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This release has no major architectural changes, yay! There’s some minor tweaks to smooth out the navigation buttons and paging, some new tools and bug fixes and a change to how monitor-mode works. If you use the monitor-mode option you’ll need to check out the changes. Change 1: Fixed REGISTRY so it can read “read …
December 2018 There are two important architectural changes in this release: I’ve moved the data collection code into a thread to allow the gui to be more responsive. This has the side effect of raising the memory footprint slightly. Secondly, I’ve added a background process to collect 64 bit metrics. This is controlled from the …
November 2018 Change 1: Fixed bug with FIXEDDISK and NETWORKADAPTER spinning out of control under Chinese Windows. Change 2: Continue the Unicode work. Change 3: Added reference English language file. Change 4: Fixed handle leak in ProcessMem, TopProcess and registry routines. Change 5: Fixed bug in bar chart when only one data point is available.
Version v1.10.1 Change 1: Fixed bug with logo not updating after ini change. Change 2: Fixed bug with not aligning correctly when the ‘bottom’ option is used. Change 3: Fixed contextmenu option not working. Change 4: More work converting internal routines to Unicode. Change 5: I believe I’ve resolved the stability issues. If you leave …
Version v1.10.0 November 2018 Important changes from v1.8.0 and v1.9.0: In those versions I started moving config options out of the main ini file and into separate language files. I’m not happy with the way that’s working out so I’ve returned to making the desktopinfo.ini file the primary configuration file and the language files will …
Version v1.9.2 ————– October 2018 Change 1: Fixed some fatal issues with the FILE/REGISTRY/EVENT monitor items. Change 2: Fixed formcolor bug.
Version v1.9.1 ————– October 2018 Change 1: Resolved some Unicode issues. Debug log is now unicode. Change 2: Fixed issue with not resetting it’s position after display size change.
Version v1.9 ———— October 2018 My primary objective in this release is to rework the raw data infrastructure so that I can store and move all the collected data and have better control over what data is displayed, charted and logged to csv. For now chart data remains pre-selected and the WMI item charts the …
Version v1.8 ———— September 2018 This version represents another not insignificant refactor which allows us to do a whole bunch of stuff we couldn’t do previously. You should review the readme.txt, there’s lots of new information there. There may be things I’ve broken that I haven’t discovered yet. Your current ini file will need modifications …
Version v1.7 August 2018 (Four years, that’s not so bad is it?) Change 1: Signing with digital code certificate. You can confirm this by right clicking the DesktopInfo.exe, select Properties and the Digital Signatures tab. Change 2: Removed secondary form from Windows task switcher. Change 3: Removed MSN status option. Change 4: Now correctly reads …