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System requirement:
True Launch Bar can be installed on Windows 2000/NT4/XP/Vista/Windows 7

If you run Windows™ 95/NT4 you must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer installed with integrated shell (Active Desktop).
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4.4.6 beta 07 February 2010
Fixed:
  • Explorer hungs and crashes for some conditions
4.4.4 beta 06 February 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
4.4.3 beta 18 November 2009
Fixed:
  • Filters are not working
  • Menu captions text is invisible
  • Incorrect separator width
  • Menu items in the plugins can be cropped
4.4.2 beta 01 November 2009
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
4.4.1 beta 25 October 2009
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)
4.4 21 March 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
4.3 16 October 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
4.2.7 RC3 12 August 2008
What's new:
  • "Parse shortcuts" option in the Arrange menu to order the list of shortcuts by the target file type
Fixed:
  • Text overlap with the menu arrow
  • The buttons can become hidden when using the Spacer plugin
  • Incompatibility with Deskscapes
  • Toolbar transparency option can hide toolbar
  • Incorrect the buttons size on toolbar first open
  • Show desktop can hide the standalone TLB forever
4.2.6 RC2 03 July 2008
What's new:
  • View icons in subfolders
  • Improved TLB Components Manager.
  • Added possibility to write the plugins-separators
  • Some minor improvements
Fixed:
  • Fixed bug with the toolbar background color
  • Impossible to change the text color and font when WindowBlinds theme is active
  • Some options are not working in the TLB Settings dialog box
  • Fixed crash on tip show over the Weather Forecast plugin
  • Some typo in the texts
4.2.5 RC1 29 April 2008
Fixed:
  • Menus appears in left-top side of the screen
  • Impossible to add/remove the toolbars for switching
  • Crash on Change Icon
  • Some minor bugs fixed
4.2.4 RC1 24 April 2008
What's new:
  • Global toolbar settings
  • New localization system (compatible with x64 systems)
  • "Disable toolbar overlap" option for menus
  • Some minor changes
  • Improved Windows Vista compatibility
Fixed:
  • caption text cut
  • Glass effect don't works well with the thumbnails
  • "Disable glass effect" option is working on second menu opening only
  • Impossible to activate toolbar by the keyboard
4.2.3 beta 29 December 2007
What's new:
  • Menu animations
  • No the menu caption text option
  • Auto-open the Tore Off Menus on start up
Fixed:
  • Fuzzy text
  • Improved glow text draw
  • Crash on deleting the last workspace
  • Long time to open TLB on some systems
  • Inversed buttons in the menu with the rest buttons (>>)
  • Text on the TLB Clock plugin can be rotated
  • Some unexpected crashes and lockups
4.2.2 beta 12 September 2007
What's new:
  • Glass effect for menus and standalone True Launch Bar
Fixed:
  • 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
4.2.1 beta 25 July 2007
What's new:
  • Added JPEG and GIF icons support
Fixed:
  • TLB show hidden items after Customize menu dialog
  • Change Icon and Change Description dialog boxes can be hidden under the taskbar
  • Tooltips without background on the Windows Vista with WindowBlinds
  • Some Control Panel items incorrectly shows as submenu
  • Incorrect buttons with text size on toolbar after restart
  • Titles looks wrong when expand/collapse buttons are enabled
  • Incompatibility with the allSnap and similar software
  • Crash after pressing ESC during drag and drop operations
  • Incorrect toolbar background after full screen applications on the Windows Vista
  • TLB can hung when there are the filtered folders
  • TLB can hang on vertical toolbar with collapsed separators
  • TLB lost icons on run
  • Open/Select files dialogs are shown under the backup/restore wizard on Windows Vista
  • Impossible to switch autosensing layouts by hotkeys
  • Item text change the width on select if used non-standard text color
  • Improvements in the Select Icon dialog box
4.2 19 April 2007
Fixed:
  • TLB is incompatible with Win2K
  • tlbHost have incorrect background after auto hide
  • Incorrect menu caption when accelerators are enabled
  • TLB draw old style icons incorrectly under Windows Vista
  • Menus have no shadow on new toolbars
4.1.7 RC 28 March 2007
Fixed:
  • Incorrect thumbnails in the Windows Vista
  • Impossible to use fixed fonts as menu item font
4.1.6 RC 13 March 2007
Fixed:
  • WindowBlinds incompatibility in the Windows Vista
  • Menu items width is incorrect after changing the menu items font
  • The width of the menu items is incorrect when view mode is icons with text
  • Extra text for the items with the hotkeys
  • Menu items text is always centered
4.1.5 RC 07 March 2007
What's new:
  • Added tlbHost utility for 64bit edition
Fixed:
  • Plugin's menu are shown incorrectly in some view modes
  • "Text to right" feature works incorrectly sometimes
  • Incorrectly tooltip appear on the scroller
  • Buttons with custom text color are shown incorrectly on the Windows Vista
  • Auto close for Tear Off menus works incorretly

 

4.1.4 RC 13 February 2007
Fixed:
  • Impossible to open sub menus
  • Running as Administrator via context menu on the Vista works incorrectly

 

4.1.3 RC 12 February 2007
What's new:
  • Accelerators in the context menu
  • Auto close for Tear Off menus
  • Text label can be at the right side for the large icons on the toolbar
Fixed:
  • tlbHost: Menu hotkeys working incorrectly when toolbar is in the autohide mode
  • Impossible to install skins on the Windows Vista
  • UAC applications runs as minimized on Vista
  • Limited menu height on vertical toolbars
  • Impossible to set the transparency for overlay images

 

4.1.2 beta 16 Descember 2006
What's new:
  • Popup menu at cursor position
Fixed:
  • Create Shortcut is not working on the Windows Vista
  • My Computer virtual folder don't show all items
  • Process Viewer plugin don't show the duplicated items
  • Menu can overflow the menu button
  • Reset Icon don't work for the submenus

 

4.1.1 beta 01 Descember 2006
What's new:
  • Improved Windows Vista support
4.1 26 September 2006
What's new:
  • 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
Fixed:
  • "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
4.0 27 June 2006
What's new:
  • Some minor changes
 
3.2.15 RC3 05 June 2006
What's new:
  • Menu hotkey toggle Tear Off menu's on/off like regular menus
  • Drag&Drop support for plugins
Fixed:
  • Explorer crash on menu close (64-bit edition)
  • Imposible to turn off "Tear Off Menu"
  • Long time to load My Computer
  • Some minor bugs
3.2.14 RC2 08 May 2006
What's new:
  • Added complete help fil.
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • Impossible to change the buttons text in My Computer virtual folder
  • Customize Menu dialog crash explorer sometimes
  • Toolbar transparency is not saved after reastart
  • Explorer crash when show tip with '<' sign
  • Some memory leaks
  • Some minor bugs
3.2.13 RC1 02 March 2006
What's new:
  • "Always show as file" option to prevent expand some file like ZIP and CAB into menu.
  • Support jpeg and BMP for toolbat overlay image
  • Rename "Text Menu" into "Default"
  • Added the option to save icon with toolbar by default
  • "Save with toolbar" option for toolbar overlay
  • Custom colors for toolbar buttons and text
Fixed:
  • Cut off text in Icons With Text view mode
  • Access to the floppy disk on every "My Computer" VF open
  • Taskbar with auto-hide is hides when menu opened (Window 2000/9x)
  • TLB don't save the plugins submenu settings
  • Bug in "Move to the right" option
  • Some plugins crash explorer on restart windows
  • TLB don't return focus on close menus by WIN key of hotkey
  • explorer crash on refresh if one of the Tear Off menu is opened
  • Recycle Bin icon is not changed after empty
  • Some minor bugs
3.2.12 beta 09 December 2005
Fixed:
  • Incompatibly with Window 98
  • Icons flashing and hight CPU usage
  • Some minor bugs
3.2.11 beta 05 December 2005
What's new:
  • Enable/Disable tips for all items from menu
  • Remember the old backup/restore file name
  • Added the Predefined Folders list into Create Menu wizard
  • Change properties for multiple buttons
Fixed:
  • Impossible to change hotkey
  • Activate the first menu item on hotkey
  • Gmail drive disapear from My Computer VF
  • Incorrect arrange in Control Panel
  • Bug with changing hotkeys
  • PageDown show scroller if there are nothing to scroll
  • Ignore the folders extensions on rename
  • Incorrect size of the buttons with text only
  • Locking toolbar during loading menu items
  • 64bit version don't working
  • Some minor bugs
3.2.10 beta 18 September 2005
Fixed:
  • Toolbar separator is invisible on ChaNinja Visual Style
  • Hotkeys are not working correctly
  • Incorrect the text label positon in the menus with the view mode "Smaill Icons With Text"
3.2.9 beta 12 September 2005
What's new:
  • "Tear Off Menu" feature
  • SHIFT+Left/Right arrow to select menu item from othe column
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • TLB don't save text color for buttons
  • Filters don't works correctly
  • "Overwrite sub-menu options" works incorrectly
  • Optimal size of toolbar is incorrect when plugins installed on toolbar
  • Menu shadow don't supported on Windows Vista
  • Some minor bugs fixed
  • 64-bit edition: Incompatible with WindowBlinds
3.2.8 beta 20 August 2005
What's new:
  • Run All command for menus
  • Settings preview window
  • Changing the separators color
  • Drag&Drop for plugins
  • Added Install Skin Wizard
  • Added Fonts tab into TLB Settings dialog
  • New Registration Keys
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • Shortcuts ordering bug
  • Bug with "Move to right/bottom" option
  • Some minor bugs fixed
3.2.7 beta 14 June 2005
What's new:
  • Option to install license key for current account only
  • Added right-aligned text into button properties
  • Added "Apply to Folders" option into "Arrange Icons by" submenu
  • Runs count for shortcuts
  • Backup/restore now uses wizard and improved error reporting
  • Change the text of buttons and menu items without renaming
  • Added separate options for submenus in "Customize Menu" dialog box
  • Arrange icons by runs count
  • Arrange icons by last run time
  • Option to add hotkey name to the right of menu item text
  • Support JPEG, GIF, BMP formats for overlay images
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • Root drives duplication after re-mount
  • Fixed resources leaks in Programs virtual folder
  • Some buttons lost hotkeys
  • Duplicating button when drag&drop from the Rest Buttons menu (under >>)
  • Some minor bugs fixed
3.2.6 beta 08 May 2005
What's new:
  • PAGE UP/DOWN keys handling
Fixed:
  • TLB become unregistered after restart
  • Explorer crash or hangs on Windows startup
  • Explorer crash after entering license key
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.2.5 beta 04 May 2005
What's new:
  • Redesigned TLB Settings dialog box
  • Improved custom colors. Now you can overwrite any skin with your colors
  • Added titles color option
  • Added menu highlight color gradient
  • Added horizontal gradient for menu caption
  • Added toolbar backgroud gradient option
  • New options for description and tips caption: Hide, show, show default
  • Added custom tips/menu caption.
  • Added "Sizing step" option in the toolbar tab
  • Added titles alignment option
  • Added "Open submenu in explorer on mouse click" option
  • Added "Open submenu in explorer on ENTER " option
  • Added "Popup submenu on mouse hover" option
Fixed:
  • TLB become unregistered after restart
  • TLB don't show description saved with shortcut
  • Memory leaks on delete buttons
  • Duplicating Control Panel items under Windows 98
  • The default alignment does not works for horizontal toolbars
  • TLB don't save the menu options
  • Explorer crash or hangs on drag&drop
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.2.4 beta 17 March 2005
What's new:
  • Added wizard to create/edit auto-sensing workspaces
  • Added wizard to create menus
  • Improved performans for arrange icons
  • Auto-sensing uing hotkey
  • Auto-arrange by name new virtual folders
  • Save button settings for removable drives
  • Reduced size of tlbdata.xml files
  • New short registration keys
Fixed:
  • TLB don't change icon of Recycle Bin if non standard icon used
  • Memory leaks on delete buttons
  • Separators can be invisible on toolbar
  • The width of menu with different icon sizes can be incorrect
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.2.3 beta 22 February 2005
Fixed:
  • Explorer crash on Drag&Drop
  • Removed USB flash-drive stay in My Computer Virtual Folder
  • Arrange Icons by Type works incorrectly
  • Button lost properties after Drag&Drop
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.2.2 beta 23 January 2005
What's new:
  • Changing default run command
  • Each button can have own icon size
  • Each button can have own text properties (bold, italic, alignment)
  • Improved accelerator
  • Improved auto-collapse feature for separator
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • Impossible to order icons by file type
  • Incompatibility with Logitech QuickCam software
  • Superfluous files in the User and All Users profile folders
  • Problems with icons from ICL files
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.2 09 November 2004
What's new:
  • Hold down SHIFT+CTRL and right-click button to show default context menu
  • Added option "Show hidden files"
  • Add documents into "Windows My Recent Documents"
  • Added "margin of icons view menu" into metrics tab
  • Added "Show arrow" option into Appearance submenu to enable/disable arrow on button
  • Added "Default alignment" option into Toolbar tab
  • Added "Load on Startup" option in the context menu Appearance to load some virtual folders on startup
  • Added options "Max menu width/height", "Show menu caption", "Docking point" and "Menu align" into Customize Menu dialog
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • Impossible to show hidden file inside user profile folder
  • Run and Expand buttons of separator are placed incorrectly
  • Impossible to setup auto-arrange icons via Customize Menu dialog
  • Incorrect button style in the menu with icons only and without menu arrows
  • The files locked by other processes can be hidden in Virtual Folders
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.1 14 September 2004
What's new:
  • Context help files converted into XML format to support UNICODE languages
  • Dynamic tips for plugins
  • The plugins Properties dialog now is not modal
Fixed:
  • Executed application lost focus if option "Auto close menu on mouse leave" is turned on
  • Menu can be closed incorrectly if "Auto close menu on mouse leave" is turned on
  • Tips text is bold
  • Context menu of submenu can close inexpertly
  • Tips can be shown over context menu
  • Context menu of plugins is not compatible with auto close feature
  • Startup time is very long
  • Impossible to show hidden files in the Virtual Folders. Now TLB uses system setting
  • Lost icons from shell32.dll
  • Explorer crash on deleting the last item from ">>" menu
  • Error on creating profiles
  • Impossible to create the setting profiles with unicode names
  • Virtual Folder is shown incorrectly after deleting some items.
  • Impossible drag URL from Maxthon
  • Edit box of ToDo List plugin can be hidden
  • Some minor bug fixed
3.0 5 July 2004
What's new:
  • Improved performance of fetching virtual folders
  • Changing icons of context menu items
  • Apply custom menu font for Icons With Text view
  • The second pressing of menu hotkey now close it
  • Return focus to previously active window after closing menu
  • Protecting separators and titles
  • New TLB Components Manager that replace Live Update
  • Added TLB Clear utility to delete all files created by TLB and reset True Launch Bar into default state
Fixed:
  • Tips lost on rename
  • Mouse can prevent keyboard navigation
  • Icons from shell32.dll can be empty
  • Help buttons does not work
  • Explorer crashes on deleting
  • Resource leaks in Customize Menu dialog
  • Size of toolbar can be incorrect
  • TLB show files on dismounted volumes
  • TLB crash after deleting workspace in Auto-sensing tab
  • Common processes for Auto-sensing work only after refresh
  • Incorrect tips position on multi monitor system
  • Tip do not appear if move mouse out off toolbar
  • Lost icon on rename in Virtual Folders
  • Impossible to install skins for plugins in Windows 98
  • Improved mouse wheel handling
  • Icons disappears after moving buttons
  • Refreshing menu does not work correctly
  • Install Skins can crash explorer
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.18 RC3 12 April 2004
Fixed:
  • Color is not saved when move titles
  • Actual and min size can be incorrect
  • TLB does not save Enable/Disable tips option
  • The height of multi column menus can be not the best
  • Resource leaks on context menu
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.16 RC3 15 March 2004
What's new:
  • Improved "auto popup first level menus" options
  • "Hide toolbar title" option now is non-global
  • Creating Virtual Folders inside other Virtual Folders using context menu and drag&drop
  • Tool tip ON/OFF per item
  • Custom submenu open delay time
Fixed:
  • Max menu width does not woks at all
  • Icons substitutes for shell32.dll works incorrectly if new file does not exists
  • Dragging titles removes the text of title
  • TLB can crash on file deleting
  • Mouse click discards if you click tool tip
  • "Set Image" option is not available for Virtual Folders
  • Incorrect theme for >> button on vertical toolbar
  • Tool tip on System Monitor is too wide (Windows 98)
  • Folders with extension show incorrectly
  • "Manage toolbar" menu item does not open Toolbars tab
  • Resource leaks when using shadows under menu on Windows 2000
  • Incorrect minimum and the best size of vertical toolbar
  • The best size of horizontal toolbar with some rows is incorrect
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.15 RC2 04 February 2004
What's new:
  • Move some buttons to the right side of toolbar
  • Separator always in same column as first item in the group
  • Added keyboard accelerators
  • Open next menu using CTRL + left/right arrow
  • Keyboard navigation improvements
  • Added context help into TLB Settings dialog box
  • Support 3 state PNG images as button background
  • Intersect the WIN key together with StartKiller
  • Expanding shortcuts to folder into menu
Fixed:
  • Deleting/moving separator hides all buttons of group
  • Caption text is shown incorrectly on the top
  • Resource leaks in Select Icon dialog box
  • If scroll menu to down it can become invisible
  • Problems with Apply Settings to sub folders
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Problems with tool tips
  • Hiding filter doesn't works
  • Explorer crash on shell menu when tips are disabled
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.14 beta 12 January 2004
What's new:
  • Close menu using right arrow
  • Changing icon for "Show Desktop" button and similar buttons
  • Edit Description dialog now resizable
  • Many improvements of Select Icon dialog box
  • Added "Reset Icon" menu item to reset icon into default
  • Support of PNG images as icons
  • Support of folders as icons library
  • Save overlays images and icons inside toolbar for easy backup/restore and distributing ready toolbars
  • Changed backup file format to fix many problems. Please make new backups of toolbars.
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • Tips text color is always black
  • Tab order in some of dialog boxes
  • Changing hotkey does not working before refresh
  • It is possible to drop into My Computer Virtual Folder
  • Deleting from the Rest menu (>>) can crash explorer
  • Tooltips shows incorrectly on the second monitor
  • Explorer crash when drop submenu on itself
  • No spaces after </b> in tooltips
  • Impossible to apply overlay alignment options to child
  • Impossible to change "Recent" menu size
  • Incorrect menu caption when caption on top
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.13 beta 18 December 2003
What's new:
  • Changing description for menus
Fixed:
  • Lost the changes of any plugin properties after refresh or restart
  • Overlay images transparency reset into 0
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.12 beta 15 December 2003
What's new:
  • Support HTML like color values for <ct> and <cb> tags in tips
Fixed:
  • Resource leak while show tips
  • Tips are empty if text in Japanese, Chinese or other unicode language
  • Custom colors works incorrectly on Windows XP
  • All new created menus uses incorrect view mode
  • Text color can be incorrect in menus on Windows XP
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.11 beta 8 December 2003
What's new:
  • Installing TLB skins and plugin skins from zip files
  • Enhanced tips with icons and some HTML tags support
  • Transparency of tips in Windows XP
  • Changing time of opening and closing of tips
  • Improved integration with Windows XP visual styles
  • Options for overlays images: alignment, stretch
  • Improved hot keys handling
Fixed:
  • Impossible to unlock buttons in some cases
  • Impossible to run My Computer from desktop virtual folder
  • Sometimes nag screen appears in registered version
  • some minor fixes
2.2.0.9 beta 10 November 2003
Fixed:
  • Fixed drag&drop from Avant Browser
  • Memory leaks
  • "Find Target" does not works if file name contain comma
  • Incompatibility with Internet Explorer 5.0 (separator, icons, positions etc. reset into default after refresh)
  • some minor fixes
2.2.0.8 beta 31 October 2003
What's new:
  • Support drag&drop from Avant Browser
  • Templates for context menu
  • Backup/restore toolbar
Fixed:
  • Imposible to make 2 row toolbar on Window XP
  • Changing icons after settings of icons size is changed
  • Autoclose works under Command Line plugin
  • Auto-arrange on toolbar can cause explorer crashes
  • Possible lost toolbar/menu layout
  • Impossible to change icon for Virtual Folders
  • Menu background color for "Icons only" and "Icons with Text" layouts
  • some minor fixes
2.2.0.7 beta 14 August 2003
What's new:
  • Hot keys manager into TLB Settings dialog
  • Support of autohide for plugins (PSDK)
  • Support of child windows for plugins (PSDK)
Fixed:
  • Correct icon chaging for Recycle Bin and similar shortcuts
  • Changed keyboard handle to meet the Windows standards
  • Fixed some memory leaks
  • Improved handle of Virtual Folders like printers
  • Changed big plugins buttons alignment to center
  • Some minor bug fixed
2.2.0.6 beta 07 July 2003
Fixed:
  • Resource leak
  • Network connection do not restored when running shortcuts to network resources
  • Sometimes "Run as..." does not works on Windows 2000
  • True Launch Bar cannot be translated
  • Some minor fixes
2.2.0.5 beta 27 June 2003
What's new:
  • Some minor enhancements
Fixed:
  • Incorrectly converted layout data can cause explorer crash
  • Possible crashes on multi-column menus
  • Some resource leak
  • Links on About tab can be inaccessible
  • Auto-collapse feature works for separators without expand/collapse mark
  • Menu is inaccessible if all items are hidden
2.2.0.4 beta 23 June 2003
What's new:
  • WIN key support for hot keys
  • Overlay image for toolbar
  • Open previous menu after operations like Rename, Delete, Change Icon etc.
  • All layout data and menu options now saved using XML format
  • 'Real' Multi columns layout for menus
  • Hot key for separators to activate Run All
  • Dropping shortcuts into collapsed group now expand group
  • Disable/Enable icons in the context menu
  • Changing the color of toolbar
  • Changing font of menu items
  • Added "Show all hidden" menu item to show all hidden items at once
  • "Open in explorer" menu item to find selected file in explorer
  • "Find target" menu item to to open target file of the selected shortcut
  • "Collapse after run" for separator is replaced by "Auto collapse". Now group is collapsed after closing menu too
  • New look of TLB Settings dialog box
  • Many minor visual enhancement
Fixed:
  • The same files from User Profile and from All Users can be duplicated
  • Items for new menu does not sorted
  • Impossible to create plugin button inside Virtual Folders
  • Some minor bug fixes
2.2.0.1 beta 17 February 2003
What's new:
  • Support overlay images on menus
  • Import/Export related menu
  • Multi column layout for text menu
  • Option to disable to move toolbar by free space (Lock Toolbar)
  • Shell menu can be placed into submenu
  • Auto-sensing toolbar
  • Improved Appearance menu
  • Some minor changes
Fixed:
  • The rest button can be deleted with lost of all its button until refresh
  • Drag&Drop bug in Window NT4
  • True Launch Bar settings dialog always on top
  • Some minor bugs
2.2 9 December 2002
What's new:
  • Added filtering of Virtual Folders
  • Added Windows XP-style icons support on Windows 2000/9x/Me/NT4
  • Improved handling of the Rest menu
  • Some minor improvements
Fixed:
  • Crashes while moving files from/to Rest menu (under >>)
  • Duplicating item while moving files to Rest menu
  • Some memory leaks
  • Shadow can stay on desktop after Drag&Drop (Windows 2000)
  • Impossible to open menu after Drag&Drop
2.0 4 November 2002
What's new:
  • Added support of software that changes shell icons (like Icon Packager)
Fixed:
  • Cannot select icon of nonstandard size in the Windows 9x/Me
  • Change description does not works
  • Show hidden button on toolbar can hang explorer
  • Toolbar does not redraws when last plugin button changes its size
  • When rename file changing only letters caps, changes appears only after refreshing
  • Some minor bugs
1.2.9 RC3 12 October 2002
Fixed:
  • Duplicating items in the Rest menu on toolbar
  • Arrange by date works incorrectly
  • Behavior of sorting now more closely to the explorer's standards
1.2.8 RC3 10 October 2002
What's new:
  • Arrange Icons By date created and date modified
  • Changing size of menu items
  • Mouse wheel
  • Live Update utility included
Fixed:
  • Drag&Drop between two toolbars works incorrectly
  • Drag&Drop from menu stops on menu close
  • Dropping url's with very long names to TLB can crash explorer.exe
  • Duplicating items in the Rest menu on toolbar
  • File extensions .lnk and .url now impossible to change
  • Fixed submenu position for multi column layout
  • Impossible to change sort type in the Customize menu dialog box
  • Renaming items take effect only after refresh menu
  • Show plugins button inside virtual folders
  • The last opened toolbar folder do not show in the Windows 2000/9x/Me
  • Virtual folders do not refreshes on some conditions
  • When drop button into recycle bin and then cancel button lost position
  • When select delete from context menu and then cancel the removal button lost position (Windows 9x/Me)
  • Some other minor bugs
1.2.7 RC3 9 September 2002
What's new:
  • Refresh of toolbar now refreshes toolbar settings and skin
  • "Apply to child folders" option in the Customize Menu dialog box
Fixed:
  • Color panel in Menu tab cause explorer crash (Windows Me)
  • Drag&Drop between two toolbars works incorrectly
  • Explorer crash on LiveImage (and some other protected) shortcuts
  • Impossible to rename Control Panel if it is added as Virtual Folder
  • It is impossible to open Select Color Dialog in the Menu appearance tab
  • Recently Accessed menu contain less items then in settings
  • Rename do not works correctly for first level menu items under Windows 9x/Me
  • Renaming folder inside Virtual folder cause the lost of submenu items
  • TLB does not save text color for titles
  • Uninstall can hang up
  • Some other minor bugs
1.2.6 RC3 14 August 2002
What's new:
  • Support of system icon cache (for users of IconPackager)
Fixed:
  • Bug in Drag & Drop of files with unicode names
  • Explorer crash if using icon from Resplendent Registrar (also from some other app's)
  • Some minor bugs
1.2.5. RC3 4 August 2002
What's new:
  • "Collapse after run" feature for separators
  • Full support of unicoded file names and languages (like Japanese)
  • Context help in the TLB Settings dialog box
Fixed:
  • Sort do not works correctly inside Recently accessed menu
  • Some bugs that cause explorer crash
  • Some minor bugs
1.2.3. RC2 11 July 2002
What's new:
  • Thumbnails view
  • Scrollbars
  • Sorting order Ascending/Descending
  • Customizing scrolling options (value and time) for smooth scroll.
  • Advanced System Info tab.
  • Quick search by typing first letters on keyboard
Fixed:
  • Explorer crash after changing icon, adding related and some other cases
  • Incorrect menu draw if buttons margins changed
  • Shortcuts are placed into C:\WINDOWS instead recent folder
  • Buttons duplicating
  • Dragging from other toolbar (like Desktop) can crash explorer
  • Many minor bugs
1.2.2. RC1 23 May 2002
What's new:
  • Improved layout for vertical toolbar.
  • Expand/collapse now work for vertical toolbar with text.
  • Toolbar layout for menus (show icons only).
  • Now your folders from All Users and user profile are combined in one folder.
  • Auto close timeout now in milliseconds.
  • Timeout for auto popup first level menu.
  • Improved multithreading.
Fixed:
  • Impossible to drop files into empty menu.
  • Dropping into Rest button can crash explorer.
  • Renaming/Deleting root Virtual Folder will take effect on real folder.
  • Drag&Drop between menus can cause explorer crash.
  • Re cashing buttons from the Rest button.
  • Some minor bugs.
1.2.1 beta 14 April 2002
What's new:
  • Improved support of Auto-hide toolbar/task bar
Fixed:
  • Show arrows option does not works
  • Incorrect text label for Titles Font option
  • Bug in Icon parser
  • Some minor bugs
1.2 beta 10 April 2002
What's new:
  • Recent button (Same as Number of programs on Start Menu in Windows XP)
  • Last run time can be shown in tool tips
  • Improved performance of Virtual Folders
  • Improved Drag&Drop support. Now TLB must recognize all possible shell's Drag&Drop formats.
  • Added Add To Related menu item to drag menu (when dragging using right button)
  • Improved separators (Run All In Group and Collapse/Expand Group)
  • Custom colors in menus
  • Custom icon sizes
Fixed:
  • Plug in buttons incorrect draw under Windows XP
  • Click on tool tip can close menu without running the program
  • Transparent option can hide toolbar/menu
  • Moving buttons can lock task bar
  • Some minor bugs
1.1.0.20 beta 1 March 2002
What's new:
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Using hot keys to open menus
  • Using hot keys for the non shortcuts buttons
  • Metrics tab in TLB Settings dialog
  • Toolbar transparency
  • Turning off the floating toolbar caption
Fixed:
  • Incorrect menu draw under Windows XP + Window Blinds
  • Changing inside folder with Auto arrange can cause explorer.exe crash
  • Auto refresh do not work inside My Computer Virtual Folder
  • Some minor bugs
1.1.0.19 beta 11 February 2002
What's new:
  • Support any size for small and large icons
Fixed:
  • "Auto arrange buttons" does not work correctly with separators
  • "Auto popup first level menu" sometimes does not work correctly.
  • Some minor bugs
1.1.0.18 beta 3 February 2002
What's new:
  • Turn On/Off the shadow of menus.
  • Support shadows under menus on Windows 2000 systems
  • Sorting take effect between separators/titles
  • The time of loading is reduced
  • Auto arrange buttons
  • Flat menus & menu items
  • Support Windows XP styles for menus
  • Allow to convert folder into button inside Virtual Folders
Fixed:
  • Crashes on selecting some skins on Windows 98/Me
  • Cannot drag between menus if the first button of toolbar is menu
  • Cannot change icon of menu inside virtual folder
  • The menu under double arrows (>> chevron) do not opens.
  • Hiding shadows under menus on Windows XP
1.1.0.17 26 December 2001
What's new:
  • Remove file extension when drop file to True Launch Bar
  • Improved support 48x48 icons
  • Allow drop links with unicode chars in the name from Internet Explorer
  • Auto dock True Launch Bar to the left side of task bar
  • Improved support Windows XP themes and styles
  • Toolbar title now is the same as toolbar name in the Toolbars tab of Settings dialog.
  • Added hidden setting MaxMenuWidth. You can change this value in the setup.ini
Fixed:
  • Crashes on delete buttons
  • Incorrect using of Windows XP visual styles
  • True Launch Bar do not set correct actual size after changing icon size
  • Problems with dragging buttons between folders
  • Incorrect button sizes when Show Text option is turned on.
  • Some minor bug fixed
1.1.0.16 RC3 9 December 2001
What's new:
  • New help file added
  • Optimized memory and resource use
  • Added hidden settings SmallBtnWithTextMaxWidth, LargeBtnWithTextMaxWidth, MaxTipWidth. You can change this values in the setup.ini
Fixed:
  • Memory leaks in the Virtual Folders
  • Hot keys do not work if more then one toolbar are opened
  • Invalid working with Internet Shortcuts
  • Problems with dragging buttons between toolbars
  • Some minor bug fixed
1.1.0.15 RC2 28 November 2001
What's new:
  • Auto close menu on mouse out
  • Optimized memory and resource use
  • Added skin support for menu scrollers
  • Added transparency for separators
Fixed:
  • GDI resources leaks
  • Bad performance on folders with huge number of items
  • Incorrect size of plugging icon
  • Some minor bug fixed
1.1.0.14 RCA 17 November 2001
Fixed:
  • Incorrect extracting of icons
  • The small black line on the bottom of item with gradient filling skin.
1.1.0.13 RCA 16 November 2001
What's new:
  • Support of native Windows XP skins
  • Updated skin specification
  • Added skin for menu caption
  • Large icons in menus
  • Support 24x24 and 48x48 icons
Fixed:
  • Incompatibility with Window Blinds
  • Duplicating items with Background Folder Load option on.
  • Some minor bug fixed
1.1.0.12 beta 22 October 2001
What's new:
  • Now TLB can load folder contents and icons in background (without locking task bar)
  • Updated context menu
  • Refreshing of single folder
  • Added *.icl file type into Browse Icons dialog
  • Added sort by Name, Type, Size in the Virtual Folders
  • Added Activate Button into Toolbars Dialog
  • Added option "Do not show toolbar title"
Fixed:
  • Fixed 32bit colors icon draw in Windows XP
  • Cannot change icon from files with single icon inside (Windows XP)
  • Create Shortcut inserts new button into the end of toolbar/menu
  • Some minor bug fixed
1.1.0.11 beta 4 October 2001
What's new:
  • TLB now allow drag buttons using right button
  • Added support of Windows XP visual styles for all dialog boxes
Fixed:
  • Lose Related Links and Icons after moving button to other folder
  • Explorer.exe crashes after changing Icon in the Virtual Folders and restart
  • Lose Related Links in the Virtual Folders after restart
1.1.0.10 beta 3 October 2001
What's new:
  • System Info tab
  • You can add Related Links to every button and access them using context menu
  • Adding titles (separator with text) to the menu
  • Changing Icons in Virtual Folders
  • Protecting buttons by password (Run, Hide/Un hide, Delete...)
  • Run With now works inside Virtual Folders
  • Now you can lock/unlock buttons in single folder (menu)
Fixed:
  • Layout does not saved for folder with long names (more than 32 chars)
  • Drag&Drop operation can insert duplicated buttons
  • Memory leaks in the Settings Dialog
  • Drag&Drop insertion marker draw white lines on panel
  • Closing menu by clicking on empty space of TLB cause explorer.exe crash.
  • Possible CPU 100% loading
  • Some other minor changed
1.1.0.9 beta 9 September 2001
Fixed:
  • Toolbar layout does not saved after Windows restart
  • Drag&Drop does not start if you try to drag opened menu button
  • Explorer.exe crashes while undocking toolbar
  • Icons for some files does not shows correctly
  • Drag&Drop does not start if you try to drag button out off toolbar window
  • Cannot drop shortcuts from TLB into other toolbar or Start menu.
1.1.0.8 beta 5 September 2001
Fixed:
  • New -> Shortcut cause an error creating shortcut and rename the destination folder
  • Insertion marker does not disappear when canceling drag&drop
  • True Launch Bar does not remember last used shortcut folder
  • Cannot change icon for top level Virtual Folders
  • The run-on-mouse-hover blocking key changed to SHIFT to prevent the copy buttons while drag&drop
1.1.0.7 beta 3 September 2001
What's new:
  • Press CTRL to block run-on-mouse-hover feature
  • Colored text in menus
  • Hide/Unhide buttons in Virtual Folders
  • Fast switching between predefined toolbars
  • Improved changes tracking in Virtual Folders
  • Show number of items in the menu caption
  • "Do not cut off captions" feature
  • Opportunity to align menu caption to the top side
  • Improved tooltips on Virtual Folders (now we use standard tooltips from shell)
Fixed:
  • Running from Virtual Folders will not set the working folder correctly
  • The settings lost when change toolbar folder
  • Some minor bugs
1.1.0.6 beta 8 August 2001
What's new:
  • "Show Text" feature
  • Pause in EMail Notify
  • Run on mouse hover (run shortcuts without click)
  • Added menu item in the Right button drag menu for creating Virtual Folder
  • Now you can change basic folder for True Launch Bar
Fixed:
  • Incorrect menu position in vertical toolbar
  • "CPU stress" on load True Launch Bar
  • Some minor bugs
1.1.0.5 beta 30 July 2001
What's new:
  • Added support for dragging URL from IE to toolbar
  • Now you can drag files from Virtual Folders
  • Added manual reorder of the items in Virtual Folders
  • Virtual Folders now support separators
  • The submenus use system hover time to open
  • The caption of the first level menus are shifting to the right
  • The caption in virtual folders now visible
  • Added menu scrolling while drag&drop
  • Added support for virtual folders with huge number of files
  • Tool tips in Virtual Folders show type and size of the file.
Fixed:
  • Resource leak while draw separators
  • Black bitmap in the skinned toolbar
  • Incorrect background of toolbar in the second row of taskbar (Windows XP)
  • Some minor bugs
1.1.0.4 beta 5 July 2001
What's new:
  • Skins support added
Fixed:
  • Windows XP crashes when turn on True Launch Bar
  • Icon library menu shows after selecting the file in the Change Icon dialog box
  • Some minor bugs.
1.1.0.3 beta 20 June 2001
What's new:
  • Now you can to drag the files/folders/shortcuts using right button (with menus on drop).
  • You can to change the tooltips text of the shortcut buttons.
  • You can to change the icon for a plugin buttons.
  • Multi account E-mail notify button.
  • Added time-out in E-mail notify button.
  • Now you can to define the Icon Libraries for quickly access to your favorite icons.
  • You can to Hide/Unhide some of buttons without deleting them.
Fixed:
  • Tooltips with large text now breaks into some lines
  • E-mail notify button do not recognize Quoted Printable headers
1.1.0.2 beta 07 June 2001
Fixed:
  • Plugin's buttons not visible in the context menu for empty space of toolbar
  • E-Mail Notify button may cause crash of explorer.exe while logoff, rename or delete this button
  • Mail list dialog may cause crash of explorer.exe in some cases.
1.1.0.1 beta 05 June 2001
What's new:
  • Now you can move files or shortcuts into Virtual Folders
  • Added a plugin engine.
  • True Launch Bar Plus! Includes E-mail Notify and Shutdown Windows buttons.
Fixed:
  • Bug with drag&drop operation on Windows 2000/Me.
  • Some minor bugs.
1.0.10.0 17 May 2001
What's new:
  • Virtual Folders allow you to add content of any folder to True Launch Bar. You can add even Printers, Dial up Networks, Control Panel and other.
  • Large Icons.
  • Lock Buttons option allow you to disable the moving of buttons.
  • Sort by name.
  • Adjustable mouse hover time.
  • Menu scrolling.
  • Two colors in menu captions.
  • Double click on menus opens the folder.
  • Now you can select tool tips type or turn off them.
  • Multiply monitor support added.
  • Now you can adjust min size of toolbar (in buttons).
  • Some other improvements.
1.0.9.0 5 March 2001
What's new:
  • You can add separators in menus or toolbar
  • You can setup hot keys to quickly launch vary favorite applications. Simply setup this hot key in shortcut's properties dialog box.
  • Now you can open your menu buttons without click. Simply hover mouse cursor on menu button. If you do not need it then you can turn off this feature.
  • You can create new shortcut using standard dialog box "Create shortcut". Right-click on True Launch Bar and select Create shortcut or New->Shortcut.
Fixed:
  • Copy shortcuts by Ctrl+drag now work correctly.
    If drag&drop operation is fail some buttons will removed from True Launch Bar until refresh.
  • Optimal size of True Launch Bar not correct calculated after adding new shortcut or deleting.
  • If you click on upper menu item that this site is opened. This bag is in unregistered version only. Now this fixed.
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