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smaragdus wrote:ShareX is not stealth, it creates "ShareX.exe.log" in AppData (C:\Users\UserNAme\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs).

ShareX not creates that file, CLR creates it. This log file only contains list of loaded assemblies (dll) and not contains anything private. Like this: "System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral".

Which means every software which using .NET Framework gonna have log file there. My "UsageLogs" folder for example have 12 logs in it from different .NET apps.

https://www.portablefreeware.com/faq.php#stealth in here rule tells:

"Certain exceptions are permitted. For example, registry entries that are created/updated by Windows for the application (eg. MRU entries for dialog boxes, DirectX entries for DirectX-based apps), or temp files created in the official "Temp" folders are not taken into consideration. Note: "Stealth" does not mean non-traceability! In fact, it is quite unlikely you can hide your activities on a Windows machine from a capable system administrator."

So either you have to make entire .NET apps non stealth or follow that rule and accept it as stealth. But I don't see any .NET apps marked as non stealth other than ShareX?

Good catch, Jaex. TPFC is entirely a volunteer run operation, so oversights like this one tend to crop up every now and then. Let's see what the community makes of it.

Jaex wrote:ShareX not creates that file, CLR creates it. This log file only contains list of loaded assemblies (dll) and not contains anything private. Like this: "System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral".

In fact, certain frameworks like Qt leaves similar footprints in the registry as well.

I think it's totally acceptable.

@Jaex

Jaex wrote:

smaragdus wrote:ShareX is not stealth, it creates "ShareX.exe.log" in AppData (C:\Users\UserNAme\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0\UsageLogs).

ShareX not creates that file, CLR creates it. This log file only contains list of loaded assemblies (dll) and not contains anything private. Like this: "System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral".

Which means every software which using .NET Framework gonna have log file there. My "UsageLogs" folder for example have 12 logs in it from different .NET apps.

https://www.portablefreeware.com/faq.php#stealth in here rule tells:

"Certain exceptions are permitted. For example, registry entries that are created/updated by Windows for the application (eg. MRU entries for dialog boxes, DirectX entries for DirectX-based apps), or temp files created in the official "Temp" folders are not taken into consideration. Note: "Stealth" does not mean non-traceability! In fact, it is quite unlikely you can hide your activities on a Windows machine from a capable system administrator."

So either you have to make entire .NET apps non stealth or follow that rule and accept it as stealth. But I don't see any .NET apps marked as non stealth other than ShareX?

Sorry for the late reply.
To my understanding of portable and stealth ShareX is portable but not stealth because I consider all .NET programs to be not stealth. Recently I added an entry (YouTube Pal) to the database and I set its status as not stealth. If I add more .NET programs to the database I will list them as not stealth.

@Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee wrote:

Jaex wrote:ShareX not creates that file, CLR creates it. This log file only contains list of loaded assemblies (dll) and not contains anything private. Like this: "System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral".

In fact, certain frameworks like Qt leaves similar footprints in the registry as well.

I think it's totally acceptable.

"Acceptable" is one thing, "Stealth" is another. Are .NET programs considered to be stealth or not by TPF definition of stealth?

Something I haven't seen before: there's a way to convert from the installer to portable version of ShareX: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/2296

Nice.

ShareX can now not only read QR codes, it can read multiple QR codes:
https://gfycat.com/SereneLividBrownbear

From: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/2516

I've been really enjoying the ShareX image editor and the most recent update has a lot of new bits. I didn't think it could replace Greenshot as my editor of choice but for someone who does at least 10 screenshots daily, saving a few clicks goes a really long way.

https://getsharex.com/changelog/

Great stuff.

Andrew updated the ShareX entry https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2409 yesterday but here's a breakdown from Ghacks on what's new: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/01/19/share ... ing-tools/

I'm really pleased by the "cut out" editor functions, which I used to have to rebuild inside of a graphics program like LibreOffice Draw by overlapping two of the same image.

If memory serves, ShareX historically puts out an update to their X.0.0 releases soon after. So users not excited about the latest features might want to wait for 15.0.1 or later to avoid updating twice.