Release 1.1.3.313: The AI Assistant & AI Explainer ✨

Welcome to the AI Update! This release brings a massive leap forward in how you understand and manage your system, introducing our brand-new AI Assistant and global AI Explainer, alongside beautiful UI upgrades and crucial system fixes.

✨ Highlight: The AI Assistant & AI Explainer
We've completely transformed how you interact with your OS. You no longer have to guess what a specific driver, system app, or diagnostic result means—your personal system expert is now built right in.

Global AI Assistant Window: Access the new standalone AiAssistantWindow from anywhere in the app. Ask questions directly and get conversational, deep system insights.

Beautiful Visual Feedback: We've integrated a high-fidelity Lottie "thinking" animation to provide smooth, visually pleasing feedback while the AI processes your queries.

Universal Integration: The AI Explainer service has been generalized and seamlessly integrated across the entire app. You will now find AI insights in:

Hardware and Driver Scans

The Diagnostics Page

The System Apps Page

General System Manager Pages

Multi-Model Power & Speed: Under the hood, the Explainer is powered by incredible models via OpenRouter, Cohere, and Mistral. We've also implemented TLS pre-warming so the AI responds faster than ever.

Dynamic Localization: The AI Explainer now supports dynamic language localization, ensuring you get deep system insights in your preferred language.

🚀 Enhancements & Quality of Life
System Cleaner Control: Added highly requested cancellation logic! You can now safely cancel "Analyze" and "Clean" operations mid-flight without locking up the app.

Stunning UI Upgrades: Added support for always-active Mica and Acrylic system backdrops. The app now looks deeply integrated with your desktop environment, maintaining its gorgeous translucency even when the window loses focus.

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Stability
TaskManager Monitor Widget: Resolved an annoying issue where the desktop monitor widget would "teleport" or jump across the screen while being dragged. We also implemented a background visibility watchdog to ensure the widget stays exactly where you pin it.

Crash Prevention: Fixed a critical COMException crash by defining a missing system brush in the app's global resources.

*** Enjoy the new AI-powered experience!

Release v1.1.2.311: Stability & The New Storage Analyzer 🚀

Release v1.1.2.311 Has Some Massive Stability Upgrades & Introduces The New Storage Analyzer 🚀

This major update focuses heavily on architectural stability and core performance. If you've previously experienced application hangs or lockups during rapid page navigation, this release completely resolves those issues by introducing a newly overhauled memory management engine.

Alongside the stability patches, we are thrilled to introduce two highly requested features: a lightning-fast Storage Analyzer and a seamlessly integrated Taskbar Hardware Monitor.

🚀 Core Performance & Stability Upgrades
The "Navigation Hang" Fix: Completely resolved a severe UI lockup issue where rapidly clicking through pages would cause the application to freeze.

Overhauled Memory Guardian: The engine now utilizes dual-mode sustained thresholds and a new "Adaptive Purge" architecture to intelligently free up RAM without interrupting your workflow. Included a global kill switch for edge cases.

Native Memory Leak Patches: Optimized the Guardian UI timer and patched native backend leaks to ensure sustained, long-term stability when the app is left running for days.

High Performance Mode: Introduced native WinUI 3 RAM caching. When enabled, UI responsiveness is vastly improved.

Adaptive "Safe Sleep": The Diagnostics Singleton now intelligently powers down background resource consumption when not in active use.

📊 New: Storage Analyzer
We've built a high-performance disk analysis tool from the ground up to help you reclaim storage space instantly.

MFT Scanning Engine: Utilizes the Master File Table for lightning-fast, deep drive scanning.

Interactive TreeGrid UI: Explore your folder hierarchy with instant, debounced in-memory file searching.

Context-Aware Scanning: Features a segmented storage bar and allows for targeted folder-level scanning.

Deep Visibility: Includes scanning and visual dimming for hidden and system files, plus a toggleable file type categorization sidebar.

💻 New: Detachable Taskbar Monitor
Native Taskbar Injection: You can now detach the hardware monitor and snap it directly into the Windows 11 Taskbar.

Zero-Flicker Architecture: Uses native Win32 SetParent APIs to become a physical, frameless part of the taskbar, meaning absolutely no Z-order fighting or flickering.

Custom Drag-and-Drop: Left-click and drag the widget to smoothly position it anywhere along your taskbar.

✨ Quality of Life & Bug Fixes
First-Run Prompt: Added a new onboarding screen allowing new users to explicitly choose between "Performance" and "Eco" modes.

Thread Safety Fix: Resolved an issue causing the Security Details dialogs in the Diagnostics page to become unresponsive.

Efficiency Mode Fix: Fixed a critical window management bug where Efficiency Mode would permanently lock upon restoring the app from the system tray.

Dependencies: Updated all project NuGet packages to their latest stable versions.

v1.1.1.308 — The Process Manager & System Cleaner Update

We are thrilled to announce one of the most substantial updates to EvolveOS Optimizer yet. This release introduces a complete architectural overhaul to memory management and diagnostics, alongside the highly anticipated debut of our advanced System Cleaner, the ADMX Group Policy Explorer, and a completely transformed Process Manager.

🧹 The All-New System Cleaner
We have built a comprehensive new cleaning engine from the ground up, designed for power users who need deep system maintenance.

Winapp2.ini Integration: Fully powered by the community-standard Winapp2.ini with seamless support for importing custom community databases.

Automation: Set it and forget it with automated scheduled background cleaning.

Post-Clean Scripts: Added the ability to automatically execute custom system scripts immediately after a clean finishes.

Advanced Context Actions: Right-click any entry for deep file inspection to detect and report locked/conflicting files, or easily jump to the source with "Open File Location".

📊 Process Manager Overhaul
The Process Manager has been transformed into a comprehensive power-user tool, introducing modern categorization, highly accurate metrics, and advanced manipulation capabilities.

Smart Categorization & Visuals: Migrated to a modern grouped layout (Apps, Background, Windows). Added dynamic .exe icon extraction and a visual resource heatmap that subtly tints process cards red when RAM consumption exceeds 2GB.

Native Efficiency Indicators: Added the native Windows 11 green leaf icon to the process list and context menus to instantly and visually identify processes running in Efficiency Mode.

Task Manager Parity: Added a toggle to seamlessly switch between "Total (Working Set)" and "Task Manager (Private)" memory metrics, powered by a high-performance WMI query engine for exact native accuracy.

Deep Control Context Menu: Right-click any process to unlock advanced system-level controls:

Suspend / Resume: Freeze and unfreeze execution threads instantly.

Process Priority: Dynamically modify priority states (High, Above Normal, Normal, Low).

Efficiency Mode: Manually toggle Windows 11 Efficiency Mode (EcoQoS) per process to throttle power draw and thermal impact.

Engine Safety: Added intelligent self-filtering to hide the application's own process to prevent accidental self-termination, alongside localized toast notifications for all action results.

🧠 Performance & MemoryGuardian
High-Precision MemoryGuardian: Introduced a state-aware service designed to monitor and optimize the application's memory footprint in real-time, ensuring the app remains incredibly lightweight.

Dynamic Thresholding: Maintains a 200MB limit during active use and aggressively clamps down to 150MB when minimized to the system tray (Efficiency Mode).

Native Memory Trimming: Integrated the EmptyWorkingSet Win32 API to force-reclaim unmanaged UI memory and DirectX resources that the standard .NET Garbage Collector cannot reach.

Task Manager Parity: Switched to the Working Set - Private PerformanceCounter to ensure trigger logic aligns exactly with Windows Task Manager, ignoring shared system DLL overhead.

Smart Orchestration: Hooked directly into window state handlers to automatically adjust sensitivity based on whether the UI is visible or hidden.

Diagnostic Hooks: Added an optional telemetry callback to report the exact megabytes recovered after a cleanup cycle.

Efficiency Mode & Aggressive Compression: * Native EcoQoS Integration: Integrated Windows 11 Efficiency Mode natively into App.SetPriority(), automatically applying it whenever "Low Priority" is enabled.

System Tray Controls: Added a quick-access "Low Priority Mode" toggle directly to the System Tray context menu.

UI Memory Purging: Implemented aggressive Garbage Collection (GC.Collect()) hooks inside the Purge() methods of all heavy UI pages (ProcessManager, Services, Group Policy, System, Tweaks, Utilities) to instantly reclaim RAM on navigation.

Optimization Sweep: Added a final GC sweep to the StartMemoryCleanup routine to neutralize any managed garbage generated during the system optimization process.

Service Manager Upgrades: We've added advanced filtering and exposed exact executable path details to make managing background services significantly easier.

🛡️ Group Policy & Security
ADMX Policy Explorer: The Group Policy module has been transformed into a fully advanced ADMX policy explorer and manager. It now features baseline state diffing and the ability to inject custom policies.

Network Hardening: Integrated an advanced port scanner directly into the app alongside a new network hardening engine.

🛠️ Diagnostics & UI Polish
Neural Analysis Engine (DNS): Completely migrated and integrated DNS encryption, manual configuration, benchmarking, and DoH (DNS over HTTPS) enforcement into the Neural Analysis Engine.

Real-Time PnP: Added real-time Plug and Play (PnP) monitoring.

Contextual Elevation: The diagnostics engine now supports contextual admin elevation for specific remediation tasks.

UI/UX Polish: Implemented dynamic accent colors, smooth opaque backgrounds, and vastly improved light theme compatibility across the entire application.

🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes (Critical)
A major focus of this release was under-the-hood reliability. We completely tore down and rebuilt several core tracking components to ensure the application can run indefinitely without consuming excess system resources.

Memory Leaks Eliminated: Resolved critical memory leaks that could occur during extended monitoring sessions.

Handle Exhaustion Fixed: Tracked down and patched unmanaged handle exhaustion issues within the System Manager, ensuring rock-solid stability even under heavy load.

Release v1.1.0.298: The Diagnostics Command Center Update 🚀

Welcome to version 1.1.0.298! This major release officially introduces the unified Diagnostics Command Center, delivering a high-performance, multi-panel diagnostic interface paired with active system-healing capabilities. Alongside this massive architectural shift, we've included significant stability improvements, lifecycle enhancements, and UX overhauls to the dashboard and navigation.

✨ Highlights: The Diagnostics Command Center
This update integrates deep system scanning with dynamic, hardware-accelerated vector graphics to create a unified system telemetry and remediation hub.

Interactive Telemetry Graphing: Engineered real-time Polyline/Polygon performance graphing featuring dynamic toggles for CPU, RAM, Disk, and Pagefile telemetry, complete with adjustable timescale metrics.

Active Hardware & Software Remediation: Integrated WMI and Event Log mining lists with actionable, inline "Fix" buttons to actively resolve hardware faults and software errors.

Hardware EKG Visualizer: Built a dynamic double-beat hardware visualizer featuring a gapless radar-sweep gradient and a scalable medical oscilloscope grid.

At-a-Glance System Health: Implemented the animated System Sonar and hourly Stability Trend bar charts so you can gauge system health instantly.

Neural Engine AI Integration: Deployed the new Neural Engine AI panel to provide real-time textual health evaluations and intelligent remediation protocols.

System Tray Monitoring: Added a real-time hardware monitoring panel directly to the system tray for continuous, low-profile telemetry tracking.

Smarter History Management: Added permanent removal capabilities for dismissed history occurrences, ensuring localized configurations persist accurately without clutter.

🛡️ App Lifecycle & Stability
We’ve rebuilt how the app handles starting up, shutting down, and managing data to prevent corruption and ensure rock-solid stability.

Graceful Shutdowns: Implemented a new shutdown sequence that ensures all telemetry streams, active scans, and database connections close safely before termination.

Intelligent Restarts: Introduced localized restart logic to safely handle app reboots required during critical system maintenance operations.

Database Resilience: Prevented database lock-ups and corruption crashes when closing secondary app instances. This is supported by an entirely new, robust backup and restore system.

🎨 Navigation & UI/UX Refinements
We've smoothed out the rough edges to make navigating and customizing your experience feel effortless.

Sidebar Restructuring: Overhauled the main sidebar navigation to improve user flow, completely consolidating the Tweaks module into a centralized, intuitive location.

Dashboard Customization: Enhanced the home page drag-and-drop system. You'll now see clear visual feedback during interactions, resolved layout shifting bugs, and a newly established unified layout grid for perfect widget placement.

Thank you for your continued support and feedback! As always, please open an issue if you encounter any bugs or have feature requests.

1.0.9.287

🚀 EvolveOS Optimizer v1.0.9.287
The Ultimate Control & Safety Update

This massive update introduces the highly anticipated Advanced Startup Manager, a robust Export/Import Profile System for your tweaks and app settings, new interactive App Store features, and a brand-new proactive safety system to protect your PC while optimizing.

Here is what's new in version 1.0.9.287:

⏱️ Advanced Startup Manager
Take absolute control over your PC's boot times with our new Startup Manager, located in the Software Center.

Smart Profiles (Gaming & Work): Instantly switch between custom startup configurations depending on what you need your PC for today.

Thundering Herd Prevention: Don't let all your apps fight for CPU power at once. Use our new "Cycle-Click" feature to easily delay apps from starting for 15, 30, 45, or 60 seconds after boot.

Deep Clean: Permanently delete stubborn apps from your registry's startup sequence.

Authenticode Verification: Easily spot untrusted software with our new verified publisher badges.

🛡️ Safety First: System Restore & Rollbacks
We want you to tweak your system with confidence.

Proactive Protection: EvolveOS will now prompt you to create a Windows System Restore point before applying heavy optimizations.

State Rollback System: Our core engine has been upgraded to track your changes, making it easier to safely undo tweaks and revert to your previous settings.

⚙️ Tweak Profiles & Settings Management
We’ve made it easier than ever to back up, restore, and share your favorite configurations.

Comprehensive Tweak Export/Import: Our profile system has been massively expanded! You can now successfully export and import your custom DNSCrypt configurations, advanced Network settings, Windows Update modes, and Power Plans.

Slider Support: The profile system now perfectly captures and restores your fine-tuned slider positions (no more just "On/Off" limits).

App Settings Backup: You can now export and import your core EvolveOS Optimizer application preferences, allowing you to instantly set up a new machine exactly how you like it.

🔒 Comprehensive Security Management
A new suite of security controls has been added to the Security dashboard, along with better visibility into your system's status.

Core Windows Protections: Toggle Smart App Control, Local Security Authority (LSA) Protection, and UAC settings directly from the app.

Developer & Remote Access: Easily manage Developer Mode, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features to lock down your system against external vulnerabilities.

PowerShell Policies: Safely manage your PowerShell Execution Policies with our streamlined internal command executor.

Detailed Security Warnings: Instantly view in-depth details about any active security vulnerabilities directly from the interactive security card on your Homepage Dashboard or within the main Security page.

🏬 App Store Enhancements
Discovering and installing software is now smoother and more transparent.

Interactive Installations: Watch your apps install and update in real-time with visual progress indicators.

Advanced Search & Filters: Easily find exactly what you are looking for with the new interactive filter pane and package source filtering.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Under-the-Hood Improvements
Fixed: An annoying bug where the Optimizer window would unexpectedly shrink from Maximized to Normal size after closing a folder explorer.

Fixed: Resolved a rare freeze (Error 1726 RPC Deadlock) that could happen during deep system (DISM) cleanup scans.

Fixed: Addressed a visual glitch where the hexagon loading icons would sometimes fail to center properly.

Improved: System cleanup cards have a cleaner, more consistent layout.

Improved: Upgraded our localization engine so language changes happen smoothly and instantly across the app.

📥 How to Update
WinGet Users: Open your terminal and run winget upgrade EvolveOS.Optimizer

Manual Users: Download the latest .exe from the assets below and run it to automatically overwrite your previous version.

If you encounter any issues, please open a ticket on our [Issues page]!

1.0.8.283

EvolveOS Optimizer v1.0.8.283
This update brings a comprehensive overhaul to the App Store engine, significant UI/UX polish, and proactive stability enhancements to bulletproof the application and streamline package management.

🚀 App Store & Package Management
Advanced Installation Options: Added new modifiers to the install dropdown, including Install as Administrator, Skip Integrity Checks, and Install For All Users (Machine-wide Scope).

Advanced Uninstallation Options: Added Uninstall as Administrator and Interactive Uninstall capabilities.

Performance Optimization: Bypassed cmd.exe overhead by calling winget.exe directly, speeding up background tasks.

Smart Inventory Matching: Fixed the installed application count logic by using a multi-keyed heuristic matching system (ID and Name) to eliminate duplicate entries between Registry and WinGet sources.

Improved CLI Parsing: Upgraded the parsing logic to strictly ignore repeated headers and summary footers, preventing "ghost" packages.

Offline Mode: Integrated robust network connection validation to gracefully halt background tasks and prevent UI lockups when the system is offline.

🔍 Unified Search & Dynamic UI
Global App Store Search: Unified search functionality by enabling the PackageSearchBox across the Browse, Updates, and Installed tabs, featuring instant local memory filtering.

Context-Aware UI: Added dynamic UI context switching for buttons and menus based on the active tab (e.g., dynamically swapping "Install" to "Uninstall"), including proper "No results found" feedback.

Modernized Feedback: Replaced the standard search progress ring with a sleek, non-intrusive top progress bar and added dynamic visual feedback for tab switching.

🛡️ Navigation Guards & Task Tracking
IBusyPage Interface: Introduced a standardized interface (IsBusy, BusyTitle, BusyMessage) to track active background tasks across sub-pages.

Smart Navigation Interception: Updated the SoftwareCenterPage to intercept tab changes during active operations. A new confirmation ContentDialog allows users to cleanly cancel active tasks or safely stay on the current page.

UI "Snap Back": Added logic to automatically revert the navigation selection indicator if a user chooses to stay on a busy page.

🔧 Core Stability & Fixes
Lifecycle Kill-Switches: Prevented potential 0xc000027b cross-thread UI crashes and 0xc0000409 memory access violations on exit by implementing comprehensive CancellationToken support across all WinGet CLI operations.

Cached State Fixes: Resolved online search failures by automatically refreshing the CancellationTokenSource in the Loaded event if previously cancelled by the navigation guard.

Duplicate Prevention: Fixed duplicate package count jumps by verifying package ID existence before adding "leftover" updates to cached collections.

Crash Trapping & Telemetry: Implemented global exception logging (App_UnhandledException and TaskScheduler_UnobservedTaskException) to gracefully catch and record edge-case background thread errors.

1.0.7.282

Release v1.0.7.282: WinGet Integration, Live Monitoring & Packages Overhaul 🎉
This release introduces native WinGet integration, interactive live system monitoring, and major performance optimizations, alongside critical bug fixes that restore core functionality to the Packages (Recommended Debloat) page.

🚀 What's New
Native WinGet Integration: You can now fully manage, install, update and uninstall your software using the powerful Windows Package Manager (WinGet) directly within the app.

Automated WinGet Deployment: If the app detects that WinGet is missing or outdated on your system, it will automatically offer to deploy and upgrade the Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller in the background.

Smart Uninstaller Interception: You can now enjoy truly silent background uninstalls even for the most stubborn applications (like Mozilla Firefox). Our new Quirks Bypass engine automatically detects custom installers and seamlessly forces them into the background, guaranteeing a pop-up-free experience.

Interactive Live Monitoring: The Process Manager and Service Manager have been enhanced with real-time, reactive UI updates, allowing you to monitor system activity live.

Smart UI Animations: Added indeterminate progress bars during package operations so you always know exactly what the engine is doing in the background.

🐛 Critical Bug Fixes
Packages (Recommended Debloat) Page Overhaul: Addressed a critical failure that previously rendered the Packages page inoperable. The uninstallation engine has been completely rebuilt, restoring flawless real-time UI synchronization.

Startup Update Detection: Resolved a failure that prevented the app from automatically checking for updates on launch. The global update UI has also been standardized using the new interactive Update Banner.

⚙️ Under the Hood & Performance Optimization
Lightning-Fast Execution: Optimized backend process execution by disabling standard output redirection and enforcing --disable-interactivity. This eliminates pipeline bottlenecks and drastically reduces software installation and uninstallation times.

System Repair Workflow: Stabilized terminal output encoding and optimized the overall system repair logic.

Software Center Efficiency: Improved performance by optimizing memory management and page caching.

Dependency Updates: Updated all project NuGet packages to their latest stable versions to ensure maximum security and performance.

1.06.280

Release v1.0.6 🚀
⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EXISTING USERS: Due to a bug in the previous version's automatic update detection (which is permanently fixed in this release!), you will not receive an automatic popup for v1.0.6. To install this update via the app, please go to Settings > Check for Updates and run it manually, or simply download the latest executable directly from the assets below.

Welcome to EvolveOS Optimizer v1.0.6! This major update brings massive new capabilities to the application, including our new "Smart Sniper" Gaming Mode, military-grade AES-256 file encryption, and a robust automated database backup system.

✨ What's New
Smart Sniper Gaming Mode: Introduced the GamingModeHelper and a new dynamic dashboard card. This feature intelligently suspends non-essential background tasks while strictly protecting a "Do Not Touch" whitelist of games and anti-cheats. It also features a smart state restoration system to return your PC exactly how you left it.

Military-Grade Encryption: Added full support for AES-256-GCM file and folder encryption directly within the app.

Automated Database Backups: Implemented a highly requested automated database backup system. You can now automatically back up your local SQL database upon exit, with the option to encrypt the backup files.

Auto-Theme Scheduling: Introduced auto-theme scheduling with the ability to synchronize the app's theme directly with your Windows OS settings.

🎨 UI & UX Improvements
File Encryption Polish: Centered the layout and refined element alignments in the new File Encryption module.

Improved Navigation: Added back navigation support to both the File Encryption and Password Manager modules for a smoother user flow.

Message Window: Optimized the MessageWindow layout and fixed initialization issues with window backdrops (Mica/Acrylic).

🐛 Bug Fixes
Automatic Update Detection: Fixed a critical race condition that prevented the app from successfully triggering the automatic update banner on startup.

Calendar: Fixed an issue causing CalendarView layout clipping and vertical text wrapping.

Maintenance UI: Resolved a bug causing empty ComboBox selections on the Maintenance page and added missing localization strings.

Disk Space Refresh: Fixed an issue where the available disk space would not visually refresh immediately after running an optimization pass.

⚙️ Under the Hood & Documentation
Updater: Fortified the inline update script and improved overall error handling during the self-update process.

Documentation: Updated the README.md to highlight the new Key Features (including the inner workings of the GamingModeHelper) and added a direct Gmail contact link.

Thank you for using EvolveOS Optimizer! If you enjoy this release, please consider leaving a ⭐ on the repository, or please consider buying me a coffee! Your support is what keeps this project alive, 100% ad-free, and actively developed for the community.

1.0.5.275

EvolveOS Optimizer v1.0.5 Release Notes
This update focuses on the stability and reliability of the Custom ISO Builder, alongside a major overhaul of our localization engine to support a wider range of European languages.

🛠 ISO Builder Enhancements
Active Cancellation: You can now safely cancel an ISO build while it is in progress. The "Build" button dynamically transforms into a "Cancel" button once the process starts.

Smart Cleanup & Teardown: Improved the background service logic to ensure that if a build is cancelled or fails, all temporary WIM mounts are forcefully unmounted and discarded. This prevents the "Locked WIM/install.wim" errors that required a system reboot in previous versions.

Status Reporting: The background servicing process now provides real-time, localized status updates directly on the progress bar.

Work in Progress: Temporarily disabled the Windows Recovery (WinRE) removal feature while we refine the injection logic for perhaps the next update.

🌍 Localization & Global Support
New Languages (Windows Iso Builder): Added full UI and background service translation support for Dutch (NL), French, German, and Italian.

Auto-Update Engine: Fixed a critical bug in standalone builds where new translation strings weren't appearing. The app now automatically detects if language files have changed by comparing resource sizes and updates your local cache instantly.

🖥 UI & System Improvements
Single-Instance Enforcement: Added a new MessageWindow system. If you try to open the app while it’s already running, it will now intelligently bring the existing window to the foreground or notify you of the status.

Visual Polish: Improved the tab indicator logic in the Utilities section. If a navigation is blocked (e.g., you choose to "Wait" during a build), the blue selection bar will now correctly snap back to the active page.

Transition Logic: Smoothed out the transition between the LoadingWindow and the main application dashboard.

1.0.4.271

EvolveOS Optimizer Update (April 2026)
This release brings massive capabilities to EvolveOS Optimizer, highlighted by our brand-new offline ISO Builder, a totally overhauled localization engine, and critical stability fixes for fresh Windows deployments.

🚀 Major Features & Highlights
EvolveOS Custom Windows 11 ISO Builder: We have introduced a highly configurable, native offline-servicing ISO builder. You can now build your ultimate, debloated Windows 11 installation media right from the app.

Extreme Offline Optimization: The master tweak catalog has received a massive update, unlocking new levels of extreme offline OS optimization for peak performance.

Complete Localization Engine: We’ve built a robust, dynamic localization system featuring real-time string detection, JSON merging, hotkeys, and built-in translator tools.

🛡️ Stability & Core Fixes
Zero-Dependency Execution (Self-Contained): The application is now compiled as a fully self-contained executable. You no longer need to manually download and install the modern .NET Desktop Runtime on fresh Windows 11 VMs or bare-metal installs—the app runs instantly out of the box!

Bulletproof LocalDB Initialization: Fixed critical silent install and startup race conditions for the SQL engine. The application now reliably installs and boots its database on completely fresh environments and virtual machines without environment variable ghosting.

Admin State & Data Preloading: Fixed the IsAdmin UI binding so privileges are accurately reflected, and heavily optimized background weather preloading to prevent UI thread hangs.

🎨 UI, UX & Safety Improvements
Dynamic Accent Borders: The application window border now dynamically adapts to your system's active accent color for a native, deeply integrated look.

Safety First: Added a proactive first-run prompt that encourages Administrators to create a System Restore point before applying heavy system tweaks.

Refined Login Experience: Locked the login window resizing for a cleaner, strictly controlled layout, and ensured weather data is preloaded for a seamless transition to the dashboard.

Visual Polish: Improved the contrast and readability of warning notifications and corrected the progress bar animation direction.

🔧 Under the Hood
XAML Refactoring: Overhauled the frontend to use the streamlined Loc.Key syntax for all localized UI elements.

Maintenance: Updated all core NuGet packages to their latest stable 2026 versions and performed general code cleanup across the solution.