In the anticipation of a flood of new users 
I’ve thrown together some tips and tricks for installing, updating and debugging WinZEC as well as some complementary screencasts. Let me know if you think anything is missing or wrong as I’ll gladly edit.
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That is fantastic! Btw Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 
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You rock so bad Gareth!
And your voice is wonderful
Big big up mate!
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Great job! Do I hear a miner in the background?
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I think it would be enormously helpfull, to tell people, that WinZEC only works correctly on Win10. I lost funds myself due to a glitch when working on a Win7 machine. Radix already told me, that WinZEC is only safe when used on a Win10 machine. Yet nobody seems to say that.
I didn’t actually know that was the case. I’m curious how it would result in a loss of funds though (over say just not working).
and Win2k16 Server…I’ll put that on the site with next update
the “not working” was iirc that their wallet.dat and block db got corrupted 
I’m working on the next release for Sapling, its gotta download new parameter files, ugh
Yeh. Are you planning to support Sapling addresses as the default z_getnewaddress is still going to be Sprout?
Funny mine only works on 7, huh…
All this is well and good but… when will you support wallet encryption??
Looks like they are working on it e.g. Using locked encrypting wallet produces misleading error message "HD seed not found" · Issue #3589 · zcash/zcash · GitHub
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there might be an interim release before that, as 1.1.2 is gonna self-deprecate VERY SOON
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As a regular reminder, wallet encryption in zcashd is a developer-only experimental feature. As with all experimental features, there is no guarantee that future zcashd releases will be compatible with the current implementation. If you choose to manually enable wallet encryption, you will likely need to manually migrate (by creating a new wallet and exporting/importing your keys) if and when it finishes being an experimental feature.
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So the same as zec4win. Don’t get me wrong. I like the new WinZec but the lack of encryption will many windows users to question the safety of their funds and go somewhere else. Linux is not for everyone.
I do hope more attention is put toward it soon.
Thanks for your reply.
I agree about the perception of an encrypted wallet.dat being important to users, but consider something Zooko pointed out on twitter a long time ago…if an attacker can execute code on your machine to grab your wallet.dat, they are in a position to just wait for you to launch the wallet in question and grab the encryption password via a keylogger and then ship it off with the wallet.dat file
The moral of which is to only run wallets on clean machines that are used for no other purpose, which isn’t practical for most users
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Sometimes adjusting to public perception is a good business decision.
oh i know, once wallet encryption is “non-experimental” and it can be counted on to not need keys imported to a fresh wallet.dat, I DO plan on adding it
I will be waiting 
until then, I do know how to use linux.
Thanks for your reply.