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Integrates a dual-panel file manager, a multi-process web browser, and utilities.

Risingware Brower, a multi-process web browser based on IE, is fairly light and fast in terms of speed. When we speak of "speed", we mean the speed in searching stuff by activating multiple search engines at a time, in visiting or closing out web pages, in bringing the world to you as fast as a lightening bolt.

It is composed of Multiple Web Search Tool, Webpage Snatcher, HTML Component Downloader, Web Filter, Internet Download Manager, RSS Reader, Web Page e-Mailer, webpage translater, Map Tool, and a Plug-in UI open to add your own Plug-ins, etc. Furthermore, special mouse gestures can be used everywhere, such as switching tabs by scrolling up/down the mouse wheel and the drag and drop of links.

What's New:

[New Features]

* Add a tool: Risingware i-Desktop
Add a Windows desktop enhancement extending your current desktop and containing more shortcuts to end clutter. With this tool, you can:
- Customize desktops to house shortcuts by category. Each desktop can be set with a distinct banner and background.
- Customize shortcuts which can be created by dragging and dropping files or applications here.
- Initialize an embedded tool of Risingware Exp+.
* Add options for system layout
- To render a simpler UI, Exp+ now provides three options for program layout, File Manager Mode, Web Browser Mode, and Export Mode, which blends the former two and is the only one choice before.
- You may switch the system layout in General pane of Exp+ Setup Center window or access one of these from Risingware i-Desktop, the new tool.
* Add flexibility to set which panes in Navigation Panel to display
Under Export Mode, you can go to Exp+ Setup center and set which panes in Navigation Panel to display.
* Add popular websites by category to default groups
Some popular websites has been added to default groups by category.

[Improvements]

* Improve Screen Capture Genie
The image resolution of screenshots taken by Screen Capture Genie has been improved.
* Improve the setting for a following action to closing out all tabs
By default, after all tabs had been closing out, a Start page would open. Only Exp+ now offers an option to open a blank page which replaces a Start page as a default option.
* Improve access to Help file
- The Exp+ help file has been embedded to Exp+ program UI, so you can expand or collapse its content pages in Navigation Panel.
- When first initialing Exp+, a welcome page of Help Center will display to guide you through.
- Using hotkey F1 while using a main tool or function of Exp+ will open its help page in a new tab.
* Improve Open Items Selectively function for Favorites and Groups
You can now make invert selection when selectively opening items from Favorites and Groups. In this way, you can open some items to the left panel and others to the right panel.

[Bug Fixes]

* Fix Web Browser
The drag and drop of a link in a few web pages didn't succeed in opening it. This problem has been fixed.
* Fix File Manager
- Occasionally, an Advanced File Search window would be opened in background. This problem has been fixed.
- After setting files of a file type to be opened by Exp+, the screen flickered whenever one of those were opened. This problem has been fixed.
* Fix General Functions
- If the tab to be opened when closing out all tabs was set in Exp+ Setup Center to be a Start Page, an action of closing out all tabs might cause Exp+ to halt. This problem has been fixed.
- Clicking on a Visited Folders button or on a Visited Webpages button didn't open its drop-down menu due to no such tabs having been opened before. This problem has been fixed.
- Occasionally, the change in the width of Navigation Panel was not saved successfully. This problem has been fixed.
- A few Exp+ processes in the Task Manager was not closed after the exit of Exp+. This problem has been fixed.
- Exp+ saved the selection of some checkboxes in Open Items Selectively window used to open favorites and groups despite the exit without even opening these items. This problem has been fixed.