WCT v2.2 Aurora

Windows Control Toolkit v2.2 "Aurora"

What's New

🚀 Major Features

• Startup Manager — Full control over Windows startup entries

  • Scans HKCU/HKLM Run, RunOnce registry keys
  • Scans User and Common Startup folders
  • Enable, disable, or delete any entry
  • Built with native winreg integration

• USB Monitor — Real-time USB device detection

  • WMI-based disk drive enumeration
  • psutil fallback for removable media
  • Shows device name, drive letter, size, and status

• File Content Search — Full-text search inside files

  • Supports TXT, PDF (PyPDF2), DOCX (python-docx)
  • Folder picker with recursive search
  • Preview with line numbers and match count
  • Background QThread for non-blocking operation

• Auto Updater — Check for updates from GitHub

  • Uses existing updater.py logic
  • Shows current vs latest version
  • Displays release notes
  • Opens download page in browser

🎨 UI Improvements

• 4 new sidebar navigation entries with custom glyphs
• 20+ new i18n keys across all 3 languages (EN, RU, AZ)
• Updated metrics: 23 pages, 100+ files, 15k+ lines, 440+ keys

🏗️ Architecture

• New module: modules/system/
  • startup_manager.py — Registry/folder startup control
  • usb_monitor.py — USB device detection
• New file: modules/files/content_search.py — Full-text search engine
• 4 new UI pages with QThread workers

🧪 Tests

All 30 tests passing:

• test_rule_engine.py — 4 tests
• test_exporter.py — 5 tests
• test_format.py — 6 tests
• test_risk.py — 4 tests
• test_stats.py — 6 tests
• test_text_search.py — 5 tests

📦 Build

• WCT.exe built with PyInstaller 6.20.0
• Single-file executable, no Python installation required
• Windows 10/11 compatible

Assets

• WCT.exe — Pre-built Windows executable
• Source code available in repository

Links

• Website
• Documentation
• Changelog

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Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.2.0