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Actual Window Manager Full Changelog
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[!] Important [+] New [-] Fixed error [*] Changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.15.2 (13.11.2024) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Program startup speed is slightly increased and overall security is hardened by adding page hashes to Actual Window Manager executable files. [!] Windows 11 24H2, Actual Taskbar: Compatibility is restored back again: - Actual Taskbar no more crashes randomly on showing task button previews - the system tray is restored - the system taskbar gets hidden/shown automatically if the "Replace the system taskbar" option is enabled [-] Windows 11 24H2, Tabbed Explorer: Folders stopped being put into containers. [-] Windows 11 23H2+, Actual Taskbar: System taskbar displayed buttons for the apps on secondary monitors even if the Individual or Mixed mode was enabled (discovered in the build 22631.2861). [-] Windows 11 22H2+, Actual Taskbar: Since the version 8.15.1 maximized windows placed behind taskbars. [-] Windows 7+, Actual Taskbar: Since the version 8.14.4 the AeroPeek preview stopped working when placing the mouse pointer over the Show Desktop button. [-] Actual Taskbar: Since the version 8.15.1 taskbars got frozen when trying to show a task button of an app either being hung or being suspended (e.g. by a debugger) at the moment. [-] Title Buttons: Some bad-behaving apps might impose noticeable useless load on CPU if extra buttons were added to their windows. [-] Window Actions: Since the version 8.14.4 the "Move to Monitor - Primary" startup action stopped working as expected. [-] Window Actions: App windows (e.g. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) could be closed by pressing Alt-F4 or by making several fast clicks on their Close button even if the "Prevent accidental close" option was enabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.15.1 (27.04.2024) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: Compatibility is improved (checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447): - the system tray is restored (however, it still may be incompatible with particular apps - empty icons, not working mouse clicks, etc.) - the Input Language Switch button is restored - the Action Center button is functional again - system tray icons (e.g. Sound Volume, Network, Battery) display their corresponding flyout windows (still Win10-style though) - Start button displays its context menu on mouse right click (although the context menu responds to keyboard only yet) [+] Configuration, Desktop Divider: Ability is added to make the Tiles Editor windows semi-transparent to adjust the tiles more accurately with the actual layout of desktop windows. [*] Mouse Drag and Scroll: The window dragging part of the "Make the entire window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature has been reimplemented: now it works much more stable and smoother (no more unwanted title button activations, sizing instead of dragging, or sudden window jumps while dragging), and is compatible with most of the apps. The known issues: tabbed CMD/PowerShell/Notepad/Explorer windows in Win11, Actual Tools Tabbed Explorer windows. [-] Windows 11 22H2+, Keyboard Modifier Keys: Any specified modifier key combination stopped being recognized after dragging out any tab in the system tabbed apps (File Explorer, Notepad, CMD/PowerShell). So the Actual Window Manager features based on those combinations stopped working as well. [-] Windows 11, Tabbed Explorer: Folders stopped being put into containers since the update 22621.2861. [-] Windows 10+, Window Settings: In some cases, settings stopped being applied to Metro/UWP apps after restarting Actual Window Manager. [-] Logon Screen Slideshow: The slideshow processes remained running in inactive user sessions after stopping the Logon Screen service of Actual Window Manager. [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: List of knows issues in this version (subject to fix in the future updates, last checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447): - the entire visual style and behavior of Actual Taskbar is more similar to Windows 10 than to Windows 11 - there is no ability to align the taskbar buttons (including Start, Search, Virtual Desktops, Recycle Bin) center/right - system tray is incompatible yet with particular apps - sometimes Start menu on secondary monitors does not show up after clicking the Actual Taskbar's Start button - Start button's context menu does not react on mouse - Actual Taskbar does not handle the overflow (i.e. when there are so many apps open so that their buttons do not fit taskbar's visual space) - additional buttons (like Recycle Bin or Actual Tools VD Switcher) do not appear in the system taskbar [!] Windows 11, Title Buttons: List of knows issues in this version (subject to fix in the future updates, last checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447): - extra buttons may cover tabs in the system tabbed apps (File Explorer, Notepad, CMD/PowerShell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.15 (26.06.2023) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Security: Now all Actual Tools runtime executables natively support the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security technologies provided by the system. That hardens the overall system security by preventing various exploit attacks. [+] Multiple Monitors: The option "On internal borders only" has been added to the "Wrap the Desktop" feature. [+] Windows x64, Tabbed Explorer: On 64-bit systems Tabbed Explorer now runs as a native 64-bit executable. [*] Windows 11, Tabbed Explorer: Tabbed Explorer now is compatible with native tabs in Explorer windows (it fully replaces them). [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: The overall robustness is improved. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching now works in other Chromium-based browsers, like Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex.Browser. To make a browser compatible with Audio Switcher, you must insert the following key into a command line of a browser's launching shortcut: --disable-features=AudioServiceSandbox [*] Mouse Drag and Scroll: Now the "Make the entire window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature is compatible with the Chromium-based apps: Google Chrome and other web browsers (Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex.Browser), Slack, WhatsApp, MS Teams, Upwork, Spotify, etc. [*] Title Buttons: Numerous fixes and improvements in Chromium-based apps: - glyphs on extra buttons did not change their color when toggling an app's window active/inactive - automatic gradual compact mode did not work in Opera and Vivaldi (so the extra buttons covered the browser tabs and the "New tab" button) Note: If you have specific windows settings for these browsers (either factory or custom) then you need to reset there the "Title Buttons > Options > Shift the buttons horizontally" value back to 0 to make the gradual compact mode work properly. - in some cases current title bar color could not be detected correctly, and the glyphs looked wrong (e.g. white in the Light visual theme) [-] Windows 11, Alt-Tab Task Switcher: Task switcher windows did not show up on secondary monitors. Also, white full-screen windows might appear on secondary monitors after invoking the Alt-Tab Task Switcher. Known issue: In this version, secondary task switcher windows do not react on mouse actions yet. [-] Windows 10+, Actual Taskbar: Taskbar button icons for Metro apps were contrast white-black instead of their colorful versions in the Light visual theme. [-] Windows 10+, Actual Taskbar: Some Metro apps (like Notepad, WhatsApp, Telegram Desktop, Trello, TradingView, and others) did not launch properly from their buttons pinned to Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar: System tray icons (like Network or Sound Volume) did not change their color properly after toggling the Light/Dark visual theme. [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: List of knows issues in this version (subject to fix in the near future updates, last checked on Windows 11 Version 22H2, build 22621.1848): - the entire visual style and behavior of Actual Taskbar is more similar to Windows 10 than to Windows 11 - there is no ability to align the taskbar buttons (including Start, Search, Virtual Desktops, Recycle Bin) center/right - sometimes Start menu on secondary monitors does not show up after clicking the Actual Taskbar's Start button - Actual Taskbar's Start button does not display its context menu on mouse right click - Actual Taskbar does not display the system tray - Actual Taskbar does not handle the overflow (i.e. when there are so many apps open so that their buttons do not fit taskbar's visual space) - click on the Actual Taskbar's Action Center button does nothing - additional buttons (like Recycle Bin or Actual Tools VD Switcher) do not appear in the system taskbar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.7 (22.06.2022) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Memory consumption and overall system load is slightly reduced. [!] In some rare cases multi-window applications might crash silently after closing and re-opening a window of the same type (e.g. separate message window in email client). [*] Windows 11, Tabbed Explorer: Compatibility is improved: - File Explorer toolbar is no more dark in the Light visual theme - empty header space above File Explorer toolbar is removed [*] Desktop Divider: Now tile preview works faster and looks more consistent. [*] Compatibility is improved with custom cursors provided by Yolo Mouse. [*] Title Buttons: Compatibility with Bluebeam Revu is improved. [-] After exiting and then starting Actual Window Manager back, some features in some applications might work erratically. [-] In multi-window applications memory leaked slightly after each cycle of closing a window and then opening two windows in a row. [-] Excel 2007+ hung after closing some of its standard dialogs: Protect Sheet, Conditional Formatting, Chart Data, etc. [-] In some cases Control Center might get stuck in memory after exiting Actual Window Manager. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some scenarios tray icons of some specific apps did not update properly. [-] Save Idle Screens: idle screen savers started exactly on 1 minute of idle time no matter what actual idle time-out value was specified. [-] Windows 10+, Tabbed Explorer: Numerous fixes and improvements: - Explorer might crash after restarting Actual Window Manager or closing a container window and opening another one - Explorer crashed after adding a new File Explorer window to an existing container and then opening the Task View window - it was impossible to switch system virtual desktops after switching to a desktop with no containers and opening there a new File Explorer window - if there were any open Control Panel windows then toggling the Tabbed Explorer feature off/on made it work erratically (e.g. some windows stopped to being gathered into containers and remained free) - sometimes after toggling the Tabbed Explorer feature off extra buttons were invisible in some freed File Explorer windows - Alt-Tab switcher window displayed unwanted empty entries for the File Explorer windows opened after starting Actual Window Manager - container window did not activate after clicking any of its taskbar previews - several fast clicks on different tabs within a container produced delayed and sometimes unexpected visual response (tab activation order did not follow the order of clicks) - now initial creation of a container window works faster as well as closing individual containers [-] Windows 11, Title Buttons: In some system applications (e.g. Windows Paint) unwanted visual effects might appear if any extra buttons were added to their windows. [-] Title Buttons: X1 Search hung at startup if any extra buttons were added to its window. [-] Title Buttons: In some specific applications (especially having windows with non-standard frames) title buttons might appear invisible. [-] Title Buttons: In some specific applications (e.g. X1 Search, SnagIt!) the Compact View popup toolbar appeared empty. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons might not work in MDI windows. [-] Window Actions, Title Buttons: The Resize Window title button disappeared after minimizing/restoring a window. [-] Window Actions, Title Buttons: The Align Window title button did not restore the original window placement after changing the alignment several times in a row. [-] Window Actions, Mouse: The support for windows with a non-standard window frame to intercept clicks on a title bar, sizeable border, and standard Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons to invoke assigned mouse actions, as well as to prevent accidental window closing, added in the previous version, did not work in systems before Windows 10. [-] Window Actions, Hotkeys: The Move to Next Monitor hotkey stopped working when its corresponding title button was disabled but the corresponding system menu command was enabled. [-] Window Actions: If a window was rolled up and then minimized, pausing or exiting Actual Window Manager did not restore window's original position and size. [-] Configuration: For some combinations of non-default font and non-default font size, the layout of controls got messed in the "Options" group of the "Title Buttons" property sheet. [-] Configuration: The Send to Tech Support feature did not recognize Windows 11 marking the sent configurations as Win10-built. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.6.1 (25.11.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Actual Taskbar: Captions on taskbar buttons did not match actual window titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.6 (22.11.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Some internal components are made more concurrency-friendly by removing redundant locks and eliminating bottlenecks that might cause a noticeable system slowdown on multi-core CPUs in some scenarios. [!] Internal consumption of memory and system resources is slightly reduced, some memory/resource leaks are fixed. [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: Actual Taskbar did not work in some Windows 11 installations because the ActualWindowManagerShellCenter[64].exe process crashed instantly at startup. [+] Windows 10: Some improvements for UWP apps: - extra menu commands added by Actual Window Manager are finally available in the system window menu invoked by a title bar right click - mouse actions assigned to a title bar and standard title buttons now work as expected - options from the "Window Settings - Closing" property sheet, like "Close via Close button right-click" or "Prevent window's accidental close", now work as expected - the Quick Settings dialog now can be invoked by a title bar click (middle button by default) [+] Windows 10, Virtual Desktops: Now the classic Virtual Desktop Switcher supports the Dark visual theme in both "classic/independent" modes. [+] Window Actions, Mouse: The support is added for windows with a non-standard window frame to intercept clicks on a title bar, sizeable border, and standard Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons to invoke assigned mouse actions, as well as to prevent accidental window closing. [+] Window Actions: Now the Freeze mode can be toggled via Stay Always-on-Top title button's context menu, as well as the "Options > Stay always-on-top" submenu in window's system menu. [+] Title Buttons: The option is added to disable the button's context menu showing in response to a "long" left click (see the "Window Settings > Global Options > Title Buttons" panel). [*] Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons now are contrast in Chromium-based apps, like web browsers (Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave), collaboration tools (Microsoft Teams, Slack for Desktop, Upwork), media players (Spotify), etc. [*] Multiple Monitors, Mouse: Wrap the Desktop feature is improved: now it always "teleports" the mouse pointer to a nearest monitor in the straight mouse moving direction, or to a farthest monitor in the opposite direction. In particular, that solves the issue of the mouse pointer stuck in a corner of a monitor with a higher display resolution when trying to move the mouse to an adjacent monitor with a lower display resolution, which is not explicitly adjacent by that corner. Also, the feature now shows the "mouse sonar" circles when it "teleports" the mouse pointer to another monitor. [*] Window Actions, Multiple Monitors: The Move to Monitor action now works more accurately in the "Keep aspect ratio" mode when moving a window between monitors with different both display and DPI resolutions (calculation of both the window location and size has been improved). [*] Window Actions, Mouse: The "Maximize horizontally/vertically" mouse actions work again in a "toggle" manner (i.e. restore the previous window size on a second click). [*] Window Actions: Smooth rolling up is improved. [-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar, Title Buttons: In some scenarios, the UWP apps showing in Actual Taskbar might cause an unwanted CPU consumption if any extra buttons were added to their windows' title bars. [-] Tabbed Explorer: The entire ActualToolsTabbedContainer.exe process crashed when trying to drag a tab with the Unicode symbols in its caption out of its container into a new container window. [-] Windows 10 build 19041+, Tabbed Explorer: Container windows had a light title bar in the Dark visual theme. [-] Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons were not contrast in desktop apps in the Dark visual theme. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Google Chrome windows on monitors with high (> 200%) DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the tabs in Microsoft Edge windows. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Slack for Desktop 4.20+. [-] Title Buttons: dragging/sizing a window by the mouse imposed some excessive CPU consumption if any extra buttons were added to the window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons became clipped at the bottom after moving their host window from a monitor with a low (< 150%) DPI resolution to a monitor with a high (> 200%) DPI resolution. [-] Virtual Desktops: Some fixes for a classic Virtual Desktop Switcher: - title bar did not scaled properly and window size calculated wrong when moving a Switcher window between monitors with different DPI resolutions - Switcher window stopped popping up in front of other topmost windows - system window menus invoked for UWP apps got behind the Switcher window - XYplorer app button was not added [-] Window Settings, Windows 7+: Another proper specific settings did not apply to a File Explorer window with some specific settings already applied when its caption changed after switching to a certain folder and the Explorer option "Display the full path in the title bar" was on. [-] Windows 11, Multiple Monitors, Window Actions: Applying the Move to Monitor action to maximized windows produced unwanted behavior and visual glitches. To prevent this, the "Enable compatibility mode for maximized windows" option now is enabled by default (see the "Window Settings > Global Options > Move to Monitor" panel). [-] Window Actions: Some fixes and improvements for the Monitor Selector dialog: - in the "Move to" mode, the dialog closes after releasing the left mouse button only if some real movement can be made, otherwise the dialog stays active - in the "Move to" mode, dragging the window preview thumbnail is improved - now drawing is faster due to removing some redundant operations - in UWP apps, the dialog did not activate after being invoked - title bar did not scaled properly to a current DPI resolution - being called for a Maximize to Desktop title button, dialog scaled using the primary monitor's DPI resolution instead of a current DPI resolution - in some cases, visual glitches might appear when drawing active dots in the "Move to" mode [-] Window Actions: Some fixes for the Quick Settings dialog: - applying the "Send to bottom" action and closing the dialog activated the target window that returned it back on top and therefore made the entire operation senseless - invoking any service dialog (like "Move to", "Custom position/size", etc.) for the Quick Settings window itself made it disappear immediately - fixed graphic resource leaks after each dialog's showing/closing [-] Window Actions, Hotkeys: Applying any manual alignment to a window (either via extra title button or window menu command) broke the correct functioning of the Quick Alignment Numpad hotkeys. [-] Window Actions: Applying a manual alignment with some horizontal or vertical position shift specified and then resizing the window by the Resize action did not retain the specified shift(s) making the window jump to a certain monitor border closely. [-] Window Actions: The "Display current window position" feature did not activate when a window was being resized either by its top-right or bottom-left corner. [-] Window Actions: Windows did not rolled up completely on a secondary monitor if its DPI resolution was less than primary's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.5 (12.02.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Overall system load is reduced. [!] Windows 10 Insider x64 build 21277+: The program crashed at startup. [+] Licensing: The evaluation period is prolonged by a third of its original duration for the update versions released after the Free Updates Subscription expiration date. [+] Mirroring: Ability is added to flip the mirrored content both horizontally and vertically (except the window-to-window hardware accelerated mirrors). [+] Window Actions: Ability is added to insert explicit delays into combo action sequences. Note: The ability to specify a delay for the Run Keyboard Macro combo items has been removed; all existing such items will be converted automatically to a separate Run Keyboard Macro item and explicit Delay item. [+] Title Buttons: Ability is added to specify a name for custom Run Keyboard Macro buttons. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching now works in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. [*] File Folders: Favorite Folders now support Unicode symbols. [-] An invalid memory operation could cause cascading errors in the Control Center at its startup if the "Collect usage statistics" option was enabled. [-] Some application windows (e.g. Directory Opus) stopped reacting on Control Center commands (like pausing/resuming or modifying the settings). [-] Tabbed Explorer: Numerous fixes: - overall system load is reduced - container window sometimes did not come in front after being activated by a mouse click - container window did not retain the Always-on-Top state - container window's title bar flashed on switching tabs [-] Actual Taskbar, Mouse Actions: Creating a custom mouse action assigned to taskbar button left double click with no modifiers blocked single clicks and therefore prevented normal taskbar operations, such as window activation, minimization/restoration, etc. [-] Virtual Desktops: Virtual Desktop Switcher displayed above screen saver if the program was installed with the enabled "Support system utilities and administrative tools" option. [-] Virtual Desktops: Numerous fixes for the Independent mode: - Control Center might crash upon unloading or turning off a secondary monitor - the "Virtual Desktops" submenu in the notification area icon's context menu showed the lists of desktops for the monitors currently turned off; the same was true for a context menu of the Move to Virtual Desktop title button and the system window menu's submenu - at startup, Virtual Desktop Switchers from different monitors might appear on the same monitor in certain desktop configurations - Virtual Desktop Switchers from secondary monitors moved to a primary monitor instead of hiding after turning off their host monitor - Virtual Desktop Switchers did not update their position after changing taskbar position/size [-] Window Layout: In some cases statistics data could be flooded with erroneous events. [-] Window Actions: The Run Keyboard Macro action forced its target window remain foreground, which was inappropriate if a macro's purpose presumed another window activation (especially when the action was activated by any means other than "At Window Startup"). [-] Window Actions: Minimize-to-Screen floating icons placed at the right/bottom edge of a monitor might get out of sight after reducing the monitor's resolution. [-] Configuration, Desktop Profiles: The "Preview" button did not work if the "Current Windows screen saver" option was selected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.4 (10.10.2020) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Internal security has been accurately revised and tightened to follow the principle of least privilege (in particular, for kernel objects used for inter-process communication). [!] Internal error handling has been revised and improved for better interoperability with apps using .NET runtime (and probably some other frameworks). [!] Internal handling of display-related information has been optimized to reduce the overall delay after changing the desktop geometry (i.e. attaching/detaching a monitor or changing a monitor resolution). [+] Window Settings: The ability is added to apply window settings to such system pop-up windows as Action Center, Volume Mixer, Network, and tray notifications. [+] Virtual Desktops: The ability is added to customize floating Virtual Desktop Switcher windows on-the-fly via context menu. The following features can be toggled: - "on top" state - orientation (horizontal/vertical) - border and title bar - resizable frame Selected options are remembered independently per each monitor. The context menu can be invoked by the following means: - right click on a title bar - right click on gray interior area around the desktop boxes - Alt+Space hotkey (the desired Switcher window must be activated first) [*] Actual Taskbar: Compatibility with Open-Shell Start Menu is restored. [*] Window Actions: Now the "Prevent window's accidental close" option works in Mozilla-based apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, Pale Moon) and some Chromium-based apps (Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex.Browser, Brave, Skype for Desktop). [-] In some rare cases some apps might get hung after reapplying their window settings or unloading Actual Window Manager. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10 build 19041+: The Network window stopped moving to secondary monitors after clicking the Network icon in a secondary taskbar's notification area. [-] Mouse: Moving a mouse (either freely or holding the left button pressed) imposed unwanted CPU consumption if the "Tight monitor boundaries" option was off. [-] Mouse, Windows 7+ x64: If a 32-bit app that installs system-wide mouse hook was launched after Actual Window Manager then clicking the right mouse button in any 64-bit console app's window (Command Prompt, Power Shell, etc.) made ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe "run away", therefore hogging the CPU heavily. [-] Virtual Desktops: Oracle VM VirtualBox's guest OS window stopped receiving mouse/keyboard input after switching virtual desktops. [-] Virtual Desktops: The "Auto-switch desktops" feature stopped working. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7+: MS SQL Server Management Studio got hung after trying to close it via "File -> Exit" menu command if any extra buttons were added to its main window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 x86 build 19041+: UWP apps crashed at startup if any extra buttons were added to their window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Mozilla Firefox got hung after activating an Adobe Flash element in a web page, if any extra buttons were added to its window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases the Move to Monitor button's tooltip displayed incorrect monitor index (e.g. when a window was moved to another monitor using the alignment dots in the "Move to..." dialog). [-] Title Buttons, Slack for Desktop 4.5+: Extra buttons covered new elements in Slack window' title bar (like Search edit box, Help button, or user's avatar button). [-] Title Buttons: The Align action worked wrong after selecting it in the grouping button's context menu and then left-clicking the grouping button. [-] Desktop Divider: The following bugs are fixed: - tile layout frame's right/bottom border did not display on secondary monitors - tile layout frame's thickness did not scale propery in high DPI resolutions - CPU consumption skyrocketed needlessly when moving a mouse over a tile layout's preview in the "Put into" helper dialog - tile preview sometimes did not update correctly when moving a mouse over a tile layout's preview in the "Put into" helper dialog [-] Mirroring: Launching a window mirror with loose criteria (e.g. "Program" only) could result in capturing an improper window (like tooltip). [-] Mouse Drag and Scroll: Pale Moon got hung after activating an Adobe Flash element in a web page if the "Make the entire window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature was enabled. [-] Mouse: The "Activate window on mouse hover" feature stopped working after connecting to an already opened user session via Remote Desktop. [-] Window Actions, Mouse: Custom mouse action "Move to monitor - Having mouse pointer" could be applied only once to a certain window. [-] Window Actions, Mouse: In some cases, "Maximize horizontally" or "Maximize vertically" mouse actions did not work as expected on their first call. [-] Window Actions: Windows of Mozilla-based apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, Pale Moon, etc.) could not be stretched by a right click on their border. [-] Window Actions: Windows of Mozilla-based apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, Pale Moon, etc.) could not be resized by dragging their right/bottom border if they were stretched or snapped to a right/bottom boundary of a monitor. [-] Window Actions: The following bugs are fixed in the "Move to" helper dialog: - dialog was twice as large on monitors with higher DPI resolution - when dragging a window preview, you could not align it using the Aero Snap feature if the native Aero Snap was enabled in the system - when a green alignment dot was hovered by a mouse, the desktop preview window that shows the dot's corresponding target location was slightly bigger than required and so might go beyond monitor's visible area [-] Window Actions: Minimize-to-Screen floating icon could be dragged just once if the "Use double click" option was set in the window settings. [-] Desktop Profiles: Monitors could not be turned on in portrait orientation. [-] Configuration, Desktop Profiles: If a monitor was turned off in portrait orientation, its properties in the "Multiple Monitors > Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel got empty on next Configuration window opening. [-] Configuration, Title Buttons: Changing the "Use double click" option in the "Window Settings > Default Settings > Title Buttons > Action Options:AltMin" panel had no effect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.3 (27.12.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] In some rare cases, running applications might crash randomly. [!] Actual Window Manager work might get disrupted at random moments if it was installed into an unsecured folder (i.e. other than "Program Files"). [!] Some applications (Adobe products, TechSmith products, Parametric Technologies products, and some others) got hung if two or more Actual Tools programs were running at once (exiting all but one Actual Tools programs made hung applications responsive back). [+] Virtual Desktops: The ability is added to resize a Virtual Desktop Switcher window on-the-fly as any regular sizeable window. Set location/size are remembered (per each monitor either in Independent mode or for cloned switchers in Classic mode). [-] Virtual Desktops: The following bugs are fixed: - suspending/resuming the Actual Window Manager Control Center might cause random memory errors in the Control Center process - an active window on a desktop did not always get foreground when switching to that desktop - activating a desktop by clicking empty space of its cell in the switcher forced the desktop to lose its active window (if any) - an active window lost its activation after being moved to "all desktops" (either manually or automatically) - changing a mode (Classic/Independent) messed Z-order of currently open windows - Excel 2013+ "Find and Replace" dialog disappeared after switching to another desktop and back - launching Mozilla Firefox on a certain desktop, then switching to another desktop and launching another Firefox instance activated the first desktop - first virtual desktop got activated always when invoking a notification area icon's context menu for the following applications: Intel Graphics Control Panel, Skype for Desktop, Slack for Desktop, MS Teams, KiTTY, Insync, Everything - after switching from Classic to Independent mode, on some multi-monitor configurations two switchers might appear on the same monitor - after changing a mode, switcher's placement stored and restored incorrect - tooltips with desktop names sometimes appeared in the top-left corner instead of the center - after dragging a minimized window's icon between switchers on different monitors the source switcher retained the icon until window's restoration [-] Tabbed Explorer, Windows 10: The Search box stopped working in the tabbed File Explorer windows since the November update 1909 (build 18363). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons looked shorter than regular ones in maximized windows of Chromium-based applications (Google Chrome, Slack for Desktop, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex.Browser, Spotify, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Slack for Desktop: The following bugs are fixed: - extra buttons covered the regular ones if zero horizontal button shift was specified - extra buttons were almost invisible as their glyphs were of the same color as the title bar - window couldn't be maximized correctly if there were any extra buttons [-] Title Buttons: In some rare cases, extra buttons might disappear until a window got dragged/sized. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons might either get behind their host window's title bar or get visible through other windows in the following cases: - after minimizing and then restoring windows via Aero Shake - after starting a capture in Windows Snipping Tool - in Excel 2013+, after opening the "Find and Replace" dialog and then activating a main Excel window [-] Window Actions: The "Block premature appearance of window" option did not work as declared in Chromium-based applications. [-] Window Actions: Applying the "Send to bottom" action at startup might make the Alt key appear to be pressed (actual pressing/releasing the physical Alt key removed that effect). [-] Window Actions: Custom title buttons/hotkeys for the "Run keyboard macro" action stopped working in the Default window settings. [-] Desktop Profiles, Configuration: The Identify button in the "Multiple Monitors - Desktop Profiles" panel displayed a monitor number in wrong place if monitor coordinates stored in a profile differed from actual ones. [-] Text on buttons in the Evaluation dialog was garbled in some Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.2 (29.10.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Numerous fixes of runtime internals to improve speed, robustness, and reliability. [+] Ability to update an existing license key is added: see the "Enter new license key" item either in the "Tools - License" Configuration window panel or in the Actual Window Manager notification area icon's context menu. [+] Window Actions: The ability is added to keep a window always behind others - see the "Stay at bottom" item either in the "Send to bottom" title button's context menu or in the "Options - Send to bottom" submenu of window's system menu. [+] Window Actions: The ability is added to insert the "Minimize to tray/screen" actions into combo sequences. [*] Title Buttons: Automatic placement of extra buttons is restored in Google Chrome 75+. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching is restored in Google Chrome 76+. [*] Window Layout: Speed and reliability of the "Bind layout to desktop geometry" facility is greatly improved. [*] Window Actions: The "Relocate split windows" feature now works right in a multi-monitor environment. [*] File Folders, Configuration: Now adding a new entry into the Favorite Folders list via title button immediately updates this list in the Configuration window. [*] Clipboard History: Now right-clicking an item in the History window selects it before popping up a context menu. [-] Virtual Desktops: The following bugs are fixed: - the "Auto-switch desktops" feature stopped working - in Windows 8/8.1, hidden windows on inactive desktops did not appear back after their desktop's activation - if a window got hidden on an active desktop and then another desktop was activated, switching back to the first desktop forced the extra buttons of the hidden window appear (they looked orphaned as their master window remained invisible) [-] Actual Taskbar: Action Center button in secondary taskbars did not work if the main system taskbar was hidden. [-] Window Actions: The "Run keyboard macro" action did not work in combo sequences. [-] Window Actions: A rolled up window got unrolled upon its dragging if the "Fix minimal size" action was enabled in applied window settings. [-] Title Buttons: The following actions worked wrong after selecting them in the grouping button's context menu and then left-clicking the grouping button: - Cut/Copy/Paste - Manage Window Settings - Mirror - Move to Virtual Desktop - Put into Divider tile - Switch Audio Device [-] Windows Monitoring Log: The following bugs are fixed: - dragging an excluded window filled the log quickly with duplicate "New window" events - a "Caption changed" event was always followed by the duplicate "New window" event - the Log window itself did not appear in the log [-] File Folders, Configuration: After adding a path into the Favorite Folders list via title button and then modifying it in the Configuration window, it was impossible to add that path via title button again. [-] Configuration: The Index panel of window settings: - did not display specified parameters of the "Fix minimal/maximal size to" items in the Size section - showed internal non-localized identifiers in the Startup section after making any changes at the Startup page ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14.1 (09.07.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Internal logic of global hook handlers is revised to improve the compatibility with the systems running on multi-core CPUs. [!] Title Buttons, Windows 10 build 18362+: Notepad got frozen when opened empty (i.e. with no document specified). [+] Window Actions: Quick copying of window-related information (like caption, class, program's executable file name) to clipboard is added. To copy the required portion of information, either right-click the Copy title button or use the "Options - Copy" submenu in the window's system menu. [+] Clipboard History: Saving the history to a file is added to keep it between sessions. For now, only text/formatted text entries are saved, to speed up the process and to not block the system for a long time. The history file gets encrypted to prevent unauthorized access to the stored information. [*] Clipboard History: Some improvements are introduced: - now it's possible to paste a formatted text entry as plain text either by pressing Ctrl-Enter or by using the "Paste text only" command in the context menu (this command has replaced the "Clear text formatting" command). Pasting as plain text does not modify the contents of the original entry - the selected entry is preserved after pasting it or after adding new entries - the pasted entry becomes first in the history list if the "Auto-hide history window" option is enabled - if a just copied piece of information is already in the history then it becomes first in the list [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Action Center did not open by clicking its button in the Actual Taskbar if the "Replace the system taskbar" option was enabled. [-] Virtual Desktops, Windows 10: Icons of some UWP apps did not display in the Virtual Desktop Switcher until their windows' first activation. [-] Windows 10: Default icon was used for UWP apps right after their launch instead of their native icon. [-] Window Actions: A maximized window got restored to its normal size after minimizing it to the notification area or to the screen and then restoring it either via its own notification area icon (Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook) or via "Unhide" context menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.14 (15.05.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Microsoft Office 2013+: Application windows got frozen for a long time (up to several minutes) after locking the user session and then unlocking it back. [+] Mirroring: The long-awaited active mirroring is finally implemented. Active mirrors make the mirrored content available for mouse clicks, pen drawings, and touch gestures as if you would interact with the mirror's source itself. Note: Pen/touch support now reliably works in Windows 10 only. [+] Multi-monitor Background, Slideshow Screen Saver: The "shrink to fit" mode is added to the "Wallpaper position" option. For images larger than their host monitor, it works the same as the "proportional stretch" mode, whereas the images smaller than the host monitor are shown as is in the center of the monitor. [+] Window Actions: The ability is added to turn off automatic semi-transparency on deactivation or mouse hovering for a certain window (see the "Options - Transparency" submenu in window's context menu). [+] Virtual Desktops: The ability is added to keep the Virtual Desktop Switcher's position while toggling it on/off via hotkey: turn off the newly added "Show the switcher near mouse pointer" option in the "Virtual Desktops" panel to make the switcher stop following the mouse and stay where you left it last time. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Compatibility is improved with newer builds (18885+). [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Jump List support for UWP apps is finally implemented. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Now taskbars look correct in the Light visual theme. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Action Center, Sound Volume and Network windows now move to a monitor where a corresponding icon has been clicked. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Action Center icon now displays the status of the "Focus assist" setting. [*] Actual Taskbar: Now you can cancel dragging a button in taskbar or notification area by pressing Esc. [*] Tabbed Explorer: Container windows now should correctly scale their content when dragging them between monitors with different DPI resolutions. Note: May not work in older Windows 10 builds (before 15063). [*] Configuration: Now configuration windows and dialogs correctly scale their content to a current DPI resolution, including on-the-fly scaling when dragging them between monitors with different DPI resolutions. [-] Mirroring, Windows 10: In some cases, hardware accelerated mirrors froze on a first frame and did not update. [-] Virtual Desktops: Microsoft Excel 2016/2019 lost its ribbon title bar after hiding/showing it by switching to another virtual desktop and back. [-] Virtual Desktops, Windows 8+: The following problems are fixed: - some windows (Google Chrome, ThinkOrSwim) got redrawn very slow after hiding/showing them by switching to another virtual desktop and back - thumbnail previews got empty for hidden windows (located on inactive desktops) [-] Actual Taskbar, Window Actions: Sometimes moving a maximized window between monitors using the Move to Monitor action made the window's task button disappear from all taskbars forever (until you close the window and open it again). [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: UWP apps' icons did not update correctly in task buttons and Jump Lists when switching between Light and Dark visual themes or changing the system accent color. [-] Actual Taskbar, Window 10: Fixed some issues with supporting high DPI resolutions: - Start button's icon was too small - Touch Keyboard button displayed a wrong icon [-] Actual Taskbar, Window 10: In some cases preview thumbnails might look incorrect. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7: Horizontal taskbar painted incorrectly in the Classic visual theme. [-] Window Actions: Google Chrome window did not respect the Restrict Placement and Fix Minimal/Maximal Size actions when it was full screen or in kiosk mode. [-] Multiple Monitors, Windows 10: On some hardware configurations, toggling secondary monitors via Actual Window Manager notification area icon's context menu did not work. [-] Tabbed Explorer: The "Share" dialog could not be opened from within a container window. [-] Desktop Divider: Fixed some issues with supporting high DPI resolutions: - active tile border did not scale properly - after putting a DPI-aware app's window into a tile, the window popped out of the tile - when dragging a not-DPI-aware app's window, highlighting an active tile did not correspond with a mouse pointer's position - tile layout preview looked wrong for Microsoft Outlook 2019 windows [-] Desktop Profiles: Adding or removing a profile in a Configuration window did not update the list of profiles in Control Center context menus. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Firefox Quantum windows maximized on a secondary monitor that was shifted up or down relative to a primary one. [-] Title Buttons: Main window of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010+ got hung after closing it via the "File - Exit" menu command or the Alt-F4 hotkey if the Aero visual theme was active and any of extra buttons was added to that window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons looked and placed wrong in Microsoft Office 2019 windows in high DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not work in Sticky Notes windows. [-] Window Actions: Service windows, like "Change transparency", "Move to monitor", "Put into Divider tile", did not scale properly to a current DPI resolution. [-] Window Actions: Minimize-to-Screen floating icons placed at the right/bottom edge of a monitor might get out of sight after reducing the monitor's resolution. [-] Window Actions: After minimizing a window being snapped to left/right half of a monitor to notification area, the window lost its snapped state after restoration. [-] Configuration, Desktop Divider: When copying a tile layout in Tiles editor between monitors with different resolutions, tiles' relative sizes were not preserved. [-] Configuration: The "Copy settings from" command stopped working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.13.3 (28.11.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 build 17763+: System SmartScreen process ate up to 100% CPU resources when Actual Window Manager was running. [!] Window Settings: Exclusions stopped working since the version 8.13. [*] Configuration: Specific Settings editing windows now are truly independent of the main Configuration window: - clicking the Apply button in such window now immediately saves the changes (no need to click Apply in the main window as well) - after closing the main window these windows remain fully functional [*] Tabbed Explorer: Now tabbed container windows react on system keyboard shortcuts, like Alt-Escape, Win-[Shift]-Left/Right/Up/Down/Home. [*] Clipboard History: Now pasting from the History window works correctly if it was invoked via notification area icon's context menu. [-] Tabbed Explorer, Windows 10 build 17763+: Title bar of an inactive container window looked wrong in the Dark visual theme. [-] Virtual Desktops: Adding a classic desktop item after some independent desktop items were added broke the associations with those independent desktop items in window settings ("Startup - Move to virtual desktop - Specific") and custom Move to Virtual Desktop hotkeys. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: In some cases, after changing the desktop geometry (i.e. positions/resolutions of secondary monitors) windows on secondary monitors got squeezed either vertically or horizontally. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: In individual mode, after switching system virtual desktops task buttons of windows from inactive desktops on secondary monitors appeared in the system taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar: Icons on extra taskbar buttons (Search, Recycle Bin, Ink Workspace, Input Language Switch) flipped in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Glyphs on extra buttons flipped in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not update properly after toggling any of them on/off in the Aero visual theme in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 build 17763+: - extra buttons appeared in wrong place if any of secondary monitors was located in negative screen coordinates - extra buttons overlapped the system ones in maximized windows of Microsoft Office 2007 apps and might cause temporary hanging when moving the mouse over the overlapped Minimize button - glyphs on extra buttons blended with title bar in the Dark visual theme if the "Show color on title bar" system option was off [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 Insider build 18267+: - glyphs on extra buttons blended with title bar if the "Show color on title bar" system option was off - extra buttons did not react on changing the system accent color [-] Title Buttons: Mozilla Firefox 50+/Quantum might hang when displaying content-rich pages. [-] Window Actions: Restrict Placement window action did not affect maximized windows of Google Chrome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.13.2 (12.10.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Vista/7: Process dwm.exe crashed each time after unloading Actual Window Manager Control Center. [*] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons automatic placement is improved in Google Chrome of version 66 and higher in non-standard DPI resolutions. [*] Title Buttons: Extra buttons now work in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [*] Mouse Actions: Invoking advanced window actions now work in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [*] Desktop Divider: Placing a window into a tile now works in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [*] Tabbed Explorer: Now tabbed container windows display a context menu on pressing Alt-Space. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows: If the feature was active, scrolling with the mouse wheel did not work in active windows of some applications (e.g. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers). [-] Logon Screen Slideshow, Windows x64: The slideshow displayed the evaluation period reminder even in a registered copy of Actual Window Manager. [-] Configuration: In really high DPI resolutions (> 200%), caption of a first option in each group overlapped the group's title. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.13.1 (27.09.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: In some cases the Task View window might get broken when Actual Window Manager was set to load at system startup. [+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to create custom Put into Divider Tile hotkey actions, mouse actions, and title button actions. [+] Combo Action: The ability is added to insert the Put into Divider Tile action into combo sequences. [*] Tabbed Explorer, Windows 10 Insider Preview: Tabbed container windows now support the Dark visual theme. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Compatibility is improved with Sonic Suite 3 and Nahimic 2 audio software. [*] Hotkeys: Custom "Start program" hotkeys now work disregarding what window is currently active. [*] Windows 7+: Showing the notification area icons (e.g. Task Manager, Skype) for apps launched with different user credentials is restored. [*] Configuration: Now all toobars respect the options of the "Toolbars" group in the "Options - User Interface" panel. [-] Multi-monitor Task Switcher stopped working in all systems before Windows 10. [-] Actual Taskbar: The MS Teams app button remained in a taskbar after minimizing its window to a notification area icon using its own means. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Balloon notifications for notification area icons of such programs as AVG and Avast kept popping up and could not be closed. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some rare cases notification areas in secondary taskbars might remain empty. [-] Actual Taskbar: Sometimes, after restoring a minimized window, its button might disappear from a taskbar if the animation effects for minimization/restoration were enabled. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: After clicking the Show Desktop button, the Aero Peek effect remained active until the mouse pointer was moved outside the button. [-] Windows 10, Window Settings: Specific settings did not apply to UWP apps running full-screen (e.g. Groove, Solitaire Collection). [-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar: Task buttons did not show for UWP apps running full-screen. [-] Windows 10, Title Buttons: After switching a UWP app from full-screen to windowed, the extra buttons did not show in its title bar. [-] Windows 10, Quick Settings: Quick Settings dialog could not be invoked for a UWP app window by a click on its title bar. [-] Window Settings: After applying the "At Window Startup - Lock Mouse" action to a window and then closing it, the mouse remained locked within the closed window's rectangle. [-] Configuration: The "Global Options - Start Program" panel accidentally got broken in the previous version. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.13 (21.08.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows x64: The overall workload on a system has been reduced significantly, especially on multi-core CPUs. [+] Windows Layout: Automatic keeping and restoration of current window layout per desktop configuration has been finally implemented. It works as follows: each 5 seconds Actual Window Manager stores the placements of currently open windows. When the desktop configuration (or desktop geometry) changes (you plug/unplug a monitor, put a laptop into a docking station, change a monitor resolution, etc.), it checks if there is stored information for the new desktop configuration, and if there is then it applies the kept placement info to all open windows, scattering them as they were. In other words, the window layout is restored when you return to some already known desktop configuration. See the options to control this new feature in the "Layout and Snap - Windows Layout" panel. [*] Configuration: Windows are now properly scaled at startup to conform with the DPI resolution set for a monitor, which they are opening on. [*] Mirroring: Now you can toggle the mirrors full-screen using the left double click or pressing Alt-Enter/F11. Also, you can exit full-screen by pressing Esc. [*] Wrap Desktop: The feature has been rewritten from scratch to provide more predictable and expected behavior, especially on non-uniform desktop configurations. [*] File Folders: Now the Recent Folders list is updated more accurately and consistently. [-] File Folders: Sometimes empty entries might appear in the Recent Folders list. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: Programs running with administrative privileges can't be minimized by clicking their task button. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: Preview thumbnails were not scaled correctly in high DPI resolutions. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Preview thumbnails looked differently than in the system taskbar. [-] Desktop Divider: In some cases the "Put into" dialog did not display some tile layouts in full. [-] Save Idle Screens: Numerous fixes in the automatic mode: - idle screen saver did not start on a primary monitor in Windows 10 if Actual Window Manager was installed with the support of system utilities and administrative tools - idle screen saver stopped if the Desktop itself was activated - idle screen saver did not restart after closing it because of moving the mouse - idle screen saver can't be stopped on a monitor disconnected and then connected back - idle screen saver can't be stopped after switching to another user account and then returning back - the feature ignored mouse movements on monitors with no active window [-] Drag to Scroll, Windows x64: The feature didn't work for 32-bit applications unless its activation mouse button was set to "left". [-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing, Windows x64: The feature didn't work for 32-bit applications. [-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing, Windows 10: The feature didn't work for UWP applications (e.g. Settings, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.). [-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing: The feature didn't work for Chromium-based applications (e.g. Google Chrome and Vivaldi web browsers, Slack desktop client, Microsoft Teams desktop client, etc.). [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not react on right clicks in Foxit Reader. [-] Title Buttons: Detecting free place for extra buttons stopped working in Google Chrome in high DPI resolutions since its version 67. [-] Move to Monitor: After moving a maximized Google Chrome window to a monitor with a different DPI resolution, the window got beyond the visible desktop area. [-] Minimize-to-screen: Permanent floating screen icons intercepted the input focus when clicked (i.e. became an active foreground window) and "ate" fast second clicks if the single click activation mode was enabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.12.2 (21.05.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: Metro/UWP apps crashed at startup when Actual Window Manager was running. [*] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now support the new acrylic transparency visual effect. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Flyout window with additional notification area icons now looks more similar to the one in the system taskbar. [-] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons got invisible in some windows (like Settings applet). [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Both Actual Taskbar and Windows Explorer hung when displaying a tooltip for a taskbar button (Search, Show hidden notification icons, etc.) if monitors had different DPI resolutions and the tooltip tried to appear on the edge between monitors. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 8.1+: Notification area icons did not update after changing DPI resolution of the host monitor. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: In some cases, autohidden taskbar might appear on a wrong monitor. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Task buttons in the appearing autohidden taskbar flashed once in wrong positions. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Jump Lists did not display icons on their Pin/Unpin buttons for documents items. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Jump List height calculated incorrectly on a secondary monitor if a primary monitor had different DPI resolution. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7: Auto-detection of free space for extra buttons did not consider the own extra buttons in Mozilla Thunderbird and the Microsoft Office 2013/2016 apps in the Classic and Aero Basic visual themes. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7: Extra buttons got shrunk vertically in maximized windows of Mozilla Thunderbird and the Microsoft Office 2013/2016 apps in the Aero Basic visual theme. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons got shrunk vertically in maximized windows of the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.12.1 (21.04.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] File Folders: Hotkeys to invoke Favorite Folders and Recent Folders context menus have been added (default key combinations Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F and Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R, respectively). [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: The following windows now open on a correct monitor when clicking their corresponding buttons in Actual Taskbar: - Search/Cortana window - Ink Workspace window [-] Windows x64: In some rare cases applications might crash. [-] Audio Switcher: Audio device did not switch back to default in multimedia applications after turning the Audio Switcher facility off. [-] Audio Switcher: Audio devices switched constantly in Firefox Quantum if more than one Firefox window was open and the "Bound to monitor" switching mode was active. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: In some applications extra buttons looked and located incorrectly when dragging an application window between monitors with different DPI resolutions (from lower to higher). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: In some applications glyphs on extra buttons looked too large on monitors with high DPI resolutions. [-] Tabbed Explorer: Container window's title bar did not resize properly when dragging a container window between monitors with different DPI resolutions. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some cases icon on a pinned Windows Explorer button got replaced by an icon of an active Explorer window, if the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option was enabled. [-] File Folders: Items in the Favorite Folders and Recent Folders context menus could not be selected with the Up/Down arrow keys. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.12 (03.03.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Per-application Audio Device Switcher has been finally implemented (see the "Multiple Monitors - Audio Switcher" panel). Now you can bind available audio devices (internal/external sound cards, HDMI/DisplayPort outputs, etc.) to certain monitors, so that any multimedia application being put on a monitor will automatically redirect its audio playback to the bound audio device. Also, you can change the audio device used by a certain multimedia application in its specific window settings - either automatically (at startup) or manually (via title button, window menu item, or special window that can be invoked via "Show application audio manager" tray icon's context menu command). The feature is compatible with most popular types of multimedia applications that can play audio: web browsers (both HTML5 and Flash media content), media players, videogames. IMPORTANT: This feature works since Windows Vista, earlier versions of Windows are not supported. Known issues: - some media players (VLC, Media Player Classic) are not compatible with this feature by default; to make them compatible, you must set the audio output to "WaveOut" in their preferences - not fully compatible media players: Windows Media Player 9 and higher - not fully compatible web browsers: Internet Explorer 8 and higher - not yet supported media players: iTunes, Foobar 2000 - not yet supported web browsers: MS Edge [*] Actual Taskbar: Handling of Metro apps' icons is improved. [*] Actual Taskbar: Jump Lists now look more accurate in high DPI resolutions. [*] Actual Taskbar: Jump Lists and task buttons now look similar to the system taskbar ones in Windows 10. [-] Actual Taskbar: Arrangement of toolbars in multi-row taskbars lost after each restart. [-] Actual Taskbar: Pinning a shortcut to a taskbar via drag-n-drop stopped working in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. [-] Actual Taskbar: After closing a Metro app having its button pinned to a taskbar, the pinned button's icon got replaced with an improper icon. [-] Tabbed Explorer: In Windows 8.1/10, if there were some windows before Actual Window Manager was started, the ribbon bar did not respond in those windows after placing them into a container window. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the My Account button in Google Chrome since its version 64. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases extra buttons in Firefox Quantum got misplaced and drawn in wrong color. [-] Some applications (e.g. Malwarebytes) might hang at startup if Actual Window Manager was running. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.11.3 (30.12.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Tabbed Explorer: Now container windows can be controlled via advanced hotkeys provided by Actual Window Manager (like those defined in the "Hotkeys - Numpad" panel and the "Hotkeys - Actions - Window" list). [-] Sometimes an active application might hang forever because of rolling the mouse wheel actively. [-] Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: CPU consumption by Actual Taskbar increased unwantedly if monitors had different DPI resolutions. [-] Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: After restarting Actual Window Manager, Actual Taskbar lost its toolbar arrangement. [-] Windows 10 Creators Update: Actual Taskbar did not display tooltips for notification area icons of some system apps (Windows Defender, Audio Volume Control, Disk Eject, etc.). [-] Windows 10 Creators Update: In some cases Actual Taskbar became fully transparent when positioned vertically. [-] Windows 10 Anniversary Update: After switching to Tablet mode and back, right click on the Action Center button in Actual Taskbar displayed the Network Neighbourhood context menu instead of the Action Center menu. [-] Windows 10: Action Center notification count displayed unwantedly in popup tooltips for notification area icons in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar got cut in the Classic visual theme when positioned vertically. [-] Mirroring: Window mirrors in software mode did not retain the source window picture if the source window was minimized or rolled up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.11.2 (28.09.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Creators Update: Metro (UWP) apps crashed at startup if Actual Window Manager was running. [!] Actual Taskbar: Active window did not minimize on clicking its taskbar button. [+] Windows 8+: The ability is added to change the default PNG codec used to create multi-monitor background images to a JPEG codec to reduce the size of a result image and avoid violating the 20 Mb background image size limit in synchronized user accounts (may be actual for 4K monitor owners). To switch to a JPEG codec, add the following Registry value: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager\Command Center\Plugins\WallpaperManager] "use_jpeg_codec"=dword:00000001 [*] Windows 10 Creators Update: Extra title buttons now have correct glyph/background colors in Metro (UWP) apps with custom-colored title bars (Edge, People, Store, Maps, Settings, Connect, Xbox, Alarms & Clock, Calculator, Paint 3D): - while being mouse-hovered/pressed - in the Compact View popup toolbar [*] Tabbed Explorer: Container windows are now compatible with the Activation / Deactivation / Mouse-hovering window triggers. [*] Actual Taskbar: Virtual Desktops Switcher windows in Independent mode are now compatible with the taskbar group operations (Gather/Send/Swap): - group operations no more affect the Switcher windows themselves - Switchers updated accordingly after an operation had been applied [*] Multi-monitor Background: If various picture sources are used in multi-monitor slideshow (local files and web), background picture will be set immediately as at least one picture gets available (i.e. the slideshow engine no more waits until all pictures get downloaded). [-] Tabbed Explorer: Active container window did not minimize on clicking its taskbar button. [-] Actual Taskbar: Action Center button on secondary taskbars either displayed the notification count in wrong location or did not display it at all. [-] Actual Taskbar: Hints for task buttons, notification area icons, toolbars, etc. got behind windows being set on top of others. [-] Actual Taskbar: In Windows 7+, if the "On Top" taskbar option was turned off, its Start button: - got in front of other windows at startup - got in front of other windows after invoking the Start menu [-] Actual Taskbar: In Windows 7, Start menu got behind a vertical taskbar placed to the left, and if it was also set on top of other windows. [-] Title Buttons: In Metro (UWP) apps, popup toolbar popped up again instead of closing after a second click on the Compact View title button. [-] Title Buttons: Metro (UWP) apps crashed after invoking twice the semi-transparency slider (right click on a Make Transparent additional title button). [-] Multi-monitor Background: There was unwanted single pixel lines of wrong color on right and bottom edges of background pictures. [-] Multi-monitor Background: The "Show picture source" option stopped working in the Aero visual theme. [-] Virtual Desktops: Switching desktops by clicking empty space in the Virtual Desktops Switcher cells did not keep the active button of a desktop cell being switched from. [-] Virtual Desktops: Desktop switching got slower if background slideshow was running. [-] Virtual Desktops: Virtual Desktops Switcher button in the system taskbar remained active even if the Virtual Desktops facility was off. [-] Window Settings: Hints with current window position/size showed incorrect values on some desktop configurations. [-] Save Idle Screens: In some cases automatic activation of the feature might not work. [-] Lock Mouse: In some cases soft mouse locking might not work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.11.1 (27.07.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 8+: Multi-monitor Task Switcher is finally fully compatible with Actual Taskbar's Individual mode: now it displays all windows on all monitors. Thanks to this, the "Replace the system task switcher" option became useless and has been removed from the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel. [*] Windows 10: Multi-monitor Task Switcher is now compatible with the old Alt-Tab view if it was enabled in the Registry. [*] Actual Taskbar: Context menu items to toggle taskbar controls (Start button, tray, clock, etc.) have been moved to a submenu. [*] Title Buttons: Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons is improved in the latest versions of Google Chrome. [*] Tabbed Explorer: Drag-n-drop of tabs is improved: now a container window activates automatically when dragging a tab over either the window itself or its taskbar button. [-] Tabbed Explorer: In Windows 8+, after either stopping Actual Window Manager or turning the Tabbed Explorer feature off, released folder windows got entirely disabled. [-] Tabbed Explorer: Opening a container disabled the animation of Start menu tiles in Windows 10. [-] Tabbed Explorer: Container window unwantedly restored right after minimizing it via taskbar preview's context menu. [-] Tabbed Explorer: Quick switching via Alt-Tab to a container window and back to a previous window left the container window active. [-] Tabbed Explorer: After showing a desktop, preview thumbnails became empty. [-] Windows 10: Some apps (like Visual Studio 2012 installer and components, or iTunes Helper) crashed when Actual Window Manager was running. [-] Windows 10: Windows Magnifier got hung when its Lens mode was active and Actual Window Manager was running. [-] Windows 10: Refreshing a desktop with the "solid color" background made the desktop black. [-] Actual Taskbar: Start button did not show its context menu right after the Start menu was closed by clicking the Start button. [-] Actual Taskbar: Start menu did not close after clicking the Start button second time or after clicking empty taskbar space. [-] Actual Taskbar: Click on the Touch Keyboard button forced a currently active window to lose focus. [-] Title Buttons: System window menu flickered constantly in apps where auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons enabled (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office apps). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.11 (20.06.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows x64: The speed of advanced mouse features is greatly improved, especially on systems with multi-core CPUs (with 8+ real cores). [+] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now display the following standard controls: - Input Language Switch button (since Windows 8) - Touch Keyboard button (since Windows 10) - Ink Workspace button (since Windows 10 Anniversary Update) - Touchpad button (since Windows 10 Creators Update and in Tablet mode only) In systems before Windows 8 (except Windows Vista) the Input Language Switch button can be displayed only on one of Actual Taskbar instances (via "Toolbars - Language bar" taskbar context menu command). In Windows Vista the Input Language Switch button is unavailable. [+] Tabbed Explorer: Now you can use the following tab control hotkeys similar to web browsers: - Ctrl-T - open a new tab - Ctrl-N - open a new container window with a new tab - Ctrl-Tab - activate next tab - Shift-Ctrl-Tab - activate previous tab - Ctrl-1..8 - activate 1st..8th tab - Ctrl-9 - activate the last tab - Ctrl-F4 - close an active tab [+] Windows 10: Now you can create specific window settings for Metro (UWP) apps (e.g. Settings, Edge, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.). [+] The following image file types are now available for selection in the background settings: DIB, RLE, EMF, WMF, TIFF, ICO. [*] The factory exclusion rule "All unnamed windows" is added to skip all windows with an empty caption. [*] Windows 10: Size of Actual Taskbar controls now is adapted automatically for touch screens. [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now considers the "Show badges on taskbar buttons" system option. [-] Windows 10: Actual Window Manager prevented the background spellchecking in Microsoft Word 2016. [-] Windows 7+: If the system option to show labels on taskbar buttons was enabled, overlay icons (like Skype status) displayed in a wrong place. [-] Windows 7+: After modifying Actual Taskbar settings, icons on some task buttons got small. [-] Actual Taskbar: In server editions of Windows, Start button had no label if the Terminal Services service was running. [-] Tabbed Explorer: In some cases Explorer windows might not get placed into a container/get out of a container after starting/exiting Actual Window Manager, respectively. [-] Tabbed Explorer: After creating a new container, the input focus was on a tab, not within an Explorer window. [-] Tabbed Explorer: In some cases, container window did not get activated when one of its tabs got activated. [-] Tabbed Explorer: In the Aero visual theme, container window caption was always drawn as active even for inactive container windows. [-] Tabbed Explorer: Since Windows 8, ribbon toolbar in an Explorer window sometimes drawed incorrect after switching tabs. [-] Tabbed Explorer: Grouped Explorer windows did not save their positions after exiting Actual Window Manager and therefore blocked the correct work of the "Restore previous folder windows at logon" system option. Note: Nevertheless, if the "Launch folder windows in a separate process" option is on, saving/restoring folder windows may still not work as expected. [-] Background Slideshow/Slideshow Screen Saver: In multi-monitor mode, if time intervals were different, slide change moments calculated incorrectly that led to inconsistent results. [-] Background Slideshow: Picture source caption might display in a wrong place if the background slideshow worked in the "Single picture over entire desktop" mode. [-] Background Slideshow: When the "Show picture source" option was enabled, refreshing the desktop (either via F5 hotkey or via "Refresh" context menu command) in the Aero visual theme made the picture source captions disappear until next slide change. [-] Virtual Desktops: VD Switcher displayed wrong window icons after toggling the "Group Explorer windows within tabbed containers" option on/off. [-] Windows 10: Metro (UWP) apps did not put into Desktop Divider tiles when being dragged by the mouse. [-] Windows 10: AltMinimize window action displayed a wrong icon for Metro (UWP) apps. [-] Windows 10: Quick Window Settings dialog worked wrong for Metro (UWP) apps. [-] "Quick window settings" window menu command did not display its assigned hotkey combination. [-] Desktop Profiles: Display orientation could not be set to portrait or reversed portrait in Windows 7+. [-] Configuration: The list of desktop profiles displayed incorrect captions in the Background column. [-] Configuration: Captions on the Tools panels got cut in high DPI resolutions. [-] Configuration: Exclusion detail panel did not refresh after adding a new exclusion in the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.10.2 (28.03.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now display the Windows Action Center button. Click on this button shows the Action Center Notifications window on a primary monitor. [*] Actual Taskbar: Start button now displays a context menu on right click. [*] When using the Move to Monitor window action for a window that was snapped to left/right half of a monitor, the window now retains its snapped state on another monitor and gets exactly half its size. [*] The "Move to" monitor selector dialog again displays the monitor numbers. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some cases Calendar did not show up after clicking the clock. [-] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars looked wrong in the recent builds of Windows 10 Insider Preview. [-] Title Buttons: Numerous Windows 10 compatibility fixes: - incorrect Compact View background color fixed - incorrect glyph color fixed with the enabled auto-selection of the main UI color - incorrect glyph color fixed in UWP apps in the recent builds of Windows 10 Insider Preview [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the standard ones in the Start Screen window of Office 2016 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) since the recent update. [-] Vista/7: Ghost window action was not auto-disabled when a window got pinned to a desktop. [-] UltraEdit main window consumed CPU a lot with Actual Window Manager running. [-] Configuration: In Windows 7+, web links always opened in Internet Explorer, not default web browser. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.10.1 (20.02.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Localizaton: Arabic language is added (translation made by Thamer Mousa). [*] Windows 10: Title buttons now look correct in the Office 2013/2016 apps when their "File" tab gets active. [*] File Folders: The width of the Recent Folders list is limited to 80 em units to prevent its too wide appearance (it may even exceed the screen area in some cases). [*] Configuration: Now it's possible to press the Ctrl key to prevent the auto-snapping of a being dragged splitter to its siblings in the adjacent row/column. [*] Mirroring: Now the "Keep aspect ratio" option is available for hardware-accelerated mirrors with such source types as "Monitor" or "Part of desktop". [-] Mirroring: In Windows 10, a hardware-accelerated mirror with "Window" source type had a black border around the mirrored image. [-] Actual Taskbar: Icons on buttons disappeared after applying any change of Actual Window Manager settings made in the Configuration window. [-] Configuration: The following bugs have been fixed in the Desktop Divider Tiles Editor: - on some multi-monitor configurations it did not allow to customize the layout on certain monitors; - splitters did unwantedly snap to the left/top border of a tile when being dragged closely to that border; - splitters did not scale properly on monitors with high DPI resolution. [-] Configuration: Test Regexp dialog displayed an error if it was opened on a monitor with high DPI resolution. [-] Updating: If the "New version is available" balloon notification was shown, right click on the Actual Window Manager notification area icon started the installation instead of displaying icon's context menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.10 (29.12.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: Extra title buttons now look correct on windows with colored title bars (Messaging, Phone, Photos, Windows Mail) and in the Dark visual theme. [!] Windows x64: Stability is greatly improved (there should be no more high CPU usage or app crashes at Actual Window Manager startup). [+] The long-awaited and many times requested feature to group Windows Explorer windows into a single container window with tabs (where each tab corresponds to a certain folder) is added. The way it looks and works is similar to modern web browsers, like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox: - you can open a new tab by clicking the Plus button - you can drag tabs within a container window to change their order - you can drag a tab out of a container to create another container - you can close a tab by clicking its Close button or by middle click on its caption - you can close the entire container so all its tabs will also be closed Note: This feature binds Windows Explorer windows to be always placed into a container so there will be no "free" Explorer windows. You can enable/disable this feature in the "Files and Folders - Tabbed Explorer" panel. [*] Recent Folders list now gets updated more frequently: it's enough to switch from a folder window to any other window to make folder's current path first in the list of recents. [*] Configuration: Test Regexp and Select Window From List dialogs now look and work correct in high DPI resolutions. [*] Configuration: Desktop Divider Tiles Editor window now looks and works correct in high DPI resolutions. [-] There was possible (of low probability, though) security breach when running Actual Window Manager library from the %Temp% folder. [-] Extra title buttons covered standard title buttons in the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. [-] Windows 10: Extra title buttons covered tabs in Google Chrome windows. [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar crashed at startup in the systems with F-Secure software products running. [-] Windows 10: Search box in the system taskbar got reset to Search button at each startup of Actual Window Manager. [-] Windows 10: Calendar window stopped showing up after clicking the clock in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 10: Some hidden windows might appear in the Expose task switcher. [-] Windows got completely opaque upon activation instead of restoring their initially set transparency level when both the "Make transparent - At startup" and "Make transparent - While inactive" options were enabled. [-] Configuration: Check box and radio button captions got cut in high DPI resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.9.2 (29.10.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: Since the Anniversary Update, Actual Taskbar got hung after placing the mouse pointer over any task button for a while if the host monitor DPI resolution was higher than 100%. [*] Logon Screen Service: The "unquoted service path" vulnerability has been fixed. [-] Windows 10: Search field in the primary taskbar got reset back to Search icon at each startup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.9.1 (06.09.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar stopped displaying Jump Lists since the Anniversary Update. [-] Windows 10: Since the Anniversary Update, Actual Taskbar got white when taskbar color and transparency were disabled in the system taskbar settings. [-] Windows 7+: Group window functions "Gather all windows" and "Send all windows" stopped working. [-] Windows 8+ x64: Lock Screen background picture did not set. [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver: "Screen saver failed to start" error message has been displayed on a monitor if the "Screen saver: None" has been set for that monitor. [-] Configuration: Only the main window got hidden if the "Hide Configuration Module while using the Window Finder" option was enabled. [-] Configuration: Panel header font size was too big in high DPI resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.9 (22.07.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability is added to invoke advanced title button dialogs (usually invoked via right-click on a button) for a currently active window via hotkeys. The following hotkeys have been added: - Show the "Move to specific monitor" dialog (Win-Ctrl-/) - Show the "Move to specific virtual desktop" menu (Win-Ctrl-\) - Show the "Maximize to selected monitors" dialog (Win-Ctrl-Num*) - Show the "Put into Divider tile" dialog (Win-Ctrl-Num5) You can change the default key combinations in the Hotkeys-Actions panel. This feature can be useful on monitors with high resolutions (up to 4K) where distance to a required button may be too long to drag the mouse there just to invoke the dialog via right click. Using the hotkeys above will make the dialogs appear exactly under the mouse pointer, ready for immediate use. [+] The CFL command line switch is expanded with the ability to specify an arbitrary folder where the configuration files should be stored: ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe CFL "" [*] Overall stability is improved. [*] Image processing for slideshows (both background and screen saver) has been optimized to use less memory and work faster even for huge images (like NASA space photos having up to 20K pixels resolution). [*] Windows 10: The Virtual Desktops Switcher button now can be added both to the system taskbar and Actual Taskbars. [*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for: - Actual Taskbar jump lists and thumbnail previews - Virtual Desktop Switcher - extra title buttons - Log window - AltMinimize floating screen preview [*] Evaluation dialog has been restyled. [*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for program dialogs (About, Register, Check for Updates, Quick Settings, etc.). [-] Actual Taskbar did not get behind fullscreen Google Chrome windows. [-] Windows 7: Multi-monitor Alt-Tab Task Switcher showed only once in the Classic visual theme. [-] Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons worked incorrectly in high DPI resolutions for Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office windows. [-] Some features stopped working in Skype windows after saving the Actual Window Manager configuration. [-] Windows 7+: Specific window settings with certain Window Caption criterion specified did not apply to Microsoft Management Console windows (Event Viewer, Task Scheduler, Disk Manager, etc.). [-] Intuit QuickBooks windows hung for a while after right clicking the extra title buttons. [-] Windows 10: Start Screen parts were unwantedly touched by the group commands like "Gather all windows from" or "Swap all windows with" (if the program was installed with the support of administrative utilities). [-] Windows 10: If the "Replace the system taskbar" option was on, the system taskbar Search box popped over Actual Taskbar after clicking the Start button. [-] Windows 10: "Desktop Divider Up/Down/Left/Right" hotkeys worked improperly. [-] Windows 10: Desktop Divider layouts did not switch on mouse wheel rolling. [-] Window did not restore properly its position and size if the Maximize to Desktop action was applied several times in a row. [-] Windows 8+: Adding the Virtual Desktops Switcher button to system taskbar caused the immediate disappearance of thumbnail previews. [-] Windows 8.1: Mirroring of Windows Media Player stopped working if the player window was relocated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.8.3 (13.05.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows 10: Vertical Actual Taskbar (either in Left or Right position) got half screen width each time at startup. [-] Windows Vista/7: Start button did not stretch out to a multi-row taskbar in the Classic visual theme. [-] Windows Vista/7: Start button got reversed in the Classic visual theme for right-to-left writing languages (like Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.8.2 (06.05.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Taskbar did not appear in the Windows Classic visual theme. [*] Windows 10: Calendar window now moves to a monitor where a taskbar clock has been clicked (works only since build 14328). [*] Configuration: Navigation pages now display a tooltip with the full caption text over their header if the caption text does not fit the header visible area. [-] Windows 10: Virtual Desktop Switcher displayed irrelevant entries for invisible Metro app windows. [-] Configuration: With large interface font size (either set manually in the User Interface settings or generated automatically because of a high screen DPI resolution), navigation page captions did not fit the headers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.8.1 (29.04.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: False-positive SmartScreen warning about setup file corruption is finally remedied. [*] Actual Taskbar now scales correctly on monitors with high DPI resolutions. [*] Windows 10: Multi-monitor Alt-Tab Task Switcher is restored. [*] Windows 10: Support of Metro apps in Actual Taskbar is improved. [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar flyout window with additional notification area icons now looks the same as in the system taskbar. [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar displayed windows located on inactive system virtual desktops. [-] Windows 10: Windows put into a Desktop Divider tile did not fill it entirely, some gaps remained. [-] Windows 10: Stretch window action left a gap between window border and monitor border. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.8 (31.03.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration: List of specific Window Settings has been removed from the Window Settings navigation tree. Now, you can edit certain Specific Window settings item in a separate window that can be opened in the following ways: - double click the required item in the Specific Settings list - select the required item in the Specific Settings list and press Enter - use the Edit Window Rule command in either the toolbar or the context menu of the Specific Settings list Known issues (subject to fix in the future updates): 1) the multi-editing of several specific settings does now work as before 2) there is no way to adjust the natural order of specific settings [!] Configuration: Global Options subitems have been removed from the Window Settings navigation tree and transformed into tabs of the Global Options detail panel. [+] Configuration: Back/Forward buttons have been added into each Configuration window to provide the navigation through the user interface panels like in web browsers. [+] Configuration: Incremental Search box has been added into each Configuration window. Now you can quickly discover a panel that contains the required option just by typing several letters of what you want to find. Search engine considers the following text information: 1) captions of user interface panels and all their sub-controls (control hints are ignored at the moment for the sake of search speed) 2) captions of built-in and user-added objects of the following types: - specific window settings - window exclusions - desktop profiles - desktop mirrors - virtual desktops - Desktop Divider layouts - Favorite Folders shortcuts - clipboard templates - hotkeys - mouse actions - Start Program shortcuts - title buttons - window menu commands - combo actions [*] Configuration: Undo/Redo commands now track the changes separately for each window. [-] If both "Transparent while inactive" and "Transparent while mouse-hovering" options were enabled, the transparency level did not restore to "While inactive" value after moving the mouse out of a window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.7 (04.02.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The navigation panel in the main Configuration window has been replaced. [!] Configuration: Global options of window settings (like title buttons skin, window menu items order, pre-defined window sizes, etc.) have been moved from the Options category to the Window Settings category in the main Configuration window. [!] Configuration: The Desktop Divider category in the main Configuration window has been renamed to "Layout and Snap", and the Windows Layout options and the Window Snapping options have been moved there from the Options category. The "Desktop Divider - Tile Layouts" panel has been split into two: Desktop Divider - global on/off switch, activation mode Tile Layouts - list of tile layouts itself [!] Google web slideshow source has been removed because Google discontinued their Google Image Search service. [+] The long-awaited ability is added to resize/drag together windows snapped to each other (no matter in what way - using either Classic Snap, Aero Snap, Desktop Divider or even manually). In short, group operations on adjacent windows work as follows: Group Size - when you resize a window, windows adjacent to a border/corner being dragged are resized accordingly (as if there were a splitter between them) Group Drag - when you drag a window, its adjacent windows come along with it (as if they were a single large window) By default, both these features are turned on in the "While not pressed - Ctrl" mode, i.e. you can disable it temporarily by pressing the Ctrl modifier key. You can disable these features, or switch the mode to "While pressed", or change the modifier keys combination in the new "Layout and Snap - Group Size/Drag" panel. [+] Configuration: Ability is added to select all items in the lists with multi-selection allowed by pressing the Ctrl-A hotkey. As this key combination was reserved for adding a new item to a list, the New Item hotkey has been changed to Ctrl-N. [*] Configuration: Hotkey combinations for list operations have been unified for all list-editing panels: Ins, Ctrl-N - add new item Del, Ctrl-D - delete selected item F5 - copy selected item Ctrl-=, Ctrl-Num+ - enable all items (where available) Ctrl--, Ctrl-Num- - disable all items (where available) Ctrl-A - select all items (where available) [*] Configuration: Confirmation request for the Delete Item operation has been removed in all list-editing panels. If you accidentally removed the needed item - you can click the Undo button in the bottom-left corner of the main Configuration window or press the Undo hotkey (Ctrl-Z by default). [*] Configuration: The flickering has been reduced significantly when resizing either the Configuration windows themselves or their internals. [*] Configuration: Now the Browse for Folder dialog remembers the last choice and restores it next time when adding new items to the Favorite Folders list. [*] Windows 10: Hotkeys now work in Metro apps. [*] Windows 10: Extra title buttons now work in the Edge web browser (and probably other Metro apps). [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now highlights the group buttons the same way the system taskbar does. [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now displays progress indicator on buttons the same way the system taskbar does. [*] Backup/Restore now includes the Logon Screen settings. [*] Logon Screen service now has proper description. [*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver now detects if some specified screen saver failed to start or does not support preview mode and displays a message instead of an empty screen. [*] Configuration: Separate Window Settings windows now retain their position and size when you open them again. [-] Office 2013+: Extra title buttons overlapped the standard ones. [-] Outlook 2016 window dropped the transparency applied at startup. [-] In some cases, extra title buttons did not redraw in the Aero visual theme. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Alt-Tab Switcher displayed the hidden windows. [-] Windows 10: Windows PowerShell did not "run as administrator" from a button pinned to Actual Taskbar. [-] Installer: The uninstaller popped up interactive dialog requests even if it had been launched with /SILENT or /VERYSILENT command line option. [-] Actual Taskbar: Start menu did not show in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview (build 11102). [-] Actual Taskbar: Group commands Minimize All/Restore All worked incorrectly. [-] Actual Taskbar: The Show Desktop button did not react on clicking its rightmost pixels. [-] Desktop Divider: Resizing a window put into Divider tile changed its original size (i.e. the one it had before putting into a tile) if the Classic Snap with snapping to Divider tiles was enabled. [-] Windows 10: In some cases, the Tiles Editor window displayed cut on secondary monitors. [-] Web slideshow settings did not apply in the Configuration window if the Control Center was unloaded. [-] Windows Vista/7: The progress bar flickered when applying the Logon Screen background settings for a primary monitor. [-] Configuration: Minimized windows did not restore on clicking the notification area icon or pressing the Configure hotkey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.6.2 (23.11.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver stopped working. [-] "Preview" button did not work for the "Current Windows screen saver" option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.6.1 (20.11.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability is added to swap windows between monitors (see the "Swap all windows with" command in the Actual Taskbar context menu). [*] Overall stability is improved. [*] Buttons on the "Tools - Control Center" panel are made more usable. [*] Multi-monitor background slideshow now gets suspended while screen saver is running or session is locked. [*] Windows 10: Compatibility is improved with the recently released Threshold 2 update (build 10586): - Actual Taskbar context menu readability is restored - showing of recent items in the Actual Taskbar Jump Lists is restored - gap between Actual Taskbar and Jump Lists is removed [*] Windows 10: Showing of the system Background Settings dialog is restored when clicking the "Current Windows background - Settings" button. [-] Windows 10: Size of extra title buttons calculated incorrectly for MDI windows and windows pinned to desktop. [-] Windows 10: Virtual Desktops Switcher showed unusable entries for running Metro applications. [-] In some cases (e.g. for digital connectors like DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort), monitor order numbers might differ from the system. [-] Slideshow Screen Saver settings got reset after clicking the Preview button. [-] Attempt to select several entries in a slideshow playlist caused an error when configuring Actual Slideshow Screen Saver via system Screen Saver dialog. [-] In some cases, Logon Screen Slideshow might keep running in background even after logging into a session, interfering with UAC prompts and needlessly utilizing the CPU. [-] The Roll Up feature displayed a meaningless preview for rolled up windows in the Aero visual theme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.6 (06.10.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The popular request to display the system Recycle Bin in taskbars is fulfilled. The Recycle Bin is available as an extra button in both the system taskbar and the Actual Taskbar, and this button provides exactly the same operations as the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop: - you can drag-n-drop documents onto it to put them into the Recycle Bin - you can left-click it to open a folder window showing the Recycle Bin contents - you can right-click it to invoke the Recycle Bin context menu On the system taskbar, you can toggle the Recycle Bin button presence in the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel, in the "System Taskbar - Additional Buttons" group. On any instance of Actual Taskbar, you can toggle the Recycle Bin button presence using the "Show the Recycle Bin" command in the taskbar's context menu. [+] Now you can suspend/resume Actual Window Manager via command line using the following syntax, respectively: ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe suspend ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe resume [+] Now you can launch another instance of the program using middle click on a Minimize-to-Screen floating icon. [*] Windows 10: Compatibility with 3rd party Start menu alternatives (Classic Shell, Start10, Start Menu X, StartIsBack++) is restored. [*] Clipboard History now displays a real image resolution for graphic data. [*] If Actual Window Manager was installed into a trusted location (such as "Program Files" folder) using administrative privileges and then used under non-privileged user account, Actual Window Manager update installer now warns that it must be run as administrator to update the installation in a trusted location. [-] Windows 10: System Alt-Tab switcher worked wrong if the "Move to monitor at startup - Where mouse pointer" action was enabled in the default window settings. [-] If a Remote Desktop Client window was open full-screen and then was switched back to windowed mode, extra title buttons did not appear in the title bar. [-] Dragging of Minimize-to-Screen floating icons stopped working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.5.3 (19.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] On some combinations of video hardware and drivers Actual Window Manager crashed at startup. [!] To prevent possible security breach, now Logon Screen Service checks integrity and digital signature of an executable file being run. [*] Vista+: Aero Snap and Classic Snap behavior has been improved in the Aero visual theme and high screen DPIs. [-] Windows 10: Classic Snap did not snap windows accurately (a small gap remained). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.5.2 (09.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Logon Screen Slideshow stopped reading its configuration. [-] Logon Screen Slideshow displayed the Evaluation dialog even for registered users. [-] In some cases automatic Save Idle Screens did not stop. [-] The Preview button in the "Multiple Monitors - Screen Saver" panel did not work for modes other than "Current Windows screen saver" until the Apply button was clicked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.5.1 (04.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] On some hardware configurations, Actual Window Manager crashed at startup. [-] Hardware-accelerated mirrors might hang or crash on some versions of Nvidia/AMD video drivers. [-] On some configurations, using Logon Screen Slideshow made the "EFCreate runtime error" message appear. [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar did not indicate task buttons as active if they represented not a single window but group of windows. [-] Windows 10: The "Minimize All command affects only the monitor with mouse pointer" option stopped working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.5 (26.08.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Vista+: The long-awaited ability to customize the Logon/Lock Screen background image is added. On multi-monitor systems, it also allows to run picture slideshow on secondary monitors (see the new "Logon Screen" section in the Quick Setup wizard and the main Configuration window). [+] Vista+: Default Audio Device Switcher is added. It lets you quickly switch the audio device used in the system by default for sound output, if you have more than one audio hardware device installed in your PC (most modern video cards have embedded audio hardware to support such combined video/audio output standards as HDMI or DisplayPort). You can invoke the list of available devices via special hotkey combination (Win-Ctrl-A by default, can be changed on the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel in the "Tools" group). [+] Now you can use environment variables while specifying path for a Favorite Folders item. [*] Now, when running multi-monitor slideshow, the "Next slide" command affects only the monitor where it has been invoked. [-] Windows 10: Numerous fixes for Actual Taskbar: - wrong colors were used for text displayed in task buttons and clock and for taskbar background ("black taskbar" issue) - running Metro apps did not have corresponding task buttons - Clock/Calendar window did not appear when clicking the clock on Actual Taskbar - task buttons were wider than in the system taskbar - preview thumbnails looked different than in the system taskbar - notification area button was smaller than in the system taskbar - progress was not indicated in task buttons - Start menu did not go to secondary monitors when being invoked from Actual Taskbar - it was impossible to pin a button to Actual Taskbar using drag-n-drop (using the "Pin" command in the right-click menu works as expected) - Actual Taskbar displayed the pinned buttons of running applications different than the system taskbar - icons in the task buttons of Metro apps were changed after minimizing/restoring the app [-] Windows 10: Numerous fixes for extra title buttons: - size was calculated incorrectly - used button glyphes were of improper color - Compact View window looked wrong - detecting free place for extra buttons worked wrong [-] Windows 8+: Middle click on Windows Explorer button in Actual Taskbar did not open a new Explorer window. [-] Windows 7+: Graphical resources leaked when using Jump Lists in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 7+: Jump Lists were displayed incorrectly after an item pinning. [-] On some systems, Actual Taskbar settings on different monitors might be mistaked one for another. [!] Windows 10 known issues (subject to fix in the next updates): - Clock/Calendar window do not go to secondary monitors when being invoked from Actual Taskbar - Clock/Calendar window does not close on second click on Actual Taskbar clock - extra title buttons do not work in Microsoft Edge web browser - extra title buttons look wrong in applications with non-standard title color (like Photos, Windows Mail) - hotkeys do not work in Metro apps - extra menu commands do not appear in Metro apps - gradual Compact View does not work in Metro apps - Logon Screen slideshow runs behind the Logon background window - Classic Snap does not snap windows accurately (a small gap remains) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.4 (27.05.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Automatic detection of free place for extra title bar buttons is added in: - popular web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox; - Microsoft Office applications (since Office 2007); - Windows Explorer (since Windows 8). This feature should prevent the overlapping of extra title bar buttons provided by Actual Window Manager with standard controls available in a window (like standard buttons, browser tabs, New Tab button, etc.). [+] Automatic gradual Compact View is added for extra title bar buttons: now the buttons are getting hidden/shown 1-by-1 if there is not enough (or enough again) place in the title bar to show the full list of enabled extra buttons. When some buttons get hidden, the special Compact View button automatically appears on the left of remained buttons: click on this button will display the currently hidden buttons. [*] Multi-monitor taskbar is now compatible with latest builds of Windows 10. [-] Actual Taskbar flickered with Kaspersky Internet Security running. [-] Sometimes running programs might crash after unloading Actual Window Manager. [-] The bug prevented NuSphere PhpEd 15 debugger from starting is fixed. [-] Magix products (Movie Edit, Music Maker) stopped responding during loading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.3 (15.04.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The overall support of high screen DPIs is improved. [+] AeroSnap emulator has been extended with the Snap Assist feature presented in Windows 10. [+] Search button has been added to Actual Taskbar that invokes the system Search window. [+] Virtual Desktops Switcher button has been added to Actual Taskbar. [+] Previews of images copied into clipboard are now available in the Clipboard History window. [+] Desktop Divider: Now there is no need to drag a window to a tile border to put the window into the tile if the "Activate When Dragging a Window" option is set to "While pressed". [+] The ability is added to show/hide desktop icons by the middle mouse button double click on the desktop. [*] Compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds on 64-bit systems is improved. [*] The "Open slide" desktop context menu item now appears disregarding the "Show picture source" option. [*] Last used path is saved in the Configuration Backup/Restore dialogs. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Google Chrome disappeared from the Alt-Tab task switcher after adding a new tab if the "Replace the system task switcher" option was enabled. [-] In some cases Actual Taskbar was displayed on top of fullscreen windows. [-] It was impossible to make the auto-hidden Actual Taskbar appear when certain program (like Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird) was maximized on that monitor. [-] In some cases Jump Lists didn't display their items properly. [-] Windows 8.1: Multi-monitor Screen Saver showed a black screen with the KB3000850 Windows Update installed. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Title buttons didn't change their color on mouse hovering. [-] Expose task switcher could be invoked when no window was visible. [-] It was possible to make several auto-starting desktop profiles by copying a single auto-starting one. [-] The "Start automatically" option in the Desktop Profiles panel got grayed after some changes and did not restore back. [-] Desktop Divider: In some cases a window could not be put into a tile by dragging it to the tile border. [-] Adding an item to the Favorite Folders list worked incorrectly in the Configuration window. [-] The multi-selection of specific window settings got broken. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.2.2 (01.11.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Actual AeroSnap is enhanced with the ability to make a window quarter monitor size by snapping it into monitor corners, like in Windows 10. [+] Ability is added to specify the "Change interval" for wallpaper slideshow in seconds. [-] Windows disappeared after minimizing/restoring them on the taskbar button click. [-] Wallpaper slideshow in the "Individual picture on each monitor" mode worked wrong on display configurations having cloned monitors. [-] Multi-monitor screen saver and slideshow screen saver worked wrong on display configurations having cloned monitors. [-] If the compact view for title buttons was on, sometimes the popup toolbar appeared behind the main window. [-] If an MDI window was snapped within its parent window using Actual AeroSnap and the parent window was resized, the subject window did not retain the parent size. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.2.1 (24.10.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Windows 10 basic compatibility is added: - the "black Actual Taskbar" bug is fixed - Start button's visibility is restored - Start menu pops up on a proper monitor - Jump Lists' native look is restored - Actual Taskbar does not display service windows of Modern (Metro) apps [*] Title buttons compact mode now works correctly in systems with right-to-left languages (like Arabic or Hebrew). [*] Windows 7+: Jump Lists' appearance is slightly improved. [*] Window mirrors activated in window settings (via title button/window menu or at startup) now can run full-screen on a specified monitor. [-] Windows 8.1 x64: Some windows could not be dragged/sized if both the "Aero Snap" and "Disable the native Windows 7 Snap" options were enabled. [-] Background settings changes were reset after reloading. [-] Screen savers showed the nag screen even if the evaluation period did not expire. [-] Hardware-accelerated mirroring of a monitor or a part of desktop worked wrong if the mirrored area was in negative coordinates. [-] Title buttons in compact mode were positioned incorrectly in the following cases: - in Windows 7 and later with the Aero visual theme activated - with vertical shift applied - when maximizing/restoring a window where the compact mode was activated automatically (i.e. the window's title in normal state was too narrow to embrace the full list of buttons) [-] Desktop Divider layouts were not displayed while configuring "Specific Settings - Startup - Put into Divider tile". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.2 (22.09.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The Configuration Module now can run multiple windows at once. For example, you can open several Window Settings windows using the "Manage window settings" title button (separate window for each settings). When several configuration windows are open at once, changes made within a particular window are isolated there until you click the Apply button in that window. [!] Changes made in the Default Window Settings now are propagated automatically to all existing specific window settings (provided that the old value was the same in both Default and particular specific settings). [+] Quick Setup wizard is added. It allows to tune up quickly the most frequently used features (according to collected and analyzed usage statistics) without diving into details. [+] Compact mode for extra title buttons is now available: it displays the small narrow button instead of the full list of active buttons. Click on this button expands the list of active buttons so they can be used as usual. Second click on this button or click somewhere else collapses the list of active buttons so they do not block the view (this can be especially useful in non-standard windows like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox). The compact mode activates either automatically (when the extra buttons do not fit the title bar) or it can be set permanently for particular windows in the Window Settings options (see the "Title Buttons - Options" group). [+] In addition to a right click on extra title buttons, now you can hold the left mouse button on them for some time to invoke their extended abilities (like context menus or special dialogs). [+] The ability is added to specify exact secondary display position (see the "Display Position" group in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel). [+] Windows 8/8.1: Option to cancel the replacement of the system Alt-Tab Task Switcher is added. [+] The "Popular" filter is added in the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel and set as default filter there. It lists the most frequently used key combinations based on the usage statistics analysis. [*] Compatibility with Windows 8.1 Service Pack 1 has been improved. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Alt-Tab Switcher is improved: - now it respects the system "Repeat delay" and "Repeat rate" values - it does not activate Aero Peek until the switching is stopped for at least 1 second - it can't be moved using the Easy Window Dragging/Sizing feature - CPU load is reduced significantly when moving a mouse over its window - redundant redraws are fixed [*] Monitors' layout preview in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel now properly aligns the disabled monitors. [*] After disabling the cloning of displays, they both are automatically set to their preferred resolutions. [*] The "Arrange Monitors" feature now takes into account the enabled displays only (so that if there is just a single display enabled then the "Arrange Monitors" button gets grayed). [*] Compatibility of the Ignore Deactivation feature with League of Legends and Final Fantasy XIV is restored. [*] Windows 7+: The speed of Desktop Divider layouts switching has been increased significantly and the system load has been reduced. [*] Now it's possible to select several picture files in the "Add File" dialog while configuring the Slideshow screen saver. [*] The "Move the mouse pointer along with window" option now works even if there are no modifier keys specified. [*] Manage Window Settings button is a regular button now: it can be enabled or disabled in window settings on a per-window basis as any other button. [*] Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature with old versions of Google Chrome is restored. [*] The window invoked by the "Copy Settings from..." command now does not display the target Window Settings item. [-] Downloaded setups of newer versions were installed automatically even if the automatic updates were disabled (which prevented the rolling back to any previous version if a newer version setup was available). [-] In some cases Start menu submenus might appear invisible, having only a shadow. [-] Numerous fixes in Actual Taskbar's Jump Lists: - some kinds of links did not open properly (e.g. sessions in PuTTY) - improper items could be dragged out of Jump List - items in custom categories could not be pinned/unpinned - some items could not be unpinned (e.g. sessions in PuTTY) - Windows x64: in some apps (e.g. PuTTY, Mozilla Firefox), links dragged out of Jump List did not work [-] Windows x64: Mirror windows showed white rectangle instead of mirrored content when monitor or part of desktop was mirrored and the hardware acceleration was disabled. [-] In some cases, Actual Taskbar displayed the wrong icon for a window in its taskbar button (e.g. for the Google Hangouts app). [-] Actual Taskbar always displayed on top of Firefox windows, even if they were fullscreen. [-] On some configurations, cloned displays showed the wrong list of available resolutions in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel. [-] Desktop Divider: Switching the layouts quickly with the mouse wheel got stuck after some scrolls and even might cause a crash of the active app. [-] Desktop Divider: In some cases tile size could not be set exactly in pixels using the Resize button while editing a layout. [-] Windows 8.1: A workaround for a system bug has been added to reduce the memory leaks in Windows Explorer when using the Favorite Folders and/or Recent Folders title button. [-] The Ignore Deactivation feature made apps crash if it was activated via hotkey with the "Compatibility mode" option enabled. [-] After being pressed, user-added title buttons affected the state of the factory title button of the same kind and displayed the wrong hint. [-] In some cases extra title buttons in Microsoft Word 2013 might disappear. [-] Extra title buttons did not work in Autodesk Design Review 2013. [-] In the Aero visual theme, Visual Studio 2012 got hung upon closing. [-] Extra title buttons did not appear in X1 Search. [-] NuSphere PhpEd 12 crashed when trying to scroll the File Explorer view. [-] Windows 7: Tooltips did not display in command prompt windows. [-] Avast! notification area popup did not close in the Actual Taskbar. [-] Unloading 1st Clock right after restoring from hibernation made Windows Explorer hung. [-] Drag to Scroll feature worked inconsistently in Process Explorer, Process Lasso, system Window Firewall applet and the latest version of Google Chrome. [-] The "Use hardware acceleration" option did not switch in the Configuration window for mirroring-related title button/window menu/startup actions. [-] In some cases hotkey combinations worked twice although being pressed once (for example, Ctrl-C worked like Ctrl-C-C and triggered the appearance of the ABBYY Lingvo window). [-] In some cases, clipboard template did not paste into a current active window. [-] In some cases, after switching the Virtual Desktops mode in either way (classic to independent, or vice versa), windows got duplicated on all virtual desktops despite their current selection. [-] Unwanted extra buttons of Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat appeared in the Virtual Desktops Switcher after switching the desktops with those programs running. [-] Canceling the download in the "Check for Updates" dialog caused an error. [-] Pressing Enter in the "Check for Updates" dialog after the download was started caused the restart of downloading. [-] In the Configuration window, multi-line edit fields reset their scroll bars to the beginning after typing a character when the content exceeded the size of the edit field. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.1.4 (10.04.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] German translation is revised. [*] Windows 8.1: The "Show the Apps list" option is made inaccessible because of its incompatibility with this version of Windows. [-] Windows 8.1: System taskbar became black when using Actual Window Manager along with the StartIsBack app. [-] Various apps might crash randomly upon loading Actual Window Manager if the Desktop Divider was active. [-] Some windows might disappear if the "Fix maximal window size" feature was active (in particular, the "Open File" dialogs in Actual Window Manager Configuration). [-] Windows XP/Vista: Command prompt windows launched after starting Actual Window Manager remained unprocessed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.1.3 (20.03.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability is added to view and set Desktop Divider tiles' exact size in pixels while configuring the layout. [*] Incompatibility with Mikrotik's Winbox windows is fixed. [*] Scrolling of inactive zones in active windows with the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is restored. [-] Adobe Acrobat Standard X/XI crashed upon trying to start a new scan. [-] The upper area of buttons in Actual Taskbar did not react properly on mouse clicks in the Aero visual theme. [-] Active window became always-on-top after invoking the Start menu on Actual Taskbar by pressing the Win key if the system taskbar was always-on-top. [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver worked wrong if any of screen savers was deleted or uninstalled. [-] Tooltip displaying current window position left visible after docking the Google Chrome tab into another Chrome window. [-] The "Display current window position" feature did not work if the "Show window contents while dragging" system option was disabled. [-] In some cases the Roll Up window action did not roll the window exactly to the title bar but kept the most window area visible instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.1.2 (04.03.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability to display the picture source in desktop background slideshow is added. You can open any current slideshow picture file in your default picture viewer by using the "Open slide" command in the Desktop context menu. [+] The automatic rotation/flipping of pictures in desktop background slideshow to their original orientation is added. [+] Ability to specify file masks (using the "*" and "?" symbols) for the Program target window criterion is added. [*] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar is compatible with ClassicShell Start menu. [*] Additional title buttons are now compatible with Stardock WindowFX. [*] Compatiblity with Agnitum Outpost Security Suite is restored. [*] Compatibility with Foxit PDF Reader is improved. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar now correctly handles the 0% transparency value and can be made opaque. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Now switching between running applications while keeping Alt-Tab pressed is faster. [*] Opening the Favorite Folders context menu with many shortcuts to network folders is sped up. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Internet Explorer 11 closed immediately when running in Metro mode. [-] In some cases opening a new window of Internet Explorer 11 also opened additional unwanted IE window. [-] In some cases Start menu on the main taskbar could not be invoked by pressing Win or Ctrl-Esc. [-] Adobe Flash Installer crashed after clicking the Quit button if Actual Window Manager was running. [-] PuTTYSessionManager crashed after closing it automatically on window deactivation. [-] It was impossible to drop the dragged Google Chrome tab back into window when the Desktop Divider facility was active. [-] In some cases scrolling a Google Chrome window changed unwantedly the zoom level first before the scrolling started. [-] When scrolling a Cyberfox window with the Drag to Scroll feature made the feature stuck if the mouse went outside the window. [-] Terratec Home Cinema window got hung if the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active. [-] Running Actual Window Manager stole the focus from the active window. [-] Gather All Windows command stopped working. [-] In some cases changing Actual Window Manager language made some of additional title buttons and window menu commands disappear. [-] Some windows (like Query Builder in MS Visual Studio 2010) were falsely incompatible with Desktop Divider. [-] Windows 8.1: Desktop Divider did not work with individual per-monitor DPI. [-] Desktop Divider tile preview was drawn incorrectly (without considering the layout frame width). [-] Applying the AltMinimize feature to aBurner window did not hide its taskbar button. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.1.1 (31.01.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Sometimes running programs might crash after unloading Actual Window Manager. [-] Some kinds of windows stopped working correctly when extended by Actual Window Manager (in particular, windows of the Investor/RT app). [-] Actual Taskbar might stop responding after clicking an icon in the notification area. [-] World of Tanks game client stopped responding after applying the Ignore Deactivation action. [-] Activating/deactivating a windowed Modern (Metro) app produced the "screen flip" animation if the "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" system option was enabled. [-] In some cases, active window might lose the focus when mouse hovered over the desktop if the "Activate on Mouse Hover" feature was active. [-] Some kinds of windows might not fit the Desktop Divider tiles in Aero visual themes. [-] In some cases, Clipboard History duplicated the just pasted picture in the history list. [-] In some cases, editing controls did not display for a template or a group in the Clipboard Templates panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.1 (22.01.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The Clipboard History feature is added: it collects the text, images, files, etc. copied to the clipboard, and allows pasting them lately. [+] Windows 8/8/1: Ability to toggle active Modern (Metro) app to windowed mode is added (see the "Toggle windowed mode for a Modern app" hotkey in the Tools group on the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel). [+] Ability to activate windows by placing the mouse over them is added (see the new "Mouse - Options" panel). [+] Now the Desktop Mirroring feature uses the hardware video acceleration available for Windows Desktop presentation since Windows Vista. This allows the near-real-time performance for such graphics-intensive applications as video players, video games and other similar programs where high performance mirroring is required. Note: Hardware accelerated mirroring is available only when the Aero visual theme is active. [+] The Save Idle Screens feature now can be configured to start automatically on a monitor when no mouse and application activity occurs on that monitor for a specified time. [+] Now it is possible to specify the default location of configuration files via command line: run "ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe CFL 1|2|3|-", where 1 - program installation folder 2 - "Application Data" folder in the All Users user profile 3 - "Application Data" folder in the current user profile (default) - - remove the value from the Registry [+] Sending of collected usage statistics is added. [*] Alt-Tab Task Switcher is compatible with Windows 8.1. [*] Clipboard Templates now support Unicode texts. [*] The Clipboard Templates context menu now displays the last used template first. [*] Clipboard Templates: Now it is possible to drag templates between groups of different levels. [*] Windows 8.1: Look of the Start button in Actual Taskbar is improved. [*] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar now supports the Start menu provided by the Start8 program. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Support of Classic Shell Start Menu and StartIsBack is improved. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar now considers the docked Modern (Metro) apps when calculating the monitor work area. [*] Actual Window Manager screen savers are compatible with Windows 8.1. [*] The Ignore Deactivation feature compatibility with Hitman: Absolution (and possibly some other games) is improved. [*] Compatibility with the Directory Opus "Open on Desktop double-click" feature is improved. [*] Desktop background slideshow now displays pictures in the same order as they are shown by Windows Explorer being sorted by their file names. [*] The "Custom Position" dialog is improved: now it displays values for all available measure units (pixels, percent of monitor/desktop). [*] When using the Window Finder tool to fill the "Align window" or "Resize window" parameters from an existing window, the actual values are calculated in set measure units and alignment mode. [*] Check for Updates options are moved into separate panel in the Options page. [*] Now it is possible to open the Check for Updates options from the Check for Updates window. [*] Now it is possible to restore the lost registration code from the Registration dialog. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Running programs in "Windows XP/Vista compatibility" mode made them hung at startup. [-] Automatically moving or sizing Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 windows at startup made them unusable. [-] Flash Player running in the Firefox Plugin Container consumed system resources constantly. [-] Unloading 1st Clock made Windows Explorer hung. [-] Zoom screen sharing utility worked improperly when Actual Window Manager was running. [-] Google Chrome crashed when Actual Window Manager tried to display tooltips for its title buttons. [-] Google Chrome crashed when Actual Window Manager tried to display a tooltip showing window position/size when dragging/sizing Chrome window. [-] Windows 8.1 x64: ActualWindowManagerShellCenter64.exe sometimes crashed when using Alt-Tab. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher always displayed Modern (Metro) apps first, no matter were they active or not. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher got cycled after switching from active Modern (Metro) app. [-] Clipboard Templates: After disabling the feature individual template groups still could be invoked via their assigned hotkey combinations. [-] Clipboard Templates: It was impossible to add another top-level template group after selecting one of existing top-level groups in the navigation tree. [-] Windows 8.1: Start screen opened via Actual Taskbar's Start button did not close on the second click on Start button. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar and Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not display Windows Task Manager when it was always-on-top. [-] Actual Taskbar displayed unwanted Start button copies when working with Classic Shell. [-] In some cases Actual Taskbar did not display separators in Jump Lists. [-] Actual Taskbar's look differed from the system one with non-standard system metrics. [-] Windows 7+: Actual Taskbar decreased the monitor work area incorrectly if any Windows Sticky Notes window was snapped to it closely. [-] Actual Taskbar appeared on top of other windows even if its "On top" option was disabled. [-] Actual Taskbar appeared on top of topmost windows (even if its "On top" option was disabled) when placing the mouse into any preview thumbnail or invoking the taskbar's context menu and opening any its submenu. [-] Actual Taskbar's preview thumbnails hid behind topmost windows. [-] Windows Sticky Notes icon always displayed in the primary taskbar no matter what monitor the notes were actually on. [-] Actual Taskbar did not recognize moving the BitKinex windows to another monitor. [-] Windows 7+: Sometimes toggling monitors via "Manage Secondary" context menu did not work. [-] Activating a desktop profile reset the Save Idle Screens settings. [-] Windows 7: Google Photos screen saver did not run within the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Photos screen saver froze on a first slide within the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver. [-] Monitor settings on the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel did not update after changing the desktop configuration outside the Configuration window. [-] When configuring mirrors with the "Window" source type, some controls were out of sight in the "Source Parameters" group. [-] Recent Folders title button did not work when selecting the disk root folder (like C:\, D:\, etc.). [-] Windows 7+: Title buttons did not appear in: - Remote Desktop Client - Steam client - Spotify [-] Flickering of title buttons in MS PowerPoint 2010 windows is reduced. [-] Incorrect hint was displayed for the Move to Monitor title button. [-] Put into Divider Tile title button displayed incorrect hint after using the "Desktop Divider's up/down/left/right" hotkeys. [-] Minimize-to-screen icons might appear out of sight after rearranging the desktop monitors. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Windows Explorer windows could not be dragged using the Easy Windows Dragging/Sizing feature. [-] Windows 8: Pinning a window to desktop caused visual glitches. [-] After pinning a window to desktop its placement might be calculated improperly if the multi-monitor desktop had a negative coordinates area. [-] Some hotkeys remained operative even if the Control Center had been stopped. [-] Automatic mouse locking remained operative even if the Control Center had been stopped. [-] After locking the mouse within a window and then dragging that window the lock got lost. [-] Mouse actions did not work when specifying single left click on title bar (with no modifiers or any set of them). [-] Applying the Ignore Deactivation feature to several windows of the same app might cause the undefined behavior. [-] Windows 7+: The "Program" target window criterion did not work in console windows. [-] Dimensions for some kinds of windows calculated incorrectly in Aero visual theme. [-] Automatic update always downloaded the latest available setup file from the server no matter it was already downloaded or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.0.3 (14.09.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Actual Slideshow Screensaver now can skip the content of sub-folders when adding a folder to slideshow playlist. [-] After downloading the update, setup did not run after clicking on the tray balloon "Click here to install it right now" message if the "Load at startup" option was enabled. [-] Windows 8.1: ActualWindowManagerShellCenter.exe sometimes crashed when trying to display a preview thumbnail. [-] Windows x64: Sometimes Directory Opus got a new lister window behind other windows when using the left double-click on the Desktop. [-] The "Move the mouse pointer along with window" feature did not work if the "Tight monitor boundaries" feature was active. [-] The "Move to monitor - Having mouse pointer" hotkey worked only once for a certain window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.0.2 (30.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] With larger size of system dialog font, registration codes were cut down after pasting into the Registration dialog so that the program could not recognize them as valid codes. [-] Installer froze for 10 seconds after copying the files. [-] Windows 7: Enabling a monitor in the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel caused an error. [-] Minimized-to-screen icons could not be dragged. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows feature did not work with the Channel Chat window of mIRC 7.32. [-] The "Move to virtual desktop" custom hotkey did not work with the "All desktops" option selected. [-] Even if a mirror item was disabled but its hotkey was enabled, the mirror could be launched by pressing that hotkey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.0.1 (19.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Uninstallation did not work because of the "DLL not found" error. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 8.0 (15.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Beginning from the version 8.0, the Licensing Policy changes: now you must purchase as many copies of the program as many users will use the program simultaneously. There is no limit on the number of computers the program can be installed on and registered with the same registration code as long as the number of simultaneous users is less than or equal to the number of purchased copies. For more information, please refer to the license.txt document in the program's installation folder. [!] Beginning from the version 8.0, the Upgrade Policy changes: now purchasing the registration code grants you the Free Upgrades Subscription for a certain period (a year). During this period, you are eligible to get any new versions of the program for free. After this period expires, you will have to purchase another registration code to prolong the Free Upgrades Subscription (in case you want to do so). Otherwise, you can continue to use the last actual version of the program, it will remain registered and fully functional. [!] Due to copyright reasons, the Classic Shell Start Menu is removed from Actual Window Manager setup. To continue using the Classic Start Menu in new versions of Windows, you can download the entire Classic Shell suite from its official project page: http://www.classicshell.net/ [+] Support of child windows within multi-document interface (MDI) applications is added. The most well-known example of such windows are Microsoft Excel workbooks. However, because of speciality of such windows some window actions cannot be applied to them, and others work differently than for usual top-level windows (for more information, please refer to User Manual). [+] The Save Idle Screens feature is added: it allows you to run screen savers on monitors unused at the moment, without the need to turn them off (which may lead to re-configuration of multi-monitor desktop on systems since Windows 7). Unlike usual system screen saver, this feature activates screen savers by special hotkey combination (Win-Ctrl-S by default), and screen savers do not shut down when you use mouse or keyboard. To stop them, you should press the same hotkey again. You can select screen savers to run and adjust the key combination on the "Multiple Monitors - Screen Saver - Save Idle Screens" panel. [+] Emulation of Mac OS Expose task switcher is added. You can toggle it via special hotkey combination (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-P by default, can be changed on the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel in the "Multiple Monitors" group). [+] Korean language is added (translation provided by pCsOrI). [+] The ability is added to put the mouse pointer automatically into a window moved to another monitor, if certain modifier keys (Ctrl by default) are pressed when invoking the Move to Monitor action. If the Move to Monitor action is invoked via title button then the mouse pointer will be placed over that title button. Otherwise, the mouse pointer is placed over window's title bar. You can activate this feature and adjust the modifier keys in the "Options - Actions - Move to Monitor" panel. [+] The new Clipboard Templates Library facility is added. It lets you create a collection of frequently used text pieces (e.g. your home address, common e-mail reply, etc.) and insert them wherever you want using the assigned hotkey. Templates can be united into groups. Each group can have its own hotkey. [+] AutoUpdate is finally available. Now, Actual Window Manager not only checks for a new version but also downloads and installs it automatically. [+] Monitor Selector dialog is improved: - now you can not only move a window to certain monitor but also to align it within that monitor in a single click - with the new Align Hotspots (green dots displayed within the monitor preview under the mouse) - window preview can be dragged by the mouse; while dragging the preview, both Classic Snap and Aero Snap features are active - preview of a new window position is added, both in the Monitor Selector itself and on the desktop - animation effects are added - the extra button is added to Actual Taskbar preview thumbnails to invoke the Monitor Selector [+] Collection of usage statistics is added. When enabled, it is keeping record of any window manipulation you undertake in a special log file. Collection of usage statistics is enabled by default. If you encounter any problems with it then you can disable it in the "Options - General" panel. Otherwise, please keep it enabled for a sufficient time (at least several days) to let Actual Window Manager collect enough statistical data. Then, please send us your configuration using the Send to Tech Support button in the "Tools - Configuration" panel. This will help us analyze and better understand the preferences and needs of our users and improve our products more consciously and purposefully. [+] The "Current Windows background" option is added for the Independent mode of Virtual Desktops. It lets to keep current desktop background untouched when independent virtual desktops are active. [*] Dutch translation is revised. [*] Compatibility with Windows 8.1 Release Preview is improved. [*] Compatibility with Citrix products (XenDesktop, XenApp) is improved. [*] After setting window position using the Align Window action, the window retains the set alignment when changing the size using the Resize Window action, until the user drags the window or changes its size manually. [*] Scroll Inactive Windows feature is now compatible with: - Altap Salamander - mIRC [*] "Hotkeys - Actions" panel's look and behavior is restored. [*] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher now shows the Metro applications. [*] Activating the Ignore Deactivation feature now releases the mouse pointer and lets move it out of the monitor occupied by the game in the following games: - games that use DirectInput (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3) - games based on the Unreal Engine 3 technology (e.g. Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect 3, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands 2) - Diablo III [-] Calendar window did not appear when first clicking the clock on system taskbar and then clicking the clock on Actual Taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar displayed the wrong hint window over Network Connection icon. [-] Desktop icons order restoration worked wrong if there were icons with the same name but of different types. [-] Title buttons did not appear in Bluebeam Revu windows. [-] Windows 8 x32: Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not show other screen savers because of the incompatibility with the NVIDIA drivers since 314.22. [-] Windows 8: Desktop icons disappeared when selecting the Desktop icon in the Alt-Tab switcher. [-] Start/Stop Window Mirror hotkey did not work. [-] If a window was rolled up and then minimized, it did not unroll after restoration. [-] Actual Window Manager began to crash after installing the latest drivers for Intel and NVIDIA video cards. [-] If Actual Taskbar had pinned buttons, invoking the "Minimize all" command did not activate the "Restore all" command. [-] Preview thumbnails on system taskbar began to get behind the active window after starting/stopping Actual Window Manager. [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not close on pressing the Esc key. [-] Windows x64: Native 64-bit screen savers did not start within the Multi-monitor Screen Saver. [-] Windows 7 x64: Retrieving the current folder in the Browse for Folder dialog did not work for Favorite Folders/Recent Folders buttons. [-] Windows 7: Changing the current folder in the Browse for Folder dialog via Favorite Folders or Recent Folders button and then using the "Add current folder to Favorites" command added the folder with the hex-encoded title instead of normal human-readable text. [-] Windows 8: Start screen size calculated incorrectly for vertical placements of taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar did not update the clock after changing the date/time settings. [-] In some cases Actual Taskbar displayed the black square instead of a program icon. [-] Windows x64: Using the Easy Window Dragging/Sizing feature did not change the mouse pointer accordingly in 64-bit applications. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows feature worked incorrectly in Excel dialogs (e.g. Format Cells) placed over the worksheet window. [-] Desktop Divider: Copying a tile layout in the Configuration window made invalid copies that could not be activated at runtime. [-] In some cases, Actual Taskbar might disappear because of invalid toolbar settings stored in the Registry. [-] Clicking and holding the left mouse button on a program icon in the Actual Taskbar's system tray invoked the right-click menu for that icon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.5.1 (12.04.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Desktop icons order restoration is improved. [*] Windows 8: Now Alt-Tab Task Switcher activates the next task surely even when pressing Alt-Tab instantly. [-] Windows x64: In some environments, memory might leak gradually in the Control Center. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar did not update the file copying progress bar on Total Commander buttons when copying was finished or canceled. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar displayed no icon for the buttons that referred to a missing file shortcut. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar displayed an incorrect state for AIMP buttons when AIMP played a radio station. [-] Windows 8: Scrolling the mouse wheel over Alt-Tab Task Switcher worked incorrectly if the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was enabled. [-] After applying the Ignore Deactivation feature to a window, it was impossible to work with its subwindows (like Open/Save As dialogs). [-] Dragging the monitor previews on the Monitors Layout and Settings panel might unwantedly activate the Desktop Divider. [-] Winamp Library window disappeared after rolling it up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.5 (25.03.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Global system hooks are replaced with the hooks local for each process. This should fix some known compatibility problems (e.g. with Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat) and also improve the overall stability. [+] Ability is added to put a specific window at startup into the selected tile of a chosen Desktop Divider layout. [+] The ability to invoke various system actions via hotkeys is added: - Lock PC, Log Off, Switch User, Sleep, Hibernate, Restart, Shutdown - Volume Up/Down/Mute - Safely Remove USB Device [*] List of hotkey actions can be filtered by hotkey category (System, Mouse, Custom, etc.). [*] Hotkeys now work in applications (mostly, video games) that use DirectInput to provide keyboard/mouse control (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.). [*] CPU load is reduced when moving a window with the Desktop Divider active. [*] Classic snapping now ignores the 100%-transparent (i.e. invisible) windows. [-] Windows 7: If Internet Explorer is already open, launching a new instance of it opened an unwanted extra window. [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not: - switch to a window by clicking its preview - support switching via rolling the mouse wheel - activate the desktop, in some cases [-] In some cases, programs launched under adminstrator might lose their taskbar button after moving to a secondary monitor and then back to the primary one (e.g. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware). [-] Windows 7: Start button on Actual Taskbar got lost after invoking the "Gather all windows here" command. [-] Actual Window Manager Slideshow screen saver stopped showing pictures on existing monitors after attaching an additional one. [-] The bottom of title buttons was clipped in JRiver Media Center window. [-] Moving a window between monitors via Monitor Selector dialog made the Move to Monitor title button's tool tip incorrect. [-] Windows x64: In some cases, scrolling a window with the "Scrolling inactive windows" feature beyond the bottom made the scroller bounce at the end of scrollbar. [-] Virtual Desktops Switcher window did not restore correct after being rolled up. [-] Yammer Desktop, while being rolled up automatically upon deactivation, did not unroll on first activation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.4.3 (19.02.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Taskbar did not appear at startup if the "Show window contents while dragging" option was disabled in Windows. [*] Compatibility with MAXQDA is improved. [*] Windows 7: "Desktop Divider's Up/Down/Left/Right" hotkey combinations are modified to avoid conflicts with the system hotkeys. [-] In some cases specific window settings did not apply to 64-bit applications (e.g. Waterfox). [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not switch windows when pressing Alt-Tab shortly. [-] Mouse pointer moved to a wrong place when activating Excel windows via taskbar previews if the "Put the mouse into window on preview click" option was enabled. [-] When locking the mouse in a maximized window, the mouse pointer could be dragged beyond monitor boundaries. [-] Windows 7: Hand tool did not work with the folder tree in Windows Explorer windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.4.2 (05.02.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with PTC products (Creo, Windchill, Arbortext, Mathcad, Integrity) is improved. [*] Actual Taskbar, preview thumbnails, mirror windows, Desktop Divider previews now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Virtual Desktops Switcher now looks correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Program dialogs now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Mirror windows are improved: - right click on a title bar displays the system window menu instead of the mirror context menu - mirror can be closed via Alt-F4 - selecting "Configure" in mirror's context menu opens the Configuration with the subject mirror selected in the list of mirrors [*] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar now supports the Start menu provided by the StartIsBack program. [*] Default hotkey combinations for moving a window between Desktop Divider tiles are modified to avoid conflicts with the system ones. [-] ActualWindowManagerShellCenter64.exe consumed too much memory (up to 4 GB). [-] Graphic resources leak in Actual Taskbar led to various problems with Windows Explorer in the systems with the two-byte system language (like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew) set for non-Unicode applications. [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not display windows placed on secondary monitors if the "Individual" mode was set for Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 8: In some cases, work area on secondary monitors calculated incorrectly (so the maximized windows did not fill the entire visible space). [-] In some cases, Directory Opus toolbar disappeared after docking it to the primary taskbar. [-] In some cases, Classic Shell Start menu popped up in a wrong place when called from Actual Taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar handled the user-created toolbars incorrectly. [-] When minimizing/restoring windows in Actual Taskbar, the animation was led to the primary taskbar. [-] In higher screen DPIs, clock in Actual Taskbar did not display the date. [-] In some cases, buttons pinned to Actual Taskbar might have common icons instead of specific ones (for example, Control Panel button had general Window Explorer icon). [-] Jump List displayed wrong caption for a pinned button after restarting Actual Window Manager. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar kept reacting on Aero Shake even after disabling it in the Windows Registry. [-] Special folders (like Libraries), when added to Favorite/Recent Folders lists, had general Window Explorer icon instead of a specific one. [-] Hand tool stopped working in Google Chrome. [-] Configuration backup might fail with the "Failed to get data for 'enable_classic_shell_start'" message. [-] Transitions between the rolled/unrolled state were inconsistent for maximized windows. [-] Rolled up windows had the bottom border cut in the Aero visual themes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.4.1 (31.12.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to switch the Desktop Divider layouts using the combo box in the "Put into" dialog is added. [+] The ability to toggle the logging on-the-fly in the Log window is added. [+] The ability to open the Configuration window for certain window settings or an exclusion by double-clicking its entry in the Log window is added. [*] Compatibility with Adobe Premiere is improved. [*] Title buttons now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Preview thumbnails now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Classic Shell Start Menu settings are now stored in the configuration backup along with the program settings. [-] In some cases, auto-hidden Actual Taskbar got behind an active full-screen window. [-] Actual Taskbar stopped tracking the changes of the system taskbar options. [-] When the system taskbar placed vertical, Start menu might appear in a wrong place on secondary monitors. [-] The "Properties" command stopped working in the Actual Taskbar context menu. [-] If the Actual Taskbar was placed on the edge between monitors, it might appear first on a wrong monitor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.4 (18.12.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to download pictures from web for the background wallpaper slideshow is added. At the moment, two picture sources are available: Google Image Search and Flickr. [+] The ability is added to skip the content of sub-folders when adding a folder to file slideshow playlist. [+] The ability to invoke the classic Start menu on secondary taskbars is added (included the Start menu component from the Classic Shell project by Ivo Beltchev, http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/). [+] The ability is added to specify a delay before adding/removing standard window parts. [*] Windows 7: The ability to start Actual Window Manager at the end of the installation is restored. [*] Additional title buttons work correct in Mozilla Thunderbird 17. [*] Compatibility with JRiver Media Center 18 is finally fixed. [*] In case Actual Taskbar crashes due to some unhandled error, the main program tries to relaunch it automatically. [-] SURFCAM 6 crashed in some cases. [-] If there were hotkey combinations already by the system, other hotkey combinations might work incorrectly. [-] 64-bit Actual Taskbar displayed garbled icons in task buttons and Jump Lists and might crash in systems with two-byte system locale activated (Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [-] There were some slight memory leaks in Actual Taskbar. [-] Background slideshow stopped after locking the workstation, leaving it for a while and then unlocking it back. [-] The additional commands disappeared from the Desktop context menu. [-] Windows 8: Virtual Desktops switcher displayed buttons for Metro applications. [-] Windows 8: When trying to change the position/size of Windows Explorer windows at their startup, they painted incorrectly if the "Block premature window appearance" option was enabled in window settings. [-] Windows 8: In some cases, the disabled Start button on Actual Taskbar might re-appear. [-] Mozilla Firefox 17, when maximized, blocked the access to auto-hidden Actual Taskbar. [-] The name of the Favorite Folders item added in the Configuration window could not be edited. [-] Control keys (e.g. Backspace) were blocked while editing file names in the Configuration window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.3 (22.11.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Taskbar now runs as a separate process (ActualWindowManagerShellCenter.exe). This should increase the speed and stability of this feature. Also, now it works natively on 64-bit systems; that should result in better handling of native 64-bit applications. [+] The Files and Folders options page is added. There you can: - add, modify, remove and arrange Favorite Folders items - name the Favorite Folders items to show this name instead of the full path - add separators between the Favorite Folders items - adjust the number of Recent Folders items stored - clear the Recent Folders history - observe the Recent Folders list - toggle the title buttons of the same name, accordingly [+] Favorite Folders and Recent Folders title buttons are now available in: - WordPerfect file dialogs - DirectoryOpus lister windows - Total Commander windows [+] Minimize-to-Screen icons now can display window preview thumbnails instead of window icons (in non-Aero visual themes, the "Enable preview thumbnails" option must be activated). [+] Now, when you minimize a window to a screen icon, drag the icon somewhere and then restore the window - it will be restored under the mouse pointer. [+] Windows 8: Start Screen options has been added (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel). [+] Now it's possible to pin/unpin items in the Actual Taskbar's Jump Lists in the same manner as in the system taskbar's Jump Lists. [+] The Maximize to Desktop Divider Tile mouse action is added (middle click on Maximize button by default - see the "Mouse - Actions" panel). [+] Ability to disable the Desktop Divider for specific windows is added (see the "Disable Desktop Divider" option in the "Startup - Options" group). [+] The Mouse Sonar effect can be displayed after switching the mouse between monitors via hotkeys to indicate new mouse location. [*] Compatibility with the following programs is restored: - Logitech SetPoint - WordPerfect 12 [*] Compatibility with the following programs is improved: - SmartDraw 12 - HTML-Kit Tools [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar now is compatible with Start Menu X and Classic Shell Start Menu. [*] Now the Recent Folders and Favorite Folders lists can be invoked via grouping button's context menu (i.e. when the title buttons of the same name are disabled). [*] Windows 8: Look of title buttons is improved. [*] Windows 8: The look of preview thumbnails in Actual Taskbar is improved. [*] Start button in Actual Taskbar now looks correct in higher screen DPIs on Windows Vista and higher. [*] Group preview in Actual Taskbar now reacts on drag-n-drop attempts. [*] Handling of links pinned to secondary taskbars is improved. [*] The order of monitors used in the Move to Monitor feature now is the same as in the system. [*] The "Move to" monitor selector dialog now displays the system monitor numbers. [*] Additional title buttons are now available in JRiver Media Center. [*] Quick Settings dialog is now compatible with the maximized windows of Google Chrome. [*] Desktop Divider now reacts on temporary deactivation even if the window is not moving. [*] When you left-click the Put into Divider Tile title button, the mouse pointer now follows this button so that you can quickly put the window into a desired tile by simply making several consecutive clicks, without moving the mouse. [*] You can select several files at once in the "Add File" dialog to add them to slideshow playlist. [*] Minimize-to-Screen icons now cannot be made invisible (100% transparent) - there is no such item in their "Transparency" submenu anymore. [*] The Minimize-to-Screen icon's transparency now can be set via AltMin action options menu. To call this menu, either right click the AltMin title button or open the "Options - AltMin" submenu in the window system menu, then go to "Screen Icon Options - Transparency"). [*] The Minimize-to-Screen icons now react on drag-n-drop attempts: they restore the minimized window so that you can drop there the dragged item. [*] Permanent tray icons now react more consistently to a single click. [*] The list of alternatively minimized windows in the Unhide submenu now is divided into two subsets: the list of windows minimized to tray and the list of windows minimized to screen. [-] Language Bar's context menu disappeared immediately after popping up. [-] In some cases, on 64-bit systems some windows might display their caption text in Chinese. [-] The "&" symbol did not displayed in window captions. [-] Tooltips disappeared in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher. [-] Using the Favorite Folders or the Recent Folders title button in the Windows Explorer windows caused memory leaks. [-] The Favorite Folders title button, when enabled, replaced the Unused Buttons group button (if it was enabled too). [-] Windows 8: System secondary taskbars did not hide when Actual Taskbar activated. [-] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar was not semi-transparent. [-] Windows 8: Start Screen could not be invoked from the system taskbar when the "Show the Start menu for hidden Start button" option was enabled. [-] Windows 8: Start menu did not hide on a second click on the Start button in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 8: The "Open With" list of options disappeared immediately if the "Move to Monitor at Startup" feature was enabled in the Default Settings. [-] Windows 7 x64: Actual Taskbar might work wrong if Actual Window Manager was installed with the "Support of system utilities and administrative tools" option enabled. [-] Windows 7: Start menu did not pop up when clicking the leftmost Start button's boundary. [-] Windows 7: The Onscreen Keyboard's taskbar button did not display in Actual Taskbar on secondary monitors. [-] Windows 7: System screen savers were affected by the "Move to Monitor at Startup" feature enabled in the Default Settings. [-] The "No Disk" error message was displayed when trying to open the Jump List that contained links to files on a removable or network disk, and that disk was removed or unavailable. [-] In somes cases, new items could not be pinned to Actual Taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar, while auto-hidden, did not show up if the Google Chrome window was maximized on that monitor. [-] Title button separator made the buttons unusable in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher applications. [-] The "Open as - Maximized" feature worked unstable for the Microsoft Excel main window. [-] With the "Show the buttons in group preview" option enabled, group previews might exceed the monitor boundaries. [-] The "Put the mouse pointer into window on preview click" feature kept on working even when the preview thumbnails were turned off. [-] Click on preview thumbnail of a web browser tab placed the mouse pointer to incorrect position when the "Put the mouse pointer into window on preview click" feature was enabled. [-] Title buttons appeared on fullscreen GOM Media Player. [-] Remove Standard Window Parts feature did not work with XBMC media player. [-] The Aero Snap preview did not hide if other window popped up while dragging a window. [-] Classic window snapping to Desktop Divider tiles did not work when the snapping to desktop/monitor boundaries was disabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.2 (16.08.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The new Recent Folders title button is added. When enabled, it embeds into the standard Open File, Save File, Browse for Folder dialogs and tracks last folders you make a choice from (i.e. click the OK button). Next time you open a dialog, you can quickly visit that folders by clicking the Recent Folders button and select the desired folder. The new button also works with the Open File/Save File dialogs in Microsoft Office applications (since Office XP/2003) and the Windows Explorer folder windows. Left click on this button invokes the menu with the list of shortcuts to recently visited folders (up to 20 items). Shortcuts can be as to real file folders as to virtual items (like Control Panel items, Libraries in Windows 7, etc.). [+] The new Favorite Folders title button is added. When enabled, it embeds into the standard Open File, Save File, Browse for Folder dialogs and lets you create a list of shortcuts to the folders you use most. The new button also works with the Open File/Save File dialogs in Microsoft Office applications (since Office XP/2003) and the Windows Explorer folder windows. Left click on this button invokes the menu with the list of shortcuts and the commands to add/remove the current folder to/from the list. Shortcuts can be as to real file folders as to virtual items (like Control Panel items, Libraries in Windows 7, etc.). [+] The ability to run the desktop profile from the command line is added. Use the following syntax: ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe dp "your_profile_name" [+] The options to remove the taskbar group commands from a group preview/Jump List are added (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel). [+] The new feature is added: when you click on taskbar preview, the mouse pointer jumps to the corresponding point in the window (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel). [!] The library file aimemb64.dll is built using another compiler so we expect the increased stability on 64-bit systems (especially on Windows 7 and Windows 8). [*] Windows Vista/7: The speed of virtual desktops switching in Independent mode is significantly increased. [-] Sometimes the work area on secondary monitor was not updated consistently while dragging the taskbar with the mouse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.1 (07.07.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Custom grouping of taskbar buttons is now available in Actual Taskbar. To add certain window into a group, drag its preview thumbnail and drop it onto the group button (or another window's button to make a new group). To remove window from a group, drag its preview thumbnail and drop it onto the empty taskbar space. To handle groups in a quick and easy manner, the "Tile/Cascade/Minimize/Restore/Move to Monitor" commands have been added. These commands can be invoked: - via group's Jump List - via caption buttons in the group's preview window - via group button's context menu (you can invoke it using Shift-RClick on the group button) Note: Dragging the preview of a browser tab (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) will add the entire browser window into the group, not just that separate tab. [+] You can add custom title buttons at the level of particular window settings (either Default or Specific). Also, you can change the order of buttons and tell apart the groups of similar buttons by adding separators between them. Note: There's no "Title Buttons Order" group anymore in the "Options - Title Buttons" panel because now the order can be adjusted for different window settings individually. Warning! Custom title buttons are not compatible with the Multi-selection Edit yet so please avoid any manipulations with them (adding, deleting, moving) when several window settings are selected to prevent the corruption of your settings. [+] Combo Action feature is added. Now you can add custom title buttons and custom hotkeys that, being clicked, run the defined sequence of actions at once. Thus, you can apply an arbitrary combined effect to a certain window in a single click. [+] Windows 8: Start button is restored in Actual Taskbars (click on this button invokes the system Start screen). [+] Special multi-monitor slideshow screen saver has been added (see "Multiple Monitors -> Screen Saver -> Slideshow on each monitor"). [+] The "Tile/Cascade/Undo" commands has been added to the Actual Taskbar's context menu. [+] Desktop Divider: Now you can switch the layouts on the fly by scrolling the mouse wheel: 1) while dragging a window 2) over the "Put into" dialog [+] Desktop Divider: The ability to copy a layout is added. [+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to copy a layout from one monitor to another in the Tiles Editor. [+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to auto-generate the grid division of defined dimensions. [+] Italian language is added (translation provided by Davide Pari). [*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Release Preview is improved: - correct work with 64-bit Internet Explorer and administrative tools - correct size on the Multi-monitor Task Switcher on secondary monitors - correct size and look of the additional title buttons - correct placement of the multi-monitor background wallpaper pictures - improved quality of the multi-monitor background wallpaper pictures [*] Windows 7: Group buttons' look is improved in Actual Taskbar. [*] The Network Connection pop-up window appears on the monitor where the Network tray icon was clicked. [*] Multi-monitor wallpaper cache folder is cleared upon exiting the program or closing the Configuration window. [*] Desktop Divider: In the "While pressed" activation mode, now it's possible to press the modifier keys after the moment you began to drag a window, i.e. you can activate/deactivate the Desktop Divider anytime. [*] Desktop Divider: Tiles Editor better displays the hierarchy of panels forming the layout: the deeper the panel is - the lighter its splitter looks. [*] Desktop Divider: In the Tiles Editor, splitters snap to their neighbours located on the same horizontal/vertical line. [*] Now it's possible to disable the classic snapping of windows to Desktop Divider tiles (see the "To Desktop Divider tiles" option in the "Options - Window Snapping" panel). [*] RocketDock is always displayed on all virtual desktops. [*] Now it's possible to drag items between different Virtual Desktop Switchers in the Independent mode. [*] Compatibility with NVIDIA nView is improved. [*] In the Aero visual theme, now it's possible to resize a window when the mouse is over additional title buttons. [*] Minimized-to-screen icons save their positions right after moving the icon. [*] Windows 7: The "Run as different user" option of the Start Program action now displays the dialog prompting for credentials (instead of running as administrator by default). [-] Actual Taskbar detected the full-screen windows wrong in the Aero visual theme. [-] In "Use small icons" mode, group buttons in Actual Taskbar displayed large icons scaled down instead of the small icons. [-] Actual Taskbar in not on-top mode did not come forward after clicking its sub-controls (like toolbars). [-] Icons of the following programs displayed in the primary taskbar even when their windows were moved to a secondary monitor: - Digsby - ProCall One [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar did not displayed the icon for Windows Picture Viewer. [-] In some cases, photo slideshow screen savers (Windows Photos, Google Photos, etc.), while being assigned to run on different monitors, stopped at first slide. [-] Desktop Divider: Stretching a window across several tiles didn't work in some cases. [-] Desktop Divider: After placing a window into a tile on another monitor and then maximizing the window, its restoration brought it back to the original monitor. [-] Desktop Divider: Activating another layout did not make its tiles conform with the Desktop work area. [-] Clicking the Maximize button in a window that was Aero-snapped to left/right half of desktop did not maximize the window. [-] Virtual Desktops: Parts of Windows Media Player running in a virtual desktop appeared on another virtual desktop after switching desktops. [-] IrfanView became unresponsive after trying to scroll its window by the mouse wheel with the Scroll Inactive Windows feature active. [-] Tooltip that shows current window position displayed the top-left of window's client area instead of the top-left for the outer window frame. [-] Ignore Deactivation action made the Lock Mouse action stop working. [-] Trying to select several Window Settings items in the left panel and delete them resulted in the deletion of a single item only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 7.0 (13.03.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration window has been revamped. [!] Desktop Divider feature has been added. It allows sub-dividing the entire large desktop or each monitor into several non-intersecting areas (tiles). You can create as many custom tile layouts as you need and activate them on the fly as circumstances require. [+] Multi-monitor Taskbar: The Mixed mode is added. In this mode, taskbar on the primary monitor shows all running applications on all monitors, whereas taskbars on secondary monitors show only applications running on their corresponding monitors. [+] Multi-monitor Taskbar: The option is added to disable the preview thumbnails completely. [+] Mirroring: The ability is added to run a mirror full-screen. [+] Mirroring: The ability is added to adjust mirror's parameters on-the-fly via right-click context menu. Also, you can toggle a mirror full-screen and back using the Alt-Enter hotkey. [+] Compatibility mode is added for the Lock Mouse and Ignore Deactivation hotkeys (try to activate it if these hotkeys do not work by default for a particular game/application). [+] Commands to save/restore the order of desktop icons are added into the Desktop's context menu. [+] Windows 7: The option has been added to control the height of rolled up Windows Explorer windows (either roll them up completely or leave the breadcrumb navigation bar visible to distinguish rolled up folders better). [*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Consumer Preview is improved. [*] Compatibility with Windows Snipping Tool is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's Snagit is improved. [*] Compatibility with GOM Media Player is improved. [*] Compatibility with Gyazo is improved. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar: Compatibility with Winamp is improved. [*] Multi-monitor Task Switcher now reacts on mouse clicks. [*] Actual Window Manager is now compatible with virtual video devices (like those added by MaxiVista or iDisplay). [*] Further improvements of compatibility between Scroll Inactive Windows and Volumouse. [*] Virtual Desktops: The Independent mode is improved. [*] Classic window snapping is improved: now it does not snap to maximized windows and to the borders of windows, which are partially or completely covered by other windows. [*] The "C" command line option has been modified: now it expects a fully qualified name of a folder that contains alternative configuration files to load. [-] In some rare cases, window settings did not re-apply after modification. [-] Some window settings re-applied after saving the configuration even if they were not modified. [-] Excel 2007/2010 workbooks did not activate after clicking their corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars. [-] Active Excel sheets did not minimize on clicking their buttons in secondary taskbars. [-] Context menu did not work in the thumbnail previews for inactive Excel sheets. [-] Outlook 2010 left a blank button in the taskbar after launching from a pinned button. [-] Internet Explorer 9/10 shortcuts did not pin to secondary taskbars when being dragged from the Address bar. [-] Sometimes buttons disappeared from secondary taskbars. [-] In some cases group buttons in secondary taskbars displayed the icon of some window in the group instead of the application icon. [-] Multi-monitor Taskbar: In some cases multi-row taskbar lost its height after changing its properties. [-] Windows 7: Delays for hiding/unhiding an auto-hidden taskbar differed from the system ones. [-] With the Auto-hide feature enabled, Multi-monitor Taskbar got auto-hidden when placing the mouse within a preview thumbnail. [-] Being in both Auto-hide and Locked mode, secondary taskbar got hidden even if it was clicked. [-] Start menu on secondary monitors had no proper right border in some cases. [-] Start menu did not appear after pressing Win/Ctrl-Esc if the mouse pointer was on a monitor with no taskbar. [-] Windows 7: Icons were cut in secondary notification areas in the Windows Classic visual theme. [-] Overlay icons on taskbar buttons disappeared after moving a window to the primary monitor and back. [-] Taskbar buttons for windows in the new version of Google Talk showed in wrong taskbars. [-] Aero Peek invoked immediately after moving the mouse into a preview thumbnail, without any delay. [-] Sometimes tooltip showing current window position displayed incorrect values. [-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally. [-] In some cases, Control Center might crash upon reloading the configuration. [-] When launching Actual Window Manager after Stardock DeskScapes, Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable. [-] With Actual Window Manager running, capturing a video in TechSmith's Jing made it crash upon closing. [-] Windows 7: Sometimes Actual Window Manager crashed when creating the secondary taskbars. [-] Control Center might crash when starting the wallpaper slideshow if the number of slideshow files changed since the last launch. [-] Actual Window Manager crashed when trying to toggle the Virtual Desktops Switcher. [-] Virtual Desktops Switcher had numerous problems in the Independent mode. [-] Multi-monitor Background parameters did not update after switching the Background Mode only. [-] Windows 7: Desktop profiles with cloning could not be activated in the Control Center (via hotkey, at startup, via tray's menu, etc.). [-] Windows 7: Photos screen saver, being run in a multi-monitor mode, got frozen on a first image, if the "On resume, display Welcome screen" option was active. [-] Upon launching Actual Window Manager, title buttons in maximized windows shifted down if the Multi-monitor Taskbar was active. [-] Title buttons did not appear in the Windows Media Center window. [-] Additional commands did not appear in the Windows Media Center window menu after switching its window back from full-screen. [-] Windows that were minimized to the tray/screen via window menu command did not restore via Unhide submenu. [-] Saving the configuration changed the active virtual desktop to a first desktop in the list. [-] Hand tool interfered with the gameplay in some games (such as Cogs). [-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not work on a monitor where Internet Explorer window was maximized. [-] The Remove Taskbar Entry action worked unstable. [-] After unghosting a window with the "Unghost temporarily" key combination, the window could not be ghosted back. [-] Maximizing a window pinned to desktop in a multi-monitor system made it span the entire desktop instead of the current monitor. [-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.7.2 (22.11.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] The quality of multi-monitor wallpaper pictures is improved in Windows 7. [*] In Aero visual theme, Multi-monitor Taskbar's color is now exactly the same as the system taskbar's. [*] Delay before activating a preview when moving the mouse within a multi-preview for a grouped task is added (for now, it's hard-coded to 200 ms). [-] The Scroll Inactive Windows feature stopped working in previous update. [-] Activating the maximized windows from secondary taskbars forced them back to a normal state. [-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed. [-] Window icon and caption did not update in preview thumbnails. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.7.1 (11.11.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability is added to invoke a Jump List by dragging taskbar button out of the taskbar. [+] Auto-scrolling of tabs in the Configuration window is added so the active tab should remain always visible and other tabs fill the entire visible space. [*] The auto-minimization of inactive Outlook dialogs is improved. [*] Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with third party products that also extend the mouse wheel processing. [*] Jump Lists' look in the Aero visual theme is slightly improved. [*] Preview thumbnails' look is improved. [-] Preview thumbnails stopped showing for Excel 2007 workbooks. [-] Preview thumbnails did not close after moving the mouse out of them if the taskbar auto-hiding was enabled. [-] In some cases, windows stopped come to front after clicking their corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars. [-] In some cases, notification area in secondary taskbars made a noticeable CPU load in the Windows Explorer process. [-] Mirror windows did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected. [-] The "Area around the mouse pointer" mirror worked wrong for negative screen coordinates. [-] Title buttons did not update their placement in Mozilla Firefox 7 windows after maximizing/restoring a window. [-] In some cases, console windows might hung for some time at startup. [-] Some Configuration windows (like Select Window from List, Test Regexp) did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected. [-] Sometimes, empty match lines appeared in the Test Regexp results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.7 (21.10.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability is added to activate a desktop profile at Actual Window Manager startup. [+] Monitor auto-arrangement tool is added (see the "Arrange monitors" button in the Monitors' Layout and Settings panel). [+] Ability is added to show/hide secondary taskbars both via Desktop's context menu and via Configuration dialog (see the "Unhide taskbars" button in the Taskbar panel). [+] Ability is added to invoke Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper settings via Desktop's context menu. [+] Ability is added to apply desktop profiles and invoke Desktop Profiles settings via Desktop's context menu. [+] Ability is added to hide/show the Show Desktop button via taskbar's context menu. [+] Ability is added to display the Start menu only on monitors with the visible Start button when the Win key is pressed (to get this, disable the "Show the Start menu for hidden Start button" option in the Taskbar panel). [+] Ability is added to display window's current position in a popup tooltip while dragging a window. [+] Ability is added to assign a custom mouse action for taskbar button click. [+] Ability is added to customize modifier keys for the "Scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel" feature. [+] Norwegian language is added (translation provided by Stale Pedersen). [+] Ability is added to toggle the "Run the library from the installation folder" option via program's command line (use the L+/L- command line option to turn this option on/off, accordingly; by default, this option is off). [*] Window rules (specifics and exclusions) are now compatible with windows of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. [*] Compatibility with many Adobe products is improved (however, some functions may be unavailable yet). [*] Compatibility with Mindjet's MindManager is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's SnagIt is improved. [*] Tracking of window caption changes is improved (in particular, for own Actual Window Manager configuration dialogs). [*] Title buttons look and behave correctly in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 windows. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar works correctly in Windows 8 Developer Preview. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar is now compatible with various sidebar apps (like Vista Sidebar, 7 Sidebar, Google Desktop Sidebar, etc.). [*] Multi-monitor taskbar now respects the "NumThumbnails" registry setting when displaying a multi-preview for a grouped/tabbed taskbar button: if the number of previews exceeds this setting - windows/tabs are shown in a simple list. [*] Monitor detection to apply individual taskbar settings is improved. [*] Start menu's look and behavior on secondary monitors is improved. [*] Windows 7: Rolled-up folder windows now leave the breadcrumb navigation bar visible to distinguish them better. [*] Maximize to Desktop feature is improved to better handle custom monitor configurations. [-] Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 crashed after opening/closing the Chart Source Data dialog. [-] Various Adobe products (like Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator) crashed upon exiting. [-] Autodesk Softimage hung at startup if Actual Window Manager was running. [-] In Windows 7/8, opening lot of tabs in Internet Explorer 9/10 and then hovering its taskbar button led to a continuous cycling of the tabs list. [-] After restarting Windows Explorer, the Win key stopped invoking the Start menu. [-] Taskbar button's extra features (like progress indicator, overlay icon, control buttons in a preview) stopped working in the primary taskbar after moving a window to a secondary monitor and then returning it back to the primary. [-] Auto-hidden secondary taskbar did not appear after pressing the Win key. [-] Taskbar buttons for Google Talk windows showed in a wrong taskbar. [-] Minimized Windows Media Player with skinned view (like "Now playing") did not restore on clicking its button in a secondary taskbar. [-] Hiding the taskbar on a certain monitor did not restore that monitor's work area. [-] In Windows Vista/7, Start button extended to other monitor when a taskbar was on the horizontal edge between monitors and the "Small icons" option was active. [-] When invoking a Jump List for a taskbar with the Auto-hide mode enabled, the taskbar hid (and closed the Jump List) when the mouse went out of its boundaries. [-] When invoking a hidden icons popup window for a taskbar with the Auto-hide mode enabled, the taskbar hid. [-] Pinned taskbar button looked tabbed even after closing its corresponding application (for example, Opera web browser with several opened tabs). [-] Even when the "Use drop shadows for icon labels" system option was turned off, the wallpaper slideshow mode made it active again. [-] After restoring a system from standby/hibernation, the slideshow did not start. [-] Slideshow run even when the "Desktop background" was disabled in the Remote Desktop Connection settings. [-] Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars sometimes stopped showing the desktop on mouse hovering. [-] Windows 7: Switching monitors on/off via desktop profiles did not work in some cases. [-] Windows 7: Hidden tray icons popup window did not close in some cases when clicking outside of it. [-] Virtual Desktops Switchers displayed even when the "Enable virtual desktops" option was off. [-] After activating the Independent mode for virtual desktops, wallpaper settings lost for a monitor with no virtual desktops. [-] Virtual Desktops Switcher in the Independent mode did not react correctly on switching a monitor on/off. [-] Opening first Firefox 7 window on one virtual desktop and then opening second window on another activated the first virtual desktop unwantedly. [-] If an application (like fullscreen game) locked the mouse within the primary monitor at startup, the mouse was freed unwantedly. [-] Soft Mouse Lock did not work on desktop boundaries when the Wrap the Desktop feature was active. [-] Soft Mouse Lock worked incorrectly for dragging a window between monitors. [-] Wrap the Desktop feature wrapped the mouse locked in a window within that window. [-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not wrap the mouse on the top/left desktop boundary on some monitor configurations. [-] Zooming the contents in a WordPerfect active window with the Ctrl+Mouse wheel did not work when the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active. [-] Scrolling the contents in Adobe Audition windows did not work when the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active. [-] Title buttons' glow effect looked wrong with non-standard values of Screen DPI. [-] After maximizing a window to desktop, the Restore menu command got disabled. [-] Rolled-up windows did not unroll after stopping/unloading the Control Center if the "Smooth rolling/unrolling" option was enabled. [-] Trying to drag a rolled-up Google Chrome window made it frozen. [-] If a window was made always-on-top, it did not reset to a normal state after unloading Actual Window Manager. [-] The Quick Settings dialog disappeared after maximizing its subject window or changing subject window's size using the dialog's options. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.6 (01.08.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.5.1 (11.07.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] You can toggle the Multi-monitor Taskbar's "Always-on-top" state via its context menu. [*] The Soft Mouse Lock works more accurate and stable. [-] Multi-monitor wallpapers looked wrong if there were portrait-oriented monitors. [-] Desktop profile hotkeys stopped working after applying the configuration changes. [-] Slideshow parameters were not modified after activating another desktop profile. [-] The "Next slide" command did not appear in Desktop's context menu when Actual Window Manager was installed with the support of administrative tools. [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not run the Blank screen saver if it was assigned to a second/third/etc. monitor. [-] Sometimes the Multi-monitor Taskbar's context menu initially appeared behind the taskbar. [-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows tool did not work with Corel WordPerfect. [-] Hand tool did not work with Winamp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.5 (25.05.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.4 (11.02.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.3 (19.11.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.2 (04.08.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.1 (03.06.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.0 (12.02.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.4 (09.07.2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.3 (31.03.2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.2 (14.10.2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.1 (15.05.2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.0 (16.01.2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.5 (20.06.2007) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.4 (16.04.2007) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant windows will reapply 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.3 (15.12.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 issue with the Yahoo! Widgets windows' hang-up 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 relocate windows split between 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.2 (10.10.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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" subfolder. [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.1 (01.08.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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 title buttons' tooltips. [+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.0 (05.05.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 Specific 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 - reapply 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.8 (23.09.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.7 (02.08.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] 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's correct restoration when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule" menu command. [-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.6 (06.04.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 enlarging a window without having it partly hidden beyond the bottom right-hand corner of your desktop. The window is automatically shifted to the top left-hand corner direction and thus recovers its 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.5 (20.01.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.0 (13.10.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Hotkeys support: Now you can minimize programs to the system tray, always keep them on top, roll up windows, make them semi-transparent, etc. by means only one keystroke combination. Such a possibility lets you manage the same actions much quicker by using the keyboard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.8 (31.08.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.7 (28.07.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.6 (26.05.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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 them easier to find. [*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed. [*] Some interface features changed and added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.5 (19.11.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 shifting 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.0 (02.06.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.6 (24.03.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.5 (27.01.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.4 (18.12.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.3 (25.11.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added multilingual support. [+] Added English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Catalan and Polish languages. [*] Program's launching speed is highly increased. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.2 (28.10.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.1 (28.09.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] New window action "Save size and position of windows" is added. [+] Option "Use large icon" for the "Minimize to Desktop Edge" action is added. [*] Predefined settings for Calculator, Notepad, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer Find Dialog, Eudora Email client have been added. [*] Some interface features have been changed and added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.0 (12.09.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Initial Release
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