Another Friday, another release. xpy and Vispa both get updates, adding new features, fixing bugs and bringing back Czech localization. With version 0.11/0.3, there’ll be a major call for new translations. If you want to contribute, have a look at this post first!

Over the next weeks I will probably keep on releasing a new version every Friday. Some of the software’s functions will be rewritten entirely in the next months, hopefully resulting in xpy 0.11/Vispa 0.3 later this summer.

For now you can download xpy 0.10.2 and Vispa 0.2.2.1, special builds of xpy are also available on SourceForge.

The upcoming 0.11 branch will likely be the last alpha version of xpy, followed by 1.0 beta later this year.

Your antivirus software might report xpy as Spyware or a Trojan. xpy is written and compiled using NSIS, false positives are unfortunately quite common among NSIS compiled programs. The NSIS development team is aware of this situation and constantly works with software companies to solve such issues.

For more details on this issue, please refer to the NSIS forums.

If you have stumbled across this problem, please update your virus signatures first. If the problem persists, you can help by reporting a false positive to the manufacturer of your antivirus software.

After a long time, there’s a new major release of xpy available. The auto-detection mode has been replaced, new features were added and of course some bugs fixed. Have a look at the changelog for a full list of changes.

For Windows Vista users there’s a new version of Vispa available. Due to a source-code merger, both programs now share the same base – though some features are might only be available in one of the two.

Due to the many changes, there are not many translations available at the moment (English and German). You are more than welcome to help complete existing languages or contribute new ones. All the details can be found here.

A new version of xpy has been released last week, polishing up code rather than bringing new features. In meanwhile a Vista fork has been released, based on the sourcecode of xpy (version 0.9.8). It was custom built for Microsoft’s latest operating system, but has less features available than xpy (many were no longer necessary). However, Vispa contains some features that will be added to upcoming 0.9.10 version of xpy.

The latest operating system by Microsoft, Windows Vista, is not supported by xpy. When running any Windows XP software on Vista, that is in some way effected by xpy, the settings can still be made. However, if xpy should not able to apply a setting it is not able to produce any damage, as it depends on existing values.

Update: Windows Vista users should have a look at the Vispa project, rather than using xpy!

The most searched queries on this site are about the restoration of setting made with xpy. This is specifically mentioned in the FAQ:

How can I restore the setting(s) made with xpy?
You can run xpy again and then choose the restoration-mode. This detects all previously made changes, so be careful in choosing what settings you want to restore.

The second most searched for query is for translations. Monolingual versions of xpy can be downloaded on SourceForge and BerliOS. The redistributal is at the moment unavailable due to missing translations. You can help and send in translations to be added to the xpy redistributable.

xpy is currently available in Bulgarian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian, however not all of the translation match the current version number. New and updated language files are very welcome, please read this guide before uploading translations to SourceForge.

For the man who knows xpy like the back of his hand comes minixpy, the army knife version of xpy. Stripped down to the very necessary, this is for purists who still count the 64k limit. Available now.

The new version xpy 0.9.7 is now available at SourceForge and BerliOS. Also available is a special build of xpy supporting Ixquick, a search engine that does not record any private data. Whereas the standard build replaces all Microsoft related search technologies in Windows with Google Search, the Special Build uses Ixquick instead.

The majority of visitors on this website does not use Internet Explorer anyway, or to be more precise 46.59% use Firefox and 8.30% use Opera.

The all new xpy 0.9.6 has a feature to disable the notifications of Microsoft�s controversial Windows Genuine Advantage program.

Though the feature could not be fully tested, a lot of research has been done on that and it is supposed to work.