What's new in Portable System Nucleus 2.3.2

Nov 7, 2010
  • Added WMI checkpoints & repair options if needed at start up
  • Added shortcuts to over 30 additional Windows applications in Windows 7
  • Added support for additional languages during installation
  • Mouse over log message in status bar now shows ToolTip containing complete message text
  • Services: description of options displayed as ToolTips when hovered over in Task Pane
  • Services: Added functionality to create a new service
  • Improved performance when loading Views
  • FIX: Error could occur if selected service were removed by another process during refresh
  • FIX: Main window would flicker when restored from system tray
  • FIX: Properties for selected Service were not being cleared when Servce was deleted
  • FIX: Service deletions were not being logged
  • FIX: an error may occur in the Inventory if a category has no available data to display
  • FIX: When main interface is disabled while system tray menu is displayed, an attempt to configure settings for disabled controls could occur, resulting in an error
  • FIX: error when sorting columns in Volume Manager
  • FIX: launching logs from status bar message could cause an error
  • FIX: selecting Process Information from Services did not stay scrolled to the selected process

New in Portable System Nucleus 2.3.1 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • Added option to attempt WMI repair if WMI query fails during application startup
  • Added mechanism to insert new user settings into existing configuration
  • Details: added file & folder browsing for relevant properties
  • FIX: An attempt to reload Preferences while currently loading could cause an error
  • FIX: Error could occur if attempting to sort certain dynamically populated columns
  • FIX: Installation was missing directive to run as admin, could cause installation to fail
  • FIX: Error occurred loading System Editor setting sif screensaver timeout set a value >9000 seconds
  • FIX: System Editor did not have its own user settings, was using those from Startups
  • FIX: Attempt to enable controls while hidden could cause errors when restoring from system tray or displaying system tray context menu
  • FIX: OS architecture in Inventory incorrectly displayed build number
  • FIX: Open views not saved when closing application via File > Exit menu item
  • FIX: error could occur when restoring column settings if stored settings did not match column count

New in Portable System Nucleus 2.3.0 (Sep 21, 2010)

  • System Editor: add & delete Environment Variables
  • Backup & Recovery: added option to enable System Restore if disabled
  • Drivers: added link to Backup functionality in toolbar & context menu
  • Services & Drivers: disabled missing file prompt by default & added toolbar button for on-demand display of missing files
  • System Editor: options to create restore point and/or backup registry before saving
  • Message Logs: selecting large number of entries to display was locking up the interface for an extended time period
  • Online Tools menu combined with Tools to reduce clutter & allow display of all menu items when window is resized down
  • Replaced old data binding control that had a memory leak
  • Services & Drivers: notice of missing Services & Drivers now only displayed on first load, so does not interfere with auto refresh
  • Services: first displayed service is selected by default
  • Actions applied from main toolbar were causing an error when Details panel selected
  • Event Log: correct set of web resource links now displayed in Details when switcing from another view
  • Message Log: filter bar display styles were not taking effect
  • Message Logs: filter toolbar display options were not in sync
  • Pressing a key with a data grid selected will jump to the first record with a value in the sort column that begins with the key's character
  • Run command box resized to fit on menu when window is sized down
  • Screensaver settings from system tray menu were not taking effect
  • Services: auto refresh could become disabled if refresh occurred while changes to services were in progress
  • Services: fixed problem changing startup mode to Automatic from task pane
  • Services: selection now maintained after applying filter
  • Services: service name in Details was not always correct when switching from another view
  • Services: task pane now fully visible
  • System Editor: AutoRun Disabled property change wasn't being applied
  • System Editor: Visual Effects setting changes were not taking effect & caused an error
  • System Editor: categories only available in Advanced mode could be displayed initially even when Advanced mode was not enabled
  • System Editor: changes to Environment Variables were not being saved

New in Portable System Nucleus 2.2.0.98 (Aug 20, 2010)

  • Details: added online links for Event Log entries
  • Added new error reporting dialog with email & clipboard functionality
  • Preferences: added option to close to system tray
  • Changed all Show/Hide menu options to Show with check/uncheck
  • 'System Audit' view renamed to 'System Inventory'
  • Screen position of main window is only adjusted if the window is entirely outside the viewable screen boundaries
  • System Editor moved to own view, no longer need to wait for complete System Audit to complete before configuring settings
  • Updated Online Tools to reflect URL & name changes
  • Online Tools: removed invalid links
  • Details: fixed error when attempting to create web link group with no links
  • Event Log: refresh from main toolbar now functional

New in Portable System Nucleus 2.1.0.93 (Aug 20, 2010)

  • Active view is refreshed immediately on activation if refresh is enabled
  • Processes & Services: Sorting now working on non-text value columns
  • Startups: Command line for all startup types except Scheduled Tasks, Win.ini & Autoexec.bat can be edited from the Details panel
  • Startups: Scheduled Tasks can now be disabled
  • Startups: fixed browsing to directory when path contains arguments
  • Startups: items were partially or not at all displayed due to property incompatibility with Task Scheduler 1.0 (XP)
  • Volume Analysis Report: MFT In Use value incorrect
  • Volume Analysis: resized and moved Size & Usage to display full value