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System Scheduler Changelog

What's new in System Scheduler 5.32

Mar 17, 2022
  • Fix: Intermittent spurious error 'Service not running' on Terminal Services
  • Fix: SMTP Email updates following Microsoft breaking change on TLS 1.2 negotiation

New in System Scheduler 5.31 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • This is a minor update with specific fixes and improvements, including:
  • Impr: New option to Change Service Account within System Scheduler
  • Impr: GUI performance improvements when working with 100's of events
  • Impr: Now recognises %TEMP% type variables picked up from MS Windows
  • Impr: Improved wakeup detection to detect new MS Windows wakeup messages
  • Fix: Logfile entries sometimes being truncated
  • Fix: Fixed treeview issue where user sections not immediately updated following drag and drop
  • Fix: Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 5.30 (Jan 26, 2021)

  • New: Search Filter bar at top of GUI
  • Impr: Main GUI Events List, faster display of large number of events
  • Impr: Improved encryption
  • Impr: Added preferences to customize date and calendar display
  • Fix: Other minor improvements and bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 5.20 (Apr 28, 2020)

  • Fix: Intermittent bug when duplicating event in main GUI
  • Impr: Drive Mapping feature now allows specific credentials for each drive
  • Impr: Security improvements for Program Files folder structure
  • Impr: Minor changes to popup message to allow copying of message text
  • Fix: Other minor bugs

New in System Scheduler 5.16 (Aug 5, 2019)

  • Fix: Bug with Run Now button trigger not working for event set to be run by Service
  • Fix: Minor navigation bugs in Section Browser when using up/down arrow keys and Del key
  • Impr: Email SSL Security updated to include support for TLS 1.2
  • Fix: Other minor bugs

New in System Scheduler 5.15 (Mar 31, 2019)

  • Fix: Bug in handing of Windows 10 - 125% scaling introduced in 5.14
  • Fix: Intermittant bug when duplicating events, the newly created event appears blank when opened
  • Fix: Improved event transferring from other computers, will now automatically import
  • Fix: Other minor bugs

New in System Scheduler 5.14 (Jan 6, 2019)

  • Improvement: Better handing of Windows 10 - 125% scaling
  • Fix: Automatically un-map mapped network drive letters while logged off
  • Fix: Security improvements to System Scheduler folders
  • Fix: Other minor bugs and improvements

New in System Scheduler 5.13 (Jul 20, 2018)

  • Fix: Minor bug where system can appear to freeze for a fraction of a second
  • Fix: Security improvements to installation routine and preferences settings
  • Fix: Other minor bugs

New in System Scheduler 5.12 (Mar 25, 2018)

  • Fix: Not correctly detecting Administrators when UAC is disabled
  • Fix: Very rare bug where system scheduler waits for executed program to complete before processing next event
  • Fix: Minor bug with Tray-Icon not reappearing when changing security settings

New in System Scheduler 5.10 (Feb 19, 2018)

  • COMPATIBILITY: Earlier MS Windows Versions (XP, Vista, Server 2003) no longer supported
  • New: Display Running Events, new button in GUI to list all events that System Scheduler is currently running/tracking
  • New: Security Restrictions, options to only allow Administrators to run System Scheduler GUI
  • New: SendKeysHelper.exe add-on program, press a key combination to find out what syntax to enter into Sendkeys field
  • New: PlaySound.exe add-on program, used by Popup Reminder to play .mp3 and other audio files
  • New: Run with Highest Credentials, added UAC bypass option to avoid the one-off UAC prompt on login
  • New: Disable running of all Events from main GUI
  • Improvement: Using Highest Credentials option can be set on a user by user basis
  • COMPATIBILITY: Highest Credentials option in v4.x versions was applied to all users, in v5 only applies to specific users
  • Improvement: Notifications section changed to make it clearer when using Exit Codes
  • COMPATIBILITY: Existing Events that use Exit Codes to trigger notifications should be re-tested
  • Improvement: Run As..options in Advanced settings reorganized and simplified
  • Improvement: File Watcher, added macro wildcard capability e.g. watch for file with date c:tempfilename{[DATE],yyMMdd}.txt
  • Improvement: File Watcher, can pass the found file to next executed event by using {&&} parameter
  • Improvement: File Watcher, can now detect when a specific file is modified
  • Improvement: Wakeup Computer, changes to prevent computer going back to sleep two minutes after wakeup
  • Improvement: Sequence of Events, includes Exit Code checks and Goto Section to enable If...Then work flow
  • Improvement: Popup Reminder more config options, display message for x seconds with countdown, play .mp3 files, buttons
  • Improvement: Popup Reminder Exit Codes can be detected in Sequence of Events, to decide If...Then further processing
  • Improvement: Better error checking and notifications for expired passwords
  • Improvement: Previous Instance still running, can optionally be flagged as an error or not
  • Improvement: Terminal Services, simplified logic to determine which logged in user will run events
  • Fix: Fixed intermittent error being returned when using Run As specific user credentials is used
  • Fix: Sometimes adding new Holidays are not immediately picked up and included in next run calculation
  • Fix: Other minor improvements and fixes

New in System Scheduler 4.41 (Dec 9, 2016)

  • This update mostly contains minor improvements and fixes to features added in 4.40, and a some minor bug fixes.
  • Improvement: In Sequence of Events, new Command to Wait until/after specific time, can be scheduled to-the-second
  • Improvement: Added additional vendor, version and certificate info to all executable files to help prevent erroneous false positives
  • Fix: The new tree-view was not displaying Sequence of Events section
  • Fix: The Previous Event Still Running detection improved, in case PID is re-used quickly
  • Fix: In monthly event summary panel, it also mentions August when September is ticked
  • Fix: Other Minor bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 4.40 (Sep 5, 2016)

  • This update has some new features, including the often asked for facility to create your own own list of event categories, and to better detect the exit code status of applications.
  • New: Tree-view style events browser down left hand side, create own categories of events
  • New: Exitcode of Run Application is captured
  • New: Application ExitCode error conditions can be set in Advanced - Notifications
  • COMPATIBILITY: The new ExitCode tracking means that by default any ExitCode above 0 (0=success) will
  • be flagged as an error. This is configurable in Advanced - Notifications.
  • Fix: Corrected spurious and random Invalid Function error
  • Fix: Multiple Process Watchers running in the same minute not always firing next Action
  • Fix: Minor GUI improvements and minor bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 4.35 (Sep 11, 2015)

  • Impr: Improvements to popup message (e.g. left align text option)
  • Impr: On Shutdown/Logoff scheduling option updated to work better with new versions of MS Windows
  • Impr: Improved the process watcher function for detecting previous instances of jobs
  • Fix: Minor GUI improvements and minor bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 4.34 (Apr 16, 2015)

  • Fix: Popup message window not displaying correctly in Large Fonts mode
  • Fix: Sending {[DATE]} and {[TIME]} macros in Sendkeys

New in System Scheduler 4.33 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • New: Added option for Popup Reminders to appear as Balloon style in the tray area
  • Impr: Extended the macro capability (e.g. {[DATE]}) to the Subject line of Send Email event
  • Fix: Bug in 4.32: Popup message box now correctly displays URLs surrounded by angle brackets
  • Fix: Minor GUI improvements and minor bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 4.32 (Oct 3, 2014)

  • This fixes a bug introduced in 4.31 (but not previous versions) where after turning on the Send Email Notification feature, subsequent attempts to edit the job would display blank/defaulted fields.

New in System Scheduler 4.31 (Sep 29, 2014)

  • New: Service Watcher Event type added, to watch the status of MS Windows Services and Start or Stop the Services
  • Impr: Changes to Process Watcher to improve access to 64bit process list and status info
  • Fix: Date/Time format in title bar of popup message displaying in hh:mm format instead of HH:mm
  • Fix: Minor GUI improvements and minor bug fixes

New in System Scheduler 4.21 (May 13, 2013)

  • New: Email Event Status/Success/Failure notifications (in Advanced - Notifications)
  • New: Colors in GUI to indictate status of events
  • New: Event details panel in GUI - provide more info about selected event
  • New: Option to prevent event running if previous instance is still running
  • Impr: Wakeup Computer, improved compatibility with Windows 7 & 8
  • Impr: Compatibility, minor imrprovements for Windows 8
  • Impr: Send Email feature can specify From Name, in addition to email address
  • Impr: Macros can be included in additional fields such as Parameters / Filename
  • Impr: UAC handling for Vista and higher improved
  • Impr: Additions to sending mouse commands: MOUSEMOVE and MOUSETOW (move mouse to specific named window)
  • Fix: Process Watcher list/features in Windows 64bit
  • Fix: When running many (10+) Window Watcher events in the same minute, event trigger may get missed
  • Fix: When many (3+) users are simultaneously logged in using the SAME user name, event trigger may get missed
  • Fix: Open Folder/File button not working on some versions of 64bit Windows
  • Fix: Minor GUI improvements and minor bug fixes
  • COMPATIBILITY: Automatic Login feature for Vista and higher removed (not working consistently with certain security policies)