| Version | Change log |
| AlomWare Toolbox 7.0.0.3 Jan 26, 2026 |
Bug fix: For the restored "Window: Assign active" step in the v7.0.0.1 release. Thanks for pointing this out, Bazza! :) New automation step: "Wait: For the clipboard image to change", so you can pause your action until the clipboard image changes. New automation step: "Wait: For the clipboard text to change", so you can pause your action until the clipboard text changes. This can be used as an alternative to "Wait: For variable to change" with a value of "clip$". Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. |
| AlomWare Toolbox 7.0.0.2 Jan 18, 2026 |
Bug fix: For a situation where the app could crash silently (due to a specific resource being accessed twice at the same time, when it should only be once) Bug fix: For setting a window's opening state to be rolled-up to its title bar. For example, this would fail for folders if they were set to auto-maximize Bug fix: For taking a screenshot of both UWP apps and folders, and later relaunching them by double-clicking them in the "Screenshots" tab Major addition: The Power menu now has an option for folders called "Opening state > Choose the opening view mode for this folder". This lets you make a folder always open in the view desired, such as "Medium Icons". You can do this with an automation action as well, but this new addition frees you from using an action to do it Addition: New keyboard tweak setting called "Tweaks for your PC > Keyboard > Turn off Caps Lock on new windows or end of sentence". This stops you accidentally TYPING LIKE THIS on a new window or sentence Enhancement: Better support for multiple monitors (such as screenshots now including all monitors; the Snipper working properly with them; etc) Enhancement: Added more file types to AlomWare Toolbox's file list browser: *.ts, *.yaml, *.yml Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes |
| AlomWare Toolbox 7.0.0.1 Jan 8, 2026 |
Restored: The "Window: Assign active" step. You can still use "Window: Assign" with a value of "active" as well. Restored: The keyboard tweak to auto-close pairs of: " ( { [. Seems this was a popular feature, but we had no idea because we don't monitor you. Just be aware that this feature can't work with macro recording or non-English keyboards (both of which is why it was temporarily removed). Bug fix: For restoring folder layouts to a pre-selected folder view. Bug fix: For some icons not being displayed correctly in the Dock and app's system tray menu. Major addition: You can now select a window by searching for its title text in the Command box by using "@" as the prefix. This minimizes all windows except the matching one. For example, to select only the Calculator, you'd press AlomWare Toolbox's hotkey and type "@calc" to find and select it. Addition: New action variable called "anywin$", which is 1 if any window is open on the desktop (including if minimized) or 0 if not. Enhancement: The "Opening Window States" menu item has been renamed to "Saved Window Manager". Its window now has a wider "Source" column to see more text, and it also has a new "Unique ID" column to show the unique ID for each window, because some windows might appear to be duplicates when they're actually not (such as an app title and a folder title being the same). Enhancement: The "Custom Process Killer" buttons now show tooltips when enabled and hovered over with the mouse; to show full process names that are too long to show on a button. Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. |
| AlomWare Toolbox 7.0.0.0 Jan 1, 2026 |
Removed: The keyboard tweak to auto-close pairs of: " ( { [ Removed: The "Window: Assign active" step. Use the updated "Window: Assign" step instead (see below). Bug fix: For a crash on app startup when it's been set to dim its windows. Bug fix: For hotkeys not working for an action when it has been renamed. Bug fix: For some column widths not being restored correctly to their saved widths. Bug fix: For buttons sometimes disappearing from their list headers (such as the "Stop" button on the "Running actions" list). Bug fix: For the option of auto-removing "mailto:" from copied email addresses in the clipboard (got broken in a recent release). Bug fix: For when asking for a single line of text, the text might sometimes accidentally include the final "Enter" keystroke by mistake. Bug fix: For PC state restorations, where changing the window title of an item will cause it not to be found. Now editing the window title is not permitted, as it never actually should have been. Preventative fix: For a race condition issue with other apps that monitor the clipboard, where they didn't follow Microsoft's guidelines and thus cause AlomWare Toolbox to miss some clipboard text. Major change: Free temporary unlock codes are now available at AlomWare.com for free/trial users, removing the need to enter a usage code every day (or at every launch in a day). We'd still prefer you to pay for a license. ;) Addition: New PC tweak for Windows 11 which lets you always see system tray icons for supported apps, with supported meaning apps that show such an icon. Normally you'd need to manually enable these to be seen with Win 11 in the Taskbar settings, but now you can see them all automatically. Enable this tweak in AlomWare Toolbox's Settings here: "Tweaks for your PC > Windows > Win 11+ specific > Always show system tray icons for supported apps". Addition: New PC tweak which lets you optionally auto-remov |
| AlomWare Toolbox 6.1.1.1 Oct 31, 2025 |
Bug fix: For saving window opening states and PC states, and for the "windoc$" variable. Bug fix: For folder windows set to auto-maximize when opened. Bug fix: For screenshots of system notifications. Bug fix: For the icons shown in the "Screenshots" list. Bug fix: For auto-positioning windows to other than where the OS decides. Bug fix: For not adding clipboard text to the history list for banned apps. Bug fix: When using "Re-apply this window's opening state now" from the Power menu. New automation step: "Computer: Use audio device", to set the PC to use the specified audio device by its name. Now you can switch from headphones to speakers (and vice-versa) from a hotkey, or automatically from an action such as when a specific window becomes active. Addition: Included Vivaldi as an additional supported web browser for automated actions. Addition: There is now an "Edit step" button above the step list. You can still double-click a step to edit it. Addition: Option for the Step list to have line numbers shown at the right of them. Enable this in Settings (under "Automated actions"), or just click a step to see its line number in the status bar. Enhancement: The icon for "Notifications" in the Screenshot list is now a speech bubble for better visibility. Enhancement: If an action is copied to the clipboard and you press Ctrl+V on the Step Chooser window, the Step Chooser will now either close and create a new action if no action was currently selected, or the action steps in the clipboard are pasted into the currently-selected action. Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. |
| AlomWare Toolbox 6.0.0.3 Jul 6, 2025 |
Change: The automation step "Clipboard: Do activity from its text" has been renamed to "String: Do activity from its text", so you can have activities done without using the clipboard. You can assign the string to use the clipboard text if you wish to retain the old functionality. Bug fix: For using "toggle" with the "Keyboard: Set Caps Lock State", "Keyboard: Set Num Lock State" and "Keyboard: Set Scroll Lock State" automation steps. Bug fix: For the "String: Assign URL from active browser" automation step, so it doesn't risk failing when the action is triggered by a hotkey. Bug fix: For the "Mouse: Move to desktop position" automation step, which wasn't accepting negative X/Y values with multiple monitors. Enhancement: The "Mouse: Move to desktop position" automation step now supports the "numpad0" to "numpad9" values (so "numpad5" will center it on the desktop), and also "window" to center it on the current window. Enhancement: You can now hold down the Shift key when running an automated action from the Action list, or when clicking the Action "Run" button, to make it run debugged. This means you don't need to manually put the "Action: Debug" step at the start of an action if you don't wish. New automation step: "Alert: Show a mouse menu", which prompts the user to make a selection from a pop-up menu of items before continuing. The selected choice can have an optional activity associated with it, such as to run an app or automated action. See the new default action (mentioned below) to learn how to use it. New automation step: "String: Convert to hash", which converts the assigned string to a checksum hash. Specify the hash type as "crc32", "md5", or "sha256". New automation step: "String: Get domain from URL", which converts the assigned string from a ful |
| AlomWare Toolbox 6.0.0.0 Jun 22, 2025 |
Major enhancement: Partial multi-language support for general app text (ie. the main window itself, and some common messages). This is currently in beta mode, and you can edit your own translations by copying "Toolbox LanguagesEnglish.ini" file to a new file in that folder and making your translations in it to the listed items only. Save your edits and you can then switch languages in the app via the "Help > Set language" menu item. Please share your translations with us at AlomWare so we can include them in future releases of the app. Thank you! Change: Prevented "Toolbox.exe" from running directly from the desktop, as we are getting too many support questions about the sub-folders and files it creates on the desktop when doing so. Therefore, please run it from its own folder (as intended when unzipping it) and create a shortcut to "Toolbox.exe" on the desktop instead. Change: Starting the app as admin no longer uses "Toolbox as admin.vbs" file due to VBS files being disabled now by Microsoft. You can delete this file. Use the in-app setting called "General app settings > Run at startup/login > With Admin rights" to run the app as admin when your PC boots or you log into it. Alternatively, you can still right-click "Toolbox.exe" and select "Run as administrator" to run it that way. Bug fix: For several issues with the Dock, such as color and size height problems. Bug fix: For the splash window freezing the app if it was run from a non-writable folder. Bug fix: For re-adding default actions in the "Automation" tab from the Action Wizard menu. Bug fix: Fixed a situation where a pop-up request for text could lock the window it was invoked from. Bug fix: For auto-typing, where one single press of the Enter key could sometimes do two presses by mistake. Bug fix: Pressing the Esc key on an action's debugger window will now stop the action as intended, instead of incorrectly |
| AlomWare Toolbox 5.5.0.0 Apr 26, 2025 |
Major bug fix: The app now scales and works correctly on PCs with a desktop DPI scaling of more than 100%. Major addition: New automation step called "Toolbox: Use the data folder at", so you can switch which "Toolbox Data" folder the app uses, without quitting the app. This means you can literally switch data profiles with a hotkey, such as to to change whole batches of actions and hotkeys depending on which app or window you're working with. Addition: Two new file rename mods: "Keep after X" (so specifying "." for "X" will rename "01.Name" to "Name"); and "Keep before X" (so specifying "." for "X" will rename "01.Name" to "01"). Addition: The "Desktop Info" tab now has a "Color (Block)" item in the list, which shows the color under the mouse as a small rectangle for better viewing and comparison with other on-screen colors. Enhancement: Clicking a thumbed image in the "Clipboard" tab now shows a pop-up image of it in the corner of that tab for better viewing; and the status bar now shows the width/height/size of that image. Enhancement: Reminder messages can now be ended with a space which means to NOT show them on arrival. This is handy for times when you just want to see a countdown in the "Reminders/Tasks" list but not actually do anyhing when it arrives (such as just to see a repeatable pay day countdown). Enhancement: Scrolling the mouse wheel to change the zoom size of the "Desktop Info" display is now only done when updates are enabled with Scroll Lock or the checkbox. This is to prevent accidental updating of the image if you scroll the mouse when something new is under it (such as a different window). Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. |
| AlomWare Toolbox 5.4.0.3 Apr 13, 2025 |
Quick bug fix from yesterday: For restoring a window's opening state that was saved to an exact corner of the desktop. Those darn invisible window borders! :) Enhancement: For better accessibility, there is now a setting to enable/disable auto-switching to each tab's last-used item. So you can disable this to use the left/arrow keys to switch tabs on the main window without leaving the focus of each tab. Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. |
| AlomWare Toolbox 5.4.0.0 Mar 23, 2025 |
Change: Simplified the macro recording process so that recording is started easier; and a small message follows the mouse so you don't forget that you're recording. Change: For overflow safety, macros can now only be recorded for a maximum of 10 minutes. They can be played back longer if you manually edit them, or if you chain multiple macros back-to-back in an action. Change: The "Macro: Temp record" step now supports three values: "clicks" (just keystrokes and mouse clicks), "fake" (keystrokes and fake mouse movements between clicks), or "actual" (keystrokes and actual mouse movements between clicks). Change: If the app is set to check for updates at launch but your PC has just booted, the check will fail if your PC hasn't auto-connected to the internet yet. So now it re-tries for up to one minute after launch to do the check. Bug fix: The app's window now scales correctly on high DPI desktops, and the input boxes for entering text have been made larger for more entry space. Bug fix: Stopped the app crashing if you quit it while certain actions were running. Bug fix: Reduced the CPU use of the app when showing the Work Overview window. Bug fix: Text auto-completion from typing triggers could stop working if the app was idle for a long time (due to Microsoft security). Now they work all the time. Bug fix: Searching files with the "that are" criteria now enables the "Search" button instead of leaving it disabled. Bug fix: Holding the "Up" or "Down" arrow keys in the Step Chooser could show the wrong step description when the keys were released. Bug fix: Specifying "{printscreen}" in a keyboard typing action or macro now copies the desktop image to the clipboard (as expected). Addition: The main window's status bar now shows these vital PC stats that are updated every minute: Battery %, C drive free space, memory free, and uptime. Note: These cannot be changed or other stats add |
