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PTBSync Changelog

What's new in PTBSync 6.7d

Apr 24, 2024
  • Bugfix: Jewish holidays in the leap month Adar were displayed wrongly.

New in PTBSync 6.7b (Dec 26, 2023)

  • The weather server has been modified so that the city search did not work anymore.
  • PTBSync has been adapted to the changes on the weather server.

New in PTBSync 6.7 (Sep 29, 2023)

  • Trayclock adapted to Microsoft's changes in KB 5022913 (Windows 11, Build 22621.1344)
  • Bugfix: After changing upper/lowercase of an event, this change was not stored.

New in PTBSync 6.6e (Jul 13, 2022)

  • Bugfix: Trayclock menu was not dispolayed correctly with high Windows scaling factors.

New in PTBSync 6.6d (May 21, 2022)

  • The trayclock has been rewritten for Windows 11.
  • Microsoft has removed the old Windows trayclock and replaced it with a completely different technology (XAML).
  • I had to re-write the PTBSync trayclock entirely. This was the work of an entire month.
  • Once again I had to do the difficult work of reverse engineering Windows Explorer.
  • Reverse Engineering means to work in an area where absolutely no documenation exists.
  • And once again Microsoft has changed the way how the desktop wallpaper is generated.
  • If you use PTBSync 6.6 on Windows 11 please don't forget to give an Extra Donation.

New in PTBSync 6.6b (Apr 25, 2022)

  • Bugfix: Trayclock disappeared when taskbar is in mode "Automatically hide".

New in PTBSync 6.5c (Jun 12, 2020)

  • Now you can chose in Template Weather if you want to see today or tomorrow as the first forecast day.
  • Many new symbols for the calendar. PTBSync has 275 images now.
  • It is very difficult to find images with the tiny size of 16x16 pixel in high quality and transparent. Thanks to Tineke!
  • Tooltip display longer now. (32 seconds is the maximum that Windows permits)

New in PTBSync 6.5b (Feb 28, 2020)

  • This version contains an important bugfix.
  • Please update whatever version you have!

New in PTBSync 6.5 (Feb 21, 2020)

  • New weather parser and city search for the new weather server.
  • The new weather server neither requires city codes nor is it based on weather stations.
  • It calculates the weather for any place on planet earth.
  • It only needs the geographical coordinates for that.
  • The new weather server delivers the day forecast for 9 days and the hour forecast for 12 hours.
  • PTBSync allows now to store multiple cities and to change to another city with 3 clicks.
  • The calendar allows to use symbols in PNG format.
  • The symbols have been replaced and extended with images of better quality.
  • Bugfix in the installer, which showed a backslash instead of the folder.
  • Template PC Info now also displays the Windows 10 release number.
  • Holidays updated.

New in PTBSync 6.4 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • In Windows 10 build 18282 Microsoft has added a new bright desktop theme to the old dark desktop theme.
  • Microsoft has modified all theme names in the taskbar and trayclock, so PTBSync again shows Error 309.
  • PTBSync has been adapted to the breaking changes in this Windows version.

New in PTBSync 6.3f (Oct 22, 2018)

  • Links in the desktop calendar are opened in the default browser on Windows 10.
  • It is also possible to import expired events.
  • Holidays updated and added.

New in PTBSync 6.3e (Jan 6, 2018)

  • The template PC_Info also displays the country in the field "Internet IP".

New in PTBSync 6.3d (Nov 14, 2017)

  • PTBSync now also plays MP3 sounds.
  • Some of the Wav files were very old and bad quality. All Wav files have been replaced with high quality MP3 files.
  • Added two new sounds.
  • Problem with not functioning autostart solved.
  • Additional checks in the installer for some very special cases that users have reported.
  • A problem with the time zone editor has been fixed.
  • Holidays updated.

New in PTBSync 6.3c (Oct 25, 2017)

  • In Windows 10 build 15048 Microsoft has once again modified the trayclock and PTBSync showed Error 309 anew.

New in PTBSync 6.3b (Mar 27, 2017)

  • With the update of Windows 10 to build 14393 a new button has been added at the right side of the clock. But this is not the problem. At the same time Microsoft has modified the Windows clock itself, once again breaking functionality that has existed since Windows 95.
  • During the last 22 years Windows always asked the trayclock how much space it needs and adapted the size of the clock dynamically to it's content. But in build 14393 this mechanism has been removed completely which resulted in a cropped text being displayed in the PTBSync trayclock. If you have modified the time format in control panel you can remove this workaround now.

New in PTBSync 6.2d (Nov 23, 2016)

  • This version fixes a problem with the background image on multiple monitors on Windows 10

New in PTBSync 6.2b (Jun 5, 2016)

  • This version fixes a problem with the background image on multiple monitors on Windows 10.

New in PTBSync 6.1b (Dec 4, 2015)

  • Fixed some very particular problems that have been reported by some users.
  • NOTE: If your PTBSync 6.1 is running fine, you do not need this update.

New in PTBSync 6.1 (Sep 26, 2015)

  • The problem with download server has been solved.
  • Version 6.1 has been adapted once again to the final Windows 10.
  • Errors during the installation have been fixed.

New in PTBSync 6.0 (Sep 26, 2015)

  • PTBSync has been adapted to Windows 8 and Windows 10 preview.
  • The desktop calendar works now correctly with all 6 desktop wallpaper modes and with slideshow and on multiple monitors.
  • The trayclock has been changed for Windows 10.
  • Additionally PTBSync uses a newer graphics library that supports all image formats.
  • Holidays updated.
  • Note: PTBSync 6.0 requires at least Windows XP with Servicepack 2.

New in PTBSync 5.8 (Apr 18, 2014)

  • Some people reported to get an error from the weather server: "Invalid location provided".
  • The reason is that Weather.com has changed the codes of some cities and other cities were removed or added.
  • New Feature: Online city search.
  • New Feature: Jump to the geographical location in Google Maps.
  • Holidays updated.

New in PTBSync 5.7c (Nov 18, 2013)

  • Waking up the computer from StandBy / Hibernate adapted to Windows 7.
  • Bugfix: "" in display of current weather in trayclock tooltip
  • Connecting Internet Explorer if in Offline mode.
  • Holidays updated

New in PTBSync 5.7b (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Bugfix: On some computers version 5.7 produced elevated CPU load.

New in PTBSync 5.7 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Adapted to run on Windows 8.
  • Bugfix JavaScript Error: ";" expected.
  • Improved Internet IP parser and updated Template PC Info.
  • Holiday files updated.

New in PTBSync 5.6b (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Workaround for the white areas that the desktop calendar showed after booting on some computers.
  • Holiday files updated.

New in PTBSync 5.6 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • PTBSync detects if the BIOS battery is empty. If the date deviates more than one year since the last usage, a warning is shown and the corruption of the calendar events is prevented. ( Screenshot )
  • Bugfix: When synchronizing with an atomic clock PTBSync does not tell anymore that the clock runs exact in the year 2080.
  • New calculation feature for holidays allows to define the year in which a holiday was introduced or ceased.
  • Note field for holidays.

New in PTBSync 5.5b (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Workaround for a Microsoft bug that resulted in error 193 when starting the PTBSync service.

New in PTBSync 5.5 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • PTBSnyc had to be adapted to Microsoft's changes in Internet Explorer 9 that does not show PNG graphics anymore the same way as his predecessors.
  • This has affected (not only) the weather template.

New in PTBSync 5.4c (Mar 5, 2013)

  • PTBsync can now connect to the internet through a Proxy server that requires autentication. (User/Password)
  • This allows in a restrictive company network to retrieve weather data, display Internet IP, synchronize the clock via HTTP time server, check for updates, etc.
  • The Proxy settings must be entered into Internet Explorer.

New in PTBSync 5.4b (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Bugfix of a bug that affected ONLY version 5.4: PTBSync Service did not adjust the clock

New in PTBSync 5.4 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Analog Flash Clock for desktop

New in PTBSync 5.3 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Windows 7 ready, weather for 86.000 cities, various changes

New in PTBSync 5.2b (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Clock synchronization via Port 80

New in PTBSync 5.2 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • PTBSync also runs on a Terminal Server

New in PTBSync 5.1 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • PTBSync Add-Ons included into installer, Holiday files in UTF8.

New in PTBSync 5.0 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Display of actual weather and forecast on the desktop

New in PTBSync 4.9 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Trayclock now runs on Windows 64 Bit
  • iCalendar Import

New in PTBSync 4.8 (Dec 2, 2010)

  • Completely ready for Windows Vista / 2008.

New in PTBSync 4.7b (Mar 5, 2007)

  • Playing sound files (also *.spkr) via commandline (see help -> hidden features)
  • Holiday.txt (the file which defines holiday calculations) was split into one file for each country.
  • Holiday calculation formulas extended. (e.g. for buddhist calendar)
  • In the trayclock menu you can now save and restore the positions of all desktop icons.
  • Menstruation calendar now also displays the date.
  • Modification of print calendar: Workaround for Firefox.
  • Display of Julian date in the trayclock popup (for astronomers).
  • Holidays of Portugal.
  • Little holiday bug fixed.