WinFavs Changelog

What's new in WinFavs 1.2.6.0

Oct 29, 2014
  • Presets have been re-branded as profiles
  • Preset loading time has been reduced up to 60 times!
  • Major performance improvements
  • Settings were moved to a separate window with better organization
  • The app will suggest reverting settings if it detects a previous session crash
  • Some notifications have a button on them à-la-chrome to perform a certain task
  • The app will refresh profile and task lists more wisely and less frequently
  • Minor user interface improvements
  • The app will send anonymous information to the developer only if enabled
  • Log improvements
  • Fixed creating/editing a shortcut
  • Fixed tab ordering in most windows
  • Fixed profile editor showing warning signs instead of folder icons if conservative mode is enabled
  • Fixed notifications not showing up sometimes
  • Fixed app crash when sending feedback
  • Fixed crash when toggling auto-refresh while the preset/tasks folder doesn't exist
  • Fixed probable unending restart loop
  • Fixed showing hints even when disabled

New in WinFavs 1.2.0.0 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • You can schedule presets using the new tasking system
  • Major interface and usability improvements
  • The app will now suggest subdirectories while creating or editing a shortcut
  • You can navigate to parent folder while creating/editing a shortcut
  • Message boxes received a face lift, have with more features, improved readability and some have 'Never show again'
  • You can reorder shortcuts of your presets
  • New conservative mode that speeds the preset loading time by up to 10 times
  • Presets can take nearly half the time to load even without the conservative mode
  • New view mode that provides details about shortcuts
  • You can choose to ignore a specific version update
  • New hint dialogs that show how to use certain features of the app
  • More advanced shell integration with "Edit" & "Apply" straight from preset shell context menu
  • Most menus now have icons
  • Menus & buttons now have tooltips that inform of their function
  • Keyboard shortcuts changed to use mostly the ALT key
  • The notification tray icon now is always visible and indicates the app's status
  • Toast notifications have a new look & logic, are less intrusive, have better animations and more improvements
  • Deep changes to the feedback window (better validation, no need for email and password, much less fields, retry if failed...)
  • Improved settings file (your previous settings file may not be read correctly)
  • Better handling for unexpected errors
  • The settings menu won't close when you change a setting
  • Better split button
  • You can now copy/cut & paste shortcuts from one preset to another
  • Richer and cleaner logging to help investigate further problems
  • The app now suggests sending feedback if it detects a previous crash
  • Performance improvements
  • Fixes to auto-naming shortcut
  • Fixes to path validation while creating or editing a shortcut
  • Fixes to saving confirmation dialogs
  • Fixed showing the app from the notification icon not bringing the window to the front
  • Fixed refreshing presets when presets folder doesn't exist
  • Fixed the edit shortcut window showing up for the wrong one(s)
  • Fixed long application exit if updating
  • Fixed preset/shortcut saving bug
  • Fixed typos
  • Fixed memory leak related to icon fetching
  • Proper icon sizing for different view modes
  • Fixed opening multiple wfp files at the same time
  • More bug fixes

New in WinFavs 1.1.0.0 (Jun 16, 2014)

  • Added search functionality to presets
  • The app now remembers the last viewed preset
  • The app will automatically refresh when the presets folder changes
  • The notification tray icon is now always visible
  • Some message boxes were replaced by a toast notification
  • You can create shortcuts for non-existent folders
  • You can choose to automatically name your shortcut while creating/editing it
  • Instead of showing the minimize to tray bubble once, the app will show the
  • minimize to tray bubble once in every start
  • You can change the view of icons
  • The app will no longer hide non-existent folders. Instead, it will show it with a '?' icon
  • If an update is found, will also show changelog
  • New feedback form to send your thoughts about the app
  • Ability to import preset from the app
  • Changes to some confirmation dialogs
  • Refreshing presets won't change the currently viewed one.
  • Fixed correct path not being accepted sometimes
  • Fixed crash if opened two instances (The app will now show a message and close the newest instance)
  • Fixed update crash
  • Fixed crash if preset has non-existent folders
  • Fixed shell integration (You need to delete your config file)
  • Fixed start with Windows
  • Fixed drag and drop in the edit preset window
  • Fixes to batch shortcut editing
  • More bug fixes
  • GUI improvements
  • Performance improvements