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System Scheduler Professional Changelog

What's new in System Scheduler Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 4.40 (Sep 5, 2016)

  • New:
  • Tree-view style events browser down left hand side, create own categories of events
  • Exitcode of Run Application is captured
  • 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
  • Multiple Process Watchers running in the same minute not always firing next Action
  • Minor GUI improvements and minor bug fixes

New in System Scheduler Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 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 Professional 4.23 (Jun 6, 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)

New in System Scheduler Professional 4.17 (Jan 4, 2012)

  • This fixes a few small bugs mainly related to running on 64bit platforms.

New in System Scheduler Professional 4.00 Beta (Jan 4, 2012)

  • It contains several new features including tracking the start and stop of applications, mapping network drive letters and new commands for Sequence of Events.