shelves, drawers and even grid-stacks showing a list of running applications can now show windows open on all monitors or only windows open on the current monitor.

* Added global setting 'When using multiple monitors, show running applications on..." to the Tasks tab in Preferences with the following three options: "All tasklists", "Main tasklist and tasklist where window is open" and "Tasklist where window is open".

* Double clicking a folder in a Shelf tab or Drawer set to open folders as Grid Stacks will now open that folder in Explorer.

* Added ".webp" to the list of default thumbnail file types.

* Windows 11: The Search dialog (invoked via the Search internal command) should now pop up next to the mouse pointer.

* Text in the balloon tooltip of Wanda and the Lookup IP Address internal command can now be copied to the Windows clipboard by left clicking the balloon tooltip itself (just not the close button).

* Live preview thumbnails (for running applications) now fade out when clicked on.

* Added new 'Media Mute' internal command, toggles the mute state of audio being played.

* 'Check Internet Connection' in the Troubleshooting Options dialog box now also checks to see if HTTPS connections have been silently disabled due to previous crashes (caused by Acronis Active Protection injecting code into 3rd party processes) and offers the option to re-enable them if so.

* GEO IP feature that retrieves current location based on IP address is now performed through secure HTTPS connections as required by the GEO IP data provider.

* Added 'Allow Multiple Instances' setting to the Item Properties dialog of 'Run Program' item types. Allows launching multiple instances of the same application without having to press SHIFT or double-click even if 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' is active.

* Added work-around to display correct "Legacy" total CPU Usage under Windows 11 22H2 onwards (Microsoft introduced a bug in this Windows release that broke all CPU usage reporting tools, including Windows own Task Manager under the Details tab, and to this date has not fixed it yet).

* Added system-wide fix for incorrect CPU usage reporting on Windows 11 22H2 systems to the CPU Meter settings dialog. This will fix incorrect per process CPU usage both in the Winstep application as well as 3rd party applications (such as the Details tab of Windows own Task Manager). This is accomplished by setting the REG_DWORD value SerializeTimerExpiration to 2 (off) under the key "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Kernel" (note that changing this value requires a reboot for the new setting to take effect). Technical information about SerializeTimerExpiration can be found in page 160 of Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition. WARNING: this value should NOT be set to OFF on systems that support Modern Standby (issue powercfg /AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES on CMD and make sure "S0 Low Power Idle" is NOT supported, this said the Winstep application should automatically disable the option to change this setting on systems that do support Modern Standby).

* Added new 'All Events' setting to the battery monitor module. Provided logging is turned on, this makes the module log power events such as monitor turning off, monitor dimming,  monitor turning on, system shutting down, system entering or coming back from low power states, even when not on battery.

* Added 'Troubleshoot License Key Issues' button to the Troubleshooting Options dialog box.

* Improved handling of multi-monitor profiles and changes in screen resolution.


Fixes:


* The expanded calendar that popped up when you clicked on the iconic calendar module in a dock or shelf would appear blank when using a theme with bitmaps for the desktop version of the calendar module in Winstep Xtreme.

* The currently selected item was not updating itself correctly when creating a new shelf or drawer in the 'Dock and Shelf Management' tab of Preferences.

* The icon cache was not being destroyed as it should when modifying a shelf or drawer via the Shelf Properties dialog.

* Several misc.issues when editing and modifying shelf tabs via the Shelf Properties dialog. 

* The 'Send to WorkShelf' dialog would crash the application when selecting a Grid Stack, a Drawer or a Shelf with no Regular tabs.

* Only Grid Stacks and Drawers with Regular tabs are now shown in the 'Send to WorkShelf' dialog.

* The CPU utilization percentage of the current CPU hog process in balloon tooltips was not respecting the 'Show decimal place for processes' setting.

* Windows 11: automatic theme colorization with the dominant color of the current wallpaper was not picking changes to static wallpapers (i.e. non slideshow) made by the user via the Windows 11 Background Personalization panel.

* The text of the 'Enable Send To Nexus Ultimate in Explorer menus' setting in the 'More Options' dialog of Preferences appeared truncated.

* Minimize animation now goes to the proper dock if using any of the per-monitor tasklist options.

* Fixed 20 year old bug that could prevent some right click context menu actions on files and folders from being displayed (for instance, Properties was not being displayed for folder items under Windows 11).

* Application would freeze under certain conditions when opening the Event Actions dialog of the Battery module.

* Issue that could sometimes prevent folders from being launched in Explorer after changing an item type to Folder in the Item Properties dialog.

* Windows would display an error message when trying to launch a folder marked as "Program" in the Item Properties dialog if the 'Run as Administrator' setting was enabled for that item. This setting is now disregarded if trying to launch a folder in Explorer.

* Trying to restore a minimized window via its live preview thumbnail while the window was being displayed on the screen was failing most of the time.

* Fixed bad mailto URI in the CPU and RAM usage warning dialogs (used ampersand character instead of question mark to separate subject line).

* If the 'Hide after launching an application' setting was enabled, shelves and drawers were collapsing before completing the launch animation.

* If the 'Hide after launching an application' setting was enabled, an accidental double click on a Grid Stack item could cause a shelf or drawer to literally disappear from the screen.

* Mousing over the Hide/Show icon of a vertical shelf or drawer was not displaying the mouseover image.


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Version 22.7 build 1159 - July 8, 2022 - Official Release


New Features:

* Added new 'Windows Widgets' internal command (Windows 11 only). Opens the Widgets panel in Windows 11.

* The pop up calendar module can now be closed by pressing the ESC key. Useful when navigating a dock, etc, using just the keyboard.

* The Grayscale mouseover effect now supports a duration setting. In the slower duration the transition from grayscale to color and vice-versa is immediate.

* Improved transitioninmg to and from full screen apps plus handling of screen resolution and monitor number changes.

* Windows 11: the power, volume and network system icons are now part of the system tray icons again.

* Windows 11: clicking on the clock now shows the Windows 11 calendar instead of the Date and Time dialog.

* Windows 11: The Apps tab type (which should display all installed UWP apps on that system) appeared blank.

* Windows 11: if Windows is using Dark Mode, the Winstep application will, when run for the first time, use Dark Mode Gray for the GUI instead of the Dark Mode Black used under Windows 10.

* Windows 11: Under Windows 11 the name and landing pages of some of the Windows Settings internal commands are slightly different from those in Windows 10 to reflect the changes in the Settings panel of Windows 11.

* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Updated Bulgarian language file.

* Updated Chinese Traditional language file.

* Updated Dutch language file.

* Updated Czech language file.

* Updated Portuguese (Brasil) language file.

* Updated French language file.


Fixes:

* The systray popup panel for Sound devices could appear off-screen when using multiple audio devices.

* Some APC UPSs would slowly alternate between charging and monitoring the battery level after a power outage, which would result in multiple Charging and Power Restored entries in the Power Events Log.

* It was possible to activate a Shelf via a keyboard hotkey while it was still playing a hide or pop up animation. This could result in an unresponsive Shelf.

* The pop up calendar module could be moved with the arrow keys.

* For the MSN Weather data feed, the observation time and day/night icons could be wrong for timezones far from GMT.

* For the MSN Weather data feed, wind direction was always displayed as 0 degrees.

* Trying to move the popup calendar module would make it disappear or abruptly change position.

* A running UWP app would cause any context menu open on a tasklist live thumbnail to close once per second.

* Fixed Chinese/Far Eastern text getting cropped inside buttons in the GUI when the Interface mode in the About tab of Preferences is anything other than 'Standard User Interface'.

* Fixed error in the Weather module's METAR data decoder when converting Atmospheric pressure values from inhg to hpa.


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Version 20.10 build 1154 - October 28, 2020 - Official Release


New Features:

* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Updated Hungarian language file.

* Added compatibility with ObjectDock tabbed dock skins. To see the available OD tabbed dock skins you have installed, select 'Shelf Themes' in the Themes tab of Preferences. This will show both native Winstep skins as well as OD tabbed dock skins.

* Added Pause, Play, Stop, Next and Previous commands to the right click context menu of the Media Player internal command.

* Shelf theme colorization settings are now independent of Global theme colorization settings.

* The Fonts dialog in the Appearance tab of Shelf, Drawer and Grid Stacks now only displays the fonts used for those objects instead of the fonts used in the whole theme.

* Reorganized the Appearance tab of the Shelf, Drawer and Grid Stack Property dialogs.

* The application's invisible main control window is now monitored to make sure it's not made visible again by 3rd party applications.

* Added new 'Windows Settings' internal command to open the Windows 10 UWP Windows Settings panel.

* Removed the "and all its contents" phrase from the confirmation dialog that pops up when trying to delete a dock, drawer or shelf in the Dock & Shelves tab in Preferences, as this could be misleading for folder type shelves and drawers because no actual files are ever deleted.

* The Most Active Programs History dialog now automatically adjusts font size to make up for very large process names.

* Added new 'Show decimal place for processes' option to the settings of the CPU Meter module. When enabled, any list of running processes - like the one shown in the Most Active Programs dialog - will display a decimal place in the percentage of CPU usage for that process (e.g.; 1.3% instead of just 1%, or 1.8% instead of just 2%).

* Added several new internal commands for accessing Windows 10 settings dialogs: Windows Settings, Apps, System, Network & Internet, Devices, Gaming, Time & Language, Accounts, Personalization, Ease of Access, Phone, Privacy, Windows Update, Search Settings and Power Options. These new Internal Commands are all grouped under 'Internal Commands -> Settings' in the insert new item right click context menus.

* Sunrise and sunset times are now correctly calculated for the MSN weather feed, which allows choosing whether to display a moon or a sun icon with nearly 100% accuracy.

* An icon pointing to Explorer.exe in the dock now only displays a running indicator if there are Explorer windows open.

* Docks, Shelves and Drawers can now be docked to and undocked from any screen edge and monitor by simply dragging them (users can press the ALT key while left clicking to make it easier). When docked they will show some initial resistance to being undocked by 'shaking' when they are about to detach. When docking or undocking by dragging, the Detach event sounds to give the user some audio feedback. To dock an horizontal dock or shelf, drag so the top edge touches the top screen edge or the bottom edge touches the bottom screen edge. To dock an horizontal dock or shelf to the side of the screen so it changes orientation, slowly drag it until the mouse pointer nearly touches the desired screen edge. To prevent docks, shelves and drawers from accidentally docking when moving them from one monitor to another, the auto-docking mechanism is speed sensitive: move across monitors rapidly to prevent the auto-docking mechanism from kicking in. The auto-docking/snap-to feature can be disabled in the 'More Options' dialog of the Behavior tab of the Properties dialog of Shelves, docks and Drawers.

* The width of checkboxes in the User Interface is now automatically cropped so that clicking on a blank space right after the setting description no longer toggles the setting.

* Added 'Disable simulated ALT key press when forcing windows to the foreground' setting to the More Options dialog in the General tab of Preferences. This should be checked only if having trouble with ALT+TAB or the ALT key getting stuck.

* The Winstep Update Manager will now report hidden updates if the user performs a manual check for updates.

* Increased the transparency of the non-lit LCD digits for better readability in full screen alarms/clock/sleep timer.



Fixes:

* Opening the Appearance tab of a Shelf Properties dialog and pressing the OK button would make all temporary folder Grid Stacks from that Shelf open in a 1x1 icon grid.

* Under Windows 10 viewing the Change Log could freeze the application for a long time or even crash it with an out of memory error.

* Displaying icon labels in alternate lines in Shelves, Drawers and Grid Stacks was not displaying the labels in the correct position.

* The 'snap mouse pointer to default button' feature only worked when using the 'Standard User Interface' mode.

* Disabling or Enabling icon reflections in the dock via the right click context menu would cause icons of UWP apps to show as question marks.

* Disabling the "Do not launch multiple sessions on the same application" setting would still require the user to double click on an icon to launch another session if the 'Combine dock icons with running applications' setting was also enabled.

* The sub-menu drop down delay setting in the Behavior tab of a Dock Properties dialog had no effect.

* On modern systems running more than 256 simultaneous processes, the CPU hog list might not accurately reflect the applications using the most of the CPU at the time. This was fixed in the Winstep service by doubling the limit to 512 simultaneous processes.

* Themes with no name on the INI configuration file would appear on Theme right click context menus as blank entries. They now appear labeled as 'Untitled'.

* Certain SYSTEM processes were not being enumerated properly and/or always returned 0% CPU and RAM usage.

* Fixed some issues related to a Shelf's theme no longer being the same as the 'global' theme.

* METAR weather information retrival is now automatically disabled if the application crashes when using a 3rd party DLL to access NOAA's website via HTTPS.

* The MSN weather feed was not reporting the correct observation time for locations outside the GMT timezone.

* Setting the position or orientation of Shelves and Drawers in the associated Properties dialog was no longer doing anything.

* The first forecast day of the MSN weather feed sometimes pointed to the previous day, which caused the 5 day forecast to be out by one day (e.g.; the forecast for Fri would appear on the Sat slot).

* Albany Airport, Australia had the wrong METAR code and was showing the conditions for Albury, Australia.

* The 'Repeat every <x> years> option for alarms was not working properly.

* Shelves and Drawers with 3rd party themes might stop responding to clicks on the tabs after collapsing.

* Dropping a folder into the left panel of the Media Player Settings dialog would create a playlist with the name of that folder and all the mp3 files in it, but it would miss the very first file.

* Version 2004 of Windows 10 changed the default initial dimensions of system tray pop ups which now caused them to appear off screen.

* The fix in the betas for the first forecast day of the MSN weather feed being wrong ended up corrupting the current weather conditions.



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Version 19.2 build 1144 - March 7, 2019 - Silent Update


New Features:

* Updated Hungarian language file

Fixes:

* Fixed major data loss bug in Shelves that could cause the contents of Regular tab types to be lost when inserting a new folder type tab or changing the type or folder path of an existing tab via the Tab Properties dialog.

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Version 19.2 build 1143 - February 28, 2019 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Updated Simplified Chinese language file.

* Under Windows 10 with Dark Mode enabled for the UI, the color of the section category text in Preferences is always kept bright even if the currently selected Windows accent color is darker.

* Current multi-monitor configuration/profile is now saved on exit.

* A dock set to always be behind other windows now remains above other windows while a sub-dock or grid stack is open.

* Folder items set to open as menus can now be double clicked to open in an Explorer window instead.

* All weather feeds now support HTTPS connections.

* Grid Stacks can now be optionally set to a fixed width and/or fixed height in the Appearance tab of the Grid Stack Properties panel.

* Added new 'Light Mode' to the User Interface to match the new Windows 10 Light mode.

* When adding an URL item a default replacement icon is now used if the system does not have a usable class icon defined for HTML documents.

* By default screen edge bump activations are limited to the width of the dock to help prevent accidental activations. Added new 'Activate along entire screen edge' option to the Edge Bump Settings dialog to disable this behavior.

* Updated Windows 10 style User Interface icons.

* Added new 'Say the Time' option to the action taken when clicking on the clock module.

* The 'Winstep Multi Media Player' helper application (WsMMPlay.exe) is now also shutdown when the application exits, just in case it needs to be updated or removed.

* Sticky Notes UWP app in Windows 10 is now handled properly in the list of running applications and when pinning it to the dock.


Fixes:

* Left clicking on a UWP app in a Shelf, Drawer or Grid Stack would always launch a new instance regardless of the current 'Do not launch multiple sessions' setting.

* Under Windows 10 the sndPlaySound Windows API call used to play event sounds was leaking memory and an handle every time it was called (for instance, every time the hide/show sound was played). Fixed by adding the SND_SYSTEM flag which makes the sound be played by the system instead of from inside the application's own process space.

* Changing the Ascending/Descending order in the 'Sort By' field in the Content tab of a Shelf, Drawer or Grid Stack Properties panel had no effect.

* Setting the position of a Shelf or a Drawer by selecting the monitor in the UI (instead of a context menu or by dragging) was not working properly on multi-monitor systems.

* The routine responsible for peeking window thumbnails could be interrupted, which could potentially crash the application with an array locked error and leave most windows only partially visible or not visible at all, which could only be fixed by a Windows restart.

* Asus GPU Tweak II is no longer affected by AeroPeek emulation as it does not restore properly afterwards.

* The selected text effect for floating labels set in the Label Settings dialog was not being applied, the label always used the Outline effect.

* NOAA's weather feed had stopped working because the web site now enforced HTTPS access and no longer supported HTTP access. 

* Fixed issue where METAR current weather conditions could show only a single 'Possible' word if no weather phenonema was present.

* Clicking Apply or Ok in the Properties panel of a Grid Stack opened before opening the Grid Stack itself was reseting the position of the Grid Stack to the top left screen corner.

* Fixed Access Violation crash that could still happen when rendering the icons of a UWP Apps Drawer, Grid Stack or Shelf tab on a Windows 10 system.

* Kb, Mb and Gb units shown throughout the application are now properly displayed as KB, MB and GB to prevent them from being confused with Kbits, Mbits and Gigabits.  

* Icons in Shelves, Grid Stacks and Drawers were not being properly refreshed after editing the item in the Item Properties dialog.

* In Windows 10 it is no longer possible to capture the content of layered windows which resulted in all black thumbnails for icons of running applications.

* The Battery Settings and the Power Events dialogs could take a long time to open for large power event logs.

* The next activation date of alarms set to go off yearly was not being correctly calculated.


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Version 18.12 build 1135 - December 25, 2018 - Silent Update


Fixes:


* The 'Disable Boing Effect' setting in a dock's Auto-Hide Settings dialog was not doing anything.


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Version 18.12 build 1133 - December 17, 2018 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated Portuguese language file.

* In the Shelf/Drawer Transparency dialog, the user can now also specify that the tab text and control icons remain opaque. This allows making the Shelf or Drawer background fully transparent while still being able to switch to different tabs, collapse it, etc...

* Floating label settings have now been moved to their own independent dialog, with immediate preview of changes.

* Type of text effect applied to floating labels can now be specified (Normal, Outline, Shadow, Sharp, Emboss).

* Opacity of the text effect applied to floating labels can now be specified.

* The luminosity of the background color used in the label preview box can be changed with the mouse scroll wheel.

* Improved sharpness of icon label text in Shelves and Drawers.

* Moved the menu scaling setting to the Appearance tab of Docks, Shelves and Drawers Properties dialog.

* 'Pin to Dock' right click menu option has been moved to the top of the menu.

* Sub-docks attached to Shelves and Drawers are now properly named in context menus and in the Item Properties dialog as 'Sub-Docks'.

* The right click context menu of a sub-dock attached to a Shelf or Drawer now more suitably says 'Delete sub-dock' instead of 'Remove from Shelf'.

* Themes can now also specify the running indicator image by including a 'NxIndicator.png/.tif/.ico' bitmap file in the theme folder. The theme will only use that indicator bitmap, however, if the user has left the running indicator selection as 'Default' instead of specifically choosing an indicator from the list of available indicator bitmaps.

* you can now specify 'No Label' for icon labels in Shelves and Drawers, at which point not even a floating label on mouseover is displayed.

* The entire contents of sub-docks can now be copied by dragging & dropping a sub-dock icon while pressing the CTRL key.

* Right clicking on a Folder item set to open as a menu and selecting Open from the context menu that pops up now opens the folder in Explorer.

* The Browse for Folder feature now uses a more flexible version of the dialog.

* Added new 'Grid Stacks'.  Grid Stacks can be added as icons to docks, shelves and drawers. Like Shelf tabs, a Grid Stack can be one of many different types (Regular, Folder, Desktop, Recent, etc...). Like sub-docks, Grid Stacks are only kept open temporarily, until the user clicks somewhere else. The size of Grid Stacks is calculated automatically. Grid Stacks, like sub-docks, can be nested inside each other to as many levels as the user wants. Each Grid Stack has individual settings that can be accessed by right clicking the icon and selecting 'Grid Stack Properties'. To add a new Grid Stack, right click, select 'Add New Item', then Grid Stack then select the type of Grid Stack you want.

* Added 'Convert to Grid Stack' option to the context menu of folders in docks and Regular Shelf tabs or Drawers.

* Added 'Convert to Folder' to the context menu of folder type Grid Stacks.

* Added 'change Folder' to the context menu of folder type Grid Stacks, to make it quicker to change the folder a 'folder type' Grid Stack is pointing to.

* Added 'Downloads' (shows the contents of the Downloads folder) new tab type to Shelves, Drawers and Grid Stacks.

* Replaced the old 'RAS Connections' tab type with new 'Connections' tab, showing all the available network connections on the sytem.

* The user now always gets a confirmation dialog When deleting a sub-dock or Grid Stack regardless of the current delete confirmation settings.

* Improved the icon caching mechanism.

* Contents of Grid Stacks are now cached in memory after opening the Grid Stack for the first time.

* The colors of the icon grid in Shelves and Grid Stacks are now calculated automatically when the original theme did not support them or the theme author did not set them correctly.

* Added new 'Open folders in Grid Stacks' setting to Folder type tabs in a Shelf or Folder type Drawers and Grid Stacks. Opens all folders as a temporary Grid Stack when clicking on them - note that folders can still be opened in Explorer by right clicking and selecting Open or in a menu by right clicking and selecting 'Browse'.

* Added 'Open as Grid Stack' option to the right click context menu of folders.

* Deleting a 'Regular' type tab in the Contents tab of a Shelf Properties dialog now prompts for confirmation.

* Changed the default Capture Delay of the Capture Desktop internal command from none to 5 seconds.

* Added 'Ascending/Descending' settings to the Sort By options of tabs that can be sorted.

* Opening Network related tabs (such as Network Connections) no longer blocks the application while Windows discovers all the network objects.

* Grid Stacks can be detached by dragging them away from the original position. Detached Grid Stacks stay open until the user explicitily closes them.

* Some previous per-dock/shelf settings are now global (i.e.; they apply to all docks and shelves): switch shelf mini-tabs, shift icons to insert, open sub-docks on mouseover, no final boing animation effect, close sub-docks on launch, no icon reflection on vertical sub-docks.

* Added new 'Detach' sound event, played when a Grid Stack is detached.

* Improved keyboard navigation of Shelves, Drawers and Grid Stacks.

* Added new 'Quick Search Filter' to Shelves, Drawers and Grid Stacks. Simply start typing to start filtering content: a search box pops up so you can see what you are typing and know that content is currently being filtered. The ESC key can be used to terminate the filter and backspace to delete characters.

* The Quick Search filter and be disabled in the More Options dialog of the Behavior tab of Shelves, Drawers and Grid Stacks. The color of the Quick Search filter can be customized in the same place.

* A Shelf set to hide the tabs can now always be activated by screen edge bump or swipe.

* A Shelf or Drawer docked to a screen edge and inverted can now also be expanded by pulling the bottom edge.

* Pressing ESC on a Shelf/Drawer now collapses the Shelf Drawer. Pressing Enter when the Shelf/Drawer is collapsed expands it.

* Some Shelf themes no longer appear as if the top of the Shelf body has been 'cropped' when the tabs are set to be left, centered, or right justified.

* Windows shortcuts (.lnk files) to folders and now also be opened as Grid Stacks and browsed via menus.

* Added automatic multi-monitor profiles, allowing different objects to be at different positions and enabled/disabled for each monitor configuration. Multi MOnitor Profiles can be disabled in the General tab of Preferences.

* Thumbnail extraction should now be much faster as it now uses the local Windows thumbnail cache when available.

* Added new 'Reset Icon Cache' option to the Dock and Shelf Management sub-menu in the main right click context menu of Shelves, Drawers and Grid Stacks. It purges and rebuilds the internal icon cache.



Fixes:


* Fixed some lingering issues with pinning some Windows Store Apps to the dock.

* Dragging a floating Drawer across the screen when collapsed by dragging it by the tab, would make it randomly jump all over, sometimes even going off screen.

* When using a Dock and Shelf Management option to create a tab in a Shelf from a Drawer or a Dock, the application was asking the user to select a Shelf even if there was only one Shelf created.

* Text greater than 10.pt with the outline and shadow effects was being rendered at a smaller size than it should.

* The balloon tooltip was not displaying file information if the filename was enclosed in quotes.

* The Media Player icon in Shelves and Drawers was not accepting dropped audio files or folders.

* Selecting 'Run As Administrator' from a context menu and then replying 'No' to the UAC prompt would result in a second UAC prompt appearing on a 64 bit system.

* When deleting alarms in the Alarm Manager the alarm selection could jump to a different alarm than the next one on the list.

* Fixed potential data loss issue where a sub-dock could be deleted when dragging it into a new position in the main dock.

* An in-Shelf sub-dock could become 'stuck' and not open again until the application was restarted if a Shelf or Drawer was closed with a sub-dock still open.

* Fixed issue that could cause the wrong item to be deleted when moving an item from one Shelf or Drawer to another.

* Clicking on a Language Bar IC in a sub-dock to open the Language Bar menu was closing the sub-dock.

* The 'Run As' and 'Open Folder in a Menu' item attributes where not being carried over when moving or copying items via drag & drop.

* Clicking on a folder menu for the second time now closes the menu instead of closing it and immediately opening it again.

* Fixed issue displaying the icon of and the launching of some files with a filename containing non-ANSI characters.

* Fixed issue with drag & drop of some files with a filename containing non-ANSI characters.

* Text in the Shareware Reminder dialog was getting cropped at the end on high DPI systems.

* When removing an item from a Shelf the confirmation prompt mentioned a Drawer instead.

* Fixed minor memory leak when closing Shelfs, Drawers or Grid Stacks showing folders in the user's hard drive.

* Fixed potential corruption if changing the contents of docks while also changing the contents of Shelves via the Contents tab of a Shelf Properties dialog.

* Fixed access violation error that could happen when deleting the last file in a folder type tab and also an associated visual glitch where the icon disappeared only to re-appear immediately.

* Sort By Date was only taking the date into consideration and ignoring the time.

* When opening a 'Network' tab type in a Shelf or Grid Stack for the second time, items with exactly the same name would show identical icons.

* Monochrome 1bit icons (i.e.; color bitmap) could crash the application.

* Animated icons were not being properly colorized when icon colorization was applied.

* Fixed issue where the blur region of a fully expanded Shelf could be displayed for a collapsed Shelf.

* The left mini-tab symbol was not being positioned properly for Shelves/Drawers docked to the right screen edge.

* Under some circustances a tab would still show when the Shelf/Drawer was collapsed even if 'Hide Tabs' was enabled.

* Fixed Power Options icon in a Windows Control Panel tab appearing as a Question Mark icon.

* When opening or closing a sub-dock, any particle animation launch effect in the parent dock would be cut short.

* Deleting or moving a Shelf tab while the Shelf Properties dialog was open could lead to corruption and/or content loss of one or more Regular tabs in that Shelf.

* Changes made to the properties of a Shelf tab while the Shelf Properties dialog was open would be lost.

* Fixed minimum Drawer size calculation which could allow the tab header to become cropped with certain themes.

* 'Disable menu scaling on high DPI settings' was no longer working properly after adding manual menu scaling in v18.10.

* 'Disable Shelf scaling on high DPI settings' was not properly scaling font size after v18.8.

* Selecting 'No Effect' in the Effects Panel and then clicking on the Effect Settings button would crash the application.


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Version 18.10 build 1120 - October 9, 2018 - Official Release 


New Features:


* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Added new 'Create Drawer from Dock' context menu option to docks.

* Added new 'Create Drawer from this tab' context menu option to Shelves.

* Added new 'Make Shelf tab from this Drawer' context menu option to Drawers.

* Added ability to colorize icons with one of three different methods (Tint, Hue, Tone) manually with a solid color or automatically with the dominant color of the current desktop wallpaper or the system Accent color (Windows 10).

* If Weather.com returns valid weather data but N/A for the current temperature, the weather module will now fall back on the redundant MSN and Yahoo weather feeds.

* Default height of Drawers reduced by 20 pixels.

* Height of Drawers can now be increased or decreased by modifying the vertical icon spacing.

* Pressing SHIFT while clicking on a Shelf or Drawer's scroll arrow now scrolls a full page of icons. Pressing CTRL scrolls to the end or beginning.

* Icons in a Shelf can now centered and right justified by selecting the appropriate option in the Appearance tab of the Shelf Properties dialog. When centered no icon grid is displayed.

* Added new 'Icon Alignment' sub-menu to a Shelf's main right click/left mini-tab context menu.

* The Weather forecast subdock now also opens automatically if sub-docks are set to open on mouseover.

* When deleting a Regular type tab in the Contents tab of a Shelf/Drawer Properties dialog, the user is no longer asked for confirmation if that tab has no content.

* Changed shape and size of dock label balloon backgrounds.

* The Snooze duration in the Alarm Settings panel of the Alarm itself can now be set up to 24 hours (the slider counts minutes up to 59 and starts counting in hour intervals after that).

* Menus can now be manually scaled by up to 200% (More Options dialog of General tab in Preferences).

* Dock right click context menus should no longer overlap dock icons when open, especially for docks at the bottom of the screen.



Fixes:


* The 'Make dock from this tab' option in the Shelf's tab context menu no longer worked and could potentially corrupt an existing dock.

* The application might fail to enter or exit a Power Saving mode when configured to do so for full screen applications if the game changed the screen resolution or otherwise signaled a display change.

* Fixed issue that could cause dragging an open Drawer into a new position on the screen very difficult.

* On Windows 10 hybrid UWP/Win32 apps were not being handled properly. They could be pinned to the dock but trying to run them would only result in an error message that the path or file is not accessible being displayed.

* When dragging an item over a Drawer, the Drawer was automatically inserting a blank insertion point even if the Drawer type did not allow drag & drop operations.

* The right click menu option for changing playlist of the built-in Media Player wasn't doing anything if a music was playing or the Media Player was paused.

* Fixed issue that only happened on some systems where the icons on a Drives tab of the Shelf would become corrupt after expanding the Shelf.

* Fixed several misc.visual issues related to menu scaling on high DPI settings.



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Version 18.8 build 1118 - August 29, 2018 - Official Release


New Features:


* New Arabic language file.

* Updated the Hungarian language file.

* Updated Portuguese language file.

* The balloon tooltip of the 'Check for Updates' internal command now displays the last check for updates date as 'yesterday at' or 'today at' instead of the full date if the last check for updates occured less than 48 hours ago.

* The 'Task Manager' internal command now also appears in the 'System' category.

* Added support for multiple Shelves. Just like docks, each Shelf can have its own theme and settings.

* Added true high DPI support to Shelves. Previously only font sizes and icon sizes were affected, now the whole Shelf properly scales up on high-DPI systems.

* Added ability to scale Shelves up to 200% via a slider in the Appearence tab of the Shelf Properties dialog.

* Added new 'Scale' sub-menu to the 'Appearance and Sounds' sub-menu of the Shelf's main context menu.

* Number of icon rows shown at once on a Shelf is not collapsed can now go up to 99. The Shelf will only display as many icon rows as will fit on the screen.

* Updated the 'Send to Nexus Ultimate' dialog so it can now handle multiple shelves.

* You can now disable voices independently of sounds and vice-versa.

* Added new 'Lock/Unlock Shelf Theme' option to the 'Appearance and Sounds' sub-menu of the Shelf's main context menu.

* Added support for vertical Shelves and options to dock them on left and right screen edges.

* Added 'Create New Shelf' and 'Duplicate Shelf' options to the 'Dock and Shelf Management' sub-menu of the Shelf's main context menu.

* 'Make Shelf tab from Dock' now prompts the user for a Shelf the new tab should be added to if there is more than one Shelf.

* 'In-Shelf Docks' were renamed to 'Sub-Docks'.

* Added new 'Tone' colorization method to colorize black and white (monochrome) background bitmaps.

* Added new 'Colorize with Windows Accent Color' option (Windows 10 only).

* Added new 'Now Playing' right click context menu option to the Media Player internal command, allowing a song in the currently selected playlist to be selected and immediately played.

* Added 'Repeat every <x> days/months/years' setting to the alarms.

* Added new 'Drawers' object, a sort of single tabbed Shelf which will automatically extend by default to show all its items when open.

* Added 'Create New Drawer' option to the 'Dock and Shelf Management' right-click context menu and to the 'Dock & Shelves' tab in Preferences.

* Resizing a Shelf or Drawer by pulling on the tab header is now performed with a smooth animation.

* Hovering over a Shelf tab with a truncated name due to lack of space now pops up a tooltip with the full title of the tab.

* Deleting a Shelf tab or changing it's type from Regular to something else could leave invisible and undeletable orphaned docks if that tab hosted any sub-docks.

* Added 'Check Integrity of Dock and Shelves' button to the Troubleshooting Options dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences. This option checks the internal data structures for errors and offers to fix them automatically if it finds any.

* Adjusted the position of dock icon labels for docks not using the magnify effect so the label does not 'sit on the edge' of the dock background bitmap.

* It's now possible to pass arguments to UWP Apps by defining the argument in the Item Properties dialog.



Fixes:


* The 'Task Manager' internal command was not working on Windows 10.

* Canceling a theme change in Preferences after applying it was not restoring the proper theme for docks with individual themes.

* Removing an item from the Shelf with auto-hide enabled resulted in the Shelf collapsing while the delete animation was still playing and then popping up as if expanded (but without being truly expanded).

* On certain themes smooth scrolling the Shelf would not display correctly if the Shelf was docked to the top or inverted when docked to the bottom.

* On certain legacy themes (OpenSTEP, for instance) the left and right mini-tab symbols were not displayed if the Shelf was docked to the top of the screen.

* Fixed issues related to being able to horizontally resize the Shelf beyond the minimum Shelf width.

* A dock set to auto-hide for maximized applications when always on top could fail to activate when the maximized application was no longer maximized if the dock was also set to display running applications. 

* Fixed many misc.issues related to Shelves.

* Fixed 'Respect space reserved by other docks, toolbars and screen objects' not respecting the space reserved by toolbars perpendicular to the dock or Shelf. 

* Changes made to the contents of docks while the Shelf Properties dialog was open would be lost when the dialog was closed.

* It was possible to restore from a backup with Dock and Shelf Properties dialogs still open, holding settings for docks and Shelves that no longer existed after the Restore.

* It was possible to make changes directly to the contents of a Shelf while the Shelf Properties dialog was still open, which would result in those changes being lost. Direct changes to a Shelf are now blocked if changes have been made in the Shelf Contents tab and the Shelf Properties dialog is still open.

* Fixed issue with the names of themes on a Themes context menu if a Themes tab in Preferences was currently open.

* Text appeared black on Low and Critical Battery alarm reminders.

* The 'Colorize text' option in the Color Settings dialog was not being applied.

* Colorizing a dock background via the Color Settings dialog in the Themes tab of the Dock Properties dialog did not update the preview image.

* Fixed issue where alarms could fail to fire is set to midnight exactly.

* Moving icons in the dock via drag & drop caused the delete animation and delete sound effect to be played.

* A Media Player internal command icon in the Shelf flashing the pause symbol caused re-paint problems with the icon positions when dragging items over the Shelf.

* Fixed glitch with UI scrolling in the Alarms Editor dialog that would happen if the mousewheel (instead of clicking) was used to change the Schedule combo box.

* Fixed serious issue that could cause entire sub-docks to disappear when the 'Allow attaching sub-docks to existing application shortcuts' setting was enabled. This would happen if, when clicking the small sub-dock indicator, the user  *slightly* dragged the main icon a bit towards the sub-dock indicator, causing it to be dropped into itself - which ultimately led to its removal from the dock and thus loss of access to the associated sub-dock.

* Fixed potential issue when switching from the Themes tab in Preferences before the tab had a chance to load completely.

* Fixed issue where deleting a dock from the Dock & Shelves Management tab in Preferences could crash the application if the dock was first disabled and then deleted.

* Application could crash when disabling a dock from the Dock & Shelves tab in Preferences if the dock was set to Reserve Screen Space.

* If 'Allow attaching sub-docks to existing application shortcuts' was enabled and a sub-dock was added to a module item in a dock, it was not possible to delete or detach that sub-dock via the right click context menu.

* The animated Recycler trash can image was not being restored properly if the ESC key was pressed to abort the drag & drop operation while an icon was still over it and the trash can was animating.

* Shelf global icon cache pointers were not being updated properly when inserting, moving or deleting tabs, which could result in increased or unnecessary memory usage.



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Version 18.5 build 1107 - June 3, 2018 - Silent Update


Fixes:


* Fixed broken XP/Windows 2000 compatibility.

* The 'Snap mouse to default button' Windows feature was no longer working with dialogs in this application.

* The 'Disable/Enable Auto-Hide' option in the dock's right click context menu was opening an item properties dialog instead.


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Version 18.5 build 1106 - June 1, 2018 - Official Release 


New Features:


* Updated Greek language file.

* Updated Indonesian language file.

* Updated Chinese Simplified language file.

* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file.

* You can now drag & drop multiple .m3u playlist files into the Audio Files listbox in the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager and the Media Player Settings dialog. The audio files in the playlist are automatically retrieved and added to the currently selected playlist in the Playlists listbox.

* You can now drag & drop multiple .m3u playlist files into the Playlists listbox in the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager and the Media Player settings dialog. This automatically creates equivalent playlists in the Playlists listbox.

* You can now drag & drop multiple folders into the Audio Files listbox in the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager and the Media Player Settings dialog. The audio files in the folders are automatically retrieved and added to the currently selected playlist in the Playlists listbox.

* You can now drag & drop multiple folders into the Playlists listbox in the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager and the Media Player settings dialog. This automatically creates playlists with the name of those folders in the Playlists listbox and adds to each of those playlists the audio files inside each of the respective folders.

* Removed 'Save' and 'Save As' buttons from the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager and the Media Player settings dialog. Playlists and their contents are now automatically saved. When clicking the New button, the application immediately asks for the name of the new playlist.

* Clicking on a Playlist in the Media Player Settings dialog now selects that playlist for playing.

* Clicking on the Media Player icon when the audio is paused now automatically restarts the audio without opening the media control bar.

* Increased the horizontal size of the Playlist and Audio list boxes and moved the control buttons to the bottom in the 
Audio tab of the Alarm Manager and the Media Player settings dialog.

* The Media Player icon in the Media Player Settings dialog doesn't glow when playing audio if the 'Glow when playing' setting is disabled.

* Added another layer of redundancy to initial Weather module GEOIP localization by adding suport for Weather.com's Search API.

* Added new user definable URL for Weather.com's Search API to the Advanced dialog of the Weather Settings panel and also a warning not to change those values unless requested to do so.

* Volume slider in the Media Player Settings panel now affects the volume in real time if the Media Player is currently playing audio.

* The Media Player no longer resets the audio after pressing OK in the Media Player settings dialog, unless changes have been made to playlists or another audio file has been selected.

* Mouseover, Launch and Attention effects can now all be selected and set in the Effects panel without having to close the panel first.

* The Effects tab in the Dock and Shelf Properties dialogs now display a visual representation of the currently selected Mouseover, Launch and Attention effects. Different effects can be selected and visualized by clicking on the arrows or through the Effects panel, accessible by clicking on the icon itself.

* Moved the 'Edge Bump Settings' and 'Edge Swipe Settings' buttons in the dock and Shelf Behavior tabs to the Activation Setttings dialog.

* Added the 'Show Balloon Tooltip...' settings to the 'More Options' dialog of the dock and Shelf Behavior tabs.

* Moved the 'Blur Settings' button from the Effects tab to the Appearance tab.

* Added 'Disable dock scaling on hight DPI settings' and 'Disable menu scaling on high DPI settings' options to the Appearance tab.

* Moved the 'Edge Bump Settings' and 'Edge Slide Settings' buttons from the Behavior tab to the Activation Settings dialog.

* Moved the 'Full Screen Exclusion List' button to the Activation Settings dialog.

* Moved the 'Auto-hide for maximized applications wehn always on top' from the Position to the Behavior tab.

* Removed the 'Bring dock forward...' settings from the Position tab since they are duplicated in the Activation Settings dialog.

* Added new 'Grab focus when activated' setting (enabled by default) to the Activation Settings dialog so users can make the dock NOT grab the focus when activated.

* Changed the timings of the 'Duration' setting for the Sonic Boom effect.

* The Unhandled Exception Manager now lists nested exceptions and offers more information for Access Violation errors.

* Added new 'Playlists' right click context menu option to the Media Player internal command, allowing an existing playlist to be selected and played without having to open the Media Player Settings panel.

* Speeded up a bit the rendering of animated icons on magnifying docks with icon reflections by not rebuilding the reflections when the icon is magnified (since the reflections would never be seen anyway).

* Added new 'Delete Effect' category, with 22 different effects available to play when an icon is deleted.

* Added new 'Delete Effect' category to the right click 'Effects' context menu.

* Added new 'Accept drag and drop icon customization only when ALT key is pressed' setting to the 'More Options' dialog of the Behavior tab in Preferences. Normally dropping a PNG, ICO or TIF file into a dock item will customize the icon of that item with the dropped image, but because documents can also be launched with a specific application by dropping them into an item, enabling this setting allows the opening of PNG, TIF and ICO files instead unless the ALT key is pressed.

* Added new 'Show Minimized Applications Only' setting. When enabled docks showing running applications only show  applications that are currently minimized, and the buttons from those applications are removed from the taskbar. This way 'active' applications appear in the taskbar and currently minimized applications appear on the dock.

* When a hidden dock showing running applications is activated, the list of running applications in it now already appears up-to-date, instead of the dock re-synching only AFTER the activation animation.

* You can now drag and drop m3u playlist files and audio files directly into the Media Player icon.

* The Media Player Control Bar now also displays the current audio volume. Volume can be directly adjusted when the bar is open via the mouse scrollwheel (or the media control keys on the keyboard).

* Added several optional overlays to the Alarm Reminder window besides the default glass reflection: water drops, condensation, frost, ice, dirt, broken glass, flare, rainbow, christmas and halloween. Glass reflections can now also be disabled by setting the overlay to 'None'.

* When using drag & drop the insertion point now only appears when the mouse pointer is moved into an area in-between icons. This makes opening documents by dropping them directly into an application icon and customizing icons by dropping PNG files a little less cumbersome.

* Added optional 'Rain Effect' to LCD Alarms.

* The Media Player icon now flashes a subtle 'Pause' symbol when paused.

* The name of each dock can now be set in the Contents tab of the Dock Properties dialog for that dock.

* The Alarm Manager now displays 'No Alarms Defined' in the alarms list when no alarms have been defined yet.

* Added Cancel button to the Alarm Manager dialog. Only changes to settings can be canceled, not changes to the alarms themselves.

* Renaming a playlist now automatically updates all pointers to the old file name in the alarms and the Media Player.

* Editing an alarm with an audio file now displays the end of the audio filename in the 'Play Audio File' field instead of the beginning, to make it easier to recognize which playlist or audio file that alarm is associated to.

* LCD Alarms now remember their initial positions when toggling between window and Full Screen.

* A docked Shelf no longer collapses automatically if the mouse pointer is between it and the edge of the screen.

* WsMMPlay.exe is now launched ansynchronously whenever it's not already running and the application needs to play a media file - this prevents the application from temporarily blocking while Windows is busy launching the media player.



Fixes:


* Ultimate logo in the About tab of Preferences was not scaling properly on high DPI displays.

* The dialog was not being notified when audio had stopped playing after pressing the Play button in the Media Player Settings dialog.

* Fixed some potential form painting issues when moving the volume slider in the Media Player Settings panel.

* Fixed issue where icon label text would look terrible while scrolling the Shelf when using a light background theme.

* Alarms action description and activation dates in the Alarm Manager could be wrong if the alarms were not sorted by creation date.

* The Location text box in the Moon Phase Settings dialog was limited to 12 characters.

* The Moon Phases module preview in the Modules tab was wrongly reflecting the tilt (parallactic) angle of the moon in relation to the observer, which, because of the 6 hour time interval between frames, made the moon appear to wobble violent and erratically.

* If 'Combine dock icons with running applications' was enabled, dragging a document over an icon on the left side of the dock (i.e.; one with a running indicator) was NOT bringing the associated window/application forward, forcing you to use ALT+Tab instead.

* The LED lights in the Glossy Black Alarm Bezel did not appear centered horizontally when the Alarm was resized.

* Alarm Bezel previews did not fit entirely in the preview box when their size was set to 120%.

* The number of days used in the trial version was only being updated when the application was restarted.

* Alarm Manager tab headers were not being translated.

* Editing a Folder type tab in the Shelf with the Tab Properties Editor was reseting the name of the tab to 'Folder'.

* Attention effect was not playing on some docks.

* Fixed issues where settings existing on more than one tab in Preferences where not being carried over when switching tabs if the User Interface slide animation was enabled.

* The application's small control window, which should never be visible, would sometimes appear on the user's desktop, perhaps by interference of a 3rd party application. It has now also been moved outside the viewable area.

* In Windows 10 the application could crash with an Access Violation error if mousing over a tab that had not yet finished rendering all the icons - when that happend some icons would also appear as a 'blank document' icon.


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Version 18.3 build 1091 - April 2, 2018 - Silent Update


Fixes:

* The new Dark Mode compatible message boxes were not correctly applying system locale settings, which made them display gibberish text when trying to display non-Western characters. 


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Version 18.3 build 1090 - March 31, 2018 - Official Release 


New Features:


* Added a description in the Windows Services Panel to the Winstep service used to perform operations that require admin privileges (install theme fonts, adjust the time, fast boot, etc...).

* Added code to help troubleshoot problems with the service.

* If there is an Internet connection available but an undetermined error occurred, the 'Check Internet Connection' dialog in the TroubleShooting Options dialog will now also return the Winsock error message.

* The Alarm Manager now displays an Audio symbol if that alarm has an associated audio file or playlist.

* The application now uses customized Message boxes to match the current User Interface mode.

* Improved the performance of the Alarms Manager dialog in terms of CPU usage.

* Added smooth scrolling to the Alarms Manager dialog.

* Improved the scrolling performance of the Docks & Shelves tab in Preferences.

* Command Buttons in Dark or Gray UI modes now become highlighted when they have the focus.

* Pressing the ALT shift key while the Capture Desktop internal command takes a screenshot will capture only the active window instead of the whole desktop.

* The name of the last screenshot taken by the Capture Desktop internal command is now persistent between sessions.

* The right-click context menu of the Capture Desktop internal command now has options to Browse the folder the last screenshot was saved to in a menu, open the folder in Explorer, or open the screenshot.

* Browse folder sub-menus now show item icons where the menu theme allows.

* The Balloon tooltip now also displays the number of frames in an animated icon.

* The contents of the Recent Documents tab in the Shelf can now be sorted by name, date, type and size.

* Made some cosmetic changes to the selection rectangle in the Shelf when the mouseover effect is set to None.

* The solid rounded selection rectangle drawn when the Shelf mouseover effect is set to None is now semi-transparent so the background can be seen through.

* Added keyboard support to docks. Arrow keys to select item, Enter key to execute, ESC to close a sub-dock or unselect current item.

* Added two power saving modes, normal and Ultra, for conserving power when running on battery. Can be set manually in the Advanced tab of Preferences, via a new 'Power Saving Mode' internal command toggle, or automatically when battery levels reach a certain percentage or, under Windows 10, when the system Battery Saver activates. Each power mode has separate voice and/or sound notifications.

* Added new 'Power Saving Mode' internal command to toggle between the 3 different power modes (off, on, ultra). The icon is gray when power saving is disabled, green when enabled, and red when ultra is active.

* Moved the 'User Interface Mode' button to the About tab in Preferences.

* Added high DPI support to docks by default and a new 'Disable dock scaling on high DPI settings' option in the More Options dialog of the General tab in Preferences. High DPI support is enabled by default on new installations and disabled by default on existing installations. 

* Replaced the rotating earth Email Checker module style with a smoother higher resolution animation.

* Added full keyboard support to docks: use arrow keys to select an icon, enter to launch currently selected icon, esc to unselect/close sub-docks.

* Added new Full Screen Application exclusion list. Activation methods such as edge bumps and hotkeys are normally automatically disabled when another application is running full screen to prevent accidental activations while, for instance, playing a game, etc... With the new exclusion list you can exclude specific applications (for instance, a Media Player application on a PC Home Theater environment) from this rule. This way you can assign a keyboard shortcut to activate the dock while the full screen Media Player is running, then use the arrow keys to navigate the dock and launch movies, applications, etc...

* The drop down portion of a monitor selection combo box is now wide enough to hold the longest monitor name in a multi-monitor system.

* Added new 'Animated icons play full animation on mouseover' setting to the Performance vs. Memory usage dialog. This setting, disabled by default for performance reasons (animated icons usually have very long animations, which, together with the dock magnify effect being combined with other mouseover effects, can result in a somewhat noticeable performance hit), enables animated icons set to animate only on mouseover to finish their animations even when the mouse pointer has already moved away from the icon.

* Disabled 'Integer Overflow Checks' on compiled code and optimized a few critical routines, which should result in a 5%-10% overall performance increase.

* A customized battery module now displays all the different frames when playing the charging animation.

* Added option (enabled by default) to automatically enable Ultra Power Saving mode when the monitor enters standby.

* Added option (disabled by default) to automatically enable normal Power Saving mode when a full screen application is running. This ensures the Winstep application uses 75% less CPU than normal when, for instance, running a game, while still remaining fully functional.

* Non-native dock themes now also display the author's name in the Theme preview panel when that info is available.

* Added new 'Fast Boot' internal command to toggle Fast Boot.

* Default dock in Windows 10 now features a 'Fast Boot' internal command icon to alert users to the existence of this feature.

* If 'Do not launch sessions of the same application' is enabled, clicking the icon of an application that is already running will now minimize it if it is already in the foreground (as it already happens when the dock is set to display running applications) or bring it to the foreground otherwise.

* Made some misc.improvements to the Net Meter code.

* Changed colorization method for particle mouse over effects from tint to shift hue, as this also preserves whites.

* If the 'Ignore edge bumps near the titlebar button area of maximized windows' setting is enabled, edge bumps near the taskabar's Start Button area are also ignored.

* Double clicking an Alarm Reminder will now toggle it between full screen and windowed.

* The scrollwheel in the mouse can now be used to dim an LCD alarm reminder or change the volume.

* Added new 'Sleep Timer' internal command, which runs WorkShelf's new Sleep Timer full screen clock.

* Alarms can now be filtered so only active alarms are shown.

* Alarms can now be sorted by creation date or activation date, in ascending or descending order.

* Alarm Settings have now been merged into the Alarms Manager window and divided into several tabs: Alarms, Audio, Wake-Up, Sleep and LCD.

* Added new 'Sleep Timer' internal command, which opens a full screen LCD clock for those who like to fall asleep while listening to music, with audio and brightness setttings in the Sleep tab of the new Alarms Manager window.

* Added new 'Auto Fade In' setting to the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager. When enabled, audio volume always fades in from zero until the pre-determined final volume.

* You can now select multiple audio files at once when adding musics to a playlist in the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager via the Browse button.

* You can now drag & drop multiple .mp3, .wma, .wav and .mid files directly into the Audio Files listbox in the Audio tab of the Alarm Manager.

* Alarms can now follow the volume and brightness settings set in the Wake tab of the Alarm Manager or specify per-alarm volume and brightness settings.

* LCD color and Snooze time can now optionally be defined on a per-alarm base.

* Added multiple pre-defined skins to the Alarm Reminder in windowed mode, which can be selected in the new LCD tab of the Alarm Manager.

* LCD Background color can now be set as well.

* Audio can now be paused and resumed, and tracks skipped or rewound from within the LCD style alarm reminder.

* Added Settings icon to the LCD alarm reminder from where you can control Volume, Brightness and Snooze time.

* The LCD Alarm Reminder now uses weather icons that match the LCD style of the clock.

* The LCD Alarm Reminder, besides the temperature, now also displays current weather conditions.

* Battery information in the LCD Alarm Reminder has been moved to the bottom left and the new battery icon correctly displays current battery state.

* Close and Snooze buttons in an LCD Alarm Reminder, as well as the new audio control and Alarm Setting icons, now automatically 'fade out' if the mouse pointer is moved away from the window or is not moved for a time. 

* The mouse pointer in a full screen alarm reminder window is now automatically made invisible if the mouse is not moved for a time.

* LCD Alarm Reminder window can now be scaled up or down in size by up to 20%.

* Added new 'Media Player' internal command, which works with the playlists defined for alarms and is controled by a pop up media bar.

* Clicking the clock can now either show the Windows calendar, the Winstep calendar or a full screen LCD clock.

* Moved the 'make a ticking sound every second' setting in Clock Settings to the 'Clock Speech and Chime Settings' dialog.

* The base transparency of icon reflections can now be adjusted.



Fixes:


* Exit was the button with keyboard focus when opening Preferences.

* Changing the User Interface mode to black no longer resets the Alarm LCD Colors.

* Increased the maximum text width for balloon tooltips when using the Windows 10 style to prevent Wanda cookies from getting word-wrapped mid-sentence because of the wider font used in this style.

* An application's window with a vbmodal window open on top could be minimized, but trying to restore it again would fail, leaving no way to access that application.

* Fixed communication issue with the Winstep Windows service that could prevent the retrieval of performance data (CPU and RAM usage) for elevated processes.

* Changing a module icon via the Item Properties dialog in the Shelf would result in the Shelf stopping to respond to mouse clicks.

* Updated Weather.com weather module codes for Honk Kong and Cheung Chau.

* Fixed minor GDI+ leak when animating icons in the Shelf.

* On a Shelf with no mouse over effects the Launch and Attention effects would leave leftovers of the selection rectangle when animating.

* When alternating between specific mouseover and launch or attention effects the first frame of the latter could glitch. 

* Opening a sub-dock and then quickly clicking on the sub-dock icon again before the sub-dock had completed the opening animation could crash the application with an Access Violation error.

* Style of the Recycler and Email Checker modules kept being reset to Recycle Bin and Envelope, respectively.

* Fixed issue where icon label text in the Shelf would look terrible when shifting icons for drag & drop operations.

* Fixed potential issue that could occur if an animation was playing exactly when the value returned by the timeGetTime() function wrapped around to zero or crossed the signed long boundary. This is something that only happens once every 24.85 days, so the chances of a problem actually occuring was very, very, small, but still within the realms of possibility.

* Star background in the Moon Calendar dialog was scrolling too fast when the moon was not animating.

* Fixed major issue when overlapping the number of running instances on an animated icon in the dock. Effects could range from icon appearing cropped when animating to potential GDI+ handle leak or even crash.

* Dragging a running application icon in the right side of the dock into the left side of the dock could result in an item with the wrong application name.

* Fixed issue that could crash the application when switching to a theme with a customized Email Checker module animation.

* Fixed issue with the CD Control internal command that could cause the drive to keep ejecting and closing the media multiple times until a timeout error occured.

* A full screen alarm reminder would trigger the 'full screen application running' mode.

* Fixed issue where ALT key could become stuck after activating a dock.

* Alarms set to activate only once would no longer activate at the preset time and date if Snooze was used while testing the alarm.

* Fixed issue validating the time in the Alarm Edit panel when the clock was in 12 hour format and the time was 12 PM.

* The battery module image would not update to show the current charge if the module was set not to display Battery Charge.

* Battery status information in the Battery Information dialog would not update correctly if the module was set to not display battery charge or battery runtime.

* Fixed misc.UI alignment issues on high DPI settings.


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Version 18.1 build 1078 - January 20, 2018 - Official Release 


New Features:


* Under Windows 10 'Flip Calendar' is now the default calendar style.

* The Shelf icon cache is now destroyed every time the 'Show document, image and video files as thumbnails' setting is changed by the user, so thumbnails are retrieved or destroyed as necessary.

* The Recycle Bin tab in the Shelf is now able to display thumbnails of deleted documents, images and video files.

* Maximum icon size has been changed from 255 to 256x256 pixels.

* Changes to the User Interface colors made in the About tab of Preferences can now be canceled.

* Using the Language Bar IC to change the locale of another window now also gives focus to the window.

* Clicking a Weather module icon in the Shelf now opens a Weather forecast dock.

* Added new optional 'Slide' animation to the User Interface. Can be toggled in the More Options dialog of the General tab in Preferences.

* Added alternate User Interface modes to better blend with Windows 10: Dark Mode (Black), Dark Mode (Gray) and a bonus Winstep theme. Mode can be changed in the More Options dialog of the General tab in Preferences.

* The 'Number of Recent Documents to display in a Recent Documents tab' field in the Contents tab of the Shelf Properties dialog can now be quickly set via a scroll button.

* Added new white default icons to be used in Windows 10 for the Search, Windows Start Menu, Action Center and Task View internal commands.

* The Balloon tooltip now displays thumbnails of animated icon PNG strips as the first frame of the animation. 

* If the Alarm is set to, say, fire on the 31st of every month, it will now skip over the months that don't have 31 days, instead of deactivating itself.



Fixes:


* Under very specific cases the Shelf could crash while generating thumbnails for folders when switching tabs very rapidly.

* The new drag & drop background file copy operation would fail if one of the files had a comma in the filename.

* Fixed issue where the Recycle Bin image might not update after deleting several files on non-English versions of Windows.

* When drag & dropping an item into a Regular tab in the Shelf, a 'ghost' icon with text could appear at the top left corner of the Shelf.

* The Recycle Bin tab in the Shelf was not automatically updating its contents when files were added or removed from it.

* Fixed potential issues displaying the systray icons if the Windows systray was not accessible at startup.

* Fixed issue where audio might not stop playing after exiting the application.

* Modules/widgets on secondary monitors stopped updating when a full screen application was open. Although this was deliberate in order to use as little CPU as possible when a game is running, it should not happen if the module is on a monitor other than the one where the full screen application is running.

* Couple of User Interface images inside WsUIImageRes.DLL were accidentaly added with an opaque background.

* Under Windows 10 the Language Bar IC failed to change the current keyboard layout.

* Fixed issue that could cause a live preview thumbnail from a running application to flicker even when nothing apparently changed.

* Fixed issue where a sub-dock could go behind the parent dock.

* Scroll wheel wasn't working properly in the System Tray Exclusion List dialog.

* Fixed animation issue in the Module preview tab with customized Email Checker animations.

* The Shelf could get confused about its collapsed/expanded state when clicking outside the Shelf Properties dialog and then quickly clicking the Shelf Properties dialog again while the collapse animation had already started.

* On slower systems with high DPI settings it was possible for the moon animation in the Moon Calendar dialog to completely bog down the application, making it unresponsive to key presses and mouse clicks.

* Fixed minor cosmetic problem with the position of the run time text on vertical battery modules due to a previous small change on how outline text is rendered.

* Light bulb image on the Tips of the Day dialog did not have a transparent background.

* The Monthly implementation of the Alarms was broken and often failed to correctly set the next activation date.


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Version 17.12 build 1069 - December 26, 2017 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated the Portuguese language file.

* Updated the Portuguese (Brazil) language file.

* Updated the Farsi language file.

* Updated the Chinese Simplified language file.

* Updated Hungarian language file (inc.).

* You can now drag & drop PNG, ICO and TIF files into folders in a dock or Shelf as if they were normal files by pressing either SHIFT or CTRL while dragging. This allows you to move and copy those files as normal instead of them being used as icon replacement images.

* Added new 'Take Picture' sound event, and default camera shutter sound file, played when the user clicks on the 'Capture Desktop' internal command.

* Added new picture quality, delay, and sound settings to the 'Capture Desktop' internal command.

* New 'Alarm Manager' internal command, opens the Alarm Manager window.

* New 'Hide All' internal command, hides/collapses all docks and the Shelf.

* You can now launch a new instance of an application appearing on the dock as running, but not pinned to it, either by pressing SHIFT while left clicking the icon or by double clicking the icon.

* Added the 'Windows10Nx' Nexus/dock theme to the default themes collection.

* Added missing ex-Yugoslavia countries to the weather codes database. Automatic geo-location via IP address should now work with the new countries too.

* Added many new Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia locations with associated weather codes.

* Internet/URL shortcuts are now automatically resolved into internal 'URL' type items when dropped into a dock or a Regular tab on the Shelf. This allows the source shortcuts (e.g.; shortcuts to Steam games or websites) to be later deleted from the file system without the entries in the dock or Shelf stopping to work. 

* The Media Control internal commands Previous, Next, Play, Pause, Stop, Mute, Volume Up and Volume Down should now also work with media players other than WinAmp and Windows Media Player. Please note: some media players, such as VLC and Gom Player, must first be configured to accept global keys, i.e.; accept the keys even if the player window itself does not have the focus.

* Environment variables such as %ALLUSERSPROFILE% are now automatically expanded when launching an item.

* Sub-docks now appear next to the parent dock and always above it when magnifying.

* The first weather forecast icon now always shows the max temperature for that day, regardless of current time.

* Added 'Opaque Icon Labels' setting to the Shelf transparency dialogs.

* Window preview thumbnails now automatically scale up on high DPI systems.

* Thumbnail images on balloon tooltips now now automatically scale up on high DPI systems.

* The icon label for a sub-dock icon now immediately fades away when a sub-dock is automatically open on mouse-over.

* Drag & drop file operations (i.e.; dropping files into a folder tab in the Shelf or folder icons) are now performed in the background, which makes the application remain responsive even when copying or moving multi-megabyte files.

* Added more WHOIS servers to the Active Connections dialog, and WHOIS information is now properly retrieved from the root registar.

* UWP (Universal Windows Apps) in Windows 10 are now labeled as such in the balloon information tooltips.

* When dragging & dropping an executable file directly from an Explorer folder the name of the resulting shortcut is now automatically retrieved from the file description (e.g.; iexplore.exe now becomes 'Internet Explorer' instead of just 'iexplorer').

* Windows 10 supports setting PNG files as the current desktop wallpaper, which was previously not supported on the panels in Preferences that displayed the current wallpaper as a background image (e.g.; Themes tab), resulting in a solid white background.  

* Added new 'Apps' tab type to the Shelf which displays all the installed Windows UWP Apps in Windows 10.

* Improved weather module GeoLocation for when Maxmind returns a city name not in the Weather codes database but MSN returns a different city name for that same location, which already IS in the database.

* Under Windows 10 the 'Frequently Used Programs' tab in the Shelf now also displays UWP apps.

* Added 'Apps' tab to the default Shelf under Windows 10.

* The balloon tooltip of the Capture Desktop internal command now displays a thumbnail of the last screenshot taken.


Fixes:


* Nothing would happen when trying to hide multiple docks sharing the same activation keyboard shortcut with toggle mode on.

* Clicking in the Themes tab in Preferences and very rapidly clicking on another tab before the Themes tab finished displaying completely could result in the Themes tab getting 'stuck'.

* The 'Tilt moon based on observer's location on earth' setting now makes the moon module appear in exactly the same position angle as the real moon, i.e.; as seen by the observer if he looks out the window (topocentric view). In contrast, the Moon Calendar always shows the geocentric position angle.

* After 12 PM (Noon) the sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset hours displayed were those for the following day instead of the current day.

* Hotkeys assigned to Battery, Calendar and Moon module items in the Shelf and docks were being ignored.

* Fixed retrieval of current weather conditions for when Weather.com does not provide valid current conditions information.

* The Email Checker module should now work properly with ISPs (looking at you AT&T) that do not follow the correct POP3 protocol (RFC 1939).

* Midnight in 12 hour format was being displayed as '0 AM' instead of '12 AM' in the Alarm Manager and Alarm Reminder dialogs.

* The '<x> Messages Unread' report of the Email Checker on an IMAP connection was not being translated into the currently selected language.

* Information regarding the latest Email Checker connections was being incorrectly reported when opening the Email Checker Settings dialog from a context menu.

* The application could freeze for several minutes after returning from Standby on Surface Pro laptops because of the 'Connected Standby/InstantGo' power saving feature used in those laptops.

* The Shelf's active tab was always opaque if the 'icons remain opaque' setting was enabled.

* Fixed glitchy resize of the available screen area which could happen when a dock was set to reserve screen space, the dock was forced to automatically reduce the user preset icon size in order to fit on the screen, and a new dock item was added or removed.

* Fixed several issues related to reserving screen space, respecting reserved screen space, and the interaction of docks using these mechanisms (e.g.; docks set to reserve screen space and respect screen space on different edges should no longer overlap). Also reserved screen space is now automatically returned when a dock is deleted or disabled.

* System tray popups no longer appear at the left of the screen in Windows 10 and should now be correctly positioned next to the mouse pointer.

* Fixed some issues which could cause the WHOIS right click context menu command to fail on the Active Connections dialog.

* Microsoft broke drag & drop operations from the Windows Start Menu in one of the latest Windows 10 updates, which caused shortcuts dragged from the Start Menu not to be resolved properly. This resulted in dock items of 'virtual shell item' types with low resolution icons pointing to shortcut (.lnk) files instead of directly to the target files.

* Immediately after a settings reset to factory default, the weather module tooltip would display 'Location not set'.

* Showing a balloon tooltip in the Moon Calendar dialog could crash the application with an Access Violation error.

* Fixed issue which could cause a crash or data corruption while performing a WHOIS in the Active Connections dialog.

* Pressing the Shift key while right clicking on an item in a non-Regular tab would generate an error.

* Fixed some potential timing issues with Windows systray pop ups under Windows 10.

* Fixed some issues positioning the Windows clock calendar panel under Windows 10.

* Fixed issue that could potentially freeze Explorer when clicking on a system tray icon under Windows 10.

* Fixed issue under Windows 10 where the Windows clock calendar might not pop up if DPI scaling was not set to 100%.

* Folder type tabs in the Shelf were showing 'desktop.ini' if that file was present in the target folder.

* Fixed issue were, for some obscure reason, retrieving an icon would cause an interrupt which, in turn, would cause the Shelf to repaint itself while still in the process of retrieving all the icons and generating the internal structure list. This in turn resulted in blank or unknown icons, with a single icon painted at the top left corner of the Shelf. 


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Version 17.1 build 1064 - January 27, 2017 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated the Portuguese language file.

* Clicking the iconic calendar module now opens a full blown Winstep calendar.

* Users can now choose between displaying the Winstep or the Windows calendar when clicking on the clock module.

* Added new 'Next Desktop Background' internal command. Switches to the next wallpaper when Windows is in slideshow mode.

* Added new 'Moon Phase' module featuring an interactive Moon Calendar with phases of the moon and zodiac sign support.

* Added smooth scrolling to the Shelf.

* Added a toggle z-order option (Always On Top or Normal Z-Order) to the right click context menu of a running application.

* Users no longer have to go through the Setup wizard When installing updates via the Winstep Update Manager.

* Added 'WsMMPlay.exe' applet to isolate the main application from buggy 3rd party software codecs and filters when playing MP3 files.

* Added two new options to the Alarms Weekly schedule: 'Beginning date' and 'repeat every'. This allows creating alarms that only go off, for instance, every other Monday.

* Added 'Lock Theme' setting to the Themes tab of every Dock Properties panel.

* Parent docks can now keep on magnifying by default even when sub-docks are open. Added new 'Allow parent dock magnification when sub-docks are open' to the Sub-Docks dialog in the Behavior tab of the Dock Properties dialog.

* Sub-docks can now be configured individually from the parent dock (icon size, theme, etc...) by disabling the new 'Sub-docks inherit parent dock settings' option in the Sub-Docks dialog.

* Added setting to prevent the ESC key from closing Alarm Reminders, instead turning it into a snooze button. Useful for those who use clock alarms to wake up and unconsciously press ESC before immediately going back to sleep.


Fixes:


* Issue that could cause some thumbnail bitmaps to be rendered with a black opaque instead of transparent background.

* The Power Events log was unable to fully display logs over 64 KB in size.

* Changes made in the Email Checker module Settings Panel invoked via the right click context menu were being discarded.

* The logo was not being painted correctly on the 'Version Information' dialog.

* Switching Shelf tabs via the keyboard (CTRL+TAB and SHIFT+CTRL+TAB) was not first reseting the current icon row to the top of the next tab as it should.

* When uncollapsing a semi-transparent Shelf with glass blur enabled under Vista or 7, the full glass region would briefly flicker on the screen even though the Shelf was not yet visible. 

* Fixed critical bug in which using an animated mouseover effect on a tab with thumbnail images (e.g; pictures, videos, folders, etc...) would result in a hard crash and application termination if the user moused over a thumbnail while it was still morphing from icon into thumbnail.

* Fixed visual glitches in the Shelf when using an animated mouseover effect over an icon that is currently morphing into a thumbnail.

* Fixed a Sticky tab + auto-hide timing problem that could make one function interfere with the other, causing issues such as tabs appearing unresponsive after uncollapsing the Shelf, the auto-hide animation terminating abruptly, etc...

* Fixed visual glitch that could cause the Shelf to flicker on the screen when expanding.

*  The MSI installer fix in v16.2 broke Shortcut resolution when launching applications, which in turn made it impossible to run shortcuts to 64 bit applications.

* Deleting the last two docks from the Docks & Shelves tab in Preferences was not removing the older dock's controls.

* Icon labels in the dock were not being correctly positioned if the size of the icons in the dock was larger than the magnification size.

* Fixed timing issue that could cause the Weather module to keep flashing forever.

* When using 12-hour time, any alarm set to 12:00-12:59 AM would reset itself to 12:00-12:59 PM.

* Reseting Docks and Shelves only in the Troubleshooting Options dialog in Preferences could reset things to a state where only the Shelf was visible.

* The 'Colorize by shifting hues instead of tinting' setting was always set in the Themes tab of the Shelf Properties dialog.

* Performance Settings set via the Advanced dialog were being ignored.

* Fixed bug with the battery module that could fill the power log with 'Communication Lost' events if the battery got disconnected.

* Fixed bug where the only way to detect the (re-)connection of a battery was to restart the application.

* Fixed potential issue where the result of a WhoIs request in the Active Connections panel could be reported without line breaks.

* Fixed a problem obtaining the thumbnails of some running applications, caused by a method change in v16.12, which would render some thumbnails completely black. We still manage to get thumbnails we previously couldn't with the original method.

* Fixed positioning issue that would freeze the application if a full screen alarm popped up while a window alarm was still on-screen.

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* Fixed module related issues where previous setting changes could become undone by clicking Ok on a module's settings panel.

* If the 'Disable reflections when dock is vertical' setting was enabled, a vertical dock rotated into horizontal would not display icons reflections, and a vertical dock rotated from horizontal would keep the reflection bitmaps in memory instead of destroying them.

* If the Shelf was set not to display icon labels and there was no room to display a tooltip below the icon, the tooltip could cover the icons if they were small enough, making it impossible to click on them. The tooltip now appears above the icons instead of below in this case.

* Alarms where not accepting dates in the dd.mm.yyyy format (i.e.; where the date separator was a '.' character)

* Fixed heavy performance drop when dragging icons over a dock with an open sub-dock.

* Fixed issue that could cause icons to appear cropped at the top or bottom when playing the Bounce, Squish and Push animations on a magnifying dock.

* Changing a dock's wallpaper hot-track colorization setting was actually changing the global wallpaper hottrack setting.

* Trying to open Active Connections from Net Meter Settings, Battery Information and Power Log from Battery Settings or the Alarm Manager from Clock Settings, would make the application unresponsive to mouse clicks if those dialogs were already open.


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Version 16.12 build 1047 - December 8, 2016 - Official Release


New Features:


* Replaced the Female and Male Clock and Email Checker Voices with the new higher quality versions also used to report Battery power events.

* Added new 'Activate if hidden when an application in the dock requests attention' setting to the Activation Settings dialog of the dock's Behavior tab. Enabled by default, this setting controls whether the dock should pop up if hidden when an application with an icon in the dock starts flashing to get your attention.

* The Email Checker module is now able to use speech to report more than 59 new messages (up to 1 million).

* The Email Checker module now displays the number of new messages in the icon itself by default. This can be prevented by disabling the 'Show number of messages in the icon' setting in the Email Checker Settings dialog.

* The Email Checker now checks for new mail immediately after changing settings in the Email Checker Settings dialog, unless automatic checking has been disabled.

* Apparently some Registry Cleanners would sometimes delete Winstep uninstall information from the Windows Registry, which resulted in the user being unable to uninstall the software normally and in him being unable to update normally (trying to install an update via the Winstep Update Manager would result in an error message being displayed instead). Before downloading an upgrade the Winstep Update Manager now checks the Windows Registry for the existence of this critical uninstall section and, if it has been deleted, downloads and installs the full version instead of the smaller upgrade pack. Current settings, etc, are all preserved regardless.

* Module previews in the Module settings dialogs of Preferences now instantly reflect the proper background icons specified by the user via the 'Change Icon' dialog. Previously the Module Settings dialogs were not reflecting changes made to the background icons of modules until those changes were made effective either by pressing the Apply or Ok button in Preferences.

* Improved what happens when the user makes changes to a module in Preferences and then opens the Settings dialog for that module via the right click context menu while Preferences is still open.

* The automatic scaling of the Net Meter module has been changed to progress from 10 Kbit to 100 Kbit, 1 Mbit, 10 Mbits, 100 Mbits, 1 Gbit, 10 Gbits, etc..

* Optimized the performance of updating the meter modules (CPU, Net, RAM) in gauge style when smooth meters is enabled (which is by default).

* Added new Calendar module. Like all other modules it is available in two user-selectable styles: the classic iCal slanted look, and a vertical Flip Calendar look. Both styles can be colorized, with separate settings for the text color of the Month, Weekday and Day. These options make using customized calendar icon backgrounds very easy. The user can also select what happens when he clicks on the calendar icon: the module can either display a full blown calendar or launch a user-defined calendar application.

* Extensive re-organization and fine-tuning of all module related code, both to improve performance as well as to make it even easier to add new modules in the future.

* Made some cosmetic changes to the banner of the Alarm Manager dialog.

* Made some cosmetic changes to the Alarm Reminder in LCD Mode to better keep with the LCD theme: removed the degrees character from the temperature, added automatic replacement of foreign characters with western equivalent for the days of the week.

* Added 'Yearly' option to the clock Alarms - ideal to be reminded of birthdays and anniversaries.

* Yahoo changed the conditions of access to their Weather API, which caused the Yahoo backup weather feed to stop working. Restored this feed by using an alternate URL.

* The user can now define the units used to scale graphs manually in the Net Meter modules as either Bytes, KB, MB, Kbits or Mbits.

* If the Weather Module Settings dialog is open and a weather check is performed in the mean time, the information in the dialog is now updated too.

* METAR Weather information is now retrieved directly from a raw data NOAA server.

* Added 'From Now, On the Hour, Quarter Past, Half Past, Quarter Till' options to the 'Every x hours' daily clock alarm schedule.

* Response to the user pressing WIN+D is now almost instantaneous (before, the dock might momentarily flicker in and out of view).

* 'Restore Wallpaper' thumbnails now transition from wallpaper to wallpaper, when the Windows wallpaper slide-show is active, without first reverting to the general icon.

* WIN+D (Show Desktop) detection is now much more reliable. Microsoft deliberately did not provide a method to know when WIN+D just became active. Knowing when this happens is essential to prevent docks, etc, from hiding together with all other windows. The previous work-around method to detect WIN+D could sometimes falsely assume WIN+D was active if the user clicked on the desktop and no other windows were visible at the time. The changes applied to deal with (the falsely detected) WIN+D would then make docks set to always on top or always on bottom temporarily lose their z-order status.

* Added 'Apply Wallpaper' option to a theme's context menu in the Shelf Themes tab. Allows you to preview by thumbnail - and apply - the wallpaper associated with that theme.

* Under Windows 7 and later, if Desktop Composition is enabled the iconic window thumbnail extractor will use the DWM instead of PrintWindow to get a still thumbnail. This achieves success in most cases where PrintWindow would fail.

* The 'Busy' animation is now more responsive when starting up, restoring and backing up settings.

* The Weather and Email module now refresh automatically immediately after restoring old settings.

* The 'Get Weather' button in the weather Module Settings dialog now bypasses the current weather information cache and stores a diagnostics 'Weather.log' file in the Winstep user data folder.

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* The clock module is now able to announce the time using the proper format for the following languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese Brazilian and German.

* The email module is now able to count incoming messages using the proper format for the following languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese Brazilian and German.

* Added new English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese Brazilian and German voice packs with high quality voices and all the words required to properly announce the time and count messages in these languages.

* The Winstep Update Manager is now able to look for and update voice packs as well. By default the application only comes with English male and female voices, but if other voices packs are available in the user's own language, the Winstep Update Manager will notify the user and download them right after installation.

* When changing the currently selected language in Preferences, if a voice pack in the selected language exists, it will be automatically selected as well.

* Added a 'Open Folder' button in the Sounds tab of Preferences to show the folder containing the files for the currently selected Voice theme/pack.

* Dock icon labels now bounce up and down with the icon for effects such as jump, bounce, etc...

* Changed the Bounce effect so it's a bit more similar to the original Mac OSX bounce effect. Like the other effects, it now also has settings for fine-tuning magnitude and duration.

* Added a 'Magnify Settings' button to the Effects tab of a Dock Properties dialog, which allows changing settings for this effect directly when combined with other effects.

* Improved icon reflection rendering performance for themes such as KTEK-4D1 where icon reflections are 'cropped' to the background tile.

* Modified the Performance Settings dialog so the 'basic' slider values now perform a linear escalation as originally intended. The user can still 'pick and choose' in the Advanced dialog.

* Added smooth up and down scrolling to the Dock & Shelves tab in Preferences, as the previous abrupt 'row jump' offered very poor visual feedback.



Fixes:


* None of the settings in the Alarm Settings dialog (Initial Volume, Final Volume, LCD Style color, etc...) were being saved between sessions.

* Clicking the Default button in the METAR Server Settings dialog of the Weather module was restoring the previous, no longer working, NOAA weather link and search string.

* Because of the new aviationweather.gov METAR information page format, a non-working METAR code (i.e.; invalid code or no METAR information for that code) was not being recognized as such, and current weather conditions would be displayed as N/A (Not Available).

* Changing a Windows color scheme or applying a new WindowBlinds theme was not updating the background color of slider controls.

* The Battery module was logging a 'Overload! Battery critical' power event when the battery hardware signaled imminent failure during a power outage before the soft 'critical battery' threshold was reached. This also prevented entering and exiting of low power states from being logged. A 'Critical Battery' event is now logged instead.

* Changing the background image of a module via the Item Properties dialog was not refreshing that module's image on every dock and Shelf as it should.

* The Wanda 'Hide/Show Systray Icon' right-click context menu option was not doing anything.

* Fixed bug with the easeInExpo and easeInOutExpo easings which would return the wrong value for t=0.

* In very specific circumstances the Weather module could display a moon icon during the day.

* If the user opened a dialog via a Always On Top dock, the dialog could still appear behind the dock even though the it was also set as 'always on top'.

* If the user opened a dialog via a Always On Top dock, any secondary dialogs would appear behind the parent dialog.

* Clicking the Battery icon on a always on top dock would make the Battery Information dialog appear behind the dock.

* When resolving shortcuts, if the shortcut had never been used before a MSI dialog would sometimes popup asking to install files. Normally letting MSI complete the install would fix the problem, but not always. This issue has been fixed and the MSI dialog should no longer pop up when resolving shortcuts.

* Minimized windows would lose their 'snap to edge' status when restored from the Winstep application.

* Deleting the last dock in the Dock & Shelves tab of Preferences was erasing the dock's preview image.

* A newly created dock could use the settings of a disabled dock for initial icon size and position instead of the settings of the last active dock created.

* Full screen Adobe Flash videos were triggering a WM_DISPLAYCHANGE message which caused a reset of the reserved screen areas and subsequent screen flickering.

* The backup overwrite prompt appeared twice.

* Running indicators on docks could take up to a second to refresh after uncollapsing/un-hiding a dock.

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* After downloading and installing an updated language file via the Winstep Update Manager, the wrong language could be applied to the application.

* URLs and mail support addresses were still pointing to the old Proxma AG partner website in the German language file.

* Fixed extremelly annoying z-order bug that normally would only happen if a dock was at the bottom of the screen right above the taskbar. Conditions to trigger were: the user would be working on window A and would move the mouse pointer down to the taskbar, thus travelling across the dock, to give focus to window B. The user would click the relevant button in the taskbar and window B got the focus. As the user moved the mouse pointer to window B, it would travel across the dock again which would then (wrongly) bring window A to the top of the z-order (thus above window B).

* If a dock was docked to the top of the screen with the 'Do not flip background for docks at the top of the screen' setting enabled, the distance between the top screen edge and the top edge of the dock might not be enough to show some of the effects without the icons becoming partially cropped at the top.

* Fixed issue that could cause the View Change Log parser to enter an infinite loop and hang the application.

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* Fixed some issues with the opacity of the icon reflection as icons in the dock moved up and down.

* Fixed some cropping issues with icon reflections in the dock.

* The movement of the icon drop shadow in combination with the Bounce effect was not correct.

* The Recycler style drag & drop animation was not activating.

* A change to the 'Do not display confirmation when deleting' setting in the Delete Confirmation dialog itself might not be immediately reflected in the Recycler Settings dialog. 

* Changing the 'Cache animated icons using original resolution' setting in the Performance Settings Advanced dialog was not causing a memory usage report to be displayed.


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Version 16.9 build 1041 - September 29, 2016 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated Brazilian language file.

* Added a 'View Change Log' button to the Version Information dialog (which opens when you click the version number in the top right corner of the About tab in Preferences). Clicking the button opens another dialog which interfaces with the history files and makes it easier to see the additions and bug fixes in each release. 

* Added a 'Check Internet Connection' button to the Troubleshooting dialog in Preferences, to help diagnose Internet communication problems.

* The Shelf icon cache is no longer destroyed when changing drive media or adding/removing drives.

* After more than a decade, NOAA discontinued the web site from where METAR information was retrieved. Updated URLs and parsing code so METAR information is now successfuly retrieved from www.aviationweather.gov.

* The Battery module 'Overlap information on battery icon' setting can now be independently set for vertical and horizontal styles.


Fixes:


* Some applications (such as Firefox or UWP apps) were wrongly being identified as full screen when maximized on monitors without a taskbar or with a auto-hide taskbar. This caused screen edge bumps, etc, to be temporarily ignored (edge bumps are disabled so they do not activate accidentally when the user is playing a full screen game, for instance).

* Fixed a couple of instances where the CD Control icon or drive icons in a Drives tab of the Shelf might not be properly updated after a media or drive change. 

* The 'Hide for maximized applications' setting was also triggering the dock to hide if you clicked on the Desktop.

* Changes to the default Weather feed source URLs were not being applied until weather cache information became stale.

* The Email Checker failed on IMAP servers that sent a CAPABILITY response just after login or didn't add OK to the STATUS command response.



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Version 16.6 build 1040 - June 27, 2016 - Official Release


New Features:


* Added new 'Fast Boot' option to the General tab of Preferences. When enabled it should help make the application boot faster forcing Windows to load it before most other applications. Since it does this by adding an entry to the RunOnce key, some security packages (such as WinPatrol) might start prompting the user.

* Normalized the time remaining shown when downloading updates so it didn't jump all over the place.

* Running Universal/Metro applications in Windows 10 now display the proper app icon instead of a general App icon.

* Running Universal/Metro applications can now be pinned to the docks.

* Multiple instances of running Universal/Metro applications can now be grouped together.

* Shortcuts to Universal/Metro applications pinned to docks now behave like other Win32 applications in terms of complying to the current 'Combine dock icons with running applications' and 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' settings.

* When pinning a running application to the dock, the new shortcut now uses the running application's customized icon (if any).

* All User Interface bitmaps are now stored internally as high-resolution bitmaps so they always look good even on very high-DPI systems.

* User Interface is now 100% compatible with the current Windows system colors and Stardock WindowBlinds themes.

* Effect bitmaps have been moved to an external resource DLL to cut the size of updates by half.

* Moved some User Interface images to an external resource DLL.

* Text in the User Interface now uses Segoe UI instead of Tahoma on high DPI systems with Cleartype enabled.

* The tree view menu in the System Tray Customization dialog now scales up properly on high DPI systems.

* Update Manager options are now grayed out if the user chooses not to check for updates, to make it clear that those options only have an effect if Check for updates is enabled.


Fixes:


* Differences in Shelf transparency from expanded to collapsed were not being properly applied during the Shelf collapse animation.

* The 'Colorize with dominant color of desktop background' feature was sometimes not working with the Windows 10 wallpaper slide-show feature.

* The 'Lookup IP Address' internal command was failing to get the correct user's location if it only had latitude and longitude coordinates.

* Fixed huge GDI/memory leak introduced in v16.2 that could eventually crash the application when icons on the left side of the dock representing running applications showed the number of open windows for that application. The original image/icon (without the overlapping number) was not getting destroyed as it should.

* Fixed many misc.issues on the UI related to high DPI settings. 

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Version 16.5 build 1035 - May 28, 2016 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated Russian language file.

* File format of screenshots taken by the 'Capture Desktop' internal command can now be set as either JPG or PNG.

* Filled histogram colors used for the CPU, Net and RAM Meter icon modules are now a bit transparent so the background of the icon can still be seen.

* URLs dragged from all browsers should now use the web page title for the item's label instead of the actual URL domain address.

* Added new 'Overlap information on battery icon' option to the battery module, enabled by default. Controls whether the AC Power symbol, charge percentage and battery runtime values are drawn on top of the battery icon or next to it. This allows using customized multi-state battery images that wouldn't look good with battery information overlapping the battery image.

* The 'Most Active Programs', 'Power Events Log' and 'Battery Information' dialogs now show a button on the taskbar.

* Since it's global, also added the 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' setting to the More Options dialog in the General tab of Preferences. Also renamed the dialog from 'Advanced Settings' to 'More Options' for consistency with the button that invokes it.

* The Animation Speed slider in a dock Auto-Hide Settings dialog is now disabled if the auto-hide animation is set to No Animation.

* Added new 'Auto Backup Settings' internal command. Intended to be used with the built-in Alarm Manager to make automatic scheduled backups, it makes a backup of the application's settings without prompting the user for a filename. It creates the filename based on the current date and time and stores the backup in the last used backup folder (or C:\Users\Public\Documents\WinStep\Backup\ by default).

* The battery in the Battery Information dialog now displays the style and settings currently selected by the user and glows with the dominant color of the battery image.

* The 'Colorize low and critical battery states' battery module setting now also properly colorizes customized multi-state battery images.

* Added new alternative 'Hue Shift' colorization method which allows color information to be preserved and whites to remain white.

* Changed the Hue shift colorization algorithm to one that is more accurate than Microsoft's solution. This can affect colorization of the Battery Monitor and Wanda fish modules.

* The 'Edge Swipe Settings' buttons in the Behavior tab of the Shelf and Dock Properties panels are now grayed out if the user is using edge bumps instead of edge swipes to activate the dock/Shelf.

* A theme validation is now performed when Restoring settings from a previous backup, so the user doesn't end up with a blank theme if the theme used at the time of the backup no longer exists.

* Added 'Most Active Programs' button to the CPU module settings dialog, to make this feature more visible.

* The Colorize settings are now also directly available in the Themes tab by sliding the UI with the arrow. This allows quick preview of colorization changes without having to constantly open and close the Colorization Settings dialog.

* The Winstep Update Manager now uses the currently selected settings when you click the 'Check for Updates' button in the Advanced tab of Preferences.

* Increased the interpolation quality used to render dock backgrounds.

* The 'Minimize to dock' and 'Combine dock icons with running applications' settings are now only available when 'Show running applications in this dock' is selected.

* Improved the color hot-track algorithm so it also takes into account the average background color when it can't calculate a proper dominant color.

* A black or gray scale tint color now grayscales the bitmap for both the Tint and Hue shift colorizing modes.

* Tweaked the vertical position of the text in the Shelf tabs when running under high-DPI settings.

* Added a new 'Colorize text' option to the Color Settings, enabled by default. Text can now be optionally colorized as well. Disabling this option allows the user to colorize a theme but still be able to tweak text colors manually via the theme 'Fonts' dialog.

* Replaced the Shelf and dock images used in the Docks & Shelves tab in Preferences so they can scale up properly on high DPI displays.

* Added 'Flip Dock Background' option to the Appearence sub-menu of the dock's right-click context menu. Equivalent to toggling the 'Do not flip background for docks at the top of the screen' setting but with immediate effect.

* Added 'Show Container' and 'Browse Container' options to the right-click context menu of the 'Restore Wallpaper' internal command. Allows you to open or browse the folder where the Windows wallpaper is stored.



Fixes:


* Fixed malformed request to GeoIP location server that caused GeoIP location to stop working after 2016/03/17.

* The 'Lookup IP address' internal command would fail if the GeoIP information was not already in the cache.

* The 'Show full right click context menu options?' setting in the More Options dialog of the General tab in Preferences was not sticking.

* The dock could crop the number of visible tray icons in grouped mode when changing the iconsize of the dock.

* Pseudo-3D dock backgrounds like the Leopard theme no longer appear heavilly distorted at certain icon/icon reflection sizes.

* The 'Capture Desktop Settings' dialog, when invoked from a right click context menu, was not saving the settings to the proper location.

* The Shelf could auto-hide while a item delete confirmation dialog was still on screen if the user moved the mouse pointer over the Shelf.

* If the auto-hide delay was too short, the Shelf could auto-hide while it was still performing unrelated animations such as shifting icons after deleting an item, etc...

* Synchronization of the system clock with the Internet Time Servers failed if the regional settings for the SYSTEM account (used by the Winstep Helper Service) used a difference decimal point character than the user account under which the application run (e.g.; "123,4" instead of "123.4" or vice-versa).

* Some routines were still using bilinear instead of bicubic transformations for rescaling bitmaps, which caused the bitmaps to look blurrier than they should.

* Nexus Ultimate would crash if a dock was set to auto-hide when selecting a new theme in the Dock Properties dialog and the user clicked outside the Dock Properties window (which would cause the dock to hide) and then on the themes list.

* Certain dock backgrounds could cause visual glitches when mousing over near the position of a dock that was hidden into a screen edge.

* A dock set to hide/collapse automatically after launching an application (or a sub-dock set to close automatically after launching an application) would fail to do so if the item being launched required admin privileges (i.e.; UAC prompt).

* Always on top docks set to auto-hide for maximized applications will now only do so if they are not reserving screen space (maximized applications would not be overlapped by the dock in this case) and will only auto-hide for full screen applications.

* The preview of the Destop Module Battery Monitor on the Modules tab of Preferences would show a disabled battery if the battery module was not currently in use.

* Fixed some Shelf tab width issues that could occur if the tab font size was too large to fit.

* Drag & Drop of URLs was not working with certain browsers (e.g.; Waterfox) that did not supply the ANSI UniformResourceLocator format. ANSI and Unicode formats are now correctly accepted. 

* Changing units of the weather module from C to F or vice-versa only became effective after the cached weather information became stale and the weather information was refreshed.

* The 'Colorize animated fish style' and 'Hue' values for the Wanda module were not being saved under the free version of Nexus and Nexus Ultimate.

* Sub-dock indicators were overlapping other icons and causing visual glitches if the icon spacing was less than 8 pixels.

* The 'Popup delay' slider in the Activation Settings dialog of the Dock Properties Behavior tab appeared enabled even if 'Bring dock forward on mouseover' was not selected.

* With very short auto-hide delays, or under certain circunstances when a dock was set to auto-hide for maximized applications, a dock could auto-hide in the middle of a resize/move animation, which would cause it to glitch.

* Clicking an icon to open an in-Shelf sub-dock could cause a persistent blank white box to appear if in-shelf sub-docks were set to open on mouse over and the sub-dock had started playing the open animation just prior to the click.

* The Winstep Update Manager always failed to download updates with a 'file size mimatch' error on East Asian systems.

* A sub-dock opening animation would briefly flash the full glass blur region at the begining if the 'Aero Glass Blur' effect was enabled.

* A dock would keep bouncing up and down if 'Auto hide for maximized applications' was enabled and the user tried to drag a shortcut from a maximized window into the dock.

* The 'Colorize low and critical battery states' battery module setting was not 'sticking' between restarts of the application.

* The 'Aero Glass' (non-Windows 10) balloon tooltip style was blurring the tooltip window background on Windows 10 systems.

* Under certain circumstances, if a theme's original font style did not exist on the system, text width could be calculated as zero and cause visual glitches.

* Winstep applications should now display the high-resolution icon in Explorer on high-DPI/large icon systems.

* Docks should now be a bit less 'jittery' when inserting items into them via drag & drop.

* A Shelf attached to the top screen edge with the tabs set to appear at the top of the Shelf, was not hiding the tabs properly when collapsed if the 'Hide tabs' setting was enabled.

* The 'Auto Hide at Startup' option could sometimes fail to hide the dock, leaving it visible and in an unresponsive state until you activated it.

* It was very easy (and very annoying!) to accidentally activate a dock at the bottom of the screen via an edge bump when going for the last option in a context menu. This could make the dock cover the menu(s). Edge bumps are now ignored if the mouse pointer is over a menu.

* Getting the current wallpaper to use as the background in certain dialogs with result previews could sometimes fail under Windows 8.x and 10. This could cause changes in previews to overwrite instead of replacing each other (Dock Icon Spacing and Dock Transparency dialogs, for instance).

* The 'Colorize with dominant color of desktop background' feature could stop working properly after going to the Themes tab in Preferences.

* Shelf tab overlay bitmaps (used in the DarkTech theme, for instance) were not obeying the user specified transparency settings.

* The Themes tab in Preferences, unlike the Themes tab in a dock Properties dialog, was unable to display RK Launcher Nexus themes.

* Fixed slow memory leak in the Shelf that occured whenever an icon in the Global icon cache was changed or a Shelf tab was deleted.

* 'Colorize with the dominant color of the desktop background' now works properly with the Windows 7 wallpaper slideshow.

* Fixed another memory leak that occured when switching tabs in the Shelf if one of the tabs contained Winstep modules.

* The Battery Monitor Event Actions dialog would not properly display the background image if the Low Battery alarm was set to 'Do Nothing' and the Critical Battery alarm was set to something other than 'Do Nothing'.

* Fixed some issues displaying and correctly applying RK Launcher dock backgrounds in the Themes tab of Preferences.

* Closing Preferences could interfere with the Windows wallpaper slideshow feature if Windows changed the wallpaper while the Preferences window was still open.

* The application crashed if a context menu got repainted while a thumbnail preview of a document in the menu was being shown.


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Version 16.3 build 1029 -  - March 8, 2016 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated Spanish language file.

* 'Double caching of icons' performance setting is now enabled by default.


Fixes:


* The CD Control internal command was displaying an error message on some systems.

* Lauching items pointing to shortcuts (.lnk files) of a 64 bit application resulted in a 'File not found' error.

* Dropping a shortcut file (.lnk file) into a folder item in the dock now copies/moves the shortcut as it should instead of the original file.

* A dock brought to the foreground via an edge bump would auto-hide as soon as the mouse pointer left it even if a sub-dock was currently open.

* Double clicking the icon of a running application on the dock would open a second instance of that application.

* Mousing over the running application icon of a task that had just closed could result in a 'Access Violation' error.

* An always-on-top dock set to hide automatically for maximized applications was not hidding for full screen windows (e.g.; watching a video full screen on Youtube).

* Wallpaper color-hot track is now correctly previewed when trying new themes and wallpapers in the Themes tab.

* Fixed the 'Stop' image in the Troubleshooting dialog so it properly scales up on high-DPI systems and displays a flat-image icon on Windows 10 systems.

* Decreased the luminance value of the smaller and thinner language identifier text in the Language Bar icon so it's a bit more visible.

* The CD Control internal command was unable to eject media on computers that did not support loading media via software.

* The 'Auto-Hide after a short delay' setting in the Behavior tab of the Shelf Properties dialog was not doing anything.

* It is now possible to change an item's icon by drag & dropping an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file into the icon even if the dock is locked.

* The result of a drag & drop operation (i.e.; Copy, Move or Link) is now accurately and immediately reflected even when the dock is locked. As before, pressing the SHIFT key forces a move, and pressing the CTRL key forces a copy. Locked docks do not allow items to be moved/re-arranged within the dock, but they still allow a) customizing dock item icons via drag & drop of image files, b) launching a document with a particular application by dropping that document into the application's icon in the dock and c) copying and moving files into drive folders in the dock.

* Locked docks were not accurately reflecting which item was being affected by the file being dropped (i.e.; with unlocked docks, dropping an item before the middle half of a dock icon would insert that item before the icon, dropping it after the middle half would insert the item after the icon. Since locked docks do not allow the insertion of items, this would not accurately reflect which dock item was being targeted by the drag & drop operation).

* The Shelf was still shifting icons in a 'Regular' tab type to make room for dropped items even if the Shelf was locked.

* If the 'Enable double caching of icons' performance setting was enabled, non-magnified icons on the dock could appear slightly blurred because they were being drawn with the High Quality *Bicubic* interpolation mode instead of High Quality *Bilinear*.

* The systray icons of a handful of applications (such as KVirc and Agnitum Outpost Pro) were not playing well with the system tray handling of Winstep applications because they reported a pre-Vista notify icon structure to the system but actually expected mouse click messages to be passed using the post NOTIFYICON_VERSION_4 format.

* Drag & dropping a program (executable) from an Explorer window into the Shelf's Quick Launch tab was showing a 'Move File' visual indication instead of the correct shortcut (Link) visual cue.

* Text on Windows 7-style Balloon tooltips was not being correctly centered vertically.

* Fixed bug that could cause the Shelf to display a tab of blank icons if a Modal settings window was opened when the Shelf needed to refresh the contents of a tab.

* Right clicking the Quick Launch tab in the Shelf and selecting 'New Program' would actually copy the file to the Quick Launch folder instead of creating a shortcut to it. Right clicking on Shelf tabs pointing to folders that should host shortcuts only now displays 'New Shortcut' and 'New Folder Shortcut' in the context menu instead of 'New Program' and 'New Folder'. Selecting 'New Shortcut' allows the user to select a file via the Browser dialog, and *shortcut* to that file is created instead of the file being copied. Likewise, selecting 'New Folder Shortcut' allows the user to select an existing folder via the Browser dialog, and a shortcut to that folder is created in the target folder.

* The Rename dialog was showing the wrong icon when renaming items in non-Regular Shelf tabs.

* The Monitor drop down box in the Shelf Properties dialog did not have any effect.

* If auto-hide was enabled for the Shelf, deleting an item on a folder type tab would collapse the Shelf while the confirmation dialog was still on the screen, which would then display a blank non-responsive Shelf. 


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Version 16.2 build 1024 - February 11 2016 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated the French language file.

* Updated Italian language file (incomplete).

* Updated Spanish language file.

* Updated Indonesian language file.

* Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file (incomplete).

* Greatly increased the odds of getting the user's correct location for the weather module based on IP address.

* The current language is now automatically refreshed after a language pak update.

* Updated the list of Internet Time Servers used by the clock module.

* The Update Manager can now hide an update by selecting 'Never (Hide this Update)' from 'Remind me again in'. This enables the user to hide a particular update he is not interested in without having to deactivate Update Notification altogether.

* Windows can now be minimized to and restored from the dock.

* Calculating the Aero Glass blur effect is now about 4 times faster with no apparent loss of quality (Vista/7 only or 8/10 with AeroGlass installed).

* Added backup Yahoo Weather feed to make up for the fact that the Google Weather feed is no longer available. Current available feeds are NOOA for current conditions plus Weather.com, MSN Weather and Yahoo Weather for current/forecast conditions.

* Updated the Net Statistics dialog which still showed the old UI.

* Icon shifting to make room for new items being dragged into the dock is now a bit smoother than before.

* Improved the smoothness of adding items to and re-arranging items in the dock.

* Changes to the dock's position now make it smoothly 'slide in' into the new screen location instead of instantly jumping into place.

* Added 'Auto-Detect Location' to the right click context menu of the Weather module, to update the user's current location based on his IP address.

* Clock settings panel now shows previews for both the analog and digital clock style.

* Added Alarms/Event Scheduling to the Clock Module. Alarms can now be created to display pop-up reminders, wake you up with music or run programs/internal commands at specific times, once or periodically. Alarm events can optionally wake the computer up if Sleeping or Hibernating. Users can build their own MP3/WMA playlists or use existing M3U playlists for musical alarms, which also feature Snooze and Easy-Wake (sound volume increases with time) abilities.

* Completely re-organized module's internal structures so it's much easier to add new modules in the future.

* Added new battery/UPS monitor module. Module includes a vertical and an horizontal style and optionally display current battery charge and runtime (when available). Ability to log power events and display a warning or run an application/internal command on low and critical battery level events.

* Changed the default 'Attention' effect from 'Flash' to 'Sonic Boom'.

* Average CpU usage is now monitored and an alert displayed if Nexus consistently uses over 90% of one core for over 5 minutes.

* Weather information is now cached for an hour to prevent hammering the weather servers unnecessarily.

* If one of the weather feeds being used provides sunrise and sunset times, the weather module is now able to determine more accurately whether to display a Sun or Moon icon.

* Icons of currently running applications on the left side of the dock now also display the number of instances when the 'Combine dock icons with running applications' and 'Group similar windows into a single icon' settings are both enabled.

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* The battery module in the dock/shelf now flashes for one second when the battery transitions from AC Power to On Battery.

* Added a 'Check for Updates' button to the About tab in Preferences, just below the version number.

* Changed the 'Notify me of beta (test) versions' setting to be off by default. The user must explicitily enable this option if he wishes to be notified of public beta versions.

* Added visual 'glass mode' (transparent battery) option to the battery module.

* Added ability to disable the battery charging animation.

* Added battery voice and sound notifications for battery events.

* Added new 'CD Control' internal command. Allows the user to know at a glance what type of media is currently inserted into a CD-ROM type drive, and opens/closes the CD tray when clicked on. Automatically replaces any existing 'Open CD-ROM' and 'Close CD-ROM' internal commands in use.

* Reorganized the Behavior tab of the Dock Properties panel and added 'Activation Settings' and 'Auto-Hide Settings' panels.

* You can now drag & drop .ico, .png, .tif, .dll and .exe files directly into the Icon Browser dialog as an alternative to browsing for a file.

* The Weather module information is now automatically updated immediately after returning from Sleep or Hibernation.

* Renamed 'Fast User Switching' internal command to 'Lock Computer'.

* Added a 'Capture Desktop Settings' configuration panel to the right click menu of the 'Capture Desktop' internal command.

* Moved the customized 'Explosion animation' settings to the Recycler Module Settings panel.

* Re-organized the Advanced Settings panel (Preferences -> General -> More Options).

* Added new 'Fade in' mouseover, launch and attention effect. All icons are semi-transparent and fade-in to opaque when you mouse over them, then
fade out to semi-transparent as you mouse away. Initial transparency can be modified by changing normal icon transparency, otherwise it's 50%.

* Floating mouseover icon labels for a Shelf set to display no labels below the icons now appear below the icon instead of outside the Shelf.

* For security reasons the clock module now displays a warning dialog if the time difference between the system clock and the Time Server is larger than 15 hours, giving the user a choice to adjust the time anyway or otherwise cancelling the operation. Cancelling opens the Date and Time Windows dialog (so the user can manually change the date and time) as well as the Clock Module Settings Panel (so the user can alternatively disable automatic time synchronization).

* Left clicking a dock's control icon now opens the Dock Properties dialog for that dock.

* 'Flash' and 'Jump' are now avaiable as Mouseover, Launch and Attention effects.

* Switched the names of the 'Bounce' and 'Jump' effects.

* Renamed the 'Fire' effect to 'Explode'.

* Effects can now be selected and configured from the new 'Effects Panel'. The new panel allows you to visualize effects before applying them.

* The Mouseover, Launch and Attention items of the main right click context menu for docks and the Shelf now open the new Effects Panel instead of displaying a menu with the names of the effects.

* Added nine additional mouseover, launch and attention effects: Shake, Fire, Energize, Swirl, Ion Storm, Ignite, Bubble, Plasma and Wormhole.

* When the icon of an item is changed (either automatically when rendering document thumbnails or manually by the user via drag & drop or the Item Properties Editor) the old version now smoothly fades out while the new version fades into place.

* Added new settings to the Performance vs. Memory Usage panel. The new settings allow the user to control quality of the effects vs. speed vs. memory usage.

* To help troubleshooting, clicking the 'Test Voice' and 'Test Sounds' buttons in the Sound tab in Preferences now displays a warning dialog if the application has not detected a sound card in the system.

* Major re-organization of the Position and Behavior tabs in the Properties panels of the Shelf and docks to fix a common complaint that some related settings were scattered throughout the UI, which made locating them and understanding their relation difficult. Related settings are now grouped together, even though this means some of them will now appear more than once at different places in the UI.

* If the Weather.com weather feed is down, the next resort is now the Yahoo feed, since it has sunrise and sunset times which the MSN feed does not. The MSN feed is now the last resort.

* Renamed the 'Customize' button in the Themes tab to 'Fonts'.

* Added a 'Fonts' button to the Appearence tab of the Shelf Properties dialog to open the Fonts Manager dialog. This allows the user to customize the text used in the Shelf for the current theme and should solve the problem of the user confusing this with the font settings used for the external label when the number of icon text lines in the Shelf was set to zero.

* Clicking the Net Meter module now opens the 'Active Connections' panel instead of the Net Statistics panel.

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* Added new 'Lookup IP Address' internal command. Returns the public IP address as well as current location and latitude/longitude coordinates.

* Added 'Manage Alarms' button to the General tab of Preferences.

* Added new 'Enable double caching of icons (speed boost)' option to the Performance Settings dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences. Disabled by default, enable it to boost the rendering speed of magnifying docks by a factor of 2 or more, at the cost of a little bit more memory usage.

* Speeded up the initial construction of the semi-transparent blur regions by up to 4 times and cut their memory usage also by 4, without no noticeable visual drawbacks (Vista/7 only).

* Dock icon labels are now also affected by the system's high-DPI settings.

* The 'Most Active Programs History' dialog (accessible by right clicking the CPU Meter module) now also shows the second most active process and its CPU usage for each second of the last 5 minutes. The list can also be made to refresh automatically.

* The 'Bring mouse forward when mouse pointer bumps screen edge' setting makes the dock come on top of other windows when you bump the associated screen edge, regardless of it being docked or free floating. To help with annoying accidental activations, moving the mouse away from the dock after it comes forward now brings the window that previously had the focus to the foreground.

* Icons now 'glow' when dragging an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF image over a dock or Shelf shortcut to give a visual cue to the user that dropping that image there will replace the target's shortcut icon.

* Improved User Interface integration with Windows 10 when running under this version of Windows.



Fixes:


* Live window preview thumbnails were not going away when the user moved the pointer off the dock.

* The 'Disable reflections when dock is vertical' option would not retain a disabled setting from session to session.

* Right clicking on a live preview thumbnail would show a context menu, but the menu would close itself automatically almost immediately after.

* No file context menu would open if you right-clicked a file of a 'Browse Container' or 'Browse' sub-menu.

* The Winstep Update Manager incorrectly listed 'Spanish' instead of 'Espa ol' as the localized name for the Spanish language file, which caused it to always display the text in English for Spanish users and also made it impossible to automatically update Spanish language files.

* Fixed bug that could cause the Net Meter module not to show all existing network adapters.

* The Item Properties Editor panel was not automatically changing the icon when editing the path of Folder type items.

* Fixed several issues with the dock becoming wonky when dragging items over it.

* Double clicking just outside the left mini-tab when the Shelf was collapsed would cause it to open with an empty tab.

* Menus displaying a list of voice and sound themes no longer display a question mark thumbnail.

* Themes without a thumbnail now display a generic theme icon thumbnail instead of a question mark icon.

* The attention effect was not activating for items pined to the dock when 'combine dock icons with running applications' was enabled.

* The attention effect didn't affect the correct task icon when 'combine dock icons with running applications' was enabled.

* On multi-monitor systems hiding or showing a dock would leave visible left-overs on the other monitor if the dock was attached to a common screen edge.

* When double clicking a Shelf tab to fully expand the Shelf, the Shelf would only resize smoothly if attached to the bottom screen edge.

* Native Nexus 'Tiles' skinning mode themes with the 'Zoom tiles when magnifying' option were not being rendered properly when the dock magnified.

* The Winstep Update Manager was not warning the user when a new version falled outside his paid update subscription period.

* The option to make the Wanda module swim on the desktop was visible in the Wanda settings dialog, but shouldn't be since it's for the desktop module version of Wanda and Nexus Ultimate does not support desktop modules.

* The Winstep Update Manager was not able to distribute language packs for which the Winstep Update Manager itself did not have a language file.

* Fixed problem preventing updates to the Portuguese (Brasil) and Spanish language packs due to incorrect configuration names.

* The 'Always at the base of the icon' option for running indicators would not retain a disabled setting from session to session.

* The clock module no longer syncs the time with the Internet Time Servers every time the application starts regardless of the check interval.

* Dropping a shortcut into a Folder type Shelf tab was moving/copying the source file instead of the shortcut itself.

* It wasn't possible to make a copy of a file via CTRL + Drop in a Folder type Shelf, the drop would simply be ignored.

* Changes made in the Clock Speech and Sound Settings dialog of the Clock Module Settings panel would still be effective even if the user later pressed Cancel in the Settings panel.

* Maximized Google Chrome windows were being interpreted as full screen windows, which caused the application to automatically stop reacting to edge bumps (necessary so edge bumps are not accidentally activated when playing a full screen game, for instance).

* The 'Combine dock icons with running applications' setting always became enabled after a restart of the application.

* The Weather module was not being reset properly when reseting settings to default via Troubleshooting Options in Preferences.

* The 24 hour or AM/PM format was not being reset properly when reseting settings to default via Troubleshooting Options in Preferences.

* The digital clock module was displaying '12 AM' when it should display '12 PM'.

* Search internal command was broken in Windows 8.x

* The contents of an open weather forecast sub-dock were not being updated when weather information was refreshed.

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* Clicking the Action Center icon twice with re-open the Action Center window instead of closing it (Windows 10 only).

* Changes to the custom module icons were sometimes not being saved.

* The Silent Period combo boxes were showing '12 AM' as '0 AM' and '12 PM' as '12 AM'.

* The battery charge levels in the demo animations for the battery module were going to negative values if a language other than English was selected.

* Fixed bug which would prevent some modules from using a customized bitmap without restarting the application if the bitmap had been updated but the filename remained the same.

* Running a link to a shortcut no longer automatically executes the target instead. This allows the user to specifically run customized shortcuts.

* The icon browser dialog was not displaying icons for known document file types.

* Sub-docks now complete the Launch animation (if any) before automatically closing.

* The new 'smoothly move into place' feature, combined with the 'new item' animation, was causing items added to the end of the dock to momentarily appear outside the same.

* Re-arranging tasklist items in the dock via drag & drop was broken.

* Fixed some problems with the 'remove item from dock' animation if the mouse pointer was at the end or begining of the dock and the dock was magnifying.

* Customizing the icon of a task item via drag & drop of an ICO or PNG image could apply the new icon to the wrong item under certain circumstances.

* Fixed problem where the mouseover effect would 'stick' to an icon and keep playing even though the mouse pointer was no longer over the dock.

* Removed limit of 99 entries for the number of system tray and task icons being customized, as well as for the window thumbnail and task exclusion list. Although no warning was issued if the user went over this limit, the lists would become corrupted with some entries missing and others overwritten.

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* Weather module icon now flashes to give some feedback to the user even when the weather information is retrieved from the cache.

* The Effect Settings buttons in the Dock Properties panel were configuring the wrong effect in Beta 2.

* The charge and run time fonts of the battery module were not being scaled properly for high-DPI systems.

* The Outline and Shadow text styles were not being scaled up properly on high-DPI systems.

* Fixed a handful of high-DPI related glitches.

* Fixed bug in beta 2 that could cause the new CD Control internal command to block or report an error.

* The 'Most Active Programs' list was logging an empty entry if all processes were using less than 1% CPU.

* Fixed issue in which an item belonging to the same dock would not be deleted when dropped into the recycler module if the insertion point was before the module.

* The clock module tooltip was using the current system settings to display the time in 24 or 12 hour format. It now uses the setting specified for the clock module.

* The wrong icon could be displayed for a customized task items when selecting it from a DLL.

* The attention effect would not play if an icon was currently displaying a persistent mouseover effect.

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* The icon labels of magnifying docks docked to the top where appearing at the wrong vertical position if the 'Do not flip background for docks at the top of the screen' setting was enabled.

* if the 'Do not flip background for docks at the top of the screen' setting was enabled the top of the icons could go a bit beyond the top screen edge when magnifying on certain dock backgrounds.

* Decreased the refresh time of smoothly moving a dock to a new position to allow the Windows DWM to keep up, otherwise movement would appear jerky.

* Wallpaper color-hot track is now correctly previewed when trying new themes and wallpapers in the Themes tab.

* The balloon tooltip of the 'Lookup IP address' internal command was disappearing immediately in this command was run from the Shelf.



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Version 15.9 build 1017 - October 1 2015 - Silent Update


Changes:


* Geo IP location results are now cached.


Fixes:


* Nexus Ultimate now cleans up and exits gracefully when closed by an external application. Before this fix it would crash on some systems when told to close by the Winstep Update Manager.

* The new feature that allowed launching 64 bit applications was also preventing the user from opening shortcuts to folders on some 64 bit systems. Either nothing would happen or the user would get a 'Class Not Registered' error.

* Winstep .xtreme theme files are now correctly associated to 'Winstep.exe' instead of the old 'WinstepXtreme.exe'



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Version 15.9 build 1015 - September 29 2015 - Official Release


New Features:



* Updated the Portuguese language file.

* Updated the French language file.

* Updated the Indonesian language file.

* Added new 'Action Center' internal command (Windows 10 only)

* The image of disabled docks & shelves now appear in grayscale on the Docks & Shelves tab of Preferences.

* Added 'Show folder in a menu' setting to folder type items in the Item Properties Editor, so shortcuts to folders can be browsed in a menu when clicked on an individual base.

* Auto-Hide delay has been extended from 100 ms to 5,000 ms in 100 ms intervals.

* Docks and Shelf no longer auto-hide while mouse pointer remains at the edge bump location.

* Edge bump delay now ranges from 0 to 2,000ms in 100 ms intervals.

* Added new 'Smoke' mouseover effect.

* Changed the hue of the live preview thumbnail glass background, to better fit with the Windows original.

* When installing a full setup version over an existing version, the user is no longer prompted to overwrite the default theme files.

* Reduced the font size used to display the theme's author in the Theme Preview window.

* Pressing CTRL while left clicking a shortcut now cycles through all the windows belonging to that same application when 'do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' is enabled.

* Pressing CTRL+SHIFT while clicking a shortcut causes the application to launch with Admin rights.

* Clicking the clock module now opens the Windows calendar instead of showing the Regional Settings dialog.

* The images of disabled docks in the Dock & Shelves tab of Preferences now appear in gray scale to help reinforce the fact that they are disabled.

* Increased the maximum width of menus by 100 pixels.

* Added 'Language Bar' internal command, which emulates the functionality of the Windows Language Bar. It changes dynamically, showing the active keyboard layout in the current foreground window, and allows switching to other keyboard layouts through a menu displaying all available language and keyboard layouts.

* Tray icon customization is now disabled by default to save resources.

* Double clicking a shortcut now launches a new session when 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' is enabled.

* Added 'Always at the base of the icon' setting to the running indicator offset dialog. This forces the running indicator to always be shown below the icon independently of the current dock orientation.

* By default the running indicator is now 'Always at the base of the icon' and the indicator offset set to 30%.

* The Shelf now smoothly resizes when double clicking a Shelf tab to fully expand it or return it to the default number of rows, instead of changing sizes instantaneously.

* Renamed the 'WinstepXtreme.exe' multi-function helper application to 'Winstep.exe' to avoid confusing users of Nexus and Nexus Ultimate.

* Added multi-language support to the 'Winstep Key Manager' helper application.

* Added an optional new style to some UI elements (windows live preview thumbnail backgrounds,  menu document thumbnail backgrounds, ballon tooltip background and the 'working' splash screen) to better fit with the default Windows 8 and Windows 10 look. Enabled by default on Windows 10 and 8.

* Added option in the More Options dialog of the General Preferences tab to enable the new Windows 10 style even when not running under Windows 10 or 8.

* Added 'Colorize with the dominant color of the desktop background'/'Wallpaper hot-track' setting to the colorization options of the docks and the Shelf, which automatically colorizes them to 'blend in' with the current desktop wallpaper.

* Added colorization settings to the Appearance tab of the Shelf Properties panel.

* The Explosion animation displayed when items are deleted can now be customized in the More Options dialog of General Preferences. User must specify a multi-frame PNG or TIF animation strip (animated icon).

* Moved the icon reflection and icon drop shaddow context menu options from the Effects menu to the Appearance and Sounds menu.

* Changed the appearance of the Aero style balloon tooltip.

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* Improved the appearance of the Aero Style 'busy' splash screen.

* Added a 'Edge Bump Settings' button to the General tab of Preferences.

* Added ability to activate docks and the Shelf via 'edge swipes' instead of 'edge bumps.

* Added a new dialog to control edge swipe timings.

* Added a new setting to limit the distance the mouse pointer can travel during the activation delay for screen edge bumps. If the pointer moves behind this threashold while waiting to trigger an edge bump, the bump is discarded/ignored. This should help reduce accidental edge bump activations.

* Docks are now moved up in the z-order when mousing over them (if 'pop up on mouseover' is enabled) instead of removing focus from the currently active window. This provides a smoother experience since the active window does not change state.

* Added a 'Edge Swipe Settings' button the the General tab of Preferences and Dock Behavior panels.

* Added new 'Frequent Programs' tab type which displays the user's most frequently used applications.

* Added a 'Clear Recent Documents' internal command as the first item of a Recent Documents tab.

* Dock icons can now be combined with running application icons in the dock so there is no duplication of icons.

* By default clicking on a grouped running application icon now shows live window preview thumbnails instead of the group menu.

* Added option to show the group menu when clicking on the icon of grouped running applications instead of showing the live preview thumbnails.

* Added support for RK Launcher's Theme.conf skins.

* Theme tabs in Preferences now open immediately instead of waiting for theme files to be retrieved.

* Animation speed in the General tab of Preferences can now be set in 50 ms intervals.

* Added a default running indicator bitmap.

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* The Windows hidden notification icons window is now monitored when open and automatically repositioned if it suddenly'jumps' to another location on the screen (as happened if the mouse pointer hovered over an invalid notification icon).

* The Shelf Tab Properties dialog now automatically gives a new tab an appropriate default name according to the currently selected tab type.

* Added option not to show icon reflections on vertical sub-docks.

* Added warning for Windows 8/10 users regarding the Glass Blur effect requiring the AeroGlass 3rd party utility.

* Added full support for high-DPI displays.

* Added option to automatically scale menus up on high DPI displays or not, as well as text in the Shelf.

* Icon shift routine in the Shelf is now an order of magnitude faster, which is especially noticeable when working with large, fully expanded, Shelf tabs.

* The Weather Module now automatically tries to retrieve the user's current location based on IP address when running for the first time.

* Added 'Get My Location' button to the Weather Module Preferences screen, which tries to get the user's current location (country, state, city, etc...) based on his IP address.

* Google killed their weather API, but weather forecasts for locations that do not have a Weather.com code (i.e.; only have a METAR code) can now be retrieved via MSN Weather.

* Changed defaults to: show running indicator on docks, running indicator offset at 30%, do not launch multiple instances, disable system tray icon customization and don't show icon reflections on vertical docks. When running under Windows 10: dock icon label background, outline and colorize according to dominant color of dock background are on, dock control icon color is Black Metal, UI base color is gray. 

* Size of the UI font is now automatically reduced from point 10 to point 9 whenever a language other than English is selected to try and make up for the fact that translations from English are usually longer than the original text.

* Optimized the UI to try and prevent unchecked translations from over-running the available space.



Fixes:


* With the 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' setting on, the dock was unable to restore minimized windows of applications running with elevated privileges.

* The 'Search' internal command was not working on Windows 8/10

* A Check for Updates was always performed every time the application started even if 'Notify me when new updates are available' was turned off.

* It was not possible to set the windows of folder type items to open maximized or minimized.

* With the 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' setting on, launching a new instance of the application required a SHIFT + left click. This however caused the new window not to appear on the foreground because of Explorer enforced restrictions. To work-around this the new instance of the application is only launched when the user releases the Shift key.

* Fixed catastrophic bug that could cause multiple instances of WinstepXtreme.exe to run at the same time, maxing out the CPU, if the SHQueryRecycleBin function failed unexpectadly on a target system.

* The Shelf could sometimes enter drag & drop mode immediately after launching an application.

* With the 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' setting on, the Shelf was still launching a new session if the item pointed to a shortcut instead of the executable itself.

* Fixes instances where the shelf would appear to 'jerk' when being resized (e.g. when expanding via a double click on a tab).

* The 'Colorize dock background' setting for individual docks wasn't sticking unless the tint color was applied globably from the main Themes tab in Preferences.

* Document thumbnails were sometimes not being displayed with the correct size (IEIFLAG_QUALITY was not being specified and the requested size would be ignored if the document had an embedded thumbnail).

* Thumbnails of PNG and TIF images did not maintain the original proportion when displayed next to a menu.

* Dock preview would not colorize for native Winstep themes when browsing Nexus themes via the Dock's Properties panel.

* When uninstalling a dead shortcut could be left behind in the 'Send To' folder.

* Fixed issue that would cause menus to close and open again on a second click instead of simply  closing if already open.

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* Fixed bug that could cause the dock to become stuck in an endless loop when de-magnifying.

* Stopped including the dock transparent areas in the calculations of the auto-hide/expand slide animation, which makes the dock seem to react much faster now.

* Dock no longer needs to complete the hiding animation before responding to an edge bump/slide.

* Fixed issue where tooltip of a single live preview thumbnail might not always be displayed.

* The 64 bit versions of equivalent 32 bit applications are now launched correctly instead of always launching the 32 bit version.

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* Fixed annoying issue where the first mouse click on Preferences was ignored if Preferences wasn't the currently active window.

* Title of Wanda Settings window was 'Show cookie for' instead of 'Wanda Settings'

* It wasn't possible to set the secondary 'World' Email Checker style.

* Icon groups for system tray customization would sometimes 'break' into more than one group.

* The time in 24 hours format is now centered on the digital clock module.

* Fixed incorrect detection of 'Show Desktop' (WIN+D) being active when the user clicked on the desktop, which could cause various occasional z-order problems.

* System tray icons belonging to Session 0 processes were being saved with an empty process name in the tray icon cache.

* Corrected keyboard navigation tab order in the various UI configuration panels.

* Clicking the Start Menu Internal Command now properly closes the Start Menu if it is currently open and opens it otherwise.

* Using Aero Peek from a live thumbnail preview in a minimized Windows 10 App window caused that window to self-destruct.

* Minimized Metro App windows in Windows 10 disappearead from the tasklist.

* The Recent Documents tab was also showing non-document items under Windows 10.

* Fixed some issues with the description of Weather conditions being reported as 'N/A' in non-English languages.


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Version 15.7 build 1010 - July 27 2015 - Official Release


New Features:

* Added Romanian language file.

* On Windows 8/10 Glass Blur settings are now enabled to allow for 3rd party glass blur applications but the blur feature itself is disabled by default.

* Added new internal command 'Task View' to invoke the Virtual Desktop Manager  (Windows 10 only)

* Windows 10 Metro Apps in the list of running applications now display a customized icon instead of the default system icon.

* The size of mouseover window preview thumbnails can now range between 64 to 512 pixels.

* The Quick Launch tab in the Shelf now includes items pinned to the taskbar (Windows 7 and above) and is also monitored for changes.

* Improved the way Nexus Ultimate behaves when the user presses 'Show Desktop'.

* The Tip of the Day is no longer displayed when being run for the first time.

* The default Main Shelf tab now has a 'Show Tip of the Day' icon.

* The Check for Updates dialog no longer pops up when being run for the first time, and a check for updates is performed immediately in the background.

* Added new 'Restore Wallpaper' internal command to restore any Windows wallpaper changed when switching to a Winstep theme.

* The balloon tooltip of dock items with thumbnails now also displays the thumbnail.

* Added a 'Icon Labels' sub-menu to the Shelf context menu to quickly set the number of lines used by icon labels in the Shelf.

* Added new 'Busy' animation to replace the hourglass animation.

* Always on Bottom docks are no longer allowed to come forward on mouseover even if 'pop up dock on mouseover' is enabled.

* The Update Manager Window showing new versions available now appears in the taskbar and can be minimized.

* The Theme Browser now displays the name of the theme author, where available.


Fixes:


* Enabling both the Rain Drop effect and the 'Hide Dock at Startup' setting would cause several glitches until the dock was activated for the first time, such as the rain drop audio immediately playing, animated icon reflections being visible and dock activation animation not playing properly for the first time.

* The application would crash if the user answered No to any of the confirmation dialogs in the Troubleshooting Options dialog.

* Updated the URL used for displaying 'Detailed Weather conditions' for Weather.com, which was no longer correct.

* A hidden dock would pop up (but inactive) immediately after exiting a full screen application when using the fade hide animation.

* On Windows 10 the Winstep service would silently crash when trying to install new fonts and would become unavailable until the next reboot. This caused, among other things, the application to hang for a couple of minutes when running for the first time as it tried to install the default theme fonts.

* Under Windows 10 the tasklist no longer displays multiple windows for each Metro app or for Metro apps that are no longer visible.

* Windows 10 apps would always display a black thumbnail in the list of running applications, so we now display an icon instead.

* Under a clean Windows 10 installation the dock now tries to add a default shortcut to Internet Explorer instead if the default browser is a Windows App.

* Removed 'Start Flip3D' internal command from Windows 8.x onward since it is no longer available.

* Under Windows 8 and Windows 10 the Windows Start Button did nothing when clicked on after restoring the visibility of the Windows taskbar.

* Sub-docks with an opening animation set to None would not appear until the time required to play an (invisible) animation had elapsed.

* Image thumbnails no longer pop on and off when browsing a network folder on a menu.

* Fixed the 'Peek Desktop' internal command which wasn't working properly (Windows 7).

* Thumbnails in Delete File Confirmation dialog are now displayed with the correct aspect ratio.

* When pinning an application to the dock in which the executable does not have a Version  Info block, the executable filename is used instead.

* Auto-Complete was not working properly on several configuration dialogs.

* Icons of URL shortcuts were not being resolved properly.

* Tooltips of pictures or taskbar preview thumbnails appearing at the very top of the screen would not be visible.

* A tooltip would not display for the first picture preview thumbnail on a menu.

* If a picture or taskbar preview thumbnail could not change position when switching then the previous thumbnail was not being erased and the thumbnail appeared instantly instead of fading in.

* The application would sometimes crash when executing certain shell functions (such as 'Set as Desktop Background' for an image item) from a context menu.

* Fixed issue with the Winstep Update Manager which could cause it to mis-report the size of the file download so far and even terminate with a 'Download may be corrupt' error.



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Version 14.11 build 1008  - November 7, 2014 - Official Release



New Features:

* Added 3 new internal commands: "Cascade windows", "Show windows side by side" and  "Show windows stacked"

* Added setting to the 'Performance vs. Memory Usage' dialog to cache animated icons in original resolution instead of capped at 128x128 per frame.

* Added 'Pin to Dock' option to the context menu of running applications showing in a dock.


Fixes:


* Creating a Show Folder tab in the Shelf with the Tabs Editor would always set the folder to C:\

* A dock's auto-hide mode and a sub-dock opening animation set to None would not stick between restarts of the application.

* Changes made to system tray expand icons on *sub-docks* were not sticking.

* Added Adobe Lightroom to the iconic thumbnail exclusion list, since this feature seemed to crash the application whenever using Loupe view.

* All background blur settings and functions are now disabled under Windows 8.

* Weather.com weather feed stopped working because of an URL change. Updated to new URL, Weather.com feed is now working again.

* Fixed bug on Weather.com feed which could cause the current weather icon to be Windy and rainning.

* MSN Weather feed stopped working because of an URL and API change. Updated to new URL, updated API parsing, MSN backup feed is now working again.



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Version 12.2 build 1005 - March 28, 2012 - Official Release



New Features:


* Updated German language file.

* Updated Dutch language file.

* Updated Italian language file.

* Updated Russian language file.

* Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file.

* Updated Portuguese language file.

* Added 'Launch Effect' and 'Attention Effect' sub-menus to the right click context menu of the Nexus control icon.

* The Shelf now obeys an auto-hide setting of 'Collapse the Shelf immediately after launching an application' when left clicking items in a Tasks or Tray tab. Same for a Sticky tab.

* Added customizable 'Launch' and 'Attention' effects to the Shelf.

* Moved the 'Shift icons to make room for new entry when dropping items into the shelf' setting from the Effects tab to the Advanced dialog of the Behavior tab in Shelf Properties.    * Changed the display of 'Dock Tiles' in the Themes tab of the Dock Properties panel so more tiles are visible at one time.

* Added ability to scroll the list of dock tiles using the mouse wheel.

* Improved the icon rendering algorithm for mouseover dock effects, as icons with very high refresh rates would still occasionaly crop part of the effect on neighbor icons.

* Added color hot-tracking to dock and Shelf particle animation effects.

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* Added 'Launch Effect' and 'Attention Effect' sub-menus to the right click context menu of the Shelf left mini-tab.

* Also added 'Hide Windows Taskbar' setting to the Tasks tab in Preference.

* Changed Tab and Shelf item and right click menus so that the main Shelf context menu (previously only available by right clicking the left mini-tab) is now available from these context menus as well.

* Restored the Weather.com feed by using the XML feed instead of the XOAP feed.

* Sub-docks no longer extend onto reserved screen areas.

* Added a 'Default' button to the Fluid Surface and Fluid Reflection setting dialogs, which resets the settings to default.

* Magnification effect can now span a single icon.

* Magnification Effect Settings dialog has been updated.

* Fine tuned the icon reflection effect so it always starts at least 50% transparent regardless of the reflection size and increased the quality of the reflection itself.

* Added optional icon drop shadows.

* The labels of icons in the dock can now have an optional balloon background, which can be colorized by the user or set to colorize automatically based on the dominant color of the current dock background.

* The dock background colorization setting, previously found in the Themes tab of the Dock Properties dialog, now also appears in the Appearances tab for convenience and logical organization.

* Improved the drawing performance by using PixelFormat32bppPARGB instead of PixelFormat32bppARGB (Pre-multiplied ARGB is faster than ARGB).

* Re-organized the Shelf's context menus so that the Tabs menu is also accessible from everywhere.

* Folder type tabs in the Shelf can now be sorted by Name, Type, Size or Date.

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* The tooltip of the Weather module now displays the source of the information (NOOA, Weather Channel, MSN, Google).

* Added final bounce effect to the animation of a dock sliding from the screen edge.

* The Launch effect animation now still plays even if the dock is set to hide automatically on launch.

* Clicking on a sub-dock icon now also plays the Launch Effect animation for that icon.

* When inserting an item into a tiled dock via drag & drop, the insertion point no longer is a blank tile.

* Added 'raise' effect which plays when an item is added to the dock.

* The image of the 'animated fish' style of the Wanda module can now be colorized.

* Different images can now be used to customize the 'Animated fish' and 'Fortune cookie' styles of the Wanda module.

* Added option to lock the Shelf and prevent it from being moved to the Behavior tab of the Shelf Properties dialog.

* Added new 'Edge Bump Settings' button and dialog to the Behavior tab of the Dock and Shelf Properties dialogs.

* The user can now set the distance from a screen edge that will still trigger an edge bump. This setting should be very helpful when using a touch screen.

* Top screen edge bumps can now be optionally ignored if within the button area of a maximized window. Useful to minimize triggering an accidental edge bump when closing, restoring or minimizing a maximized window.

* The Desktop and Documents Shelf tab types can now also be sorted by Name, Type, Date or Size.

* Added 'Behavior' tab to the Dock Properties dialog of in-Shelf docks.

* The auto-hide delay slider now displays the current delay in milliseconds.

* 'Auto-Hide' and 'Collapse on Launch' are now independent Shelf settings, with the later setting appearing in the Advanced dialog of the Behavior tab in the Shelf Properties dialog.

* The 'Always open folders as menus' setting has been moved for the Advanced dialog of the Behavior tab in the Dock and Shelf Properties dialogs.

* The open In-Shelf Dock mouse over settings have been moved from the Advanced behavior dialog to it's own 'Sub-Docks' dialog.

* If the user specifies a edge bump as the activation method for a dock, this activation method overrides the default one, i.e.; a hidden dock attached to the top edge of the screen is usually made visible by bumping the top screen edge. If the user specifies another screen edge as the activation method, bumping the top screen edge will now do nothing.

* Added 'Activation acts as a toggle (shows if hidden, hides if visible)' setting to the Behavior tab of the dock and Shelf properties panels.

* Renamed 'Activate dock when the mouse pointer bumps screen edge' setting to 'Popup dock when the mouse pointer bumps screen edge' and moved it to the Advanced Behavior dialog.

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* Added bounce effect to the end of Shelf uncollapse animation.

* The bounce effect at the end of the Shelf uncollapse and the dock slide animations now automatically adjusts itself to make up for slow systems.

* The Shelf collapse and uncollapse animations now accelerate and deccelerate.

* The right mini-tab symbol is now flipped vertically if the Shelf is inverted.

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* By default, clicking the label of the active tab collapses an expanded Shelf. Added option to disable this behavior to the Shelf's Advanced Behavior Settings dialog.

* Colors of the 3D Frame around the icons in the Shelf can now be specified in the Appearence tab of the Shelf Properties dialog.

* Added 'Auto-Hide for maximized applications' setting to the Position tab of the Dock Properties dialog. When enabled, a dock set to always on top will automatically hide when a window is maximized.

* Added alternative 'Fade Out','Fly Out','Burn', 'Flair' and 'Implode' dock collapse and uncollapse animations to the Behavior tab of the Dock Properties dialog.

* Added option to disable the uncollapse/unhide 'boing' effect.

* Added a 'zoom out' effect to the deleted icon when you delete a dock item.

* Moving items around the dock is now smoother.

* The dock clock module tooltip now also displays the time.

* The dock weather module tooltip now also displays current sky and weather conditions.

* Backgrounds of dock icon labels can now be outlined.

* Added alternative 'Fade In','Fly Out','Burn', 'Flair' and 'Expand' sub-dock opening animations.

* Clicking the weather module icon now opens the weather forecast in a sub-dock.

* In-Shelf docks can now be set to open vertically or horizontally.

* Added three new weather icons for Windy, Freezing and Hot.

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* The left mini-tab Prefs symbol is now automatically flipped vertically in inverted Shelves.

* Added 'Burn' mouseover, launch and attention effect.

* The Grayscale effect can now also be used as the Launch and Attention effects.

* Magic, Teleport and Water effects are now persistent on mouseover, i.e.; the effect keeps playing while the mouse pointer is over the icon.

* Improved weather descriptions of the MSN Weather feed.

* Added new weather icons to complete the standard weather icon set.

* Added 'reserve screen space' support to all monitors in a multi-monitor system.

* Added 'raise' effect to the Shelf which plays when a new item is added.

* Added optional icon drop shadows to icons in the Shelf.

* Icons in the Shelf now smoothly move to occupy the space of a deleted icon.

* Moving items around the Shelf is now more smooth too.

* Added new 'Fireworks' mouseover/launch/attention effect.

* Added RainDrops effect. Based on the existing Water Ripple effect, RainDrops turns a dock or shelf into a liquid surface where rain drops fall continuously, with matching audio. The frequency of the rain can be set in the 'Water Ripple Settings' dialog and the audio can be turned on or off.

* The fish style of the Wanda module can now be customized with an animated icon.

* The Email Checker module now supports Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo accounts again, i.e;  any email account requiring a SSL encrypted connection. 

* Replaced the text boxes with sliders in the Wanda Settings panel.

* Particle mouseover effects now render about 3 times faster.

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* Improved rendering speed on docks when combining the magnify effect with mouseover effects that extend beyond each icon (such as the particle effects, Swing, etc...)

* Raindrop effect for the Shelf no longer plays if the Shelf is collapsed.

* Configuration settings for modules on a dock now appear always on top if the dock is also always on top.

* The Update Manager can now install updated Language Packs when there is an update to  the language file of the user's currently selected language.

* If a Wanda cookie is set to display automatically after a certain amount of time, the cookie will now pop up next to a Wanda module in the dock (if any).

* Modules can now be customized like other icons by dropping an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file directly into then. Exceptions are the Recycler and Weather modules, and the fish style of Wanda is the only module that accepts an animated icon (PNG strip).

* Memory usage is now monitored and a red warning dialog displayed if a memory leak is detected.

* The Shelf and docks now remain visible under Windows 7's Aeropeek if 'Keep visible when pressing WIN+D (Show Desktop)' is enabled for it.

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* Removed 'Normal linked to the Shelf' z-order option.

* The label of the Email Checker in the dock now displays the number of messages.

* The 'Dock to top' or 'Dock to Bottom' command in the Shelf context menu now automatically inverts the Shelf as appropriate.

* In-Shelf sub-docks now open parallel to the Shelf by default.

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* Colorization feature can now be used to gray scale backgrounds.


Fixes:


* For locations in the United States, the Weather module now passes <city>,<state> to the Google feed instead of <city>,<country>.

* Fixed an incompatibility with some ObjectDock v2 themes.

* The dock was not properly re-sizing automatically when using proportional tiled themes and the dock was too big to fit on the allocated screen space.

* The INI configuration files of 3rd party dock themes are now validated before being put on the list of available themes.

* Fixed problem with certain 3rd party RocketDock themes where the authors had no idea what they were doing with the offsets. RocketDock was more forgiving, we weren't and this resulted in a dock displaying two overlapping backgrounds.

* The label of a task button/icon did not revert to a window caption under grouped mode when only a single instance of that task was running.

* Fixed major issue that broke sub-classing and caused Ultimate to malfunction on systems with hybrid Intel/nVidia video cards.

* Bounce effect was squishing the icon on the last bounce.

* Fixed issue that could cause a dock Launch or Attention effect to become cropped.

+++

* Creating a RAS connections tab in the Shelf could crash the application.

* Sub-docks of 'always on bottom' docks were not obeying the parent's z-order.

* The Locate button in the Dock & Shelves Management tab in Preferences would not work if the currently selected dock was previously disabled.

* Custom Email Checker animations were no longer working.

* Dock icon reflections could extend beyond the dock with the bounce mouse over effect.

* The application should no longer hang when forcing itself into the foreground if the current foreground window is hung.

* When dropping an item into a dock using a dock mouseover effect combined with the Magnify effect, the dock would first shift the icons and only magnify afterwards.

* The disable and enable time announcements option in the clock module's context menu was only being applied after a restart of the application or after going to Preferences and clicking Ok.

* The Flat Magnify effect was scrambling icons.

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* Customized tray icons could appear as fuzzy images if the source image was smaller than 128x128 pixels.

* Context menus of icons were not respecting the 'open sub-menu on mouseover' setting.

* Changes on the shift keys pressed (CTRL or SHIFT) were not being reflected on drag & drop images until the image was moved.

* Fixed bug in last beta which could result in half size icons being displayed.

* Fixed bug in last beta which could result in dock icon labels failing to display.

* Icon reflections on docks were not rendering properly when combining the Rock or Swing mouse over effects with the Magnify effect and the dock theme masked reflections to fit the tile (such as the KTEK-4D1 to KTEK-4D5 themes).

* Automatic repositioning of open sub-docks when dragging items over the parent dock was not working properly under all circumstances.

+++

* Fixed possible positioning problem with blur region when uncollapsing the shelf.

+++

* A dock set to collapse immediately on Startup with animations disabled would appear on the screen as an inactive dock.

* When deleting an item on an Always On Top dock by dropping it into a Recycle Bin module, the confirmation dialog could appear behind the dock.

* Fixed sudden icon size 'jolt' when moving an icon in a magnified dock to the right of the original position.

* Flat Magnify was broken with some themes and worked fine with others.

* Changing the tab type in the Tab Properties dialog had no effect.

* Fixed issue where an horizontal sub-dock of an horizontal parent dock at the top of the screen could slightly overlap the parent dock.

* When the new 'toggle activation' setting is enabled, the dock will only toggle collapse if it is already the foreground dock, otherwise it comes to the foreground first.

+++

* Centered horizontal sub-docks could appear partly off-screen.

* It was not possible to hide a dock while a running task was flashing/asking for attention, as the dock would immediately pop up again. The dock now only uncollapses automatically if a new window asks for attention. 

* Fixed reserve screen space problem with setting 'prevent maximized windows from overlaping the dock/Shelf' and NOT setting 'Respect space reserved by other docks, toolbars...'

* It was not possible to copy an item right next to itself in the Shelf.

* Some of the particle dock mouseover effects could appear cropped if the attention effect was not set to 'Jump'.

* The Shelf preview in the Themes tab would appear empty if the first tab of the Shelf was not a Regular tab.

* Minimum vertical and horizontal icon spacing for the Shelf has now been set to 10 pixels to prevent rendering problems.

* Fixed several graphic glitches with the Shelf mouse over effects.

* Locking or Unlocking the Position of a floating dock from the Nexus context menu was not doing what it was supposed to do.

* Changing the Shelf's mouseover, attention or launch effect via the context menu while the Shelf was collapsed would display a fully expanded Shelf even though the Shelf remained collapsed. 

+++

* Fixed icon reflection not being cropped properly on the dock with Push effect.

* Fixed several positioning issues related to games or applications that change the screen resolution.

* "Safely Remove Hardware" Internal Command is no longer available on 64 bit systems, as it only works on 32 bit systems.

* When dragging an item in a dock with a persistent mouseover effect, the mouseover effect would keep playing while the item was being dragged.

* Sometimes a persitent mouseover effect on the dock would keep playing after launching an item.

* Fixed dock rendering problems with mouseover effects combined with magnify when there was a large difference in size between a non-magnified and a fully magnified icon.

* Fixed overlay 'leftovers' problem that could happen when using a theme such as Nx-Lawn on a dock with magnify + other combo as the mouse over effect.

* The 'Disable animations for this module' and 'disable sounds for this module' settings were not doing anything.

* Some of the settings set via a module settings panel invoked by right clicking on a module in the dock were not being applied immediately.

* Fixed problem with Show Desktop (WIN+D) which could cause the Windows taskbar to disappear when the Desktop was being shown and the user clicked on the dock or the Shelf and then on the desktop.

* A change in the Z-order of a dock made via the Dock Properties dialog was not being applied immediately.

+++

* Mouseover animations did not play on a collapsed dock.

* Fixed rendering issue with the Expand dock open animation and docks with overlays.

* Fixed a problem where a sub-dock could change position after the opening animation.

* Fixed dock label shape when displaying a solid color background for multi-line labels.

* System tray items in the dock no longer display a meaningless balloon infotip.

+++

* Dropping items into the recycler in the dock would not work properly if the recycler appeared after the blank insertion point.

* Mousing over groupped tray system tray icons with the Zoom mouse over effect was not working properly.

* Fixed problem that could cause the Shelf not to render properly after applying a theme in the Themes tab of Preferences then selecting another one.

* Returning from hibernation could show mistakenly show an unresponsive dock on the screen if the dock was previously hidden.

* Non-grouped tasklist icons in a dock would change size every time the title of the window changed.

* Multi-threading is no longer used to monitor the recycle bin.

* The application could crash if running applications were toggled NOT to show in the dock and one or more of the running applications were playing the attention effect.

* Fixed memory leak that would occur if an item had a blank filename and blank icon path.


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Version 11.10 build 979 - November 18, 2011 - Official release.


New Features:


* Updated Polish language file.

* Updated Farsi language file.

* Added 'Keep Shelf visible when pressing WIN+D (Show Desktop)' setting to the Behavior tab of the Shelf Properties window.

* Vista/Windows 7: Added new 'Start Flip3D' internal command.

* Added customizable 'Launch' and 'Attention' effects to the dock.

* The Weather module now automatically falls back to the Google weather feed if the Weather.com feed fails.

* The 'Reset Tray Cache' button in the Troubleshooting dialog now displays a confirmation dialog.

* Added new 'Tray' tab to Preferences to configure settings related to the system tray.

* System tray customization can now be disabled in the new Tray tab in Preferences to avoid wasting resources in case the user has no intention to customize tray icons.

* Added a secondary MSN Weather feed as backup.

* A sub-dock on the Shelf now opens automatically when dragging an item over the sub-dock icon.

* Added a setting (enabled by default) in the new Systray tab to automatically exclude system tray image caching for applications that generate more than 42 different tray images.

* Added a Tray Exclusion list to manually exclude applications from having their tray icons cached.


Fixes:


* The 'Hide Dock Control Icon' setting in the dock Contents tab wasn't doing anything.

* The 'Tab Properties' dialog showed screen edge bump activation methods for that tab, which are not allowed.

* If the dock popup delay on mouseover was set to 0 ms it was almost impossible to get to the Windows Start Menu after clicking the 'Show Start Menu' internal command icon, as the Start Menu would immediately lose focus and disappear.

* Because some Windows services may *potentially* block the Winstep service for up to 30 seconds (and thus freeze the Winstep application relying on it), no calls are now made to the Winstep service for the first minute after Windows startup, to give the system time to 'settle down'.

* Collapsing a floating dock would stop the Nexus control icon animation.

* Animation settings for the Nexus control icon were not being used or saved.

* License keys could be rejected as invalid if the user used a registration name so long that it caused the license key to exceed the size of the buffer allocated for it in memory. This has been fixed by doubling the size of the buffer.

* A maximized Chrome window acted as a full screen window when appearing on a secondary monitor or if the taskbar was hidden. This would automatically and temporarily disable all edge bump activation methods, a feature implemented to prevent users from being  accidentaly dumped into the desktop when playing full screen games.

* Disabling the Shelf could cause the application to crash when exiting Preferences.

* Fixed some z-order problems with in-Shelf sub-docks and drag & drop.

+++

* Dock Launch effect set to 'None' would not stick.



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Version 11.6 build 974 - July 6, 2011 - Official Maintenance Release



New Features:


* Updated Korean language file.

* Updated German language file.

* Updated Hungarian language file.

* Updated Polish language file.

* Added 'Show this dock when the mouse pointer bumps screen edge' setting to the Behavior tab of the Dock Properties dialog. When this setting is on, the dock will come forward when the associated edge is bumped but focus will be automatically given back to the window that previously had it if the user mouses away without clicking on it.

* Dock resizing and drag & drop of items into and from the dock is now much smoother.

* Added 'Disable/Enable Auto-Hide' option to the Shelf's left mini-tab context menu.

* Cleaned up unused bitmaps in the resource file.

* The Shelf now automatically selects appropriate tab position (top or bottom of the Shelf) when you dock it to the top or the bottom of the screen.



Fixes:


* Systray customization with the Tray Manager might not always apply customized icons.

* It was not possible to select an individual tray icon in grouped mode using the Zoom effect.

* Grouped tray icons would suddenly appear 'blurred' when magnified and the group icon updated itself.

* Docks no longer 'lazy render' icons, only sub-docks and the delay has been increased from 400 ms to 900 ms.

* Very large strips of animated icons no longer appear blank in the dock on 32 bit systems.

* The Water mouseover effect could appear a little bit cropped at the bottom for top docks.

* Fixed label overlapping dock icons for non-magnifying docks at the top of the screen when the 'Do not flip background...' setting was enabled.

* only 'Regular' Shelf tabs are now locked when you enable the global 'Lock Icons' setting,  so you can still drop stuff into non-regular (e.g.; file system) tabs.

* Fixed error that could *potentially* crash the application if a file belonging to the group of files that display thumbnails no longer existed.

* Fixed potential problem when dropping files into an empty dock with the 'Lock Icons' setting enabled.

* It was not possible to duplicate a dock item via drag & drop if dropping the item right next to the source item.

* Disabling a dock in the Docks & Shelves tab in Preferences was not releasing the memory used by animated icons on the disabled dock.

* Disabling and then Enabling the Shelf in the Docks & Shelves tab in Preferences could crash the application.

* Older Shelf themes were not displaying correctly.

* If the dock popup delay on mouseover was set to 0 ms it was almost impossible to get to the System Tray hidden icons dialog after clicking the system tray expand button.

* Added fail safe code to prevent situations where mouse click actions on running application items were all set to 'None'.


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Version 11.5 build 966 - June 23, 2011 - Official Release


New Features:


* Updated the German language file.

* Updated Polish language file.

* Updated Korean language file.

* Updated Italian language file.

* Updated Farsi language file.

* Removed 'dead' bitmaps from resource file.

* Changed the default sub-dock indicator images.

* Changed the default icon used for themes with no thumbnail.

* Most dock mouse over effects can now be combined with the magnify effect.

* Split the Position & Behavior tab in the Dock Properties dialog into two tabs.

* Re-arranged the Effects tab in Preferences.

* Added a new 'Contents' tab to the Dock Properties dialog.

* Moved 'Indicator Offset from Icon Reflection' to its own dialog box with preview.

* Icon Spacing in docks now has independent vertical and horizontal settings and was moved to its own dialog box with preview.

* Dock transparency now has independent settings for icons and background and was moved to its own dialog box with preview.

* Re-organized some settings in the Dock Properties dialog for a more logical layout.

* Improved the bounce animation that occurs when launching an icon from a dock.

+++

* Docks now un-hide or un-collapse automatically if displaying a list of running tasks and one or more of the tasks start flashing to call attention.

* Sub-docks will not open after a maximum of 500 ms even if not all icons have been retrieved from slow medium.

* Removed '@ Sign' Email Checker style, replaced it with default 'Envelope' style.

* Removed Cartoon Fish style, replaced it with 'Fortune Cookie' style.

* Removed the online cookie section from Wanda, since the only available fortune cookie server at the University of Upsala has been down for nearly two years and isn't likely to come back online again.

* Removed the SSL option from the Email Checker settings since servers no longer support SSL v2.

* Internal Commands in the Insert New Item menu are now shown categorized into Application, Desktop, Media, Disk, Misc, System and Shutdown sub-menus.

* Added new 'Push' mouse over effect.

* Groupped system tray icons in magnifying docks are now as sharp as the original icons when the dock item is not being magnified.

* Replaced 'Bar Graph' Net, RAM and CPU meter styles with 'Gauge' style featuring a  'smooth meter' setting in the Performance Settings dialog.

* Added setting to increase the system tray refresh rate from once per second to 16 times per second to the Performance Settings dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences.

* Added new 'Teleport' mouse over effect.

* Added system tray icon customization, including customization of animated and multi-state icons.

* Re-organized UI in order to place settings where they logically belong instead of forced-separated into global and per-instance settings.

* The Update Manager now displays a 'What's New' link whenever such information is available.

* Added 'Repeat mouseover effect when launching an application' setting to the effects tab of the Shelf Properties dialog. Disabling this setting disables any effect when launching an application from the Shelf.

* Added the ability to Align a non-full screen width docked Shelf.

* Added ability to change the alignment of a docked, non-full screen width, Shelf by dragging it.

* Shelf Icon Spacing and Shelf Transparency now have their own dialogs with preview.

* Added new high resolution images for the digital clock module and the NeXT style recycler.

* Only document files can now be dragged into a shortcut in order to open it with the associated executable.

* Applications are no longer 'ignored' if dragged straight into an icon, now being instead added to the dock. Previously the effect would be the same as launching the target shortcut with that application as an argument (which would simply result in launching the target shortcut), like it happens when you drop a document into a shortcut in the dock in order to open that document in that application.

+++

* Added 'Allow attaching sub-docks to existing application shortcuts' setting to the sub-Docks dialog in the Behavior tab of the Dock Properties dialog. This setting is OFF by default.

* Full right-click context menu options can now be specified to appear in the following cases: Never, Always, Only in the Shelf, Only in non-Regular Shelf tabs.

* The balloon tooltip can now be specified to appear in the following cases: Never, Always, Only for Modules, Only for Modules and Documents.

* Decreased the size of the Wind mouseover effect on docks, which was too big.

* Monitors in multiple monitor systems are now sorted left to right (i.e.; first monitor is the leftmost monitor and the last monitor the rightmost). The primary monitor also has '(Primary Monitor)' added to the description.

* You can now customize tray icons by dropping a PNG, ICO or TIF icon into the tray item on a dock or Shelf.

* When set not to display any lines of text next to the icons, the Shelf will now display a dock-style label on mouseover above itself.

+++

* Added new 'Safely Remove Hardware' internal command.

* Added pressed states for the left and right Shelf mini-tab controls.

* Added new 'Show physical network adapters only' setting to the Network Meter module, which is now enabled by default.

* Re-organized Net Metter Settings panel.

* Added built-in support for animated icons (i.e.; single PNG strips holding all the frames of an animation). Animated icons are recognized automatically and animation delay settings, etc, can be set in the Dock Entry Properties dialog.

+++

* The Weather system tray icon is now a full 128x128 image.

+++ 6

* Font size in UI command buttons is now automatically reduce if the localized text does not fit.

* The Tray Customization dialog now displays tray icons in collapsible groups.

* Dock items no longer accept customization by dropping a PNG, ICO or TIF file if icons are locked.

+++

* Animated icon settings are now reset to default (50 ms, etc...) when you change the icon.

* You can now customize the Shelf system tray expand button in the Systray tab.

* Animated icons are now globally cached in memory - having the same animated icon in several docks does not increase memory usage, and there is no longer a performance penalty when a dock flushes it's icon cache.

* Shelf items no longer accept customization by dropping a PNG, ICO or TIF file if icons are locked.

* Docks now accept the control icon of 'empty' docks (e.g.; a dock showing the system tray but with no actual shortcuts on it) to be dragged into another dock in order to turn it into a sub-dock.

* Added wsFullTabOverlayA.png and wsFullTabOverlayI.png tab overlay bitmaps.



Fixes:


* Icon in the Version Information dialog had a dark gray background.

* Opening native Winstep theme files from FireFox failed with an error.

* It wasn't possible to change the icon of a sub-dock placeholder after editing a module in the Item Properties Editor dialog.

* Icon reflections for the Zoom mouseover effect where not being cropped properly.

* The 'Keep this dock visible when pressing WIN+D' setting would always be checked after a re-start.

+++

* A dock with the persistent Flare/Afterglow mouseover effects could appear partially on screen after auto-hidding into the screen edge.

* A magnifying dock could suddenly appear garbled if you quickly moved the mouse pointer back and forth over it.

* On beta 1, a dock at the top of the screen with the 'Do not flip background' setting enabled would magnify the icons off the screen edge.

* Fixed automatic icon size problem that could sometimes occur when the dock was too large to fit on screen.

* Single .ICO files displayed in the Icon Browser dialog appeared jagged.

* Fixed problem with URLs dragged from FireFox which would not be saved into folders displayed by the Shelf.

* Dock item separators were wrongly assuming the opacity of the dock background.

* Fixed bug in beta 1 that prevented icons from flashing to call attention in the dock.

* There wasn't enough padding for the dock Zoom effect, which would cause the icon to appear cropped when using a large magnitude for the effect.

* The System Tray Expand button on the Systray tab of the Shelf was displaying an empty tooltip.

* It was possible to accidentaly drag a shortcut to itself instead of launching it, which would launch the shortcut but also cause it to disappear from a dock.

+++

* Changing the Style of the clock module would cause the Shelf to pop up.

* Fixed issue with sub-dock automatic positioning when dragging an item over the parent dock.

* Sub-dock opening animation was appearing in the wrong place.

* Fixed serious bug that could cause a crash when opening a sub-dock with one of the Dock Properties window open and the bouncing blue error still on-screen.

* Fixed the date localization used for the clock and 'Lack Checked:" strings.

* System tray customization settings were not being saved properly.

* 3rd party dock themes were not being applied properly when loaded from the right click menu.

* The dock was sometimes leaving icon 'leftovers' at the left or top when de-magnifying.

* Fixed re-positioning issue after dragging a floating dock.

* Documents that got their icons turned into thumbnails in the Shelf would leave 'leftovers' of the previous image when moused over.

* The Shelf scroll buttons and mini-tab indicators also get colorized now and obey the Shelf transparency settings.

* Fixed dock tooltip positioning.

* Dragging an item over the Shelf could cause image corruption in animated icons.

* Fixed problem with the dock displaing the wrong right-click context menu with the zoom mouse over effect unless the icon was clicked dead center.

* Changes to customized tray icons that were restored to the original icon were not being saved.

+++

* The 'Delete' button in the Themes tab in Preferences was deleting the wrong theme folder.

* Fixed memory leak with the new Gauge style meters.

* Setting a clock background image manually would lock the clock hand colors to red and black.

* System tray icons are now groupped by executable instead of ID + Executable.

* It was possible for some modules to keep operating on the background even if removed from all visible docks and the Shelf, if the host dock or the Shelf were disabled.

* Fixed problem with tray icon IDs changing from session to session.

+++

* Zooming icons on the Tasks tab of the Shelf could leave remnants over nearby icons.

* Fixed bug that could crash the application when deleting a dock from a right click context menu.

* Animated icon settings were not being preserved when moving items via drag & drop.

* Fixed bug that could crash the application when deleting the last tab of a Shelf.

+++

* The analog clock module preview in the Dock Contents tab was not displaying the correct color for the seconds hand.

* Selecting the first NIC Adapter from the 'Interface to Monitor' right click menu of the Net module was not working.

* Fixed bug that would cause a silent hung on exit if no docks were displaying the tray.

* Fixed issue where particle effects could sometimes leave leftovers on the edges of magnifying docks.

+++

* The 'Apply Transparency to Shelf Background Only (icons remain opaque)' setting in the Shelf transparency dialog wasn't doing anything.

* The 'Make tab from Folder' dock context menu option was not working.

* Leading spaces on the name used for the license key would cause the license verification to fail.

* Animated icons in the dock set to animate continuously now continue animating smoothly even when playing the magnify animation.

* Fixed a couple of graphic glitches on the Shelf.

* Restore Settings was opening 'ghost' versions of each dock.

* Changing the Weather location in Preferences was not immediately updating the Weather information.



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Version 11.2 build 948 - March 14, 2011 - Official Release



New Features:


* Added Greek language file.

* Added Finnish language file.

* Added Croatian language file.

* Added Indonesian language file.

* Updated Polish language file.

* Updated French language file.

* Updated Farsi language file.

* Updated German language file.

* Non-square icon images and document thumbnails are now displayed with the proper aspect ratio.

* Added an automatic retry after 30 seconds if Weather.com returns an 'unknown error' when polling weather data.

* URL files (such as shortcuts to Steam games) now show the correct icons.

* The 'Delete Item' explosion animation is now smoother and twice as fast.

* Glass blur for semi-transparent backgrounds on Vista and 7 is now enabled by default.

* Moved dock's 'Lock Position' Nexus menu setting to the 'Screen Position' sub-menu.

* Changed UI background color so buttons no longer have ugly white border under Vista/7.

* Added support for the new NOOA Weather module METAR URL

* The My Computer (Drives) Shelf tab now updates automatically when adding and removing drives.

* Besides the already existing right-click option, you can now also customize the image displayed by a system tray expand icon by dropping an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file into it.

* You can now use CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB to switch Shelf tabs via the keyboard, provided the Shelf has the focus.

* Languages in the About tab of Preferences are now sorted in Alphabetical order.

+++ Beta 2

* Set the Tab order of all dialogs.

* It's now possible to 'Browse', via the right click context menu, the contents of  virtual folders in Internal Commands (e.g.; My Computer).

* Added support for the new Help system.

+++ Release

* You can now drag files over taskbar window thumbnails - after half a second the associated window is restored and brought to the foreground.

* Added support for RocketDock skins with negative margin coordinates.

* Re-organized the Advanced dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences.

* Added a 'Thumbnail File Types' button to the Advanced Settings dialog from where you can set which document, video and image files generate thumbnails.

* Changed the default clock and recycler module images so they are no longer NeXT based.

* Improved usability of task window thumbnails in the dock.

* Right clicking on a folder in an Explorer window and selecting  Send to -> WorkShelf, now automatically creates a new tab in the Shelf displaying the contents of that folder.

+++

* Added two extra messages to help troubleshoot when registration fails for some reason.

* Added troubleshoot warning that pops up if Comctl32.ocx is not installed correctly.

* Optimized handling of RocketDock backgrounds with negative coordinates.

* Theme wallpapers that are not set to tile are now automatically set to stretch.


Changes:

* Edge bump activation when dock are visible is now turned off by default.



Fixes:


* Fixed problem preventing the application from being registered with a serial number.

* The 'Exit' button in Preferences was not being translated when switching languages.

* If the dock was set to 100% transparent with opaque icons and the dock background skin was already semi-transparent, mouse movement over the dock and drag & drop operations could become erratic.

* Selecting the first monitor in the Monitors right-click menu was not docking a dock to the selected monitor but instead toggled the dock position lock.

* Fixed issue where deleting a Shelf tab in the Content tab of Shelf Properties was not updating the currently selected tab view.

* Selecting 'Shelf Properties' from the Shelf's body context menu was opening the tab properties dialog instead.

* Application was not being high DPI virtualized on Vista/7 with high DPI (150%) when starting up.

* Fixed crash when mousing over a module if the current mouse over effect was 'Sonic boom' and the modules icon cache had been disabled in Performance Settings.

* Customized system tray expand buttons images were not being shown unless the dock was also set to display the currently running applications.

* The Shelf's body context menu displayed 'Exit Ultimate' twice.

* Fixed some major issues with high DPI virtualization on 7 and Vista.

+++ Beta 2

* The right click 'Insert New Dock Item -> NextSTART Hotspot' method was not working properly on docks. 

* The Effect 'Settings' button was sometimes enabled when it should not be.

* Editing a virtual shell folder with the Item Properties dialog would break the ability to browse it's contents via the context menu.

+++ Official Release

* Under XP non-square image and document thumbnails displayed white borders.

* Hotkeys were being activated even if the Shift key combination wasn't an exact match (for instance, CTRL+1 would also activate if the user pressed CTRL+SHIFT+1)

* When moving a dock from one quadrant of the screen to another, so that the background would flip or mirror, under Vista/7 the 'glass' region wouldn't always update to overlap the new background.

* Added missing icon to Weather.com's icon set.

* When switching to a new theme, a collapsed Shelf would not properly update the glass blurred region.

* Fixed some minor issues with the size and position of the 'number of instances' text that overlaps the icons of running applications in groupped mode.

* Windows preview thumbnails sometimes lost their 'Always on top' status just before Aero Peek, which could cause windows to overlap the thumbnails.

* Groupped task icons could sometimes not display the number of running instances.

* The 'Enable Send to Nexus Ultimate in Explorer Menus' setting said 'WorkShelf' instead of 'Nexus Ultimate'.

+++

* Fixed ugly system tray icon.

* Since beta 1, Ultimate was crashing after displaying the uninstall survey.

* Fixed an issue that could cause Ultimate to stall for a while after installing a new font if another application was not responding to broadcasted messages.

* Fixed bug that could cause icons on vertical magnifying docks to appear cropped.


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Version 10.9 build 932 - October 13, 2010 - Official Release


New Features:


* Added Chinese Simplified language file.

* Added Norwegian language file.

* Added Bulgarian language file.

* Balloon tooltip now also displays thumbnails of document files.

* Decreased the time the dock/shelf bouncing arrow identifier remains on the screen by half.

* Added option not to show icon reflections on vertical sub-docks to the Advanced dialog of the Dock Properties Behavior tab.

* Added 'Use Theme Wallpaper' setting to the Themes tab of Nexus Preferences, which enables users to change the current theme and the wallpaper at the same time.

* Alignment of docks attached to screen edges (docked) can now also be set by dragging the dock horizontally or vertically.

* It's now possible to dock multiple docks and the Shelf to the same screen edge.

* Sub-docks can now open parallel or perpendicular to the parent dock, or always horizontal or vertical.

* Sub-docks can now open automatically on mouseover with a user-specified delay.

* Added 'Do Not Launch Multiple Sessions' setting to the Misc.Advanced dialog so clicking on a shortcut to an already running application brings that application forward instead of launching a new instance. To force launch a new instance, press SHIFT while left-clicking.

* Added 'Show window previews (thumbnails) on mouseover' setting to the Tasks tab in Preferences. This makes window thumbnails with peek ability pop up when mousing over task icons and brings Windows 7 "superbar" functionality to Nexus.

* Added support for 3rd party dock themes with negative content offsets.

* Added Squish, Spin, Sonic Boom, Heal, Fire, Magic, Flare, Wind and Water mouseover effects.

* Effect settings specified in the Effects tab of Preferences are now specific to each effect.

* The new particle effect animations (Heal, Fire, Magic, Flare, Wind and Water) can be colorized in the Effect Settings panel for that effect.

* New mouseover effects added to the Shelf.

* Added setting to change the color of the dock mouseover label to the Appearance tab of each dock Properties panel.

* Added 'Disable edge activation' setting to the Position & Behavior tab of the Dock Properties dialog. When enabled, bumping the screen edge a dock is attached to does not bring the dock forward.

* Shelf Sub-docks can now open automatically on mouseover with a user-specified delay by specifying the relevant setting in the Advanced Behavior dialog of the Shelf Properties dialog.

+++ Beta 3

* New animated mouseover effects are now gray-scaled before being colorized.

* Moved thumbnail exclusion list in the Tasks tab to the Advanced dialog.

* Moved the 'Show window previews (thumbnails) on mouseover' setting to the 'Window Preview Thumbnails' section in the Advanced dialog.

* User can now specify the size of the window previews.

* Added option to disable 'AeroPeek'.

* Added 'Wallpaper' setting to the Themes tab, which, when enabled, allows any existing theme wallpaper to be applied as well as the new theme.

* Added 'Keep this dock visible when pressing Win+D (Show Desktop)' setting to the Advanced Behavior dialog of each dock.

* You can now minimize the Shelf by clicking on the currently open tab header.

* Icons can no longer be dropped into a dock when the 'Lock Icons' setting is enabled.

* Added 'Enable/Disable Background Blur' entry to the Effects menu of the Shelf.

* The Effect Settings button is now disabled for the 'Spin' effect, which has no settings.

* Added 'Lock/Unlock Position' to the dock's main context menu and the synonimous 'Prevent dock from being moved by dragging with the mouse pointer' setting to the dock's Advanced Behavior dialog.

+++

* Added support for the Y'z Dock format.



Changes:


* Increased the default range of the bounce mouseover animation.

* The bounce mouseover animation no longer 'holds' the icon at the top while the~ pointer is over it.

+++ Beta 3

* Moved the Shelf and Docks 'Z-Order' and 'Monitor' right-click sub-menus to  'Screen Position'.

+++

* Task grouping is now turned on by default.



Fixes:


* Double clicking the first icon of a floating icon without the Nexus control icon was causing the dock to collapse.

* Nothing would happen if the user dropped an ICO, PNG or TIFF file into an empty dock or sub-dock.

* Sub-docks of docks at the top of the screen would open off-screen if the 'Do not flip background...' setting was enabled.

* Size of the application icon overlayed to the thumbnail of running applications is now always half the size of the icon, independent of dock magnification size.

* Application icons overlayed to the thumbnail of running applications now also use the application icon (instead of the window icon) for sizes over 32x32 pixels, so they don't appear too blurred.

* The magnification size slider no longer allows you to chose values lower than current dock icon size.

* Fixed potential dock corruption with loss of contents when adding an in-shelf dock as the last item of a Shelf tab.

* Assigning huge PNG or TIF files as shortcut images no longer slows down magnifying animations.

* The 'Prevent maximized windows from overlaping the dock' setting is now disabled if 'Auto-hide the dock' is enabled, as in that case no screen space is reserved.

* Wallpaper is no longer changed when reseting settings to application defaults.

* Fixed problem that could cause Nexus to hang when restoring from a previous backup.

* Fixed bug that preventing re-organizing icons in the tasklist section of a dock via drag & drop.

* Sometimes restoring a maximized window that was minimized would make it lose the maximized status.

* Shelf tabs were not switching on mouseover if both 'Select a different tab by mousing over it' and 'Hide tabs when the shelf is collapsed' were enabled.

+++ Beta 3

* The sub-dock open on mouseover delay was not being properly saved on exit.

* Disabling the balloon tooltip was also disabling running program's mouseover previews.

* Hidden/collapsed docks would stop magnifying and auto-hidding when changing to a new theme until the Dock Properties dialog was open and closed again.

* New animated effects would become cropped if the dock icon size was dynamically changed to fit all the icons on the screen.

* Spin effect wasn't working properly for large icon sizes.

+++

* Window thumbnails were not updated in XP unless icons of running tasks were also displayed as thumbnails.

* WorkShelf would corrupt memory and crash if it failed to retrieve the configuration settings of a 3rd party dock theme.

* It was impossible to use system tray popups if the dock popup delay was set to 0 ms.

* The dock clock label displayed the date with the month and day reversed.

* A hidden taskbar was being restored with the auto-hide status on.

* The grouped tasks menu was sometimes displaying the wrong icon for running applications.



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Version 10.7 build 914


New Features:


* Updated Spanish language file.

* Added an Exit button to Preferences.

* The Windows taskbar no longer reserves screen space when hidden.

* Added proper In-Shelf Dock management and In-Shelf docks can now be added to a regular tab in the Shelf via the right-click Insert menu.

* It is now possible to insert items at the proper position via the right-click context menu when clicking in-between icons on the Shelf.

* You can now right-click drag & drop in the dock to get the copy/move/create  shortcut context menu.

* Added option to disable the Explosion Animation, shown when you delete an item, to the Misc.Advanced dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences.



Fixes:


* Empty balloon tooltip was appearing when mousing over an empty dock.

* Sub-dock items were showing the main right-click Nexus menu.

* It was not possible to get the Insert right click menu on an empty sub-dock.

* The Shelf was auto-collapsing even when an in-shelf dock was open.

* It was not possible to drag items from the Shelf to an open in-shelf dock as the in-shelf dock would close as soon as the user clicked on the Shelf.

* Dock settings changed in the Dock Properties dialog were not being applied or saved if the dock was not visible.

* The 'left click and hold' feature to open shortcuts to folders as menus was not working properly with the 'Windows 7 Xtreme' menu skin.

* Dropping files into a shortcut to a folder in docks or the Shelf was always copying the source file to the target folder, even if SHIFT was pressed.

* When dragging a shortcut over a dock, the dock would start magnifying again even if a sub-dock was open if the source object exited and re-entered the parent dock.


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Version 10.6 build 914 - July 13, 2010 - Official Release


New Features:


* Added Serbian language file.

* Added Slovak language file.


Changes:


* Moved the 'Show dock control icon' item from the main Nexus menu to the 'Insert New Dock Item' sub-menu.


Fixes:

* It was not possible to dock a new dock to a screen edge occupied by a *disabled* dock.

* The dock was not displaying running application thumbnails when the dock was set to display running applications via the context menu.

* Fixed issue in which Nexus could freeze for up to a minute after resuming hibernate due to 3rd party services being busy and blocking.

* The Zoom dock effect could sometimes cause currently zooming icons to be cropped when sitting next to icons that updated frequently (like the clock).

* Fixed other visual glitches with special dock effects and icons getting cropped.

* Fixed item positioning problems when hovering a magnifying dock and shortcuts were added, removed or had their running status changed.

* Setting a dock with a semi-transparent background to be 100% transparent with opaque icons prevented the dock from working properly.


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Version 10.4 build 910 - May 22, 2010 - Bug Fix Release


New Features:

* Added option to disable the 'Initializing' splash-screen at startup to the 'Misc.Advanced Settings' dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences.

Fixes:


* A drag & drop move of the first icon on a dock with no control icon would corrupt the dragged item and would not allow the item to be copied.


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Version 10.4 build 905 - April 29, 2010 - Initial Release ed option to disable the 'Initializing' splash-screen at startup to the
'Misc.Advanced Settings' dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences.

Fixes:


* A drag & drop move of the first icon on a dock with no control icon would
corrupt the dragged item and would not allow the item to be copied.


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Version 10.4 build 905 - April 29, 2010 - Initial Release 