March 20th, 2012· Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option.
October 25th, 2011· Added shell extensions under LibraryFolder\Background key.
October 4th, 2011· You can now drag one or more files from the window of ShellExView into Explorer window or other application.
May 19th, 2011· Added 'Show Time In GMT' option.
March 11th, 2011· Added support for 3 types of shell extensions: Disk Cleanup Handlers, Icon Overlay Handlers, and Property Handlers
February 28th, 2011· Added /enable and /disable command-line options, which allow you to disable/enable shell extensions automatically from command-line without displaying any user interface, by specifying the CLSID of the shell extension.
February 14th, 2011· Fixed bug: ShellExView failed to detect some shell extensions (When the CLSID was specified as Registry key instead of Registry value).
· Added .NET detection - When there is a .NET extension, ShellExView now detect the real shell extension dll instead of displaying the .NET core dll (mscoree.dll)
· Added .NET column, which displays 'Yes' if the shell extension was created in .NET
November 22nd, 2010· Added 'Google Search - Filename' and 'Google Search - Extension Name' options, which allows you to easily search for information about the selected shell extension in Google.
September 20th, 2010· Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
May 19th, 2010· Fixed ShellExView x64 to require to run as admin under Windows 7/Vista, like the 32-bit version.
May 3rd, 2010· Added 'Preview Handler' shell extensions.
November 8th, 2009· On x64 systems, ShellExView now always shows the shell extensions for x64 applications, even on the 32-bit version of ShellExView. If you want to get the shell extensions list for 32-bit applications, use ShellExView with /wow64 command-line option.
· Added /remote command-line option, which allows you to view/enable/disable shell extensions in a remote computer on your network.
August 31st, 2009· Changed the definition of 'Suspicious Shell Extensions' - In previous versions, Every shell extension with read-only attribute marked as Suspicious, which confused some users, because there are many legitimated shell extensions that set a read-only attribute, probably to protect them from delete by the user. However, if a shell extension has an hidden attribute, it'll still be marked as suspicious.
August 22nd, 2009· Added option to submit a report about a shell extension that you disabled to http://shellfix.nirsoft.net
April 6th, 2009· ShellExView now displays a special warning when trying to disable a shell extension of shell32.dll
January 7th, 2009· Fixed bug: ShellExView crashed when using it with the save command-line options
November 24th, 2008· Added support for using ShellExView with external drive (by using /external command-line option).
November 11th, 2008· Added 'Filter By Extension Type' option - Allows you to select which type of shell extensions you want to view
October 24th, 2008· New restriction: ShellExView won't allow you to disable at once more than 15 shell extensions created by Microsoft. The reason for this restriction is that recently there were a few cases of people that disabled most of their shell extensions, including system extensions that installed as a part of the operating system, and then found themselves with a system that cannot boot properly.
October 24th, 2008· Fixed bug: Exception window appeared when starting ShellExView in some systems
July 8th, 2008· Fixed bug: The dates displayed in system locale format, instead of user locale
May 15th, 2008· Added shell extensions under "My Network Places", "Entire Network", and "Remote Computer" Registry keys.
· Added 3 columns: "My Network Places", "Entire Network", and "Remote Computer" (which tells you whether the Shell Extension was added into these folders)
May 5th, 2008· Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus when the user switched to another application and then returned back to ShellExView
April 25th, 2008· Added support for saving as comma-delimited text file
September 24th, 2007· Configuration of ShellExView is now saved to a cfg file instead of the Registry.
February 16th, 2007· Fixed bug: When a filename was enclosed with quotes, ShellExView failed to display the properties of the file.
August 12th, 2006· A tooltip is displayed when a string in a column is longer than the column length.