Network Map, Network Monitor, CD Database - News

December 18, 2007
10-Strike Network File Search 1.4 released. What's new:
- 10-Strike Network File Search Pro released. It is the most advanced version of the program, which contains a built-in web server. With its help you are able to install the software on a single computer, so users of your network are able to search files on your network using their web browsers. The Pro version also allows monitoring and deleting files on local network.
- Fixed minor bugs.

November 7, 2007
The new version of network mapper and monitor 10-Strike LANState 3.7 released. New features:
- Pro: Web network map now looks just like the program network map (lines and backgrounds were added).
- Added the Undo function to the network map editor (addition, deletion, editing, and moving of lines, areas, and objects can be cancelled now).
- Added FTP monitoring check.
- Added HTTP monitoring check.

September 28, 2007
Network computer inventory 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer 1.5 released. New features:
- Added retrieving license information on installed software. The information is retreived from the registry. The program contains a few templates for displaying license information for the most popular software. Registry paths for other applications can be added by user.
- Added retrieving information on desktop monitors, running processes, and network cards.
- Improved the inventory log's logic. Added column sorting in the inventory log.
- Fixed bugs.
- Added network inventory collector for getting inventory information from offline computers. The collected information (a file) can be imported into the main database.
Download and install offline client
Refer to the help file for more detailed information on offline inventory collector usage.

August 24, 2007
The new version of network mapper and monitor 10-Strike LANState 3.6 released. New features:
- Added icons (by the host icon on the map) identifying the OS loaded on the host.
- Added turning on a group of computers via network.
- Added Windows services check to the hosts monitoring engine.
- Added checking for processes with a specific name to the hosts monitoring engine.
- Added automatic restarting (starting, stopping) of services on alert.
- Extended options for locating object on the map. Added searching by IP, MAC address, comment.
- Added sending message (on alert) to multiple e-mail addresses. The addresses are to be listed via semicolon.

June 5, 2007
The new version of network mapper and monitor 10-Strike LANState 3.5 released. New features:
- Text labels to objects appeared black in Windows Vista. Fixed.
- Fixed bugs related to moving objects in the map editor.
- When attempting to open a file with the map already open, the program activates the open instance of the map.
- Added moving object to cursor on line (holding the Ctrl key down).
- Added printing map with highlighted icons regardless to their actual state.
- NetBIOS check added to the host monitoring mechanism.
- Added 4 new device types: cluster, mainframe, tablet PC, video projector.
- Function "Wake On LAN" was out of order. Fixed.

June 5, 2007
Junk Mail Remover version 1.3 released. New features:
- Added the "Magic" mode. Select the most frequently used accounts and check them by a single click (one by one)!
- Added the Win+J hotkey and hiding to the system tray. The program can start automatically on startup. Call it by pressing Win+J or by clicking on the tray icon every time you want to check your mail.
- Added e-mail deletion log.
- Added e-mail deletion stats.
- Added 30 day trial.

May 8, 2007
10-Strike Network File Search 1.3 released. What's new:
- Added searching files on FTP servers via FTP protocol (with previewing, downloading, deleting, etc.).
- Added storing search results (the list of found files).
- Improved Windows Vista support.
- Fixed minor bugs.

April 24, 2007
The new version of network mapper and monitor 10-Strike LANState 3.4 released. New features:
- Fixed the bug with moving areas and hosts.
- Removed the "Automatically scan network on startup" setting.

March 28, 2007
The new version of network mapper and monitor 10-Strike LANState 3.3 released. New features:
- Implemented new network search mechanism, which features:
1) High scanning speed (~16 addresses/sec., range of 1300 addresses will be scanned in 1 min and 20 sec.).
2) Recognition of diverse hardware types: printers (local and network), switches, hubs, servers, database servers, routers, WiFi access points, etc.
3) Combination of several efficient network hardware search methods.
4) Retrieving data from hardware via SNMP (switches, printers, WiFi, etc.).
5) Automatically building network map by drafting over data received from switches.
6) Automatic retrieving of additional information on found hosts (IP and MAC addresses, NIC manufacturer, DNS name, OS type, connected printers, descriptions).
7) Scanning several IP ranges.
8) When found devices are placed on the map, they are automatically scheduled for specific automatic checks.
- Added the automatic drawing of network map with links upon reception of data over the SNMP protocol.
- Optimized monitoring algorithm. Significantly (~ 2x) speeded up checking objects on the map.
- Added ARP and MAC address monitoring check. Be notified on MAC address changes.
- Added SNMP monitoring check. Monitor router's capacity and rise alerts on traffic overload.
- Updated NIC manufacturers database.
- Added new hardware types - local printer and hub.
- Pro: For each new map being exported, the program creates a separate document in the Visio format.
- Pro: Improved exporting map to Visio. The size of the Visio document is made to fit the map's actual dimensions.
- Improved line drawing mechanism. Removed "snapping" lines ends to other lines ends.

March 16, 2007
Network inventory tool 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer 1.3 released. What's new:
- Added creation of summary tables. Create summary configuration table if you need to collect together hardware or software components from different network computers. You can set up filters in order to select computers with the necessary hardware or software components.
- Added basic hardware configuration on the computer status page (CPU, memory, HDD, video, etc.).
- Increased speed of collecting information.

February 7, 2007
Special February discounts started: 20% Off!

February 6, 2007
The new version of network mapping and monitoring program 10-Strike LANState 3.2 released. New features:
- Pro: Added exporting network diagram to Microsoft Visio.
- Pro: Added automatic refresh to web diagram.
- Pro: Changed web diagram's appearance (icons' paths and formats were also changed).
- Pro: Fixed compatibility with Internet Explorer 7.
- Added ability to use custom device icons.
- Added DNS check.
- Added scheduled downtime support.
- The setting "Prompt saving map on exit" changed to "Save maps automatically on exit" (switched on by default).
- Network map's appearance settings moved to the individual window.
- Added the secondary horizontal toolbar. The main toolbar's buttons were modified.
- Fixed the logics of drawing multi-segment lines.
- Fixed the bug with moving areas and hosts inside scrolled map area.

January 17, 2007
Network inventory tool 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer 1.2 released. What's new:
- Added inventory log, which registers configuration changes when computers are re-scanned. The list of controlled data can be configured.
- Fixed program hang that occurred during searching for computers in domains and workgroups.

January 16, 2007
10-Strike Network File Search 1.2 released. What's new:
- Fixed program hangs and delays that occurred during searching domains and computers inside them.
- Fixed other minor bugs.

January 12, 2007
The new version of network mapping software 10-Strike LANState 3.1 released. New features:
- Areas are now moved with both hosts and lines inside them.
- Network map's appearance settings (wallpaper, gradient, font, icon size, etc.) are stored inside the .lsm file. Now you can use different wallpapers (floor plans) for different maps.
- Added exporting reports to XML and CSV formats.
- Service dependencies are taken into account when stopping services remotely.
- Added copying registry paths and values to clipboard.
- Added adding the separator line to the "Actions" context menu.
- Added getting PID of remote processes.
- Added balloon tip and sound notification on completion of IP addresses scanning.
- Fixed some shortages in the line and area drawing mechanism.
- Fixed the bug with not redrawing lines and areas after changing display settings under Windows XP, etc.

December 30, 2006
10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer 1.1 released. What's new:
- Added the local database for caching the inventory data. Now you can collect the data and watch the inventory offline.
- Added exporting data to CSV and XML formats.
- Added getting information on used space on logical drives.
- Fixed program hang that occurred during generating reports on more than 10 computers.
- Fixed other bugs.

December 27, 2006
10-Strike Network File Search 1.1 released. What's new:
- Added searching in hidden shares.
- Added file deletion.
- Added file preview mode.
- Added preliminary ping check. You can use this check instead of TCP port 139 check in order to speed up the searching process under Windows XP SP2. If the most of computers in your network have ICMP ping and the NetBios protocol allowed in their firewalls (or they do not have firewalls installed) you can use only the ping check.
- Added the context menu on the searching progress pane.

December 13, 2006
We have released new program 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer 1.0 for maintaining network computer asset and generating hardware and software reports using WMI technology via network.

December 4, 2006
Network MP3 searching program 10-Strike MP3-Scanner version 2.1 released. New features:
- Added the search progress pane.
- Bugs fixed.

December 1, 2006
We have added Turkish language to SearchmyDiscs homepage.
Christmas discounts started.

November 22, 2006
We have released new program 10-Strike Network File Search for searching files on local network computers' shared resources via NetBios protocol.

October 31, 2006
The newer version of network mapping and monitoring software 10-Strike LANState 3.0 released. New features:
- Completely rebuilt host monitoring mechanism. Added setting individual monitoring options and individual check interval value for each device. Thus, you can now check different TCP ports of devices (where setting of only one port to be checked for all devices was available). Beginning with this version, checks and alert settings are stored in map files; the file 'alert.ini' is no longer used. When the version 3.0 of the program is run for the first time with the old maps, the program will suggest you to import settings from the file 'alert.ini' to the current map. After that, 'alert.ini' will be deleted, and the map will have to be saved once again. It is recommended to make sure that all checks and alert settings are imported properly. If necessary, edit the settings by hand. Unfortunately, when using multiple maps, check settings will be imported to the first old map only. For the other old maps, the checks will have to be entered all over.
- Added several new types of checks: folder exists (including monitoring the number of files in the folder), file exists (with the check for the availability of a specified string in the file), file size, free disk space (folder size). The type of check to be run is set on the first step of the Monitoring Settings Wizard.
- Changed alert mechanisms. Notification parameters are set on the second step of the Monitoring Settings Wizard.
- The background check of objects' state is now run in multiple threads (the number of threads can be adjusted); this allows checking hundreds of objects within seconds. However, please remember: Windows XP SP2 has a restriction for the number of connections allowed to different addresses per certain amount of time (not more than 10 addresses per 10 seconds). In this case, TCP port checks will be slowed down by the operating system.
- Changed the function of viewing the checks (alerts) list. Added the capability of tracking check results.
- Added 8 new hardware types (time server, radio router, game device, DVD player, media player, IP-telephony (gateway, phones)).
- Added capability of receiving the list of disk drives from a remote computer.
- Added capability of receiving the list of global groups from a remote computer.
- Optimized the TCP port scanner function for scanning networked objects. The scanning speed significantly improved.
- Broadened information on user accounts on a remote computer. Added the capability of obtaining the date and time of the last logon, password change, permissions change, etc.
- Added the capability of managing services on a remote computer (starting, stopping, etc.), provided you have the administrator privileges.
- Added the new parameter - "Do not check. Always on." - to object properties. An object with this parameter on will always appear enabled on the map, and the program will not check its state (handy for switches, hubs, etc.)
- Improved the function of assigning permissions to shared folders. You can now set access type (read only, read/write, run, etc.) Before this improvement, access type parameters were ignored.
- When an object search is completed successfully, the program will scroll the map if the object is beyond the visible area.
- In the map statistics window, you can see the number of objects of this type responding to ping (following the slash).
- Now available copying scanning-by-IP-address results to clipboard. The function is available on the results field's context menu.
- All lists used in the program adopt hotkeys: Del (delete), Ins (add), F5 (refresh), etc.
- Added the "Comment" key in the context menu settings, in the launch command generation items. Setting this key allows placing data from the "Comment" field (object's properties window.)
- Added the capability of setting the order of the context menu items.
- In the Network Map Creation Wizard, added the capability of choosing the network interface, according to which the program will automatically fill the IP range to be scanned.
- Implemented the remembering of the last entered IP range (see the "Scanning by IP Addresses" window.)
- The setup file is packed with a number of exclusive sound files to be used for monitoring and connection alerts.
- All settings for the text message exchange function are moved to the settings window (see the "Messages" section.)
- Only active hosts will be processed in the "Objects List" window when detecting hosts' MAC addresses via NetBIOS; thus, the function performs much faster.

September 21, 2006
CD/DVD catalog SearchMyDiscs version 3.0 released! New features:
- Added disk reports. You are able to export disk lists from disk groups.
- Added new report formats. The following formats supported now:
   - *.txt (text file)
   - *.htm (HTML page)
   - *.xls (Microsoft Excel file)
   - *.csv (comma separated values)
   - *.xml (structured database in XML format).
- Added two checkboxes on the search window (search on the current disk only and search for duplicates).
- Added searching for duplicate files.
- Added saving thumbnails for Corel Draw (*.cdr) and AutoCAD (*.dwg) files.
- Added ability to save disks with same serial numbers (some DVD recorders write such disks). When scanning such disk, you will be prompted to enter new serial number for it. "Suggest scanning unknown disks" does not work in this case.
- Inserted disks are highlighted by blue color in disk list now.
- Minor bugs fixed.
- Added new languages: German, Italian, Hungarian, Danish.
The price is raised to $39.95.

August 14, 2006
We have added German and Hungarian languages to SearchmyDiscs homepage and to the installation package.

August 3, 2006
We have released the most advanced version of our network mapping software 10-Strike LANState Pro (version 2.4). LANState Pro contains built-in Web-server. With its help you are able to install the software on a single computer, so users and administrators of your network are able to see which hosts are switched on/off, using their web-browsers only.
You may consider purchasing one copy of LANState Pro instead of buying several copies of LANState or LANState Personal now.
The program costs $299.95 U.S. Summer discounts are available at the moment. You may upgrade your registered copy of LANState or LANState Personal to LANState Pro.

P.S. We are sorry for our last newsletter. Our mailer's bug caused appearing of those multiple charset strings in every message. This will not happen again.
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July 20, 2006
Junk Mail Remover version 1.2 released. New features:
- Added new colorful interface icons.
- Improved program algorithms.
- Miscellaneous bugs fixed.
- Added new shareware limitations. The program now deletes up to 100 Kb of e-mails per session.

June 23, 2006
Summer discounts (up to 50%) on networking software are available!

June 8, 2006
Network MP3 searching software 10-Strike MP3-Scanner version 2.0 released. The program has been rewritten from scratch. Its new multi-threading searching engine is much more stable and reliable now. New features:
- Added scanning by IP address range.
- Changed shareware limitations.
- Added new XP style icons.

April 28, 2006
Network mapping and monitoring program 10-Strike LANState version 2.4 released. New features:
- Added new icons for menus, toolbars, and map objects.
- Added new types of network devices and map objects (ADSL modems, cameras, firewall, file server, etc). There are 24 different objects supported in the program now.
- Added ability to set when the program should rise alerts after the program's start (always or only on host state changes).
- Added flashing tray icon when remote user connects to your shared resources.
- Added thickness and style settings for lines and area borders.
- Added displaying of lines' names. Line name is drawn near the line with the same angle. For example, you can assign line's name to connection's bandwidth: "100 mbit".
- Added icons to the menu "Actions".
- Added ability to shut down a group of computers. You can press hotkey Ctrl+Shift+F12 to call this function.
- Added map export to JPEG and PNG image formats.
- Added showing messages as balloons in system tray (alerts and remote user connections).
- Added new menu item to the tray context menu "Recheck devices" which starts background map pinging.
- Added ability to connect remote resources as network drives on the "System Information" window (section "Resources").
- Added hotkey F5 for refreshing the content of the "System Information" window.
- Added displaying login of the connecting user on the information window.
- Fixed missing map objects in the "Network tree" window.
- Fixed saving log files to wrong folders.
- Fixed showing negative number of active threads in the status bar on the main window.
- Fixed rare disappearing of items of the menu "Actions" and black list settings.
- Fixed some minor bugs.

April 18, 2006
CD/DVD catalog SearchMyDiscs version 2.5 released. New features:
- Added TIFF EXIF support.
- Added multi-language support.
- Added French language.

March 8, 2006
CD/DVD catalog SearchMyDiscs version 2.4 released. New features:
- Added ability to extract thumbnails from EXIF tags of digital photographs quickly (instead of unpacking JPG).
- Added auto-eject after disk scanning.
- Program logic improved (when scanning new disks on computers with several CD/DVD-drives).
- Other minor bugs fixed.

February 16, 2006
Log-Analyzer version 1.5 released. GZip unpacking and Windows XP interface support added.

February 15, 2006
Junk Mail Remover version 1.1 released. New features:
- "Get short list" setting added to "after connection" section on the settings window.

February 9, 2006
Network map and monitor 10-Strike LANState version 2.3 released. New features:
- Added the Information Report Wizard for creating reports on remote computers.
- Added the New Network Map Creation Wizard for easier map building.
- Added toolbar on the "System Information" window.
- Fixed showing of all local computer's MAC-addresses on the "System Information" and "Object list" windows.
- Fixed MAC-address detection when host name was typed in lower case.
- Optimized MAC-address detection through NetBIOS.
- Fixed error that occurred when detecting MAC-address of Internet hosts, which hung up the version 2.2.

January 30, 2006
We added ability to update LANState Personal to LANState Standard for $69.95.

January 27, 2006
CD/DVD cataloger SearchMyDiscs version 2.3 released. New features:
- JPEG thumbnail scanning speed increased by 2-3 times.
- Program logic improved.
- Version 2.2 contained a bug. Some EXIF tags were not saved. Fixed.
- Report bug fixed (when report accumulated the same files multiple times in version 2.2).
- Other minor bugs fixed.

January 19, 2006
Network mapping and monitoring program 10-Strike LANState version 2.2 released.
Version 2.2 has new Try'n'Buy limitation policy. Now you can place more than 5 objects per map and use background pinging. But you will not be able to save and load maps while the software is unregistered. Other limitations remain (alerts, message archive, black list).
New features:
- Added getting list of installed software on remote computer.
- Added button for getting domain information on the window "System Information", in "General" section.
- Added ability to save log files.
- Fixed error that occurred after saving new map, some lines and areas disappeared.
- Fixed error that occurred after saving network map to XML scheme.
- Fixed error in "Get MAC and IP addresses" function, MAC-addresses were not detected sometimes.
- HTML-report's design changed ("Table of network host names, IP, and MAC-addresses").
- Background pinging operations improved.
- Fixed errors which occurred on systems with Intel Pentium 4 CPUs with HyperThreading technology.

December 27, 2005
New great review of our CD database and cataloging program SearchMyDiscs written by Mark Mattson, the editor of "Horizons" edition (Computer Users of Erie). We recommend you to read this useful article in order to understand all capabilities and features of SearchMyDiscs.

December 23, 2005
Network map and monitor 10-Strike LANState updated to version 2.11. Fixed small error when lines disappeared after minimization of the program under Windows XP.

December 16, 2005
Network mapping and monitoring program 10-Strike LANState version 2.1 released. New features:
- Added ability to set the position of a background image (tile, center, stretch, etc).
- Added ability to open maps using Drag'n'Drop.
- Line drawing extended (thickness and styles supported).
- Map format changed: you will be asked to save your maps in new format.
- Use ESC to exit from line/area editing mode.
- Map saving notifications fixed.
- Connection and alert logs are scrolled down to the end of log automatically when they are displayed.
- Fixed error that occurred when adding new hosts to map from the IP address range scanning window.
- Icons added to the status bar. You can watch map stats when pointing mouse cursor at "Devices" section.
- Grid alignment added for map objects.
- Thread operations and stability improved.

We have released new simplified LANState build: 10-Strike LANState Personal Edition, which has no remote administration features, but network mapping and monitoring functions remain. It costs $39.95 U.S. and can be recommended for home and Internet usage.

Christmas and New Year discounts started: 25% OFF!

December 7, 2005
Junk Mail Remover online documentation is available.

December 2, 2005
Junk Mail Remover version 1.0 released! Delete junk, spam, virus, trojan, and e-mails with big attachments fast and easily. If your connection is slow (dial-up, GPRS, etc) or you have to pay for internet traffic, Junk Mail Remover will save your time and money.

November 25, 2005
New program for spam and virus deletion Junk Mail Remover version 1.0 beta released.

November 22, 2005
Disk catalog SearchMyDiscs version 2.2 released. New features:
- Scanning process optimization.
- Loading process optimization.
- Error handling during scanning process improved.
- Database stability improved.
- Error log improved.
- New command-line parameter: /recover - for restoring disks which lost from disk list. Recovered disks will be named as disk1, disk2 etc.

November 9, 2005
Network mapping and monitoring program 10-Strike LANState version 2.0 released. New features:
- Added viewing remote event logs.
- Map size extended to 2000x2000 pixels. You can scroll the map (with background image) using PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End keys.
- Fixed error that occurred when scrolling the map: lines and areas displayed incorrectly.
- Added ability to choose a code page for sending alerts via e-mail.
- Added exporting map to XML-scheme.
- Printing functionality improved.
- New "Print" button added on the main toolbar.
- Added hotkeys: Settings - "P", Printing - "Ctrl-P".
- Added exporting map to the BMP format without wallpaper image.
- Fixed error when areas did not delete in the area editing mode.
- Fixed a little bug with showing messages on alerts.
- Added JPG file support for wallpaper image.
- Added ability to change a color of all areas simultaneously.

November 1, 2005
SearchMyDiscs summer 33% discount has been cancelled.

October 27, 2005
Our network management and monitoring program LANState has been mentioned by PC Magazine/Russian Edition in their annual software review "Best of Soft 2005". You can read the full review in the October issue of PC Magazine/RE. Read more...

Please note, that SearchMyDiscs 33% discount will end at November 1st.

October 24, 2005
We have removed links to FTPrint software from our site. The product is rather dead than alive. Also, it does not meet our current marketing strategy.
The registered users will continue getting support on FTPrint though. FTPrint homepage is still available.

September 29, 2005
SearchMyDiscs 2.1 updated. Bug fixed: reports did not work. We are sorry. Please download version 2.1 again.

September 27, 2005
Disk catalog SearchMyDiscs version 2.1 released. New features:
- Scanning process optimization.
- Bugs fixed: report, copying files.
- Saving MS Word documents (*.doc) descriptions.
- Saving HTML-pages (*.htm,*.html,*.shtml,*.asp) descriptions.
- Saving sound formats descriptions: mpp, ogg, mpc, wma.
- New simplified search window (advanced variant remains).

September 4, 2005
New network monitoring program: 10-Strike LANState English version 1.7 released!

July 15, 2005
We have started SearchMyDiscs summer promotion campaign. Now you can buy SearchMyDiscs for only $20 (33% off)!

July 7, 2005
PayPal payments are accepted now.

July 1, 2005
We have opened our forum! Feel free to post you comments and suggestions.

June 29, 2005
We have posted press release on SearchMyDiscs: New disk cataloger and search engine helps PC owners find necessary CD or DVD in seconds.

June 24, 2005
MP3 searching program MP3-Scanner version 1.5 released. What's new:
- Bugs fixed.
- Limitations changed.

June 14, 2005
Disk catalog SearchMyDiscs version 2.01 released. What's new:
- A little bug fixed under Windows XP.
- Some unnecessary nag-screens removed.

May 27, 2005
SearchMyDiscs version 2.0 released (ex "Disk-Pile"). What's new since previous version:
- Lent disks support.
- Backing up to archive and restoring from archive.
- Multiple database support (databases can be located in different folders).
- Saving descriptions and thumbnails from psd, gif, tiff, jfif, tga, pcx files.
- Optimization of scanning big archives.
- Many bugs fixed (reading EXIF in particular).
- Saving descriptions from MPEG-files and information on audio streams from AVI (testing).

May 27, 2005
We have changed name of the program "Disk-Pile" to "SearchMyDiscs". Please remember this name. All users who registered Disk-Pile will be able to use their registration keys with SearchMyDiscs.

May 27, 2005
We have changed our site's design. We hope you will like this new design.
Hosting is changed too. So you will be able to see the new site in a day or two after DNS change completion.

January 31, 2005
FTPrint version 3.45 released. What's new since previous version:
- 3 new command-line switches.