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LanHelper v1.96 (June 15, 2010)
 
* Added: Several features for Share management. View file information including file version, file description, etc. Deploy files to remote computers.
* Fixed: Several bugs of users management. It will be very slow when perform View User action on a domain controller having plenty of member computers joined in. The Copy Users To action will work incorrectly sometimes if turn on the Include Membership option and the source user belongs to huge number of groups.
* Fixed: A bug of registry import.
* Fixed: A bug of Share management. The file explorer shows incorrect file size if file size is greater than 2GB.
* Fixed: A bug of SID/RID converting in v1.94 and v1.95. Now can set share permissions for EVERYONE or other built-in groups again.
* Fixed: A bug of Refresh Status monitoring mode. Sometimes too many shutdown threads generating cause the program terminate.
* Fixed: Cannot drag & drop XML file under Windows Vista/7.
* Other small fixes and improvements.

LanHelper v1.95 (January 18, 2010)
 
* Added: Domain Controller scan option "Duplicate names: Reserve existed alive-status items". Repeat scanning from one domain controller and only scan for those items that the statues were not alive.
* Fixed: Several small bugs of scan functions Domain Controller and Add Machine.

LanHelper v1.94 (January 10, 2010)
 
* Fxied: A bug of domain controller scanning. Now can get more than 1000 computers from domain controller.

LanHelper v1.93 (January 3, 2010)
 
* Added: My applications. Define your own applications and hotkeys to launch from within LanHelper.
* Added: New filter for finding and viewing data more easily.
* Enhanced: Domain controller scanning. Fixed a bug that nothing will return when trying to get computers list from a domain OU. Added two options, "Display OU structure in Comment column", "Add member to XML group named with the OU name".
* Fixed: A bug of command line mode. Sometimes the program could not terminate after finishing executing command.
* Removed: General option "Show filter results in Filter dialog (v1.0)".

LanHelper v1.92 (November 23, 2009)
 
* Added: An option "Run immediately (task mode)" for Remote Execute, which is useful for network having domain controllers. Now can run Power Off, Temp Cleanup, Capture Screen, Kill Process By Name or other management routines on domain-member computers without delay.
* Enhanced: Wake-On-LAN under command line mode. You can set IP to 0.0.0.0 in the command line when specify an XML file. The program will regard the ip address of each item in XML file as a unicast address. Fix a bug that the program cannot boot computers across subnets under command line mode.

LanHelper v1.91 (November 11, 2009)
 
* Added: Registry file import, registry file export.
* Added: Connect to remote computers through Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or other similar protocols.
* Enhanced: Wake-On-LAN broadcast packets sending. Slow down the speed to avoid data dropped by switch or other network devices.
* Fixed: A bug of Wake-On-LAN from command line mode. If specify an XML file, the program will come to an endless loop and result in excessive broadcast traffic.
* Fixed: A bug of registry management. Now can show all non-standard types of value data.

LanHelper v1.90 (October 4, 2009)
 
* Added: Registry management. View remote registries, fast multi-values scan, etc.
* Enhanced: On Wake-On-LAN dialog, after getting MAC addresses and IP addresses from router & switch, now you can update the MAC addresses of the machine data in the list of the main window.
* Fixed: Several bugs of Shares administration. While performing the Create Default Shares action, the program does not show any log if no default share was successfully created. After system restart, 26 default shares (from A$ to Z$) will be re-created by Windows. Please visit http://www.hainsoft.com/en/kb20090723.htm to learn how to resolve this issue. Bugs of shell context menu on Shares View. Setting share permissions may not work sometimes.
* Fixed: Bug that Last Run Time of Shutdown task wasn't saved & shown.
* Fixed: A bug of LanHelper Integrated Command. Lock Computer command cannot work under Windows 7 system.
* Many other small fixes and improvements.

LanHelper v1.89 (July 13, 2009)
 
* Added: Domain controller approach for network scanning. Get computers list from domain controller and parse machine data from the network.
* Enhanced: LanHelper Integrated Command. Add one new command Temp Cleanup, Clean up temporary files, IE cookies, history, etc. Fixed the bug that most of the commands cannot work on Windows system with latest updates installed. Capture Screen now can work on Vista or later Windows. Remove some seldom-used commands.

LanHelper v1.88 (May 25, 2009)
 
* Added: Copy Users To functionality for users management. Copy users from one or more computers to other computers.
* Added: Scan option for SNMP community string.
* Enhanced: Reset password functionality for users management. Now can reset passwords of multiple users, and provide one macro named %username%.
* Fixed: A bug of reset password on users management.

LanHelper v1.87 (April 27, 2009)
 
* Added: Bulk creating shares for shares administration.
* Added: An option for running LanHelper under a non-admin account. Please view the FAQ page for HOW-TO.
* Fixed: A bug of services management. On Service Properties dialog, if click the mouse right button and use the shortcut menus to start, stop dependent service or perform other operations, the program will work incorrectly.
* Fixed: A bug of Remote Shutdown. If turn on the shutdown reason option, the computers to be shut down will reboot instead of shutdown.

LanHelper v1.86 (April 13, 2009)
 
* Fixed: A bug of Wake-On-LAN service. Under Windows Vista, 2003 server R2 or later, new task data cannot be transferred into Wake-On-LAN service.

LanHelper v1.85 (April 6, 2009)
 
* Added: Shares management.
* Added: Data export feature for the tree control on the View tab of Uses dialog, Services dialog, etc. Export data of users, groups, services, shares, scheduled tasks sessions to text file, XML file, etc.
* Fixed: Cannot specify blank description when set properties on Users management and Groups management.
* Fixed: A bug of one LanHelper Integrated Command, Capture Screen.
* Removed: Lock Mouse, Lock Keyboard from LanHelper Integrated Command due to security issue. If LanHelper users require these features, please download the version 1.83 of this network management software from home page.

LanHelper v1.83 (January 18, 2009)
 
* Added: Account Policy, User Rights, Audit Policy features in the View tab of Users dialog.
* Enhanced: File Deploy in Remote Execute. Copy local files & directories to any remote shared folder.
* Enhanced: File deploy for Install Service. Copy local files & directories to any remote shared folder.
* Fixed: A bug of Services management. On the View tab, when click Startup Type button and select the menu item Automatic, the program does not work.
* Fixed: The tree control on Services, Users dialogs, etc. It responses very slow when select the menu item Select All from the shortcut menus.

LanHelper v1.82 (October 15, 2008)
 
* Fixed: A bug of Refresh Status. If clicks "Refresh By Name And Update IP" from the drop down menus of Refresh Status button on the toolbar, the program performs the routine of "Refresh By IP And Update Name" by mistake.

LanHelper v1.81 (October 1, 2008)
 
* Fixed: Scan LAN & Scan Workgroup bug. On scanning LanHelper failed to collect all machines if a domain/workgroup has large quantities of members.

LanHelper v1.80 (August 4, 2008)
 
* Added: Users management. View users, create users, copy users, enable or disable users, delete users, etc.
* Added: Groups management. View groups, create groups, copy group, delete groups, etc.
* Added: General options "When Perform the View XXX Action" and "Check for Update". Wake-On-LAN option "Power Peaks Settings".
* Added: Directed broadcast send option for Wake-On-LAN.
* Added: View All Services button in the View tab of Services dialog.
* Added: View Open Files in the View tab of Open Files dialog.
* Added: View Sessions, Session Properties buttons in the View tab of Sessions dialog.
* Added: View Tasks, Add Task, Delete Tasks, Task Properties buttons in the view tab of Remote Execute dialog.
* Enhanced: The tree control in the View tab of Service dialog, Remote Execute dialog, etc. Add search feature and automatically select & deselect all matched items. Add more shortcut menu items. Support selecting multiple items via Ctrl or Shift key. Remove the checkbox icon.
* Enhanced: The service for Wake-On-LAN.
* Enhanced: More log for LanHelper Integrated Command.
* Fixed: A Remote Execute bug. The flag JOB_NONINTERACTIVE is not correctly shown while list tasks.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.75 (April 29, 2008)
 
* Fixed: A bug that LanHelper may crash sometimes due to getting time from an off-line machine in Remote Execute.
* Fixed: A bug in View Service. The services were not correctly displayed in View tab.

LanHelper v1.74 (January 3, 2008)
 
* Fixed: A bug in View Service. Duplicate items will be returned if specify service names to list remote services.

LanHelper v1.73 (August 9, 2007)
 
* Added: Run Refresh Status or the monitoring by groups.
* Added: Scan option "ping count".
* Enhanced: In XML Group dialog now can select more than one XML groups and click Select button to make all the items belonged to them selected in the main window.
* Enhanced: In Send Email of Alert Settings of Refresh Status option, add "SMTP Port" option, "Requires SSL" option. Removed "Requires Authentication" option. Fixed the bug that the Backup SMTP cannot send email out.
* Fixed: Under monitor mode, the monitor mistakenly shut down the machines which ought to be restarted, or restart them which ought to be shut down.
* Fixed: Failed to delete all groups if more than one groups were selected in XML Group dialog.
* Fixed: When perform Wake-On-LAN (WOL) from command line mode and specify a text file, the Wake-On-LAN (WOL) packets cannot be sent to targets located on other subnets.
* Fixed: Border drawing and font issues of the multiple-columns tree control.
* Removed: Refresh Status option "refresh IP timeout". When refresh statuses by IP, LanHelper uses the values of Ping Timeout and Ping Count settings in Scan option.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.72 (July 11, 2007)
 
* Fixed: Several bugs in LanHelper Integrated Command.
* Fixed: Cannot submit Wake-On-LAN (WOL) scheduled tasks while LanHelper service is running.
* Fixed: Service dialog, a file copy bug in Install Service.

LanHelper v1.71 (March 22, 2007)
 
* Added: Customize toolbar buttons.
* Fixed: The tree control in View tab of Service dialog don't show the checkboxes if XP visual style or Vista Basic visual style are active.

LanHelper v1.70 (April 30, 2007)
 
* Added: Sessions management. View all sessions, disconnect sessions.
* Added: Open Files management. View all open files, close open files accessed by other users.
* Added: View dependencies in Service Properties dialog.
* Added: Delete All Tasks menu item under Remote Execute.
* Enhanced: Remote Execute, copy files to system32 directory on remote computer.
* Fixed: A bug in HTML report.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.61 (February 5, 2007)
 
* Fixed: service's startup type cannot be set. Files cannot be copied to system32 directory on remote system while installing service.

LanHelper v1.60 (January 7, 2007)
 
* Added: Service management. View services, start services, stop services, delete services, install service, etc.
* Added: Refresh Status option "Ignore DNS suffix while match names to determine status".
* Added: Progress bar and real time log in Remote Shutdown, Remote Execute, Send Message.
* Enhanced: Remote Execute. Listed tasks can be exported into HTML. Interface improved.
* Enhanced: Group feature. Every group can contain security credentials.
* Enhanced: Send Message.
* Fixed: "TTL expired in transit" issue in scan engine.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.50 (May 27, 2006)
 
* Added: Schedule shutdown tasks in LanHelper.
* Added: New alert event "any change" for Monitor Mode of Refresh Status. New alert methods: Wake-On-LAN, Shutdown.
* Added: Command line mode for performing Wake-On-LAN (WOL) and Remote Shutdown operations.
* Added: New Integrated Command: Kill Process By Name, e.g. kill the process named notepad.exe at intervals of 5 seconds.
* Added: New menu items under Refresh Status: Refresh By IP And Update Name, Refresh By Name And Update IP.
* Added: Report for Refresh Status to show recent status changes.
* Added: Select XML encoding in Save Dialog when saving XML file.
* Added: Merge multiple XML files.
* Enhanced: Integrated Command "Get System Information" now can get all installed programs and all installed hardware devices on remote machines.
* Enhanced: XML Group feature. One machine can join multiple groups.
* Fixed: Wake-On-LAN (WOL) feature cannot boot more than 255 machines.
* Fixed: A bug in Monitor Mode of Refresh Status.
* Fixed: Rename Refresh IP to Refresh By IP. Rename Refresh Name to Refresh By Name.
* Removed: General option "Auto select character set for XML encoding".
* Many other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.48 (January 10, 2006)
 
* Fixed: Periodical Wake-On-LAN (WOL) tasks run only once.

LanHelper v1.47 (September 25, 2005)
 
* Fixed: In Remote Shutdown, shutdown reason is not activated under Windows 2003.

LanHelper v1.46 (August 29, 2005)
 
* Added: Scan SNMP, NetBIOS for scan engine.
* Added: Two features for Wake-On-LAN, get MAC addresses from router, switch or xDSL modem. IP broadcast address setting.
* Added: Security Credentials dialog.
* Added: Browser Mode: HTML, XML.
* Added: Wake-On-LAN (WOL) option "Remote UDP port".
* Enhanced: Interfaces of Remote Shutdown and Remote Execute were improved.
* Enhanced: Remote Shutdown supports Window 2003 shutdown reason.
* Fixed: Update the list of XML character sets in Options dialog. The character set automatically set by LanHelper was not correct on some OS.
* Fixed: XML files saved in v1.45 cannot be loaded again.
* Fixed: Incorrect group name.
* Fixed: Sometimes scheduled Wake-On-LAN (WOL) tasks cannot be deleted.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.45 (May 23, 2005)
 
* Added: Service for Wake-On-LAN (WOL). Now you can schedule Wake-On-LAN (WOL) tasks with service, meaning that you need not login or run LanHelper.
* Added: Unlock Keyboard, Unlock Mouse and Stop Screen Capture under Remote Execute, applied to cancel or stop some operations without delay.
* Added: history for Scan IP.
* Added: Find text feature.
* Added: Jump to line.
* Enhanced: Modify most data in Computer Properties dialog.
* Enhanced: A more detailed HTML report.
* Fixed: In remote Execute, An exception probably raises if user clicks the OK button when a dialog popup to ask whether to start Schedule service on remote machine.
* Fixed: Scan LAN and Scan Workgroups don't work on some Windows system, e.g. Windows 2003 SP1.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.43 (March 28, 2005)
 
* Added: Group function. Make machines join in a group and select them by group name.
* Enhanced: LanHelper Integrated Command. Remotely capture screen at regular intervals, and automatically stop after certain times. Add lock mouse feature. Add lock keyboard feature.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.42 (February 2005)
 
* Enhanced: Wake-On-LAN. Rename Remote Wakeup to Wake-On-LAN. Add new schedule mode: Monthly. Add more WOL schedule options.
* Fixed: In Options dialog restore the feature that show or hide columns of the list in the main window, which has been removed in version 1.41.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.41 (January 2005)
 
* Added: Remote Execute Options: "Switch IP address to DNS or NetBIOS name for selected machine(s)". With turning on this option, you can now schedule task from your Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server which has hotfix KB835732 installed.
* Added: Options for saving log.
* Enhanced: Remote Execute. Added more schedule options. Now can list tasks on multiple machines that selected in main window. Fixed several bugs.
* Enhanced: LanHelper now doesn't require Microsoft XML parser MSXML to save or load xml files, which consumes less amount of computer memory.
* Enhanced: You can check the last time a scheduled task ran in Remote Wakeup dialog.
* Fixed: Scan engine. Cannot retrieve OS, shared resources, etc from some Windows XP sp2 computers.
* Fixed: A small bug in Remote Wakeup.
* Fixed: I/O error while save filter results in Filter window.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.40 (December 2004)
 
* Added: Monitor Mode for Refresh Status. Network monitoring for availability of computers in your LAN/WAN.
* Added: NIC Vendor Identifier. Using a network card's MAC address to identify its vendor. Automatically identify in Computer Properties dialog.
* Added: Add Data dialog.
* Added: Import function. Now you can import data from text or CSV file.
* Added: Rename File, Copy Files, Copy menu item in Data Viewer dialog.
* Added: Many Refresh Status options.
* Added: LanHelper Integrated Command options: "Only save 5 screen pictures" option, "Only show top 5 screen pictures" option.
* Enhanced: More export formats are available, such as HTML and CSV.
* Enhanced: Save and Save AS menu item.
* Enhanced: Scan engine.
* Fixed: A bug in Computer Properties.
* Fixed: The picture node sorting in Data Viewer dialog.
* Fixed: Get System Information bug in LanHelper Integrated Command.
* Removed: "Delay time between two commands" option. "Show pop-up description for items" option.
* Other small improvements and fixes.

LanHelper v1.32 (October 2004)
 
* Fixed: Sometimes fail to scan all specified IP addresses.
* Removed: "Customize Sender Name" option in Send Message.

LanHelper v1.31 (September 2004)
 
* Fixed: LanHelper Integrated Command bugs. Fail to capture screen from most computers. Fail to get system information from some computers.
* Fixed: Sometimes only a portion of the system information is displayed in the Data Viewer.
* Other small fixes.

LanHelper v1.30 (September 2004)
 
* Added: Many other LanHelper Integrated Command. Now can screen capture, get system information, kill process, etc.
* Added: Data Viewer for LanHelper Integrated Command.
* Added: In Remote Execute, more options are available for schedule mode "Run Task At". Command history.
* Added: Scan user name.
* Added: Several options. Remote Wakeup options "No notification" and "Remove the non-periodical task on running complete". Send Message option "Customize sender name". LanHelper Integrated Command options "Pop up Data Viewer after receiving new data" and "Folder for saving received data".
* Enhanced: Computer Properties dialog.
* Enhanced: In Remote Wakeup dialog, it shows all the information of a scheduled Wake-On-LAN (WOL) task when click the Detail button.
* Fixed: LanHelper would always prompt the user to save file after refresh status.
* Fixed: Several bugs in scan engine.
* Fixed: Failed to send message to some machines with customize sender name. Now the computer name is specified as the default sender name.
* Fixed: The history list in Reopen menu item.
* Fixed: Several bugs under windows 9x.
* Other small fixes and improvements.

LanHelper v1.20 (April 2004)
 
* Added: Save the Wake-On-LAN (WOL) tasks on program exit and load them on program startup.
* Added: New send mode "Specify IP range" in Send Message.
* Added: Log the names of machines which have received messages.
* Added: Option: "Auto run LanHelper at Windows startup". "Skip ping while scanning IP". Many Send Message options. Many Remote Wakeup options.
* Enhanced: Refresh Status.
* Enhanced:  Schedule Wake-On-LAN (WOL) task. The maximum number of WOL tasks is 16.
* Fixed: Sometimes only the computer name and IP address were returned while scanning on a machine with NetBEUI protocol. Now can scan machine of Linux with Samba.
* Fixed: Fail to get remote time from some machines in Remote Execute.
* Fixed: Cannot send messages to some machines using customized sender name.
* Fixed: Saving log in Remote Shutdown and Remote Wakeup.
* Other small fixes and improvements.

LanHelper v1.13 (December 2003)
 
  * Added: Using the same setting for all the selected machines in Remote Shutdown, Remote Execute.
* Fixed: The incorrect file name in saving XML file.
* Other small fixes.

LanHelper v1.12 (December 2003)
 
  * Added: Save and Load button in Remote Wakeup dialog.
* Added: Help button in many child dialogs.
* Enhanced: Detect the access to shared folders. All the "ReadOnly" shared folders can be explored.
* Enhanced: Scan other OS types besides Windows.
* Fixed: The scroll bar problem in the main window.
* Other small fixes and improvements.

LanHelper v1.10 (October 2003)
 
  * Added: Remote Execute. It enables you to execute programs on remote machine.
* Added: LanHelper Integrated Command. It offers many commands for executing on remote system such as log off, power off, hibernate, stand by, lock computer, etc.
* Added: Remote Wakeup dialog. You can schedule Wake-On-LAN (WOL) task now.
* Added: Messages can be sent to WAN or Internet. The sender name can be customized. The messages sent from local machine are saved automatically.
* Added: Scan computer comment, shared resources' comment.
* Added: "Minimize to system tray" option.
* Added: Offer other delimiters for separating the shared resources' names in the list.
* Added: Sort menu item.
* Added: Support for XP visual style.
* Fixed: The status symbols "@<>" and "<>@" are replaced by "!@" and "@!".
* Fixed: Scan IP with only 1 thread under Windows 95/98/ME.
* Fixed: The default number of maximum threads for scanning IP set to 64.
* Fixed: Update the list of "character set for XML encoding" in Options dialog.
* Fixed: Improve the interface for main window and other child dialogs.
* Fixed: Now only 5 types of filters are available for filter view. The filter results are directly displayed in the list.
* Fixed: Bug in switching the interface language.
* Fixed: It starts scanning even if no workgroup is selected in Scan Workgroup dialog.
* Fixed: The hidden columns in the list cannot restore to its' former widths when they are shown again.
* Removed: Customize Wakeup.
* Other small fixes and improvements.

LanHelper v1.00 (May 2003)
 
  * LanHelper now is a shareware.
* Added: Multiple languages interface.
* Added: Detect running software such as SQL server or Domain Controller.
* Added: Specify IP broadcast address in Customize Wakeup dialog.
* Added: Specify any account to log on to remote machine in Remote Shutdown window.
* Added: Detect whether computer name or IP address has been changed or not while refreshing status.
* Added: Save filter results to text file in Filter window.
* Added: Save computers' statuses to XML file.
* Added: Support multiple languages for XML encoding. Select character set for XML encoding automatically or manually.
* Added: Option for showing or hiding any column of the list.
* Enhanced: Scan hidden shares folders.
* Enhanced: Scan engine.
* Fixed: Show hint in the list.
* Fixed: The interface problem under Windows 95/98/ME system.
* Removed: Detect hidden share option.
* Other small fixes and improvements.



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