🚀 Major Improvements
🎯 Enhanced User Experience
- 🖱️ Ctrl+Shift Override: Hold Ctrl+Shift while opening a location to force it to open as a new window instead of a tab
- 🔄 Session Persistence: Restore previously opened windows after File-Explorer restart/crash or system reboot
- 🔍 Forward Navigation: Added support for navigating forward in File-Explorer (complementing existing back navigation)
📦 Installation Experience
- 🧙♂️ Smart Installer: New professional Inno Setup installer with automatic .NET runtime detection
- 📊 Multi-Runtime Support: Automatically installs .NET 9 if needed or falls back to .NET Framework 4.8.1
- 💻 Architecture Support: Optimized packages for all architectures (x86, x64, arm64)
🛠️ Interface Improvements
- 📊 Status Bar: Added visual indicators for Window Hook, Reuse Tabs, Keyboard Hook, and Mouse Hook status
- 🔧 Profile Management: Improved hotkey profile management with better UI synchronization
- 🏷️ Auto-naming: Profile names are now auto-populated (if empty) based on selected actions
🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements
🔧 Core Functionality
- ⚡ Hotkey Restoration: Fixed issue where toggling window hook and tab reuse via hotkeys didn't work after WPF migration
- 🪟 Control Panel Fix: Resolved race condition that caused Control Panel windows to be incorrectly hidden (#58)
- 🧹 Profile Cleanup: Fixed "ghost" profiles that remained in UI after being removed from data
- 🚀 Startup Integration: Properly handle Windows startup registry settings to correctly reflect Task Manager settings (#57)
💾 Data Management
- 📋 History Clarity: Renamed "SaveClosedWindows" setting to "SaveClosedHistory" for better clarity (#59)
- 🔄 Serialization: Improved hotkey action serialization by storing enum values as strings for better maintainability
- 📊 Display Order: Enhanced closed windows history to show most recently closed items first
🧰 Technical Improvements
- 🔧 Code Maintenance: Removed redundant ConfigureAwait calls using Fody for improved code maintainability
📋 Installation & Compatibility
Installation Options
- 📥 Direct Download: Get the latest release from GitHub
- 📦 WinGet:
winget install w4po.ExplorerTabUtility - 🍫 Chocolatey:
choco install explorertabutility --version=2.4.0 - 🧙♂️ New Installer: Use the new setup wizard for automatic runtime detection and installation
💖 Support the Project
If you find Explorer Tab Utility helpful, consider supporting its development:
❤️ Special Thanks
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A heartfelt thank you to our amazing sponsors who make this project possible:
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Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and issues:
- All users who took the time to test and provide feedback
Note: If you are not sure, then you probably want ExplorerTabUtility_v2.4.0_Setup.exe.