Dear Friends,

We are happy to announce FINAL release of Remote Assistant 2.0.

This is your last chance to get Remote Assistant v.2 for the
price of v.1., which means discounts of 30% to 50%!
Hurry, this offer ends May 22!

Here's the list of improvements and bug fixes in this release
compared to the previous release candidate 2.0 RC2.

Improvements in this release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#544 Tested for Vista compatiblity. All windows now dehave and
minimize correctly under Vista.

#545 Captions are corrected to be consistent across all Remote
Admin windows.

#546 Added semi-transparent status window on the Remote Host side
to nitofy user about all operations perfrmed by admin.

#547 Screen scanning is improved to conusme as little CPU
resources as possible. CPU usage is reduced to 3-5% on average
low end computer.

#548 Added options dialog for RemoteAdmin, allowing to specify
default settings for Remote Desktop, Chat, TCP\IP filtering and
more.

#549 Remote desktop options reworked to be more self-explanatory.

#550 Remote Admin shows all connections in the tray-icon popup
menu, allowing for simple access to their desktop, file explorer
and chat.

#551 All opened Windows of Remote Admin made top level windows,
so they are shown correctly on taskbar when minimized.

#552 Added Screen sizing and scaling on Remote Admin. Optional
anti-aliasing makes scaled screen look readable.

#556 Added sound to Remote Admin to alert administrator when a
connection is requested.

#557 Added IP filtering (white and black list) to Remote Admin.

#558 Added ability to resume/recommence aborted file transfer.

#559 Improved behaviour in full screen mode. Toolbar is now
automatically hiding and showing when the mouse pointer reaches
top of the screen. The remote desktop is scaled automatically if
necessary in full screen mode in order to fit all screen
contents.

#560 Added automatic connection pinging to keep connection during
long periods of inactivity.

#561 Added option to determine Remote Admin's WAN IP address,
using external services, such as www.whatismyip.org. This can be
configured in Remote Admin options.

Issues addressed by this release
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#553 Fixed bug with threading. The remote desktop thread was
being resumed twice, which caused errors under Win98.

#554 Fixed bug with Alpha blending, which is not supported under
Win98.

#555 Fixed bug with colors not being mapped correctly under Win98
when the desktop is set to true color and the target color depth
is 256 colors.


Fully functional trial version is available at:
http://www.contextsoft.com/products/remassist/downloads.jsp

For more details, please go to:
http://www.contextsoft.com/products/remassist
and refer to the included readme file.


Sincerely,
Michael Baytalsky
e-mail: mike@contextsoft.com
http://www.contextsoft.com