SmartPower Changelog

What's new in SmartPower 1.6.0

Dec 30, 2014
  • Added support for configuring SmartPower with Group Policy
  • Changed inter-process communication method between idle monitor and service

New in SmartPower 1.5.7 (Jun 16, 2014)

  • Changed the .NET framework target to .NET 4 Client Profile, improving ease of installation on Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012) onwards.

New in SmartPower 1.5.6 (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Changed the way the domain name was retrieved, again.

New in SmartPower 1.5.5 (Mar 4, 2014)

  • Changed the way in which the domain name is retrieved (to make it more reliable).

New in SmartPower 1.5.4 (Aug 20, 2013)

  • Added another power plan check (see previous release) for "hibernate after" setting.

New in SmartPower 1.5.3 (Aug 12, 2013)

  • In Vista onwards, the configuration utility now checks (and allows users to change) the three essential settings within the active Windows power plan: sleep timeout, unattended sleep timeout, wake timers. For Windows XP (or server equivalent), the configuration utility warns about sleep timeout.

New in SmartPower 1.5.2 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • Fixed missing icon in SmartPower Configuration.exe.

New in SmartPower 1.5.1 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Fixed minor bug where certain functions in configuration utility would error if settings had never been saved.

New in SmartPower 1.5.0 (May 21, 2013)

  • Improved network usage monitoring so that network usage is averaged over the last ~60 seconds.
  • Fixed bug where SmartPower Idle Monitor started reporting incorrect information after 29 days of system uptime.
  • Fixed rare bug where communication between SmartPower Idle Monitor and SmartPower service became unreliable.
  • Minor UI enhancements.

New in SmartPower 1.4.2 (Jul 4, 2012)

  • Added better handling for full event logs (usually only an issue on Windows XP)
  • Added a few help tooltips to configuration utility

New in SmartPower 1.4.0 (May 8, 2012)

  • Added new "power requests" feature.

New in SmartPower 1.3.1 (Mar 1, 2012)

  • Fixed bug that resulted in incorrect wake-up times for PCs using non-zero GMT offsets. (That will teach me to change working code so that it better matches the Windows API documentation!)

New in SmartPower 1.3.0 (Feb 1, 2012)

  • Added "user activity" feature.
  • Various UI enhancements in configuration utility.

New in SmartPower 1.2.5 (Jan 22, 2012)

  • Fixed UI bug related to new network interface list.
  • Removed "isatap" and "Teredo" psuedo-interfaces from network interface list.

New in SmartPower 1.2.4 (Jan 22, 2012)

  • Add support for multiple network interfaces.
  • Improved handling of corrupt Performance Counters.

New in SmartPower 1.2.3 (Jan 17, 2012)

  • Updated EULA.

New in SmartPower 1.2.2 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • Fixed bug where SmartPower could not shutdown some computers.
  • Fixed bug where SmartPower would not wake computer if there was only 1 schedule that contained only 1 day.
  • Fixed rare bug where SmartPower service would error as Windows was starting up. This could cause network adapters to take longer to initialise.
  • Added licensing tab.

New in SmartPower 1.1.2 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • Added "Run after resume" option to Advanced settings.
  • Added additional support for 3rd party applications that modify the SmartPower configuration file.
  • UI spelling fixes.

New in SmartPower 1.0.1 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • Minimum grace time is now 3 minutes, to help prevent endless reboots. Default grace time of 5 minutes for new installs.
  • Event log entries use different event ids depending on the event type.
  • Optional automatic reloading of settings now available.
  • Minor UI and usability enhancements.