What each update of Desktop Minder changed, newest first. The version is the day the program was built. The program opens this page, on Home, the first time it starts after it has been brought up to date; it is a part of the Download page, for anyone who would like to read back.

2026.11.13

• The tab menu is shorter, and a folder tab can be copied to another desktop. Right-click a tab on the left strip: Standard Tabs and Desktop Tabs (it was Folder Tabs) are now submenus, and Show Them All is gone. A folder tab's menu has Add to Desktop, which lists the other open desktops; choosing one gives that desktop the same folder tab, kept for next time, with the same view and sort.
• A folder tab can go up to the parent folder, and its top bar wraps. The same Up glyph the folder views have now sits to the left of Document in a folder tab; it shows the parent folder's tab, making one the way opening a folder does, and is gray where there is no parent. When the bar's items do not fit on one line, they now wrap onto more lines instead of being cut off, so on a narrow tab some bars take two rows.
• Backspace and Delete next to pictures, finished. In the Edit view of a page, the picture-first rule now covers a film or a recording alone in its paragraph and a picture in a quotation or a list item. Deleting a picture that sits among words no longer leaves a stray space, an empty paragraph between two others goes cleanly, and in a table Backspace and Delete at the edge of a cell no longer pull the cell into the one beside it. A film or recording now has Delete on its right-click menu too.

2026.11.12

• A To Start button in the audio and video editors. A new button at the far left of the play buttons takes the cursor (the playhead, in the film editor) back to the very beginning. In the audio editor it also stops or pauses the sound and clears any range you had marked; the Home key still moves the cursor there too.
• Play goes on from the place you marked. In the audio editor, pausing the sound, clicking a place on the ruler and pressing Play used to start again from where it had paused. It now plays from the place you marked, and a range you marked keeps the clip it was marked in. If you pause and press Play without marking anything, it goes on from the red line, where you left it.
• Shift+Delete deletes a file for good, as it does in Explorer. Holding Shift while you delete, with the key, with a click on the trash can, or from a menu, skips the Recycle Bin. Because there is no way back, Desktop Minder always asks first, and the question says the files will be permanently deleted.
• A mono clip stays mono. In the audio editor, a clip from a mono recording used to come out as stereo after Pitch Shift, after its length was stretched by its handle, or when it was joined to another clip. Each now keeps the channels the clip's own recording has: two mono clips joined stay mono, and a mono clip joined to a stereo one comes out stereo. A clip that was already made stereo stays stereo; undo it and do it again.
• Mono footage stays mono in the film editor, too. Joining clips, shifting a clip's pitch, or stretching it by its handle used to turn mono footage into stereo sound. The result now keeps the channels of the footage it came from.
• Renaming a tag renames its partner. In the Source view of a page, changing a tag's name, such as em to i, changes the name in the matching closing tag as you type, and the other way around, as Visual Studio does. It works for any tag that has a closing tag.
• Three periods and two hyphens become the right character. In the Source view, typing ... writes … and typing -- writes — as soon as you type the next character, press Enter, move the caret away or leave the editor. Only what you type is changed, and never inside a tag, a comment, a script or a style. One Undo brings the typed characters back.
• A picture can be deleted, and you can write above it. In the Edit view of a page, a selected picture (or film or recording) is removed by Delete or Backspace and taken by Cut, and the right-click menu has Delete for pictures and for selected words. Enter at the very start of a paragraph opens an empty paragraph above it, the arrow keys stop on a picture instead of skipping over it, and with a picture selected Enter opens a paragraph after it and Shift+Enter one before it.
• Pasted bold and italic stay bold and italic. In the Edit view of a page, pasting words that were bold or italic where they came from, on a web page or in a document, used to lose that look; only text marked as strong or emphasized kept it. The page now keeps the bold and italic tags as they were pasted, as it keeps them when you type them. Words pasted from Google Docs that were not really bold still come in plain.
• Bold and italic are b and i; strong and emphasis stay your own. When Desktop Minder makes bold or italic from a plain look, converting a Word document or a Rich Text file to a page, or pasting words that were bold or italic from a web page, it writes b and i and never strong and em, so a page that uses em for something particular, such as an artist's name, does not pick up that style by accident. The Styles pull-out now lists four separate word styles, Bold, Italic, Strong and Emphasis, and shows b and i among the tags a page uses. A rule you set earlier on the old Bold or Italic row stays in the page, under Strong or Emphasis.
• Backspace and Delete no longer carry words across a picture. In the Edit view of a page, Backspace at the start of a paragraph below a picture, or Delete at the end of one above it, now selects the picture instead of joining the paragraph over it; pressing the key again removes the picture, and Undo brings it back. An empty paragraph next to a picture goes and the picture is selected. A selection that runs across a picture, deleted or typed over, takes the picture with it, in one undo step.
• Mark as Spam can stand for any order number. Mail that differs only by an order number, such as Thank you for the order followed by a different code each time, used to slip past a rule made from one message. When the subject has a code in it, Mark as Spam now offers the words around the code, already ticked, and the sentence under the choices says that {code} stands for any order number or code.

2026.11.11

• Search tells the engines it is a phone. The Search slide-out is tall and narrow, which is what an engine's phone layout is made for, so it now introduces itself as Chrome on an Android phone and Google and the others give it their phone page. Pages you open in the View are not changed.
• Brave Search is the search engine to begin with, and DuckDuckGo is no longer one of the engines Desktop Minder comes with. The copy of it that an earlier version put in your Search Engines folder is moved to the Recycle Bin once, as long as you never changed it. Settings > Search still lets you choose any engine, or make your own.
• A torrent file that is Waiting reminds the swarm it is there. When files stay Waiting, Desktop Minder asks the trackers and the DHT again for peers, a little less often each time, and not at all while a torrent is paused, stopped or held for your VPN.
• A right-click on many films no longer freezes the window. Choosing dozens of films and right-clicking made Desktop Minder read every one of them before the menu appeared, which on a slow disk left the window white for minutes. The menu now opens at once.
• Web pages are saved the way they are written by hand. When the page editor writes an .html or .aspx page, long lines of source are wrapped at 80 columns, between words, and every character outside plain ASCII is written as its HTML code: an em dash as —, curly quotes as “ and ”, and so on. A part of an .aspx page you did not change is left exactly as it was.
• Claude goes to a View and back. The arrow at the top right of the Claude slide-out opens Claude in a View, and the slide-out closes. The arrow at the top right of that View sends Claude home, and the slide-out opens again.

2026.11.10

• A recording or a film is edited in a folder beside it. Editing Song.flac keeps its work in a folder next to it, Song.flac.edit, and the film editor does the same. A listing shows the two as one item and never shows the .edit; Properties says whether the item has a project (none, being edited, or kept). When you accept the changes, the earlier finished file goes to the Recycle Bin. A Meme is the exception: it keeps its own folder, and accepting its changes leaves it where it is.
• A recording or film and its project move as one. Rename, cut and paste, delete, numbering, Flatten and Move All take the project along, so it is never left behind, and a project can be deleted on its own with Delete Project. A name can no longer be given a different extension while the project exists: accept or forget the changes first.
• Bulk Rename is a slide-out on a folder, for renaming many documents at once by a pattern, with a preview of every new name before anything changes. A film with a project is renamed together with it.
• Settings is folded into sections. Each major section of the Settings page opens and shuts on its heading, and Desktop Minder remembers which ones you left open.
• Files at once counts files that are really arriving. A torrent file that is only Waiting for someone to send it no longer holds a place, so the next files are started instead; if the waiting ones wake up, the later files step aside again without losing what they have.

2026.11.09

• BitTorrent downloading. A .torrent file, or a magnet link, becomes a folder of its own, and the Download button fills it. You choose how many files arrive at once, a file can be renamed while it is still arriving, and a graph shows the speed. Settings > Downloads says how long to keep sharing, which port to use, and which connection to use: choose your VPN there, and a torrent will not download at all while that connection is down. A magnet link clicked on a web page is kept as a shortcut in Downloads, so you can put it where you want it before you start it, and pop-up windows that a page opens by itself are dropped.
• Tag .mkv films. Desktop Minder can now change the tags of a Matroska film the way it does for .mp4, and it reads the Album, Album Artist, Group and Year that earlier left blank. Release Year (when the film was first shown) is a field beside Year, for .mkv films only. The work is done by mkvpropedit, from the free MKVToolNix, which is not part of the Setup: Settings > Helpers finds it, or fetches it from its own site. Try it on a copy of a film first.
• View > Flatten lists every document in a folder and in all the folders beneath it, in one list, with a Folder column to say where each came from. In a flattened view, Document > Move All to Here moves everything up into the folder you are in and removes the folders it came from. There is no way back from that, so it asks first.
• A Search slide-out on the right-hand strip. Links in its results open in the View, not in the slide-out. Settings > Search chooses the search engine, and you can make your own: each engine is a .url file in a folder of yours.
• One Items tab on a desktop replaces the three tabs for apps, documents and folders.
• Websites. A website opens as its org chart, and coming back to the chart is quick. Open Internet Site and Open Internet Page show the live page. A folder that was marked as a website by mistake can be turned back with Open as Website, on the website's own menu. In the chart, a page with pages beneath it wears the website picture and only the last pages of a branch wear the single page.
• One key map. The editors, the folder listing and the launcher share one table of keys, so a key does the same thing in each.
• Text files convert into one another: .txt, .rtf, .html and .aspx, by Convert to, into a new file beside the first. Rich text is no longer offered under New, though an existing .rtf still opens, as a page.
• MIDI files wear a new picture, a piano roll.

2026.11.07

• A page is named by its Title. A page of a website is called by its Title in the View and on its tab, and changing the Title renames its file in a web-safe way (spaces become underscores, apostrophes are left out). Plain .html pages have their Title on Properties too. A Web Page, which is a folder with a Default.aspx in it, is treated as one thing: Default.aspx always keeps its name, and you never need to know it is there.
• Pictures, films and sounds dropped on a page are copied beside it under web-safe names and linked by their short names, and a picture given as the Thumbnail becomes the top picture on the page. The HTML source wraps its lines when you paste into it.
• The toolbar has an em button beside I and B, and the Size box is only as wide as it needs to be. Pages keep their <b>, <i>, <strong> and <em> as you typed them.
• Only a Web Page wears the Web Page picture: a plain .html file keeps the picture Windows gives it.
• A picture can be dragged from a launcher onto the page's Thumbnail on Properties.

2026.11.06

• Normalize Loudness can change the file itself, if you let it. Settings > Audio > Normalization has three ticks: lossless files rewritten at the level (FLAC, ALAC, WAV and so on), the gain of MP3 and Opus files moved the way MP3Gain did, and ReplayGain tags (the only one on to begin with). With all three off, Normalize > Loudness is on no menu. A Normalize to: slider sets what “standard” means, and a Limit the peaks tick keeps a boosted lossless file from clipping. Several runs now wait in line instead of fighting over the disk.
• Recordings wear records. A recording's picture in a listing shows its quality: gold for XQ, platinum for HQ, black vinyl for SQ, and an old brown shellac 78 for LQ, with a quill in the corner while it is being edited. A sound effect (a recording under ten seconds, or one tagged or marked as such) has a picture of its own. The Jukebox shows the cover in the track's tags, and the Listen view the album's cover.
• Rename a picture or a recording to another extension and it is converted: Fred.png renamed Fred.jpg becomes a real JPEG, and the old file goes to the Recycle Bin.
• Tags > Sound Effect is a check mark that marks a recording as a sound effect and writes the Genre tag where it can.
• A new folder keeps its name box instead of losing it; the Properties panel keeps a section open from one subject to the next; Paste and Clear update an open Tags sheet, whose tab now says Edit; and a recording being edited sorts with the files.
• New: this page. After an update, Desktop Minder starts on Home with it open.
• The pages of a website, edited as pages. A page of this kind (an .aspx page built on CilwaWeb) opens as the article it is, in the site's own styles, and is typed into in place. The page's Title, Description, Keywords, Author, Thumbnail, Posted, Updated and Published are fields on Properties, and a picture dropped on the Thumbnail becomes it. The code around the page is left exactly as it was.
• The picture editor has Aspecta's two jobs: a Crop sidebar on the Change tab, and Convert to > Options... on a picture's menu.
• Properties: a picture's Properties show a preview of it. A page open in the View shows its own properties when nothing is selected, and Properties no longer switches to a picture you are dragging, so the page's Thumbnail is still there to drop it on.
• Meme: Publish... is a button on its toolbar, as it is in the Audio and Video editors.
• Add Desktop no longer offers desktops that are already open, and Pictures is back in its list.
• A folder opens as a launcher when three quarters of what is in it are folders and shortcuts, such as your user folder.

2026.11.05

• A recording in progress is no longer hidden from view when the audio editor comes back from another desktop.
• The three Mark commands on mail are one Mark menu, and a deleted message leaves its folder without redrawing the whole View. A contact book falls back to All when its rows are taken out.
• The web page's Refresh button is no longer lost under Up when a View is put back at start-up.

2026.11.04

• A star on the web bar keeps the page: a click saves a shortcut to it in the open launcher, and dragging it saves it wherever you drop it.
• Deleting a file no longer redraws the whole View.
• The update files on this website are signed, and Desktop Minder accepts only mine.

2026.11.03

• A Meme keeps its words on the canvas, and the Styles panel has both margins.
• Watched is a menu of its own on a film. The “+” page gives a new desktop its background, and the side tabs have a group box.

2026.11.02

• Memes, Notes, a Website document and the first slice of the password book. A web project's folder opens as a Website; Visual Studio can be started from Desktop Minder without Explorer.
• The video library knows what you have watched, with a sortable Watched column and a Hide watched videos choice; a finished film in OneDrive gives its room back.
• Settings has a Films section, with a choice to decode films with the processor rather than the graphics chip.
• Desktop Settings has a Background box with a list of pictures, a style (Fit, Fill, Stretch, Centered) and a preview. The Add Desktop page offers exactly the official eight desktops.
• Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click choose in a launcher the way Explorer does. With Desktop Minder as the Windows shell, Store apps (and Claude) start without Explorer.

2026.11.01

• The Helpers section of Settings finds the copy of FluidSynth you point it to, as it already did for ffmpeg.

2026.10.31

• Desktop Minder updates itself, a piece at a time. A small Updater looks at this site at start-up and once a day, fetches only what has changed, and asks only whether to restart. Settings says how quiet to be.
• The audio editor: a clip's length can be changed by dragging, with its pitch kept; Pitch Shift... makes a clip higher or lower; the red line is always the cursor; the editors' timelines are made of Tracks, with Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y everywhere; and its meter shows what is playing as well as what is recorded.
• Every tool in the editors has a tip that says what it does, or why it cannot just now.
• Settings has a Helpers section that says which free programs (ffmpeg, FluidSynth, PowerToys' Image Resizer) Desktop Minder uses, and finds them.
• A drive failing under the program no longer ends it, and closing a View forgets where it had been.

2026.10.30

• A Welcome page on Home the first time the program runs, and Help opens the page of this site that describes whatever you are pointing at.
• The contact book is one flat folder of cards with category tabs; contacts from Google come in with their pictures.
• Tags is one item on the menu, with Edit, Copy, Paste and Clear under it. The video editor has tracks like the audio editor, with Join; the MIDI editor has SoundFonts.
• A desktop's background picture is kept in its own folder.

Earlier changes are described on the pages for the parts of the program they changed, starting with Desktop Minder.