Restore Point Creator Changelog

What's new in Restore Point Creator 7.1 Build 2

Jul 25, 2018

This is the final release of System Restore Point Creator. This last version is a build combining most of the changes that occurred in the Public Beta Test Branch before I pulled support for this program back in March of 2018. This release does not change the fact that this program is no longer supported.

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 40 Public Beta 31 (Apr 6, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 36 Public Beta 27 (Apr 2, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 35 Public Beta 26 (Apr 2, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 34 Public Beta 25 (Apr 2, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 33 Public Beta 24 (Apr 2, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 32 Public Beta 23 (Mar 29, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 31 Public Beta 22 (Mar 28, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 29 Public Beta 20 (Mar 27, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 28 Public Beta 19 (Mar 20, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 27 Public Beta 18 (Mar 20, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 26 Public Beta 17 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 25 Public Beta 16 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 24 Public Beta 15 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 23 Public Beta 14 (Mar 7, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 3 (Mar 6, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 22 Public Beta 13 (Mar 2, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 2 (Feb 23, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 16 Public Beta 7 (Feb 23, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 13 Public Beta 4 (Feb 19, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 13 Public Beta 3 (Feb 19, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 13 Public Beta 2 (Feb 19, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 7.0 Build 1 (Feb 19, 2018)

Added exception handling to the setMultiRunForTask() function.
Added additional paths to remove to the removeSourceCodePathInfo() function.
Added the ability to enable Multi-Select Mode to the right-click context menu on the Application Event Log window.
Fixed a bug in which right-clicking on the Event Log list would not make the delete option visible.
Fixed an obscure bug on the Update Message window in which a label was incorrectly placed on the UI when UI scaling was enabled.
Fixed a bug in which the program may crash while writing to the "lastrun" file.
Changed the writeCrashToEventLog() call to use a Warning flag.
Added an additional check for the proxyPass in the settings to the code that builds and returns a new httpHelper Object.
Put some sanity checks into the editBCDStore code.
Massive code cleanups and inclusions of the Using statement in the VSS and WMI code.
Replaced many IsNullOrEmpty checks with IsNullOrWhiteSpace checks.
Included a new data type in the restorePointCreatorExportedLog Class that's used to store data for the Application Event Log, namely boolException.
Fixed portable mode so that the program uses the current directory as the location to store the application log file instead of the Common Application Data directory.
Merged in version 1.304 of the HTTPHelper.
Increased the size of the bar in the Please Wait panel to go the right edge like it is on the left edge.
Instead of simply crashing when a UAC prompt-based elevation failure occurs the program now allows users to send the crash data to me (the developer) via the Crash Data Submission Form.
Rewrote the log file handling functions to write XML serialized data to memory first, write the data to a temporary file, do some checks, and then finally if everything is good then delete the actual log file and rename the temporary file. This is in effort to make sure that the log file's integrity is maintained (the actual log file remains intact until after a successful write) even if something were to go wrong during the write to disk.
Included additional checks to the code used to verify data that's written to disk for the log file. This is all in effort to make sure that the log file's integrity is maintained throughout the entire file write operation.
Fixed a small bug when deleting individual log file entries in which the refresh of the data wasn't triggered. Deleting multiple entries didn't have this issue.
Cleaned up a possible Object leakage when writing to the application log file.
Added a "submitted" flag to the log entry objects to store whether or not the user has submitted the crash data. This flag on the log entry object will be set to True upon submitting the data to me (the developer) and thus the program will not ask you to submit the data again.
Updated the embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library to version 2.7 Build 3.
Added sorting code to the function that deletes X number of restore points.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.9 Build 24 Public Beta 15 (Feb 13, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.9 Build 19 Public Beta 10 (Feb 5, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.9 Build 3 (Feb 5, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.9 Build 15 Public Beta 6 (Feb 2, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.9 Build 2 (Jan 18, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.9 Build 1 (Jan 18, 2018)

Added the ability to show System Restore Space for all system drives to the Disk Space Usage tool.
Fixed a possible crash while updating that makes the program appear hung during the update. Now instead of just sitting there the program will give you an error message.
Removed several legacy functions that were cluttering up the code.
Fixed a bug with the jumplist tasks in which the Please Wait window disappeared before it should have.
Fixed a possible NullReferenceException in the convertLineFeeds() function that's used on the Event Log window.
Completely rewrote the log file access functions to use lock files to indicate that the program has a lock on the log file. As long as the lock file exists the program will wait in a spin lock.
Fixed an issue in which if a corrupted log file was detected the program didn't immediately write a new log file to disk.
Added checks to see if the application log file is empty.
Merged in the SmoothProgressBar User Control directly into the source tree instead of referencing an external embedded DLL. This should make the resulting program EXE file slightly smaller in size.
Fixed a bug in which importing an exported settings file that contains legacy settings that are no longer part of the program will cause a program crash. Thanks goes out to Rob Murphy for reporting this issue to me.
Changed the log type for crashes that may arise in the addPrioritySettingsSubRoutine() function to a Warning type instead of an Error.
Changed it so that we only delete the log lock files during the application initialization phase if there's no other instances running.
Added some sanity checks to the getServiceStartType() function.
Added a right-click context menu to the event log list on the Application Event Log window.
Added a prompt to ask you if you do indeed want to delete the application event log.
Fixed a small bug in which the delete log button wasn't disabled after leaving the event log list.
Added a spin lock to the Application Event Log window's log file watcher to wait until the lock file is deleted before attempting to get stats on the log file such as the size of it. This fixes a small bug in which the size of the log file was shown as zero bytes because the log file had not been completely written to disk before the log file watcher's code was executed.
Fixed a significant memory leak on the Application Event Log window. The leak was caused by not cleaning up the cached event log data that was held in memory after closing the window. Depending upon the size of the log file it could mean that multiple MBs of data was left on the program's heap.
Fixed another memory leak on the Application Event Log window. The leak was caused by not cleaning up the images list after closing the window.
Changed many of the functions in the eventLogFunctions Namespace to use a centralized XmlSerializer Object instead of creating new objects every time the function is called.
Changed the text of the button that refreshed the log file on the Application Event Log window.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.8 Build 15 Public Beta 6 (Jan 7, 2018)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.8 Build 1 (Dec 28, 2017)

Improved application startup performance by nearly 60%!!!
Removed a legacy settings variable.
Fixed a minor bug in which the log export function would be triggered even on a new
Installation.
Removed the seconds display from the bottom of the Application Event Log window
Because more often than not the seconds number was always 0.
Added additional wording to the time display at the bottom of the Application Event
Log window.
Converted logID variables from ULong to Long as per the specifications of the
RestorePointCreatorExportedLog() Class Object.
Made it so that corrupted log files are saved with an incremented number as part of
The file name. This is to as to preserve older corrupted logs.
Included some minor changes to the jumplist task creation code.
Put in code to check the Startup type for the VSS system service in the "Manually
Fix System Restore Tool".
Included code to convert an Integer error code to a Hexadecimal value in the part
Of the code that falls back to Windows APIs to create a restore point.
Added some code to write the startup type for the VSS System Service to the
Application event log as part of the "Manually Fix System Restore Tool".
Added some code to attempt to start the VSS System Service as part of the "Manually
Fix System Restore Tool". If it fails to start the program will log the error to the
Application event log.
Added task priority code to many of the functions that deal with scheduled tasks.
Added code to set and check for variables in the Registry so that functions that
Run at application startup don't need to be run if they have been run before.
Changed the Global Crash Handler window code to use the assembleCrashData()
Function to standardize the stack trace data.
Added extended exception messages to the parent process retrieval function to
Indicate why something went wrong if something were to go wrong, this includes
Messages.
Fixed one line of code in the areWeRunningAsATask() function to be more clear
That's used in the application initialization code.
Changed two IF statements be only one IF statement thanks to the AndAlso Boolean
Operator.
Optimized the bytesToHumanSize() function to use less code.
Fixed one minor issue with the randomStringGenerator() function in which I didn't
Declare the returned data type.
Made it so that General unableToGetParentProcessException errors are logged as
Warning event logs as versus Error event logs.
Included code to ask the user to manually submit a crash report to the Application
Event Log window only if the crash report type is labeled as an Error.
Updated the embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library to version 2.7 Build 2.
Fixed a crash issue on launch of the program if the Segoe UI Font has issues with
Bold text. This is a hack fix for the issue, it doesn't at all fix the issue with the
Font itself. Thanks goes out to "Guy" for reporting this issue to me.
Added a Last Modified line to the bottom of the Application Event Log window.
Shortened the wording of the label that tells the user how long it took for the
Program to load the log file.
Added inner exception logging to the assembleCrashData() function.
Added a check to see if we are in update mode so as to not check for the parent
Process.
Added a way to tell the program to not check for the parent process, this is
Primarily used during the update routine that may cause extraneous errors in the
Application Event Log.
Fixed a rare bug in the Disk Space Usage bar resizing routine that could cause the
Program to crash if an Object is Null resulting in a Null Reference Exception. Thanks
Goes out to LMP for reporting this issue to me.
Fixed a typo where there was an uppercase letter but it should have been lowercase.
Oh, and did I mention improved application startup performance by nearly 60%? Oh
Yes, I think I did but it's definitely worthy of mentioning that again.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.7 Build 3 (Nov 13, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.7 Build 2 (Nov 13, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.6 Build 1 (Oct 30, 2017)

Brought back some of the old event log code for when the regular application log file cannot be opened for whatever reason. Better to write the data somewhere instead of nowhere.
Rewrote the old Windows Event Log import/export function to do all file operations with a lock on the log file throughout the entire import/export operation.
Fixed an issue that causes the Crash Handling Window to appear during updates on systems with Avast antivirus installed on them.
Fixed a small bug in which the Clear Search Results button wasn't disabled after deleting log entries.
Added functionality to select all items in the Event Log list by pressing Control-A.
Added the Log Type to the exception logging function.
Added functionality to be able to turn off the writing of the list of restore points to the application log when creating scheduled restore points.
Came up with a better way to calculate the newest restore point ID number.
Came up with a better way to make the font of the newest restore point entry in the list bold.
Came up with a better way to determine if you selected the newest restore point and if so, disables the delete button.
Added some extended debug logging.
Added addition code to disable extended debug logging if the current build isn't a debug build.
Included some improvements to the code that translates the Integer value that indicates the restore point type into something that's meaningful to humans.
Renamed some variable names in the restorePointEntryItem Object and changed much of the code in the Delete Selected Restore Point routine to use far less variables.
Changed the percentage at which System Restore Point Creator will warn you about full reserved space to 80%.
Added logging to the internal vss.setShadowStorageSize() function.
Made the "Reserved System Restore Space for System Drive" window a child of the main window.
Added additional debug logging to the "Reserved System Restore Space for System Drive" AutoFix tool to find out where the program is hanging for some users.
Included a way to get the version of a referenced DLL. This is used to include the version number of the Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler DLL.
Reorded some of the text on the application's About box.
Updated the copyright lines to extend it to the year 2019.
Removed a legacy function in the WMI Namespace that's no longer needed by the program.
Fixed a small bug in which the "Create Custom Named Restore Point" button was enabled after the Please Wait panel disappeared even if there was nothing type in the textbox.
Fixed a small bug in which the "Create Custom Named Restore Point" button wasn't disabled when the textbox was empty.
Optimized the code of the deleteEntryFromLog() function to no longer need a loop to delete the log entry from the log object.
Included code to handle corrupted XML log files, thanks goes out to "A Malanga" for reporting this issue.
Added handling of NotSupportedException to the addExtendedCrashData() function.
Added logging of UnauthorizedAccessException and COMException crashes to the wmi.createRestorePoint() function for logging purposes.
Fixed a minor bug that caused the Restore Point name textbox to have anything typed in it erased if you clicked inside the Restore Point name textbox. Thanks goes out to "Steve" for reporting this issue to me.
Made some changes to the IF statement in the checkByFolderACLs() function to include implicit checks.
Included minor tweaks to the code used in the deletion of selected log file entries.
Added some additional code to the Event Log window to disable certain functions if the tool was launched without administrator privileges such as when launched from the Jump List tasks.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.5 Build 3 (Oct 25, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.5 Build 2 (Oct 2, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.5 Build 1 (Oct 1, 2017)

Included code to get the parent process.
Included code to elevate the priority if the program was auto-elevated by the Task Wrapper.
Made it so that the update notification window is the top most window.
Fixed an InvalidCastException that could be thrown due to an incurrent use of the "+" where a "&" should have been used.
Changed the way that the application stores application log data from the Windows Event Log to its own log file format.
Fixed the checkByFolderACLs() function, it was failing to check to see if the user group that the user belongs to was allowed access.
Changed the order in which errors are logged. The error is logged first then the exception data.
Added a check to see if the program is running as the SYSTEM user and if so the path access check function will always return True.
Included a command line switch for debugging log file writing.
Added some additional checks to the program update routine to check for the existence of an already existing new application binary file.
Fixed a bug on that only occured on Windows 7 systems in which the areWeRunningAsATask() function would incorrectly return a False value.
Fixed a bug in the runtime task setup in which there were double log entries.
Added an additional update channel check if you are running a beta version.
Added sorting to the Mount Volume Shadow Copy tool's listbox.
Added the ability to save the sorting order for the Mount Shadow Copy tool.
Added code to disable the Stable Update Channel if the current version is a Public Beta or Release Candidate version.
Included better and cleaner OS version detection code.
Included a call to the sort command in the getNewestSystemRestorePointID() function.
Improved and optimized the code of the getRestorePointName() function by no longer requiring a For-Each loop.
Added the inclusion of the error code for FileLoadException types along with some other fixes.
Transitioned the program from using version 4.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework to version 4.6.
Removed a lot of low level API calls to determine if a user is part of the Administrator group and replaced it with much simpler native .NET API calls.
Updated the embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library.
Fixed a bug on the form that allows you to manually submit crash data that could cause a program crash if you didn't fill in the "What were you doing at the time of the program crash?" section.
Fixed a bug on the Crash Submission Form that could cause a program crash if you didn't fill in the "What were you doing at the time of the program crash?" section.
Removed a dependency on a third party DLL to work with ZIP files since Microsoft .NET Framework version 4.6 has support for working with ZIP files.
Removed the last bits of code that supported Windows XP.
Added code to detect Windows XP and tell the user that the program will now terminate.
Converted the storage of the log entry date to a raw Data Object instead of converting to a UNIX timestamp. Existing log entries will continue to use the old UNIX timestamp but any new log entries will use the new format.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.4 Build 1 (Sep 1, 2017)

Optimized much of the code used to parse Boolean values from the Registry.
Added EnableWindowsFormsHighDpiAutoResizing to the embedded app.config file.
Fixed multiple parts of the program to be thread safe.
Added better handling of Integer Strings to the List View Sorting code.
Simplified the RegEx parser used to the existence of numerical Strings with commas in it.
Cleaned up some code on the Update Notification window.
Added a Debug Mode and Build notation to the crash data that's written to the application event log.
Improved the operation of the Application Event Log search tool. This required a massive rewrite of the Application Event Log tool in terms of how it holds data in memory.
Improved code that's used to compare String values.
Included additional code to handle user.config file access violations that could cause the program to crash. Thanks goes out to Terry Lynch for reporting this issue to me.
Improved the window width restraints of the Disk Space Usage tool and Update Notification windows.
Merged in version 1.300 of the HTTPHelper class and a new version of the deleteAtReboot Class.
Fixed the support.convertErrorCodeToHex() function in which there was a possibility that "0x" wasn't prepended to the returned String.
Optimized the code of the addExtendedCrashData() function along with adding support to handle StackOverflowException.
Replaced the Please Wait window with a Please Wait panel built into the window itself. This major change to the program should go a long way in solving a lot of crash issues that people have been having with the program once and for all.
Fixed a grammar mistake on one of the dialog boxes.
Fixed a bug in which the label that tells you how many restore points are on the system wasn't updated after deleting selected restore points.
Fixed a bug in the file download routine in which it was telling the user to check the Application Event Log if an error occurs but the program wasn't logging anything to the Application Event Log for the user to check.
Removed an unnecessary thread declaration from the update checking routine.
Changed the way that custom colors and column orders are saved by the program in the applications settings data. It now uses a much simpler way of storing the data.
Removed the code to handle Specialized String Collections from the settings import and export code since it's no longer needed.
Added a limit of 6 MBs of files to be attached to the Official Contact Form. This is so as to not overload the mail server on my web server.
Changed the memory dump file type that's created when the program crashes. Hopefully it doesn't result in too big of a file.
Greatly improved application startup times by properly setting the process priorities such as the CPU and I/O priorities. Before these were set to below Normal when launching the program using the Task Wrapper which caused the program to run slower than it should have been, especially at application launch.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.3 Build 4 (Aug 28, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.3 Build 3 (Jul 14, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.3 Build 2 (Jul 7, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.3 Build 1 (Jun 18, 2017)

As of this point going further development of the program will be considerably slowed down. In the past new public release versions would be released every fifteen days with public beta versions being released in between, this is going to end. From this point on there may be as much as two months of time (or even more) between new release versions due to personal reasons. There's no big development house behind this program, no large team of developers; it's just me. One single guy who writes this program for donations. I give away this program for free but if you want to, you can donate. At no point do I tell you that you have to donate or even lock you out of parts of the program because you haven't donated. No, that's not my style. Anyways, I'm just here to tell you that development of the program will be slowed considerably from this point on due to personal reasons.
And now onto fixes that are included in this version.
Added the ability to assign a maxdays setting at runtime while executing the "-deleteoldrestorepoints" command line switch. This is done by providing "-maxdays=(0-9)" at runtime. This change was scheduled to go live in version 6.2's public release but I've held it back for more testing.
Took out much of the unhandled application exception and thread exception handling code and replaced it with simple logging instead along with message that the application is terminating and a process kill command.
Fixed a bug in the "Create Restore Point at User Logon" tool in which it didn't delete the task when clicking on the "Stop Making Restore Points" button. Thanks goes out to Bill Boyle for reporting this issue to me.
Included a possible fix to the Manage System Restore Storage Space window in which the height and width of the window is incorrectly set on some systems that have weird DPI settings. This would result in some elements on the screen being hidden from view.
Merged in new version of the deleteAtReboot class.
Merged in version 1.285 of the HTTPHelper.
Added logging to the parts of the program that create scheduled tasks to try and figure out why creating tasks for some users fails and results in a program crash. The logging logs the name of the task that's being created.
Updated the embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library to version 2.5.26.
Removed a bit of code from the Please Wait window that seems to be causing some issues upon startup for some users.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.2 Build 2 (May 3, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 6.2 Build 1 (Apr 29, 2017)

Added the ability to make the Please Wait window that appears when updating a System Modal window.
Removed a system restore setup check from the WMI.createRestorePoint() function that's used by the program to create restore points. It was causing too many false positives which caused some users to lose system restore points.
Added the ability to save the location of the update notification window.
Fixed an issue in which a label on the update notification window wasn't being placed right after a window resize.
Removed a system restore setup check from many parts of the program. It was causing too many false positives which caused some users to lose system restore points.
Fixed an issue in which the message box telling you that the reserved space is set properly and that something else is wrong is obscured by the Please Wait window.
Added application modal properties to the ERROR_SERVICE_DISABLED message box.
Fixed an issue in which the handleLockedSettingsFile() function could be passed a ConfigurationErrorsException object when the function was expecting an IOException object. This has been fixed by changing the input parameter type to a general purpose Exception object type. Thanks goes out to Jack Reynolds for reporting this issue to me.
Fixed a potential bug in which the "-deleteoldrestorepoints" command line switch wasn't working properly.
Implemented a possible fix for an issue that's been eluding me for quite some time. Thanks goes out to Charles Ray for getting me a full memory dump file at the time of the program crash, this was extremely helpful in narrowing down where the bug may be in the code.
Updated copyright line in the About box for the year 2018.
Added copyright line for the task scheduler library to the About box.
Updated embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library DLL to version 2.5.23.
Added a reference a DLL that's needed by the new version of the task library.
Moved a function from one part of the code to another, specifically the deleteAtUserLogonTask() function.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.1 Build 1 (Mar 31, 2017)

Added code to manage the list of file operations that occur at system reboot. Removed the MoveFileEx API declaration since we no longer need it. The deleteAtReboot Class replaces the MoveFileEx API declaration.
Updated the uninstall info update code to indicate if the current build is a public beta or release candidate. This wasn't specified in the past.
Implemented additional checks to see if the Settings file is locked at application startup.
Added additional Null Reference checks to the function that opens the Please Wait window.
Added a message box if an IO.FileNotFoundException is thrown when attempting to load the list of System Restore Points.
Implemented some changes in the code that exports the settings to a file.
Included some additional catches around the window focus commands.
Updated the HTTPHelper to version 1.280 which includes better handling of DNS Resolution errors and a couple of fixes for the RegEx that parses out the domain name from the URL.
Added special handling of DNS Resolution errors.
Changed the message box that appears if you don't answer Yes to the UAC elevation prompt to be a system modal type message box.
Added additional handling of IO.DirectoryNotFoundException's to the addExtendedCrashData() function.
Added a function to verify window locations to make sure that windows never get lost by having a negative X or Y value.
Fixed a bug in which many of the windows saved the location but never loaded it back.
Updated the Fody package from version 1.28.3 to 1.29.4 which is used at compile time.
Added missing references to make Visual Studio 2017 happy.
Moved many of the PInvoke methods to a new special class called NativeMethods. This is another thing that I had to do to make Visual Studio 2017 happy.
Fixed declaration of the SendMessage API.
Fixed declaration of the QueryFullProcessImageName and SearchPath APIs to close possible security hole, this was due to using the incorrect variable/object type in the function declaration.
Removed a bunch of unnecessary Dispose() calls.
Brought back the 'Enable "My Computer" Right-Click Option' on Windows 10. This is because I was able to develop a workaround for an issue that was preventing me from doing this in the past.
Developed a workaround for an issue in which I could not add any options to the My Computer right-click context menu on Windows 10. This workaround includes writing to the CLSID root of the current user's registry hive instead of writing to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive which is forbidden starting with Windows 10.
Added code to the update XML file parser to simplify the data needed in the XML file, specifically the "betaRCVersion" node.
Moved some code around internal to the program.
Added the ability to ignore a version at update time. If you ignore a version it will ignore it when ever the program checks for an update and notate it in the application log that it was ignored.

New in Restore Point Creator 6.0 Build 1 (Feb 28, 2017)

Updated the HTTPHelper to version 1.266. This includes multiple fixes, improvements, and additions to the class library that handles all of the program's various HTTP requests.
Included a new settings backup file type that's based upon XML.
Renamed "Reboot System" to "Reboot Computer" in the Utilities menu.
Added a Manual System Restore Fix tool to the Utilities menu.
Added a message box to the restore point creation routine telling the user what to do if the program determined that doing an auto-fix to System Restore could have unintended side-effects.
Included code in the downloadAndDoTheUpdate() function to detect if the user is on the beta update channel and if the update channel has been overridden to stable channel. If this occurs then the debug build is downloaded instead of the standard release (non-debug) build. This situation that could occur if updating from a beta/RC build to the next release build but there's no new beta/RC build after it, this is to make sure that if you are on the beta channel you get a debug build instead.
Added an Advanced Mode for the Manage System Restore Storage Space tool. This has been added back due to a user's request.
Included renaming of multiple internal variable names.
Added a custom exception to handle certain types of errors in the program, specifically when trying to parse Strings into Integers.
Fixed a possible bug in which a crash could occur if there are duplicate system restore point IDs when selecting restore points to be deleted. This is strange because it really shouldn't be happening, this fix should fix the issue. Thanks goes out to "George" and "Harry" (you know who you are) for reporting this issue to me.
Added handling of the custom exception to the extended exception data logging function.
Added error logging for errors while parsing system restore point ID strings into Integers.
Fixed an issue in the update routine in which the Please Wait window obscures the message box telling you that a system reboot is needed to complete the update if something went wrong during the update procedure. This issue was fixed by closing the Please Wait window before showing the message box.
Fixed an issue in which the uninstall info's DisplayIcon wasn't being set properly which resulted in a blank/broken icon in Windows Programs and Features.
Minor code cleanups.

New in Restore Point Creator 5.9 Build 1 (Feb 13, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.8 Build 3 (Feb 2, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.8 Build 2 (Jan 31, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.7 Build 1 (Jan 16, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.6 Build 1 (Jan 2, 2017)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.5 Build 1 (Dec 16, 2016)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.4 Build 1 (Dec 1, 2016)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.3 Build 1 (Nov 16, 2016)

New in Restore Point Creator 5.2 Build 1 (Oct 31, 2016)

Moved much of the error handling for HTTP requests to a central error handler more better error handling.
Cut down on many of the error message that users could receive if an HTTP request error occurs.
Added multi-user support to the Create Restore Point at User Logon task.
Changed the type of Event Log that's written to the Application Event Log when an HTTP error occurs.
The program didn't give the user any feedback if the latest version was a beta version and the user chose not to receive beta versions (only RCs). This has been fixed.
Concentrated the decision to show either a message box or a balloon-type message based upon the user's preferences to a new giveFeedbackToUser() function. This cleans up much of the code so that there's not quite so many IF statements everywhere, just a call to a function.
Optimized much of the code in the deleteRPLifeIntervalValue() and giveFeedbackAfterCreatingRestorePoint() functions.
Wrapped the code that retrieves the task schedule data on the Task Scheduler's Form Load Event to better handle FormatException exceptions when loading invalid data data from the task's XML data.
Fixed the saving of the Update Message window size.
Made it so that there's not quite so many events that trigger the disableCountdown() function on the Update Notification window.
Cleaned up some code in the MyApplication_Startup responsible for loading several Registry key values for the program.
Included some changes to how the program accesses and closes out the RegistryKey objects.
Moved the loadExceptionHandler() in the application startup routine to be earlier in the code than in the past.
Fixed a possible ArgumentException exception in the function that kills processes that have a certain parent executable. This is mainly used during the application update routine to make sure that executable files aren't locked during the program update process.
Added the ability to save the size of the Official Changelog window.
Changed the way that the program stores and saves some user preferences.
Fixed a long standing issue in which the Please Wait window wasn't cented in the screen when launching one of the Jumplist tasks

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Made it so that the routine that loads the list of restore points from the system into the listbox on the main window waits 750 milliseconds so as to allow the main window to catch up and be shown to the user.
The Please Wait window will no longer show on the taskbar.
Put some additional checks into the code for deletion of temporary files after the update is complete.
Some additional minor tweaks to the code.
Introduced the multirun mode for the Task Wrapper on Windows Vista since Windows Vista does support it.
Fixed an issue with the program asking if you really wanted to make the restore point.
Fixed a long standing issue in which the Please Wait window that first appears when the program loads while loading the system restore points into the list appears in the upper-left corner of the screen. This was caused by the Please Wait window not being opened in the right program thread. The same issue existed when downloading updates, with the Disk Space Usage tool, the Official Contact Form, the manual crash submission form, and the crash submission form that is presented when the program encounters a crash.
Fixed a possible hang on close of the program that could occur if the Check for Updates thread routine doesn't finish properly.
Multiple bugs were fixed in the HTTPHelper class that the program uses for the checking and downloading updates. This included fixing a couple of memory/object leaks. Updated the HTTPHelper class to version 1.180.
Fixed a possible NullReferenceException that may occur in the savePreferenceToRegistry() function on the main window.
Fixed a typo in the code in the savePreferenceToRegistry() function in which it wasn't passing the right variable as the first argument to the Registry SetValue function.
The application update process now doesn't download the compressed ZIP package from my web site to disk, it instead downloads the data into system RAM and holds it there temporarily. This makes it so that we don't write any unnecessary data to disk. For those who are geeks, I'm using a system RAM backed IO.MemoryStream() to hold the downloaded ZIP file in.
Fixed an exception that could occur if the user.config file was corrupted in some way.
Included several improvements to the code across the entire program that deals with scheduled tasks. This includes better validation of task settings.
Put some safeguards into the Disk Space Usage tool to make sure that the window's handle has been created and if not, code is been put into force the window to create the handle before anything else happens.
The Manage System Restore Storage Space tool wasn't loading the saved location, it was saving it but it wasn't loading it; this has been fixed.
Included some cleanup code when closing out the Official Contact Form to delete any possible files created by the window such as when you want to attach the application logs.
Optimized much of the code used to parse Boolean values from the application's System Registry key.
Added some additional logging when updating the program.
Fixed a possible crash on startup while attempting to delete the old updater.exe file that was used in the past to facilitate the updating of the program. This was because the program was trying to delete the file while the program was still running. This has been fixed by putting in a thread sleep command to wait for the program to close before attempting to delete it after killing the process.
Included some minor code optimizations.
Added some Alt hotkeys to the Yes and No buttons to the Update Notification window.
Added a countdown of 30 seconds until the Yes button is pressed for you on the Update Notification window.
Rewrote the process search and kill code to use Windows API calls instead of the WMI. This is in an effort to try to minimize the dependence on the WMI and use more traditional Windows API calls instead. Using more traditional Windows API calls is more efficient than using the WMI due to the latencies involved in creating a connection to the WMI and querying it.
Optimized much of the String comparison code in the program and most importantly improved the performance of the CaseInsensitiveContains() function by no longer relying on slower RegEx-based code.

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Made some improvements to the update code, now one compressed ZIP file containing the required two files for an update is downloaded instead of two uncompressed files. This should help speed up the downloads of updates.
Included additional version info that's written to the Application Event Log when updating.
Included the ability to save the position of the main window on the screen.
Changed some of the code checking to see if system restore is enabled on a system drive.
Put log entry code into the function that checks if system restore is enabled on a system drive.
Removed the option to disable HTTP Compression since that's no longer applicable to the update code.
Included better handling of the PDB file while updating. Included better handling of situations in which files can't be replaced for whatever reason; this has been resolved by allowing for the schedule of file updating/replacement at system restart time.
Updated embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library DLL to version 2.5.21.
Fixed some minor warnings that pop up at compile time.
Updated to allow for multiple instances of System Restore Point Creator to be run by a user. This is not supported on Windows Vista systems, only Windows 7 and newer.
Included code to delete the legacy updater.exe file that may be left over after updating to a new version that no longer requires the use of the updater.exe program.
Included some additional tweaks to the code that detects if a system has System Restore enabled.
Included checks to see if system restore is enabled on a system when using the jumplist tasks to create restore points, this check was missing before.
Added some additional checks if system restore is enabled during the creation of scheduled restore points, this check was missing before.
Fixed bug when creating runtime tasks.
Fixed an issue in which creating restore points on newly installed Windows installations was broken.
Introduced more logging for scheduled restore point creation tasks. This can be disabled if you want to but the default option is enabled. Enabling this option will result in more data being logged to the Application Event Log for debugging and informational purposes.
Fixed deletion of selected restore points in the list on the main window.
Fixed an issue in which the confirmation asking if you want to delete a selected restore point got lost behind other windows.
Added a "Fix Runtime Tasks" tool to the System Restore Point Utilities menu.
Put some additional checks when executing the runtime tasks and a routine to automate the repair of runtime tasks if specific settings for them were changed.
Changed the behavior of the routine to delete selected restore points to be less confusing in terms of messages at the end of the process.
Got rid of the progress bar near the top of the window when deleting selected restore points.
Fixed the Auto Fix function in which it didn't close the window after successfully performing the fix on the Reserved Space for System Drive tool which appears when the program detects when reserved system restore space is getting full.
The program now remembers the location on the screen of more windows than just the main window. The initial window starting location will be at the top of the screen but after that the program will remember where you put it.
Fixed a possible issue that prevented the system reboot command from executing.

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General public releases of System Restore Point Creator will now use a 15-day cycle. Every fifteen days a new version be scheduled to come out if and when needed. This is to help slow down on the release of new versions. This also means that more testing will be done to make sure that new additions, features, and bug fixes are stable before the program is released. More public beta testing will be done to catch bugs before they impact the general public.
Changed some things in the program's embedded manifest file to finally fix DPI scaling issues on Windows systems that have high DPI displays. Changed the caption of the menu item "Interface too small? Enable this option" to read "Interface too big? Enable this option". Changed much of the error handling that occurs with HTTP requests to use a centralized error handler to make HTTP error handling more consistent throughout the program. Fixed a major issue that could cause the program to crash with a fatal Stack Overflow Exception caused by a recursive call of the getFullOSVersionString() and writeCrashToEventLog() functions being called back-to-back in an infinite loop until the program crashes. Thanks goes out to Vladimir aka "bob2000" for having the time and patience to work with me in solving this issue, he provided me a lot of data including full memory dump files which allowed me to finally kill this bug. I couldn't have done it without him. Updated the HTTPHelper class to version 1.150. Added detection for System.IO.FileLoadException exceptions. Optimized some of the exception handling code with more efficient string search code. Renamed the "Restore Point Creator System Event Log" window to "Restore Point Creator Application Event Log". Added images to the buttons on the Restore Point Creator Application Event Log window. Renamed "System Event Log" to "Application Event Log" in the System Restore Point Utilities menu on the main window. Removed some old code that isn't needed anymore. Organized a lot of the internal code structured. Changed the way that dates are written in the exported log files. Dates are now being represented as UNIX timestamps for universal compatibility between different language editions of Windows. Added the ability to save the sorting preferences for the event log list just like on the main window for the restore point list. Fixed a possible crash issue on the Manage System Restore Storage Space window. Thanks goes out to Alan for reporting this issue to me. Fixed a possible crash that could occur while creating jumplist tasks. Thanks goes out to David for reporting this issue to me.

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I'm going to go back to my promise that there will be less updates and when I do update the program, those updates be farther apart in time to allow for more fixes to be included and more testing to be done. Starting with this new version, it's chock full of fixes and overall improvements. Fixed a small bug on the main window in which the Restore Point Name text box wasn't being cleared after the creation of a custom-named restore point. Included more wording on the Official Contact Form and the Crash Data Submission form that email addresses will be kept STRICTLY confidential and that they will NOT be included in a mailing list, sold to third-parties, or anything of the like. I have had some submissions in the past that resulted in reply email addresses that don't exist. If I don't get a valid email address, how can I contact you? The Event Log search tool now tells you if you if it didn't find any results and how many results it found, it also scrolls to the top of the event log list after the search is complete. Fixed the Event Log Search Tool in which the text box to enter in a search term is automatically selected when the window appears. Set the default button on the message box asking if you want to submit a crash report in the Event Log Viewer to be No. Changing the bar color on the Disk Space Usage tool no longer triggers a data refresh, only the color of the bars change. Made it so that the "Manage System Restore Space" blue link only shows up for the system drive on the Disk Space Usage tool. Removed a bit of debug code in the Set Progress Bar Color routine in which a message box appeared out of nowhere. Made it so that when manually submitting crash reports from the Event Log Viewer the program will no longer close after a successful data submission. Fixed a bug on the Task Scheduler window in which the Every setting would always be set to 2 even if you input a valid input. The Task Scheduler now uses the Recurrence option in the Windows Task Scheduler as versus using internal program logic to determine if a scheduled restore point is needed. Any scheduled restore point tasks will be upgraded as required the first time you launch the program. Fixed scheduled restore points in situations where the Every setting was set and that it wasn't creating restore points as required. Fixed the checking of the "days" check boxes when loading the Task Scheduler window and the schedule type is a weekly type. From this point on the Windows XP notice will be a permanent thing, you will no longer be able to disable the window from coming back every time you launch the program. A lot of fixes for Windows XP on the main window as well as the Disk Space Usage tool. Included documentation for the various command line arguments that the program accepts. Added an additional command line argument for the "-createrestorepoint" argument. Included a handler for an System.OutOfMemoryException exception. WHEW! That's a lot of stuff!

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I HAVE TAMED THE BEAST! I have tamed the beast that is Windows System Restore on Windows 8.x and Windows 10! For those that don't know or haven't experienced this issue, Windows 8.x and Windows 10 has a tendency of deleting old restore points regardless of the fact that you have enough space allocated to store those restore points. It seems that as soon as those older restore points get older than 17 days they get deleted. This wasn't the case on Windows 7, Windows 7 would keep restore points for as long as you had the space to store them. This was one of the most annoying issues that I had with Windows 8.x and Windows 10, until now. Thanks to Gregory M. Day, he found that there is a background task that is run every time you restart your computer and guess what? It was what was responsible for deleting those restore points. So, Restore Point Creator now has code in it to disable this task so you, the user, now have more control than ever before over Windows System Restore. Many thanks goes out to Gregory M. Day, his observations helped cure Windows 8.x and Windows 10 of this System Restore curse. But enough about that... now onto the fixes. Included crash output for WMI Shadow Storage Provider Failures. Included a link to an FAQ on my web site in the program. Included a line of code to log make an entry in the Event Log when disabling the task. Added an "Age in Days" column to the restore point list on the main window. Added the ability to rearrange the columns in the restore point list. The placements of those columns are saved in the user preferences. Added the ability to just press the Enter button to begin search on the Event Log search tool. Backup files no longer contain settings that have no value. Did a slight redesign to the Event Log search tool window. The search button no longer has text, it only has an icon. It's also been moved to the right of the search terms text box. More user preferences are now being saved to the configuration backup file. Restoring a configuration backup no longer requires a program relaunch. The age of restore points in days is now represented with decimal places. You can control how many decimal places that the age of restore points are rounded in days by going to Program Options/Settings, Round the age of restore points in days to how many decimals? Fixed a bug on the Task Scheduler window in which it was getting data from the wrong place for whether or not the \"Delete Old System Restore Points After Scheduled Restore Point is created\" checkbox is checked. Fixed a bug in configuration backup and restore tool in which Registry settings were getting mangled. Fixed a bug in the scheduled task for creating restore points in which the program wasn't logging the end of the task if the program was told to delete old restore points as part of the task.

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After several public betas and release candidates, I present to you the first version 3.7 build. This new version includes A LOAD of fixes.
Fixed selection of Event Log entries in the Event Log Viewer in which the display of the Event Log Entry didn't change unless you clicked on the list of event logs. This was caused by a regression that occurred in Version 3.6 Build 10.
Implemented a whole new version update notification dialog to provide even more information to users. This is all in an effort to provide users with more control over how the program updates itself.
New beta and release candidate versions will provide change log documentation. Moved many of the settings in the Program Options/Settings that have to do with software updates to be sub-items of a menu called "Software Update Settings". You can find the "Software Update Settings" menu as a sub-item of Program Options/Settings. This is to help clean up the Program Options/Settings menu to take up less space and to bring some organization to the Program Options/Settings menu.
Fixed an edge case issue that could result in a program crash when deleting selected restore points.
Reworked the way the program boots the system into Safe Mode to perform a System Restore in Safe Mode.
Included possible fix for old restore points being deleted by Windows itself. Included a handler for "BadImageFormatException" exceptions. Included a way for people to tell what version they have when the program pulls down the beta change log in the update dialog.
Included a handler for a "ObjectDisposedException" exception with the Please Wait window. This should cause the program to handle the exception internally in a silent manner and (hopefully) allow the program to continue functioning normally. Included new code to parse command line arguments when relaunching the program with Admin user rights.
Included a new "Launch with forced UAC prompt" jumplist task.
Included several new icons for menu items. Fixed the placement of the buttons on the bottom of the main window on systems running Windows XP.
Included a handler for "COMException" exceptions.
Removed some unneeded stuff from the crash display window since the "COMException" handler will redirect users to how to handle it instead of having the text in the program itself.
Fixed automated batch processing and deletion of old restore points in which the program ended up in an unending loop with the Please Wait window being shown with no way of closing it.
Implemented even more checks than there already were for Null References (believe me, there's lot of them!) in the updateSystemRestorePointsList() function that's used to load the restore point list.

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This new version includes a \b load of \b0 fixes.
Put in some code to handle XML issues with scheduled tasks. Inserted a handler for System.UnauthorizedAccessException crashes.
Improved backup and restore to include more data including window size preferences.
Updated packaged Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler library from version 2.0.0 to 2.5.14.
Put in a confirmation question upon closing the Task Scheduler window asking if you want to close the window if you have changed any task setting and have yet to save them.
Some code optimizations have been done and some legacy code was removed.
Fixed some issues with window placements.
Optimized many of the WMI queries used to retrieve system information.
Removed some unnecessary threads from the main window load routine which resulted in improved main window loading times.
Fixed the Event Log Viewer on Windows XP in which it didn't work at all.
Improved performance of the Event Log Viewer.
Fixed an issue in the Event Log Viewer in which the wrong icon was being associated with an Error-type message.
Added a Shadow Copy Mounting tool.
Added a tool to set the Wake Timers setting for Windows Power Plans back to the default Disabled setting.
This function was requested by Mark Asap.
Fixed a possible Null Reference Exception that may occur if threads don't sync properly.
Fixed user input validation issues on the Delete Old System Restore Points and Check for Updates interval setting dialog. Apparently the Microsoft .NET IsNumeric() check isn't catching all user input issues.
Wrote a replacement function that contains a Regular Expression-based check for the default .NET provided IsNumeric() function for user input validation.
Put in possible workaround on the Task Scheduler window for System.IO.FileNotFoundException.
Fixed contact URL in program, two extra spaces somehow were put into the URL making it an invalid URL. Put in a handler for System.OverflowException on the "Delete Old System Restore Points", "Keep X Amount of Restore Points", and "Check for Updates Every"

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Includes program version string and crash time in application crash details.
Cleaned up and optimized code in several functions including the application startup code, task scheduler related code, getDriveLabel(), and getDeviceIDFromDriveLetter() functions. Instructed the getNewestSystemRestorePointIDMadeByRestorePointCreator() function to return a 0 value if an exception is raised.
Hopefully if an exception is raised in this function other parts of the program can fix the reason behind the exception when the user attempts to create System Restore Point.
Updated embedded Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler DLL file to latest version. Updated the embedded Fody component used to embed and load required DLLs into the primary binary file.
Additional code has been added to the doesAtUserLoginTaskExist() and doesRunTimeTaskExist() functions.
Removed the ugly hack included in version 2.9 Build 6 and included proper code to fix systems with broken System Restore.
Fixed an issue in which the disk space usage bar wasn’t reset back to zero when selecting a drive without assigned space, increased the width of the window by a slight amount, and removed the Please Wait window from the Manage System Restore Storage Space window’s routines.
Added additional information to the “Enable My Computer Right-Click Menu Option” if something goes wrong. Added a small tweak that makes it so that if you download a beta version manually, it automatically sets the Update Channel to beta mode.
More checks for Null Reference Exceptions have been put into the Application Startup code.
Inserted an exception handler into the startup code to handle System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException exceptions, if this crash happens the Task-based No-UAC Launcher is bypassed.
Put checks in to make sure that the program’s registry key was created properly.
Put in code in the Create Restore Point at User Logon to ask if the user want to abandon changes.
Removed the mentioning of the change log when updating to new beta builds.
Put in a Win32Exception handler into the reRunAsAdmin() function to handle a situation in which a user said “No” to a Windows UAC prompt.
Included an Event Log Viewer for the program’s various event log entries that the program makes.
An option has been added to turn off the program’s logging of program loading and exiting to the Windows Event Log.
Fixed several issues in which the starting location of a window wasn’t being set.
Build 2 improves the performance of the Event Log viewer in the program.

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Moved the About notice and link to the program’s product web site to be sub-items of About.
Added a notice to ask users to donate. Yes, this program will always remain free to use with absolutely no limitations to the use of the program but still donations are welcome. If you click “No” to the message asking you to donate you will never see the program ask again unless of course you uninstall and reinstall the program.
Added more checks throughout the program for file existence.
Custom colors for the bar color chooser on the View Disk Space window is now saved in the program’s user preferences, before this was not the case.
Added a bunch of new descriptive icons throughout the program.
Made it so that the “Delete All Restore Points” option under the utilities menu is hidden if the system is Windows XP.
Moved the “Close after Restore Point is created” checkbox to the Program Options menu.
Added a message box to the Delete All Restore Points function asking you if you really want to do that.
Moved “Delete All Restore Points” and “Delete Old Restore Points” to be sub-items of “Delete Restore Points” in the Utilities drop-down menu.
Put a notice of sorts into the textbox to type in a name for a restore point to type something in that box.
Increased the default width of the main window to make things fit better.
Made it so that the program displays a message while creating and deleting restore points and will notify you that things are being done in the background and that message will not go away until the process is complete. This is much like how the Windows native Restore Point UI works. This window has a four minute timeout to close the window by itself but ordinarily this event shouldn’t occur.
Put some code into the program to write a “last run” file for scheduled tasks, this way you can determine when the last time the task was run.
Fixed a possible regression in which scheduled restore points weren’t being created.
Imported many of the constants from the SRClient.DLL file for improved error checking during the creation of restore points. Now you should get more meaningful error messages other than a success or a failure.
Added additional user privilege checking at startup to make sure that the program is running with system Administrator privileges/rights.
Some more debugging of task scheduler creation code is needed, some users have reported the task scheduler crashing on Windows 7 which I have throughly tested and have come up with nothing conclusive. I have put crash detection code into place to try and narrow down where the problem may be.
Changed the way that crashes are caught when unhandled crashes occur in the proogram, this should make the program catch more unknown crashes.
Windows XP will continue to be supported past the date of April 8th, 2014 but in an extremely limited capability. Scheduled tasks under Windows XP will be completely disabled and any existing scheduled tasks will be automatically deleted by the program. This is because debugging scheduled tasks on Windows XP is proving to be far more difficult than I initially thought it would be. Much of the code that I use to access the Windows Scheduler is provided by a DLL that was written for Window Vista or newer and getting it to work on Windows XP without major hacks is difficult.
Added the ability to change the update channel from beta to stable for future testing.
Fixed an issue in the Restore Point deletion function in which a malformed date string could crash the program, this has been fixed by storing the raw date data from the restore point sub-system in the program’s memory and using that instead of parsing what’s in the list of restore points.
Included some fixes in other areas of the program to help prevent crashes while attempting to parse invalid data.
Fixed several possible Null Reference Exceptions that may occur with the log file writing functions, ordinarily this shouldn’t happen at all but in those very rare occasions (less than .01%) a fix as been put into place.