· Adds support for 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP.
· Adds support for Windows Server 2008.
· The Custom Menus feature now allows you to define your own named submenus (in addition to the default 'Rarely Used' submenu) and organize related context menus items into different submenus. In Windows Vista and higher, with desktop composition enabled, you can also specify an icon to be displayed alongside the 'Rarely Used' submenu and your own custom menus.
· When setting up the Custom Menus feature, you can leave the Custom Menus configuration dialog open you right-click items in Explorer. Each time you choose "Customize Menus" from the Rarely Used submenu, the dialog will update automatically to show the items on the last-used context menu.
· The Custom Menus feature now allows you to keep the familiar "Properties" and "Personalize" menu items at the bottom of the context menu, even if you've chosen to place the custom menus at the bottom of context menus.
· When using Copy/Move To Folder with the chosen action set to 'Copy items to multiple folders', you can now save the list of target folders as a named 'folder group', making it a much quicker task to reselect the same folders in future.
· The Copy Path dialog now offers options to enclose copied paths in single- or double-quotes, and to escape backslash characters (replacing '' with '\').
· If you use Clock+ and/or Drag-and-drop taskbar buttons, and the Explorer shell process crashes for any reason, these features will now be re-enabled automatically when the shell restarts and the taskbar reappears.
· Fixes a bug in the Portfolio window which could cause it to crash on opening in some circumstances.
· Fixes a bug in AutoType in which unwanted carriage-returns (blank lines) could be added to the end of AutoType text items.
· NEW Move/Copy To New Folder Here options can be added to the context menu shown when you drag-and-drop one or more files or folders using the right mouse-button.
· The drag-and-drop taskbar buttons feature now has an added option to prevent taskbar buttons from being hidden (dragged off the taskbar).
· Print Folder Listing now includes an option to limit the number of subfolder levels included in contents listings and tree listings.
· The Convert Audio Files CD ripper now retrieves details of all available album-art images, rather than just a single image, allowing you a wider choice of which cover art image (if any) to save.
· The Convert Audio Files CD ripper now allows audio CD tracks to be previewed.
· Play Media Album now supports audio CDs. You can right-click a drive containing an audio CD to play it, or choose to play the CD with ShellToys in the AutoPlay dialog presented after inserting an audio CD.
· Browse Media has a collection of improvements:
· audio CDs are now supported: select a drive containing an audio CD to play it; track titles and cover art can be retrieved and displayed automatically.
· an Update Album Art dialog makes it easy to find and save cover art images for any album.
· in 'Images' mode, popup picture previews can now be displayed when you hover over a thumbnail.
· in 'Audio' mode, embedded images and lyrics in MP3 ID3v2 tags are read and displayed.
· several extra media file formats are now supported, including MP2/AIFF/AU/MID/M1V.
· The Go To Folder dialog (Shown if you assign and use a hotkey to the Go To Folder tool) can now be resized vertically to suit the number of items displayed.
· The usual variety of additional bugfixes and improvements.
· NEW Preview tool for Windows Vista provides a more flexible alternative to the awkward Preview Pane in Explorer windows. Preview opens in a separate window, but uses the same Vista previewing features as well as allowing a greater number of file types to be previewed.
· NEW Drag-and-drop taskbar buttons option for Windows Vista/XP allows the order of taskbar buttons to be rearranged by dragging and dropping them into different positions. Taskbar buttons can also be hidden by dragging them off the taskbar.
· In Windows Vista with Aero enabled, the ShellToys context menus are now drawn in native Windows style.
· In Windows Vista, an option on the Menu & Tool Options page of the ShellToys Control Panel allows icons to be shown beside any ShellToys tools that have been moved to the main context menu.
· In Synchronize Folder, each item to be synchronized now has a Properties dialog giving details of the file being added or deleted, or comparing details of the two files involved in a 'replace' action.
· You can now choose the action to be taken for the Copy Path tool via an option on the Menu & Tool Options page of the ShellToys Control Panel. This replaces the old 'Always show dialog for Copy Path' option.
· Clipboard and AutoType now have Unicode support for clipboard text and filenames captured by Clipboard , and for folder names, captions and text in AutoType.
· When playing audio or video files in ShellToys (in Media Info, Play Media Album and Browse Media) the /- keys on the numeric keypad can be used to raise or lower the volume.
· ShellToys tools that play audio or video files (in Media Info, Play Media Album and Browse Media) now have smoother handling of DRM-protected files. Although protected files can't be played, these tools now either display an explanatory dialog or, if more appropriate to the tool, skip automatically to the next file in the sequence.
· In Batch Rename, collections of renaming settings can be saved as named 'profiles' for easy reuse.
· In Copy/Move to Folder, when filenames conflict during a copy or move operation, the prompt dialog now includes the option to copy/move the file giving it a unique name.
· Browse Media has a variety of new features and options:
· A new Audio Tag Editor allows the tags of multiple audio files to be edited at once.
· A new Movie Frame Grabber allows frames from movies to be captured as individual JPEGs or as a single animated GIF.
· Movie thumbnails can now animate when the mouse hovers over them, displaying an in-place slideshow of frames from the movie to give an overview of the movie's content.
· An added option allows you to play movies in the AutoPreview panel by double-clicking a movie thumbnail rather than single-clicking.
· The View menu now includes an Arrange By option, letting you choose how items are listed in the window (such as by name, date or size). This setting is maintained separately for images, movies and audio.
· Bookmarks are now listed on a menu, rather than a tab behind the Folders panel, to make bookmarks more accessible.
· The ShellToys XP Settings window has had a major redesign, along with varying levels of cosmetic overhaul throughout ShellToys XP.
· As part of the redesign, ShellToys XP has edged away from Windows 98/Me/2000 users. Although still compatible with 98/Me/2000, the visual design now assumes a true-color display and support for alpha-blended icons used in Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista. Some aspects of ShellToys XP may therefore look poor on older Windows versions.
· In addition to disabling unwanted ShellToys XP menu tools or moving favorite tools to the main context menu, the Configure Menu Items page of the ShellToys XP Settings window now allows the items to be displayed in any order, and separators to be added to the menus.
· For users of Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista, the Personal Folder used to store user-specific settings for ShellToys XP is now created in the Application Data folder. When upgrading from an earlier version of ShellToys XP, the installer moves files from the original location of the Personal Folder (within the ShellToys XP installation folder) to this new folder.
· New Dialogs provides easy management of file dialogs (including Microsoft Office dialogs), letting you choose the size and view-style of Open/Save dialogs when they appear. Dialogs also adds a handy toolbar menu containing folders on your Go To Folder list for easy folder navigation in dialogs.
· The desktop icon position saver is no longer built into the Control Panel's Display Properties window. Instead a new 'Desktop Icon Positions' item is shown on the context menu when you right-click a blank space on the desktop.
· The desktop icon position saver now includes options to manage desktop-icon layouts: you can duplicate, rename and delete saved icon layouts.
· Extended Delete now includes a 'negative mask' option, allowing you find files that don't match the specified file mask.
· Extended Search & Replace also allows you to search for files that don't match the specified file mask.
· Improves the loading-speed and quality of image thumbnails in Browse Media.
· Improves the quality of image thumbnails shown on the context menu in Image Size.
· You can now reach ShellToys XP's Image Editor directly from the Image Size tool by holding the Ctrl key when clicking the Image Size context-menu item (or the image-preview on the menu).
· Browse Media now has a 'Details' tab showing file and EXIF information (if available) for the selected image.
· The View Icons window now includes a 'Browser' panel which will find and list all icon files and icon-libraries (such as .exe and .dll files) in the selected folder. Click a filename to view the icons it contains.
· The View Icons tool is now available for folders and the folder background, allowing you to browse a folder for icons and icon libraries.
· The Properties dialog in View Icons now includes Save As and Custom Export buttons, giving a quick way to save an icon.
· Print Folder Listing has been entirely rewritten to produce improved output and provide more options. Printed output is now HTML-based (requiring Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher) and can include file icons. Contents listings and tree structures can also be copied to the clipboard in ASCII or RTF formats, or saved as ASCII, RTF or MHTML files.
· Encrypt File now includes an option to create a self-decrypting file, making it possible to distribute encrypted files to non-ShellToys XP users.
· The Duplicate File tool now allows more than one copy of the selected file or folder to be created.
· In Batch Rename, when using the Construct Sequence tab to create an alphanumeric sequence of filenames, a new Sort menu allows the selected files to be easily sorted by name, date or size before renaming them.
· In Play Media Album you can now drag-and-drop a folder into the window to play the audio files it contains.
· The video player used in Browse Media and Media Info now supports forward/rewind: hold PageDown to scroll forward or PageUp to scroll backward; combine with the Ctrl key for faster winding. You can use these keys while the movie is playing or paused.
· In Media Info, the player window for audio and video files allows you to drag-and-drop multiple files into the window, to play them sequentially in alphabetical order.
· In New From Template, when you create a new file from a template and want to open it for editing straight away, you can now choose which application to use from a list of compatible programs.
· The Reminders feature of Clock now allows you to set reminders to occur monthly or annually at the same date and time.
· The Clock calendar now adjusts its colors according to whether the blue, silver or olive XP theme is used.
· Fixes a bug that prevented the Duplicate Folder tool from being 'detached' and shown on the main context menu.
· Fixes a bug that caused an exception if Copy Path or Shortcut Target were used and the options to resolve mapped network drives were selected on the Menu & Tool Options page of the ShellToys XP control panel.
· Improves support for Windows Vista (based on Vista Ultimate build 5384). The majority of ShellToys XP tools and features can be used in this build of Windows Vista, but we don't claim full compatibility with Vista.
· Numerous other improvements and a few minor bug-fixes.
