Pakua SysManager 1.83.0

[1.83.0] - 2026-09-09
The taskbar button now shows how far a long job has got. Start an SFC scan, a bulk install or a deep
cleanup, minimise the window, and the SysManager button on the taskbar fills up as the work progresses —
so "is it still going, or did it freeze?" no longer means restoring the window and finding the right tab.
That mattered more here than in most apps, because closing SysManager hides it to the tray instead of
quitting, so the taskbar was the only signal left and it showed nothing at all.
Added
- Progress on the Windows taskbar button. Fed from whichever tab you have open: a percentage where the
tab knows one, a moving bar where it does not, and nothing when nothing is running. Both signals are used
deliberately — the three longest operations in the app (Deep Cleanup, File Shredder, Speed Test) report a
percentage while most tabs report only "working", so using one would have left the button blank exactly
where it is needed most.
- Blank rather than an empty bar when a job finishes, because an empty bar reads as "starting".
Changed
- The taskbar follows the tab you are looking at, and only that one. Two tabs can work at once and there
is no right way to pick a winner between them, so the button answers for the tab you are actually asking
about. It never builds a tab you have not opened just to ask what it is doing, which is what keeps
start-up as quick as it is.
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