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New TFind release

After a long hiatus, I am pleased to announce version 1.5 of TFind with several welcome new features.

• Windows helper service: no need for Admin rights or UAC once installed

• Unicode output, to console or file, where supported

• Cryptographically signed binaries using my new Verisign code-signing certificate

• Smaller! Just 24,888 bytes including signature for x86, 33,080 bytes for x64

Unicode on the Windows console does resemble something of a ‘black art’, and getting an implementation that works cleanly from Windows 2000 to Windows 8 was certainly tricky, but not impossible. (On Windows 2000, output to file ends up non-Unicode, but does work in my tests.)

Just in case of problems, I have kept the old version available for download as well — at least one interim build had problems on Windows 2000 since I built against a newer DDK to get UAC support — I’ve reverted to building against 3790, which has official Win2k support, and tested the new build under Windows 2000 (32 bit only, of course) both as a service and run directly.