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5.52

21 Feb 13:43
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  1. Fix crash when capture to disk (#296)
  2. Restore explorer window with arbitrary folder name
  3. Refix #288, relaunch PW once when taskbar is not ready

Install 5.52_dpi_unaware special release if you encounter #276, #289

5.51

04 Feb 00:46
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  1. Change default icon again (#287 )
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  2. Add command option "-legacy_icon" to switch back to original icon as in 5.49 (#287)

  3. Add menu option to experiment customized icon using any .ico or .png file (#287)

  4. Experiment user .ico(.png) file need to be manually copied to PersistentWindows program folder and renamed to pwIcon.* to finalize icon customization (#287)

  5. Reliably hide window to system tray of taskbar when Ctrl click minimize button (#286)

Try Windows 11 specific release if you have issues similar to #276, #289, #293
PersistentWindows5.51_win11_patch.zip

5.50

02 Feb 01:37
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  1. New icon (#274 )
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  2. New Feature (#279)
    Ctrl click the minimize button to hide a window to notification area in taskbar
    Download patch from https://github.com/kangyu-california/PersistentWindows/releases/tag/5.50_patch

  3. New Feature (#282)
    Recover folder location of explorer window from captures on disk

  4. Fix unexpected taskbar move due to early capture (#278)

  5. Replace deprecated wmic.exe command with PowerShell command to capture windows to disk on Windows 10/11

5.50_patch

02 Feb 22:34
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  1. Fix #286, failure to minimize window to notification area when Ctrl click minimize button

5.49_experiment_patch

11 Jan 23:07
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5.49_experiment_patch Pre-release
Pre-release

Patch 1. Fix #278 , unexpected taskbar move due to early capture
Patch 2.

  1. New feature (#279), minimize a window while holding Ctrl key to make it appear as a notification icon.
  2. Redesigned icon for PW

5.49

31 Dec 07:58
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  1. Fix #267, Automatically restore from DB when switching to new display configuration
  2. Fix #274, Slightly improve icon quality. New enhancement: User can replace the default icon by placing a pwIcon.png (or .ico) file into C:/Users/<YOUR_ID>/AppData/Local/PersistentWindows/
  3. Fix #276, Allow restore unresponsive window
  4. Fix #277, Avoid restore full-screen window when activated if no display change ever happens.
  5. Fix empty process name when capture windows to disk if the PW process is manually restarted (after reboot)

5.48

11 Dec 19:40
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  1. Fix #262, #266, #271, avoid unintended activation of Dual Position Switching feature. The new release requires Ctrl move or resize window to activate DPS.

5.47

03 Nov 21:42
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  1. Fix #265 (5.46 slow mouse response) by replacing global mouse hook with more efficient implementation for dual position switching feature
  2. Fix #264 (5.45/5.46 minimized window become maximized upon restore)
  3. Fix #262 (5.45/5.46 unexpected window move due to flawed implementation of dual position switching)

5.46

29 Oct 23:52
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  1. Fix #262 unexpected window move caused by flaws in dual position feature
  2. Fix failure to restore from disk at system startup when running PW with -auto_restore_missing_windows=2 or 3

5.45

17 Oct 21:25
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  1. Improve UI text sharpness on high DPI monitor (with 125% scaling)
  2. Enhancement: Restore from disk can borrow data from other display config by invoking the menu while holding SHIFT key pressed.
  3. Enhancement: Restore from disk can launch Microsoft Store Apps (like Sticky Notes)
  4. Enhancement: Restore from disk now launches new window in its designated virtual desktop.
  5. New feature "dual positioning" to allow a window to have different position/size in foreground and background mode
    • Click empty desktop space to bring the current foreground window to its previous background position/z-order.
    • Click a background window to bring it to its last foreground position

Latest patch 10/24/2023
PersistentWindows5.45_patch1024.zip

  1. Fix failure to restore from disk at system startup (when running PW with -auto_restore_missing_windows=2 or 3)
  2. Fix unexpected window move due to dual position feature using Microsoft standard definition of z-order