August 25th, 2008· added support for perceived types (introduced in Windows XP) including a set
· of predefined PerceivedTypes: Image, Text, Audio, Video, Compressed and System;
· copy and paste for static and dynamic menu items;
· relaxed user priveleges for using of Fast Explorer Context Menu Extension DLL: administrative rights on local machine are required to edit, enable and disable dynamic menu items. Regular users can enjoy installed context menu items;
· updated installer to NSIS v2.39;
· fix: Windows Registration Server (regsvr32.exe) crashes after enabling or disabling dynamic menu items;
· fix: accidental crash on pressing Win E or right clicking on My Computer;
· fix: incorrect reporting of Windows Server 2008 in the About box;
· fix: dynamic menu items didn't appear if the access to the Internet is restricted for Verclsid.exe;
· fix: crash on click on the Parameters label on the Submenu Items tab;
· fix: crash on pressing F1 when a context menu is shown.
April 14th, 2008· fix: accidental crash in Registry Bugs dialog when pressing F1 for help;
· fix: crash on click on the Find button for invalid or non-existing application path;
· fix: crash on loading of the associated icons when no 16x16 equivalent is available;
· fix: crash on switching of the viewing kind in the file types list;
· fix: accidental crash when a referred file type is no more registered in the system.
April 4th, 2008· enhanced Vista-style user interface;
· 64-bit version of Fast Explorer Context Menu Extension DLL (thanks to Free Pascal Compiler);
· partial Windows x64 Edition support: menu items added from the Submenu Items tab appear on context menus for both 32 & 64-bit apps (other tabs marked with [WOW64] are working with 32-bit applications only);
· new "Check for updates" feature;
· language selection option from the main window menu;
· core code optimizations (for better performance);
· new "send crash report via email" feature;
· fix: Windows Vista automatically prompts to elevate rights to run Fast Explorer with administrative rights;
· fix: batch files (.bat) didn't start from context menu when their paths contain spaces;
· fix: surrounding quotes were incorrectly stripped from the arguments in some cases;
· fix: shell extensions with empty name were hidden in the Shell Extensions Cleanup tab;
· fix: shell extensions with relative file names were marked as not found in the Shell Extensions Cleanup tab;
· fix: environment strings (like %SystemRoot%) in executable file names are supported.
September 24th, 2007· added support for Portable Network Graphics images in menu icons (thanks to TPNGImage library);
· added generation of crash dump file (.dmp) on critical error before the application terminates;
· fixed incorrect displaying of icons with alpha channel;
· fix: "Not enough memory to load associated icons" fatal error while loading file types' icons from a damaged, invalid or missing file;
· fix: context menu items didn't appear for shortcuts;
· fix: empty parameter list was produced for commands associated with "All network server" file type.
June 28th, 2007· Included French and Russian localization files.
February 14th, 2007· settings are stored in the FastExplorer.ini file located in the Fast Explorer folder (especially for portable solutions).