• V would sometimes crash after changing Preferences
• The Word/Line Count (on the Tools menu) did not always work on files with non-standard end of line characters

• Icons for .LNK files would sometimes continually flash
• GREP would sometimes crash

• Display generic EXE icon option in the Directory Options (which can significantly speed up the display of the directory listing on some removable and network drives)
• Italian translation

• GREP did not always find text in UTF8 encoded files
• Some foreign characters were not always printed correctly when using TextOnly printing
• Some display problems when using dual monitors

• Intermittent crashes when sorting columns or selecting Favorites.
• The ruler couldn't be dragged on some dual monitor configurations.

• Spanish, French and Russian language interfaces can now be selected from the new Language tab of Preferences.
• An experimental Bioinformatics/DNA search which lets you search for amino acid strings and IUPAC codes in files containing DNA sequences.
• Support for XMIT and AWS files (used in IBM mainframe environments).

• Better support for Unicode files containing Asian characters.
• The ability to change the font used by the Directory/Mask/Device boxes and by the FolderTabs.
• A change in name from "V - The File Viewer" to "The V File Viewer".

This release also allows you to change the font used to display the FolderTab heading and the Directory/Mask history.

• Command Line Search/GREP
• Support for Everything Search
• Support for 7Zip files (.7z)
• Synchronized scrolling option when viewing multiple files
• Data displayed with GridLines can now be exported to a CSV file
• Right-click on a User Command to run as Admin
• File Mask history can now be set to 1 (effectively disabling it)

• V would sometimes crash when expanding Windows 7 Libraries

• A change to the way that V scrolls a document with the introduction of a current line marker
• The introduction of more traditional bookmarking (Ctrl+F2/F2)
• File masks can now be used to filter directory names
• Improved support for Windows 7/Vista (including better support for themes)

Previous versions could not modify the contents of protected folders (like Program Files). SR1 will now display the much loved Vista UAC prompt.

SR1 also fixes the following bugs:

• Deleting files from the search results could cause V to crash
• Assigning a command to a single letter (eg, 'c') could sometimes cause V to ignore the following keystroke(s)
• In GreenBar mode the green lines were not always drawn correctly if the window had been scrolled
• Double-clicking on a FolderTab goes to its root (for locked tabs that allow subfolder browsing)
• You can now search folders with commas in their names (by enclosing the folder name in double quotes)

• Tabbed Browsing
• Split File View
• Keyboard Customization

• A Network/UNC Timeout (in the Directory Options)
• "Insert Date into Name" option in File Name Modify

• V9 would sometimes crash if GridLines were being used
• Searching for hex (binary) data did not always work
• Using "." for the search directory in GREP did not always work

• Better Unicode Support
• A greenbar mode
• U3 support

There is no need to download it unless you are affected by any of the bugs, or if you are running Vista. The following bugs have been fixed in SR2:

• The Favorites menu would freeze when trying to display a Favorite that was located on a disconnected network drive.
• When specifying a date range in File Search/GREP, V did not always find files that were modified on the last date in the range.
• You could not "touch" a file with a time that contained an odd number of seconds.

• V8 would sometimes crash when displaying the Recent Files menu
• V8 would not always unzip gzip (.gz) files correctly
• V8 would sometimes crash after renaming a network folder in the Explorer tree
• A "Create File" option has been added to the Tools menu.

• Dual Pane Mode
• Thumbnails Mode
• Multiple File Windows
• Support for Alternate Data Streams (ADS)