WinStep Xtreme full changelog

A Faster, Smarter Way to Launch Apps:
The new All Programs tab provides a powerful new way to browse and launch applications from shelves, drawers and Grid Stacks. Instead of navigating through nested Start Menu folders, all applications are displayed together in a single alphabetically sorted list with letter separators, making it much easier to find what you want at a glance.
Just start typing and the Search Box will appear automatically, filtering the list in real time as you type. This makes the All Programs tab especially effective for quickly locating installed applications without the distractions of the Windows Start Menu. Version 26.4 also introduces a new Programs tab type that displays the contents of the Start Menu All Programs folder with program groups opening as Grid Stacks. A shortcut to a 7x5 All Programs Grid Stack is now included by default on the dock, giving new users immediate access to this feature.
Full Hotkey Control at Your Fingertips:
Hotkeys are now more powerful and easier to manage than ever. You can assign hotkeys to sub-docks, Grid Stacks and LaunchPads, making it possible to instantly open them wherever the mouse pointer is, or close them again if they are already open.
Version 26.4 adds a new Hotkey Manager to the Troubleshooting Options dialog. It provides a convenient overview of all defined hotkeys, including their location, current status and any conflicts, and also allows hotkeys to be edited or removed directly from a single place.
Significantly Improved Search Performance:
Search is now much faster and more responsive across shelves, drawers and Grid Stacks. Instead of retrieving items from disk every time the search filter changes, the application now keeps using the existing in-memory data unless a file system change is detected in the source folder or tab.
Simply start typing to activate search - items that don't match are automatically filtered out.
The result is a smoother and more fluid experience while typing, especial

Highlighted Features:
New Disk Meter Module:
The new Disk Meter module delivers a clear, real-time view of disk activity, capacity, and drive health in a single, highly customizable widget. It is available both as an iconic module that monitors a single drive and as a full desktop meter capable of monitoring multiple drives simultaneously and visualizing read/write activity with dynamic histograms. Both versions can optionally display SMART-based temperature and SSD wear information.
The default desktop module is available in both dark and light versions and can be freely switched between vertical and horizontal layouts to suit any desktop setup. Users can choose which fixed drives to monitor and how many to display.
The iconic version of the Disk Meter is designed for compact, at-a-glance monitoring. It allows users to select a specific drive to monitor, overlay key statistics directly on the icon, and visualize used and free space, with optional disk activity indicators.
Available in two styles (drive and ring chart), full color customization is supported via the Icon Factory, allowing the module to blend seamlessly with any dock or theme.
The Icon Factory also includes several built-in colorization presets and allows users to save their own color customization settings as new presets for easy reuse.
In addition to layout and appearance options, the Disk Meter offers fine-grained control over what information is displayed and how it is presented.
Users can independently configure primary and secondary metrics for the module, such as disk activity, temperature, or SMART health indicators, and choose whether this information appears as text, visual overlays, or both.
For iconic meters, top and bottom text overlays can be enabled or disabled independently to avoid visual clutter.
The settings dialog also allows users to select which fixed drives are monitored, control whether drive activity is shown, and choose the default theme applied to the module. Clear warnings

Added *per-monitor* DPI compatibility, allowing Winstep applications to work properly on multi-monitor systems where scaling/DPI settings are not the same for all monitors.
Multi-monitor profiles now also take into account the DPI setting of monitors, while still retaining compatibility with older monitor profiles.
Removed calls to the dead Weather.com and Yahoo weather feeds.
"System" and "[System Process]" are now translated.
System Interrupts CPU usage is now retrieved by the Winstep Helper service.
CPU Utility value is now only retrieved if 'Use Legacy Mode' is NOT checked.
Clicking a Buy Now or Renew Now button now also copies the URL to the clipboard.
Pressing CTRL while right clicking an item opens that item's Properties dialog.
Pressing SHIFT while right clicking an item always shows all options in the right click context menu.
Added new 'Activate All' internal command. Activates all enabled docks, shelves, drawers and desktop modules and brings them to the foreground.
"Registry" and "Memory Compression" are now correctly identified in the list of processes instead of appearing as "[System Process]".
Improved the appearance of many of the common controls for the Dark Mode (Gray), Dark Mode (Black) and Winstep GUI modes so they better match the Windows 10 and Windows 11 look.
For Dark Mode (Gray) changed the color of the scrolling text at the bottom of the About screen when renewal has elapsed from dark red to a color more legible on the gray background.
All dialog boxes with a Cancel button as well as information dialogs that have a single OK button will now close automatically when you press the ESC key.
Manual Backup Settings now automatically adds a timestamp to the backup filename.
If getting weather info using the weather.com code fails, the weather module now automatically tries again using the location name.
Decreased processor usage by caching fonts in memory.
Further decreased processor usage by merg

* Besides getting the weather module to work again, robustness is increased by supporting two alternative weather forecast feeds: if one of those feeds fails in the future, the other will be used automatically.
* You can now use most of the dock mouseover effects as the 'Launch' and 'Attention' effects.
* Added new Tray tab to WorkShelf Preferences and vastly improved management of cached tray icons (the tray icon cache no longer grows to contain hundreds of images when using applications that put random data images on the system tray).
* The size of the system tray icons in NextSTART can now be user-specified from 16x16 to 64x64.
* Desktop modules can now remain visible even when hovering the Aeropeek button in the taskbar.
* Added new 'Flip3D' internal command, which you can now add to the dock and click to start Flip3D.
* Fixed a problem with maximized Chrome windows where the dock would stop responding to edge bumps.

# Improved compatibility with skins for 3rd party docks
# Image thumbnails now preserve aspect ratio
# Added support for the new NOOA weather module URL
# Drives tab in the Shelf now refreshes automatically when adding or removing drives
# Added drag & drop support to window preview thumbnails
# Windows preview thumbnails now skinnable
# Proper handling of Windows 7 pinned applications on the NextSTART taskbar

Version 10.9 adds nine new dock and Shelf colorizable mouse over effects, five new menu opening animations, multiple docks and the Shelf can now be attached to same screen edge, docks can display running applications with live window thumbnails and Aeropeek capability on mouse over (like the Windows 7 taskbar), sub-docks can open on mouse over, and much more! Winstep Xtreme now supports 16 languages.