Date

Version

• When "Close Most Idle User by others" is used, the correct application is closed; however, in some cases, the incorrect user is notified that an application was successfully closed. This was fixed in this version.
• Added support for clicking on non-English buttons in Exit Messages. Previous versions only recognized Exit Messages that contain buttons showing English text, such OK, Yes, No and Cancel buttons. Virtually all localized versions of Windows operating system are supported.

3.8.10

• Added a new option "Use the same Idle Time for all windows". This option is usually enabled for applications that use multiple processes or EXE's to launch different aspects of the same database application. When enabled, ACI will not close any window or process until the user stops working on all matching windows/processes. All processes in this case will show the same Idle Time and will be closed together. When disabled(default), ACI will close unused copies of the application independently based on how the user was working on each copy.

• Fixed an issue when "Close Most Idle User by others" is used and the most idle user cannot be closed. In this update, ACI will wait for 10 seconds for the application to close, then moves to the next most unused copy and repeats the process until a copy is closed, either by ACI or manually. Once a copy has been closed successfully, the user is notified with a message "Another application was closed successfully. Try logging on now."
• The delay to wait before closing a main menu EXE after closing all other windows is now configurable, instead of the default 5 seconds.

• Added a command line parameter(/R) to ACI Client to use with Terminal Servers in single application mode. In this case, ACI starts the target application(specified in /R parameter), then auto exits when the target application is closed(whether by the user, or ACI), allowing the terminal session to end normally.

• Terminating ACI Client process is now blocked for non-Administrators.
• Added support for roaming users.

• Added additional buttons to click on: "Terminate", "Continue", "Close", and "Exit".
• The delay to wait for the CPU to become idle is now configurable instead of the default 30 seconds.

• Added Unicode support to computer and user names.
• Improved the performance of displaying and sorting the list of users.

June 14, 2007

3.5.2

• ACI now can leave one application open and only close it after it closes all other matching applications. This is used for accounting applications that have a MainMenu.exe that starts other modules as separate EXE files. In this case, the application may require that all other modules to be closed before closing MainMenu.exe. In this case, MainMenu.exe is closed last after waiting a grace period of 5 seconds, to allow other processes to communicate with the main process if needed.
• ACI was not closing Navision when a prompt to replace the ZUP file appears.
• Fixed minor Vista issues.

Nov 22, 2006

3.5.0

• Applications can now be monitored by part of the EXE path name, including wildcards.
• ACI now supports monitoring multiple EXE's simultaneously that belong to the same database application.
• Added support for multiple Exit messages/Dialogs.

• CPU usage threshold check can be turned off by setting it to 101%, for applications that use 100% CPU time.

• ACI was not closing Navision if it was left at the Logon dialog. This is fixed in this version.

March 1, 2006

3.4.2

• In few computers with certain Office versions and certain service packs, ACI Client was showing an error at startup or using too much CPU time. This was fixed in this version.

May 6, 2005

3.4.0

• Added "Enable Remote Control" option to the client for privacy reason. By default it's disabled.

Apr 6, 2004

3.3.8

• ACI was not detecting some 3rd party applications correctly. This was fixed in this version.

Dec 15, 2003

3.3.4

• Minor fix for supporting exit messages in some applications.

Dec 11, 2003

3.3.0

• Added support for fixed exit messages, such as "Are you sure that you want to exit?".
• Clients appear faster when you restart ACI Manager.
• Removed group name change confirmation.

Oct 17, 2003

3.2.0

• Allows you to manage users by group.
• Shows CPU Usage, CPU Idle Time, and the application title being monitored.
• Reduced screen flickering when there are too many users.

Oct 8, 2003

3.1.0

• Some TCP/IP Error messages were not suppressed in the previous version. This was fixed in this version.

Oct 2, 2003

3.0.0

• Added Remote Control functionality to enable the administrator to interact with the monitored application remotely and respond to validation dialogs.
• Monitors the application's CPU usage (Windows NT/2000/XP Clients) and waits until the application finishes any pending tasks.
• Minor changes to the way ACI closes Navision.
• Remote update now can work with proxy servers that don't require user authentication.

June 27, 2003

2.0.0

• Improved software stability.
• Clients fail to reconnect sometimes. This has been fixed in this version.
• Added additional checking routine to reject non ACI packets which use the same TCP/IP port as ACI.
• Changed the server title to "Auto Close Idle Manager".

June 23, 2003

1.2.6

• "Active Application Count" was not updated when a user is deleted.
• When "Auto Close" is set to No, the clock icon does not change back to the default non-clock icon.
• "Idle Time so far" does not show the idle time correctly if it's over 30 minutes.
• Switching between terminal server session and local computer resets "Idle Time so far", even if the mouse or keyboard were not used.
• Sorting by clicking on a column's heading doesn't work when certain columns are changed.

June 20, 2003

1.2.4

• Added support for non-English versions of Navision.

June 18, 2003

1.2.2

• "Close anyway?" window in Navision is not closed if the operating system is non-English. This has been fixed in this version.

June 12, 2003

1.2.0

• Navision was not closing properly sometimes. This has been fixed in this version.
• Added a clock like icon to show the remaining time before closing the application.
• Added an option to prevent users from closing other users' applications if the most idle user is only idle for a short period of time. The administrator can specify this short period of time using this option.

• Changed the remote update algorithm. Users who have version 1.0.2 and below will only able to see this version when checking for new updates. After updating to this version, you can update to version 1.2.0 or above.

June 05, 2003

1.0.2

• Fixed a problem with remote update.

June 04, 2003

1.0.1

• Added help file.