Handy Tool 2.0.2

A fix release: silent updates install again.

Silent updates

An update installed in the background — the scheduled night-time update, or any update while a speech model was loaded — could fail without a word: Handy stayed on the old version and did not restart. "Install and restart now" kept working because it was usually pressed right after a restart, before any model had loaded.

Every failure on record happened with a speech model loaded. The likely cause is that the old Handy was still closing when the installer checked for it, and a silent install gives up if that check cannot close it or a file is still in use. The 2.0.2 installer now waits, up to a minute, until Handy's program file is no longer in use before that check, and writes the outcome to installer.log in the log folder. If the wait runs out, the installer carries on as before. The waiting is part of the new installer, so it already applies to the update from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2.

If an update ever does not take effect, the message no longer blames a security policy alone: the installer may not have started, or may have found Handy still closing.

Sidebar

• About is a sidebar page, right after What's new, and its first group is Updates: check for a new version, silent updates and their time. The same controls are still on General.
• History is the first page, with a line under it.
• The version number is back at the bottom-left.

Download links

The README now starts with one download link per system, and each always fetches the newest release. To make that possible, each release also carries its installers under names without the version, such as Handy-Tool-windows-x64-setup.exe. They are the same files as the versioned ones.

Install

Windows x64 — Handy.Tool_2.0.2_x64-setup.exe below (Handy-Tool-windows-x64-setup.exe is the same file). It is not code-signed with Authenticode, so SmartScreen will warn: More info → Run anyway. Existing installs update in place.

macOS — unsigned. After installing, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Handy Tool.app" once.

Linux — deb, rpm or AppImage. These are built but have not been tested on real hardware.