What's new in Wireless Network Watcher 2.41
Feb 29, 2024
- Added 'Scan IPv6 Addresses' option. You can turn it off if you don't need the IPv6 Addresses information.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.40 (Oct 25, 2023)
- Added new columns: 'IPv6 Address' and 'Link Local IPv6 Address', which display the IPv6 addresses of the computer/devices
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.31 (Mar 17, 2023)
- Added 'Black Background' option (Under the View menu). When it's turned on, the main table is displayed in black background and white text, instead of default system colors.
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.30 (Feb 28, 2022)
- Custom context menu: You can now add your own menu items to the right-click context menu, by editing the configuration file (WNetWatcher.cfg)
- See the 'Custom Context Menu' section for more information.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.26 (Nov 12, 2021)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
- Fixed a few high DPI mode issues (Properties window, Choose Columns window).
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.25 (Mar 8, 2021)
- Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.23 (Dec 29, 2020)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.22 (Jun 21, 2020)
- Fixed the /cfg cmmand-line ptin t lad the .cfg file frm the current directry if full path is nt specified.
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.21 (Sep 20, 2019)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.20 (Feb 12, 2019)
- Fixed bug: When a device had an IP address that was previously assigned to another device, Wireless Network Watcher displayed the User Text or name of the previous device.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.19 (Dec 16, 2018)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.18 (May 11, 2018)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.17 (Feb 22, 2018)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.16 (Jan 23, 2018)
- Added option to choose disconnect audio file for every device (In 'Device Options' window).
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.15 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Automatic export feature: You can now choose to generate a new filename on every session (When you close the program and then run it again) or on every save. You can also generate a filename with date/time (e.g: wnw20170920123320.csv) instead of numeric counter.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.13 (Aug 24, 2017)
- Added 'Reset Selected Items Dates' option, which resets the 'First Detected On' and 'Last Detected On' fields.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.12 (May 11, 2017)
- Fixed bug: On some systems with multiple network adapters, Wireless Network Watcher failed to automatically detect the active wireless network adapter.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.11 (Apr 27, 2017)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.10 (Mar 2, 2017)
- Added option to export the current network devices list to a file (csv/tab-delimited/html/xml) every xx seconds (In 'Advanced Options' window).
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.05 (Jan 13, 2017)
- Fixed bug with 'Execute the following command when a new device is detected': command was executed for previously detected device even when the 'only if the device is detected in the first time' option was turned on.
- Fixed bug: 'Detection Count' did not work when the 'Show All Previous Devices' option was turned on.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.03 (Nov 14, 2016)
- Added 'Advanced Options' icon to the toolbar.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.02 (Oct 10, 2016)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.01 (Aug 30, 2016)
- The connect name is now displayed in the network adapters list. ('Advanced Options' window)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 2.00 (Aug 10, 2016)
- Added option to delete devices from the list (File -> Delete Selected Items )
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.99 (Jul 28, 2016)
- Added file-AutoComplete feature to the fields that require to type a filename, inside the 'Advanced Options' window
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.98 (Jun 25, 2016)
- Fixed bug: The 'execute command on disconnect' and the 'Tray Balloon On Disconnected Device' options worked only when 'Beep On Disconnected Device' option was turned on.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.97 (Apr 20, 2016)
- Added 'Automatic Sort On Every Scan' option. When it's turned on, Wireless Network Watcher sorts the devices list on every scan, according to the last sorting you chose by clicking the column header
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.96 (Mar 24, 2016)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.95 (Feb 22, 2016)
- Added 'Show All Previous Devices' option (Under the Options menu) to display all devices that Wireless Network Watcher detected in the past (The information is stored inside the .cfg file).
- Wireless Network Watcher now stores the IP address and name of the detected devices inside the .cfg file, so these fields will be displayed when using the 'Show All Previous Devices' option.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.91 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.90 (Oct 27, 2015)
- Made some changes in the internal scanning mechanism of Wireless Network Watcher, in order to fix bugs and problems that occurred when a device got a different IP address.
- Be aware that due to this mechanism change, detected devices will appear only after their MAC address is found (In previous versions, the device name was displayed even before the MAC address was found)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.85 (Sep 8, 2015)
- Added 'Auto Size Columns On Every Scan' option.
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.83 (Aug 20, 2015)
- Added 'Tray Balloon On Disconnected Device' option
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.82 (Jul 8, 2015)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.81 (May 27, 2015)
- Added 'Last Detected On' column.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.80 (May 13, 2015)
- Added 'Beep On Disconnected Device' option.
- Added option to execute a command when a device is disconnected (On 'Advanced Options' window).
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.79 (Apr 24, 2015)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.78 (Mar 2, 2015)
- Fixed the feature added on v1.76: Wireless Network Watcher now displays the 'Advanced Options' window only if it fails on the first scan and the 'Show Advanced Options Automatically' option is turned on.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.77 (Feb 9, 2015)
- Fixed bug: Wireless Network Watcher failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.76 (Jan 9, 2015)
- When Wireless Network Watcher fails to detect the network to scan, it now automatically displays the 'Advanced Options' window.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.75 (Dec 17, 2014)
- Added 'Copy As Hosts File' option. (Ctrl+H)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.73 (Oct 1, 2014)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.72 (Sep 1, 2014)
- The 'Background Scan' option is now turned on by default.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.71 (Jun 12, 2014)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.70 (Nov 6, 2013)
- Added 'Reset Selected Items Counter' option
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.68 (Oct 14, 2013)
- Added /cfg command-line option, which instructs Wireless Network Watcher to use a config file in another location instead if the default config file, for example: WNetWatcher.exe /cfg "%AppData%\WNetWatcher.cfg"
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.67 (Aug 16, 2013)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.66 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Added option to choose another font (name and size) to display in the main window.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.65 (Jul 13, 2013)
- Added 'Show Inactive Devices' option (Under the Options menu). When it's turned on, Wireless Network Watcher continues to display devices when they are not detected anymore, but their 'Active' value is changed from 'Yes' to 'No' and they also have a red X icon.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.60 (May 17, 2013)
- When you choose to scan specific IP addresses range, Wireless Network Watcher now automatically skips the broadcast addresses, according to the IP addresses/Subnet masks settings of every network adapter.
- Fixed issue: On some network adapters, Wireless Network Watcher added items with empty MAC address - 00-00-00-00-00-00
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.58 (Feb 21, 2013)
- Fixed bug: Wireless Network Watcher failed to load the external MAC addresses file (oui.txt) when every line has 2 leading space characters. (Sometimes this file is provided with leading space characters)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.57 (Jan 26, 2013)
- Updated the internal MAC addresses database
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.56 (Jan 16, 2013)
- Added 'Mark Odd/Even Rows' option, under the View menu. When it's turned on, the odd and even rows are displayed in different color, to make it easier to read a single line.
- Fixed issue: Dialog-boxes opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.55 (Aug 28, 2012)
- Added option to set the interval of the background scan (In the 'Advanced Options' window)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.50 (Jul 16, 2012)
- Added option to run .exe file when a new device is detected (In 'Advanced Options' window)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.47 (Jun 20, 2012)
- Fixed bug: Wireless Network Watcher crashed on some systems when starting the scanning and the 'Clear ARP Cache On Every Scan' option is turned on
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.46 (Jun 5, 2012)
- Added 'Clear ARP Cache On Every Scan' option. This option is useful for Windows 2000/XP, because if the ARP cache is not cleared, a device might be displayed as connected even when it's not connected, because the ARP information is taken from the cache of Windows operating system. On Windows Vista/7, this option is irrelevant, because the ARP scanning is not affected by the cache
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.45 (May 17, 2012)
- Added 'Device Options' window (Ctrl+F9), which allows you to change the beep/tray balloon configuration for every device separately
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.42 (Apr 7, 2012)
- Add new option to 'Advanced Options' window: 'Activate the beep/tray balloon alert only if the device is detected in the first time'. If you turn on this option, you'll get a beep/tray balloon alert only if the device has not been detected before (Detection Count = 1).
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.41 (Mar 22, 2012)
- The tooltip of the tray icon now shows the number of connected devices
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.40 (Feb 7, 2012)
- Added option to choose audio file to play when a new device is detected (In Advanced Options), instead of using the default beep sound of Windows.
- Added 'Start As Hidden' option. When this option and 'Put Icon On Tray' option are turned on, the main window of Wireless Network Watcher will be invisible on start.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.35 (Dec 14, 2011)
- Added 'MAC Address Format' option, under the Options menu.
- Copy MAC Address option now allows you to copy multiple MAC addresses.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.32 (Oct 31, 2011)
- Added new menu items to the tray context menu: Start Scanning, Stop Scanning, and Advanced Options.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.31 (Sep 28, 2011)
- Fixed the sorting of the IP Address column.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.30 (Sep 21, 2011)
- Added command-line options to scan your network and save the result into text/html/xml file, without displaying any user interface.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.27 (Sep 8, 2011)
- Added 'Automatically Copy Device Name To User Text' option. When it's turn on, the user text of new device is automatically filled with the name of the device
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.26 (Sep 1, 2011)
- Added 'Scan On Program Start' option. You can turn off this option if you don't want that Wireless Network Watcher will start scanning automatically when you run it
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.25 (Aug 25, 2011)
- Added option to choose the desired IP addresses range to scan. (In the 'Advanced Options' window)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.20 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Added 'Put Icon On Tray' option. When it's turned on, icon of Wireless Network Watcher is added to the system tray of Windows.
- Added 'Tray Balloon On New Device' option. If it's turned on, Wireless Network Watcher displays a tray balloon when a new device is detected.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.15 (Aug 8, 2011)
- Added 'Background Scan', under the Options menu. When this option is turned on, Wireless Network Watcher make a continuous background scan to automatically discover new devices or computers that connected the network, without activating the scan again. The background scan is slower and less intensive then the regular scan, so it won't overload your computer.
- Added 'Beep On New Device' option. When the background scan is turned on, you can use this option to get a 'beep' sound when a new device is detected.
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.10 (Jul 31, 2011)
- Added 'User Text' column, which allows to enter your own text for a specific computer/device, from the Properties window (Alt+Enter). The text that you write will be displayed for the same device in future scans. (The devices information is stored in the .cfg file of Wireless Network Watcher)
- Wireless Network Watcher now displays the first date/time that the specified device was found, and the number of times that the device was detected. (The information is saved in the .cfg file)
- When there are multiple IP address blocks on a single network card, Wireless Network Watcher now scans all of them (In previous versions, it scanned only the first IP addresses block)
New in Wireless Network Watcher 1.05 (Jul 15, 2011)
- Fixed Wireless Network Watcher to scan the entire network when the subnet mask is not 255.255.255.0, for example, if the subnet mask is 255.255.254.0, Wireless Network Watcher will scan 512 addresses. For now, it's limited for up to 4096 IP addresses, to avoid from very long scanning.
- Improved the scanning on slow computers or slow networks.