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===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.8 general release (Jun, 2013):
===============================================================================
- Added support for Windows 8.1 Preview
- Modified the Classic Shell logo and removed the Metro button by request from
Microsoft
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.7 general release (Apr, 2013):
===============================================================================
- Fixed incompatibility with the taskbar of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.6 general release (Apr, 2013):
===============================================================================
- New setting to disable the taskbar transparency
- Improved compatibility with future versions of Windows
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.5 general release (Dec, 2012):
===============================================================================
- Fixed a crash bug in the start menu for some 64-bit systems
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.4 general release (Dec, 2012):
===============================================================================
- Fixed a frezing problem when right-clicking on the start button
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.3 general release (Dec, 2012):
- Improved performance of the start menu
- Added new Metro-style start button image
- Added support for multiple taskbars in Windows 8
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.2 general release (Oct, 2012):
- Added support for jump lists in the main menu
- Added support for displaying and launching Windows Store apps in Windows 8
- Faster skipping of the Metro screen in Windows 8
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.1 general release (Aug, 2012):
- Fixes a critical bug found in the previous version (the "new version"
notification pops up too often)
===============================================================================
== Version 3.6.0 general release (Aug, 2012):
- Windows 8 is now officially supported
- Added more customization settings for the start button
- Added a setting to disable all Metro hot corners
- Improved the initial setup of the start menu
- Added support for split menu buttons
- Improved the usage of the Aero colorization in skins
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.5.1 general release (Jun, 2012):
- Enabled the custom start button for Windows 7 and added more settings
- Added a setting to skip the Metro screen on startup
- Improved compatibility with the IE10's Enhanced Protected Mode
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.5.0 general release (Mar, 2012):
- Added support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
* Added customizable start button
* Added a Metro skin for the start menu
* Updated all settings for Windows 8
* Fixed the missing caption in IE10
- Added a setting to control the menu shadows
- Added toolbar commands to map and disconnect network drives
- Improved the responsiveness of the check for a new version
- The check for new version is a separate component that can be skipped
during install
===============================================================================
== Version 3.4.1 general release (Jan, 2012):
- Fixed a small problem in the automatic check for a new version
===============================================================================
== Version 3.4.0 general release (Jan, 2012):
- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous release. Most notably the
corrupted text in the toolbar buttons
- Added a check if a new version is available
- Ctrl+Click in the navigation pane opens the folder in a new window
- Alt+Enter in the search box of the start menu shows properties of the
selected item
- The recent documents list can be sorted by name or extension
===============================================================================
== Version 3.3.0 general release (Jan, 2012):
- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous release
- Improved compatibility with Windows 8 and removed the features that are no
longer necessary or possible
- Added customizable "Windows Explorer" item to the start button context menu
- Added a new "paste shortcuts" command to Explorer
- Added an option to hide the user picture from the Windows start menu
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter can launch commands and documents as administrator from
the start menu
- Added a customizable hotkey for the Up button
===============================================================================
== Version 3.2.0 general release (Aug, 2011):
- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous release
- Added new setting to show the title in IE9 with no icon
- Added a new "sortby" command to Explorer to sort the folder by given property
- Added support for F2, Del and Alt+Enter keys in the start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 3.1.0 general release (Apr, 2011):
- Added a new component called Classic IE9. It lets you customize the title bar
and the status bar of Internet Explorer 9
- Added ability to use external search programs from the search box of the
start menu
- Added support for the Lock command in the start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 3.0.0 general release (Mar, 2011):
- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous version
- Added the contents of the GodMode folder to the search in the start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 2.9.3 release candidate (Feb, 2011):
- Added a search box to the start menu
- Improved the responsiveness of the start menu by showing the menu first and
loading the icons later
- Added a command in the start menu to create a new shortcut
- Added a way to include a row of icon buttons in the start menu
- Added an option to hide extensions in the start menu
- Added an option to hide the scroll tip in Explorer
- Improved support for icons larger than 32x32
- Added support for the "don't show common start menu items" group policy
- Improved the option to always navigate to the selected folder
===============================================================================
== Version 2.9.2 release candidate (Dec, 2010):
- Added a toolbar command for creating a new folder
- Added a way for the custom toolbar commands to receive all selected files
- Added a white list and a black list to limit which processes can load Classic
Explorer
- Fixed the Z-order problems when the start menu is activated by hovering
- Fixed the spontaneous expanding of the All Programs menu
- Small improvements to the settings UI
===============================================================================
== Version 2.9.0 beta (Oct, 2010):
- Replaced the ini files with a graphical interface for editing all settings
- Added a setting to force sorting headers in Windows 7 (based on the
Explorer7Fixes tool by Ian Prest)
- Added more settings
- Added special handling for specific folders in the start menu - Computer,
Recycle Bin, Network, etc
===============================================================================
== Version 2.8.3 beta (Jul, 2010):
- Added a way to put shell folders as buttons in the toolbar
- Fixed a crash when browsing the assembly cache in the start menu
- Fixed a problem that may corrupt the registry during uninstall
- Added more troubleshooting capabilities
===============================================================================
== Version 2.8.2 beta (Jul, 2010):
- Added toolbar commands for different Explorer views (Details, List, etc)
- Fixed a freezing bug in the start menu
- Fixed few cosmetic bugs in the skins
===============================================================================
== Version 2.8.1 beta (Jul, 2010):
- Added an option for cascading All Programs in the Windows start menu
- Added an option to open the start menu when hovering over the start button
- Added a possibility for the skins to include the user name in the start menu
- Added support for dropdown menus and chevrons in the Explorer toolbar
- Added an option to automatically open progress dialogs to show more details
- Converted the help to CHM file format
- A much better installer using WiX
- The settings no longer have semicolon in front of them. Just enter the new
value. Leave the value blank to use the default
- Changes to StartMenu.ini no longer require the start menu to be restarted
===============================================================================
== Version 2.0.0 general release (Jul, 2010):
- Fixed a bug in the "EnableContextMenu" setting
- Fixed a compatibility bug with Restorator
===============================================================================
== Version 1.9.8 release candidate (Jun, 2010):
- Fixed a compatibility bug with older applications (you see the message "The
ordinal 345 could not be located in the dynamic link library COMCTL32.dll")
- Fixed a problem with the backing up of the ini files during uninstall
===============================================================================
== Version 1.9.7 release candidate (Jun, 2010):
- Ctrl+Shift+Click in the start menu runs the program as administrator
- The uninstaller offers to back up the ini files
- Some improvements to the settings
- Fixed a bug that was blocking the toolbar on Windows Vista
- Fixed an incompatibility problem with QTTabBar
- Fixed a start menu bug that was causing a flicker when Windows was running
for too long
- Fixed a hovering bug in the start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 1.9.6 release candidate (May, 2010):
- Added a setting to track and display the recently used programs
- The middle mouse button can be used to open the start menu
- Fixed an incompatibility with X-Mouse and other mouse bugs
- Fixed some problems with separators
===============================================================================
== Version 1.9.2 release candidate (Apr, 2010):
- This build contains mostly minor bugfixes found in the previous version
===============================================================================
== Version 1.9.1 release candidate (Apr, 2010):
- Some skins can support two-column main menu similar to Windows XP
- Some skins can support showing the user picture in the main menu
- Fixed a bug showing an extra "Empty" item in the start menu
- Fixed a bug that broke most foreign translations
- Fixed a bug with the share overlay in the Recycle Bin items
- Added a new Luna skin that is similar to the Windows XP start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 1.9.0 beta (Mar, 2010) - new skin engine:
- The sub-menus can be skinned like the main menu
- Full glass support, even behind the menu items
- More skinnable elements - the sub-menu arrows, the scroll buttons, the
vertical separator
- Skins can provide customization options (small or large icons, add/remove
caption, and many more)
- The start menu plays the system sounds for opening a menu or selecting a
command
===============================================================================
== Version 1.0.3 general release (Mar, 2010):
- Added an overlay icon for shared folders
- Added a setting for sound alerts when overwriting system or read-only files
- The status bar shows the details of the currently selected file
- The drop down of the address bar is replaced with a list of parent folders
like in Windows XP
- Added translations for Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
===============================================================================
== Version 1.0.2 general release (Mar, 2010):
- Added a setting to disable the breadcrumbs
- Added a setting to show the path and icon in the Explorer title bar
- Fixed a bug with the resizing of the Search box in Explorer
===============================================================================
== Version 1.0.1 general release (Feb, 2010):
- This is a bugfix-only release. Fixes a few rare crashes in the start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 1.0.0 general release (Feb, 2010):
- Added Up button to the Explorer title bar
- More options for the start menu and for the Explorer toolbar
- The installer supports command line options for logging or unattended install
- Fix for the scroll problems in the Explorer navigation pane (Windows 7 only)
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9.10 release candidate (Jan, 2010) - make your own toolbar:
- The Explorer toolbar can be customized with new icons and additional buttons
- Fixed a crash bug when Windows is restarting
- Fixed a crash bug when Explorer is restarting
- Fixed a bug that was failing to replace the copy dialog for French, Hebrew,
Croatian and Slovenian languages
- Added more options for the navigation pane in Explorer
- Active Accessibility support is enabled by default
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9.9 release candidate (Jan, 2010) - make your own start menu:
- The start menu can be customized with new icons and additional menu items
- The skins in the start menu can have variations
- Added ini files that contain even more customization options for the Explorer
toolbar and the start menu than are available from the Settings dialog box
- Added "New Folder" and "Auto Arrange" commands to the start menu
- The selected menu item fades out like in a real menu
- Added "Email" button to Explorer
- First attempt to support Active Accessibility (disabled by default for now)
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9.8 beta (Jan, 2010) - skins for the start menu:
- Added support for skins in the classic start menu
- Fixed compatibility problems with Unicode-unaware shell extensions (Microangelo
On Display, I'm looking at you)
- The start menu supports auto-hide taskbar and (on Vista only) a taskbar that is
not "always on top"
- Replaced the folder conflict dialog box with a simpler version (similar to the
file conflict dialog box)
- Fixed a crash when right-clicking on the caption area of the start menu
- The start menu remembers the scroll position of scrollable menus
- Added "-open" and "-toggle" command line parameters to ClassicStartMenu.exe to
programmatically open the start menu
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9.7 beta (Dec, 2009):
- Added free disk space and file size to the status bar in Windows 7 Explorer
- Added dragging with the right mouse button for the start menu
- Fixed a few UAC bugs
- Fixed a few drag and drop bugs
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9.6 beta (Dec, 2009):
- Added Properties button to the toolbar
- Added settings for the look of the folder tree in Explorer - XP classic,
XP simple, don't fade buttons
- Added option to expand links to folders in the start menu
- Added option to show a confirmation dialog during Log Off from the start menu
- Added option for a hotkey to replace the Win key for the start menu
- The start menu hides the commands to search for printers or computers if
Active Directory is not available
- The start menu accepts click in all of the start button area even if it is not
exactly on the orb
- The start menu doesn't close if you hold down Shift while launching a program.
Allows the user to start multiple programs more easily
- The start menu follows the group policies for showing Run, Shutdown, Help, etc
- Fixed a bug with sorting Favorites and other top-level folders
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9.5 beta (Dec, 2009):
- Added option to remove the Documents menu and option to use an alternative
search application
- Added more buttons to the toolbar - Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete
- Added option for "big buttons" in the toolbar
- The selected menu item is drawn using the current theme
- Fixed a crash in the start menu
- Fixed a problem when dropping items in an empty sub-menu
===============================================================================
== Version 0.9 beta (Nov, 2009) - first public version:
- Classic start menu
- Replacement for the Copy UI in Vista
- Fix for Alt+Enter in Explorer
- Toolbar for Explorer with Up button