Versjonshistorikk

Version 10.0 (released September 29, 2026)

  • Changed: Comfort Keys Pro is now called Comfort Keys Suite. The installer removes the old "Comfort Keys Pro" shortcuts, so you are not left with two icons.
  • New: The interface has been redesigned in the Windows 11 style, with a light or dark look that follows the colors of the on-screen keyboard theme. Interface icons are now monochrome vector graphics, and the interface font is Segoe UI Variable (Segoe UI on Windows 10 and earlier).
  • Improved: The "Windows Dark" and "Windows Light" themes have been retuned to match the look of Windows 11, and the "Mac" theme has been redesigned in the flat style of the Apple Magic Keyboard.
  • New: Nine keyboard themes: Neon, Nautilus, Sage, Laser, Contrast, White, Sunset, Retro and Platinum.
  • Removed: The outdated keyboard themes Standard, Dark, Aqua, Vista, Golden, Office Blue, Office Silver, Office Black and System. "Windows Dark" now heads the list and is the default. If your keyboard still uses a retired theme, the theme is kept as a custom color set with the same name and colors; the only exception is "System", which is replaced by "Windows Light".
  • Changed: The "Rounded corners" checkbox has been replaced by a "Roundness" slider that runs from square keys to fully round ones. Your previous setting is carried over: rounded keys stay rounded and square keys stay square until you move the slider.
  • New: A "Border thickness" slider (0 to 9) for on-screen keyboard keys. The border is drawn inside the key, so the keys keep their size.
  • Changed: Gradient key fills are gone: the on-screen keyboard is drawn flat throughout, and the "Drawing style:" setting has been removed.
  • Changed: The input language key on the on-screen keyboard now shows the language code (ENG, DEU) or the input method icon instead of a flag. To bring the language flag back on that key, tick "Show the language flag" in the settings of the input language action.
  • Changed: Several on-screen keyboards have been renamed: "UltraPhone1440" to "UltraPhone", "TouchGame1" to "TouchGame", "StandardAlt3" to "StandardAlt" and "Standard3" to "StandardShort". If one of them was selected, the selection switches to the new name automatically.
  • Changed: These keyboards are no longer offered: SkinWin7, TouchGame2, TouchGame3, SkinFlat, SkinMulticolor, SkinWhite, UMPC_Numx2000 and UMPCx2000. They stay on disk, and "Show Outdated Keyboards" in the "Choose Keyboard Type" window brings them back.
  • Removed: The keyboards Circles, CirclesBig, FullScreen1024, MiniDemo, StandardBig and StandardBigAlpha.
  • Improved: The Mini keyboard has been completely redesigned.
  • Improved: Keys with complex shapes, such as Enter and the angled keys of game layouts, are now drawn with smooth, anti-aliased edges. On keyboards with a transparent background or a background picture the edges are still drawn without smoothing.
  • Changed: Selected rows and items now use one fixed accent blue throughout the program instead of a color taken from the keyboard theme; this suits the new themes better.
  • New: Full data backup and restore is now built in. "Back Up All Data..." in the "Settings" window packs the settings together with the data files - keyboards including your own, key icons, backgrounds, sounds, dictionaries, shortcut files, scripts, templates and Clipboard Manager files - into a single signed .ckpack file, and "Restore All Data..." restores them from it. The same job can be scripted with the /SAVEPROFILE and /APPLYPROFILE command-line switches. The file is verified before it is applied. Restoring is not available in the trial version.
  • Improved: The Clipboard Manager has been redesigned: "History" and "Favorites" are now nodes of a single tree, and the manager reopens on the node you used last. The separate Favorites action and its Alt+Insert shortcut are gone, but older shortcut files keep working.
  • New: A separate system tray icon opens the Clipboard Manager with a single click and shows whether clipboard monitoring is running. The program's tray icon and the Clipboard Manager icon can be hidden independently of each other: "Hide the clipboard manager icon in the system tray" is a separate option.
  • Improved: The program now fully supports Unicode: the interface works in any language, and Text Suggestions dictionaries can be Unicode files in any language.
  • New: The on-screen keyboard can now have virtual keys that are not tied to any physical key. There are three kinds of virtual key: "Text", "Page switch" and "Action". An action key is identified by its name and takes its action from the shared list of actions.
  • New: The on-screen keyboard can now have extra pages in addition to the base layout: click "Pages..." in the keyboard editor, add a page, then put a "Page switch" key on the keyboard and point it at the page it should open. A page can hold text keys, symbols or an extra block such as a numeric keypad. Text keys on a page always type what they show, whatever the input language, while the base layout still follows the input language as before.
  • New: The "Pages" window has a button that adds the "&123" template: two symbol pages, "1/2" and "2/2", in the style of the Windows 11 touch keyboard. They follow the geometry of the base layout - the number row becomes F1..F12 when the layout has no row of function keys, the letter rows become text keys, the left Shift becomes the page switch, and the "abc" key returns to the letters.
  • New: The Mini, TouchScreen and TouchScreenWin8 keyboards now come with "&123" symbol pages.
  • New: On-screen keyboard keys can now have SVG icons. Each icon is stored inside the keyboard file itself, so a keyboard is still a single file with no separate image files. A set of 102 ready-made icons is included.
  • Improved: The keyboard editor has been modernized: keys are selected and resized with a selection frame that snaps to neighboring keys and to the standard key size, and "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" replace the old "Clone" command.
  • Improved: The "Color / Picture" window has been redesigned: every color has its own drop-down picker in a grid with a column for each key state - "Normal", "Hover" and "Pressed" - and separate columns for "Function keys" and "Control keys". The key picture is chosen there too, separately for regular, function and control keys.
  • New: A keyboard can now have two keys with the same code: when you add a key whose code is already in use, the editor offers to create a second copy of the key, for example Enter on the numeric keypad. The copy gets its own shape and appearance, and the right-hand key of the pair is automatically treated as the extended one (for Enter, the key on the numeric keypad); this determines which copy lights up and which scan code is sent.
  • New: The "If the keyboard covers the text cursor" list on the "Position" page: "Don't move", "Move the keyboard away from the text cursor" (the previous behavior, still the default), or "Transparency 10%" to "Transparency 90%" so you can see the cursor through the keyboard. The keyboard stays transparent while the cursor is under it and returns to its normal transparency as soon as the cursor is clear of it.
  • Improved: Text Suggestions now match letters with and without diacritics: typing a plain letter also finds words with its accented forms, while typing an accented letter narrows the list to words that really contain it. When the dictionaries cannot fill the list, it is topped up from the Windows spell checker (Windows 8 and later), so for a mistyped word you get a correction instead of nothing at all.
  • New: The "Keyboard Shortcuts Settings", "Edit Templates" and "Edit shortcut icons" windows now support Undo and Redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y).
  • Improved: The program now uses per-monitor DPI awareness: it works correctly on multi-monitor setups where the displays have different scaling, and windows and icons are redrawn at the right size when the scaling changes or a window moves to another monitor.
  • Improved: The application icons used for keyboard shortcuts have been completely redrawn as vector images, so they stay sharp at any size. You can add your own PNG files as well - at 16, 24 and 32 pixels, or just one of those sizes.
  • Changed: Shortcut icon sets now use the version 10 format with the ".csi" extension, and all bundled sets have been reissued in it. Sets from earlier versions (".cki") still open as before but are never overwritten, so version 9 keeps working with them.
  • New: Enter, Tab, Caps Lock and Shift now show an icon instead of their name when the name does not fit the width of the key. With the new "Show icons on control keys" option turned on, the icon is always shown.
  • New: The "Show symbols accessible via AltGr" option, which shows the third-level character in the bottom-right corner of each key.
  • New: The "Align labels on control keys to the left or right edge" option: the labels and icons of the control keys at the ends of the rows (Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Ctrl, Enter, Backspace) sit at the outer edge of the keyboard, as on the Windows 11 touch keyboard. After an update from version 9 the option stays off until you turn it on.
  • Improved: A key that sends a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+Shift+Tab) instead of its own keystroke now shows the target key large in the center and the modifiers on one small line in the bottom-left corner. The label is drawn in the colors of the key, not on a black square as before.
  • Changed: The interface now says "Transparency" and "Transparent" instead of "Opacity" and "Opaque". The sliders run from "0%" on the left to "Transparent" on the right, and every list of percentages gives the transparency. Your saved settings are unchanged.
  • New: The "Dependency" window has a new option, "On-Screen Keyboard: Transparency 50%", right after "On-Screen Keyboard: Dock at bottom of screen": the keyboard becomes 50% transparent while the program the dependency is set for is in the foreground, and your usual transparency comes back as soon as you switch to another program.
  • Changed: The "Three finger tap on your touchscreen: Show/Hide" checkbox has been replaced by a "To show the keyboard, touch the screen with" list: choose from 3 to 10 fingers, or "(None)" to turn the gesture off. If the old checkbox was ticked, the gesture is carried over as three fingers.
  • New: The "Move the keyboard away from the Start menu" option on the "Position" page: while the Start menu is open the keyboard steps aside, and it returns to its place as soon as the menu closes.
  • Improved: The "Edit Keyboard Type", "Edit shortcut icons" and "Keyboard Shortcuts Settings" windows no longer put the program on hold: the on-screen keyboard stays available while they are open, your keyboard shortcuts keep working whenever none of these windows is in the foreground, and saved changes appear on the live keyboard at once.
  • New: A "Find" box above the list in the "Keyboard Shortcuts Settings" window, which filters the list by key name, shortcut, action description and your own label.
  • New: A "Find" box above the list in the "Edit Templates" window, which filters templates by keyword and by their text.
  • Improved: Special characters such as # $ / \ no longer break a template keyword as you type: only a space, a quotation mark (straight or typographic) or one of the characters . , ! ? ; ) ] } now ends a keyword. The program also warns you when a keyword itself contains one of these ending characters, because such a template cannot be inserted by typing.
  • Improved: In the "Template Manager" window, when no keyword matches what you have typed (three characters or more), the program now shows every template whose text contains the typed characters.
  • Changed: The Clipboard Manager preview area is now always visible: the "Show preview" option and its toolbar button have been removed.
  • New: The Clipboard Manager has two maintenance commands, available only through keyboard shortcuts: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Del deletes clip files that nothing refers to any more, and Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R rebuilds missing history entries from the clip files still on disk.
  • Changed: The kiosk settings lock is now a machine-wide policy: "AccessDenied" is read first from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\ComfortSoftware\CKeys, and only when that value is missing or 0 does the program fall back to the per-user key it used before, so a standard user can no longer unlock a kiosk from their own branch of the registry. The bundled AccessDenied.reg and AccessAllowed.reg now set the policy value and need administrator rights to import, and AccessAllowed.reg also removes the old per-user value.
  • Changed: With the settings locked (AccessDenied), the Clipboard Manager window can no longer be dragged around the screen, and new text templates cannot be added from the "Template Manager" window.
  • Removed: Obsolete actions: the task switching window, the list of recently launched programs and "Show the desktop with hotkeys".
  • Removed: The "Connect/Disconnect from a network" action group and the "Eject/Close CD door" action.
  • Improved: Shortcut files now record each action by name as well as by number, so files stay compatible when an action is retired or a new one is added.
  • Removed: The "Add to the Windows context menu" option and the Explorer shell extension behind it.
  • Changed: The separate COptions.exe helper is gone: the program itself carries out the operations that need administrator rights and asks for elevation when necessary.
  • Improved: Text Suggestions dictionaries are now read in the encoding of their own language, whatever the system code page or the current keyboard layout, so a dictionary written for another language is no longer garbled. Dictionaries saved in UTF-8 are supported as well. The Hebrew and Norwegian dictionaries have received a language tag like all the others, so they are picked reliably for the language you are typing in.
  • Improved: The Hebrew dictionary for Text Suggestions has grown from about 4,500 to about 470,000 words, and a new Arabic dictionary of about 39,000 words has been added.
  • New: Two options on the "Text Suggestions" page of "Expert Settings", both on by default: "Ignore diacritics when matching Text Suggestions" and "Use the system spell checker for Text Suggestions".
  • Fixed: Working with fullscreen (F11) browser windows: with "Docking" or "Moves and sizes the active window" turned on, a fullscreen Chrome window now shrinks to make room for the keyboard instead of being covered by it, and the taskbar no longer covers the keyboard.
  • Fixed: The "Sleep" action on modern laptops: it now puts the computer to sleep the way the Windows power menu does, with instant wake, instead of sending it into hibernation.
  • Fixed: At 125% and 150% display scaling, option captions in the "Settings" window and the text on information panels were cut off. Captions now stretch to fit the text and, where there is not enough room, end with "..." and show the full text in a tooltip.
  • Fixed: Message and confirmation windows cut off long text. The text now wraps and the window grows to fit it.
  • Fixed: Window and panel sizes, including splitter positions, are now saved together with the display scaling, so windows and panels are restored at the correct size on a screen with different scaling.
  • Fixed: The on-screen keyboard could not type in the "Merge Selected Text Fragments" dialog of the Clipboard Manager.
  • Fixed: Two tray menu glitches: pressing a keyboard shortcut that opens a window while the tray menu is open no longer freezes every menu in the program, and the tray menu no longer flickers or reopens itself after repeated right-clicks on a tray icon.
  • Fixed: Printing of the template list: Rich Text Format and password-protected templates were left out of the printout entirely. They are now listed with a marker, the whole set is printed even while the search box is filtering the list, and the selection is no longer lost after printing.
  • Fixed: A security and stability problem in the on-screen keyboard components used on the Windows sign-in screen (also fixed in version 9).
  • Fixed: A number of memory and resource leaks, so the program holds on to less memory during long sessions.
  • Fixed: On computers with no internet access (typically running Windows 7) the installer now installs the complete code signing certificate chain, so Windows can verify the signatures and every component starts.

Version 9.6.2 (released June 3, 2026)

  • Improved language detection for text suggestions
  • Fixed an error when adding items with a URL to Favorites in the Clipboard Manager.
  • Fixed an error when setting an item's color in the Clipboard Manager.
  • Fixed an issue when switching languages if the list included Japanese, Chinese, or Korean.
  • Fixed an issue with text suggestions for the Polish language.

Version 9.6 (released May 15, 2026)

  • Improved: Hotkeys and templates files can now be stored on a network folder (for example, OneDrive) and synchronized across devices.
  • New: Added ToggleKeyboard.exe and ToggleClipboard.exe files to the main program folder, which can be pinned to the taskbar for quick access to the Clipboard Manager and on-screen keyboard.
    Pin to the taskbar
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard now appears in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge for certain ComboBox input fields (for example, the Google search box).
  • Improved: If Data\CommonSettings.ini exists, settings are now saved to this file.
  • Improved: If Data\LogonSettings.ini exists, logon keyboard settings are now loaded from this file.
  • New: A Refresh command (F5 hotkey) has been added to the Clipboard Manager. This helps when clipboard file changes cannot be tracked in a network folder - press F5 to reload data manually.
  • New: Added the LogonTransparent setting to control logon keyboard transparency.
  • New: MoveBottomKB.exe now supports bottom offset in either pixels or percent (for example, MoveBottomKB.exe 250 or MoveBottomKB.exe 10%).
  • Improved: The last state of control keys is now restored after using the "Replace key or shortcut" action.
  • Improved: The "Disable system touch keyboard and handwriting panel" setting has been refined.
  • Improved: Updated duplicate detection logic in the Clipboard Manager.
  • Improved: When saving multiple fragments from the Clipboard Manager, the program now asks for a separator (same behavior as when merging fragments).
  • Improved: Refined UI translations across multiple locales.
  • Improved: Added localized help for Spanish, German, French, and Italian.
  • Improved: Input language order now follows the order defined in Windows settings (also fixes switching with system language shortcuts).
  • Fixed: In the Clipboard Manager, when saving a clip to a file, the file extension now updates correctly after changing the file type.
  • Fixed: Emoji icons in templates may become corrupted when loading old template files.
  • Fixed: Corrected automatic assignment of the F11 key when it is available through Fn key.
  • Fixed: Corrected key interception from invalid keyboard sources (including Alt+F4 handling).
  • Some other bugfixes and improvements.

Version 9.5 (released May 17, 2022)

  • New: Scheduled check for updates has been added: Settings > Advanced > Check for Updates.
  • New Gestures Ctrl+Key and Alt+Key have been added.
  • New expert settings have been added:
    • Shift, Ctrl, Alt, or Win key remains pressed if held down for less than 500 milliseconds;
    • Additional key border to define the active key;
    • Hold down Arrow keys until pressed again;
    • Hold down Any key until pressed again.
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard shows characters accessible via Shift if they were added using the Paste Text action.
  • Improved: The procedure for determining full-screen windows for calculating the location of the on-screen keyboard has been improved.
  • Improved: The list of hidden windows appears as a separate submenu in the popup menu with all actions and in the main context menu.
  • Improved: The "Don't move the mouse when touching the on-screen keyboard" expert setting is enabled by default. The setting has been greatly improved.
  • Improved: The new fragment copied to the clipboard becomes active in the history of the clipboard manager if no filter is set.
  • Improved: The print dialog automatically appears when you print the action list or template list.
  • Fixed: Saving images to the clipboard from Google Chrome has been fixed.
  • Fixed: Clipboard tracking stopped if the History section was empty and the "Do not add identical fragments" setting was unchecked.
  • Fixed: All text templates stopped working if you canceled the processing of a text template with the Esc key.
  • Fixed: The logon keyboard appeared in the upper left corner if you set "Don't move" in the "Default position" section.
  • Fixed: The issue of the disappearance of the program icon in the system tray has been fixed.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

Version 9.4 (released May 28, 2021)

  • Changed: The initial setup wizard has been redesigned. Now it appears only the first time you start the program.
  • Improved: The size of the keyboard in the "Edit shortcut icons" window is set to the size of the main on-screen keyboard.
  • Improved: Handling of active input languages has been improved.
  • Improved: The information message describing the triggered hotkey has been improved.
  • Improved: The volume information window has been improved. See also: Audio control actions
    Volume control
  • Improved: The "Move the on-screen keyboard to a screen border" setting has been replaced with the "Default position" setting. See also: Position settings
    Keyboard position
    You can change this setting for any keyboard in the "Edit Keyboard Type" window. So your keyboards will have different positions on the screen when you switch between them.
    The keyboard position changes even if the Lock setting is set.
  • Changed: The two on-screen keyboard settings "Changes the position of the active window" and "Changes the size of the active window" have been merged into one "Moves and sizes the active window" setting. See also: Position settings
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard with the "Moves and sizes the active window" option enabled can now resize maximized windows.
  • Improved: The Docking setting for the on-screen keyboard now works correctly for web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) in kiosk mode and full screen mode.
  • Changed: The "Do not overlap the taskbar" setting has been moved from the expert settings to the Position section of the main settings. The taskbar is taken into account when moving the keyboard to the edge of the screen if this setting is enabled.
  • Changed: Now the Ctrl-Alt-Del button is not shown by default above the keyboard on the logon screen in Windows 10. You can force this button to be shown using the ShowCAD parameter.
  • Improved: New key label templates have been added based on the "Segoe MDL2 Assets" font in the "Edit Keyboard Type" window.
  • Now you can use the <INPUT> tag in text templates and the Paste Text action. This tag adds the ability to enter text from the keyboard that will be inserted into the text template.
  • Changed: The automatic snapping to the edge of the screen when changing the screen resolution has been removed.
  • Improved: An additional request has been added to re-encrypt the database if the encryption and decryption password has changed. When using a shared clipboard directory on multiple PCs, you only need to re-encrypt the database on one of them.
  • Improved: The clipboard manager displays a favorite icon if a clip is added to a favorites group.
  • Improved: The "Keyboard shortcuts" filter has been added in the clipboard manager. With this filter you can find all the clips for which you have previously set a keyboard shortcut for quick paste.
  • Improved: The handling of clipboard changes has been optimized.
  • Improved: The "Do not add identical fragments" function has been improved. If you disable it, fragments after pasting are added to the top of the list.
  • Improved: A new form has been added to request a separator when merging selected text fragments.
    Merge selected text fragments
  • Fixed: When using Copy, no more music can be played with Sound Forge Audio Studio. Fragments of sound are not tracked in the clipboard, because this leads to errors in the OS.
  • Fixed: An issue with the Japanese keyboard (106/109 key) layout has been fixed.
  • Some other bugfixes and improvements.

Version 9.3 (released March 27, 2021)

  • New keyboard types: Narrow, NarrowExtra, NarrowFunction.
  • New: You can assign the "Paste text" action with one symbol to Shift+Key hotkey, and this symbol will be visible in the corner of the key.
  • A new "The taskbar is taken into account when moving the keyboard to the edge of the screen" expert setting has been added.
  • A new Javascript function "ChangeLanguage" has been added. Now you can change the input language in the web browser, using the onscreen keyboard functions.
  • New: Persian interface language has been added.
  • Improved: The rendering of text and icons in the "Task Switching Window" and "Process History Window" on High DPI screens has been improved.
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard typing in Chinese and Japanese has been improved.
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard now appears when DateTime Pickers are focused.
  • Improved: The expert "Highlight the keys on the on-screen keyboard when you lift your finger" setting now works for the physical keyboard as well.
  • Improved: You can type the © character by holding down the C key.
  • Changed: If multiple monitors are connected and the AccessDenied parameter is set to 2 or 3, then you can move the on-screen keyboard to any monitor.
  • Fixed: The search field now remains active when typing with the on-screen keyboard in Microsoft programs: Outlook, Word, Visual Studio, etc.
  • Fixed: The appearance of the keyboard settings window when working with multiple monitors has been fixed.
  • Some other bugfixes and improvements.

Version 9.2 (released March 5, 2020)

  • New "Windows Light" style has been added. The "Windows 10" style has been renamed to "Windows Dark". Some styles have been slightly modified.
  • New ability to select a zoom from 100% to 800% in the keyboard edit window has been added.
  • New "Word wrap" option for the text template editor has been added.
  • New keyboard shortcut icons for Windows 10 have been added.
  • New command line parameter /EVENTLOG has been added. It instructs the application to create different log files for every startup.
  • Improved: The "Windows 10 style" setting has been changed by "Rounded corners" setting. The rounding of the keys increases according to the zooming of the keyboard.
  • Improved: Support for Uncode text in the text templates has been improved.
  • Improved: The "Shift+Key" action has been added to the swipe down gesture.
  • Improved: The "Temporarily hide the keyboard when a system window is visible in Windows 8 and above" setting is not set by default.
  • Fixed issue with double letter entry when typing with fingers on the screen.
  • Fixed: Sometimes identical fragments appeared in the clipboard manager.
  • Fixed incorrect separator when saving several fragments to a text file in the clipboard manager.
  • Fixed some memory leaks.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

Version 9.1 (released May 2, 2019)

  • New: Japanese interface language has been added. Almost all user interface languages have been improved.
  • New: The Ctrl+Backspace hotkey has been added to the Text Suggestion window, which allows you to delete the last added word.
  • New: An additional key automatically appears next to the left Shift key for the on-screen keyboard, if the additional key is present in the language layout. The extra keyboard files have been removed.
  • New: The right Shift key of the on-screen keyboard now displays a special label for the Chinese layout.
  • New: The necessity of double clicking for the right Shift key has been removed for the Chinese layout.
  • New: Turning on the Caps Lock with the right Shift key has been removed for the Chinese layout.
  • New: Additional keys now appear next to the space bar for Korean and Japanese.
  • New: The Additional Information setting has been added for the clipboard manager. You can select which information will be shown for every clip: Size, Date&Time or Source.
  • New: The "Settings" button has been added to the clipboard manager.
  • New: For HTML snippets, the source information has been added to the preview area of the clipboard manager.
  • New: Added support for jpg, png, gif and bmp to show in "Filter: Pictures" when you have right clicked on a picture and clicked on "Copy picture" in browser, mail or any other program that can display pictures.
  • New: The "URL" filter has been added that shows all clips that start with "http://", "https://" or "ftp://".
  • New expert settings have been added:
    • Show enlarged icons on the on-screen keyboard, if possible
    • Hold down the key when it's double-clicked
    • Hide the keyboard when this device is found
    • Move the mouse after clicking the floating icon
  • Improved: Expert settings have been divided into groups.
  • Improved: Detection of the Web site icon for the "Open URL" action has been improved.
  • Improved: Support for English dictionaries and text templates has been added to Korean, Chinese and Japanese.
  • Improved: The label on the Enter key is now different when Chinese Simplified is active.
  • Improved: The function of displaying hieroglyphs next to the Latin letters on the on-screen keyboard has been improved.
  • Improved: For console applications, the on-screen keyboard now always appears if the "Show the keyboard when the text cursor is visible" option is set.
  • Improved: The launch of the program has been accelerated.
  • Improved: The label on the AltGr key now depends on the input language.
  • Improved: The sorting of actions in the Keyboard Shortcuts Settings window and in the popup menu in the system tray have been changed.
  • Improved: When you switch the on-screen keyboard, its location does not change.
  • Improved: The "Keyboard Shortcuts Settings" window now scales the on-screen keyboard when necessary.
  • Improved: A wider border for the keys is drawn if the screen scale exceeds 200%.
  • Improved: An additional check has been added that prohibits the launch of multiple instances of the program.
  • Improved: The ability to create a new keyboard or delete a keyboard has been added to the keyboard selection window.
  • Improved: In the clipboard manager, you can edit clips and enter group names using the on-screen keyboard.
  • Improved: The Data Directory for the clipboard manager can be shared among multiple users. When data is changed by one user, the data is updated for other users. You can also use a shared network folder, or a service like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.
  • Improved: The label "Name:" has been removed for named clips.
  • Improved: The preview area of the clipboard manager window now depends on the screen scale.
  • Improved: When you resize the clipboard manager window, the size of the buttons can reduce to show all the buttons.
  • Fixed: The issue when working with Unicode text templates has been fixed.
  • Fixed: After adding a new keyboard, it now appears in the list of keyboards for selection.
  • Fixed: Now the context menu does not appear for the floating icon and the floating window if the AccessDenied option is activated.
  • Fixed issues when typing in Windows 10 using a stylus.
  • Fixed: Unicode text is now supported when using the tag.
  • Fixed: The touchscreen is now detected, even if the system only has single-touch touchscreen.
  • Fixed: Some issues with the Text Suggestions window have been fixed.
  • Fixed the issue when editing text clips in the clipboard manager: a space was inserted after the first letter.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

Version 9.0.4 (released January 11, 2018)

  • Improved: The Windows touch keyboard is restored when the software is uninstalled, if it was disabled by "Disable system touch keyboard and handwriting panel" option.
  • Improved: "Capitalize the first letter of each sentence" setting disables for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and some other languages.
  • Improved: "Capitalize the first letter of each sentence" setting disables in password fields.
  • Some minor improvements.

Version 9.0 (released December 7, 2017)

  • New design and new icons.
  • New styles have been added: Windows 10, Colored, Android. Order of styles has been changed.
  • Improved: The window for selecting the type of keyboard has been improved.
  • Improved: Almost all on-screen keyboards have been improved.
  • Improved support of High DPI Displays on devices like Microsoft Surface, when "Size of text, apps, and other items" is more than 200%.
  • Improved: The "Auto Hide" button has been replaced with the "Settings" button.
  • Improved: The "Close" button and the caption have been increased for large screen resolutions.
  • New keyboard types: MiniTouch, KioskWeb, KioskSpecial
  • Improved: Many settings have been moved to new places.
  • New section "Show/Hide" for the on-screen keyboard has been added.
  • New "Show only when you click or tap a text box" setting has been added.
  • New "Use all uppercase letters when I double-tap Shift" setting has been added.
  • Improved: "Set capital after" setting has been replaced by "Capitalize the first letter of each sentence" setting. Now this setting can recognize empty input field. The work in the Spanish language has been improved.
  • New "End state" setting for "Auto Hide" feature has been added.
  • New: "Hide the on-screen keyboard when typing on a physical keyboard" setting now hides the keyboard when you attach "Cover Keyboard". If your attachable keyboard doesn't hide the on-screen keyboard, please contact our support team.
  • New: Now you can use , tags for "Open URL" and "Run program" actions. For example: https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/
  • New "Working In Background" kind of option "Type of URL opening" has been added for "Open URL" action.
  • New folder with Gamepads for computer games has been created. All rarely used keyboards have been moved to the "Outdated" folder. You can add and remove Outdated keyboards and Gamepads from the keyboard list using the menu items in the keyboard selection window.
  • Improved: Sounds "Quiet" has been improved and refined.
  • Improved: The operation of the on-screen keyboard with various combinations of settings has been thoroughly refined.
  • Improved: The switching of the input language has been improved.
  • Improved: The UWP app definition in Windows 10 to create dependencies has been improved.
  • Improved: New options have been added to the Dependencies setting.
  • Improved: "Word Autocomplete" setting has been renamed to "Text Suggestions". "Text Suggestions" feature has been improved.
  • New "Align Text Left" setting for the Text Suggestions.
  • Improved: If a word is not found, the Text Suggestions window is highlighted in color.
  • Improved: Blinking the "Text suggestions" window has been removed.
  • Improved: The Docking function now works faster.
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard stores position for every screen resolution.
  • New action for a click on the system tray icon: "Turn On / Turn Off"
  • Improved: Five keys work like character keys: 0088=",;", 0089=".:", 008A="?!", 008B="-@", 008C="@-".
  • Improved: Now key combinations like Fn+1 work correctly with Ctrl, Alt and Shift control keys. For example: Fn+Alt+4 => Alt+F4.
  • Improved "Show the on-screen keyboard next to the text entry area" setting. If two monitors are connected and the text cursor is not defined, the keyboard will appear next to the mouse cursor.
  • Improved stability of the program on slow computers.
  • Improved some shortcut icons.
  • Improved: "Advanced keyboard settings" window changed by "Expert" window. All extended settings have been moved to Expert window.
  • Improved: "Repeat delay" and "Repeat rate" settings have been moved to the Expert window.
  • New expert settings have been added:
    • Highlight the keys on the on-screen keyboard when you lift your finger,
    • Show hieroglyphs for Asian languages on keys,
    • Temporarily hide the keyboard when a system window is visible in Windows 8 and above,
    • Temporarily hide the keyboard when the Start Menu is visible in Windows 10,
    • Hide the keyboard when you swipe it down,
    • Maximum number of lines in the Text Suggestions.
  • New Javascript functions have been added: "Move to center", "Capitalize the first letter".
  • Fixed: Now the clipboard manager is displayed next to the text cursor when necessary.
  • Fixed: Now the clipboard manager is hidden on the login screen in Windows 10.
  • Fixed problems when typing using a stylus in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Version 1709).
  • Fixed an issue with the Text Suggestions window in WhatsApp software.
  • Fixed an issue with computer restart.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

Version 7.5 (released February 2, 2017)

  • Improved Windows 10 Compatibility.
  • Improved: The Info window displays the Label from the action settings, if the label is not empty.
  • Improved: The command line for the "Run program" action now supports all environment variables like %windir%, %ProgramFiles%, %USERPROFILE%, %APPDATA%, %TEMP%, etc.
  • Improved: Right clicking on the item in the clipboard manager makes the clicked item active.
  • Improved: The "Paste as HTML Text" action in the clipboard manager now supports multi-language text.
  • Improved Dutch language interface.
  • Fixed issue with double letter entry when typing with the stylus or pen.
  • Fixed issue with computer restart.
  • Some other bugfixes and improvements.

Version 7.4 (released October 29, 2015)

  • Improved Windows 10 Compatibility.
  • New "Swap keys" action has been added in the keyboard editor.
  • New keyboard types: UltraPhone, UMPCx2000, UMPC_Numx2000, and TouchScreen1024.
  • Changed keyboard type: TouchScreen.
  • Removed keyboard type: UltraPhone640.
  • New "Word Autocomplete: Add space after completed word" option has been added to the list of dependencies.
  • New: Slovenian interface language has been added.
  • New extended options:
    • Hide the on-screen keyboard when a physical keyboard is present.
    • Prevent the mouse cursor from moving when you touch the on-screen keyboard in Windows 8 and above.
    • Block system keys and hotkeys like Alt+F4, Win, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Alt+Del, etc.
    • Minimum height and Minimum width.
  • Changed the order of words in the word autocomplete window based on the statistics.
  • Changed the icon on the Win key.
  • Improved the response rate when using the keyboard with the touchscreen.
  • Fixed: Microsoft Edge has been added to the list of web browsers.
  • Fixed: Alternate symbols for number keys didn't work correctly sometimes.
  • Fixed: The on-screen keyboard didn't disappear with the hide gesture sometimes.
  • Many other fixes and improvements have been made.

Version 7.3 (released April 17, 2015)

  • This release includes improved performance, bug fixes, and some redesigned keyboards. Changes include:
  • New "Single line" option for the clipboard manager. This option lets you display rows in the list of clips in a special way: Each row will become smaller in height and will contain only one line.
  • New: Users can now add new colors for saved fragments in the clipboard manager.
  • Improved the Search box in the clipboard manager. When you start typing, the search begins automatically. When you are finished with the search, you can clear the search by pressing Esc key.
  • New "Changes the position of the active window" and "Changes the size of the active window" options have been added. If the active window is under the keyboard, app moves it in view.
  • New ability to change icon for the on-screen keyboard in the system tray, the toolbar, the floating window, and floating icon. See new "Icon" field in "Theme" section.
  • New "Transparent background" options for the Floating Window and the Floating Icon have been added.
  • New "Three finger tap on your touchscreen: Show/Hide" option has been added. Note: Windows 8 and above.
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard better displays some Arabic and Hebrew vowels.
  • New 12 flags for languages have been added.
  • Improved: Installed keyboards depend on the input languages.
  • New "Sort alphabetically" option for the word auto-complete feature has been added.
  • The word auto-complete feature has been improved.
  • New "Terminate the active program" action in "Window control" section has been added.

Version 7.2 (released December 2, 2014)

  • New: The order of words in the word autocomplete window depends on the statistics accumulated by application. The application initially has predefined data on word frequency and word order for the most popular languages. These data are stored in the Common subfolder. When you type any text, the application memorizes the words that you use, so that later it can place the most frequently used ones in the beginning of the list. Which words are suggested also depends on the previously typed text.
  • New: The ability to set a label to an action assigned to a hotkey has been added.
  • Improved: Text cursor position tracking has been enhanced.
  • Improved: The detection of password entry in the active field has been improved.
  • New: Gestures support has been improved. Now the user can assign various actions to gestures.
  • New: An option named "Hide the on-screen keyboard when typing on a physical keyboard" has been added. It works as follows: The on-screen keyboard disappears when the user presses a key on the physical keyboard. The on-screen keyboard appears again when the user touches the touchscreen, or calls the on-screen keyboard by pressing a hotkey or clicking the keyboard icon.
  • New "Pinch or stretch to zoom when using a touchscreen" option has been added. To zoom in or out, touch the on-screen keyboard with two fingers, and then move the fingers toward each other (pinch) or away from each other (stretch).
  • New "Touch with two fingers to move" option has been added. To move the on-screen keyboard, touch it with two fingers, and then move in the same direction.
  • New: A volume control has been added in the "Sounds" section of the Options dialog box.
  • New command line parameters for the application have been added: /HELP and /?. They instruct the application to display the list of accepted command line parameters in a message box, and then exit.
  • Improved: Compatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows has been improved. New files has been added: KeysCm64.exe, CKeysH64.dll.
  • Improved: Compatibility with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10 has been improved.
  • Improved: Touchscreen support has been improved.
  • Improved: "Show the on-screen keyboard when the text cursor is visible" option can work together with "Auto Hide" option now.
  • Improved: The order of on-screen keyboard settings has been changed.
  • Improved: When saved settings are loaded, the toolbar's state is restored.
  • Improved: An option to disable the Tablet PC Input Panel has been added for Windows 7.
  • Improved: Detection of active window change by clipboard manager has been improved.
  • Improved: The on-screen keyboard adjusts the animation speed on machines with limited graphics capability.
  • Improved: When the keyboard disappears from the screen, it releases the Shift, Alt, Ctrl, and Win keys .
  • Improved: The "Move the on-screen keyboard to a screen border" option works only when the on-screen keyboard appears. If the user moves the keyboard to any location on the screen, it will remain at that location until disappears.
  • Improved: If the Windows option "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse" is on, this option will be temporary disabled when the on-screen keyboard is visible.
  • Improved: Compatibility with Google Chrome and Opera has been improved. New extensions have been released.
  • New "Trianlgles2" and "StandardLA" keyboards have been added.
  • Fixed: Some Arabic characters were displayed incorrectly.
  • Fixed: The "Draw a border around a key" option didn't work if the "Color" parameter was set. The "TouchScreenWin8" keyboard has been changed.
  • Fixed: On a UK keyboard, two keys were processed in one location.
  • Fixed: When the clipboard manager was closed by pressing the Esc key, the previous active window didn't become active.
  • Fixed: The problem with disappearing keyboard icon next to the text cursor has been solved.
  • Lots of other fixes and improvements.

Version 7.1 (released January 27, 2014)

  • Improved DPI Scaling support.
  • Improved application icons.
  • New large icons have been added.
  • New keyboard type: TouchScreenWin8.
  • New option "Auto replace" has been added to the template settings.
  • New option "Color" for keys has been added: Picture/Color...
  • New ability to set the font of the key label has been added.
  • Improved: New versions of extensions for Firefox and Chrome have been released.
  • New command "MoveTo X,Y" has been added for JavaScript functions.
  • Improved: You can combine the calls in JavaScript functions: document.title = SavedTitle + " - HVKeyboard Name Mini - HVKeyboard MoveTo 100,10 - HVKeyboard Show";
  • Improved confirmation of templates with a key.
  • Improved: The zoom of the keyboard changes when you change the keyboard type. The zoom depends on the screen resolution.
  • Improved: Keyboard always provides visual feedback when you touch a key.
  • Fixed: The bug that occurred when you touch one key with two fingers.
  • Fixed: Issue with incorrect text cursor detection in 64-bit systems.
  • Fixed: Sometimes a blank button appears in the taskbar.
  • Fixed: The repeat key settings don't work right when you touch the key with Korean language.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the keyboard appears briefly even though you launch the process with the /HIDEKEYBOARD command line parameter.
  • Fixed: Sometimes keys stay pressed when the PC wakes up from sleep mode.
  • Fixed: Issue with saving labels of keys in Unicode.
  • General fixes and various minor improvements.

Version 7.0 (released December 6, 2012)

  • Lots of improvements for Windows 7 and Windows 8 touch-screen support.
  • Comfort Keys Pro has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Windows 8 Compatible.
  • Improved: Section "Exceptions" has been replaced with new section "Dependencies". Comfort Keys Pro changes the settings depending on the currently active application.
  • New: New function "Show alternate characters or symbols" has been added. Comfort Keys Pro will show alternative characters when you press and hold a key. The selected character is typed when you release the key. The feature doesn't work when the "Enable key repeat" setting is on.
  • New: The word suggestion tool now processes the ' character in combinations like I'll, L'amour.
  • Improved: Setting "Show the toolbar in the taskbar" has been added for 64-bit systems.
  • New: New settings in the keyboard editing window have been added:
    • Change "Fit Width" regardless of the program settings,
    • Change "Lock Aspect Ratio" regardless of the program settings,
    • Always dock the keyboard to the lower edge of the screen,
    • Always display characters and icons in the center of keys,
    • Always transparent keyboard background,
    • Fixed font size for all key labels (if empty, use the one from the program settings),
    • Dividing points - used when changing the keyboard size. The keyboard splits along the specified points, the keys slide in opposite directions.
  • Improved: Improved the Docking function for full-screen applications (IE in the kiosk mode) and Windows 8.
  • Improved: The default settings have been changed.
  • Improved: The keyboard editing window has been improved.
  • Improved: Color schemes have been slightly adjusted: Summer, Dark, and Night.
  • New: New option "Windows 8 Style" in the "Appearance" section - when enabled, rounded corners of windows and buttons are turned off.
  • New: The Ctrl+F (switch to the search field) hotkey combination in the clipboard manager has been added.
  • New: Ability to backup and restore the clipboard clips has been added.
  • New: Ability to change the assigned key combination in window "Keyboard Shortcuts Settings" has been added.
  • New: Ability to copy an action in window "Keyboard Shortcuts Settings" has been added.
  • New: Fragments of the clipboard can be manipulated as files if you drag them to Windows Explorer, Browser or Paint.
  • Improved: The size of word suggestion buttons changes depending on the keyboard font size.
  • Improved: The limit for pasting text as keystrokes has been removed. You can interrupt pasting with Escape key.
  • New: Added special keyboard type for touch screens - TouchScreen.
  • New: Flag for Thai language has been added.
  • New: Slovak interface language has been added.
  • Fixed: The bug that occurred when switching the input language to extended layouts has been fixed.
  • Fixed: The incorrect positioning of characters in the Japanese Hiragana, Kana layout has been fixed.
  • Code optimization and various minor improvements.