Universal Explorer History
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Version 5.1 (Jan 21, 2011)
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File Manager:
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+ Added:
Windows 7 support added

! Fixed:
'Black icons' issue.
Some minor bug fixed.

Version 5.0 (July 1, 2008)
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File Manager:
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+ Added:
Windows Vista support added
Improved file browsing speed.

! Fixed:
Some minor bug fixed.

Tools:
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Improved "System Information" Tool
Added information about hard disks

Multimedia Palayer:
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Improved video files visualization
Added full screen mode for video previewing

RTF Viewer:
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Added possibility to preview .PDF files

Excel Viewer:
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Improved Excel files visualization
Added possibility to copy cells to clipboard.




Version 4.2 (January 14, 2004)
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File Manager:
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+ Added:
Improved file browsing speed.
New File List Columns - Extension, Attributes, MSDos Name, Date Created, Date Accessed
New FileSize mode to display file size in bytes/kb/mb/gb or kb+mb
UpArrow button in file list.

! Fixed:
Fixed 'Sharing violation' bug of folder delete operation.
Some other minor bug fixed.

Tools:
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Improved "Compare Text" Tool
Improved "Find File" tool


Version 4.0 (April 30, 2003)
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File Manager:
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+ Added:
Improved file browsing speed.
Single panel (stacked) added.
Improved movable toolbar.

! Fixed:
Folder directory tree hint bug.
Some other minor bug fixed.


Html Viewer:
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+ Added:
Speed up of load and format times; progress bar support.
Support for Cascading Stylesheet (CSS) display.
PNG images are supported.

! Fixed bugs:
Fixed various problems with fonts and anchor tags.
Text formatting problem in Windows 2000 fixed.
Background colors and borders were not displayed correctly in very large tables. Fixed.
Table cells now display their background.


Archive Viewer:
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+ Added:
Faster compression speed
Supports ACE archives created using the new WinAce version 2.x

! Fixed bugs:
Incompatibility found (and fixed) with Pkzip 2.6 created archives.
Previous versions had a maximum compressed archive limit of 2 gigabyte. This limitation is not longer present!
Windows 2000 "division by zero" bug fixed.


Image Viewer:
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+ Added:
TIFF - now CIELAB is supported for saving
Jpeg - now load DPI values from Exif fields
GIF,TIFF,PNG,ICO,CUR - now load alpha channel
PNG - now saves alpha channel
Added CaptureFromScreen method


! Fixed bugs:
Some TIFFs are unreadable.
Bug on read 16 bit bmp
Saving GIF with less than 100 pixels raises error.
Crash saving BMP with RLE compression
Some images are incorrectly printed (Print - preview)
More stable on corrupted jpg files



Version 3.4 (February 19, 2002)
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+ Added PE Viewer to view Exe/Dll version info, export/import header data, icon, etc.

+ Added DB viewer to view Paradox, DBase, FoxPro data tables.

+ Added Image thumbnail feature (View menu)

+ Browse html files directly from ZIP files without extracting linked images and files.

+ Option to add user defined command/menu under file list popup menu.

+ File list, 'Find File' results are save enabled as text, CSV, Excel format.

+ Status bar shows disk size info, properties of opened file. Status panels are clickable.

+ Improved single click and double click event handling for file list.

+ Option to reuse one and only one preview window always with same size, regardless the file type.
(Options - Configuration - Preview tab)

+ Added file selection using arrow keys to open preview. Hold on "ESC" key to ignore preview.

+ Improved Directory Size tool.

+ Some other improvements...




Version 3.2 (November 14, 2001)
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+ Windows XP compatibility

+ Align double panel file manager windows horizontally and vertically (View menu)

+ Open unlimited additional file manager windows as MDI child (File - New menu)

+ Align viewer panel to right, left, bottom (View menu)

+ Added Show Grid, Full Row Selection properties for file panel (View menu)

+ Added Auto Fit, Auto Center, Background Style properties for Image Viewer window

+ Improved "Archive - Add File" dialog

+ Some minor improvements...




Version 3.0 (September 15, 2001)
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+ Added PBM, PGM, PPM, TGA, DIB, RLE graphic file format support.

+ ActiveX integration with Word/Excel to view .doc and .xls files within UE using 
default viewers. UE native Word/Excel viewers are always faster but default 
viewers are more accurate in display. (Preview - Use ActiveX menu)

+ "Preview-Multiple Instances" is OFF, by default. Faster file preview when it is off, because 
same window is used to display another file, without moving its position and memory.

+ Added "Auto-Preview" feature. Turn on this Auto Preview feature to automatically 
scroll down and preview an entire list of files quickly with your hands off. 
(Preview menu). You can change Auto Preview timer (default is 3 secs.) value in 
Options - Configuration window.

+ Added Quick Launch Bar to launch popular programs from UE. By default, UE takes 
desktop program icons. (Options menu)

+ Added "Compare Text" and "Line Contents" tools. (Tools menu)

+ Added "Quick Zip" tool. Just type a zip filename or get a random filename and 
selected files will be zipped into the default archive directory. (Archive menu)

+ "Disk Copy" tool now supports making more than 1 copy of disk. So, If anything 
goes wrong during writing to the destination disk (e.g. the read only tab is 
set on the floppy), it gives the chance to try with another destination.

+ Added a right-click menu in file list view to create new file/folder and paste, 
etc., appears when no file/folder is selected.

+ Preserve setting of maximize file list view.

+ Some other improvements...



Version 3.2 (November 14, 2001)
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+ Windows XP compatibility

+ Align double panel file manager windows horizontally and vertically (View menu)

+ Open unlimited additional file manager windows as MDI child (File - New menu)

+ Align viewer panel to right, left, bottom (View menu)

+ Added Show Grid, Full Row Selection properties for file panel (View menu)

+ Added Auto Fit, Auto Center, Background Style properties for Image Viewer window

+ Improved "Archive - Add File" dialog

+ Some minor improvements...




Version 3.0 (September 15, 2001)
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+ Added PBM, PGM, PPM, TGA, DIB, RLE graphic file format support.

+ ActiveX integration with Word/Excel to view .doc and .xls files within UE using 
default viewers. UE native Word/Excel viewers are always faster but default 
viewers are more accurate in display. (Preview - Use ActiveX menu)

+ "Preview-Multiple Instances" is OFF, by default. Faster file preview when it is off, because 
same window is used to display another file, without moving its position and memory.

+ Added "Auto-Preview" feature. Turn on this Auto Preview feature to automatically 
scroll down and preview an entire list of files quickly with your hands off. 
(Preview menu). You can change Auto Preview timer (default is 3 secs.) value in 
Options - Configuration window.

+ Added Quick Launch Bar to launch popular programs from UE. By default, UE takes 
desktop program icons. (Options menu)

+ Added "Compare Text" and "Line Contents" tools. (Tools menu)

+ Added "Quick Zip" tool. Just type a zip filename or get a random filename and 
selected files will be zipped into the default archive directory.(Archive menu)

+ "Disk Copy" tool now supports making more than 1 copy of disk. So, If anything 
goes wrong during writing to the destination disk (e.g. the read only tab is 
set on the floppy), it gives the chance to try with another destination.

+ Added a right-click menu in file list view to create new file/folder and paste, 
etc., appears when no file/folder is selected.

+ Preserve setting of maximize file list view.

+ Some other improvements...




Version 2.2 (July 15, 2001)
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! Fixed file icon showing bug on Win ME system.

! Fixed "no image file found" error of Tools - Slide Show, if system hides 
file extensions of known types.

! Tools - Batch Rename, Tools - Set Properties and Tools - Spilit File are unable 
to proceed with files if system hides file extensions of known types. 
This is Fixed now. 

! Some more minor fixed.

+ Added "Encrypt/Decrypt" tool.

+ Added "Color List" tool.

+ Added "Copy/Move to" function under Edit menu to copy or move selected 
object(s) to another destination.

+ Added auto-check file contents feature for non-filtered (Options - Filters) 
files. It checks first 2 lines of file's contents and opens in Text Editor 
instead of Hex Window, if checked contents is plain text.

+ Added "Show - Folder" option to toggle the folder view ON and OFF within file 
list area.

+ When starting UE, it is possible to set an initial folder through Configuration window.




Version 2.1 (May 15, 2001)
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+ Entirely re-designed

+ Many improvements

! Many bugs fixed



Version 1.1 (March 23, 2000)
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First initial release



