v0.13.0

What's Changed

• Updated item names to align with default Windows naming convention.
• Updated End task icon to match it with the Windows default End task glyph.

What's Fixed

• WinMac menu control hooks now remain active after restarting Explorer.
• Folders and files icons are now correctly displayed in submenus when ShowIcons=other.

Full Changelog: #13

v0.12.0

What's Changed

• File icons can now be enabled for display within submenus, making nested items easier to identify.
• Right‑click context menus for files and folders can now be triggered directly from submenus that display folder contents.

Full Changelog: #12

v0.11.0

What's Changed

• Added a new Controls section.

  • Enables activation of WinMac Menu using various Start button and Windows key triggers.

• Added an Exit button to the Settings window, allowing users to fully close the WinMac Menu application.

• Added an Open Config Folder button to the About window.

What's Fixed

• WinMac Menu prevented the Start Menu from being triggered when the Start button was left-clicked.
• The Settings UI did not reflect changes made directly to the INI file while WinMac Menu was running.

Full Changelog: #11

v0.10.0

What's Changed

• Restored the previous settings GUI functionality.

  • This change introduces a fallback action to the application.
  • When running the app on Windows 10 or if the new settings GUI is missing from the root app folder, the default settings window will be launched instead.

• Renamed Folders first setting to Object type priority, and added additional Files first option.

• Added missing Date modified and Date created options for Sort By in settings.

• Disabled Show on launch by default.

What's Fixed

• Default settings GUI breaking [Menu] section in ini file because of unrecognized item type.
• Updated both default and modern settings GUI with missing configuration options.

Full Changelog: #10

v0.9.0

Replaced settings window with newly developed app

• settings GUI developed as a separate app in WinUI style to improve stability and make it more user-friendly
• requires .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime

Added an option to disable theme sensitive tray icon

• choose between theme sensitive and default WinMac Menu icon for a tray icon

Other changes

• fixed Recent Items not opening root folder when clicking middle mouse button on listed item
• fixed ShowFolderIcons not working
• fixed executable names showing up in TaskKill instead pf application name

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0

v0.8.0

New Menu Item types: This PC (THISPC) and User Profile (HOME)

• shows This PC or User Profile folder content either in root menu or in a sub menu

Show TaskKill items from specific desktop

• processes are shown from either all desktops or only the current one, by using TaskKillAllDesktops property

Other changes

• added Open ini file in tray context menu
• open Recent Items root folder of listed files/folders with middle mouse button
• File Explorer URI item has been replaced with THISPC function
• added User Profile item below File Explorer for HOME function
• added alternative suggestions for Apps and Features, System Settings and About Windows in config.default.ini
• updated config.ini with new sections, to declutter the [General] section

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

v0.7.0

New Menu Item type: Force Quit (TASKKILL)

• Force quit any foreground application
• multitude of configuration capabilities, like:
  • show apps grouped as an actual application instance, or list all opened windows
  • exclude system or specific apps
  • show/hide icons
  • maximum amount of listed items

Item types aliases

• RECENT for RECENT_SUBMENU
• - and --- for ---|SEPARATOR

Fixed DPI icons scaling

• icons now properly scale when Windows scaling is different than 100%

Added new value for ShowIcons parameter - other

• shows icons only for non-standard functions, like RECENT and TASKKILL
• for both of abovementioned you can also define if icons are shown or not, but only apply when ShowIcons is other

Updated [Icons] configuration

• default and systemsettings ini files now refer to dll/exe files already included with Windows

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.7.0

v0.6.0

New configuration section: Sorting

• sort folder content by name, date modified, date created, size and file type
• ascending or descending order
• show either folders or files first

Improved handling long lists

• define maximum amount of items visible in a menu
• if number of items exceeds maximum value, it adds Show More Items option at the bottom of the menu

New way to open folders

• instead of having to open folder sub-menu to see the Open folder option, now you can simply click the folder to open it
• removed Open folder option from the top of the sub-menus

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

v0.5.0

Settings GUI window

• WinMac Menu now includes configuration GUI to change settings in INI file.
• It's triggered from Settings option in tray icon context menu.

New [Power] settings section

• Exclude specific power options from Power menu.
• Available in Advanced tab of Settings window.

Updated icons

• Adjustment to default, theme-sensitive icons, and added a new WinMac Menu icon to About window.

Defaults and INI layout refinements

• Changed %WINMAC_PATH% to %WINMAC% in default configuration and in systemsettings.config.ini template file.

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0

v0.4.0

Parallel instances

• Run multiple menu instances using a single executable.
• Using a shortcut pointing to a different config file will trigger additional instances.

Updated icons

• Refreshed default and added theme sensitive tray icons.

Reload

• Restart option added to tray menu.

Fixes

• Tooltip naming simplified to: WinMac Menu (default) or WinMac Menu (<FileBaseName>) for non-default INI filenames.
• Recent items: skip shortcuts whose targets no longer exist (prevents blank entries opening System32).
• Removed icons from zip packages to reduce size.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0