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• A minor update to AirRegGUI.ps1: Invoke-WebRequest commands had to have the -UseBasicParsing parameter appended to avoid annoying security prompts.

• DetectSpeakers.exe has been rebuilt to solve an issue with the package.
There is no need to update if your downloaded file works OK, the only visual change is that the number of decimals in the displayed output volume level(s) is reduced to one.

• Another update for AudioEndPoints:

it can now resume monitoring input levels if an input device is added on the fly
with the optional /S switch you can choose to display the input monitoring status in the title bar, besides the console

• AudioEndPoints had another minor update: a bug with /R's interval interpretation was fixed, and a new switch /T was introduced to keep the window on Top.

• DetectSound.exe has been completely rewritten.
Whereas the old version 1 used MS Speech Recognition, which is now deprecated, the new version 2 uses Mark Heath's NAudio instead.
The old version remains available as DetectSound1

Thanks Mark

• WMIC is deprecated, hence it is disabled by default in Windows 11.
Since many of my batch files rely on WMIC I wrote a "hybrid" batch file (batch, VBScript and PowerShell) to re-enable it: Win11WMIC.bat.
It uses PowerShell code found in Tiger Technology's Knowledge Base.
The VBScript code to elevate privileges comes from Evan Greene.

Thanks guys.

• Another update for ExtractExcel.exe:

a new optional /EMPTY argument makes the program skip rows where any of the specified columns in the source file is not empty

• ExtractExcel.exe has been updated:

a bug has been fixed where an existing target spreadsheet was opened in readonly mode
column names A..ZZZ are now accepted (used to be A..Z only)
a new optional /SKIP argument makes the program skip a number of lines in the source file
a new optional /NOTEMPTY argument makes the program skip rows where any of the specified columns in the source file is empty

• Back by popular demand: BatCodeCheck.exe.
A couple of years ago I decided to discontinue this popular tool, because I seemed unable to communicate that it was meant to HELP you INVESTIGATE your own batch code, NOT FIX YOUR coding errors.
Last week I received a request to make it available again, which I hereby do, but without support.
It still works as designed, but you'll have to learn to live with the false positives.

• ExtractExcel.exe is a new tool to extract selected data from an Excel source file and write it to a target Excel file.
Besides selecting rows and columns, you can optionally specify a filter, which is interpreted by Mariusz Gromada's unrivaled mXparser (included in the download).

Thanks Mariusz

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