Installation

Install it from the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9png1jddtgp8

What's New

• ✅ The AppControl Manager is now fully Native AOT and Trimmed with 0 warning or error suppression. This change reduces the MSIX package file size from 85MB down to 33MB and the MSIXBundle package file size from 162MB down to 65MB (because it contains both ARM64 and X64 packages).

• ✅ The performance and launch time of the AppControl Manager has been substantially improved thanks to being natively compiled into machine code and favoring speed during compilation. That means more work is done during the packaging process and less time is spent on user's system.

• ✅ Modernized all of the Data Grids across the app. As a result, you no longer see a message in the Settings page of the app when running the app in a VM and animations are not enabled on the system. This change removes the ability to resize the columns, however, each column is precisely sized based on the content it shows so manual resizing is not necessary. The headers of the grids are no longer clickable for sorting, instead, a new flyout button has been added to the toolbar that allows you to sort the data.

• ✅ Increased the amount of information that is written to the log file in case there is an error in the app, it provides more information about the cause of it.

• ✅ Added Control Flow Guard support to the AppControl Manager. A great security feature that prevents certain exploits.

• ✅ Set Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology to explicitly enabled in the project.

• ✅ Updated Microsoft.IdentityModel.Abstractions NuGet dependency.

• ✅ Fixed an issue where there would be an error when listing installed apps and one of them would have an incorrect logo URI.

• ✅Improved the Configure Policy Rule Options page, it now shows details and description of each rule option, helping you to decide which one is suitable for your use case.

• ✅ Fixed an issue with wildcard file paths that you make for supplemental or deny policies by selecting the root of the drives such as C: or D:. Previously they would look like C:\\* in the policy XML file but now it's fixed by not adding the extra backward slash when drive root is selected.

• ✅ Significantly improved the ability of the AppControl Manager to be translated into other languages. Please refer to this page if you are interesting in helping translating the app into other languages.

• ✅Fixed a typo in a button label.

• ✅ Plus lots of miscellaneous code improvements.

PRs:

• AppControl-Manager-DownloadLink-Version-Update-Version-1.9.0.0 by @github-actions in #594
• Fixed a typo in a button label by @HotCakeX in #596
• Improving multilingual feature of AppControl Manager by @HotCakeX in #597
• Improved translation capability of AppControl Manager by @HotCakeX in #599
• Fixed wildcard file path rules for drive roots by @HotCakeX in #600
• Code refactor and improved resource file usage by @HotCakeX in #601
• AppControl Manager is now Native AOT and Fully Trimmed by @HotCakeX in #608
• improving the reliability of installed apps list fetching in the AppControl Manager by @HotCakeX in #612
• Finishing up work on AppControl Manager v.1.9.1.0 by @HotCakeX in #614

Full Changelog: AppControlManager.v.1.9.0.0...AppControlManager.v.1.9.1.0

How to verify the MSIXBundle's authenticity:

gh attestation verify "Path To MSIXBundle" --repo HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security --format json

You can install the GitHub CLI from Winget:

winget install --id GitHub.cli