What is new in v3.82?

• Brought back the friendly name for UNC volumes in the overview.
• Fixed a crash in the evaluation/demo version on startup.
• Experimental Windows 2000 Support. For instance, run DiskState Portable on old discontinued versions of Windows.

What is new in v3.81?

• Performance improved by introducing caching of file signatures. Enabled by default for fresh installs. Opt-in for upgrades by checking 'Cache file signatures for speedup' in Settings | Options | Options I.
• Windows XP auto-update fixed.
• Added max number of files for file compare, with a popup when limit is reached. Avoids crash.

What is new in v3.80?

• Stability improvements: Fixed crash when comparing two very large folders (typically 600000 files). Fixed crash with scanning UNC drives. Fixed problem in DiskCleaner with dead file links check. Fixed problem with Notification Engine.
• Improved DiskState Portable Edition by not touching the registry for the Deletion Engine or create unnecessary keys in the registry.
• Adhere to Windows' Show Drive Letters First settings.
• Faster by using a new compiler.

What is new in v3.70?

• Stability improvements: Crash when browsing folder tree, Deletion with recycler not working as expected, Crash with extremely long path names across network volumes, Close-other-window first issue, Crash when updating DiskState on non-Vista/Win7 systems.
• Performance improvements.
• Windows 7 support added.
• DiskClean rules updated.
• Added support for folder selections in DiskClean.
• Improved usability with DiskClean's and Duplicates' Delete UI.
• Support for detecting 64-bit Program Files folder.
• Increased the height of the DiskState settings window.
• Added "Copy" buttons to DiskClean and Duplicates regular expression section.
• Reduced memory usage for folders. 3 GB binary aware.

What is new in v3.60?

• Performance and stability improvements.
• Vista UAC security behavior greatly improved.
• DiskState Portable support added. Run DiskState off a USB drive or similar. Not using Windows registry.
• Maximum number of UNC folders to monitor increased from 40 to 512.
• Added many new file formats for audio, video and images to the duplicate finder wizard. Specifically, these formats are now detected: MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, MOD, M4A, MP4, VQF, ASF, MID, MIDI, MP2, MP1, AVI, ASF, MOV, MPEG, MPG, DIVX, VOB, M2V, M2T, M2TS, AVC, M4V, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, BMP, JPF, JPX, TIF, TIFF and TGA.
• Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME support dropped. Please use DiskState v3.50.

What is new in v3.50?

• Improved duplicate finder engine for Asian locales. DiskState will now find many more duplicates than before.
• Duplicate engine deletes empty folders if possible.
• Deletion Engine improved. Changed 'Include folders and files' to only apply for files, allowing recursive scan for particular files to delete.
• Bugfix: Added automatic generation of Microsoft Dump files upon a crash.
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash. Proper handling of reparse mount points under Windows Vista. Much more stable during volume scanning.
• Bugfix: When uninstalling, always remove the 'Run DiskState at startup'.

What is new in v3.40?

• Added file size filtering to DiskState Custom Reports. Make your own reports based upon file size ranges.
• DiskState Reports window is now resizable.
• Improved exported text file-based/clipboard output for duplicate and DiskClean results: file sizes more readable (1'234'567 instead of 1234567) and path truncation not enabled by default. Added popup window to control these options.
• The Regex tester now makes substitutions for environment variables.
• Made the Regex tester more prominent. Accessible from the DiskClean settings, result window and system tray menu. The Regex tester is non-modal which makes cut and paste easier.
• Bugfix: Deselect files that are not readable when deleting.
• Bugfix: Include swap file data from other volumes than C:\. Used incorrect Windows control set. Fixed.
• Bugfix: Various Windows Vista fixes. Crashes and broken Zip Safety path resolved.
• Bugfix: ZipSafety recovery on read-only files fixed.

What is new in v3.30?

• Much more responsible UI by more threading during ZipSafety, scanning for duplicates, DiskClean, State Captures . Especially with large files.
• DiskClean improved: Will not suggest files that are in-use.
• Duplicates improved: Added context submenu for selecting all files in a given list of folders, which should be ideal for selecting backup folders. Also added highlighting of all file entries when all copies of the file has been selected.
• Upgraded Zip library to latest version.
• Find/FindAll improvements. Now expands variables in regular expressions like %!Local AppData%\\.*\.log$. Added functionality to bring up DiskClean regular expressions in DiskClean and Duplicates results window.
• Improved dialog for adjusting Window Shade and System Tray icon usage.
• Added a regular expression tester, which should make it easier to make powerful regular expressions.
• Added /customuser:myname1 command line argument to get Vista behavior under XP, which may be useful if one needs to have multiple Clean.ini files etc.
• Added "Minimize main by [x] instead of closing it" option to Settings | Window.
• Added possibility to change the font for regular expressions for better clarity.
• Added menu option in DiskClean to bring up the regular expression settings from the DiskClean results window.
• Bugfix: Fixed a few crashes (editing DiskClean rules), added cleanup of ZipSafety file entries if deletion was aborted, fixed warning requests when deleting to Recycle Bin, auto-minimize bug corrected and hints window is now the top-most window.
• Minor: Do not warn when closing duplicate results window if results are already exported, do not close DiskClean window when hitting "enter" key in results window, added resizing of progress windows, double-click now brings up Edit window if possible.

What is new in v3.21?

• Added PerfectDisk 8 support.
• Bugfix: Fixed a crash when deleting files already deleted.

What is new in v3.20?

• Added new rules to DiskClean: Adobe Acrobat search index files, app data log files, app data local log files, Apple QuickTime downloads, Macromedia Flash Player cache, Firefox download log, Opera download log, Sun Java Cache, Firefox cache and Opera cache.
• Added new base select: Specific folders can now be given points. Files in folders with lowest points are less important than others and thus elected for selection.
• Improved DiskClean engine: Added expansion of system environment variables and OS specific folder names in regular expressions. Example of a local OS specific folder is "%!Local AppData%\\MyCompany". Example of an environment variable expansion is "%APPDATA%\\MyCompany".
• New context submenu that offers all depths of selected path to folder ignore list in duplicate files result window.
• Usability: If all duplicates are selected, unselect files for entire group and show file list in a window afterwards.
• Bug fixes: Mouse scroll wheel did not respond correctly in result lists, problems related to "close other open DiskState windows" should be gone now, context menu items for already deleted files are now disabled, stability with millions of files for duplicate scans.
• Platform support update: Windows XP X64, Windows 2003 Server X64 and Windows Vista.
• New command line option: /spaceview:D opens up disk analysis window on drive D etc.
• Cosmetic: 'Total Usage Free' to 'Total Used Free' in main window.
• Cosmetic: Compare files and folders result window is now resizable.

What is new in v3.11?

• Improved updater: Now adds "Run With Logging" shortcut to Program Start menu.
• Bug fixes: Crash when given an invalid regular expression, COM wasn't correctly initialized, used over maximum memory heap size which lead to a crash, buffer overflow check, sorting lists with file sizes > 2 GB were wrong.
• Cosmetic: Dupes export window is now topmost, menu seperators are now drawn again.

What is new in v3.10?

• Greatly improved regular expression support. It now supports lookahead and lookbehind expressions. This was introduced in Perl 5 and allows you to e.g. match a "d" not followed by a "s" like d(?!s). This is available in the Deletion Engine, DiskClean, duplicate detection engine and so forth.
• Added possibility to adjust 240 chars limit in long paths report. Adjust by invoking the context menu in the Reports dialog.
• Added logging capabilities for error analysis and support. Deletion engine now supports verbose logging by the registry entry LogVerbose of the HKLM\Software\Geekcorp\DiskState\DeleteEngine key.
• Added new Start Menu entry: Support\Run With Logging. This automatically starts up everything with full logging. After DiskState has been exited, the log data is collected along with the relevant DiskState registry values, zipped down and prepared for sending to us if you approve it.
• Added "Opening containing folder" for duplicate files result window and DiskClean window.
• Added "View File" to DiskClean context menu.
• Added "Don't ask again" and "Never show again" on some popups to avoid annoying requests. Also removed any sounds from DiskState windows to alert the user.
• Added possibility to adjust the maximum path length of a report. Invoke by context menu of the report results, select "Set Maximum Path Limit".
• Improved FireFox support.
• Bugfixes: Deletion engine startup, warning on selecting all copies of file etc.
• Cosmetic: Changed "Mozilla" buttons to "Firefox" ones even though we support various versions of Netscape and Mozilla beneath those "Firefox" buttons.

What is new in v3.01?

• Bugfix: Duplicate Files Wizard when searching all local drives.
• Bugfix: Base Select didn't select files correctly.
• Improved the DiskState updater.

What is new in v3.00?

• Added UNC support for drives.
• Added full support for file system reparse points. Volume mount points and symbolic links with circular detection algorithm.
• Rewritten duplicate base select engine.
• Added new option to Base Select: Keep longest name.
• Added new context menu item for duplicate result window: Deselect all files in this folder.
• Improved the Deletion Engine by adding automatic log and zip archive rotation. Furthermore, the engine is better suited for archival purposes (e.g. archive files older than 5 years).
• New core data structures are in place. Faster and more maintainable.
• UI Tweaks: Add/Remove programs remembers last selected item after refresh.
• UI Tweaks: About dialog includes button to check for program updates.
• UI Tweaks: Added warning when closing result windows that took a while to gather.
• UI Tweaks: Dupes Results Delete now remembers last selected file. Also highlights portion of result list that contain problems/questions.
• Minor bugfixes: Deletion engine zip safety path.
• Minor bugfixes: When files are already deleted in a result list, no error condition is thrown now.
• PerfectDisk 7 support added.
• Opera 8 support added.
• Firefox support added.
• Miscellaneous fixes and cosmetic touchup.

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