Zinstall zPOD previous versions

Zinstall XP7/ZPOD 2.3.0.1 build 3094 - 03 Dec 2010:

FIXED issue with "Send Ctrl-Alt-Del" causing Scroll Lock to get "stuck", causing problems in keyboard input in guest
FIXED rare issue with failure to set full-screen resolution in guest
FIXED rare issue with failing to revert vgamode from boot.ini
CHANGED added message code to message about new computer not finding old computer over the network
ADDED command line interface for adding a port forwaring
FIXED worked around issue with failure to detect migration target if computer just joined a domain and was not restarted since( a WMI issue )
ADDED option to migrate to a target drive that is a virtual volume ( e.g. truecrypt volume, etc. )

Zinstall XP7/ZPOD 2.3.0.0 build 3087 - 30 Nov 2010:

ADDED LAN auto activations
FIXED all LSP related issues in ZinstallLoader - now using named pipe instead of tcp socket
FIXED timing issue in add_application_exception on XP - if tried listening on a socket right after add_application_exception - it sometimes failed, displayed allow/deny msg to user and deleted the rule if user said cancel.
FIXED bug with checking for minimum RAM on host at the beginning when running zPOD instead of XP7. Now only checking for XP7.
FIXED issue with failing to automatically launch the HostUtility after migration if performing the migration in a RemoteDesktop session.

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.2.1.1 build 3057 - 14 Nov 2010

ADDED precondition check that we are not in safe mode
CHANGED Increased minimum host ram for running zins to 2GB
ADDED Precondition for XP7 on target computer that there's a minium ram of 2GB
CHANGED choice and operation in progress dialogs now have a minimize button
FIXED problem with bootmgr workaround for boot loader incompatability
ADDED overlay window on old desktop which is visible until GuestUtility is initialized - it allows user to switch back to host desktop or send ctrl-alt-del, before GuestUtility was initialized
ADDED Start menu shortcut for manual fine tuning
ADDED workaround for problem with creating zins container if Zinstall dir was NTFS compressed - error 234 ( this happens if the entire HDD is set to be NTFS Compressed ). Now making sure that Zinstall, ZinstallEx dirs are not ntfs compressed.
CHANGED Implemented fast bad sector skipping
FIXED Workaround for very rare failure to format the rz volume as NTFS - now reverting to FAT if NTFS format failed
ADDED io.sys to list of possible boot loaders used in detection of a boot volume
ADDED HpqKbFiltr keyboard filter driver to blacklist because it makes keyboard not work on old desktop
FIXED issue with ZinstallLoader failing to start Zinstall when executed from a folder with "&" in its name
ADDED guest start menu icons integration into host start menu. Now it is possible to launch a guest app straight from the host.
FIXED rare issue with GuestUtility failing to install the ZinstallHelperService
CHANGED removed warning about VSS not working
FIXED issue with misdetection of network disconnected during migration which caused a bad message to be displayed
CHANGED no longer trying to remove LSPs using winsock reset as it may cause network problems. Instead - just proposing to uninstall the bad software that installed the LSP
FIXED HostUtility can now handle a situation where zinstallex.cfg is missing

Zinstall XP7/ZPOD 2.2.1.1 build 3011 - 04 Oct 2010

ADDED warning if VSS not working
ADDED boot loader incompatability workaround removing a Vista/7 bootloader when the guest is an XP
ADDED meaningful error message when sum of selected volumes' sizes is > 2TB, since this is not supported.
CHANGED gui adjustments, new icons, new powered by logo
CHANGED increased old computer free space precondition from 500MB to 1GB
CHANGED now stopping zero_conf on old computer as soon as new computer connected to it
FIXED rare issue with network zero configuration due to an exceptionally large arp table
FIXED issue with detection of whether windows vista/7 started booting during fine tuning
FIXED issue in copy_file permissions override workaround
FIXED rare issue with selecting wrong default boot.ini entry
FIXED regression from 2974 with fine tuning getting "stuck" instead of detecting a memory depletion situation / hardware assisted virtualization missing situation
FIXED rare issue with misdetection of a network disconnect in the middle of copying
FIXED issue with migration getting stuck in the "Initializing" stage due to a VSS problem
FIXED detection of Japanese K7 preventing Zinstall from starting properly

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.2.1.1 build 2974 - 16/09/201

ADDED workaround for old computer's SYSTEM hive not having permissions for Administrators group to access it
ADDED workaround to rare failure during copying of old computer to new computer
ADDED a workaround for a rare failure during the "Configure Zinstall machine" stage
ADDED trying to fix a corrupted registry hive from the old computer instead of failing on it
ADDED an additional generic workaround for VSS problems
ADDED ZinstallLoader now auto detects which application causes loading to fail and proposes to uninstall it
ADDED Zinstall now displays warning every 3 minutes (timeout is migrator options) if no sources were found.
ADDED If trying to run migration over WLAN, a warning is displayed after pressing GO
ADDED workaround for bad networking configuration on old computer
ADDED HostUtility now detects a "macine not registered" situation caused by filesystem corruption and automatically fixed it
ADDED flushing of zPOD's drive when exiting HostUtility
ADDED MAJOR Improvements to guest's storage resilience to power failures
ADDED .*sql.*writer to the list of services that might potentially break VSS
ADDED automatic workaround for some of the "Drive incompatability" and "Fine tuning took too long" problems
ADDED "Suspend" and "Shutdown" to GuestUtility's tray icon.
ADDED ISSADMIN to list of potentially BAD vss writers that should be stopped before creating a snapshot on XP
CHANGED mounting of guest storage is now more robust ( disabled caching )
CHANGED no longer running the guest popup locker on startup.
CHANGED when Host/Guest utility start try enabling ZinstallHelperService in case it's disabled
CHANGED updated italian translation
CHANGED try to fix VSS if snapshot creation failed, not just if VSS is detected as completely malfunctioning
CHANGED fixed detection of original default boot.ini entry in some cases
CHANGED migration target auto detection to give low priority to removable drives ( previously only given low priority to external disks )
FIXED race condition between ZinstallHelperService and ZinstallHostUtility on startup
FIXED issue with ZinstallHostUtility not properly detecting a ZinstallHelperService restart during startup
FIXED detection of boot loader incompat in case of an Acer mbr causing repeated real mode resets
FIXED fine tuning can now workaround BootLoaderIncompat and RecurringBSOD/FineTuningTookTooLong at the same time
FIXED rare issue with failing to access a shadow copy device after it was created - now verifying it's alive and recreating it if it's dead
FIXED rare issue with failing to run migration after user manully removed entries from a configuration file
FIXED problem with starting migration in case one of the source volumes was not formatted/was corrupted - now showing message to user asking to format it
FIXED issue with failure to install certain compoments if they were partially uninstalled by the user
FIXED issue with a problem during safeboot drivers enumeration causing disabling of all but white-list drivers to fail - a conclusions from diag reports
FIXED issue in auto detection of default boot.ini entry
FIXED issue with a lot ( 1000+ ) bad sectors in a row causing copying to fail
FIXED rare glitches during "Configurating Zinstall machine"
FIXED issue with "Sync zPOD" sometimes being enabled when machine is running
FIXED issue in default Sync filter query because of which causing redundant data to be copied
FIXED DiagTool in case a certain hdd is problematic in get_disk_mbr_and_bootsect, we now try all others, instead of failing all together
FIXED rare issue with bad registry keys making resolving of service dependencies during stop_service/start_service to fail
FIXED problem with DiagTool, ZinstallLoader failing to start when WMI was broken beyond all repair on this computer. Now displaying an error message to the user.
FIXED guest showing a blank black screen, although everything ( including fine tuning ) is working fine behind the scenes - this was probably caused by some bad resolution settings on the source computer

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.2.1 build 2799 - 27/06/2010:

MAJOR PERFORMANCE optimizations during migration and post migration usage
ADDED Italian translation
FIXED issue with GuestUtility's failure to start after restart of guest, after a file was copied from guest to host
FIXED rare issue with not sometimes not setting the "should_do_fine_tuning" flag to False in HostUtility, causing it to try and do Fine tuning every time user wanted to switch to old computer
FIXED performance issue with guest async popup blocker consuming a lot of cpu
FIXED disabling of tray icon hiding on win7 to work on 64 bit as well
FIXED issue with guest utility failing to start after reverting to snapshot
ADDED Auto estimating progress indications
FIXED issue with race condition in starting the GuestUtility
FIXED issue with non-indicative error message if fine tuning in hostutlity failed due to memory depletion
FIXED issue with doing another migration attempt after VSS failed on old computer
FIXED Show old files is now grayed out if guest shutting down was detected because it won't work in this state
FIXED unicde related issue with network zero configuration on XP with static IP
CHANGED now only installing the Zinstall Prnt Adapter on XP host
CHANGED now disabling tray icon during sync
FIXED zPOD sync failing if duplicate file fragments existed in the volume db
ADDED progress bar to upgrade process
FIXED BCD fixing in vista/win7 is now more clever and can handle non standard Win7 installations
FIXED issue with sometimes "breaking" the guest keyboard when switching to it
CHANGED HostUtility's startup & desktop shortcuts, as well as RunZPOD.exe on root of zPOD drive are only created if migration worked until the fine tuning stage
ADDED DiagTool now shows a green checkmark in the "finished sending report" dialog
FIXED Windows XP SP0 related registry_parser issue
FIXED issue with HostUtility raising a bad error message when the real problem was that the background initialization failed
FIXED issue with not unmounting some storages if migratoin failed
FIXED issue with "finding" the wrong loopback adapter when trying to retrieve the just installed loopback adapter
FIXED glitch with failure to start guest during fine tuning
FIXED issue with network zero conf sometimes failing to configure adapter to DHCP
FIXED rare issue with not reverting from DHCP to a static IP when closing zinstall
FIXED issue with sometimes automatically switching to guest during the embedding stage
CHANGED HostUtility message about not enough memory
ADDED some bad drivers to black list
CHANGED increased timeout of "paste" detection from 1 sec to 5 secs in order to make it work on slow computers
FIXED problem with unmounting of guest fs getting stuck after shutting down guest and then causing mount offline to get stuck as well at the stage of finding an available drive letter
FIXED vss failure now always raises a good exception that will show a suitable message to the user ( had a problem with some failures raising an ugly exception to the user )
FIXED issue with automatic source/target detection failing if a corrupted volume was found
ADDED support for creating a zPOD on a removable flash drive ( not just external HDD )
FIXED problem with showing bad (internal texts) error messages when fine tuning in HostUtility fails
CHANGED RunZPOD.exe now doesn't require admin privileges by default - if HostUtility detects the helper service isn't running, it restarts itself as admin and installs helper service, etc.
ADDED workaround for copy-paste from host to guest breaking down after connecting & disconnecting using vnc viewer because of the vnc viewer breaking the clipboard chain
FIXED issue with not refreshing vss snapshot on XP across subsequent runs of zinstall
CHANGED offline guest fs is now mounted to z:\ as well ( using subst ) - this helps provide a more consistent user experience where the guest fs is always mounted to z:\
CHANGED waiting for guest windows to boot ( PCNET / dhcp detected in zbox log ) before switching to guest
ADDED When user does TrayIcon->Exit - ask user whether he wants to forcefully kill the guest
ADDED better handling of zPOD drive being yanked out while it's running
FIXED issue with mount online guest fs on Win7 not showing Z:\ drive in explorer
ADDED workaround for new computer having a corrupted PATHEXT env variable
ADDED disabling of startup apps in guest in a way that allows re-enabling them using msconfig - disabling apps from HKLM\..\Run, HKCU\..\Run, All Users\Startup, User\Startup
CHANGED HostUtility doesn't wait for Initialization to finish in order to enable the tray icon - instead it will wait after the user does "Switch To Old" or "Show Old Files". that way the initialization is FAST as far as the user is concerned
FIXED zPOD->Exit is now MUCH faster - only takes 2-3 seconds
FIXED issue with no spinning progress on some XP installations due to missing CRT dlls
FIXED issue with rare failure to install ZinstallHelperService in case it was already installed
ADDED handling of a computer with disk encryption that encrypts the boot sector

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.2.1 build 2697 - 16/05/2010:

FIXED issue with choosing MiniNT as the default windows installation
ADDED WLAN workaround - auto detection of migration source now preferes a storage available via a wired connection over a wireless connection.
FIXED issue with update/repair in case where Zinstall is not working because ZinstallHostUtility.exe is missing
CHANGED significant optimiazations for post-copying (adjusting) until fine tuning stages of migration
FIXED issue with missing mouse GUID in CurrentControlSet\Control making migration fail
FIXED rare issue with log file not rotating
ADDED Option to upgrade all Zinstall components of an already migrated machine, instead of doing a new migration
FIXED generic fix for VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR problem - now backing up and removing corrupted registerd VSS providers from HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\VSS\Providers
FIXED boot loader incomparability with some Acer laptops
ADDED precondition not to allow selecting FAT32 volume as migration target because it can't hold files > 4GB ( more precisly - only allow NTFS/exFAT as target )
ADDED warning if some source volume is not NTFS recommending user to converts to NTFS
ADDED if guest was paused - disable "Show old computer files" in tray icon because it will lead to filesystem corruption
ADDED workaround for failure to mount boot volume on the old computer, which caused migration precondition of making sure that there's at least one bootable volume in target layout to fail.
FIXED added workaround for failure to create snapshot and for snapshot creation destroying the guest machine
ADDED in offline activation, green checkmark checksum indicator to confirmation ID ( similar to serial )
ADDED HostUtility now runs fine tuning in case it didn't work during migration
ADDED if bad sectors are detected on the source storage during migration - a warning is displayed in the progress dialog
FIXED issue with failing to switch MainWindow language to English if default language ( derived from the computer's locale ) was NOT english
ADDED workaround for strange IDE controller configuration on old computer
FIXED boot loader issue with in-place migration from Vista to Win7
FIXED failure to show new computer (host) files on Win7 64bit guest
ADDED progress indication in several places in host utility
CHANGED optimized closing of HostUtility in ZPOD
CHANGED rz driver is now loaded ON_DEMAND
ADDED diagtool now adds disk MBR and bootsect output (gives the extra info for real physical disks on the host)
ADDED password protection of HostUtility
ADDED detection and reporting to user of no support for running a 64bit guest on host that doesn't support Hardware Virtualization
FIXED issue with not being able to restart GuestUtility without restarting the helper service ( which might happen during user logoff and logon again )
FIXED issue with online view guest fs not working when migrating a PC that was previously a migration target
CHANGED now trying to do guest configuration every time on startup until it succeeds - instead of only trying the first time it booted
FIXED race condition issue in when killing a hung component's process
FIXED initialization of host for online guest fs is now done in the background in order to speed up HostUtility initialization
ADDED Handling of Bad sectors when copying from same computer as well, not just over the network
FIXED issue with avoiding bad clusers from $BadClus failed when there was only one bad fragment
ADDED Full support for Win7 source computers - both video and audio now work well
ADDED offline guest fs now mounts volumes don't have drive letters
ADDED HostUtility now has command line arg "revert" that reverts to latest snapshot
FIXED zinstall_rsf_user creation on guest creates it so that its password never expires
ADDED workaround for issue with fine tuning not working when Kaspersky is installed on source computer
FIXED rare race condition with failing to initialize support for online guest fs on host

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.2.1 build 2566 - 02/04/2010:

FIXED rare issue of failing to load after a successul activation
FIXED rare failure to install Zinstall loopback adapter
FIXED issue with failure to switch to host if guest has Z:\ mounted as a network share
FIXED issue with failure to offline mount guest fs if registry hive is missing or corrupt
FIXED issue with mounting the wrong set of snapshot VMDKs in offline guest view fs after reverting to snapshot
FIXED issue with start menu shortcuts being created unstranslated
ADDED helper service running verification in both Host and Guest utility now installs the service in case it wasn't installed - workaround for strange issue of ZinstallHelperService not being installed on guest
FIXED Boot loader incompatability issue that occurred on some HP source PCs
CHANGED "Show old computer files" is now disabled on XP host when VM is running
FIXED LicenseAgreement is now being centered
ADDED RAM precondition check in HostUtility
CHANGED increased Machine_Stopping timeout to make power off more robust
FIXED issue in diagtool sometimes failing if the guest's storage was corrupted
CHANGED if memor depletion encountered in HostUtility - answering "No" to the msg box now powers off the guest
FIXED rare issue with ZinstallLoader silently failing
FIXED adding of firewall exception on vista/win7 now adds it for all profiles ( public, private, domain )

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.2 build 2491 - 21/03/2010:

FIXED now only creating "after_fine_tuning" snapshot if fine tuning was successful
CHANGED guest driver disabler is now smarter and removes driver from being listed as an Upper/Lower filter from Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase, Enum, Control\Class, etc.
ADDED some guest drivers to the black list
ADDED some logging to ease troubleshooting
FIXED issue with showing a non-indicative message when snapshot creation failed for the windows volume
ADDED DiagTool now displays a form on start prompting the user to describe the problem and give additional info about his computer(s)
FIXED DiagTool issue with failing to retrieve list of installed apps on 32bit windows due to confusion with Wow6432Node
ADDED disabling of logitech mouse filter drivers ( LMouKE, L8042mou ) that caused problems with mouse in XP guest
FIXED rare problem with running out of drive letters in guest.
FIXED issue with host utility failing to start the old machine if it previously crashed
CHANGED major redesign of activation GUI - added checksum to serial that prevents errors when typing it
ADDED Now adding an extra Loopback adapter with ip 1.2.3.12 to ease printer sharing. The 1.2.3.4 ip now has netmask 255.255.255.248
FIXED issue with ZinstallLoader hanging for a long time after Zinstall.exe finished running
FIXED issue with some pop up dialogs not being centered when launched as children of another window
ADDED "Are you sure you wanna exit?" msg when closing Zinstall using Exit/Abort/X button/File->Exit
ADDED Offline mode to DiagTool, in which it creates a zip files the user should send to us by e-mail
ADDED show an early warning if no active partition exists in the target layout
ADDED DiagTool now also collects generci diagnostic info about the PC: event log warnings & errors, disk & partition layout, ipconfig /all output, etc.
ADDED DiagTool is now localised to all supported languages
CHANGED more gui enhancements
ADDED allow de-selecting specific volumes when doing a migration ( while showing a warning for the user that migration might fail because of it )
ADDED workaround for MSDEWriter failure causing failure to create a VSS Snapshot on XP - now stopping services MSSql related services if creating a VSS snapshot failed
FIXED rare problem with viewing online guest fs for XP Home guest - now it works if file sharing is enabled on the XP Home guest
FIXED UAC related issue with z:\ network share on host breaking host utility's container
ADDED creating an additional snapshot of the migrated machine after a fine tuning completes successfully
FIXED a rare issue with the registry_parser with Windows XP SP0

Zinstall XP7/zPOD 2.1 build 2371 - 26/02/2010:

FIXED issue with host_utility remounting ( SetVolumeMountPoint ) all host drives, even if they were already mounted. this resulted in a race condition that sometimes caused "SwtichToNew" to fail in guest
CHANGED allow user to to Migration to New HD on Windows XP/Vista as well
FIXED message about not enough available space on target is more accurate now ( takes into account the minimum free space we want to be left on the target )
ADDED creation of a snapshot before the fine tuning stage
ADDED workaround for failure to create a VSS snapshot - if failed creating snapshot for a non system volume, try dismounting the volume and lock it until deleteSnapshot is called
FIXED bug with trying vss workaround of resizing shadow storage even on volumes so small that the attempted shadow storage size is less than the minimum 300MB
FIXED issue with copying a 2nd volume on an extended partition
FIXED better error message if vss shadow resize workaround fails
FIXED generic unicode fix of setting a custom "zinstall" encoding as the default encoding.
ADDED some logging to ease troubleshooting
CHANGED UI layout according to designer's comments
FIXED generically fixed rare issue with failing to listen on a port after restarting Zinstall.exe.
CHANGED in vista/win7 - if vss snapshot creation failed and no ShadowStorage is allocated for the volume - allocate shadow storage with size 5% of volume capacity and try creating snapshot again
CHANGED guest utility now shows up faster after guest boot
CHANGED fixing of boot_sector is now carried out for partition of all types except for Extended partition, instead of only doing it for NTFS, FAT32. this is good for various recovery partitions that have a weird mbr partition type
ADDED as an optimization, host_utility now gets a hint in it's config as to what is the default windows installation ( volume_index, windir ) from which it should take the registry and MountedDevices list. This should speed up the first offline mount
ADDED fixing of sectors_per_track field of boot_sector to workaround a rare issue with guest getting stuck during boot
ADDED handling of non-standard windows directory names ( e.g. WINNT, WINDOWS1 )
ADDED generic handling of XP dual boot
FIXED issue with filtering out Program Files, Document and Settings, etc. from non-windows.old volumes in in-place scenario
ADDED a workaround for a malfunctioning VSS - deleting dead catalog entries
FIXED issue with offline mount mounting the same volume multiple times

Zinstall XP7 2.0.4 build 2226 - 26/01/2010:

FIXED issue with not fixing boot.ini in in-place mode because winload.exe was found on the volume
FIXED extracting of drivers from XP's cabs is more robust
FIXED issue in checking whether imdisk is installed that caused creation of an imdisk registry key
FIXED rare issue with missing "Documents and Settings" folder in in-place scenario
FIXED rare unicode issue with failure to delete unicode files during handling of Windows.old in in-place scenario
FIXED issue with network share z:\ interefering with our z:\ that is used for host/guest filesystem access
ADDED if bootable target volume has no boot loader - put a our own boot loader on it
CHANGED no longer rely on existance of BOOTSECT.bak for in-place scenario
FIXED issue with checking for available disk space even if debug_skip_copy_phase is True
ADDED "Switch to new desktop" start menu entry in guest
ADDED running HostUtility or GuestUtility from desktop while it's already running displays a balloon notification
FIXED problem with shutdown of Host on vista/win7 not allowing the user to cancel in order to gracefully shutdown the guest
CHANGED improved vss snapshot timeout
CHANGED optimized logging performance hit
ADDED host client utility now puts a "Switch to Old Desktop" icon in start menu\Zinstall
ADDED bad sector avoidance using $BadClus::$Bad
ADDED wmi precondition check
ADDED bitmap copy support for FAT32
CHANGED precondition checks so that we only check for network_adapter_present if we're gonna need networking
FIXED rare ntfs parsing issue
FIXED rare issue with not re-adding DVD drive to machine in case fine tuning failed
FIXED better detection and reporting of VSS problems on Windows XP

Zinstall XP7 2.0.3 build 2073 - 24/12/2009:

FIXED boot failure for some source computer configurations
CHANGED removed option to filter out files > 10MB, now smallest is > 100MB
FIXED mounting vmdks is now more robust
ADDED disabling of dvd before fine tuning and reverting afterwards ( to prevent accidental boot from CD during fine tuning )
ADDED Workaround for memory depletion problem when running the old computer machine - try to resume the machine if there is enough available memory, or show a message to the user if there really is not available memory.
ADDED support for 64 bit XP source
CHANGED offline view old files now tries unmounting the guest's vmdk without force and only fallbacks to using force if it has to
CHANGED automatic RAM configuration algorithm
CHANGED increased timeout of waiting for machine to start running
CHANGED improved progress indication during the fine tuning process
FIXED auto detection now ignore externa/removable drives from remote computers ( previously only ignored them on local computer )
FIXED issue with volume without drive letters on windwos XP
FIXED issue with HostUtility failing to start if machine was left in "Saved" state
FIXED rare issue with fine tuning getting stuck forever if some of its stages completed successully

Zinstall XP7 2.0.2 build 2018 - 10/12/2009:

CHANGED If VSS Snapshot creation fails, message to user now asks user to verify he has at least 500MB free on source volume since creating a snapshot fails if volume has less than 320MB available
FIXED HostUtility uninstaller to work on 64bit ( problem was that RegDelKey was used instead of RegDelKeyEx( WOW64_64KEY )
FIXED No more restarts required when running new version
FIXED guest utility rare hang on get_guest_property
FIXED rare issue with a mismatch in the bpb structure of a migrated computer
FIXED rare issue with invalid fields in the ntfs boot sector causing problems
FIXED issue with reverting to an XP boot loader in in-place mode in case Windows 7 update was performed from inside Windows and not from a bootable installation DVD.
CHANGED reimplemented automatic network configuration to be more robust and make as few changes as possible to the network configuration
CHANGED improved initial configuration questions
CHANGED Fine tuning now reports progress using checkpoints deduced from the logs of the migrated machine
ADDED automatic detection of some problems during fine tuning: a recurring BSOD, custom boot loader preventing windows from booting, low memory on host.
CHANGED auto detection of Zinstall machine target drive now excludes external drives unless there's no other option
ADDED It's now possible to choose on which drive to put the Zinstalled machine ( auto detection still chooses the one with most free space )
ADDED ZinstallLoader now warns user that running a new version will render an old zinstall machine unusable
CHANGED When an old version is detected, ZinstallLoader now does ZinstallHostUtility.exe uninstall instead of just uninstalling the drivers
FIXED powering off the migrated machine in case of a fine tuning failure is more robust
FIXED now fixing the migrated machine's boot.ini to account for a situation where the XP partition changed it's place relative to a recovery partition
ADDED removing of sony battery nag screen
ADDED some guest drivers to black list
CHANGED client utility tray icon is now created as "disabled" and is enabled only after initialization is complete
ADDED Try starting helper service if it's currently stopped - this might help when helper service failed to start or was disabled and user is an admin on XP
FIXED race condition between HostUtility starting on startup and ZinstallHelperService
CHANGED better displaying of error messages
CHANGED Host utility is now single instance, instead of killing the previous instance if it's running
FIXED handling of external and removable drives to be smarter
FIXED rare failure of creating a VSS snapshot if too many mount points exist on the old computer
FIXED rare race condition issue with installation if ZinsVideo guest driver getting stuck and making migration fail in "Fine Tuning" stage
CHANGED auto detection in Old HD -> New HD mode is now smarter
ADDED support migration to/from External HD in OldHD->NewHD mode
ADDED warning for user if no source disk with Windows on it was selected

Zinstall XP7 2.0.1 build 1933 - 23/11/2009:

FIXED bug with always using the default filter_query instead of the one selected in the advanced dialog
FIXED rare issue with windows version checks
FIXED increated timeout of fine tuning stage
ADDED support for in-place migration
ADDED support for migrating an old Windows from an old hard drive to the new computer
FIXED some ntfs parsing issues
FIXED now reverting to raw copy mode if NTFS copying mode did not work
ADDED some progress indications
FIXED rare filesystem corruption issue when doing full filtering.

Zinstall XP7 2.0 build 1800 - 23/10/2009:

ADDED Support for Windows 7 targets

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