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Changes (what's new)

Password strength meter now has a tooltip with combinations number, password length in bits and maximum crack time for the currently selected password options;

Borders of password strength "classes" are changed (see Password strength section);
Bug fixed: Password strength meter now shows a correct reduced strength when Exclude confused characters or Easy-to-type passwords options are selected. Strength is also reduces while generating common (not an easy-to-type) passwords because of excluding weak passwords (which doesn't include all selected charsets). (See Password strength and Options sections);
Bug fixed: Bias problem in common passwords (some passwords were generated more often then others);
Bug fixed: Bias problem in easy-to-type passwords (some passwords were generated more often then others);
Minor changes. Sincere gratitude to Michael Samuel, who found those bugs and helped me fix them!

Hotkeys: now you can re-generate password by pressing F5 or Ctrl+R, copy it to clipboard on Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Ins, and close window on Esc;
From now on you can't run multiple app instances simultaneously;
"Can't save configuration!" error message is now suppressed in the portable mode;
Minor changes.

QuickGen feature: Now you can generate passwords via taskbar button's menu on Windows 7/8!

New feature: Now application is available in two versions: Windows Installer and Portable. You can use Portable version without administrative rights;
New feature: Windows taskbar progress indicator (in the bulk generation mode);

Bug fixed: User without administrative rights can't save passwords in the default "c:\passwords.txt" file. Now default locations of this file has changed;
Bug fixed: App crash on exit if user don't have administrator rights;
Minor changes.