Control Center User Interface

Since the Control Center is a small, memory-resident application, its user interface is also small and simple to reduce the amount of required memory. It includes the system tray icon and its context menu:

• Configure... menu item - opens the main Configuration window

• Exit menu item - stops processing the windows and shuts the Control Center down

• Pause/Resume menu item - tells the Control Center to temporarily stop processing windows/start it back

• Quick setup... menu item - runs the Quick Setup wizard

• Show/Hide application audio manager menu item - relates to Per-application Audio Device Switcher facility: click this item to open/close the Application Audio Manager window.

  Note
  You can toggle this window via special service key combination (<Win+Alt+A> by default).

• Default Audio Device submenu - relates to Default Audio Device Switcher tool:

  

  Note
  You can invoke this submenu via special service key combination (<Win+Ctrl+A> by default).

• Clipboard submenu - allows to activate the Clipboard History feature and to invoke the Clipboard History window

  

• Desktop Divider submenu - allows activating the Desktop Divider facility and its layouts

  

• Mirroring submenu - lets you start/stop any of available mirrors

  

• Save/Restore desktop icons order menu items - relate to the Desktop Icons Manager

• Desktop profiles submenu - allows the quick activation of any of existing desktop profiles:

  

  Note
  You can invoke this submenu via special service key combination.

• Manage Secondary submenu - provides the easy toggling of available secondary displays on/off:

  

  Note
  You can invoke the "Enable/Disable all..." commands via special service key combinations.

• Set Primary submenu - lets you easily designate any available display as primary:

  

• Taskbars submenu - provides the ability to toggle secondary taskbars on certain monitors

  

  Note
  If you have enabled the Replace the primary taskbar option then you will be able to hide a taskbar on any monitor but will be unable to hide the last visible taskbar.

• Show/Hide Switcher menu item - toggles the Virtual Desktops Switcher window

• Virtual desktops submenu - allows switching between existing virtual desktops:

  

• Unhide submenu - relates to Unhide tool:

  

  • Unhide all command - click this item to restore all currently minimized windows at once

  • Other items correspond to certain currently minimized windows - click the desired item to restore its corresponding window

  Note
  You can invoke this submenu via special service key combination.

• Windows Layout submenu - relates to Windows Layout tool:

  

  • Relocate now menu item - invokes the manual relocation

  • Keep automatically menu item - enables/disables the automatic relocation. This menu item does the same as this option

  • Resize windows appropriately along with desktop menu item - enables/disables the automatic resizing of windows in addition to their relocation (either automatic or manual). This menu item does the same as this option

• Show/Hide log window menu item - relates to Windows Monitoring Log tool: click this item to open/close the Actual Window Manager Log window

• Info submenu - contains the shortcuts to different information and service windows:

  

  • Help menu item - opens this Actual Window Manager Help window

  • How to submenu - contains the shortcuts to different Help articles explaining some frequently asked questions

  • Check for Updates menu item - opens the Check for Updates window

  • About... menu item - opens the About dialog

  • Register... menu item - opens the Registration dialog

All the features of any Actual Tools program (including the Control Center tray icon visibility) can be accessed via the Configuration Module user interface.