What's new in Boot-US 4.1.7
Feb 11, 2024
- Improvements:
- Partitions/disks can now be saved to VHD/VHDX files
- NumLock and CapsLock can now be set in boot manager
- Report extended by uefi boot variables
New in Boot-US 4.1.5 (Sep 2, 2023)
- Improvements:
- size of dialogs can now be changed
- more reliable support for mouse and touch screen in UEFI boot manager
- optional RTC timer in BIOS boot manager
- backup of C: partition under Windows PE
- Fixes:
- file check in DOS command-line version fixed
New in Boot-US 4.1.3 (Jul 11, 2023)
- Improvements:
- Support for mouse and touch screen in UEFI boot manager
- Encrypted partitions are now not modified during true hiding of partitions
- Support for graphic mode PixelBltOnly in UEFI boot manager
- Improved reading of serial number of NVMe drives
- Fixes:
- Saving multiple partiions in *.bim file fixed
New in Boot-US 4.1.0 (Jan 23, 2023)
- Improvements:
- true hiding of ESP partition simplifies multiple Windows installation on one disk
- change, save and restore UEFI variables
- better compatibility of UEFI text mode and UEFI graphic mode
- Fixes:
- reading unknown UEFI values from ini file fixed
New in Boot-US 4.0.3 (Jul 22, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Better error handling in BIOS boot manager for removable disks (e.g. card readers)
- Dialog size scales now with size of start screen
- Command-line version supports now installation of UEFI boot manager
- Fixes:
- Improved disk recognition in UEFI boot manager
- UEFI text mode is now activated explicitly
- Reading partition names from INI file fixed
New in Boot-US 4.0.2 (May 11, 2022)
- Improvements:
- Efi fallback files can be added to boot manager
- Update of documentation for UEFI
- Fixes:
- Hiding of gpt partitions in BIOS mode fixed
New in Boot-US 4.0.1 Beta (Mar 5, 2022)
- Improvements:
- boot manager can be installed in UEFI text mode
- preview of boot manager also for text mode
- Fixes:
- export of colors to ini file fixed
- help buttons did not open online help
New in Boot-US 4.0.0 Beta (Feb 7, 2022)
- What's new:
- The most important extension is the support for booting by UEFI.
- Improvements:
- support for UEFI
- simplified configuration in BIOS mode
- backup and restore of single partitions and whole disks
New in Boot-US 3.9.6 (Nov 17, 2021)
- Fixes:
- uninstallation of boot manager was not possible when installed in MBR
New in Boot-US 3.9.5 (May 2, 2021)
- Fixes:
- Menu command "Partitions/Copy" was enabled too early (planned only for next version)
New in Boot-US 3.9.4 (Feb 14, 2021)
- Improvements:
- Option for reducing display size of boot manager
- Fixes:
- Update of background for more than 11 entries in boot manager fixed
New in Boot-US 3.9.3 (Feb 4, 2021)
- Improvements:
- True hiding of system-reserved partition in Windows 10 possible again
- Keyboard buffer in boot manager added
- Partition details are displayed now similar to Windows
- 4Kn disks are recogized
- Fixes:
- Saving boot disk numbers with duplicate disk serial numbers fixed
New in Boot-US 3.9.2 (May 3, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Small color flicker upon start and end of boot manager fixed
- Fixes:
- Default colors in command-line version fixed
New in Boot-US 3.9.1 (Apr 8, 2020)
- Fixes:
- Installation of boot manager to MBR fixed
New in Boot-US 3.9.0 (Apr 6, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Background image for boot manager
- New chapter 'boot manager' in documentation
- Boot manager colors can be changed
- Partition can be overwritten and deleted with random numbers
New in Boot-US 3.8.1 (Apr 30, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Recognize volume label of true hidden exFat partition
New in Boot-US 3.8.0 (Apr 23, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Boot manager now supports booting from disk 1,2,... without specifying a partition
- ExFat file system is recognized now
- True hiding of exFat partitions
- Fixes:
- Wrong partition type could be displayed when installing the boot manger
New in Boot-US 3.7.2 (Feb 5, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Under virtual machine the boot manager only uses standard BIOS display functions
- Fixes:
- Improved fix for 'access denied' problem when true hiding partitions on Windows 10
New in Boot-US 3.7.1 (Jan 29, 2018)
- Improvements:
- Additional language available for boot manager: Polish
- Support for MS Hyper-V (text mode is activated in boot manager)
- Details dialog now displays file system
- Fixes:
- Fixed 'access denied' problem when true hiding partitions on Windows 10
- Program used current directory instead of actual program directory
- Retrieval of disk info by scsi commands fixed
- Added missing license texts in dutch language
New in Boot-US 3.7.0 (Jun 13, 2017)
- Improvements:
- individual simple and true hiding of GPT partitions
- true hiding of partitions extended for Windows 10 version 1703
- support for font scaling on high resolution monitors
- Fixes:
- none
- Boot-US 3.6.2:
- created on Sept./11/2016
- Improvements:
- recognition of pressed keys improved
- Fixes:
- none
New in Boot-US 3.6.2 (Sep 12, 2016)
- Improvements:
- recognition of pressed keys improved
New in Boot-US 3.6.1 (May 31, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Additional languages available for boot manager: Spanish, French and Dutch
- Disk numbers can be configured to start with 0 (as in Windows)
- Fixes:
- For cloned partitions the correct drive letter is now displayed
New in Boot-US 3.6.0 (Feb 1, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Boot-US (GUI) can be started now directly (manifest contains request for administrator rights)
- Deleting and formating a partition can now be aborted without error message
New in Boot-US 3.5.3 (Dec 25, 2015)
- Fixes:
- unintented restart of Windows after true hiding a partition does not happen any more
New in Boot-US 3.5.2 (Oct 8, 2015)
- Improvements:
- display of whole lines in list control while changing column width improved
- enter relative paths in bootus.ini
- Fixes:
- check active partition when installing boot manager to non-active primary partition
- typo in setup program fixed
- too large font in startup tip fixed
New in Boot-US 3.5.1 (Sep 11, 2015)
- Fixes:
- display of serial number for Seagate disks fixed
- crash in 64 bit version with missing license fixed
- installation problem to diskette fixed
New in Boot-US 3.5.0 (Aug 10, 2015)
- The most important extensions are the usage of 64-bit variables for disk and partition sizes and the recognition of gpt partitions.
- Improvements:
- support for Windows 10
- support for 64-bit LBA numbers (disk size up to 8 x 1012 TiB)
- gpt partitions are recognized
- display of disk signature
- new command fixmbr in command-line program
- new command fix_diskparam in command-line program
- Boot-US available as 64 bit version
- make partitions on usb sticks accessible
- Fixes:
- formating of FAT32 partition with empty volume name fixed
New in Boot-US 3.2.2 (Apr 15, 2014)
- Improvements:
- none
- Fixes:
- free space before first partition was not shown
- reading alignment from ini file did not work
New in Boot-US 3.2.1 (Dec 27, 2013)
- Improvements:
- license check removed for command-line functions 'bootmanager status' and 'bootmanager preselect'
- Fixes:
- none
New in Boot-US 3.2.0 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- one-time boot of an entry in the boot manager
- Fixes:
- none
New in Boot-US 3.1.0 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- support for Windows 8
- support for cursor keys on numpad
- Fixes:
- display of volume name for duplicated partition fixed
New in Boot-US 3.0.2 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- none
- Fixes:
- display of 11 and more entries in boot manager fixed
- wrong colors in boot manager by command-line installation fixed
- wrong creation of image file with 8 or more entries fixed (Feb/12/2012)
New in Boot-US 3.0.1 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- IEC units are now the default
- ENTER key on numpad supported again
- special characters are allowed in password entry
- Fixes:
- diskette installation fixed
- booting from disk 2 fixed
- characters z and y within password were interchanged (Jan/21/2012)
New in Boot-US 3.0.0 (Dec 9, 2013)
- What's new?
- The most important extensions are the support for SSDs, the installation of the boot manager into a non-active primary partition and the invisible start of the boot manager (see list below).
- Improvements:
- partitions may be aligned on 1 MiB boundary (support for SSDs)
- boot manager does not rewrite unmodified sectors (support for SSDs)
- installation of boot manager into non-active primary partition
- invisible start of boot manager
- installation to CD creates now ISO file
- lba access is now the default setting
- command-line version allows to change the preselected partition
- partitions size displayed in SI or IEC units
- installation to diskette may now contain twice as many sectors
- automatic hiding in boot manager restricted to configured disks
- license texts in boot manager can now be changed individually
- export of boot manager configuration in file bmgrus.ini
- Fixes:
- none
New in Boot-US 2.1.8 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- installation in MBR can skip a sector occupied by third-party program
- Fixes:
- installation on diskette did not work under Windows Vista and 7
- failed disk access is retried in old and new variant (Aug/22/2010)5/2009)
New in Boot-US 2.1.7 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- boot sector is not checked any more for disk parameters
- Fixes:
- setup did not run under Windows 7 (Nov/15/2009)
New in Boot-US 2.1.6 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- none
- Fixes:
- installation of boot manager in primary partition beyond 8 GB fixed: parts of the boot manager could get overwritten some time later
- update operation of command-line version fixed (April/24/2005)
New in Boot-US 2.1.5 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- DOS command-line version now runs in protected mode
- Fixes:
- writing and reading of *.sec file fixed
- formating and overwriting partition under Windows 9x/ME fixed
New in Boot-US 2.1.4 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- start signal can now be specified by all configuration programs
- Fixes:
- check of FAT16 boot sector was a bit too strict
- partition name and description was not displayed in password dialog of boot manager
New in Boot-US 2.1.3 (Dec 9, 2013)
- Improvements:
- none
- Fixes:
- check of FAT32 boot sector was a bit too strict
- wrong exit code of command "bootusc save partsec"