What's new in ActivityMon 2.0.3.155
Dec 10, 2018
- new products boxes in the Installation Wizard
- Corporate renamed to Workstation
New in ActivityMon 2.0.3.154 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Activation key hash overflow during sending from the setup fixed
New in ActivityMon 2.0.3.153 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Service is installed with dedency on the RPC
- AVG and Avast Antiviruses are both reported as the problematic ones
- Installation Wizard summary page waits for the confirmation of installation directory has been added into the antivirus exceptions
- Norton Security detection added into the Installation Wizard
New in ActivityMon 2.0.3.152 (Oct 30, 2018)
- Languages enumeration in the application settings fixed
- Home&commercial setup works
- Projects for home resources created
- ActBasic reads installation.xml
- Setup generates installation.xml
- Third monitoring service crash is handled with restart too
- Products changed to standalone & web_activation
- Build utility checks for valid package definition and its usage
- Components selection enabled in the setup for home build
- Unused stuff removed from setup.xml
- Home build uses same binaries as the commercial one
- Reworked building utility
- All application links to the web site has been changed to HTTPS
- Config.xml is generated with RSA signature
- Setup.xml is generated with RSA signature
- Trial period changed to 7 days
- Executable manifest is handled through the VS2017 configuration properties
- Activation keys handling reworked
New in ActivityMon 2.0.2.151 (Sep 29, 2018)
New in ActivityMon 2.0.2.142 (Jun 11, 2018)
- It is guaranteed to synchronize all activities data (multi-thread activities synchronization fixed)
- Hash column of ScreenshotFile table is created as UNIQUE NOT NULL
- AES encryption/decryption buffers enlarged
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.95 (Feb 7, 2011)
- distributed activities files have temporary extension to allow simple detection of unfinished file copies
- currently processed file is logged when opening distributed activities files
- fixed unhandled exception in Activities Viewer when Elevated.exe startup is canceled through the UAC
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.94 (Feb 7, 2011)
- fixed timestamp of service being started when reading distributed activities data from more computers
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.93 (Dec 14, 2010)
- fixed application active time calculation
- translated user comment dialog into the Czech within the Czech resources
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.92 (Dec 14, 2010)
- ActivityMon AuditPro renamed to ActivityMon Auditor
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.90 (Sep 8, 2010)
- PReAS Viera Chovancova activation key blacklisted
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.89 (Aug 31, 2010)
- setup icon updated
- fixed misspellings in the English resources
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.88 (Aug 25, 2010)
- czech activation dialog resources adjusted
- SAT Plus s.r.o. activation key blacklisted
- activation keys blacklist implemented
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.87 (Jun 25, 2010)
- Setup Wizard does not require password on product uninstall when monitoring service was not a part of installation
- user monitoring warning is fully visible in the czech build
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.86 (Jun 25, 2010)
- Activities Viewer does not require password when local activities data is not available
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.85 (Jun 25, 2010)
- default scheduling of copy chanel is repeating every 10 minutes
- settings do not allow to enter network path for local data
- monitoring service handles invalid data path and uses the default data path in such a case (it crashes in the previous versions)
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.83 (May 25, 2010)
- DDE connection failure is not loged
- fixed exception handling during AES data file reading
- NETWORK SERVICE account access rights setting moved to the scheduler event
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.81 (May 25, 2010)
- installation type is loged on the startup
- additional logging added into the access rights settings for NETWORK SERVICE account
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.80 (May 11, 2010)
- monitoring service grants access for NETWORK SERVICE account on Windows Temporary directory
- backslashes are replaced by normal slashes for FTP distribution
- screenshot subdirectories are removed from the path before passed to FTP server during data distribution
- fixed possible infinite loop when daily scheduling is used
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.79 (Apr 27, 2010)
- ActivityMon is used as password when no password is provided in the Setup.xml
- /silent command line parameter removed from Setup.exe and silent mode of Setup Wizard is used when Silent.xml is presented in the Setup Wizard directory
- /exportsettings and /importsettings command line parameters implemented into Elevated.exe
- WebGuard: translated English text for Report.exe in the Start menu
- multiple monitors handled
- name of the screenshot file is modified when file already exists
- check for the number of terminal users implemented
- fixed operating platform detection
- busy cursor is shown when checking for distributed data files after the computers check box has been changed
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.78 (Apr 18, 2010)
- Setup Wizard offers computer restart when service cannot be started after the installation
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.77 (Apr 12, 2010)
- single screenshot saving fixed
- Screenshots tab does not allow to uncheck both window and desktop screenshots
- markup is set to the user comments events to set their background
- fixed text over the combobox with amount time selection
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.76 (Apr 12, 2010)
- handled situation when viewer has been closed when minimized
- dll with blue style resources removed from the installation package (resources are taken from the viewer executable)
- dependency on common controls added into the manifest of Viewer.exe
New in ActivityMon 1.5.0.74 (Apr 12, 2010)
- visited web sites monitoring (supported web browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera)
- SMTP e-mail activities data distribution
- relative time range selection in the Activities Viewer
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.64 (Apr 12, 2010)
- handled situation when viewer has been closed when minimized
- dll with blue style resources removed from the installation package (resources are taken from the viewer executable)
- dependency on common controls added into the manifest of Viewer.exe
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.63 (Apr 12, 2010)
- Timestamp of processes dialog is adjusted to be within the time range of selected calendar event
- Implemented translation of device path into DOS path to allow usage of GetProcessImageFileName (GetModuleFileNameEx is not working corrently under some circumstances)
- Fixed checking for 64bit session monitor on shutdown on 32bit operating systems
- Log files are created with the name of user in the file name for executables started for each user (to avoid conflicts in the invisible installation)
- Activities Viewer startup utility works on 64bit Windows XP/Server 2003
- Implemented fallback for WTSQueryUserToken (there was problem on 64bit Windows XP/Server 2003)
- Fixed process list retrieving
- Fixed detection of Windows XP 64bit operating system
- Fixed company name retrieving from Config.xml
- Reworked Report dialog resource to be suitable for Windows 7
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.62 (Mar 2, 2010)
- password requesting dialog is set as foreground window
- Setup Wizard resources reworked
- Setup Wizard settings page has been splited into two pages: password & settings one
- Setup Wizard shows error message in case of password settings failure
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.61 (Mar 2, 2010)
- fixed screenshot black parts of window with alpha chanels (typically window borders with Aero)
- copy chanels are not invoked when the license has expired
- fixed bug in Config.xml resulting in English text in the warning dialog of the Czech build
- fixed English features description in the Czech commercial build
- fixed computer information saving
- fixed shortcuts creation in the installation repair
- minor text fixes in Czech & English resources
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.60 (Mar 2, 2010)
- fixed activation key check in the Setup Wizard
- whitespaces keystrokes are filtered out on Windows tab
- renamed hook library to fix Firefox compatibility
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.59 (Mar 2, 2010)
- it is not possible to uncheck non-optional features on Windows XP (tree control changed to list control)
- list of features for home build is same as for commercial build, Setup Wizard handles scenario when installing commercial build over the home one
- installation package downloading failure handled, message is shown in such a case and installation process is aborted
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.58 (Mar 2, 2010)
- fixed installer package retrieving for home build
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.57 (Mar 2, 2010)
- it is not possible to enter empty user comments
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.55 Beta (Mar 2, 2010)
- Setup Wizard checks for activation key for other build and informs user
- application takes its version from the Config.xml file
- no settings are available for user interface-only installation in the Setup Wizard
- monitoring service is not installed when its main file has not been installed
- features selection implemented into Setup Wizard of commercial build
- Setup Wizard of commercial build allows to select components to be installed
- fixed bug in installation type checking of ActivityMon configuration
- application updates are handled through the Setup Wizard
- UpdateUrl tag removed from the Config.xml
- Home editions of Windows are distinguished
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.54 Beta (Mar 2, 2010)
- uninstall forms created for home build
- supressed loging of not found preview file when previews are disabled in the settings
- free build created
- home build cannot be installed on server operating systems
- distributed files opening function is available only in the commercial build
- fixed screenshot view visible state when switched to another tab
- improved settings details dialog
- application settings are stored in the Settings file which is encrypted using the 256bit AES cipher
- Screenshot Explorer secret start implemented, including settings in the application settings
- mouse wheel is working again in the screenshots view
New in ActivityMon 1.4.0.53 Beta (Mar 2, 2010)
- Setup Wizard shows build numbers when there is newer version available on the web site
- all operations with the progress shown can be canceled now
- progress is shown during screenshots saving
- handled GetModuleFileNameEx failure on 64bit operating systems
- context menu implemented for devices report control
- device details dialog and device calendar event show device label
- Activities Viewer allows to show window records only with typed keystrokes
- 64bit session monitor implemented
- debug privilege is enabled for monitoring service process
- manifest is set to resulting self extracts
- Setup Wizard generates unique guid for each installation
- Setup Wizard allows installation on 64bit operating systems
- keystrokes in the password controls are ignored by default in the commercial build
- default screenshot format changed to %YEAR%-%MONTH%-�Y%\%HOUR%-%MINUTE%-%SECOND%_%HWND%
- more checks&logging implemented for screenshot capturing
- Home build configurations created
- Setup Wizard creates shortcut for the Screenshot Explorer
- time_t data type is not used anymore
- modules base addresses are defined to avoid modules relocation
New in ActivityMon 1.3.0.53 (Feb 16, 2010)
- fixed crashes related to the skin library on Windows Servers
- Windows Server 2008 R2 is recognized now (it was reported as Windows 7 by previous versions)
New in ActivityMon 1.3.0.52 (Feb 16, 2010)
- fixed caption of the pane shown in the status bar customization context menu
- user comments are disabled by default in the Activities Viewer for home/family licenses
- logging extended for BitBlt failure during screenshot capturing
- user confirmation is disabled by default
- fixed check for server product activation key
- fixed idle time monitoring disabling
New in ActivityMon 1.3.0.51 (Feb 16, 2010)
- fixed caption of the pane shown in the status bar customization context menu
- user comments are disabled by default in the Activities Viewer for home/family licenses
- logging extended for BitBlt failure during screenshot capturing
- user confirmation is disabled by default
- fixed check for server product activation key
- fixed idle time monitoring disabling
New in ActivityMon 1.3.0.50 (Feb 16, 2010)
- handled saving of unencrypted screenshots during Save As... operation
- fixed internal error when FTP server authentication failed
- fixed icons of application settings pages in the invisible installation
- screenshots file name and path format can be specified in the application settings
- monitoring service can be started/stoped from the Activities Viewer
- /startmonitor and /stopmonitor parameters implemented for the Elevated.exe
- Setup Wizard and copy chanels uses application name as data file access password when none is provided
- fixed constant for WMF image type in the viewer
- devices view shows instead of empty volume label and 00000000 volume serial
- handled inserted media inserted into the DVD-ROM drive connected through USB (there was invalid disconnected timestamp)
- ScreenExp.exe implemented as independent screenshot viewer
- Report.exe adds Settings.xml from the settings path
New in ActivityMon 1.3.0.49 (Jan 26, 2010)
- fixed saving of not cached screenshots
- fixed installation of newer version with new installer (there was a bug causing service start before the user key was stored)
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.29 (Nov 9, 2009)
- elevated process is started for application settings on Windows Vista/7
- fixed manifest generation for MonitoringService.exe to require administrator privileges
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.28 (Nov 2, 2009)
- full screenshot view can be closed by the Escape or Enter key
- translated 2 czech texts in the calendar view in the English version
- process reference is stored for windows referenced by screenshots
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.27 (Oct 26, 2009)
- setup wizard window cannot be closed during progress of main installation (when the current tab is marked as "non-cancelable")
- several text improvements in the setup wizard
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.26 (Oct 23, 2009)
- if activities data file access password is incorrect password dialog is shown again to allow user to re-enter it
- expired license HTML dialog implemented
- command bars style is set to the selected one
- after viewer start proper style is selected in options menu
- buttons removed from calendar caption bar & translated strings in the Czech build
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.25 RC (Oct 20, 2009)
- Deactivate button is disabled for trial period
- ActivityMon support page is shown when user requests application help
- window idle blocks are exported into the XML
- update until value is checked after the key is entered (there was a bug that it was only at the application startup)
- active session blocks are exported into the XML
- fixed bug in the activities analyse when time of computer being hybernated has been added into the window active & idle time
- it is possible to scroll screenshot with the left mouse button: click and move
- keystrokes with zero character code are ignored by the monitoring service
- focused windows history of the session is exported as a part of XML
- fixed process event storing in the session monitor (there was non-initialized variable)
- window focuses are stored under appropriate sessions to avoid collisions between sessions (typically terminal server)
- home/family limitation dialog contains link to products comparison page
- file for unexpected shutdown detection is deleted before any monitoring service stoping operation is performed to avoid false reporting of unexpected shutdown
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.24 RC (Oct 16, 2009)
- ribbon bar style is preserved across sessions
- fixed text wrapping in the monitoring warning dialog
- user confirmation request is disabled for Home/Family edition
- fixed bug in storing the user confirmation setting
- user comment entering check box is disabled when tray icon is not checked
- translated end user license agreement in the czech setup wizard
- czech uninstall form created
- activation events are shown on ActivityMon tab of the viewer
- monitoring service is informed about activation and deactivation
- HTML dialog is shown after successfull activation
- handled failure of BitBlt during screenshot taking
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.23 RC (Oct 12, 2009)
- fixed activation issue
- additional logging added into the license loading & validation
- key generator shows the type of activation key after validation
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.22 RC (Oct 12, 2009)
- fixed product version stored during the uninstall registration
- idle time detection is disabled for Home/Family license
- Home/Family version limitation dialog has been implemented
- product cannot be used on the server without server license, the type of trial license has been changed to server
- online shop URL is taken from the Config.xml
- number of CxImage supported formats has been reduced: GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, WMF
- extensions filter is set for screenshots saving dialog and screenshots can be saved into different format then the original
- if language selected in the application settings english resources are loaded
- double-click handling implemented into the screenshots view, whole screenshot is visible in such a case
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.21 RC (Oct 9, 2009)
- program settings do not offer language not available in the program installation
- special characters of the text in the settings are encoded to be compliant with the XML
- text is set for idle events in the calendar
- thread termination timeout extended to 60 seconds
- trial period extended to 15 days
- date/time range filter does not allow to enter start time newer then end time
- fixed gmt/local time bug when working with filter time range
- time range in the filter is updated from document for Refresh command
- several fixes in the czech translation
- fixed missing text for tray icon tooltip text in the Config.xml
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.20 RC (Oct 9, 2009)
- fixed bug causing monitoring were not working without the activation key
- update script on the server is contacted with the used language specification
- fixed bug in showing valid until portion of the license
- unused texts removed from the resources
- application settings contains page with language selection and selected language is stored in the Settings.xml
- replaced "ActivityMon" text with the application variable %APPNAME% to allow full product customization
- Czech version of ActivityMon has been created
- build environment takes build number from main RC file and can be increment
- application names sorting is not case sensitive
New in ActivityMon 1.0.0.19 RC (Oct 6, 2009)
- activities export into XML implemented into the viewer
- applications view is sorted by applications usage by default
- monitoring service does not store any event when the service is expired
- viewer shows message bar about license expiration and allows only activation key entering
- service is marked as stoped after session monitors are stoped
- uninstall form is also shown in the case restart is needed and user requests it
- activation keys logic is enabled for release build
- events time range pane implemented into the viewer