April 15th, 2011· Improved design of the tray menu.
March 7th, 2011· Improved some visual parts of the main window
February 1st, 2011· Improved design of several application parts like "Enter Password" window
December 26th, 2010· Fixed several problems with stability.
May 22nd, 2010· Added new option: Miscellaneous / Keep file date on unmount.
February 6th, 2010· Now cryptoexpert has AutoUpdate feature and can upgrade itself to more recent version using menu command Help/Check For Newer Version.
January 17th, 2010· Improved statistics about selected files when clicking the Size button.
December 5th, 2009· Now it displays the total size of selected files immidiatelly. Now there is no need to press "calc" button when the user selected files only, but not folders
November 14th, 2009· Now CryptoExpert checks for the new version in the background and notifies the user about new features and bug fixes automatically.
October 25th, 2009· Context menu item "New Folder..." was renamed to "Create Sub-Folder...".
· "Create Sub-Folder" command does not display "New Folder" dialog now.
· Currently, this command creates "New Folder" subfolder in active files
· pane and activates "rename" command (Windows Explorer's style).
· Command "New Folder" is not displayed when clicking the white space in
· "My Computer" and other virtual Windows folders.
October 4th, 2009· Fixed bug in "Help/Check for New Version...". Now this function works correctly and displays all changes in new version.
September 4th, 2009· Now menu items of tray icon are reorganized & regrupped. For example commands unmount & explore are grouped separatelly for every container file.
August 10th, 2009· Now it is possible to rename files and folders in files pane(s) of CryptoExpert directly. I.e. to rename file/folder it is just needed to click the file, wait ~1-2 second and now it will be possible to rename file (like in Windows Explorer).
July 9th, 2009· CryptoExpert has two file panes - left and right. Each pane can display folder of hard drive or other location. And files/folders can be copied/moved between file panes.
· Now, when user double-clicks on the title of file pane, it displays popup menu with bookmarks - favorite locations on hard drives. It is possible to add new folders to this menu, manage bookmarks or change current path of the files pane quickly.
June 7th, 2009· Our customers reported about strange bug: when fixed drive letter was assigned for drive image file (in context menu/Drive Image File Properties...), it was not used by CryptoExpert and next available free drive letter was used everytime.
· We fixed the bug in this version.
May 18th, 2009· Multiple "virtual" hard drives in your system protected by password
· Strong encryption using AES 256 bit
· Support for huge encrypted drives 256 Gb and larger
· Two factor authentication support - strong passwords plus decryption keys located on any type of USB Memory Sticks
· Disk Firewall to protect private data from stealing
· Compatibilty with Windows(R) Vista(R) 32 and 64 bit as well as XP 32 and 64 bit (Windows 2000 is also supported).
April 13th, 2009· In some situations, for example when the tray notification area is overloaded by programs, not all of them could be loaded on Windows start, because most of these programs were designed without knowledge to wait for existance of the Windows Explorer's tray notification area. In this case these programs shown error message like "Cannot create tray icons" and then terminated.
· CryptoExpert now, in this situations, always waits when the tray is created and then places own icon to it.
March 13th, 2009· In previous versions container's icons (gray and gold keys) were not visible in main CryptoExpert main program and in 32 bit applications on Vista 64 bit. Now icons are visible.
· Also shell context menu items (mount image, unmount image) were not visible in 32 bit applications on Vista 64 bit (for example in Total Commander program). Now shell context menu items also works.
February 8th, 2009· In this version we've added ability to check for bad passwords during container creation. To activate this feature go to menu/options/miscellaneous and check box "Create Container Wizard: check for the presence of password in a dictionary of common words". For example, when you create new container and want to use "weak" password like "123", or "john", CryptoExpert will show warning message. CryptoExpert has own dictionary of 50,000 common words.
· It is recommended to activate this feature.
· Also, this version of CryptoExpert shows a label of current disk in the status area (in file browser).
January 20th, 2009· In this version we fixed strange bug. Program interface was locked when trying to create new container file in read-only folder (for example: root folder on hard drive on Vista 32/64 system). Now, in this situation, CryptoExpert shows error message and this operation can be cancelled (Cancel button is not disabled).
January 10th, 2009· Encrypted Images panel is automatically activated, when new container is created.
November 27th, 2008· Our customers reported about strange bug: master password was always asked when USB memory stick was connected into USB port. Even when the stick was not protected by master password.
· We fixed the bug in this version.
· Some other minor bugs were also fixed: some notifications were not displayed as ballon tooltips in the tray notification area.
August 3rd, 2008· Added new tolbar button "Move Files". Added new item to the tray menu: "Help".
July 14th, 2008· Completely improved the Copy/Move files process
June 29th, 2008· Multiple "virtual" hard drives in your system protected by password
· Strong encryption using AES 256 bit
· Support for huge encrypted drives 256 Gb and larger
· Two factor authentication support - strong passwords plus decryption keys located on any type of USB Memory Sticks
· Disk Firewall to protect private data from stealing
· Compatibilty with Windows(R) Vista(R) 32 and 64 bit as well as XP 32 and 64 bit (Windows 2000 is also supported).
June 15th, 2008· Added new feature: the ability to unmount all drives on power hibernate.
May 12th, 2008· Tray Icon's tooltip has information about the quantity of mounted virtual drives.
April 29th, 2008· Drive image file is selected on "Go to file location". Added "Open X: in current files pane" context menu command for mounted virtual drive
April 12th, 2008· Added Tools / Find Drive Images... menu item to search and add drive image files on current PC.
March 24th, 2008· Bug fixed: no more error message "Cannot subscribe to the create container events: The parameter is incorrect" when creating encrypted container on remote network drives or external HDD. Bug fixed: the interface was locked when trying to drag & drop files to the same folder
March 10th, 2008· Local drives are sorted by drive letter, not drive label now. Drive image files located on network drives are mounted without error message
March 1st, 2008· Fixed bug: Sometime "Create Drive Image" wizard fails with message:"cannot subscribe to create container events".
February 26th, 2008· Added "Size" button to the status bar of each files pane. Now it is possible to get size of files located in selected folders. Bug fixed: "Unmount" command was not displayed in the shell context menu when selecting mounted hard drive. Bug fixed: Tray icon was not added to Windows Startup after program installation
September 3rd, 2007· Added ability to dismount drive (not only container file) from shell context menu. Works on 32bit/x64 bit platforms. Bug fixed: Now command line argument /UNMOUNT works with containers file names of different letter case.
August 15th, 2007· Vista 32 bit and 64 bit: no error message "unable to initialize firewall driver" at OS start up (sometime).
July 24th, 2007· x64 platform (Vista and XP): cryptoexpert's encrypted container files have icons in shell now.
January 1st, 2007· The maximum size of container file has been to 50 mb
December 8th, 2006· Redesigned "Container Propertied" dialog
October 30th, 2006· Create Container Wizard: added protection against dictionary password attack.
· CryptoExpert checks the entered password.
September 19th, 2006· Some minor bugs fixed
July 13th, 2006· Added new option Launch CryptoExpert at every Windows start up
June 23rd, 2006· Added drive list to both file panes. Now it is possible to change drive for active files pane by selecting it from drive list.
March 8th, 2006· [ ] Added new command to context menu: "Mounted Drive Info...". This window show information about mounted container, encryption algorithm, ammount of written & read data since mount and etc.