SysManager 1.75.18

[1.75.18] - 2026-09-01

Several tabs open a built-in Windows program for you: File Explorer to show a file, Control Panel, Device
Manager, Event Viewer. SysManager now always opens the real one from the Windows folder, instead of asking
Windows to look up the name and trusting whatever it finds.

Fixed

• The built-in Windows programs SysManager opens are now named by their full location. Ten places asked
  Windows to find a program by name alone — File Explorer when you use "Show in folder" in Disk Analyzer,
  Duplicate Finder, Deep Cleanup, Startup, Logs and the update screen; Control Panel, Sound, Power Options,
  Device Manager and the rest of the Legacy Panels tab; and Event Viewer from Logs. Looking a name up is not
  the same as finding the right program: Windows checks places that any program running as you can add
  entries to, so the name could have been pointed at something else entirely. It never was, and none of this
  needed fixing urgently, but SysManager is often run as administrator, and anything it opens then starts
  with those same rights. Every one of these now names the actual file in the Windows folder, so there is
  nothing to look up. Nothing changes in what you see or click.
• A check now stops this being reintroduced. These ten were only found by searching for them, and nothing
  would have stopped an eleventh being added later. The build now refuses any new code that opens a program
  by name alone.

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