This release contains a small fix for an error that would occur if you had a read-only directory in your start menu directory. Read-only directories are now (at least temporarily) ignored.
In the future, a setting could be added to specify whether read-only directories and files should be ignored or changed to be writable.

This release introduces a new command line option to change the configuration directory.
It can be used like this & '.\Start Menu Helper.exe' -c '<config_directory>' or, alternatively, like this & '.\Start Menu Helper.exe' --configuration-directory '<config_directory>' where you can replace <config_directory> with the path to a directory you want the program to look for configuration files.
This feature is primarily useful for changing your configuration directory while developing the program. However, in the future, it could also be used to provide a portable version of the program that always stores its configuration in the same directory as the executable.

In this release, a bug was fixed that caused the "Flatten folders" option with exception lists to only work if one of the words of the list exactly matched the folder name. Now it also matches if one of the words is contained in the folder name.

Fix the bug where folders are not flattened entirely in one run.

The log file located in %AppData%\Start Menu Helper\log.txt now contains the full file system paths of files and directories modified during cleaning. This should hopefully make identifying bugs easier.

Fix error on startup if configuration folder does not exist

Fixed exception button being enabled for "flatten folders containing only one item" option even if it was not selected

Added the feature to flatten folders based on words in their name

Fixed a bug that prevented empty folders from being deleted