What's new in Windows 7 Boot Updater Beta 3
May 29, 2022
- Enhanced patching system to automatically fetch information from the Microsoft Symbol Server as needed.
- Several bugs fixed increasing the stability.
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Beta 2 (Mar 28, 2015)
- Updated both programs to include many little fixes and have updated patch definitions for KB3033929 (almost the same as for KB2949927).
- The built-in installer-creator now works from within the main program, no need for a separate download.
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Beta 1b (Mar 28, 2015)
- Patch definitions update to support Windows Update KB2949927 and a few other versions of Windows 7 (these are auto-downloaded by the program).
- Updated the command-line version of the program to include those definitions and a fix other bug fixes.
- Added an installer-creator program since the built-in feature is broken.
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Beta 1 (May 4, 2011)
- Able to work with already modified files (that were modified with this version of this program or later)
- Improved BCD device detection and elimination of redundant error messages
- Fixed many problems with the installer which caused it to crash
- Improved backup system and unlocking files when possible
- Improved patching system
- Smaller BS7 files (but they cannot be opened by older versions of the program)
- Includes translations for Spanish, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Hebrew, and Vietnamese
- Improved language support including external translation loading (means there can be language packs and translators can see how the translations look)
- Numerous other minor changes and fixes
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Alpha 11 (May 4, 2011)
- Allows changing the background to an image
- Can run in different languages and the language can be changed at run-time
- Includes translations for German, Russian, and Italian
- Reverted it to use only .NET Framework 2.0 and not require MS Visual C 2010 library.
- Much faster startup and checking of bootres.dll
- Can now create a standalone installer
- Improved transparency support
- Boot skin files are smaller
- Improved update checking
- Slightly improved backup system
- Smarter default winload and winresume paths using BCD data
- Numerous other minor changes and fixes
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Alpha 10 (Feb 17, 2011)
- Patching system is now 'dynamic' and new patch definitions are downloaded automatically from the web. This means as new versions of the files are released by Microsoft (and I find the changes) the program will automatically be able to handle them
- Added patch definitions for SP1
- Fixed a major issue that occurred when your system didn't use the hidden system partition
- Added winresume.exe support (screen shown when resuming from hibernation)
- Separated the core from the interface so new interfaces (like an installer) could easily be made
- Created a new command-line interface
- Changed BS7 format so any old bootskins won't work (sorry, but it is in alpha...)
- No longer supports being run in Windows XP and requires .NET Framework 4.0
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Alpha 9 (Feb 17, 2011)
- "Major overall to how things work (no longer requires Test-Signing!). If you used previous versions please turn testsigning off for {current}, {bootmgr}, etc
- "No longer signs files (not necessary)
- "Adds many new features for adjusting the appearance of the messages
- "Can save and load boot skins as a "bs7" file for applying later, on another computer, or distributing
- "You can now preview the boot animation in the program
- "Animation selection is much more lenient
- "You can restore the modified files easily from within the program
- "Command line temporarily removed
New in Windows 7 Boot Updater Alpha 8 (Sep 29, 2010)
- Adds boot flag to created WIM
- Corrects creation / modification / accessed times on backup files