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)
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.