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What's new in the latest version
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Window Manager 6.6 (01.08.2011)
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[+] Ability is added to hide secondary taskbars per monitor: right click
the taskbar and select the "Hide taskbar" command in its context menu.
You can restore the taskbar via "Taskbars" submenu in
Actual Window Manager tray icon's context menu.
[+] Controls on secondary taskbars (Start button, notification area, clock)
can be toggled per taskbar: right click the taskbar and select the required
item in its context menu.
[+] Preview thumbnails can display window icon/caption.
[+] The option is added to always show window icon/caption in preview
thumbnails, disregarding the OS settings (can be useful for tabbed windows,
like web browsers).
[+] Wrap the Desktop mouse tool is added. When activated, it wraps the opposite
edges of desktop and therefore makes the mouse pointer travel through
them freely. For example, when you drag the mouse beyond the right edge
it appears on the left edge, and vice versa.
[+] Indonesian language is added (translation provided by Elda Taluta).
[*] Windows Vista/7: When installing a new version, special system mechanism
is used to avoid the reboot after updating program's runtime library.
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar extension tracks multi-window applications (like
MS Visual Studio) more accurately.
[*] Hand tool works more consistently.
[-] Windows 7: Sometimes Multi-monitor Taskbar caused Windows Explorer's crash
when working with applications that add control buttons into their preview
thumbnails.
[-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Window Manager caused Desktop Window
Manager's crash.
[-] If a window was maximized to desktop and then maximized in usual way,
its buttons remained in secondary taskbars.
[-] Winamp 5, when in skinned mode, did not appear in secondary taskbars.
[-] Soft Mouse Lock could not be activated without the full reload of
Actual Window Manager.
[-] Hand tool stopped working after restarting Actual Window Manager.
[-] Multi-monitor Wallpaper extension crashed on invalid image files.
[-] In some cases, Virtual Desktops facility crashed in multi-monitor systems.
[-] Upon closing, Configuration window sent the unwanted Back command to
an underlying window (Windows Explorer, any web browser, etc.).
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Actual Window Manager 6.5 (25.05.2011)
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[!] The Virtual Desktops facility allows having independent lists of virtual
desktops on different monitors. Each monitor can display its own Virtual
Desktops Switcher.
[!] Desktop profiles support advanced display management features available
in Windows 7 (such as displays cloning, image rotation).
[+] In Windows 7, preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars display custom
control buttons (like Play/Pause/Forward/Back for Windows Media Player)
and application's notification icons.
[+] In Windows 7, secondary taskbars display the hidden notification icons
in a special fly-out window.
[+] Jump Lists in secondary taskbars display a context menu for their items
(menu's content may differ from a menu displayed for Jump List items in
the system taskbar).
[+] Now it's possible to drag items out of Jump Lists and drop them into other
applications.
[+] The soft lock of the mouse within monitor (a.k.a. "tight monitor
boundaries") is added. This mode holds the mouse pointer on the boundary
between monitors for some specified time and prohibits moving the mouse
to another monitor unless you drag it there forcibly (i.e. longer than
the specified amount of time). You can enable this mode and adjust
the hold time in the new "Multiple Monitors -> Mouse" panel.
[+] The new Lock Mouse in Monitor hotkey is added (Alt-P by default).
[+] The ability is added to duplicate the Virtual Desktops Switcher on
all available monitors.
[+] The ability is added to add custom mouse actions for clicks on
particular window parts (see the Mouse panel in the Options window).
[+] The Hand tool is added. It allows scrolling windows by holding down
the specified mouse button (right by default) and dragging the mouse.
[+] The Mirror window action is added. It allows creating mirrors for certain
windows on the fly via title button/window menu/hotkey.
[+] Now it's possible to assign a hotkey for a certain desktop profile to
activate it quickly.
[+] Now it's possible to assign a hotkey for a certain mirror to activate it
quickly.
[+] Now it's possible to customize the kind of click to invoke the Quick
Settings dialog.
[+] Now it's possible to customize the system speed of scrolling with the mouse
wheel.
[*] Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved.
[*] In Windows 7, the look of Start button in secondary taskbars is improved
in Aero.
[*] Clock in secondary taskbars is highlighted when the mouse pointer
hovers over it.
[*] Calendar is now shown on the monitor where the taskbar clock was clicked.
[*] The look of taskbar clock is improved in Vista.
[*] In Windows 7, the Show Desktop button in secondary taskbars reacts on
a drag-n-drop attempt.
[*] Desktop Profiles Manager remembers the successfully applied desktop
configurations and does not display the confirmation dialog for next
activations of such configurations.
[*] Compatiblity of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with
the protected Internet Explorer windows and Outlook 2010 windows.
[*] The look of a single title button in Aero is improved.
[*] Virtual Desktop Switcher reacts correctly on visual theme changes.
[-] Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed.
[-] Multi-preview for several Excel 2010 workbooks displayed incorrect in
secondary taskbars (a single image of the active workbook was duplicated
for all others instead of individual images for each workbook).
[-] Firefox 4 left its icon in the taskbar after minimizing
to tray.
[-] Pinning icons of games to secondary taskbars worked incorrect.
[-] Secondary taskbar sometimes did not pop up on top when switching from
a full-screen window to a regular one.
[-] Buttons pinned to secondary taskbars had the incorrect width.
[-] Sometimes in WinXP the context menu for a group button in secondary taskbar
displayed just a single item for a first window in the group.
[-] In Windows 7, buttons on secondary taskbars were grouped incorrect
when the "Never combine" option was enabled for the system taskbar.
[-] In Windows 7, when the Remove Taskbar Entry option was deactivated,
the taskbar button did not come back.
[-] The Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrect with monitors having
negative coordinates.
[-] Aero Snap emulator stopped working in 6.4.
[-] The Restrict Placement action worked incorrect when the restriced area was
in negative coordinates.
[-] Actual Window Manager hung when trying to update a preview
for a hung application.
[-] Sometimes Actual Window Manager crashed after changing the mirroring
options.
[-] Sometimes Actual Window Manager crashed while playing the wallpaper
slideshow.
[-] Sometimes Actual Window Manager crashed while displaying a multi-preview.
[-] Edit boxes for time delays worked incorrect with large values.
[-] The Identify button worked incorrect when the Move to Monitor Having the
Mouse Pointer feature was enabled by default (all monitors' numbers were
displayed on the same monitor).
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Actual Window Manager 6.4 (11.02.2011)
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[!] The ability to mirror certain parts of desktop in a floating window is added
(see the "Multiple Monitors - Mirroring" panel).
The following kinds of mirroring are available:
- area around the mouse pointer
- specified window
- specified monitor
- arbitrary part of desktop
Mirrored area can be zoomed in or out up to ten times.
[+] The ability to add custom hotkeys for certain actions is added
(see the Hotkeys panel in the Options window).
[+] The ability to pin documents to Jump Lists of applications pinned
to secondary taskbars is added.
[+] The ability is added to launch a new application instance via Shift-left
click on application's button in a secondary taskbar (Ctrl-Shift-left click
launches a new instance of that application with the administrative
privileges).
[+] The ability to close a window via the Close button in window's live preview
is added.
[+] The ability to disable the scrolling of inactive windows in Specific
window settings is added (see the Options group in the Startup panel).
[+] The "Next slide" command has been added to Desktop's context menu.
It allows you switching to the next slide picture immediately when
the Slideshow mode is enabled for the Desktop background.
[+] The option is added to disable the random play order of the background
slideshow and show the available images sequentially.
[+] The option is added to customize the modifiers key combination that disables
the window snapping temporarily (see the Window Snapping panel in the
Options window).
[+] The ability to backup/restore the configuration is added (see
the Backup/Restore commands in the File submenu).
[+] The ability to undo/redo made changes in the main Configuration window
is added (see the Undo/Redo commands in the Actions submenu).
[*] The look of extra title buttons is improved in Aero theme.
[*] Now Aero Shake and Win-M hotkey minimize windows on a monitor with
the mouse pointer only.
[*] The separate Start/Stop Actual Window Manager hotkeys
are replaced with the single Toggle Actual Window Manager hotkey.
[-] Icons pinned on secondary taskbars sometimes disappeared.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars disappeared after changing
taskbar's placement.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars was misplaced after
hiding/showing taskbar's clock.
[-] The empty space left in a window group's multi-preview after closing some
windows in that group.
[-] It was impossible to modify the wallpaper position after it was set once.
[-] Virtual Desktops Switcher disappeared after switching desktops.
[-] Remote Desktop session window painted incorrect after maximizing it
via Aero Snap.
[-] Scrolling of inactive Internet Explorer windows did not work
in Protected mode.
[-] The "Disable the native Windows 7 Snap" option also disabled Aero Shake.
[-] Restoring a minimized to tray window via double click made the window
disappear from the taskbar.
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Actual Window Manager 6.3 (19.11.2010)
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[!] Taskbars on secondary displays support the basic functions of the Windows 7
Jump Lists feature (under Windows 7 only). The following functions ARE NOT
implemented yet:
- pin/unpin Jump List items
- drag Jump List items with the mouse
- display a context menu for a Jump List item
[+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display the progress bar on their buttons
when needed.
[+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display the colorized highlighting
for a button under the mouse pointer.
[+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display a separate preview for each tab
of a tabbed web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome,
Opera, Safari, etc.).
[+] (Win7 only) The ability is added to pin applications to secondary taskbars
by files/shortcuts drag-n-drop (may be incompatible with some native 64-bit
applications, e.g. MMC applets or Internet Explorer).
[+] The ability to replace the system taskbar on a primary monitor with its
enhanced Actual Tools implementation is added.
[+] Now you can specify the Wallpaper Slideshow mode on a per monitor basis.
[+] The ability is added to set the wallpaper picture by drag-n-drop in the
Background settings panel.
[+] Ability to scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel is added
(see the "Triggers -> Mouse" panel in the Options window).
[+] New hotkeys to quickly place the mouse pointer to the next monitor (Win-`
by default), to the previous monitor (Win-Shift-` by default) and
to the center of the primary monitor (Ctrl-Alt-P by default) are added.
[+] The ability is added to move windows to next/previous monitor by clicking
the middle mouse button on window's title bar with the Alt/Shift-Alt keys
pressed.
[+] The glow effect when hovering the extra title buttons with the mouse pointer
in Aero visual theme is added.
[+] Title buttons' skins for the Black and Silver Office 2007 styles are added.
[+] Maximize to Desktop now supports a partial maximization (i.e. to the selected
monitors only). The selection can be made in the preview dialog, which
can be opened by right-clicking the Maximize to Desktop title button.
[+] Right click on the Move to Monitor title button now opens a dialog with
monitors' preview instead of a plain menu if there are more than two
monitors attached (for two monitors, right click does the same as the left
click).
[+] The "locked mouse" status is stored on a per window basis, i.e. you can lock
the mouse pointer in several windows at the same time.
[+] The Lock Mouse and Ignore Deactivation actions can be applied at Startup
in Specific settings.
[+] Now you can adjust various preview thumbnail options:
- toggle the multi-previews
- toggle the smooth transitions between previews and preview fading
- adjust the delay before the preview appearance
[+] The Identify button is added to the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel.
[+] Monitor previews support the right-click context menu.
[+] Secondary taskbar can be also repositioned via special command in its
context menu (in addition to dragging the taskbar with the mouse).
[+] You can launch Windows Task Manager from the secondary taskbar's
context menu.
[+] The option to select which kind of click (single or double) on the program's
tray icon is used to launch the Configuration is added.
[+] Experimental feature: now it's possible not only to remove standard window
parts (like title bar, resizable border, title buttons, etc.) but also to
add them to certain windows (for example, you can add a general title bar to
some window that does not have it so that you will be able to control that
window via advanced title buttons of Actual Window Manager).
Use cautiously!
[+] The ability to toggle and colorize the Aero Snap preview is added (see the
"Window Snapping" panel in the Options window).
[+] The ability to disable the native Windows 7 Aero Snap is added (see the
"Window Snapping" panel in the Options window).
[+] You can temporarily disable the Aero Snap emulation while dragging a window
by pressing and holding the Ctrl key.
[*] Now it's possible to turn on the Classic Snapping and the Aero Snap mode
at the same time (see the "Window Snapping" panel in the Options window).
[*] The Background and Screen Saver panels have been slightly redesigned.
[*] If a window is maximized to desktop - taskbar button for this window will be
visible on each monitor occupied by the window.
[*] When invoking the Start menu via Win or Ctrl-Esc key, it appears on the
monitor with the mouse pointer.
[*] Start button on secondary taskbars is compatible with Vista Start Menu
by OrdinarySoft.
[*] Vista/7 desktop gadgets are no more affected when moving groups of windows
between monitors via "Send/Get/Gather all windows" commands.
[*] The Pin to Desktop action now works correct under Vista/7 (but it's
incompatible with the transparency effect).
[*] Multiple Specific settings can be selected in several ways:
- by pressing and holding the left mouse button and dragging
the "rubber frame" over desired items
- by holding the Shift key and clicking on some item above/below
the selected one
- by holding the Shift key and pressing the Up/Down keys
[*] Specific Settings list and Exclusions list do not display the value
of criterion (class, caption, program) for a certain item if the criterion
in this item is disabled.
[*] Configuration panels can be scrolled with the mouse wheel.
[-] Display devices' vertical refresh rates were dropped to their default values
(usually, 60 Hz) after switching the primary display or disabling/enabling
secondary displays via tray icon's context menu.
[-] When a window was minimized on a secondary monitor, the Minimization
animation was played for the primary taskbar instead of an appropriate
secondary taskbar.
[-] Taskbar on secondary displays was stretched to a half monitor right after
loading if the taskbar was aligned vertically.
[-] Secondary taskbars did not restore their width under Windows 7 if being
aligned vertically.
[-] The Sound Volume applet did not work in secondary taskbars under Windows
Vista/7.
[-] Sometimes tray icons did not appear in the secondary taskbars.
[-] Title buttons did not work in Office 2010 64-bit edition.
[-] Title buttons disappeared after moving a window to secondary monitor on
some display configurations.
[-] Window snapping did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows.
[-] Invoking the advanced window functions by clicking on standard window parts
did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows.
[-] The width of buttons pinned on secondary taskbars was calculated incorrectly
in some cases.
[-] Sometimes preview thumbnails appeared below windows.
[-] Sometimes preview thumbnails had a black non-transparent background.
[-] Google Chrome sometimes caused the phantom buttons appear in secondary
taskbars.
[-] Windows 7 Photos screen saver did not work in a multi-monitor mode.
[-] Miranda 0.9 contact list window did not close by clicking its Close button.
[-] If the Configuration window was closed on a secondary monitor and then
the monitor had been unplugged - the Configuration window had not returned
into a visible desktop area.
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Actual Window Manager 6.2 (04.08.2010)
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[+] Secondary taskbars are able to group similar taskbar buttons in a same way
as the primary taskbar does.
[+] Window thumbnails are available for button groups on secondary taskbars.
[+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption
criterion.
[+] Classic window snapping supports the "Snap to windows from inside" mode
(see the Window Snapping panel in the Options window).
[+] You can temporarily disable the classic snapping by pressing and holding
the Ctrl key.
[+] New "Lock mouse" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L by default) has been added.
Press it to prevent the mouse pointer from going outside the current window;
press it once more to make the mouse pointer free again.
[+] New "Ignore deactivation" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I by default) has been
added. Press it to prevent the current window from reacting on losing
the input focus (so the window would "think" it's still active); press it
once more to let the current window react on deactivating.
[*] The Maximize to Desktop action now takes into account the work areas of
monitors, i.e. maximized windows do not cover (or hide under) the taskbars.
[*] Now Aero Peek on secondary taskbars depends on the value of the "Use the
Aero Peek for a Desktop preview" system option.
[*] New Align title button icons have been added for "left/right/top/bottom
only" alignment modes.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in MS Office 2010 applications.
[-] Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under
Windows 7.
[-] At the high load on the system (with dozens of windows opened at once),
the program began to consume too much graphic resources under Windows 7 x64.
[-] At the high continuous load on the system, Multi-monitor Taskbar began to
mix up the icons on secondary taskbars.
[-] Second activation of the desktop profile having the slideshow mode set
stopped the slideshow.
[-] If certain display device did not support the resolution stored in desktop
profile's settings - the resolution was reset to a first available (usually
low and therefore inappropriate).
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars hid windows on a primary
monitor only.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars showed the frames of hidden
windows after showing the desktop.
[-] The icon of a button pinned on secondary taskbar changed to the icon of
the first window opened via that button.
[-] Some programs (e.g. Sticky Notes) could not be pinned on secondary taskbars
under Windows 7 x64.
[-] Phantom buttons appeared on secondary taskbars for MS PowerPoint and
MS Access.
[-] Program constantly made redundant queries into the Registry.
[-] Windows disappeared after maximizing to desktop if the primary monitor was
not leftmost.
[-] Window maximized to desktop shrank automatically to the primary monitor only
after the "deactivation-activation" cycle.
[-] Maximize to Desktop worked incorrect with MS Office 2007 applications.
[-] The Quick Settings dialog in some cases used wrong values while modifying
window's position.
[-] The "Move to monitor at startup" options were not available on the Position
property sheet of the Default window settings.
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Actual Window Manager 6.1 (03.06.2010)
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[!] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Pin to taskbar" feature on secondary
taskbars.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Show captions" option under
Windows 7.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the Aero Peek mode under Windows 7.
[+] Now you can invoke window's system menu by the right-click on its taskbar
button's live preview.
[+] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper now has the Slideshow mode (either
a single slideshow on entire desktop or a separate slideshow on each
monitor).
[+] The ability to toggle secondary monitors via tray icon's context menu
is added.
[+] New hotkeys to disable/enable all secondary monitors at once have been
added. (Please, note that these hotkeys are turned off by default - you
can enable them in the "Options - Hotkeys" panel).
[+] The ability to switch the primary monitor via tray icon's context menu
is added.
[+] The new Maximize to Desktop title button has been added.
[+] The new Maximize to Desktop system window menu command has been added.
[+] The ability to customize the layout of monitors and their settings without
the need to create a desktop profile is now available (see the "Monitors
Layout and Settings" panel).
[+] The Show Desktop button has been added to secondary taskbars under
Windows 7.
[+] New group operations have been added into the context menu of secondary
taskbars:
- Send all windows from this monitor to a specified one
- Get all windows from a specified monitor to this one
- Gather all windows to this monitor
[+] The ability to watch a preview of the Multi-monitor Screen Saver is added.
[+] The ability to close a window by clicking its title bar is added.
[+] The button to invoke the Context Help in the Options window has been added.
[+] The ability to set a delay before making an inactive window transparent
is added.
[+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring
Log window is added.
[*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended
in Vista/7.
[*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved.
[*] The Start button on secondary taskbars works more similar to the main one.
[*] The default key combinations for the following actions have been changed
because of conflicts with Windows 7 reserved hotkeys:
- Desktop Profiles popup menu (Win+W instead of Win+P)
- Make Transparent window action (Win+Y instead of Win+T)
- Move to Next/Previous Virtual Desktop (Win+\ instead of Win+= and
Win+Shift+\ instead of Win+Shift+=)
[*] Separate Configuration dialog opened for certain window settings
now displays the name of settings being edited.
[*] The shift values for Align title button/window menu can be customized in
the Position property sheet too.
[*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver has been made compatible with screen savers that
do not clear the screen completely (such as Bubbles in Windows 7).
[*] Monitors' ordinal numbers displayed in the lists of available displays now
match actual display device indexes shown when you press the "Identify"
button in the Windows Display Properties dialog.
[*] Now Vista SideBar widgets are visible on all virtual desktops.
[*] Change Window Icon action now uses high quality versions of icons under
Windows 7.
[*] Maximize to Desktop action now performs correct maximization:
maximized window has no borders and it can't be dragged.
[*] The multi-selection editing mode is significantly accelerated for large
quantities of selected window settings.
[-] Title buttons were drawn incorrectly in windows using right-to-left
languages.
[-] Easy windows dragging/sizing did not work for 64-bit applications.
[-] The bug with empty custom tray/screen icon after restarting the application
is fixed.
[-] Multi-monitor Taskbar reacted incorrectly on pressing the Win+M
system hotkey.
[-] The bug with empty icons in secondary taskbars after changing the visual
theme is fixed.
[-] Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrectly for windows maximized via
regular Maximize button.
[-] When clicking the Start button on a secondary taskbar, the Start menu
flickered on a primary monitor first (fixed in all visual themes except
Windows Classic).
[-] Taskbar buttons for console windows displayed on a wrong secondary taskbar
in the individual Multi-monitor Taskbar mode.
[-] Sometimes under Windows 7 secondary taskbars' buttons displayed icons
smaller than normal.
[-] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper worked incorrectly when the leftmost
monitor was not primary and Active Desktop was enabled.
[-] Conflict with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is fixed.
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Actual Window Manager 6.0 (06.04.2010)
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[!] The Multi-monitor Taskbar now emulates the notification area (system tray)
on secondary monitors with the ability to display the clock and manually
re-order icons by dragging them with the mouse.
[!] The main Taskbar toolbars (like Quick Launch, Desktop, Address, etc.) are
available on secondary taskbars as well.
[!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7.
[!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and
retrieving information about latest version available has been added.
The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined
period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now
button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options panel).
[+] All executable files (including setups) are digitally signed.
[+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been
added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the
"Control Center Options" group).
[+] The long-awaited Window Snapping feature has been added: when you drag or
resize a window with the mouse it can stick certain window border/corner to
- desktop/monitor border (from inside);
- other windows (from outside);
- grid with defined cell size.
To customize this feature, see the Window Snapping panel in
the Options window.
[+] The ability to drag window by holding the left mouse button anywhere within
window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Ctrl+Win
by default) has been added.
[+] The ability to resize window by holding the right mouse button anywhere
within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Ctrl+Win by
default) has been added. You can enable/disable this feature and customize
the set of modifier keys in the Options window (select the new Triggers->Mouse
item to display the Mouse Options page).
[+] The manual re-ordering of icons in the primary notification area by dragging
them with the mouse has been added.
[+] The Multi-monitor Taskbar extension now supports the "Small icons" option
in Windows 7.
[+] The ability to make taskbars transparent is added (see the "Transparency"
option in the "Taskbar" panel).
[+] Now you can customize the modifier keys for reordering taskbar buttons.
[+] Move to Monitor at Startup action is available in the Default settings.
[+] You can specify the "Primary" value for the "Target monitor" option
of the Move to Monitor at Startup action.
[+] The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture"
wallpaper mode is added.
[+] The partial ability to control display orientation via desktop profiles
has been added. It will work only with the display adapters that explicitly
report about their rotation capabilities to Windows; in other words,
the list of supported video modes for such adapter will contain appropriate
entries (for example, 768x1024 for the "portrait" orientation).
If your display adapter allows such way of display rotation, you will see
the additional "Display Orientation" group of controls on the "Multiple
Monitors -> Desktop Profiles -> Monitors Layout and Settings" tab.
[+] The ability to stretch the Start button out to the multiline Taskbar
in old visual themes (such as Windows Classic, XP Blue/Green/Silver)
has been added (see the "Stretch the Start button out to the taskbar" option
in the Taskbar panel).
[+] The ability to minimize all windows on a particular monitor has been added
(see the "Minimize all" command in secondary taskbar's context menu).
[+] The set of advanced window actions to invoke via mouse clicks on standard
window parts (such as title bar, regular Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons,
etc.) has been extended - the following combinations have been added:
- minimize window by clicking the title bar (Win+RClick by default);
- minimize window to tray by clicking the title bar (Ctrl+RClick by
default);
- minimize window to screen by clicking the title bar (Ctrl+MClick by
default);
- roll window up by clicking the title bar (Shift+RClick by default);
- minimize window to tray by clicking the Minimize button (RClick by
default);
- minimize window to screen by clicking the Minimize button (MClick by
default);
- maximize window to desktop by clicking the Maximize button (RClick by
default);
- maximize window just horizontally by clicking the Maximize button
(Shift+RClick by default);
- maximize window just vertically by clicking the Maximize button
(Ctrl+RClick by default).
You can customize the default combinations in the Options window (select
the new Triggers->Mouse item to display the Mouse Options page).
[+] The Minimize to Screen action has been improved: now when you minimize
a window to screen, the icon will appear by default exactly under the mouse
pointer so that you can quickly restore window back or immediately drag
the icon anywhere you like. If you need to store certain icon's position on
the screen, you can enable the newly added "Save position" option.
[+] AltMin screen icons now snap to desktop borders and other windows.
[+] The option to select the click type (single or double) to restore
a window from the tray/screen icon has been added.
[+] The Transparency and Ghost features are available for console windows
on any version of Windows starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7.
[+] The Cut to Clipboard title button has been added.
[+] Preview thumbnails are now shown over rolled up windows.
[+] The ability to send a window to bottom upon its startup is added.
[+] The Aero Snap mode now supports the horizontal maximization: just drag
the left or right window border towards the corresponding monitor boundary
to make window fit monitor width.
[+] New "Crop to fit" wallpaper position mode has been added.
[+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center
(Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combinations to save/restore the desktop icons order
(Ctrl+Shift+S/Ctrl+Shift+R by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combination to move a window to the previous monitor in a
multi-monitor environment (Win+Shift+/ by default) has been added.
[+] The ability to turn off automatic switching of virtual desktops
has been added (see the "Virtual Desktops Options" group in the Virtual
Desktops tab).
[*] The Multi-monitor Background/Screen Saver tabs in the Configuration window
more accurately display the current system settings.
[*] The Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher now correctly display the Unicode
window captions.
[*] The Virtual Desktops Switcher now correctly displays the Unicode window
captions.
[*] The Unhide submenu and hints over tray/screen icons now correctly display
the Unicode window captions.
[*] You can finely tune the blocking of window appearance before startup actions
(like Align/Resize) are applied: if the default blocking mode causes any
problems you can enable the compatibility mode or turn the blocking off
completely.
[*] The "Custom Window Size" dialog is improved: it's initialized with
actual window dimensions for the first use and displays values for all
available measure units (pixels, percent of monitor/desktop).
[*] Tracking of window caption changes has been improved.
[*] The "Keep persistent" option of the Change Window Caption action has been
restored so that one might just freeze certain window caption string,
without the need to specify the replacing string value.
[*] Now if the "Transparent when inactive" option is enabled for some window
the window won't become transparent if it loses focus because of its child
window appearance (i.e. you still continue to work with the same application
so that it remains active in whole).
[-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed.
[-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been
fixed.
[-] Monitors' names were not detected correctly in some cases.
[-] Title buttons looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs
(e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled).
[-] Minimization by clicking the Close button stopped working.
[-] Aero Snap emulation didn't work for console windows when the
"Show window contents while dragging" system option was turned off.
[-] After suspending/resuming Control Center, windows weren't returned to their
assigned virtual desktops.
[-] The bug with interrupted Desktop Background Slideshow feature in Windows 7
has been fixed.
[-] The unwanted auto-exit of the multi-monitor screen saver on some display
configurations is fixed.
[-] The leaks of graphics resources on Windows x64 when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension have been fixed.
[-] Some applications now minimize correctly on secondary monitors - their
taskbar button doesn't jump to the primary monitor's Taskbar.
[-] Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic
theme is fixed.
[-] When you make a window always-on-top via Quick Settings dialog it
does not get behind the window.
[-] The intermittent crash of Windows Explorer when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The intermittent crash of Control Center when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The crash of Control Center because of graphics resources exhaustion
when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The unwanted automatic cyclic switching of virtual desktops has been fixed.
[-] The bug with corrupted icons in the Virtual Desktop Switcher has been fixed.
[-] The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox,
Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed.
[-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set
of title buttons.
[-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under
Vista Aero has been fixed.
[-] Crash of some programs (e.g. WinZip 14 Professional) when using system
menu commands has been fixed.
[-] Auto-restoration of some windows (like Acrobat Reader 8.1.2) which were
maximized using the Aero Snap works as expected now.
[-] Specifying more than 1000 pixels for window width/height in the
Quick Settings dialog no more led to window shrinking.
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Actual Window Manager 5.4 (09.07.2009)
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[!] The core engine has been slightly improved: now startup actions
are applied to a window before it becomes visible so there will be
no annoying blinking when changing window's position/size upon its startup.
[+] The Windows 7 Aero Snap emulation is added. It allows you:
- auto-maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of desktop;
- auto-restore a maximized window by starting drag it as any normal window;
- auto-span a window to the left/right half of desktop by dragging it
to the left/right edge of desktop correspondingly;
- auto-maximize a window just vertically while dragging its top/bottom edge
to the top/bottom edge of desktop correspondingly.
[*] Now you can turn off the buttons re-ordering mode for the primary Taskbar.
[+] Now you can re-order buttons on the primary Taskbar even if the
"Group similar taskbar buttons" option is enabled.
[+] Now the primary Taskbar buttons re-ordering works under Windows 2000.
[+] Virtual Desktops Switcher window is added: it displays a set of toolbars
(one toolbar per virtual desktop) where each toolbar shows the icons of
applications running on its corresponding virtual desktop. You can toggle
this Switcher window via special hotkey (Alt+` by default).
[+] Windows Thumbnails feature is added. Once enabled, it creates a small
preview copy for each running window (either visible or hidden) and displays
this preview as a visual tip in one of the following places:
- over Taskbar buttons;
- over AltMin screen icons;
- over Virtual Desktops Switcher buttons.
[*] Virtual Desktops panel is slightly redesigned:
- background and hotkey settings are divided onto separate tabs;
- the Switcher settings group is added.
[*] Configuration user interface has been slightly changed: Virtual Desktops
and Desktop Profiles panels are now grouped in the main window with the
Window Settings panel.
[+] The ability to set up multi-monitor wallpaper/screen saver immediately
(without the need to create and activate certain desktop profile) is added.
Because of this, all multi-monitor-related options (Taskbar, Background,
Screen Saver, Desktop Profiles) have been regrouped under the
Multiple Monitors tab in the main Configuration window.
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar extension is now compatible with Windows 7.
[*] Now the Multi-monitor Task Switcher extension is compatible
with the TaskSwitch XP PowerToy utility.
[-] Conflicts with the following products have been fixed:
- Microsoft NetMeeting
- NetOp Remote Control (Host)
- RAdmin Server
- Ad Muncher
- Calendar Magic
- Microsoft Flight Simulator X
[-] The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons
were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks.
[-] The bug is fixed: the Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher windows
disappeared in Windows 7 when the Aero Peek was activated.
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Actual Window Manager 5.3 (31.03.2009)
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[!] The multi-monitor desktop profile manager is added. Now you can
create customized settings - profiles - for your desktop, including
displays' layout and per display properties (such as screen resolution,
color quality, refresh rate, etc.). Also, there are advanced abilities
to control the desktop background and screen saver: you can either stretch
a single picture/screen saver over entire desktop or specify individual
pictures/screen savers for each display. You can create as many profiles
as you need and then activate them via Control Center's context menu, as
circumstances require. Also, this menu can be invoked via hotkey
(Win+P by default).
[+] Now virtual desktops support the extra multi-monitor settings for
their wallpapers.
[+] The "Start Program" action is added: you can select a program or document
to be launched in a manner similar to defining regular Windows shortcuts and
then start it via special title button or system window menu command.
[+] Now the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension supports the Auto-hide and Lock
features on the per monitor basis.
[+] Now you can manually order the buttons on secondary taskbars as well as
on the primary one using the simple mouse drag-n-drop (for now, it is
available only under Windows XP or later; also, it does not work when
the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option is enabled).
[+] Now you can quickly align a window by clicking the right mouse button on
window's border with the Ctrl key pressed.
[+] The Description field is added for Default settings.
[+] The Description field is added for Exclusions.
[*] The amount of consumed Windows graphics resources is decreased
significantly (this prevents the resource exhaustion when too many windows
stay open).
[*] Now you can switch on/off different ways of invoking the Quick Settings
dialog in the General panel of the Options window.
[*] Now you can customize hotkey groups for quick window alignment/stretching.
[*] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added.
[*] Now hotkeys in active window work even if it has no title bar.
[*] Now Configuration windows remember their Maximized state between sessions.
[*] The Description edit field at the Index panel now automatically wraps
its content and automatically fills the rest of panel's area.
[-] The bug in Configuration user interface with non-disappearing horizontal
scroll bar is fixed.
[-] Now the additional title buttons and system window menu items work
as expected in Windows Live Mail.
[-] Now the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension correctly restores after unlocking
the workstation.
[-] The crash of Multi-monitor Task Switcher extension under Windows Vista x64,
when using the Alt+Tab key combination, is fixed.
[-] Now console windows are correctly extended in the zero user session
on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003.
[-] The long unwanted pause, when closing console windows via Close
title button, is removed.
[-] The incorrect behavior of Virtual Desktops (activating hidden windows,
such as Sound Volume Control, unintentionally activated the first
virtual desktop), is fixed.
[-] The incorrect behavior of Virtual Desktops under Windows Vista, when using
the Alt+Tab key combination (the appearance of the Task Switcher window
unintentionally activated the first virtual desktop), is fixed.
[-] Now virtual desktops with custom wallpaper correctly consider the
Desktop Background settings of the Remote Desktop Client.
[-] Retrieving current displacement for a window with the Window Finder in the
"Align at startup to" group now correctly considers multiple monitors
(shift values are calculated relative to window's host monitor, not the
primary monitor).
[-] The "Restrict placement" function now correctly handles the maximized
windows.
[-] Windows Layout tool now skips the full-screen windows.
[-] Windows Layout tool is now compatible with Plemsoft's PowerBar.
[-] The crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed.
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Actual Window Manager 5.2 (14.10.2008)
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[+] Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Taskbar on secondary
displays is added. Secondary taskbars emulate the functionality of the
primary Taskbar with the following remarks:
- the secondary taskbars can work either independently or consistently
with the primary Taskbar: in former case each secondary taskbar displays
only the buttons of windows that reside on the same monitor; in latter
case all secondary taskbars display the contents of the primary Taskbar
(the mirror mode)
- you can change the order of buttons on secondary taskbars dragging the
desired button by the mouse with the Shift key pressed
- the minimizing/maximizing animation, if enabled, is played always
regarding to the primary Taskbar despite which display the
minimized/maximized window resides on
When running, Multi-monitor Taskbar provides the following abilities:
- the emulation of Start button on each secondary taskbar
- flashing of taskbar buttons for windows that are about to become active
- correct hiding of secondary taskbar when some window goes full-screen
- adjusting Multi-monitor Taskbar options via context menu
- displaying of thumbnail previews in Windows Vista Aero
[+] Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Task Switcher (special
system window invoked via Alt+Tab) on secondary displays is added.
[+] The new Quick Settings feature is added: now you can open for a certain
window the special dialog which gives access to most popular Actual Tools
features at once. Using this dialog, you can quickly set up window's
appearance (including its position, size, transparency, caption icon,
caption string, etc.).
You can invoke the Quick Settings dialog either clicking the
middle mouse button on desired window's title bar, pressing the special
hotkey (Win+Q by default) or via extra "Quick settings..." item in window's
system menu. To close this dialog, you can simply click anywhere
outside of it.
The important thing is that you can use this dialog even with windows that
have been excluded.
[*] Now the title buttons look fully native under Windows Vista Aero.
[*] Now you can cancel the changes of Target Window edit fields made with
the Window Finder by pressing the Escape key.
[*] Now the window settings commands (like "Modify applied settings", "Create
new specific settings", "Exclude this window") open the specially
designed light-weight Configuration dialog containing the subject settings
only.
[*] The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64.
[-] The bug caused the Explorer crash when trying to delete files under
Windows Vista/2008 x64 is fixed.
[-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly handles the change of order
in the list of virtual desktops.
[-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly handles the tool windows of
Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Flash CS3 when switching between desktops.
[-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly reacts on pressing the
Win+D system hotkey.
[-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility is compatible with windows of Mozilla
applications (Firefox, Thunderbird).
[-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly keeps the custom wallpaper
while running via the Remote Desktop connection.
[-] Now Total Commander refreshes its file lists as usual while being
pinned to desktop.
[-] Now Windows Layout tool is compatible with Vista Sidebar.
[-] No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog.
[-] Extra title buttons are again displayed correctly in the
title bar of IncrediMail XE.
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Actual Window Manager 5.1 (15.05.2008)
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[!] The ability to create/manage virtual desktops is added. Now you can:
- create as many virtual desktops as you need
- assign custom wallpaper to a certain virtual desktop
- assign custom hotkey to a certain virtual desktop for its
quick activation
- switch between existing virtual desktops via special "Next
desktop"/"Previous desktop" hotkeys
- send any specific window upon its startup to a certain virtual desktop or
make it visible on all virtual desktops
- move windows between virtual desktops via special title button/window
menu item
[+] Now you can edit multiple specific settings at once in the Configuration
Module (use Ctrl+ to select several items).
[+] Now you can specify a custom icon for a window minimized
either to the system tray or on the screen.
[+] The custom hotkeys for standard Windows "Minimize"/"Maximize" commands are
added (by default Win+/Win+ accordingly).
[+] The compatibility mode for moving maximized windows between monitors is
added: if you have troubles when trying to move a maximized window to
another monitor then try to activate this mode to fix the problems.
[*] Window menu is slightly improved: additional options of AltMin and Roll Up
actions are grouped into a separate submenu.
[*] Now you can remove or reposition special "Pin to desktop" and
"Restrict placement" window menu items as well as any other menu items.
[-] Now extra title buttons don't appear in the fullscreen mode of
Microsoft Word 2003/2007.
[-] The compatibility with applications written in Visual Basic is improved
(in particular, with WorkCentrics and NCSS 2007).
[-] The bug is fixed: enabling the Command Prompt Windows Support
when Tiny Personal Firewall is running led to system crash.
[-] Now window size can exceed the size of a single monitor in multi-monitor
configurations when resizing window in pixels and the "Keep window within
the desktop boundaries after resizing" option is enabled.
[-] Now the Unroll action correctly considers the placement restrictions when
they are enabled.
[-] Now windows pinned to desktop react properly when the Control Center is
stopped/unloaded.
[-] Now the Change Window Title action works properly if the Window Caption
criterion is enabled.
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Actual Window Manager 5.0 (16.01.2008)
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[!] The support for command prompt (or console/CMD/DOS) windows in Windows
2000/XP/2003/Vista is added.
[!] The full support on native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64
platform is added.
[!] Now the Control Center automatically defines the order of specific
settings considering their preference rank (this order affects the process
of selecting a proper rule for a certain window). See the
"Principles of Operation -> Preference Rank" article in program's Help
for more information.
[+] The ability to change the default window icon to a selected one is added.
[+] There are added some predefined hotkeys (non-configurable yet) for easy
window alignment/stretching. Now you can use the following key combinations:
- "Win+NumPad1..NumPad9" key combinations to quickly align a window to 9
predefined positions (as NumPad keys' natural layout implies)
- the "Win+Ctrl+NumPad1..NumPad9" (except for "NumPad5") key combinations
to quickly stretch a window to 8 predefined directions (as NumPad keys'
natural layout implies)
Note: "NumLock" must be turned on to make these hotkeys operational.
[+] Now when you resize a window manually (either with a mouse or keyboard)
the tooltip is displayed showing the actual window size.
[+] Now it's possible to use almost any key when specifying a hotkey
combination.
[+] Now it's possible to include key combinations involving the special
"Win" key into macro sequences.
[+] Now it's possible to specify custom alignment position in the
"Alignment" submenu.
[+] Now you can provide a custom skin path relative to
Actual Window Manager's installation folder.
[+] Now it's possible to double-click an item in the list of "Copy Settings
from..." window to auto-select this item and close the window.
[+] Now it's possible to sort the list of specific settings and the list of
exclusions by clicking on their column headers.
[*] Both Control Center's and Configuration Module's memory consumption
is optimized.
[*] Title buttons' drawing is optimized and improved.
[*] In the Configuration window time units are changed from milliseconds to
seconds so now it's possible to provide fractional values for time delays
(e.g. 0.2 seconds, 1.7 seconds etc.).
[*] Now Align Window/Resize Window actions can be applied only if the target
window is in proper state: normal - for Align Window, normal or maximized -
for Resize Window. Otherwise, corresponding title buttons/window menu
commands are disabled.
[*] The Align Window action's detail panel in the Startup property sheet
is made identical to its corresponding "Align at startup to" detail panel
in the Position property sheet.
[*] The "Keep persistent" option is removed from the Change Window Caption
action: now after setting the new caption string it prevents further
attempts of caption change constantly.
[*] Now the "Enable logging" option can be turned on/off via tray icon's menu and
the log window is independent of the logging status so the log contents can
be viewed any time.
[*] Index panel status lines are formatted now to improve their recognition.
[*] The "Manage Window Settings" menu is renamed and slightly redesigned.
[*] The overall stability of "Send Configuration" commands is improved.
[-] The compatibility is improved with the following applications/windows:
- Windows Vista Start Menu user picture (doesn't turns black if transparent)
- Xfire 1.81 (now it correctly minimizes to tray)
[-] The constant CPU utilization by the Configuration Module application
is fixed.
[-] Crashes of Sysinternals Process Explorer and Microsoft IntelliPoint when
using the Window Finder are fixed.
[-] The bug caused sometimes the "green-filled" desktop appearance in
Vista Aero is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: title buttons were painted twice in Vista Aero
after restoring a window minimized to tray.
[-] The bug is fixed: title buttons appeared displaced in Windows Media Player
in Vista Aero.
[-] Now the title bar double-click is correctly handled in Office 2007
windows.
[-] The custom skin drawing procedure is fixed: now it correctly handles the
fully transparent background.
[-] The bug caused "black windows" problem (e.g. with Windows Vista Sidebar)
is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: moving a maximized window to another monitor, then
minimizing it (optionally), then restoring it led to appearance of window
on the initial monitor.
[-] The incompatibility of using "Resize at startup"/"Align at startup" actions
together with the "Open as: minimized/maximized" action is fixed: now both
specified position and size are correctly set before the target window
becomes minimized.
[-] The bug is fixed: when "Rolled up if inactive" and "Smooth Rollup" options
were enabled, dragging the rolled window led to "Roll Up" function's
disability.
[-] The bug is fixed: using the "Roll Up" hotkey along with "Smooth Rollup"
option enabled led to window's hang-up.
[-] The bug is fixed: "Unrolled while being mouse-hovered" option didn't work
properly.
[-] The bug is fixed: the "Change priority when minimized" option wasn't applied
if window was minimized using the AltMin title button/window menu command.
[-] The bug of absense of title buttons in Remote Desktop Client is fixed:
now extra buttons are correctly displayed when Remote Desktop Client is
launched in full-screen mode and then switched to window mode.
[-] The compatibility with the Launchy application is improved.
[-] Now the Resize Window action works as expected with PuTTY.
[-] Now the "Unghost temporarily" key combination is checked exactly as
specified (in previous versions there was an ability to press any extra keys
but the combination was still considered as valid).
[-] Now Configuration window's status bar doesn't cut long hint strings.
[-] The incompatibility of the "Send Configuration -> Send to the Tech Support"
command and Microsoft Outlook is fixed.
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Actual Window Manager 4.5 (20.06.2007)
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[!] Windows Monitoring Log tool is added into the Control Center. It allows
detecting newly appeared windows and check, which window rule has been
applied in each particular case. Now you can easily solve any configuration
ambiguities and detect properties of short-living windows (like tool tips,
popup menus etc.). Be careful using this feature: turned on it may slow down
your system!
[+] The new great long-awaited "Run keyboard macro" feature is added: now you
can define the keyboard macro and send it to a certain window at its
startup, thus automating some regular initial actions.
[+] The new "Change program affinity" feature is added: if using a
multi-processor system, now you can control, which physical processors
a particular application should run on.
[+] The ability to hide the mouse pointer, while it is floating over the
specific window, is added.
[+] The ability to copy settings from a selected window rule to others is added.
[+] The new hotkeys are added:
- "Reapply settings" action (Win+F5 by default)
- Configuration Module's launch (Win+C by default)
- "Unhide" submenu that shows the list of currently minimized/hidden
windows (Win+H by default)
[+] Now the hotkey status is displayed in the "Hotkeys" panel of the "Options"
window: when defining a new key combination, you can see, if the defined
combination is already in use with another application or assigned to
another action.
[+] The on-the-fly transparency setting is added: when right-clicking the
"Make Transparent" title button, the slider control appears instead of the
context menu with predefined values; while dragging this slider, the
transparency level is being changed immediately, thus allowing a quicker
and easier choice of desired appearance.
[+] When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons
semi-transparent.
[+] New title buttons are added: Copy to Clipboard, Paste from Clipboard.
[+] The new "Keep window caption persistent" option is added to the "Change
window caption" feature.
[+] The ability to temporarily disable the automatic rolling up via Roll Up
title button's context menu or Roll Up window menu's submenu is added.
[+] Now the balloon tip is shown over the Control Center's tray icon at first
start after the installation.
[+] Translation to the Dutch language is added (thanks to Onno Verschoor).
[*] The internal mechanism of hotkeys processing is significantly improved.
[*] The long-awaited improvement for permanent tray/screen icons is made: now
permanent icons behave like buttons in the Taskbar (i.e. active window is
minimized, inactive window is activated, minimized window is restored).
[*] The "Index" window rule panel is updated: now it displays all
currently enabled windows settings of a certain rule.
[*] The options structure is redesigned: new "Triggers" and "Actions" grouping
nodes are added.
[*] The "Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder" option has been
moved from General to User Interface.
[*] "Custom Position" and "Custom Size" dialogs now display current window
position/size values in their captions.
[*] The "Alignment" window menu's submenu now displays the current window
position.
[*] Title buttons appearance in Windows Vista is improved.
[*] The placement restriction area visualization is improved for non-standard
taskbar placements.
[-] The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed:
sometimes title buttons used to get detached from their owner window and
stuck on the desktop.
[-] Compatibility conflicts are solved with:
- Quattro Pro X3 menus
- GrabIt internal windows
- MS Office XP CTFMON.EXE service
- X-NetStat application
[-] The conflict with the Microsoft Time Zone window is solved.
[-] Windows Layout tool now correctly handles maximized windows.
[-] Windows Layout tool now correctly handles Photoshop CS2 document
windows while working in a multiple display environment.
[-] Now the "Configure..." item of Control Center tray icon's context menu
is displayed correctly in Windows Vista.
[-] Transparency effect conflicts are solved with:
- CDArtdisplay application
- Emerge Desktop application
- Windows Vista Start button
[-] The bug of the "minimize-to-screen" feature is fixed: sometimes screen
icons used to go out of visible area after minimization.
[-] Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007.
[-] Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved.
[-] The conflict with the IE 7 "Search on this page" window is solved.
[-] The bug of incorrect behavior of "Restrict placement" feature in
multi-monitor configurations is fixed.
[-] Sometimes windows used to freeze in the rolled state and needed to be
resized manually instead of unrolling - now the Unroll function works always
as expected.
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Actual Window Manager 4.4 (16.04.2007)
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[!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant
windows will re-apply their settings when the configuration has been saved.
[+] The long-awaited feature is added: now all the minimized windows can
be restored via "Unhide"/"Unhide All" items of Control Center's tray icon
context menu.
[+] The Windows Layout tool is added: it provides the ability to automatically
or manually relocate/resize your currently opened windows to keep them
within desktop when its resolution is changed (it's very useful when working
with the same workstation both locally and through the Remote Desktop
client).
[+] The long-awaited feature is added: now it's possible to remove the standard
window parts like Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, window icon, window
sizeable border, or window caption so fixing window in its current state
and preventing its moving/resizing/minimizing/closing.
[+] The new Pin-to-Desktop feature is added: when window is pinned it disappears
from taskbar and Alt-Tab sequence and can't be minimized in any way so it's
visible all the time until it's unpinned.
[+] The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module
(refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added to turn on smooth transitions between different
transparency levels (refer to the "Make Transparent Action" property sheet
in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added to turn on the smooth rolling up/unrolling of windows
(refer to the "Roll Up Action" property sheet in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu
command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the
archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later.
[+] Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and
Polish languages are added.
[*] Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced.
[*] All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned;
the new window rule features' Index panel is added.
[*] Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and
column widths in most of list boxes.
[*] The transparency effect compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds is
improved.
[*] The Resize Action Options property sheet is improved: now you can copy
items and adjust the height of Sizes list box.
[*] The visualization of allowed area provided by the Show button of the
"Restrict placement" feature is improved: now it displays the
semi-transparent green rectangle that shows the area of allowed placement.
[*] The "Unused Buttons" button (grouping button) is improved: now it takes the
icon and the tooltip of assigned function, if mouse-hovered.
[*] Now title buttons are displayed correctly when using Vista Transformation
Pack, XP Media Center Edition theme or some of StyleXP themes.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed.
[-] The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed.
[-] Transparency effect's conflict with Rainlendar 2, RocketDock, Samurize
and Y'z Shadow is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: XP Remote Desktop client was crashed if minimized to the
system tray, and then the configuration was saved.
[-] The bug is fixed: the Windows Vista Firewall with Advanced Security's GUI
was hung when the "New Rule..." button was pressed while running the Actual
Tools program.
[-] The bug is fixed: now title buttons work correctly in Excel 2007.
[-] The bug is fixed: now multiple instances of Excel 2003/2007 workbooks and
Acrobat 7 documents can be correctly minimized to the system tray.
[-] The bug is fixed: if in multi-monitor configuration some windows were placed
to a secondary display, and it was unplugged during the session then such
windows are moved automatically to the primary display.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed.
[-] Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) left their
taskbar entry if they were minimized to the system tray via the standard
Minimize button.
[-] The bug with VMware Workstation 5.5 crash while opening the Snapshot Manager
is fixed.
[-] The visual glitch is fixed when using the Tabbed Browsing plugin of
Windows Live! Toolbar.
[-] The bug is fixed: Eudora was crashed immediately at startup if there
any of extra Actual Tools buttons were added.
[-] The bug of incorrect window placement to a primary display while it's
resized on secondary display is fixed.
[-] The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed.
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Actual Window Manager 4.3 (15.12.2006)
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[!] Since this release Actual Tools are fully compatible with Windows Vista.
[!] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly in Windows Vista (both in Aero
Basic and Aero 3D modes).
[!] Now all the configuration files are stored in user's profile (in the folder
like "%UserProfile%\Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager").
[+] The new "Manage Window Settings" title button is added.
[+] The support of extra title buttons in Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft
Word 2007 is added.
[-] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly for the non-standard sizes.
[-] The old known issue with the Lotus Notes client's crash at startup is fixed.
[-] The known issue with the Internet Explorer 7 crash while saving the
configuration is fixed.
[*] Now the Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista.
[-] The issue with the Mozilla-based browsers' (like Firefox, Seamonkey etc.)
undesired focus switch is partially fixed (the issue still presents in
Win9x).
[-] The issue of the malfunction of drag-n-drop in the Opera browser is
fixed.
[-] The visual glitch of Windows Vista Sidebar widgets when they are made
transparent is fixed.
[-] The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed.
[-] The minimal/maximal window size settings are now correctly maintained in
Windows 2003 Server.
[-] The multi-monitor issues of the "Restrict placement" feature are fixed.
[+] The ability to automatically reposition windows splitted across several
monitors is added; it can be used both in the general multi-monitor
environment and when using the multi-monitor client system in the Terminal
Server environment.
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Actual Window Manager 4.2 (10.10.2006)
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[!] The long-awaited feature is added: now the "Window caption" criterion
correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup
(like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).
[*] The "Manage Window Rule" submenu is renamed to "Manage Window Settings".
[+] The "Modify default settings" command is being included now into the "Manage
Window Settings" submenu if the "All Windows" settings were applied.
[+] The translations to German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian are added.
[+] Now you can strictly but flexibly constrain window placement on the desktop
by defining the limits for window's top-left corner (so window can't be
upper/left than the defined values) and/or bottom-right corner (so window
can't be lower/right than the defined values).
[+] Now you can suspend the ghost mode with the special hotkey pressed
(Ctrl+Shift by default).
[+] Now you can minimize a window by clicking the standard Close caption button.
[+] The support for the default Windows XP Media Center Edition visual theme is
added (the proper title button skin was contributed by Riza Berbatovci).
[*] The skin naming system is changed: now when you select a theme for
Windows XP the program will use the proper skin automatically if it's present in the
"Skins" sub-folder.
[+] The special "grouping button" is added; it contains all the commands of
currently unused buttons.
[+] The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the
tray is added.
[*] The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved.
[*] The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized
windows.
[*] The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the four
main directions independently.
[-] The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed.
[-] The bug with the neglect of options other than "keep aspect ratio" in the
"After Moving to Another Monitor" group is fixed.
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Actual Window Manager 4.1 (01.08.2006)
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[+] Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to next monitor" title button is added.
[+] Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to" window menu option is added.
[+] Multi-monitor support: the ability to move a window to the selected monitor
at window's startup is added.
[+] The ability to maximize window to desktop by the right-click on the standard
Maximize title button is added.
[+] The ability to stretch window by the right-click on its border is added.
[+] the ability to set the custom position for a window on the fly is added.
[+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the title buttons' tooltips.
[+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the window options' names.
[+] The translations to Japanese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese
Traditional are added.
[*] The work speed and overall stability were slightly improved.
[-] The bug with the internal windows of MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 is fixed.
[-] The bug of MS Outlook Express auto-restoration from the tray while changing
the display properties is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: even if the maximal window size was constrained in the
configuration, the Maximize button still had expanded it to the whole desktop.
[-] The minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is
fixed.
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Actual Window Manager 4.0 (05.05.2006)
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[!] The Configuration Module's user interface is redesigned totally.
[!] Settings file size is significantly reduced comparing to the previous
versions.
[!] Executable modules' size and run-time memory consumption are slightly
reduced.
[!] The Help contents is redesigned almost from scratch.
[+] The Help system has become context-sensitive.
[+] Added the ability to copy window rules.
[+] Added the ability to customize an icon for a particular Specfic Window rule.
[+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the
attached configuration file.
[+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button.
[+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows
the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's
taskbar button.
[+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into
a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities
for a particular window:
- create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule
- create an Excluded Window rule
- re-apply the window rule
[+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the
"Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name.
[+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars'
buttons size).
[*] Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as
a template.
[+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific
Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options.
[*] The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using
the non-standard screen DPIs.
[+] Added the ability to set different settings for the different window
events/states for the following properties:
transparency level - for the creation, movement, resizing, deactivation,
mouse hovering, title bar double-click,
"Transparency" title button
priority level - for the creation, minimization, deactivation,
"Priority" title button
[+] Added the ability to combine automatically some window states:
transparency - with stay-on-top, ghost
rollup - with stay-on-top
[+] Added the ability to provide a shift values when a window is aligned.
[+] Added the ability to set the desired width/height values as a percent of
the corresponding desktop size.
[+] Window Finder internal tool was adapted for the detection of the
current window size and position.
[+] Minimization-to-tray and minimization-on-screen actions were unified into a
single action named "AltMin" (Alternatively Minimize) which provides the
unified options and the ability to select the minimization mode on the fly.
[+] The ghost mode was separated from the transparency and now can be turned
on independently.
[+] Added the new title buttons items for the following actions:
Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the new window menu items for the following actions:
Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the indication of the current state for the following title buttons:
AltMin, Change Transparency, Align, Resize, Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the skin support for the title buttons to fit them into the different
visual themes.
[+] Added the ability to change the order of title buttons' appearance.
[+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra title buttons for a
particular window rule.
[+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra window menu items for a
particular window rule.
[+] Added the ability to "freeze" the window stay-on-top state which
prevents the application from resetting this state.
[*] The recognition of window mouse-hovering is improved.
[-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was
started.
[-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus
after selecting any tool in the Tools panel.
[-] Fixed the bug with the Windows folders: if you close the rolled up
folder window then it will be restored with the incorrect size.
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Actual Window Manager 3.8 (23.09.2005)
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[*] Fixed the bug: if minimized-to-tray application was
restored by self or other application and not through the tray icon, in
some programs icon remained in tray. To name just a few: Windows Task
Manager, TextPad, Microsoft Outlook.
[*] Fixed the bug with undesired window activation from the tray when
delayed auto-minimizing of inactive window is turned on.
[*] Default Window Rule: the bug with transient transparency effects
(when "set transparency while being moved/dragged" and "set transparency
while being resized" options are enabled) was fixed.
[-] Default Window Rule: the bug with "temporarily unroll the window
while the mouse cursor moves over the window" effect was fixed.
[*] Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified.
Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first
symbol in window position fields is possible.
[*] Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are
disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed.
[-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has
been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of
"Window class" field's entered string into real window class name.
[*] Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of
Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was
finally solved.
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Actual Window Manager 3.7 (02.08.2005)
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[-] Fixed the bug that caused blinking of the title buttons. Support of
visual themes in Windows XP for title buttons has also been improved.
[-] The "Resize Window" action have been improved. The new version restores
window sizes correctly. Also the program works fine with windows opened
full screen.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow setting the previous level of
transparency correctly in Windows 2000.
[+] A new rule has been added to apply a semi-transparency effect to
Tablet PC Input Panel.
[+] Added supports of RAdmin remote access windows.
[*] We have improved window class identification. Exact matching of the
entered window class with the real window class is no longer required.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow the Configuration Module to restore
correctly when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule"
command of the menu.
[-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree.
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Actual Window Manager 3.6 (06.04.2005)
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[!] New way to create the custom options for specific windows.
The new item "Create Window Rule" is included in the system window menu
of all windows. With a right mouse click on the window title call a
menu and follow the item "Create Window Rule" to create a rule for this
window. The new rule will be created automatically and what is left is
to specify the actions which you would like to apply to this window.
[+] New option "Restore total visibility to the window" is added to
Resize Window action. It enables to enlarge the window without having
it partly hidden beyond the bottom right-hand corner of your desktop.
The window is automatically shifted in the top left-hand corner
direction and thus recovers entire visibility.
[+] New "Do not add icon to the tray" option is added to "Minimize to Tray"
action. This option is useful for windows that have their own tray
icons, such as Microsoft Outlook 2003, Windows Messenger and so on.
[*] The functioning logic of the action Run Mode is modified. Now it's in
progress in 100% of cases. In earlier versions Internet Explorer
Maximization sometimes failed to function.
[*] Custom window rules are added in for the browsers Mozilla Firefox and
Opera. Moreover, some settings of already existing rules are modified.
[-] The defect in holding-up the window after its deactivation to minimize
it to tray is corrected. In version 3.5 the value of this option
couldn't be reset, the hold-up was fixed always as 0.
[*] The interface of the program is slightly changed.
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Actual Window Manager 3.5 (20.01.2005)
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[!] Windows Extension Engine is improved.
[+] Added "Set Minimum Size" and "Set Maximum Size" actions.
[+] Added "Hide Configuration Window when using the Window Finder
(gunsight) tool" option.
[+] Added "Enable All Rules" and "Disable All Rules" commands.
[+] Added context menu for Window Rules.
[+] Supports of MFC windows (window class like Afx:X:X:X:X:X)
[*] Memory usage and load speed optimization.
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Actual Window Manager 3.0 (13.10.2004)
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[!] Hotkeys support: Now you can minimize programs to the system tray,
always keep them on top, roll up windows, make them semitransparent,
etc. by means only one keystroke combination. Such a possibility lets
you manage the same actions much quicker on condition of using
keyboard.
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Actual Window Manager 2.8 (31.08.2004)
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[+] Added a "Resize Window" action. A Resize Window option lets you set
the size of any selected application window to have it always opened at
the size you want. A Resize Window tool is extremely useful for website
designers. They can quickly see how their web project looks like in
different resolutions by flicking through default window sizes or
setting any unique window size on their own.
[+] Added command line support.
[+] Added a "silent" installation option.
[+] Added Dutch language.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Manager 2.7 (28.07.2004)
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[+] Added an "Align window" action. Now the user may get any application
window aligned with any of the 9 positions on the desktop: upper-left,
upper-central, upper-right, etc.
[+] Added a "Set window position when it is created" action.
[+] Added a "Set window size when it is created" action.
[+] Added a new "Temporarily stop program" option to a context menu.
[+] Now supports Mozilla FireFox and Netscape browser.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Manager 2.6 (26.05.2004)
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[+] Added tooltips for additional caption buttons.
[+] Added Danish and Russian languages.
[+] Added a description field for Window Rule.
[+] Added commands for moving windows' rules up and down, in order to make
the rules easier to find.
[*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Manager 2.5 (19.11.2003)
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[!] Added a new "Window Menu" program. You can now add several new menu
items ("Minimize to Tray," "Stay on Top," "Make Transparent," etc.) to
the standard window menu that appears when you click the application
icon in the title bar.
[+] Added a context menu for the "Make Transparent" title button. Now you
can select a different transparency level for any window on the fly,
while it is open!
[+] Added the option "Set Transparency so the Window Becomes Transparent
While Being Moved/Dragged or Resized."
[+] Added a new "Minimize Window to Tray When it is Deactivated" option.
[+] Added a new "Send to Bottom" title button.
[+] Added a "Shift Buttons" option to use when adding title buttons.
This allows you to shift the buttons you add so they will not overlap
or hide the existing program buttons at the top margin of your program.
[+] Added the option "Toggle Transparency\Opaque Window State by Double
Clicking on Title Bar."
[+] Added the new action "Change Window Title." Now you can replace the
original title of a window to say whatever you want to! For
example, you can rename your word processor, a game, etc.
[+] Added the new action "Change Program Priority." This can change the
speed of execution for any program from low to high or back. Be
careful, and don't make changes unless you know what you are doing.
[+] Added the new action "Remove window from taskbar."
[+] Added a command for sorting windows rules by name, in order to make
the rules easier to find.
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Actual Window Manager 2.0 (02.06.2003)
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[!] Added "Default Window Rule." The Default Window Rule now lets you
define and apply new options to ALL windows in your system. The
ability to apply different options to individual windows still
exists.
[+] Added a "Program" choice for applying individual
settings to selected windows.
[+] Added a dialog for choosing a window among existing windows to apply
individual settings.
[*] Improved Windows XP Visual Styles support for new title buttons.
[*] Replaced rollup\unroll engine with newer, faster engine.
[+] Added tooltips for edge icons.
[+] Added a "Prevent accidental close of window" action. This feature can
save you a lot of annoyance!
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Actual Window Manager 1.6 (24.03.2003)
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[+] Added a new "Rollup\Unroll Window" title button. Roll up windows so only
the title bars remain visible.
[+] Added a "Ghost mode" option for transparent windows. Ghost mode lets
mouse be clicked and moved through transparent window to
underlying windows.
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Actual Window Manager 1.5 (27.01.2003)
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[!] Added a new Actual Window Rollup program. Roll up/unroll windows:
minimize windows so only title bars remain visible. This is better than
minimizing them to icons.
[+] Added a right-click context menu with Restore Window and Close Window
commands for tray icons
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Actual Window Manager 1.4 (18.12.2002)
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[+] Added support and predefined settings for standard Windows and
Microsoft Office Comboboxes and DropDown lists.
[+] Added French and Turkish languages.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface.
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Actual Window Manager 1.3 (25.11.2002)
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[!] Added multilingual support.
[+] Added English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Catalan and
Polish languages.
[*] Highly increase program's launching speed.
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Actual Window Manager 1.2 (28.10.2002)
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[+] Added a "Make Transparent" title button.
[+] Added a window action "Stay On Top".
[*] Support of Windows XP themes for icons on screen edge.
[+] Added an option "Enable\disable tray icon".
[+] Added an option "Load at startup".
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Actual Window Manager 1.1 (28.09.2002)
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[+] Added a window action "Save size and position of windows"
[+] Added an option "Use large icon" for a "Minimize to Desktop Edge" action
[*] Added predefined settings for Calculator, Notepad, Windows Media Player,
Internet Explorer Find Dialog, Eudora Email client.
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Actual Window Manager 1.0 (12.09.2002)
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[!] Initial Release
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