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TouchPro Changelog

What's new in TouchPro 6.5.1.0

Mar 28, 2022
  • This version improves error suppression when using the options to modify document & video file metadata properties, so that files that aren't a perfect match for those file types don't report errors unnecessarily.
  • This has proven necessary because Windows 10/11 behave differently for some file types (such as .mp3 files) and now correctly report an error, whereas older versions of Windows (7) reported success - but didn't actually do anything!
  • Also, where such errors are now reported, the message will contain the identifier for the option that gave rise to the error in order to aid diagnosing the situation.

New in TouchPro 6.4.0.0 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • TouchCmd:
  • Revised folder enumeration to match conventional expectations.
  • When touching folders, previous versions of TouchCmd would touch descendent child folders of the base folder regardless of whether they matched the file name. For example, if you had the following folder structure:
  • C:BASE
  • ├───F1
  • │ ├───F1a
  • │ └───SubDir1a
  • └───SubDir2
  • ├───F2a
  • ───SubDir2a
  • If you used TouchCmd with the path parameter: "C:BaseF*" and the /S and /O options, it would give rise to affecting:
  • C:BaseF1F1a
  • C:BaseF1SubDir1a
  • C:BaseSubDir2F2a
  • C:BaseSubDir2SubDir2a
  • C:BaseF1
  • This new version will affect just those that match the "F*" file name:
  • c:BaseF1F1a
  • c:BaseSubDir2F2a
  • c:BaseF1
  • This new behaviour matches the normal file name matching of the DIR command.
  • Fix to make the /BS option (to touch shortcut targets) effective.
  • Changed some output messaging to make them consistent and more informative.
  • TouchPro:
  • Implemented a work-around for a 3'rd party shell not supplying a position when invoking TouchPro. In this circumstance TouchPro will now show at the current mouse cursor position (which may not be close to where the command was invoked).

New in TouchPro 6.3.3.2 (Jun 14, 2021)

  • Fix for not loading the single-settings mode settings when invoked as a property page.
  • Fix for showing the wrong time (it showed the current time) in the "Touch with Saved Settings" menu item when in single-settings mode.
  • In single-settings mode, the "Touch with Saved Settings" menu operation no longer uses the current time if there are no saved settings.
  • Improved dialog positioning when invoked from the context menu.
  • Alter the main dialog layout to widen the date control to accommodate the default US long date format.
  • Now shows a message box of any failure to save settings.

New in TouchPro 6.3.3.1 (Jun 7, 2021)

  • This release fixes an issue in V6.3.3.0 that resulted in an error message when opening TouchPro when set to single settings mode without having saved any settings.
  • When invoked from the context menu, the dialog is now centered on the screen.

New in TouchPro 6.3.3.0 (May 24, 2021)

  • Added TouchProp GUI program.
  • TouchProp now allows normal locale format date time entry.
  • Reinstated showing TouchPro in property sheets by default.
  • Fixed a dialog sizing issue so that sizing should be consistent for different screen DPI settings.
  • When TouchPro is shown as a property page, reposition the About button so as not to leave a gap.
  • Setups now show icons for installed parts.

New in TouchPro 6.3.2.0 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • TouchCmd, TouchProp, and FileTms now perform their input/output using UTF-8 Unicode.
  • The installed TouchPro Command Prompt link from the Start menu will set the UTF-8 code page using chcp 65001.
  • The "TouchPro Settings" context menu item is now named "Open", and appears as the first sub-menu item.

New in TouchPro 6.3.1.0 (Jul 6, 2020)

  • Changes to the About dialog to fix layout inconsistencies on a high DPI monitor.
  • The error reporting dialog now uses the Windows TaskDialog function rather than a custom implementation.
  • Update checking is now performed on a time period rather than a 1-off per-instantiation basis.
  • The update notification dialog now shows on the same monitor as TouchPro rather than on the primary monitor (in multi-monitor systems).

New in TouchPro 6.3.0.0 (Jun 5, 2020)

  • Touching shortcut targets is now configurable in the main TouchPro settings UI and via a TouchCmd command line option. It also now works consistently for selected items and recursive folder operations.
  • Improved reporting of invalid command line entry in TouchCmd.
  • The Select Timestamp dialog now shows the file name - in order to clarify shortcut/target usage (hold shift key).
  • New registration key format.

New in TouchPro 6.2.0.0 (Apr 10, 2020)

  • If you select and touch Windows shortcut files (.lnk files) using the TouchPro UI, TouchPro will alter the shortcut's target file rather than the shortcut (.lnk) file. However, if you touch a shortcut file as part of a recursive folder operation, the shortcut file itself will be altered, not the target file.

New in TouchPro 6.1.0.2 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Fix a UI issue: If you had changed settings on the main dialog, then opened the Extra Options dialog box and pressed OK, changes made in the main dialog would revert to their prior state.

New in TouchPro 6.1.0.1 (Oct 1, 2018)

  • Fix for a crash that occured when touching picture metadata timestamps when there was no existing timestamp.
  • Improved error message when part or offset changes of picture metadata timestamps aren't possible.

New in TouchPro 6.1.0.0 (Sep 17, 2018)

  • For anyone who missed functionality with having TouchPro show as a property page, if you hold the Shift key when you invoke the TouchPro->TouchPro Settings context menu item, it will now show the property pages as well as the TouchPro dialog.
  • Improved several error/information messages.
  • TouchProp now outputs seconds.
  • The TouchCmd, TouchProp, and FileTms command line utilities now output Unicode text.
  • TouchCmd now lists any failures.
  • Removed MAPI timestamp retrieval from TouchPro.

New in TouchPro 5.4.0.0 (Nov 17, 2015)

  • TouchPro/TouchCmd can now read and modify some of the timestamp metadata properties of newer Office document file formats (.docx, .xlsx, etc.) as well as older .doc, .xls, etc. files.
  • TouchPro has a new menu item: "Capture a timestamp from the focused item" to amend the current saved settings.
  • The "Touch with Last Saved Settings", & "Touch with the Focused item's timestamp" menu items now show the timestamp that will be used, so there's no ambiguity about what will be applied by their operation.
  • FileTms has an option (/P2) to output the timestamp as UTC.
  • TouchPro uses the native updater program.
  • Setup no longer requires the .NET framework, and no longer has a prerequisite on comctl32.dll.

New in TouchPro 5.3.0.2 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • Fixes a mix-up with UTC/local time use on the "Touch with the Focused item's timestamp" menu command.

New in TouchPro 5.3.0.1 (Jun 18, 2012)

  • Extended the XP local/UTC conversion behaviour to Vista as it's only since Windows 7 that Explorer uses the new (correct) method of local/UTC conversion.
  • The operating system detection for the above now works for a non-registered installation.
  • The command line programs TouchCmd & FileTms now also adjust their behaviour for pre-Windows 7 operating systems and also have an additional parameter to override the automatic detection.

New in TouchPro 5.3.0.0 (Jun 4, 2012)

  • The 64-bit version now installs the 32-bit component as well as the 64-bit one so that 32-bit processes such as Avanquest Software's PowerDesk can use TouchPro.
  • Fix to allow operation on network shared folders.
  • When running on Windows XP, TouchPro now reverts to the same methods of converting local timestamps as Windows XP uses. This means that XP users see the timestamp the same as XP displays it (albeit wrong in some situations). See the section headed "File Timestamps and DST (Daylight Saving Time) Quirks" in the TouchPro documentation for more information.

New in TouchPro 5.2.1.2 (Aug 11, 2011)

  • This update fixes a long standing issue that had gone unnoticed. If you used the "current date" or "first selected item's timestamp" context menu items having previously saved settings to do offset time modification, the resultant time would be incorrect. Also, if you had saved settings to do offset time modification, when you re-displayed the TouchPro dialog, it displayed the non-offset time interface.
  • This version now ships with our FileTms command line utility.

New in TouchPro 5.2.1.1 (May 30, 2011)

  • This update fixes a problem with TouchCmd if relative paths were used

New in TouchPro 5.2.1.0 (May 22, 2011)

  • This release prevents infinite recursion that could occur with symbolic link directories that either recursively link to a path beneath the current directory, or are involved in cross-referenced links.

New in TouchPro 5.2.0.4 (Aug 18, 2010)

  • Fix - Touching read-only directories on Windows XP on FAT32 formatted drives would fail.
  • New - Update notification facility. TouchPro will notify you when an updated version is available from our web site. You can manually invoke this facility from the About dialog.

New in TouchPro 5.2.0.3 (Aug 18, 2010)

  • Fix - Extreme performance issue in conjunction with some Antivirus products when touching large directory structures. Operations that should only take seconds took minutes. Note that this fix only resolves situations where it was avoidable - operations touching lots of files may still invoke extreme AV performance issues.
  • Fix - The "Could not modify the time stamp of ...Do you want to continue processing any other files?" error message was not getting displayed correctly.
  • Fix - For translated strings, some messages were not displaying their translated text.
  • Fix - The "Touch Completed" message might have displayed behind other windows in some circumstances.
  • Fix - When testing translated resources it was possible to get into a situation where TouchPro would crash Explorer.
  • Minor - Optimised operation to eliminate occurrences of "Skipped - read-only" messages when only directories are being touched.
  • Minor - Some error messages had additional blank lines.
  • Minor - Limit the number of display failures that are listed in the error message because there are too many to see on a screen, and in extreme cases the message was not displayed.

New in TouchPro 5.2.0.2 (May 5, 2010)

  • Minor update to fix slow starting of Windows Explorer when Explorer is invoked in some situations (such as when using WinKey+E).

New in TouchPro 5.2.0.1 (May 5, 2010)

  • Updated TouchCmd to fix sub-directory processing.

New in TouchPro 5.2.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Removed support for Win9x operating systems.
  • Use the newer time zone aware OS functions to handle converting timestamps between UTC and local time. This results in correctly converted times in different daylight saving time periods.
  • Fix - getting the structured storage timestamps was incorrect outside UTC time zones.
  • Fix - when setting the timestamps of structured storage documents all 3 timestamps were set regardless of the selected options.
  • Fix - setting picture timestamp was altering the modified file system timestamp.
  • Additional check for the time offset command line parameter, to ensure all digits are entered.

New in TouchPro 5.1.0.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Fix for a bug introduced into V5.1. Touching folders would not be effective unless you also had the option to touch files.

New in TouchPro 5.1.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • First release of x64 version.
  • New context menu - "Touch with First Selected Item's Timestamp". Despite its long name, it provides a quick way to set multiple files to the same time as the first selected item. The first selected item's modified timestamp is used as the source timestamp along with the previously last saved settings in the same way as the other context menu items.
  • Minor fix to prevent reporting an error when touching with the "Touch structured document time properties" option and the file doesn't contain existing structured storage time values.
  • The summary error message now caters for multiple error messages for each file.
  • Restructured code to improve consistency in operations and issue reporting.
  • Display the hourglass when getting a file's current timestamps - this could take a long time with extremely large files. Also skip getting the values for .eml files > 10MB - it takes longer that you'd want to wait!
  • Cater for "&" in the About box registered name.

New in TouchPro 5.0.1.3 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Fix to allow correct operation of the structured storage document touch operation under Windows Vista.

New in TouchPro 5.0.1.2 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Changes to the command line syntax handing of file & directory names in TouchCmd.
  • Improve TouchCmd progress messages.

New in TouchPro 5.0.1.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Fixes for TouchCmd on Win9x operating systems.

New in TouchPro 5.0.1.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • TouchCmd now supports setting the time and date to the current time.
  • Fix to resolve crash that could occur in some computers when loading.
  • Fix to prevent keyboard access lockout after using the Touch Now button.

New in TouchPro 5.0.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • New options to touch the "Date Created" (Created), "Date Last Saved" (Modified), "Date Last Printed (Accessed) properties in structured storage files (MS Office documents) and the "Date Picture Taken" property in picture
  • files.
  • Extended facility to set the time and date controls from:
  • Email files (MAPI (Outlook) and SMTP Internet (Outlook Express) formats.
  • Structured Storage files (Office documents).
  • Pictures.
  • All file system times.
  • Improved load time to remove unnecessary delays when a large number of items is selected.
  • Fix for true MBCS OS's (Win9x) when touching folders.
  • Now touches the "." (current folder) items.

New in TouchPro 4.5.1.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Fixed a memory leak.
  • About dialog now loaded from the translated resource.

New in TouchPro 4.5.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Time offset adjustment. Rather than touch a file with an absolute time, you can now adjust the current timestamps by a +/- offset. The offset facility is also available in the command line version via the /E parameter.
  • New popup menu options - the "Now" button facility moves to a menu item, along with the new "set time to current file time" facility. This latter facility lets you set the time controls to the last modified timestamp of the primary selected item (when you invoked TouchPro).
  • Resolves an issue that some applications that simulate invoking the shell property sheet may experience. When loading, TouchPro modifies the size of its dialog resource. This causes an exception that Explorer defers to the operating system to resolve. Some other applications may handle the exception as an error. The change modifies TouchPro's resources to be read-write so that the exception never occurs.
  • Fixed a problem in the command line utility for dates < 1900.
  • Fixes a daylight savings issue with the offset facility in the prior test release.
  • Resolved the File menu duplication issue with Explorer for Windows 95.

New in TouchPro 4.4.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Limited test release of the offset time facility.

New in TouchPro 4.3.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Adds the "now" icon button to set the time controls to the current time.
  • Added bitmap to the main popup context menu item.
  • Added a "Don't ask me again" option to the message box prompt that occurs if the Touch operation fails for some reason (such as a file being in-use).
  • Revised the operation of the 24-hr format option. Previously it toggled between the user's default time format and 24-hr. It now toggles between 12 & 24 hr formats.
  • Show the hourglass cursor during the Touch operation.
  • Further resolved the menu quirk noted in the last release (see below)
  • for NT4. Unfortunately the problem still persists under Window 95.

New in TouchPro 4.2.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Fixed a minor cosmetic problem with the context menu popup appearing multiple times when the Explorer File menu is invoked. This problem is noted in MS KB article Q214477. This problem persists under Windows 95 and NT4 since the remedy doesn't appear to work under these platforms.
  • Revisions to simplify multiple language translations - removed dialog duplication for the property page and context menu dialog.

New in TouchPro 4.1.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Unicode version. Under Windows NT/2000/XP, TouchPro will now work correctly with file and folder names that contain characters not supported by your current code page.
  • Now uses the MSI installer.
  • Fixed a minor cosmetic problem with the short/long date format option.

New in TouchPro 4.0.1.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Added checks around directory navigation to prevent a problem if a folder is inaccessible to the current user.
  • Fix for TouchCmd to properly process nested sub-directories. TouchCmd now clearly indicates that it does not touch any files when it is unregistered.

New in TouchPro 4.0.0.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Bug fix for the TouchPro context menus under Win9x.
  • TouchPro now supports Windows XP themed displays.
  • TouchCmd fix for Win9x when no date specified when touching folders.
  • TouchCmd now echoes the time and date that it will apply and touches the root folder if that's all that is specified on the command line.

New in TouchPro 4.0.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Added context menu operations to provide a fast method of applying the current settings.
  • Added TouchCmd - a command line version of TouchPro.

New in TouchPro 3.3.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Added the ability to touch read-only files and folders.
  • The main dialog now identifies which controls are unavailable in an unregistered copy.
  • Changed the date control to the drop-down calendar format.
  • Now recurses sub-directories before touching a folder timestamp - to prevent altering the last accessed timestamp of the folder.

New in TouchPro 3.2.2.5 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • This release contains a minor code speed improvement and information on obtaining Microsoft hot fixes for Windows 98, 98 SE, and ME to fix random failures to touch folder timestamps.

New in TouchPro 3.2.2.4 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • This version fixes a bug when touching folders under Windows 9x. Previous versions would fail if the folder name contained non-ASCII characters.

New in TouchPro 3.2.2.3 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • This version fixes a bug when touching folders with long path names under Windows 9x. This did not occur under Windows NT or Windows 2000 as TouchPro uses a different method under these operating systems.

New in TouchPro 3.2.2.2 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Update installation to add shortcuts menu items and modify this document.

New in TouchPro 3.2.2.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Modified the About dialog. Changed the registration number field to make it a little easier to enter the number. Updated the home page URL and added a mail link.

New in TouchPro 3.2.2.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • A registered version now has the option to touch files, folders, or both.
  • Moved the save facility to a separate button.

New in TouchPro 3.2.1.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Extended the Windows 9x folder touching to handle all 3 timestamp values and the selective time and date facility.

New in TouchPro 3.2.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Added the facility to touch folders under Windows 9x.

New in TouchPro 3.1.0.3 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Minor change to allow international registration names.

New in TouchPro 3.1.0.2 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Rebuilt and updated documentation to reflect the self extracting installer.

New in TouchPro 3.1.0.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Added the alternate time and date formats, and the Save facility. These facilities are only available to registered users. TouchPro is now distributed as a self-installing EXE.

New in TouchPro 3.0.1.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Bug fix. Prior to this version, if you touched the contents of a removable disk, and removed the disk, it could give rise to Explorer not being able to launch any programs from its Start menu. This version fixes this problem, which is easily avoided in earlier versions by leaving the removable disk in the drive.

New in TouchPro 3.0.1 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Cosmetic changes - added help & tool tips, made the date field longer as some language default settings can give long date fields.
  • Changed unregistered defaults - can't now recurse folders.

New in TouchPro 3.0 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • New registration system.
  • Under NT, allow modification of directory time stamps.
  • Now uses the new common controls date time picker control.