• The installation manager from previous Organizer versions has been removed; in its place the SC4 Organizer accesses the Download & Installation Catalogue (DIC) directly. The DIC must be installed for this to work.
• A similar principal applies to the Region & City Viewer: although packed with, and thus part of the SC4 Organizer, it also works as a standalone application and does not require the Organizer to be installed.
• The Organizer deals with the MD/CJ Editor, Mark II, in the same manner. Available as a separate download, the Organizer recognize its presence and thus access and manages it in the same manner as the other, individually available tools.
• All other functions, such as the Dependency Scanner, the Plugins Folder Cleanup, the Swap Options, to name a few, are still available directly from the Organizer.
  

Another major part of this update is the upgrade of the the built-in ZIP Library used for backups. Since we rely for this on a third-party product, we are glad to announce that the ZIP engine now works considerably faster, even at a higher compression ratio.

Most of the code that drives the SC4 Organizer has been reworked and at times completely rewritten from scratch.Some of the more important changes:

• Cleanitol Assistance: storing URL now uses the same format & file as the DIC’s Dependency Manager;
• Cleanup Plugins/SC4 Plugins: users can now switch between cleaning the user plugins folder and the system plugins folder without having to go back to the main panel; additionally, the automatic rescan was eliminated; finally, fixed some inconsistencies when moving to a selected folder or cleaning the SC4 Plugins folder;
• Swap Options: added exclusion option for DAT-packing, exclusion will also update DIC’s swap options & vice-versa; swap options are now identical to the DIC;
• Initial Setup/Preferences: Simplified setup option & preferences; if DIC or MD Edit is already installed, initial setup will base itself on existing registry entries;
• System: Added toolbar & buttons for switching to the main “slave” applications (DIC, MDE, RCV, Watcher) and some functions; corrected several display (icons, button) inconsistencies;