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What to Do (Window Actions)
Actual Tools programs provide a wide variety of features for advanced control of the various windows on your system. Among them are:
| Add/remove standard window parts | - finely tweak window's appearance and behavior. |
| Aero Snap | - emulates the quick window allocation tool from Windows 7 for earlier systems such as XP/Vista. |
| Align | - now you can precisely control the placement of windows on your desktop, automatically or manually arranging your windows exactly where you want them. |
| Center to point | - centers a window to the specified point of desktop. |
| Change caption | - if you don't like the default title bar caption or want to make it more clear then you can change it to anything you like. |
| Change icon | - in some situations it's helpful to substitute the default window icon with more appropriate one. |
| Change program affinity | - now you can finely tweak and balance the load of CPUs in a multi-processor system. |
| Change program priority | - now you can tweak your system for the most efficient use of hardware resources. |
| Change run mode | - select the most convenient window appearance for your day-to-day applications. |
| Close | - automatic release of unwanted/needless windows. |
| Combo | - run several other actions at once to get a combined effect in a single call. |
| Ghost | - to "ghost" a window means that all mouse clicks will pass through it without producing an effect. |
| Group Size/Drag | - convenient and natural way to manage several adjacent windows while keeping their relative layout. |
| Hide mouse pointer | - if you don't need to see the mouse pointer floating over a specific window (e.g. Tablet PC Input Panel) then you can easily turn it off. |
| Ignore deactivation | - in some special cases you may want to deceive the currently active window so that it would "think" it's still active - even after you switched to another window. |
| Lock mouse | - sometimes you may want to force the mouse pointer stay within the boundaries of a specific window. |
| Make transparent | - making windows semi-transparent is a stunning effect and can be very useful in certain situations. |
| Manage window settings | - quick and convenient way to modify the applied settings, create new ones or exclude a window from processing. |
| Minimize | - used for the same reasons as the Close action but this just hides a window from the desktop so it keeps running in background. |
| Minimize alternatively (AltMin™) | - now you are able to minimize your windows not only to the taskbar but to alternate locations as well - such as the system tray and specific locations on the screen. |
| Mirror | - create and control a mirror for any window on-the-fly. |
| Move to monitor | - in multi-monitor configurations you are able to send the desired window to any connected monitor. |
| Move to virtual desktop | - when using the Virtual Desktops facility you can place the desired window to any existing virtual desktop or make it visible on all desktops. |
| Pin to desktop | - when pinned to desktop, window can't be minimized in any way. |
| Remove taskbar entry | - rid your taskbar of unwanted buttons. |
| Resize | - in addition to automatic alignment of your windows, you can also define optimum dimensions for specific windows. |
| Restrict placement | - split your desktop into well-defined zones for differently purposed windows and keep your workspace ordered neatly. |
| Roll up | - another way to free your desktop of currently inactive windows, the Roll Up function leaves only the window's title bar visible while hiding its contents. |
| Run keyboard macro | - if you need to press the same key combinations every time a certain window appears then you can store this sequence of keystrokes as a keyboard macro and send it automatically to that window, so significantly saving your time. |
| Send to bottom | - if you don't need a certain window at the moment but still want to keep it on the desktop you can use this feature to instantly place it on the bottom of the windows pile. |
| Snap | - makes the border of a window automatically stick to monitor/desktop boundaries and other windows while the window is being dragged or sized with the mouse. |
| Start program | - allows launching a helper tool or opening an accompanying document upon a certain window's opening. |
| Stay always-on-top | - now you can precisely control this highly useful window state to keep desired windows visible on top of others. |
| Stretch | - a useful combination of aligning and resizing which moves the selected window's border/corner towards the corresponding desktop edge/corner. |
Also you can learn more about when you can use the actions listed above.
