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Improves your productivity and enhances the usability of Windows
Nov 18, 2016
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Aug 18, 2012
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What's new

v4.3.1 [Jul 30, 2016]
Official support for the Anniversary Update version of Windows 10
Fixes for issues found during the 4.2.7 beta.

v4.2.7 [Dec 13, 2014]
- Improved support for Windows 10.
- The start menu searches modern PC settings for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
- Added support for Scottish, Catalan, Macedonian and Persian languages.
- Added new Midnight skin with dark background.
- Added new flat Metro skin that uses the start screen colors.
- Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes.

v4.1.0 [Apr 20, 2014]
- Improved support for Windows 8.1 Spring Update
- You can pin and unpin apps to the taskbar from the start menu
- The start button scrolls together with the taskbar when they show on the start screen
- Improved checks for new versions
- Minor stability fixes

v4.0.6 [Oct 5, 2013]
- Group Policy ADMX files to allow you to control the settings through group policies.
- More secure checks for versions and language updates. The data is digitally signed to prevent corruption or spoofing.
- Multiple improvements and bugfixes

v3.6.8 [Aug 18, 2012]
- Improved performance of the start menu
- Added new Metro-style start button image
- Added support for multiple taskbars in Windows 8
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version

v3.4.6 [Jan 21, 2012]
fixes a small problem in the automatic check for new versions.

v3.3.0 [Jan 8, 2012]
--Fixed some minor problems found in the previous release
--Improved compatibility with Windows 8 and removed the features that are no longer necessary or possible
--Added customizable "Windows Explorer" item to the start button context menu
--Added a new "paste shortcuts" command to Explorer
--Added an option to hide the user picture from the Windows start menu
--Ctrl Shift Enter can launch commands and documents as administrator from the start menu
--Added a customizable hotkey for the Up button

v3.2.0 [Aug 21, 2011]
- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous release - Added new setting to show the title in IE9 with no icon - Added a new "sortby" command to Explorer to sort the folder by given property - Added support for F2, Del and Alt Enter keys in the start menu

v1.9.21 [Mar 21, 2010]
* Ctrl+Shift+Click in the start menu runs the program as administrator
* The uninstaller offers to back up the ini files
* Some improvements to the settings
* Fixed a bug that was blocking the toolbar on Windows Vista
* Fixed an incompatibility problem with QTTabBar
* Fixed a start menu bug that was causing a flicker when Windows was running too long
* Fixed a hovering bug in the start menu

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