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Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.1.102 Release from 5.0.0.94 Release

-- Correct Problem with TaskInfo2003 application crash during start due to BUG
   in MS code that saves/restores Toolbars state.

-- Correct BUG in "PL" command. Report was saved to TaskInfo directory instead of current.

-- Make Help to correspond to TaskInfo executable

-- Add Online WEB variant of Help to www.iarsn.com

-- Other Misc corrections.

-- Correct Overflow problem for Total CPU Graphs Calculation

-- Correct BUG in Command line processing for PL Command. Memory columns are all Zero.


Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.94 Release from 5.0.0.90 Release

-- Other Misc corrections.

-- Add eSellerate EST for better support of Affiliates.

-- Change date and time format in different outputs to "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss".
   For example "2003-07-19 12:40:11"

-- Correct "Problem of year 2038" bug.

-- Correct BUG with Process description showing while it contains blanks only.

Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.90 Release from 5.0.0.88 Release

-- Add averages for values on Graphs Tip Window during 10 Refresh
   Intervals. Can be enabled/Disabled from Configuration Dialogs.

-- Correct BUG. In processes pane "Process ID" column forget width.

-- Eliminate periodic reading from user.exe in Win9x/ME ::))

Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.88 Release from 5.0.0.86 RC3

-- Make Help to correspond to TaskInfo executable

-- Add Private Memory Column (Private KB) to Processes Pane.

-- Add Process ID/Parent Process ID to selected process General Tab

Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.86 RC3 from 5.0.0.82 RC1

-- Corrected BUG. In Win9x/ME zero values in File IO Graph Sensor.

-- Corrected BUG. Graph Sensor ToolTip does not show while TaskInfo
   minimized to Tray.

-- Corrected BUG. Show Tool Bar and Show Status Bar settings in
   General Configuration Dialog are not working.

-- Corrected one more BUG with TaskInfo crash during Show Process Modules.

-- Corrected BUGs on System with more than 4 GB RAM

-- Add Purchase directly from TaskInfo2003 using eSellerate Wizard.

Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.82 RC1 from 5.0.0.80 Beta

-- Add to Configuration Enabling Alert Window position saving.

-- Add shortcut for Process Close command.

-- Disable Processes Tree Show as result of clicking on processes
   pane column header

-- Corrected BUG with erroneous reporting "unregistered" on TaskInfo2003
   Title while registration was OK.

Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.80 Beta from 5.0.0.78 Beta

-- You can now move Alert Window until Alert state changed.

-- Add Small/Large Alert Window Selection.

-- Add "Escape" for minimizing TaskInfo window.

-- Add HTML reports saving commands to File Menu.

-- Correct BUG with ZERO Size Swap file.


Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.78 Beta 2 from 5.0.0.73 Beta

-- Add Selections for Numeric/Named IP Address and port numbers

-- Add Process List ("pl") Command Line command to save information
   about processes to TAB separated file.

-- Add "Keep Selected Process Visible" to Configuration Settings.

-- Correct BUG with Win32 Handles Alert Setting Overflow after 32000

-- Correct BUG with Blue Scr while show Connections in WinNT 4.0 SP6


Changes For TaskInfo2003 version 5.0.0.xx beta from TaskInfo2002 4.0.0.51 release


-- Add Alarms from System Tray about low resorces or leaks. Low Virtual Memory,
   Low GDI/USER Resources, Too many GDI/USER Objects, too many Windows, too
   many opened Win32 Handles.

-- Add Graphs for total number of User/GDI onjects in Win2k, Free GDI/User
   (System) Resources in Win9x/ME, total number of Windows, total number of
   open Win32 Handles (files, events and so on).

-- Allow dropping of CPU usage of Idle threads from CPU Graph on SysTray Icon.
   That allows to eliminate CPU Cooling applications activity and see real CPU
   Usage.

-- Add "Tab" and "Ctrl/Tab" to go from pane to pane and from Tab to Tab in Pane.

-- Add silent execution options for command line commands.

-- Add "sync" (flush file cache) command to TaskInfo command line.

-- Add "flush" (flush Process memory from RAM) command to TaskInfo command line.

-- Add Columns in Processes Pane: Handles number, Windows count,
   User objects (W2k/XP), GDI Objects (W2k/XP), Start Time.

-- Add "CPU Graph" column to processes Pane.

-- Show Processes and Threads IDs as decimal in WinNT/2k/XP

-- Add opened tcp/udp connections correspondence to processes in WinNT SP5/2k/XP.
   Added "All connections" and "Connections of selected process" Panes.

-- Add "View/Show Processes Tree". Sorting of Processes by Parent (as pseudo-tree)

-- Add Tools Menu. New "Tools" are "Free RAM Fast", "Free RAM Slow",
   "Flush File Cache", "Clear Clipboard", "Check for Update".

-- Add ToolTip window to GraphBar Information Sensors with more words about
   sensor contents.

-- Add more Information Sensors to Graph Bar and other Graph Bar modifications.

-- Add Color schemes for Graphs text and background.

-- Add "No Tray Icon at all" and other tray icon selections

-- Redesign menu. Transfer all settings to configuration property pages dialog.


Changes For TaskInfo2002 version 4.0.0.51 release from 4.0.0.45 release


-- Show Process Type (Con/GUI) in State field for WinNT/2k/XP

-- Add support for new Intel and AMD CPUs definition

-- Correct BUG in "kill", "spri" and other command line commands.

-- Correct BUG with ToolTips show.

-- Correct BUG with Icons refresh when sorting enabled.

-- Correct BUG with sorting by process file name but showing description.


Changes For TaskInfo2002 version 4.0.0.45 release from 4.0.0.44 release

-- Correct Hanging with Norton System Doctor in Win9x/ME

Changes For TaskInfo2002 version 4.0.0.44 release from 3.0.10.22 release

-- Correct few misc BOGs.

-- Disable TaskInfo poping up from tray during high CPU load or
   Explorer hanging/exiting

-- Add GraphBar with Graphs of Physical Memory/Virtual Memory/CPU/CPUs Usage.

-- Add ToolBar.

-- Add CPU Usage Graph as variant of Tray Icon Animation.

-- Correct BUGs with hanging in WinNT4/2000/XP.

-- Add "Show Description" (from VerInfo) Instead of File Name Item in
   Preferences Menu. Correctly restore value only after Registration.

-- Add "Show Processes Icons" item to Preferences Menu. Correctly restore
   value only after Registration.

-- Optimize processing of collecting data for saving to file or clipboard.

-- Add inmem sizes for DLLs.

-- Add in WinNT/2k/XP "Flush  Process Memory Out" command -- flush out all
   process memory out. So you can see what memory needed for current
   state of selected process after few seconds.

-- Change Name to TaskInfo2002

-- Delete Register.exe from installation. Online Registration Page on KAGI
   provide the same functionality.

-- One year updates support. So for this version valid registrations
   after 1-Jan-2001. Registration Keys before this data will not work
   with this version.

-- Support for Mouse Wheel as in Outlook Express. Wheel scroll pane under
   mouse pointer in Win9x/ME/2000/XP

-- Overcome at last many problems with WinNT/2k/XP performance subsystem.
   So I beleave now you will not have TaskInfo reporting this problem and
   not starting on some 2k/XP computers. Also no idiotic messages will
   be placed in EventLog by "PerfLib.dll" and others when TaskInfo2002 is
   running.

-- Correct BUG in NT/2000/XP. Not all environment variables can be shown.

-- Add in System Pane number of threads waiting in queue ready for CPU
   in Win9x/ME similar to the same value in WinNT/2000/XP

-- Add "BNorm" and "ANorm" processes priority levels to TaskInfo2000
   command line command.

-- Try to do TaskInfo2000 popups from SysTray during hard System load (can not
   change SysTray Icon Info) not so sensitive. Check if screen saver running
   before initiate popup.

-- Add Command Line "Close" command to close process by EXE file name.

-- Show RAS Sessions. DialUp and VPN in Win9x/ME/2000. Not supported in WinNT4.0.

-- Correct BUG with hanging in Win9x/ME when "Norton Antivirus" ,
   "Norton Internet security", "Scramdisk", "E4M" or maybe some others
   are installed.

-- Correct some other things with showing PageFile and Virtual Memory
   Values in Win9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.

-- Correct BUG in showing ZERO PageFile usage in some situations
   in WinNT/2000/XP

-- Save/Restore Maximized State

-- Do more correct processing of Minimize/Maximize/Minimize to SysTray.

-- Correct some litle "features" with processes sorting.

-- Do more robust installing of tsknfxxx.sys kernel driver

-- Correct BUG with TaskInfo2000 crash in WinNT/2000/XP

Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 3.0.10.22 release from 3.0.7.20 release

-- Correct last minute BUG that prevents starting TaskInfo2000 on Win95 and OSR2.

Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 3.0.10.20 release from 3.0.7.15 release

-- Correct enable/disable Sortings sortings. Do resort of processes.

-- Add to Preferences Old/New Tray Icons Sets selection. In High Contrast
   display modes old set of tray icons may be more sutable.

-- Correct BUG in Win9x/ME with BlueScreen of death while 1/2 seconds
   refresh interval is set

-- Add Process Affinity setting.

-- Add "Preferences/Trobleshooting". You can disable now collecting
   statistic by TaskInfo2000 in WinNT/2000 for MS Net Client, Server
   and MS NWClient. In some badly configured networks collecting of it
   can course IDIOTIC messages in EventLog from NT/2000 Performance Subsystem.

-- Add "File/Force Shurdown".

-- Optimize Memory and CPU usage by TaskInfo2000 in WinNT/2000

-- Load in memory as few performance DLLs as possible. So Eliminate some
   annoing messages in Event Log from different performance DLLs and do faster
   start of TaskInfo2000.

-- Add support in Win2k/XP for additional Process Priority Levels
   (Below Normal and Above Normal) in Set Priority menu and other places.
   Do more correct display of process priority.

-- I beleave correct BUG with displaing incorrectly Parent Process
   in WinNT/2000/XP

-- Correct BUG with not showing total CPU used by process in WinNT by 3.0.7.15.

-- Correct BUG with selecting Max Averaging for LT CPU% interval. It was
   not possible to disable Max Averaging without restarting TaskInfo2000.
   Also you can reset Max Averaging times simply by clicking on menu item
   "Max Averaging" once more.

-- Overcome Microsoft BUG. After first installation in Terminal Server
   Session TaskInfo can not open driver TSKNFxxx.SYS. No it is OK.

-- Replace SIDs in HKCU Opened key handles on Domain/User Names.

Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 3.0.7.15 release from 2.21 release

-- Optimize performance of TaskInfo2000 (mostly in WinNT/2000)

-- TaskInfo2000 Registration Status now shown in Help/About Dialog

-- Add 1/2 seconds refresh interval

-- Correct a number of little BUGs.

-- Add "Close process" menu command to "Try to Close process gracefully"
   in addition to "Terminate Process".

-- Add support for Pentium 4

-- Correct a number of little BUGs.

-- Add Enabling of needed Performance DLLs if disabled by somebody.

-- Do "View/View Process ID" synonym to "Preferences/Enable Columns/Process ID"
   to eliminate strange interference between this two items.

-- Correct BUG with blue screen in Win9x during exit/restart.

-- Make Icon in Systray red with high CPU %

-- Change Tray Icons to be more contrast (visible).

-- Add Very Long CPU% Averaging time. From start of Monitoring/Resetting
   or Thread/Process Creating.

-- Correct BUG with TaskInfo2000 freezing during install or start when some
   other Application hangs. Will not exit running instances of
   TaskInfo2000 versions previous to 3.0

-- Add Sort Column/Sort Direction indicator (triangle)

-- Save Sort column number in ListView. (After TaskInfo Registration)

-- Allow manual setting of named columns widths in System and Selected
   Process Info panes where possible. (After TaskInfo Registration)

-- Add Preferences/Hide unnamed Win32 Handles. (After TaskInfo Registration)

-- In Win2000 show files and handles opened in Global Context if Idle
   pseudo-process selected.

-- Add Show Open Win32 Handles for selected process in Win9x/ME/NT/2000.
   Show Handles Object reference counters and names where possible.

-- Show in Win2000 in "All Open Files" Files opened in Global system Context.
   It is not belong to any particular process. Marked as belonging to Idle
   pseudo-process.

-- Check BUG in restoring TaskInfo2000 Window position.

-- Set TaskInfo2000 process priority to HIGH during startup.

Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.21 release from 2.20 release

-- Checked Some little BUGs and add more control and messages for strange
   situations with performance subsystem in Win2000.

-- I believe, BUG with Blue Screen of Death in Win2000 during Open File Show
   at last checked.


Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.20 release from 2.2 beta 3

-- New Help.

-- Check problem with AMD DURON recognition.

-- Check strange behavior of TaskInfo local menu in Systray.

-- Add shortcuts. Ctrl/Q -- Exit TaskInfo. Ctrl/C -- "Edit/Copy Panes to Clipboard".
   Alt/Enter in processes Pane -- show File Properties Dialog for selected
   process file.

-- Add "File/Save All Info to File" to save all information collected by
   TaskInfo about System and all processes to text file.

-- Add "File/Save Panes to File" to save current contents of Information Panes
   to text file.

-- Add "Edit/Copy All Info to Clipboard" to save all information collected by
   TaskInfo about System and all processes to clipboard.

-- Improve Font Selection. Support correctly National Char Sets.

-- Check problems with showing Modules Version Information
   with national languages.

-- Check BUG with combination NotAnimateIcon + StartMinimized + MinimizeToSystray.
   With this combination TaskInfo had hidden window and no Icon in Systray. So
   it looks like TaskInfo hangs during start. :) And no way to do it visible.

-- Right align numeric fields in processes pane and other places.

-- Add Preferences Start as Win9x Service. It means that if marked as
   Service in Win9x than TaskInfo will not be closed during User Log Off.

-- Add Preferences Close to Systray. It means when you click on cross in
   TaskInfo window title means minimize to Systray instead of exit. Real Exit
   only from menu File/Exit or Systray menu Exit.

-- Add Show File Properties for selected process in processes popup menu.


Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.20 beta 3 from 2.2 beta 2

-- Change Setup Application.

-- Change VxD & SYS names to Tsknfvvv in order to do Versions/Subversions
   of TaskInfo independent. It will be possible to have a number of versions
   installed in system simultaneously.

-- Add menu to Systray icon about reboot, ...., preferences

-- Overcome BUG with TaskInfo hangs during start when right panes have zero width.
   Thanks Microsoft for once more BUG.

-- Catch situations when Explorer restarts and restore Systray Icon

-- Add Preferences about disabling starting more than one instance of TaskInfo.

-- Check BUG with Intel CPU type definition

Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.20 beta 2 from 2.2 beta 1

-- Check BUG with CTRL/+ to adjust all columns in ListView

-- Add Disable/Enable Dynamic Boosting for selected process threads
   in WinNT/2000

-- Add Preference for refresh interval. Change Averaging time for LT CPU %
   from seconds to number of Refresh Intervals.

-- More Optimize performance when minimized.

-- Add columns width saving in Processes Pane.

-- Check BUG with not saving settings during exit by System Shutdown

-- Check BUG not showing open file in some Windows 95 OSR2 systems

-- Add newest Intel CPU Types

-- Add System Up Time in OS Info Tab


Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.20 beta 1 from 2.10 release

-- Check BUG with memory and Handles leak.

-- Check BUG with unowned threads like WildFile's/Adaptec's GoBack
   worker thread. Add unowned thread Holder pseudoprocess.

-- Some little modifications and corrections.

-- Add List of VxDs in Win9x

-- Add OS Information Tab. Os Version Info. Special Directories.
   Logged User and Computer name. IP Network Host Name and
   IP Names/Addresses on network adapters.  Power Status.

-- Return Back global/local usage columns for DLLs in Win9x

-- Add Process User Name in WinNT


Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.10 release from 2.01 release

-- Check some minor BUGs

-- Check BUG with Win9x MSN Server statistics

-- Check BUG that course problems with loading TskInfXX.vxd

-- Add System Wide Resources Percent info for USER and GDI.

-- Add Hot Keys in Processes Pane. "Enter" to show/hide threads, "Del"
   to Kill selected process, "Ins" to run new process

-- Add column headers with sorting in all panes/tabs where possible.

-- Add simple variant of CPU Information

-- Add names of processes that open files in All Open Files Pane

-- Add All Open Files Pane in NT

-- Add Info about files opened by selected process in NT.

-- Add number of windows created by selected process

-- Add command line commands. Reboot, shutdown, freboot (force),
   fshutdown (force)

Changes For TaskInfo2000 version 2.01 release from 2.00 beta 2


-- Check some minor BUGs

-- Now TaskInfo will be called TaskInfo2000.

-- Remove "nag" pseudo process with "Evaluation version" name in non
   registered TaskInfo. Now non registered version will not support
   some new features.

-- Check Bug in Installer with Win2000.

-- Add in Win2000 Info about IO Activity for Current Process.and Number
   of GDI/USER objects used by current process.

-- Change "Page Ins/sec" and "Page Outs/sec" from number of Pages/sec
   to KBytes/sec.

-- Add Version Info for Current Process, its .dlls and Kernel Drivers.

-- Add Open Handles Number for Current Process.

-- Add command line. You can Kill process, change priority, start with
   priority using TaskInfo command Line.

-- Add Preferences/Set Averaging time for "LT CPU"/... to set averaging
   time up to 60 seconds.

-- Add "LT CPU%" Column with different (longer) averaging time.

-- Add Start Debugger for Selected Process.

-- Add Memory Info Columns in Process Pane.

-- Add Preferences/Enable Columns/... for selecting visible columns
   in Process Pane.

-- Add column names into Edit/Copy output.

-- Add Parent Process Path for Current Process.

-- Check Bug with double click on Processes List Header to adjust column wide

Changes For TaskInfo98 version 2.00 beta 2 from 2.0 beta

-- Check some minor BUGs

-- Try to check BUG with sudden restarting/killing Win9x on some computers.

-- Add Preferences/Disable Pseudo Processes Sorting. If checked than
   "Idle", "DPC" and "Interrupt Time" pseudo processes are always on top
   of Processes Panel.

-- Check BUG under NT with reboot. Now it really reboot/restart System.

-- Check BUG with restart minimized after registration info entering.

-- Remove delay during registration info processing.

Changes For TaskInfo98 version 2.00 beta from 1.51

--  Add "Kernel Drivers" information to "System Information" Pane for
    Windows NT/2000.

--  Add pseudo processes to show statistics about Hardware Interrupts
    and DPC processing. It include time spend in Interrupts and DPCs
    and number/s of interrupts and DPCs on pear CPU basis. Pseudo threads
    for each CPU.

--  Multiprocessor Support in Windows NT/2000

--  Add Support for Windows NT/2000. About the same as in Windows 9x,
    except showing of open files. But more information about current process
    in "Gen" tab of Current Process Pane. In System Pane no DialUp info now.
    Will be added in release.


--  Add Sorting of Processes. See "Preferences/Enable Sorting".
    This option works only in Registered version of TaskInfo.
    If this option is enabled, you can click on Process Pane column's
    headers to do TaskInfo sort processes by this column values.

Changes For TaskInfo98 version 1.51 from 1.5

--  Change SysTray Icon

--  Add "Preference/Start Minimized" Menu Item.

--  Check number of other minor BUGs.

--  Check BUG with strange behavior if "Start with Minimized Window"
    checked in "Link to TaskInfo98" Properties.

--  Check BUG with Copy Panes to ClipBoard and NotePad. Now pasted text
    is in correct format.

--  Check BUG with reposition in Process Pane to selected Process
    without reason (no changes in process or threads numbers).

Changes For TaskInfo98 version 1.5 from 1.0

--  It is Shareware now.

--  Add Copy Panes to ClipBoard. See Edit/Copy.

--  Add minimizing/hiding to SysTray.

--  Add CPU% usage to TaskInfo98 Window Title.

--  Add SysTray Icon and animate it according CPU usage.

--  Add Font Setting capability.

--  Split View Menu into View and Preference. Preferences settings
    restored on next TaskInfo start.

--  Check a number of Bugs. Eliminate Hanging, Shutdown Error Message
    and other Strange things. Maybe add other bugs.

--  Add Open Files Information Panel for Current Process And System
    Wide Information. Optimized for Win98. On some Wind95 installations
    may not work.

--  Add Process and Thread IDs Show.

--  Port from Borland Builder VCL to VC++ MFC




Changes For TaskInfo98 version 1.0 from 1.0beta

--  Check some minor Bugs.

--  Add Help file.

--  Add Status Bar with help messages for all objects on TaskInfo Planes.

--  Keep Selected Process All Visible (including threads) on the screen.

--  Add Local Menu for Process/Thread Info Plane.

--  Add Show/Hide All Threads Command.

--  Add Set Process Priority Command.

--  Add Install/UnInstall Support

--  Remove Selected Thread Registers Plane. It has no sense. Maybe I am not
    right. If somebody knows why he need it -- let me know.