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Released version 1.7.7 with significant improvements
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**Changelog**:

07/07/2020 - Significant improvements to CWP Utilities. The Windows port of PCREGREP has been updated in order to support a much wider array of patterns. This streamlined several of the scripts, allowing for greater efficiency in terms of pattern identification and overall parsing speed. **Please uninstall your existing installation of CWP Utilities before installing this one**. The feature which updates the core scripts of this program (option #15 in the console interface) is still present, and will allow you to keep your scripts in sync with this repo for future updates, but this full release was necessary because of replacing the PCREGREP binary and libraries with a new and improved version. We are now at stable release 1.7.7. Please upgrade to this version, and enjoy!

The new release can be downloaded from here: [CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.7.exe](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.7.exe).

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04/08/2020 - Overall improvements to scripts along with a new feature that allows the user to sync their CWP Utilities update scripts with the ones hosted on my github repository, thereby reducing the need for complete release updates. This feature is accessible via the last option of the console interface. We are now at stable release 1.7.6. Please upgrade to this version.

The new release can be downloaded from here: [CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.6.exe](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.6.exe).
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# [Combined Windows Privacy Utilities](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.6.exe)
# [Combined Windows Privacy Utilities](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.7.exe)
Are you tired of ads and trackers affecting your web browsing? Do you want to use file sharing applications in a safer way, with less risk of being snooped on? Do you want to take preemptive measures against spyware? Or, would you simply like to have an easier way of keeping your hosts file and torrent client block lists thorough and up-to-date on Windows? You've come to the right place if you answered yes to any of those questions.
<p align="center"><img src="https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Screenshots/systray-active.png" alt="Active SysTray"></p>

Combined Windows Privacy Utilities (or CWP Utilities) is a free and open source suite of integrated tools for Windows users, to help them guard their privacy and security. It does this through drastically simplifying the work of retrieving, parsing, and structuring data from a number of different trustworthy block lists, then combining them into single, usable files, and putting them in their proper places. [A simple installer is provided (just click this link to download it)](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.6.exe), to make everything easily accessible. The program can be installed anywhere on any device that runs Windows, along with USB drives, as all of the utilities dynamically recognize proper system paths. It creates no registry entries, cleans up after itself, and if one chooses to uninstall it, no files are left behind.
Combined Windows Privacy Utilities (or CWP Utilities) is a free and open source suite of integrated tools for Windows users, to help them guard their privacy and security. It does this through drastically simplifying the work of retrieving, parsing, and structuring data from a number of different trustworthy block lists, then combining them into single, usable files, and putting them in their proper places. [A simple installer is provided (just click this link to download it)](https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.7.exe), to make everything easily accessible. The program can be installed anywhere on any device that runs Windows, along with USB drives, as all of the utilities dynamically recognize proper system paths. It creates no registry entries, cleans up after itself, and if one chooses to uninstall it, no files are left behind.

CWP Utilities automates the process of maintaining an up-to-date and comprehensive hosts file, in order to block a variety of trackers, advertisements, and malware, on a system-wide level. It also enables the average user to easily keep the block lists for their file sharing applications up-to-date and thorough, along with facilitating the easy utilization of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (or PAC) file, for ad and tracker-blocking on devices that are less configurable (e.g. non-rooted phones). Think of it as a more capable, efficient and modern replacement for HostsMan, even though it's not as pretty. It can also fetch hosts lists from servers HostsMan cannot, thanks to an up-to-date build of wget for Windows.
![Main Interface](/Screenshots/screen05-new.png)
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This directory will always contain the most recent installer:
https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.6.exe
https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/raw/master/Releases/CWP-Utilities-Stable-1.7.7.exe
*You should also ALWAYS execute option number 15 in the console interface after installing, to ensure that the CWPU scripts are synced with the latest versions in this repository. Option number 15 should be executed once every week or two as well, for good measure.*

It will also contain a zip file of the program for those who prefer not to use an installer:
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