General Options Property Sheet

The General Options property sheet allows adjusting the most essential Actual Window Manager options.

Language combo box - here you can select the preferred language for the whole Actual Window Manager user interface.

Control Center Options group provides check boxes that allow the control on Actual Window Manager Control Center appearance and behavior.

• Load at startup check box - mark it to load the Control Center as soon as Windows® starts.

• Enable tray icon check box - mark it to show the Actual Window Manager icon in the system tray while the Control Center is loaded.

• Enable logging check box - mark it to turn on the Windows Monitoring Log tool. You can also do this using the Enable logging command in Control Center's context menu.

• Run the library from the installation folder check box - mark it to force Actual Window Manager use its runtime libraries from the folder where Actual Window Manager is installed into.

  Since the version 6.0, Actual Window Manager by default copies its runtime libraries to the current user profile's %Temp% folder and runs them from there. Such approach simplifies future updates of these files when installing a new version and may prevent the unwanted reboot of your PC after the installation.

  However, it may conflict with your security software settings which could prohibit launching programs from the %Temp% folder (that is a common practice for computer viruses), and these settings may be out of your control (e.g. because of the corporate policy). In such case, you can enable this option to make Actual Window Manager compatible with your security settings and force it use the runtime libraries from its installation folder as any other common program.

Manage Window Settings group gives you the opportunity to manage certain window's settings in a quick and convenient manner by calling the Configuration Module either via additional title button (with the "spanner" icon on it) or via additional submenu (named "Actual Window Manager") in window's system menu.

• Via "spanner" title button check box - mark it to add the Manage Window Settings title button to every window's title bar.

• Via "Actual Window Manager" submenu check box - mark it to extend every window's system menu with the additional Actual Window Manager submenu.

Both these controls (button and submenu) display a menu with the following management commands:

• Currently applied: "<rule_name>" - inactive information item that just displays the name of window settings which have been applied to the target window.

• Modify applied settings - click this item to launch the Configuration Module and automatically locate there the item representing the currently applied window settings. It's the most recommended way to quickly adjust a couple of options in a certain window settings.

• Reapply settings - click this item to force Actual Window Manager to reset the target window to its default state, then search again for a proper rule, then execute the actions enabled in the found rule for window's startup

• Create new specific settings - click this item to launch the Configuration Module and automatically create there new specific window settings with the Target Window criteria automatically filled with values retrieved from the target window. This can be useful in two cases:

  1. when the target window gets in the scope of the default settings but you want to provide custom settings for it (for example, define a custom set of title buttons or adjust the startup position)

  2. when the target window gets in the scope of the certain specific settings but you want to create another specific settings exactly for this type of window (usually, consider its current caption value)

• Exclude this window - click this item to launch the Configuration Module and automatically create there new exclusion with the Target Window criteria automatically filled with values retrieved from the target window. This can be useful when Actual Window Manager causes some kind of troubles when processing a certain window, and you want to prohibit its processing and therefore avoid the troubles.

Quick Settings group lets you choose in which way you want to activate the Quick Settings dialog:

• Middle mouse click on window's title bar check box - mark it to activate the Quick Settings dialog by clicking the middle mouse button or mouse wheel on any window's title bar. Clear this check box to disable this way of activation.

• Special item in window's system menu check box - mark it to add the special Quick settings... item to each window's system menu. Clear this check box to remove this item from windows' system menus.

• Special hotkey check box - mark it to enable the special hotkey which you can press to activate the Quick Settings dialog for an active window. Clear this check box to disable this way of activation. In the below group of controls you can customize the key combination which should be pressed to invoke the dialog.

Check for Updates group allows scheduling automatic update checks or launching the check process manually:

• Automatically check box - mark it to let Actual Window Manager make automatic checks for new versions periodically. In the related combo box you can define the frequency of checks: 1 check per day, per week or per month.

• Allow for beta versions check box - mark it if you'd like to take part in beta testing of Actual Window Manager and receive notifications about not only stable releases but beta releases also.

• Check Now button - click it to launch the check process immediately. Upon clicking, the Check for Updates window will appear, showing you the progress and result of checking.