What's new in Advanced Recent Access 13.0 Build 036
Dec 26, 2021
- Features / Improvements:
- Important (I): supports to customize the theme.
- I: supports to hide the selected resources, and you can show them again at anytime.
- I: uses the Windows 10 style icon for folders.
- Instantly releases all occupied system resources (e.g. memory, CPU) after closed the main interface.
- Greatly compacted the number of colors for the predefined themes, now, only need two colors to set a theme.
- Optimized the software texts.
- Bug Fixes:
- I: can still filter out the resources by name or path after deleted shortcuts/resources or moved resources.
New in Advanced Recent Access 12.0 Build 034 (Sep 7, 2021)
- Added [Date accessed] column.
- Supports to add resources manually by click corresponding menu items or drag and drop.
- Supports refresh the data manually.
- Ully supports native Slovenian.
- Moved .md file type from "Compressed" category to "Documents", although it is also a compressed file type, but it's more common as a document type.
- Optimized and streamlined the source code.
New in Advanced Recent Access 11.1 Build 033 (Aug 11, 2021)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important (I): greatly improved the loading speed of UI and data, now, almost no waiting at startup. In all previous versions, it's slow to run, even it will take more than a minute to start on some computers with lower configurations. This is a version that must be upgraded!
- Shows the progress bar when loading or automatic refreshing recent items, in order to let you know what is it doing now.
- Applies current theme to the tip bar of the time-consuming operations.
- Bug Fixes:
- I: if failed to read the recent programs from system, other recent items will show confusion.
New in Advanced Recent Access 10.1 Build 031 (May 10, 2021)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important (I): fully supports native Spanish.
- Optimized software text for Italian.
- Optimized internal efficiency.
- Bug Fixes:
- I: piracy will be falsely reported on a very small number of computers.
New in Advanced Recent Access 10.0 Build 030 (Apr 26, 2021)
- Features/Improvements:
- Important (I): greatly improved the refreshing speed of the list.
- I: can sort the [Size] column accurately.
- I: fully supports native French.
- I: added the process wrapper to automatically restart program after it exited abnormally.
- Needs your confirmation when exiting the program, in order to avoid accidentally closing it.
- Standardized a few shortcut keys, made them consistent with Windows, such as use <Alt+Enter> to display resource properties window (previous versions use <F4>).
- The intelligent unit of resource size supports terabytes (TB is ready to use when the size reaches 1 TB).
- Optimized internal efficiency.
- Bug Fixes:
- I: the xml file type is included in both Documents and Videos, it should be removed from Videos due to xml as a video file only in Linux.
- Inaccurate translation for [Times] column header in some languages.
New in Advanced Recent Access 9.0 Build 028 (Apr 15, 2021)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important (I): can display recently used applications.
- Optimized the appearance of the "Filter" area.
- Optimized the Gray theme.
- Optimized software text for Spanish.
- Bug Fixes:
- I: cannot show the "Properties" box if the resource name has Unicode characters.
- I: the text of menu items under "Move to Recycle Bin" and "Delete" context menu are not visible, but they are visible when moving mouse on them.
New in Advanced Recent Access 8.1 Build 025 (Nov 25, 2020)
- Supports Português (Brasil)
New in Advanced Recent Access 8.1 Build 024 (Nov 5, 2020)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important: added the Splash interface, and displays the progress on it. In order to tell you what it is doing, prevent you from thinking that it is not responding. That's greatly improved the friendliness.
- Changed the default theme to Blue - the more common and beautiful one.
- Optimized the license verifying module.
- Bug Fixes:
- Has not fully translated the Korean texts.
New in Advanced Recent Access 8.0 Build 022 (Oct 13, 2020)
- Important (I): added the switching theme feature, and elaborately designed 4 sets of beautiful preset color schemes.
- I: optimized many icons: more beautiful and easier to understand, made the uniform appearance and size.
- I: the number of built-in "Documents" types has been increased from 90 to 1,160.
- I: can be minimized to the system tray area after starts.
- I: fully supports native Hungarian.
- The main window can be fully displayed on the screen with 1024 * ? resolution for every supported language.
- Can display program logo in system "Apps & features" list.
- Optimized software text for Traditional Chinese.
- Can display the update history for Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
- Optimized internal efficiency.
New in Advanced Recent Access 7.0 Build 021 (Oct 11, 2020)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important (I): can delete the recent accessed record (shortcut) alone.
- I: can reset [Times] to 1.
- I: replaced the difficult to use and powerless "Find" feature with the easy to use but quick text filter to display filtering results instantly and directly on the main list.
- I: can customize the appearance of main list, such as font, grid, background/foreground color.
- I: can do more operations for the selected resource(s), such as copy full path, move/copy to other location, rename.
- No longer use bold text for the toolbar, let it to be more beautiful and friendlier.
- Optimized "Request support" related features.
- Optimized the color of license type and "license to..." labels for about interface.
- Optimized the software text for Vietnamese language.
- Optimized internal efficiency.
New in Advanced Recent Access 6.0 Build 016 (May 17, 2018)
- Important (I): fully supports native Türkçe.
- I: fully supports native Italiano.
- I: can display the up/down arrows on the sorted column header.
- Uses the new company logo on the "About..." interface.
- Added the "Update history" menu item to the Help button.
- Changed the text color of the list to default (black), some users do not like previous color.
- Optimized Polish text.
- Optimized internal efficiency.
New in Advanced Recent Access 5.0 Build 011 (Feb 27, 2018)
- Important (I): fully supports native ???.
- I: fully supports native Deutsch.
- I: added "Run it when PC boots" option (in previous, ARA will always autostart, cannot be set).
- I: optimized the interface greatly: more beautiful, friendlier and easier to use.
- I: now can show the update history directly if the new version is available and you chose to view the updates (in previous versions, just only jump to the 'Update History' segment, but have not expanded it, you need to expand it manually to see the update history).
- Removed the "Add to Quick Launch Bar" option from the installer, because from Win Vista, it has no meaning.
- Changed the splitter color from black to gray for about interface to make it friendlier.
- Optimized the license agreement for installer.
- Optimized official website.
- Optimized internal efficiency.
New in Advanced Recent Access 4.0 Build 006 (Nov 2, 2015)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important: fully supports native Polski.
- Important: fully supports native Tiếng Việt.
- Important: can remember the sorting column and order.
- Important: can remember the [Filter] settings.
- Important: do not install ARA to "User Application Data" folder forcibly.
- Important: change the refreshing frequency from 1 minute to 9 seconds, in order to let you see the recent used resources in time.
- Important: change the default sorting column from [Times] to [Date modified] due to the values of [Times] field are still one at the first run.
- Optimized the default width of [Date modified] and [Date created] columns, let them can fully display the data without ellipsis.
- No longer put the autostart shortcut under "Common Startup" menu (replace it with "User Startup" menu), because you cannot decide for others!
- Optimized internal efficiency.
- Bug Fixes:
- A little text error in license agreement of the installer.
New in Advanced Recent Access 3.0 Build 005 (Oct 9, 2015)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important: perfected UI effect for any system DPI setting, in any supported Operating Systems (system DPI setting: in Windows 7, it can be changed at "Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Display -> Make text and other items larger or smaller").
New in Advanced Recent Access 2.2 Build 004 (Oct 1, 2015)
- Features / Improvements:
- Important: sorts the new items during running ARA (previous added them to the end of the list after automatically refreshed, and you need to drag the vertical scroll bar to see them).
- Important: the list no longer flashes when refreshing automatically per minute.
- Bug Fixes:
- Important: does not update the properties of the resources after automatically refreshed the list, such as size, date modified, etc.
New in Advanced Recent Access 2.1 Build 003 (Sep 26, 2015)
- Features / Improvements:
- Optimized an English text.
- Bug Fixes:
- Important: the program may crash if running a long time.
New in Advanced Recent Access 2.0 Build 002 (Sep 23, 2015)
- New Features:
- Important: supports multi-language.
- Important: fully supports native 简体中文 & 繁體中文.
- Important: removed [Date accessed] field, because Windows does not exactly update it in time since Windows 2003 SP1.
- Important: now the installer supports multi-language also, and let you choose when install. Even, ARA can directly use the language that selected during installing.
- Important: by default, uses Golden Ratio for the main interface and its start position.
- Can restore the window location with the values of Top and Left properties are 0 (Top / Left may be 0 and can be 0).
- Open translation interface for multi-language version.
- Optimized internal efficiency.
- Supports to directly open the data file location (for technical support), in order get better support if necessary.
- Optimized English texts.
- Changed "Microsoft Internet Explorer" string to "Microsoft Web Browser", because Windows 10 uses Microsoft Edge, for consistency, now calls them as "Microsoft Web Browser".
- Bug Fixes:
- Important: if you have not checked "Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar" option on "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" (right-click Start menu and select "Properties" to show) interface, you will still get a blank list.
- Important: the main interface MAY disappear if did these operations for the system tray icon: double-click / quickly right-click and then click / only click or right-click after program ran a long time. And you need to end corresponding process and run it again to solve this problem.
- Important: if ARA is minimized to the system tray and closed unexpectedly (e.g. Windows logged out, shutdown, etc.), it will record the unusable window size and location. This will cause the main interface to be invisible at the next run, and normal users are very hard to restore it.
- Important: you may get the dislocation properties of a few system folders.