Start Menu Reviver Changelog

What's new in Start Menu Reviver 2.5.0.18

Sep 24, 2014
  • Improvements to Start Button spacing

New in Start Menu Reviver 2.5.0.14 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • What's New:
  • Introduced Backward compatibility with old color schemes and more theme customization options
  • Improvements to Settings combo position changes
  • Improvements to Folders View
  • Improvements to Tile background color
  • Improvements to Search results
  • Improvements to the Settings window
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed issues with Tiles containing specific command line commands
  • Fixed Search animation in the Expanded menu
  • Fixed Tile text spacing issues
  • Fixed Theme Color selection issues
  • Fixed issues with custom icons for Tiles
  • Fixed tile properties window
  • Fixed settings behavior for Hide Start screen corner hint option
  • Fixed minor memory leaks
  • Updated Czech language
  • And other minor fixes and enhancements!

New in Start Menu Reviver 2.0.0.80 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • What's New:
  • Minor Text Changes in the Settings charm menu
  • Improvements to the Tile Scrolling functionality
  • Improvements to the Dashboard Tile area
  • Improved SMR crash handling
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed bug with crash during switching users' accounts
  • Fixed bugs with Tile properties
  • Fixed bugs with color scheme
  • Fixed bug with state of the dashboard tile
  • Fixed bugs with multi monitor system
  • Fixed bugs of general functionality
  • And other minor fixes and enhancements!

New in Start Menu Reviver 2.0.0.44 (May 2, 2014)

  • New: Refined user interface featuring an optimized design
  • New: Windows 7 mode to give you more choice
  • New: Increased number of tiles from 32 to 64
  • New: Scrolling tiles for easier navigation

New in Start Menu Reviver 1.0.0.1836 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • What's New:
  • Added the new search - Setfocus usability
  • Added Charms Task Switcher on Win 8.1
  • Added disable state by default for "Hide Start screen corner hint"
  • Fixes:
  • Screenshot key combination
  • Focus to the application after reseting settings
  • Displaying Modern icon after dropping to the tiles
  • Fixed bug with search
  • Fixed bug with design
  • Fixed Bug with uninstall application
  • Fixed bug with touch input review
  • Fixed bug with crash application during touch scrolling

New in Start Menu Reviver 1.0.0.1816 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • SMR now displays duplicates in search results
  • Shortcuts with the same target and different command line parameters are now recognized correctly
  • Control Panel items from the search results can be added to a tile
  • Resolved issue where Recent Items is highlighted in the Crumb Bar when clicking Recent Charms button and then Apps Charms button
  • Resolved startup issues with Remote Log
  • Improvements to Tile properties
  • Language support:
  • Support for Portuguese

New in Start Menu Reviver 1.0.0.1812 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Search, usability and performance:
  • Improved mouse and keyboard usability
  • Improved search performance
  • Searching mechanism now queries the Windows Indexing db for results
  • Searching mechanism now queries core environmental and system paths
  • Dynamic Search enhancement now allows users to immediately type and search when the Start Menu is invoked
  • The Search box now allows for command line execution
  • The Search box can now search and execute intuitively an in unison
  • Search results can now be sort by type
  • Search results now show additional details
  • Search results have tool tips
  • Search can now be stopped via [ESC] key press
  • Search results are now filtered for duplicate results
  • Windows 8.1 ready and backward compatible with Win 8.0 / Windows 7
  • Settings:
  • New Settings screen
  • Additional setting to "Hide Start screen corner hint" found in the bottom left corner in Windows 8
  • Additional setting to "Allow the Search Box to run commands"
  • Misc:
  • The ReviverSoft tile can now be made transparent for users who use transparent icons instead of tiles
  • [Backspace] key now returns to the previous folder
  • Dashboard tile can be dragged and dropped onto the Desktop creating a shortcut to the Modern Start Screen
  • Start Menu doesn't terminate on accidental ALT-F4 while it has focus
  • Welcome screen videos are now working correctly
  • Fixes:
  • App Charm button toggle state fix
  • Time format alignment fix
  • Windows Desktop functional hot keys fix for F3 (Search)
  • Issue with SMR & Classic theme on Win7
  • SMR installation issues on Windows Server 2008 have now been resolved
  • Language support:
  • Support for Korean, Polish, Magyar and Greek

New in Start Menu Reviver 1.0.0.1632 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • What's New:
  • Compatible with Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Update
  • Dual Monitor support
  • New Tile to easily share SMR with others
  • Improvements to the Dashboard Tile
  • Improvements to Tile Icon changes
  • Improvements to Welcome Screen
  • Improvements to expanded menu navigation
  • Improvements to Language switching
  • Improvements to Add/Edit tile window
  • Improvements to general performance and memory usage
  • Fixes:
  • Dashboard Tile Color does not change
  • Load Desktop Mode on Startup sometimes not working properly
  • Small tile is not reset when empty tile is added to a 4-tiles area
  • Default Tiles of Modern Apps SkyDrive and Photos not working
  • Disabling Win key behaviour “Desktop mode: Show SMR ” does not work on reboot
  • Translation issues: IT, ES

New in Start Menu Reviver 1.0.0.1612 Beta (Jul 3, 2013)

  • Now supports Windows 8.1

New in Start Menu Reviver 1.0.0.1520 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • What's New:
  • Ability to resize the start menu menu dimensions to Large, Medium, Small
  • Ability to manually configure the menu size my modifying the % in the Settings.xml
  • Now retains all your customizations upon reinstallation: menu settings, tile layout and colour schemes
  • New Start button right-click menu item called "Windows Explorer"
  • Improvements to the Dashboard tile (Win 8)
  • Improvements to general performance and memory usage
  • Fixes:
  • Load Win Desktop on Startup Issue (Win 8)
  • Search tab focus moves to expanded menu list by pressing Tab
  • Minor issues with Tiles
  • Minor issues with Charms buttons
  • Minor uninstallation issues
  • CMD commands not working correctly
  • SMR is open after PC wakes up from Sleep/Hibernate
  • Resizing of the expanded menu filter drop-down box
  • Change color scheme text color issue
  • Control Panel item is not added to a tile
  • Updated Time Display format
  • SMR should hide on WinKey + D
  • Icons of *.msc files are not resized accordingly with tile size
  • Executable command is not added to a tile when file extension is hidden in the folders
  • Language is not reset in "Expanded menu shows" dropbox
  • Sleep option enables the Hibernate option (Win 7)