What's New

• When enabling BitLocker encryption for the OS drive and a CD/DVD or mounted ISO file exists, there will be a message displayed, guiding users what to do next to remedy the situation.

• When interacting with BitLocker management page on a Windows Server OS and BitLocker component is not installed, it will be automatically installed and a notice will be displayed to the user.

• Made multiple improvements to the Optional Windows Features page:

  1. Improved the design of the items by utilizing the unused spaces better and compacting the UI a little.
  2. You can now filter the results based on their status.
  3. You can now cancel an enablement or disablement operation you start on an optional feature or Windows capability, improving user experience.

• Added multiple features to the Installed Apps Management page:

  1. The ability to terminate an app and all of its associated processes.
  2. View the size of the apps and their cache data. The app sizes you see in the Harden System Security represent the true size that each app occupies on your system (the sum of all files of an app), whereas in the Windows Settings' apps section, the app sizes can be represented by very different numbers that are often only few KBs, which are different from reality and inaccurate. For example, Windows Settings' apps section reports the size of the Edge browser is 190MB but Harden System Security reports the true size of the Edge browser which is 840MB (v148). 840MB is the same exact size you would get if you right-click and select properties on the Edge browser's installation folder. The same inaccuracy can be observed for many other apps as well.
  3. See which apps are allowed by the OS to be removed. Generally, all System apps are non-removable but there is also a blacklist maintained by the operating system (Windows) that can be checked to see whether an app is permitted to be removed or not.
  4. See which users the apps are installed for.
  5. See the capabilities of every single app.
  6. See the dependencies of every single app.
  7. See the status of each app to see whether they are OK or have problems.
  8. See the kind of signature each app was signed with.
  9. See which apps are bundled apps, resource packages, frameworks or in development mode.
  10. See which apps are partially staged (not fully installed).

• Added a new option to the Sidebar called "Reset Graphic Driver". Pressing this button will do what Win + Ctrl + Shift + B key combination does. Use this feature if you are on a device with no physical keyboard and it's hard to press such a long key combination or you prefer to use the app's sidebar to reset your graphics driver if they are not working properly. There is an extra confirmation dialog you have to confirm so there is no chance of accidentally doing this.

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