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EdnunpandClaude Opus 4.8 7038fef67c v5.1: install RemSound as a proper Windows app, plus smaller sounds

New Options -> Install / Uninstall RemSound on this PC: a per-user self-installer
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\RemSound, no admin) with optional desktop + Start-menu
shortcuts, login auto-start (reuses StartupAutoStart), Windows Installed-apps
registration, and copy-across of profiles+config, recordings and logs. Install
state is decided by a marker file, not a folder-path guess; the post-install
relaunch hands over foreground via AllowSetForegroundWindow so the installed copy
comes to the front; uninstall uses a batch remover (no PowerShell) and confirms
with two independent tick-boxes. All new dialogs use the house accessible controls
(AccessibleCheckBox, Theme.Heading).

Also: iOS (TestFlight) companion link alongside Android in README + manual;
slimmed-down default cue WAVs; About/RELEASE_NOTES/manual updated; version -> 5.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-09 15:45:21 +01:00

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RemSound v5.1

Install RemSound as a proper Windows app — or keep running it portable, whichever you prefer.

Install RemSound on this PC

A new Options → Install RemSound on this PC turns the copy you're running into a properly installed Windows app:

It sets RemSound up on the Start menu (with the program, the manual and an uninstall shortcut), adds a desktop shortcut, and lists it in Windows' Installed apps.
It installs into your own user area, so it never asks for administrator rights and only affects your account.
A tick-box dialog lets you choose what to set up — desktop and Start-menu shortcuts, run at startup — and bring your profiles and settings, recordings and logs across from the copy you're running.
When it's done it reopens from the installed location; everything carries on exactly as before, and RemSound still updates itself in place as usual.

Once it's installed, that same menu item becomes Uninstall RemSound from this PC (with matching entries in the Start menu and Windows' Installed apps). Uninstalling asks first, with two tick-boxes — remove profiles, config and logs, and remove recordings — both off by default, so your own files are kept unless you say otherwise.

You never have to install: running RemSound straight from the unzipped folder works exactly as it always has.

Smaller download

The built-in cue sounds have been slimmed down, so RemSound is a smaller download and takes up less space.

Compatibility

The over-the-network format is unchanged, so v5.1 talks to v3.3 through v5.0 with no trouble — you don't have to update both ends at once. (Everyone still needs v3.3 or newer, where end-to-end encryption came in.)

Install

Download RemSound-v5.1.zip from this release.
Close RemSound.
Extract the zip over your existing RemSound folder, overwriting program files when prompted. The zip is program files only — it won't touch your settings, profiles, logs or recordings.
Run RemSound.exe. (If you'd like it set up as a proper Windows app, use Options → Install RemSound on this PC.)

Upgrading

From v3.6 or newer: Help → Check for updates installs v5.1 with the in-app updater — and if it can't finish, it puts your old version back exactly as it was.

From v1.9–v3.5: Check for updates works, but uses your current version's older updater for this one hop. If auto-update has been failing on your machine, install by hand using the steps above.

v1.8 and earlier: the auto-updater in those versions can't install updates — install by hand using the steps above.

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