Release history - NXPowerLite Desktop (Windows)

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NXPowerLite Desktop v11

NXPowerLite Desktop v10

NXPowerLite Desktop v9

NXPowerLite Desktop v8

NXPowerLite Desktop v7

NXPowerLite Desktop v6

NXPowerLite Desktop v5

NXPowerLite Desktop v4

11.0.0 (24 Feb 2026 | Engine e069ae88355cd0cd56604a592ca781377a2680a5)

New features

• Analyze PDF and Office file content 
  • Use "View details" from the app or from Explorer
• Compression engine updates
  • Compress pictures in cells (Excel)
  • Compress grouped images (Word)
  • Compress JPEG2000 images (PDF)
  • Fix compression of cropped + grouped shape fills (PowerPoint)
  • 64-bit compression (All files)
  • Skip incompressible files (Excel)
  • Improved Compression for PNGs with Color Profiles (Office files)
  • Expanded coverage so more files get compressed (Office files & PNG)
  • Extensive bug fixes to improve coverage and quality (PDF, Office files)
• Custom resolutions
  • Set custom resolutions to resize content within Office and PDF files
• Windows 11 Explorer menu
  • For users of Windows 24H2 and above
• User interface refinements

Plus multiple bug fixes and minor improvements. See What's New in Desktop 11 blog post for more details.

10.3.2 (06 Mar 2025 | Engine efd1f4b6b0af0f353f3d11414bb2f1c917e86e41)

Bug Fix

• Include an updated 7-Zip component (version 24.09) to resolve potential security vulnerabilities.

10.3.1 (06 Nov 2024 | Engine f9ba4c76a0a9b58768fe8bec91191573180e5fb8)

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue which means that text can be stripped from an Excel file when using the Clean excess cell formatting feature. This happens in rare circumstances where files are likely created by code rather than in Excel.
• Include an updated 7-Zip component (version 24.08) to resolve potential security vulnerabilities.

10.3.0 (02 Oct 2024 | Engine f93320b5513de417428a03431211c1099b14b126)

Bug Fix

• Stop flattening think-cell objects in PPTX files

10.2.1 (02 Sep 2024 | Engine 2a97fee070c29beaffee7b4d8f18fe17a00a4066)

Bug Fix

• Fixed OneDrive support for OneDrive client 23.184.0903.0002 and above. Previously NXPowerLite Desktop would report files synced in OneDrive folders as unsupported.

10.2.0 (22 Feb 2024 | Engine 375757baf2cc85e7907e56ebc6f6515ddb57ad01)

Improvements

• Updated Tiff file support to allow more tiff files to be processed

10.1.0 (2 Feb 2024 | Engine 33f203ef1d51bd47656323c19625617c05c081a5)

Improvements

• Updated Adobe PDF library to the latest version to fix bugs
• Made it possible to deploy NXPowerLite without installing the 7-zip component. For more details see deployment options.

10.0.1 (10 Jul 2023 | Engine d1f93c9911da8fb220f21664d5cb1d0c966ad258)

New Features

• 2 new built-in profiles, Strong & Basic
• Restart with original files loaded
• Analyze Office files with 7-zip (version 22.01)
• Help with files that don't compress or ones that are still large after compression
• Improved and extended context menu options on main and results dialogs
• Check for updates
• Better compression (Read more here)
  • Clean excess cell formatting in XLSX
  • Support for new-style PowerPoint embedded objects
  • Added feature to remove Word 2007 support
• New setting: Remove Excel data from charts
• Don't remove EXIF orientation property when removing EXIF data in JPEGs
• Many UI improvements

Plus multiple bug fixes and minor improvements. See What's New in Desktop 10 blog post for more details.

9.1.7 (18 Jul 2022 | Engine 566f4ca6c6872032d183b59e3567c8ca1381df90)

Bug Fixes

• NXPowerLite’s Office add-ins now work (again) with files synced with OneDrive. The OneDrive update on 01 Jul made it stop working. The improved solution means that NXPowerLite should work with (similar) OneDrive future updates.

9.1.6 (15 Jun 2022 | Engine 1335c1e7f633e3591750bb4dddc399d33a6463d7)

Features

• The deployment option NXNOURL is now persisted so when users uninstall manually the automatic opening of the uninstall URL is suppressed

Bug Fixes

• NXPowerLite’s Office add-ins now work (again) with files synced with OneDrive. The OneDrive update on 09 May made it stop working.

9.1.4 (07 Mar 2022 | Engine 7feaec811a565ca7df24e0042a02740d367a27c5)

Features

• Added a deployment option to suppress the install/uninstall URL from automatically opening. See Suppress automatic open of URL in default browser upon install or uninstall in the deployment guide.

Bug Fixes

• Updated PDF compression library to fix a bug with subsetting PDF fonts. The scope of this is unclear but it seemed to affect only a small subset of PDF files that contained fonts that were already subsetted.
• Fixed a bug on the NXPowerLite results screen where the Exit option was missing in the File menu. This only occurred when using NXPowerLite in the Office Add-ins.

9.1.2 (08 Oct 2021 | Engine 6af1699a0eb6dd9d12f611cf88942ae6bce2075e)

Features

• Windows 11 support
• Support for Office 2021
  • Integrates with Office 2021 applications
  • Works with files created in Office 2021

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some images could become corrupt and render them to be not visible in Office when using the ‘Reduce color depth of PNG images’ feature. It only affected some true color (i.e. usually 24-bit color) PNG images with simple transparency.

9.1.0 (16 Aug 2021 | Engine cbc404dd914428ee390bb17748cf53be3a0d5dc3)

Engine improvements

• Delete cropped areas of images now works in PPTX files (Does not work in DOCX or XLSX files)
• Flatten Embedded Objects feature now works in PPTX files. (Does not work in DOCX or XLSX files)

Improvements

• NXPowerLite Desktop can now work with files synced with OneDrive and SharePoint.
• Lowered the size of emails that are considered for optimization by default, from 500KB to 50KB. (Outlook and Lotus Notes integration)

Other

• Trial behavior changes
  • NXPowerLite Desktop will open automatically when installed. Option to disable this behavior included.
  • The 14-day trial will start immediately. Previously it started when a file was successfully reduced by more than 5%.
  • [English only] A web page is launched upon Install and Uninstall.
• Reverted Japanese License Agreement to the one used in v8.
• Re-ordered the About Dialog

9.0.4 (08 Mar 2021 | Engine abed2feb4d7e87775e5beee20e641b3130b0f1e2)

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue with the expiry of the 14-day evaluation when upgrading NXPowerLite Desktop. The evaluation period was not reset if a previous installation of v8 had an expired evaluation period and an upgrade to v9 was installed.
• 14-day trials were available as normal when upgrading from other older versions of NXPowerLite Desktop or when installing without a previous installation.

9.0.3 (18 Dec 2020 | Engine 346c9e774799658a7ae1bf6cc72dd72c08260e49)

Improvements

• Modernized the (older style) system dialogs that appear when you choose folders, add files, or when there is a file name clash.
• Added deployment options for the new optimization capabilities introduced in v9.
• The installer is now multi-language and will install in the language of the region set in Windows.
• Fixed a bug where the Add button could be disabled when adding folders
• Fixed a bug where NXPowerLite did not correctly recurse subfolders when adding a folder.
• Fixed a bunch of file compression bugs in PDF, Office, and Image formats.
• An unrestricted version of NXPowerLite desktop that runs on Server operating systems is now available on request.

9.0.2 (24 Nov 2020 | Engine b6fffe4122d156165e6ad221222bafba9276c909)

New Features

• Choose settings and profile in Explorer
• Frequently used folders
• Export your results
• Compress Microsoft Office files created by other apps
• Smaller Microsoft Office files
• Flatten embedded charts in DOCX and PPTX files
• Compress header and footer images in DOCX files
• Allow JPEG conversion
• Updated PDF Library
• Other UI improvements

Plus multiple bug fixes and minor improvements. See What's New in Desktop 9 blog post for more details.

8.0.11 (13 Feb 2020 | Engine 8ebdb67e5057fa46f7d94eb7b05192342aae72e9)

Bug fix

• Fixed an issue where PDF Private Application Data was not deleted when the option was selected in the UI

8.0.4 (23 Jul 2018 | Engine r14732)

Feature Improvement

• We have enabled the NXPowerLite Add-ins in Office applications to be customizable.
  • Set the tab on which the NXPowerLite button/group appears.
  • Customize the NXPowerLite group position
  • Customize the NXPowerLite button label
  • Customize the size of the icon
  • Customize the Screen tip and Super tip for the NXPowerLite group.
• New deployment guide section: 'Customize NXPowerLite Office add-in at install time'

Bug fix

8.0.2 (29 Mar 2018 | Engine r14077)

Features

• In addition to English NXPowerLite is now available in Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) & Spanish.

Multiple bug fixes

8.0.1 (20 Feb 2018 | Engine r)

Features

• NXPowerLite now reduces PNG and TIFF files
• Create multiple custom profiles
• Add folder feature completely re-invented
• New Windows Explorer options including the ability to resize JPEGs with a single right-click
• Replace original files without creating a backup or copy
• Multiple MS Office reduction improvements

Compatability

• NXPowerLite is now compatible with Windows Vista onwards
• We have dropped support for Windows XP
• NXPowerLite integrates with Office 2007 onwards only
• Dropped integration support for Office 2003, Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

7.1.14 (11 Oct 2017 | Engine r13609)

Features

• Customers can now select to omit the icon created on the desktop from the custom installation page or from the command line using REMOVE=DesktopShortcut.

Bug fix

7.1.5 (02 Jun 2017 | Engine r13377)

Feature

• Added the ability to selectively install NXPowerLite's ability to optimize received emails in Outlook.

For more details see NXOLDISABLEENHANCEDOUTLOOK in the deployment guide.

Multiple bug fixes

7.1.2 (07 Dec 2016 | Engine r12841)

Bug fix release

7.1.1 (14 Nov 2016 | Engine r12784)

Features

• PDF library upgraded for more optimized files.
• Introduced a new flat-style NXPowerLite icon
• Evaluation countdown timer reset for users of previous v7 versions.

7.0.6 (06 Jun 2016 | Engine r12379)

Fixed a problem where NXPowerLite metadata included the wrong version information.

7.0.5 (09 May 2016 | Engine r12372)

Default PDF setting of 'Subset embedded fonts' now disabled. Multiple bug fixes.

7.0.4 (20 Apr 2016 | Engine r12361)

Bug fix release

7.0.3 (22 Feb 2016 | Engine r12175)

• NXPowerLite Desktop 7 now fully localized in every supported language
• NXPowerLite will now only save successfully optimized files if they have been reduced by at least 10KB
• Improved documentation; Engine and UI bug fixes

7.0.2 (07 Jan 2016 | Engine r12010)

Bug fix release

7.0.1 (04 Dec 2015 | Engine r11966)

Bug fix release

7.0.0 (30 Oct 2015 | Engine r11896)

Features

• Significant file processing engine improvements
• Added the ability to reduce existing emails in Outlook (2010-2016)
• Added support for files created in Office 2016
• Windows 10 compatibility
• Added support for Lotus Notes 9
• Improved the Windows Explorer options
• Increased file limit of batch processing to 10,000

File processing engine improvements

• New JPEG library for faster processing
• PDF: Added support for ASCII encoded PDFs
• PDF: Added the ability to subset fonts

6.2.15 (01 Mar 2016)

Bug fix release

6.2.14 (24 Jan 2016)

Bug fix release

6.2.13 (02 Dec 2015)

Bug fix release

6.2.12 (17 Jun 2015)

Bug fix release

6.2.10 (21 May 2015)

Bug fix release

6.2.8 (07 Apr 2015)

Feature improvement

• New customers will have optimized copies of files created by default

6.2.4 (21 Oct 2014)

Bug fix release

6.2.2 (21 Oct 2014)

Bug fix release

6.2.0 (19 Sep 2014)

Bug fix release

6.1.2 (11 Jun 2014)

Bug fix release

6.1.1 (10 Jun 2014)

Bug fix release

6.1.0 (20 May 2014)

Features

• Integration with 64-bit editions of Microsoft Office
• Ability to reduce Office documents containing embedded TIFF files
• Updated version of Adobe PDF library

Multiple Bug fixes

6.0.7 (22 Apr 2014)

Bug fix release

6.0.5 (29 Jan 2014)

Feature Improvements

• Results dialog appears if file(s) do not get optimized using Explorer integration
• Localized formatting of file sizes
• Many UI improvements

6.0.4 (17 Dec 2013)

Bug fix release

6.0.3 (22 Nov 2013)

Feature Improvements

• Available in 12 additional languages including French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian

6.0.2 (17 Dec 2013)

***Released in Germany only***

Features

• Localised for German language

6.0.1 (12 Nov 2013)

New features overview

• Added Microsoft Office 2013 support
• Updated and improved PDF optimization
• Added ability to replace original file with optimized one

5.1.6 (21 Oct 2013)

Bug fix release

5.1.6 (06 Aug 2013)

Bug fix release

5.1.4 (02 Jul 2013)

Bug fix release

5.1.3 (04 Jun 2013)

Bug fix release

5.1.2 (02 May 2013)

Features

• Evaluation period is now 14-days
• Support for Acrobat Pro XI files

Multiple bug fixes

5.0.8 (13 Nov 2012)

Bug fix release

5.0.6 (21 Nov 2011)

Features

• Optimize files that conform to PDF/A standard
• Supports Arabic language

5.0.5 (14 Sep 2011)

Features

• Software now supports Polish and Turkish languages

5.0.3 (25 May 2011)

Bug fix release

5.0.2 (25 Feb 2011)

Bug fix release

5.0.1 (27 Jan 2011)

Features

• NXPowerLite can now optimize PDF files
• Added ability to optimize without resize for JPEG files
• New bulk deployment options

4.3.1 (20 Dec 2010)

Bug fix release

4.3.0 (17 Nov 2010)

Features

• Support for Office 2010 files and 32-bit integration

4.2.3 (20 Sep 2010)

Bug fix release

4.2.2 (29 Jul 2010)

Features

• Evaluation period changed to 30-day trial
• EXIF data preserved in JPEG files

4.1.4 (09 Feb 2010)

Features

• Passes Microsoft 'Compatible with Windows 7' certification
• 64-bit version of Windows Explorer context menu extension

4.1.2 (01 Jun 2009)

Features

• Lotus Notes: New NXNOTESSEARCH MSI property for multi-user installs

4.1.1 (30 Apr 2009)

Bug fix release

4.1.0 (27 Apr 2009)

Features

• Integrates with Outlook Express and Windows Mail (32-bit)

4.0.0 (31 Mar 2009)

Features

• NXPowerLite can now optimize JPEG files
• Optimize Office and JPEG files within ZIP archives
• Integration with the Ribbon in Outlook 2007