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True Launch Bar Changelog

What's new in True Launch Bar 7.5.1 Beta

Nov 21, 2021
  • What's new:
  • Improved HiDPI Monitors support
  • Auto-sensing: some toolbar options are per workspace: Show Text, Text to right, Same width for all buttons with text
  • Improved stability
  • Fixed:
  • Auto-sensing: tooltips from the old workspace are stay on screen.
  • Fixed crash on drag&drop action
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 7.5.0 (Mar 10, 2019)

  • What's new:
  • Drag over toolbar/menu tag opens toolbar/menu
  • Selecting parts ordering in 3-state image
  • Improved stability
  • Fixed:
  • Docked menu with auto-hide is closed after drag&drop from this menu
  • It is impossible to select something from auto-hidden menu after clicking menu button because it closes quickly.
  • Click on Calculator plugin closes tear-off menus
  • Menu with auto-hide hides when mouse over interactive tips
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 7.4.0 (Jul 2, 2018)

  • What's new:
  • Turn Off menus are stay visible on Show Desktop action (WIN+D)
  • Improved stability
  • Fixed:
  • Crash during drag&drop over menu
  • Crash on start up on some computers
  • Small menus are shown ugly with large borders skins
  • Separators with long text are not shown correctly
  • Filters doesn't hide folders
  • Incorrect separators DPI scaling
  • Torn off menu jumps after loading

New in True Launch Bar 7.3.4 Beta (May 2, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • Added support for toolbar fade.
  • Apply DPI scale for arrows, text glow/shadow, caption buttons etc.
  • Support of skins with some scale factor inside.
  • Apply "Menu Align" option to the torn off menu with popup on cursor.
  • Added "White plane" skin with DPI scale support.
  • Some minor improvements.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed ugly large icons for Steam games
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 7.3.3 Beta (Aug 15, 2016)

  • What's new:
  • Added support for Windows Jumplists.
  • Fixed:
  • Toolbar Auto-hide stops working sometimes
  • Possible crash on opening Control Panel virtual folder on Windows 10
  • Updated litehtml engine to improve compatibility with HTML.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 7.3.2 Beta (May 23, 2016)

  • What's new:
  • Added the option "Apply DPI scale factor" to enable/disable DPI scaling.
  • Added to make toolbar tags always visible.
  • Some improvements for DPI scaling.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed some problems with DPI scaling.
  • Don't hide toolbar when the interactive tooltip is shown.
  • Updated litehtml engine to improve compatibility with HTML.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 7.3.1 Beta (May 3, 2016)

  • Per-Monitor DPI-Aware:
  • This beta version is Per-Monitor DPI-Aware. This means you'll get the proper scaling of icons and text as well as menus and toolbars sizes. Also with Per-Monitor DPI-Aware the Make Screenshot plugin is working well with the Standalone True Launch Bar. The feature is still in development and if you'll find any problem with scaling, please contact us.
  • Option to use default shell icon sizes:
  • Now you can use the icons sizes defined by shell. You'll find the option in TLB Settings->Options->Icons Sizes. One more changes with icon sizes: now TLB takes uses the condition "Less then Large Icons Size" instead of "Less then 32" to define small icons. This change will improve the view modes on the systems with high DPI.

New in True Launch Bar 7.3 (Oct 4, 2015)

  • Fixed:
  • Impossible to add new toolbar with custom path in the TLB Settings.
  • Glass effect is not working.
  • Incorrect chevrone position with the default skin.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 7.2 (Sep 2, 2015)

  • Improved support for Windows 10.
  • Support for HTML/CSS color format in the True Launch Bar skins definition.
  • Some minor improvements.

New in True Launch Bar 7.1.2 Beta (Aug 4, 2015)

  • What's new:
  • Standalone TLB: Improved full screen apps detection.
  • Fill menu with overlay image (Customize menu).
  • Change fonts for toolbar separators with text.
  • Some improvements in popup tips rendering.
  • Some minor improvements.
  • Fixed:
  • Portable version resets default toolbar.
  • Popup tips for menu caption buttons does not use tip styles.
  • Customize menu resets fonts options.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 7.1.1 Beta (Feb 23, 2015)

  • What's new:
  • Improved toolbars management.
  • Improved related links management.
  • Separators and titles support in the related links.
  • Changing sackground color for items.
  • Expand shortcuts to the removable drives automatically on drive insert.
  • True Launch Bar can be portable in the taskbar.
  • Components Manager now can restart Standalone TLB to install updates.
  • Components Manager requires TLB restart before installing/uninstalling updates only.
  • Fixed:
  • Url to Aero Glass for Windows 8.
  • Incorrect item selection on move mouse cursor over interactive tips.
  • Hotkey field width is expanded.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 7.1 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash on right-click if you have the toolbar with empty path in the toolbars list.
  • Impossible to use in-place rename with menu auto-close.
  • Incorrect buttons width with word-wrap.

New in True Launch Bar 7.0 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • What's new:
  • Auto-close is disabled for interactive tips.
  • Hide tips on menu scroll.
  • Show "New Toolbar" dialog box when running the second copy of Standalone TLB.
  • Fixed:
  • Menu shadow have incorrect size.
  • Tip icon is not changed on some plugins.

New in True Launch Bar 6.6.9 RC2 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • What's new:
  • Added "Copy Tip Source" menu item into "Appearance" submenu.
  • Fixed:
  • Visual glitches on Windows XP and Windows 7 with standard windows theme.
  • Deleting the last menu level in "Customize Menu" hides the options for this menu.
  • News Reader hangs on some feeds.

New in True Launch Bar 6.6.8 RC2 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • What's new:
  • Interactive tool tips.
  • Run item verbs via related links.
  • Support for command line parameter in the related links.
  • Show related links in the interactive tool tips.
  • Customize tool tips with more then one CSS.
  • Change tool tips background with CSS.
  • Use HTML file as item tool tip.
  • Fixed:
  • Toolbar overlaps the menus on Windows XP.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 6.6.7 RC1 (Aug 19, 2014)

  • Run on mouse hover for single button
  • Text with shadow
  • "More Icons" button size
  • Show Standalone True Launch Bar over the full screen applications

New in True Launch Bar 6.6.4 Beta (Jun 4, 2014)

  • Redesigned "Customize Menu":
  • We've totaly redesigned the "customize menu" to make it more flexible. The "Customize sub-menus" context menu item is removed. Now you can use the single "Customize menu" to set options for all menus in any level. Also you can add the options for torn off and docked menus. If you right-click the toolbar and select "Customize menu", you'll customize all menus on the toolbar. This is something like the default menu settings. Also you can right-click inside any menu and customize its submenus only. On load, all menus try to find the options for its level first. If there are no options for this menu level in any parent menu, menu uses the options from parent menu (or default if this is the first level menu).
  • Menu Animation: Speed or Duration:
  • Using the duration as the measure of menu animation is good. But you can notice the big difference in the animation speed for small and large menus. Now you can select the speed as animation measure to make the animation the same for small and large menus.

New in True Launch Bar 6.6.3 Beta (Apr 28, 2014)

  • Aero Glass support for Windows 8:
  • Now you can use the Aero Glass for Windows 8 with True Launch Bar. To activate aero glass support, turn on the option Aero Glass for Windows 8 is installed in TLB Settings->Options->Skins.

New in True Launch Bar 6.6.2 Beta (Apr 24, 2014)

  • Word Wrapping for all view modes
  • Tags for docked menu with auto-hide
  • Improved standalone toolbar docking

New in True Launch Bar 6.6 (Dec 9, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Added the hotspot size/offset options for auto-hide menus into Customize Menu dialog box
  • Fixed:
  • It is possible to drag toolbar tag out off toolbar position
  • Backup/Restore dialog boxes can appear under all windows

New in True Launch Bar 6.5.5 Beta (Nov 4, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Setting are not saved after restart/refresh in some cases.

New in True Launch Bar 6.5.4 Beta (Oct 28, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Added "Expand sub-folders" context menu item for Virtual Folder
  • Added docked tear-off menus with auto-hide
  • Added the toolbar tags for Standalone TLB. Click the tag to show the toolbar
  • Added option to change the tooltip corners radius
  • Some minor enhancements
  • Fixed:
  • Impossible to open menu with hotkey after drag&drop from this menu
  • Deleting items with keyboard can cause TLB crash
  • Skin is not applied to the new toolbars
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 6.5.3 Beta (Aug 28, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Added "Show standard tooltips" option to show the shell tooltips for regular buttons/menu items.
  • Now it is possible to change the tooltips style using CSS.
  • Some minor enhancements.

New in True Launch Bar 6.5.2 Beta (Aug 28, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Almost complete HTML support in the tooltips.
  • Scrolling long tooltips.
  • Smart tooltips position.
  • Added the toolbar name into TLB Settings dialog box caption.
  • Drag torn-off menus be corners or by menu space without icons (not by caption only).
  • Some minor enhancements.
  • Fixed:
  • Incorrect position of torn-off menus on multi-monitor systems.
  • Menus can be closed on rearranging the items by usinng Drag&Drop.
  • Standalone TLB uses incorrect animation type for hiding.
  • Impossible to run something from the torn-off menus with small icons.
  • Standalone toolbar with auto-hide is always on top (settings are ignored).
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 6.5.1 Beta (Aug 28, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Menu transparency preview in TLB Settings and Customize menu.
  • Some minor changes.
  • Fixed:
  • Rolled back Slide and Blend animations to prevent the flickering.
  • Changing icon size in the "Customize submenus" dialog box works incorrect.
  • Replace glass with simple transparency on Windows 8 (Windows 8 does not support glass).
  • Impossible to move some menus (like Computer, Recycle Bin and other) inside the Virtual Folders.
  • Move by default the TLB plugin files during drag&drop.
  • Drag&Drop is stopped after closing the source menu.
  • Some minor fixes.

New in True Launch Bar 6.5 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Glow color for highlighted items text.
  • Hotkey support for the "rest items" button (the button with two arrows).
  • View modes for the "rest items" menu.
  • Hold down CTRL key to run some shortcuts without closing menu.
  • "True transparency" for the standalone toolbar (toolbar is transparent, the icons/text are opaque).
  • Skins for the Standalone True Launch Bar.
  • The Standalone TLB now more similar to the taskbar (with the taskbar style).
  • Some minor enhancements.
  • Fixed:
  • Some icons are not loaded on windows restart.
  • No selection for the toolbar buttons with the windows classic theme.
  • It is possible to "lost" the Standalone TLB after "show desktop" windows action.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in True Launch Bar 6.4 (Jan 22, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Impossible to install True Launch Bar skins
  • TLB does not show the default skins.

New in True Launch Bar 6.3 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • What's new:
  • Animation for menu closing.
  • Additional animation effects.
  • Turn off menu shadow on the skin level.
  • Fixed:
  • Install crash on some Windows 8 computers.
  • Incorrect auto arrange in the rest items menu.
  • Changing the buttons properties in the rest items menu are not saved.
  • Auto-hide is not invoked after menu tear off.

New in True Launch Bar 6.2 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • What's new:
  • Added export hotkeys list into the HTML file via TLB Settings->Hotkeys.
  • Added "No Icons" view mode into the "Create Menu" wizard.
  • Add context menu option View->Show on All Monitors to expand menu to all monitors.
  • Select Icon: select the currently selected icon folder on "Browse" button click.
  • Some minor improvements.
  • Fixed:
  • TLB does not restore the last active window on menu close.
  • Delayed menus are not working when buttons are locked.
  • Impossible to open "tear off" menu when options "Run submenu on mouse click" and "Run submenu on mouse ENTER" is turned on.
  • Incorrect behavior of the edit control on renaming items.
  • Lost menu layout/settings after renaming files outside TLB.
  • Incorrect position of the submenus in torn off menus on multi-monitor systems.
  • Incorrect dialog boxes position on multi-monitor systems.
  • Garbage appears sometimes on standalone TLB.

New in True Launch Bar 6.1 (Jul 6, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • Toolbars don't save position after restart on unlocked taskbar.
  • Standalone TLB: Near/Far hotspot margins are not saved.

New in True Launch Bar 6.0 (Jul 6, 2012)

  • What's new:
  • Added "show/hide caption" caption button.
  • Added separate option "Show menu caption" for torn off menus.
  • Added hotspot near/far margins.
  • Show/hide menu caption via context menu.
  • Fixed:
  • Incorrect menu position on vertical toolbars.
  • Toolbar size is calculated incorrectly.
  • Toolbar width is too large for newly created toolbars on the taskbar.
  • Incorrect menu items height in the preview window.
  • Incorrect slide effect for menus with 3 columns.
  • Right-arrow key is not working on the toolbar.
  • Auto-load option is not working for menus more then first level.
  • Torn Off menus are always on top on first open, even the "Always On Top" option is turned off.
  • Icon Sizes are not saved.

New in True Launch Bar 5.6.3 Beta (Jan 17, 2012)

  • What's new:
  • Word wrap option for menu items
  • ALT + left button click now opens the plugin properties or customize item dialog box
  • Added icon location into the Customize menu dialog box
  • Fill the arrange by list with correct items for plugin submenus in the Customize SubMenus dialog box.
  • Added the option "TLB Settings->Options->General->Combine user's and common items" (on by default). If this option is turned on then the virtual folders with Start menu content shows shortcuts and menus from both common and user's folders.
  • Activate the first toolbar button on get keyboard focus
  • Some minor user interface changes
  • Fixed:
  • TLB doesn't show the ampersand symbol in the menu captions
  • Crash on toolbar switching when auto-sensing is active
  • Incorrect separators render in the Icons View mode
  • Incorrect menu layout with Icon View items
  • Impossible to arrange the plugins menus via the Customize (sub)menus dialog box
  • Standalone TLB stay in auto-run after closing all toolbars
  • Incorrect separator size if selected any skin and used the toolbar colors
  • Some memmory leaks fixed

New in True Launch Bar 5.6.2 Beta (Aug 24, 2011)

  • Expand/Collapse all separators via context menu or with CTRL + Num+ / CTRL + Num-
  • Added option "Show arrow on submenus (icon view mode)"
  • Apply sorting to the separators
  • "Appearance -> Show arrow" now working for icon view menu items

New in True Launch Bar 5.6.1 Beta (Aug 6, 2011)

  • What's new:
  • Column break for separators
  • Combine the default menu items with "icon view" style items
  • Options to control the size of the "icon view" style menu items
  • Added the option to change horizontal margins of the menu items
  • Minor changes into the skins system
  • Fixed:
  • Pin tear-off menu option is not saved

New in True Launch Bar 5.6 (Jul 13, 2011)

  • Fixed the crash on some x64 systems

New in True Launch Bar 5.4 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • What's new:
  • Localization for the default context menu templates
  • Quick reset menu colors
  • tlbHost: the gripper at the left side of the toolbar is removed when toolbar is locked
  • Experimental: own skins/colors for the menus (via Customize Menu)
  • Fixed:
  • Impossible to drop the exe files into the Recycle Bin shortcut
  • TLB can hang on unplugging flash drive if the menu with this drive is opened
  • Sometimes impossible to navigate with the keyboard when mouse is on the menu
  • Menu can overlay the toolbar with some skins
  • Standalone TLB toolbars with auto-hide option stay visible on startup
  • TLB Ignore the custom fonts when used the custom Windows 7 visual styles

New in True Launch Bar 5.3 (Mar 2, 2011)

  • What's new:
  • Added tips for menu caption buttons
  • Some minor changes
  • Fixed:
  • Tool tips are incorrect for separators with "Run all" button only
  • Incorrect separators text font in some conditions
  • Components Manager, Skins Installer and New Toolbar windows are always in English
  • TLB hangs on selecting Restore in TLB Settings when Windows List plugin is on the toolbar
  • No localization for New Toolbar dialog box
  • Impossible to create the virtual folder to the network location inside other virtual folder
  • The width of the "rest buttons" button is hardcoded into 15 pix. Now it depends of content margins values
  • Sorting items problem in Clipboard Manager

New in True Launch Bar 5.2 (Jan 8, 2011)

  • What's new:
  • Improved icons resizing quality
  • Added the separators margins options for menu and toolbar
  • Natural order of the items with the numbers
  • Standalone TLB: toolbar color and overlay image become transparent with the toolbar option
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed incorrect dialog boxes position when the taskbar in auto-hide mode
  • Restore from the backup don't read new options correctly and require refresh of the toolbar
  • Submenus stay opened if click the menu caption
  • Standalone TLB can change the sizes on switching between monitors
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 5.1 (Dec 8, 2010)

  • Tear Off menu by dragging caption can be turned off
  • Improved skins rendering performance
  • Added the "Torn Paper" skin (can be used with simple menu transparency)
  • Fixed:
  • Impossible to open the first or the last submenus during drag&drop
  • Incorrect menu items right margin
  • Menu "jumps" when dragging caption to tear off menu
  • Separators are invisible when WindowBlinds is active
  • Possible hangs on menu open
  • Resource leaks on Windows XP
  • Incorrect icons after refresing toolbar/menu on Windows XP
  • Impossible to skin the caption buttons with two states

New in True Launch Bar 5.0 (Dec 8, 2010)

  • Scroll menu during drag&drop
  • Improved support for systems with large fonts
  • Some visual enhancements
  • Fixed:
  • Delayed menus not working when the buttons are locked
  • TLB hangs can hang on right-click on some systems
  • Incorrect separator size
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.13 RC5 (Oct 12, 2010)

  • Color schemes for menu
  • Improved performance
  • Fixed:
  • Icons disappear after in-place renaming
  • Some minor bug fixed

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.12 RC4 (Oct 12, 2010)

  • Improved text on the menus with simple transparency (Windows XP)
  • Fixed:
  • Standalone True Launch Bar don't save the width/height correctly on the second monitor
  • Menu animation is not compatible with the simple transparency
  • Invalid text on the "Rest Items" menu (Windows XP)

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.11 RC3 (Jul 8, 2010)

  • What's new:
  • Simple Transparency for menus for all Windows versions
  • In-place renaming
  • Redesigned TLB Settings dialog box
  • Apply toolbar background color or overlay image to the entire standalone TLB
  • Improved support of the old skins
  • Fixed:
  • Apply settings to the opened Tear Off menus
  • Restore don't delete the old files
  • The option "Apply Skin to Menu" not working correctly
  • Clear the downloaded files on TLB Components Manager startup
  • Tear Off menus jumps on drag&drop the items
  • Some incorrect painting on windows XP
  • The insertion mark is not removed completly during Drag&Drop
  • Preview in TLB Settings now works correctly
  • Click on parent menu caption button don't close submenus
  • Some minor changes

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.10 RC2 (May 26, 2010)

  • Middle click to run the custom command or emulate the double click
  • Added the file name into the error message of the backup/restore wizards
  • The Standalone True Launch Bar saves the settings in the APPDATA folder
  • Some minor improvement of Standalone True Launch Bar
  • Fixed:
  • The created toolbars are not saved in TLB Settings->Toolbars
  • The New Toolbar dialog box shows incorrect path
  • TLB hangs on adding/moving something inside menu with arrows >>
  • Some minor changes

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.9 RC1 (May 18, 2010)

  • What's new:
  • Combine text menu items with icons only items
  • Changed the searching way: search in the current folder then in subfolders
  • TLB saves the global options into the APPDATA folder
  • Remember the last selected folder in the Create Menu wizard
  • The improved menu size on searching
  • Fixed:
  • Crashs on menu open
  • Sometimes menu items "jump" on updating
  • Some minor changes

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.8 Beta (Apr 21, 2010)

  • What's new:
  • Added the center menu align and menu docking point
  • Apply menu align and menu docking point to submenus
  • Fixed:
  • No the shell menu on the My Computer, Recycle Bin and some other folders

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.7 Beta (Apr 17, 2010)

  • What's new:
  • Minimum menu width/height in the Customize menu dialog box
  • Add the shortcuts to the Recent Items on double click of the menus
  • Add Expand Folder option for the top level virtual folders
  • Add the skinning for columns separators
  • Exclude the "User Pinned" system folder from the backup/restore
  • Fixed:
  • Hang after selecting the menu caption buttons
  • The separator colors are ignored when WindowBlinds is used
  • Incorrect menu size when the option "Flat menus" is turned off
  • White border around the Standalone TLB when WindowBlinds is used
  • Incorrect scrollbar handling
  • Incorrect text color on Windows XP
  • My Network Places shows the desktop content (XP)
  • The caption text overlap the caption buttons (XP)
  • Incorrect icon position of the plugins
  • TLB don't saves Expand Folder option for buttons
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.4 Beta (Feb 6, 2010)

  • What's new:
  • Added the options for minimum menu width and height
  • 13 buttons can be added on the menu caption to perform some operation with menu or to open the context menus
  • Improved skins format
  • Improved performance with the skin
  • Some minor improvements
  • Fixed:
  • Arrows now changes on the pressing the toolbar button
  • Cut the text of the buttons on some conditions
  • Crash on clicking the scroll bar when tooltips are disabled
  • The last columns of the lists are zero sized by default
  • The layout lost on renaming the subfolders inside the virtual folders
  • The bottom position of the scroll bar
  • The "default columns" option is ignored

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.3 Beta (Feb 6, 2010)

  • Fixed:
  • Filters are not working
  • Menu captions text is invisible
  • Incorrect separator width
  • Menu items in the plugins can be cropped

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.2 Beta (Feb 6, 2010)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash on moving shortcuts into the virtual folder
  • Using button label as menu caption
  • Moving the virtual folder from the toolbar can move the source folder

New in True Launch Bar 4.4.1 Beta (Feb 6, 2010)

  • What's new:
  • Search Box support for virtual folder (press CTRL+F)
  • Optimized use of the icons to prevent GDI resources leak on Windows 7 systems
  • Keyboard accelerator for Tear Off (CTRL+T)
  • Toggle the toolbar by hot key, don't activate (Standalone TLB)
  • Turn off the button locking by pressing the SHIFT key
  • Changing the popup tips font
  • Tear Off menu by dragging by caption
  • Added the option to hide the keyboard shortcuts in the context menus
  • Improved images resizing
  • Open Toolbar Properties for new toolbars (Standalone TLB)
  • Disable view modes that plugin don't support
  • Some minor changes
  • Fixed:
  • Can't to open plugin menu when Lock Buttons is turned on
  • Double-click don't work on the toolbar button if the menu is closed
  • Crash on draw some icons
  • Overly images not working correctly with aero
  • Impossible to open menus on the second monitor if the menu in "Tear Off" mode
  • GDI Objects leaks on Refresh
  • Hotspot resets into 0 after restart (Standalone TLB)

New in True Launch Bar 4.4 (Mar 21, 2009)

  • What's new:
  • Options to change the toolbar buttons font
  • Hotkey to activate the toolbar (set keyboard focus)
  • Option to open the menu on the toolbar by double-click (TLB Settings->Toolbar)
  • Fixed:
  • TLB Settings password is not saved the second time
  • Some memory leaks
  • The Rest buttons menu (menu with two arrows) can lost the separators and reorder the items
  • Tear Off menus stay opened on button delete

New in True Launch Bar 4.3 (Oct 16, 2008)

  • What's new:
  • Submenus expands at same side as the parent menu
  • Delayed menus
  • Option to get the horizontal buttons on the vertical toolbar
  • Fixed:
  • High CPU usage on open the menu with two arrows
  • Refresh Virtual Folders of the unmounted volumes
  • The related links menu item on the empty space of menu
  • Incorrect positions of the buttons on the vertical toolbar
  • Changing the maximum width of the buttons with text take effect only after refresh.
  • No "Find Target" menu item on the shortcuts in the Virtual Folders

New in True Launch Bar 4.2.6 RC2 (Jul 3, 2008)

  • View icons in subfolders in the Change Icon dialog box
  • Improved TLB Components Manager
  • Added possibility to write the plugins-separators
  • Fixed: bug with the toolbar background color
  • Fixed: Impossible to change the text color and font when WindowBlinds theme is active
  • Fixed: Some options are not working in the TLB Settings dialog box
  • Fixed: crash on tip show over the Weather Forecast plugin
  • Fixed: Some typo in the texts

New in True Launch Bar 4.2.2 Beta (Sep 12, 2007)

  • Glass effect for menus and standalone True Launch Bar
  • Menu >> can be hidden
  • Impossible to drop into the last position
  • Incorrect minimum toolbar width
  • TLB hang on run shortcut using accelerator
  • Incorrect behavior of standalone toolbar on show desktop button
  • Some minor bugs fixed

New in True Launch Bar 4.1.5 RC (Mar 8, 2007)

  • Windows Vista support
  • This beta version resolves some compatibility problems with the Windows Vista. With this version you can use the skins and PNG icons on the Vista transparent toolbar. Also context menus and tooltips now use the Vista Visual Styles. Also fixed the bug with the installing True Launch Bar on the Vista systems.
  • Popup menu at cursor position
  • This new feature allow you to show the Tear Off menus at the mouse cursor position. This feature is useful if you set the hotkey for menu. To activate this feature right-click the Tear Off menu and click the "Popup at Cursor" menu item.
  • Auto close tear off menu
  • Now you can setup your Tear Off Menus to close them on something run. To activate this feature right-click the tear off menu and click the "Auto-Close menu"
  • Using the keyboard
  • We've added keyboard accelerators for some operations:
  • Refresh Ctrl F5
  • Delete Del
  • Hide Ctrl Del
  • Rename F2
  • Set hotkey Ctrl H
  • Change Icon Ctrl I
  • Change Description Ctrl D
  • Button Properties Ctrl Enter

New in True Launch Bar 4.1.1 Beta (Dec 2, 2006)

  • This beta version resolves some compatibility problems with the Windows Vista. With this version you can use the skins and PNG icons on the Vista transparent toolbar. Also context menus and tooltips now use the Vista Visual Styles. Also fixed the bug with the installing True Launch Bar on the Vista systems.

New in True Launch Bar 4.1 (Sep 26, 2006)

  • Added grayscale into the color picker
  • Run accelerators without Alt
  • Added CTRL DEL to hide buttons
  • Now you can use DEL key to delete buttons
  • Press ALT to close all opened menus
  • Improved drag&drop of separators
  • Added support for extra context menu items when hold down the SHIFT key
  • Some minor improvements
  • "Check for updates" button not working in the unregistered version
  • Impossible to drag separators for some conditions
  • Impossible to add titles on the vertical toolbar
  • Disable "Delete" for icons library items that impossible to delete
  • Icons library don't work under nonadmin
  • Hotkey lost after moving button
  • Sometimes TLB don't load all icons after restart
  • Invalid separators after restart (for vertical toolbars)
  • Explorer crash on dock floating toolbar
  • Toolbar don't redraw after restore
  • Explorer hang on hotkey clear
  • Non-permanent filters are not working
  • Incorrect chevrone position calculation when hidden buttons exist
  • Settings password resets on open TLB Settings
  • Settings password resets on open TLB Settings
  • Auto-hide toolbar hides when menu is opened
  • The help tips stay on screen after dialog boxes closed
  • The default folder is incorrect for programs that run from virtual folders

New in True Launch Bar 3.2.14RC1 (May 8, 2006)

  • Added complete help file.
  • Fixed some bugs.