EdnunpandClaude Fable 5
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The About box's release notes had accumulated the ENTIRE version history back to v1.0 — ~70 KB in a single TextBox — and reading a control value that size crashes some screen readers (user reports, 2026-08-11). The box now displays only the newest five version blocks via a pure trim (TrimToLastVersions), ending with a plain pointer to the full history on the GitHub releases page. The full constant stays in source as the archive. Gate: new step pins the trim logic on synthetic notes AND the real shipped text (exactly 5 versions, size well under the crashing range — 5,516 chars vs ~70,000) so the crash can't quietly return as releases accumulate. 73/73. Readme About section updated + MANUAL regenerated; 5.8 notes mention the change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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RemSound v5.8
A repair for the lock-screen service's settings folder.
Some machines ended up with the service's settings folder locked so tightly that nothing could use it — saving the service profile failed with "access denied", the service's log files wouldn't open even in Notepad, and on some machines the service itself couldn't start. It came from a permissions bug in a recent release, and reinstalling didn't clear it.
This release fixes the cause and heals affected machines automatically:
- The service applies the fix on its own when it installs this update — for most people that's it, nothing to do.
- RemSound also checks the folder every time it starts, and offers a one-click repair if it finds a problem.
- And there's a "Repair service folder access" item in the Service menu you can run any time. One administrator prompt, and saving the service profile and reading the logs work again.
Also in this release
- The service's log files are readable from every account on the machine again, so you can always open them in Notepad if you need to look at one or send it in. (The service's settings stay protected as before.)
- If a service action fails, the message now says what actually went wrong instead of showing a bare error code, and the reason is recorded in the service's own log.
- The repair, and the folder protection itself, now always apply to the account that's actually using RemSound — even on PCs where a different account's password is typed at the administrator prompt.
- The About box now shows the newest five releases instead of the entire version history, which had grown large enough to upset some screen readers. The full history stays here on the releases page.