1) The Windows 7 Aero Snap emulation is added. 2) Buttons re-ordering on the primary Taskbar is improved. 3) Virtual Desktops Switcher window is added. 4) Windows Thumbnails feature is added. 4) Multi-monitor Taskbar extension is now compatible with Windows 7 RC. Version 5.1 - Jun 23, 2008
------------------------------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Actual Window Manager 5.1 (23.06.2008) ------------------------------ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [!] 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+<left mouse click> 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+<Down arrow>/Win+<Up arrow> 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. Version 5.0 - Feb 19, 2008
1) The support for command prompt (a.k.a. console/CMD/DOS) windows in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista is added. 2) The full support of native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64 platform is added. 3) The ability to change the default window icon to a selected one is added. Version 4.5 - Jun 20, 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. [*] 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. Version 4.4 - Apr 18, 2007
[!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant windows will re-apply their settings when the configuration has been saved. [+] The long-awaited feature is added: now all the minimized windows can be restored via "Unhide"/"Unhide All" items of Control Center's tray icon context menu. [+] The Windows Layout tool is added: it provides the ability to automatically or manually relocate/resize your currently opened windows to keep them within desktop when its resolution is changed (it's very useful when working with the same workstation both locally and through the Remote Desktop client). [+] The long-awaited feature is added: now it's possible to remove the standard window parts like Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, window icon, window sizeable border, or window caption so fixing window in its current state and preventing its moving/resizing/minimizing / closing . [+] The new Pin-to-Desktop feature is added: when window is pinned it disappears from taskbar and Alt-Tab sequence and can't be minimized in any way so it's visible all the time until it's unpinned. [+] The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module (refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window). [+] The ability is added to turn on smooth transitions between different transparency levels (refer to the "Make Transparent Action" property sheet in the "Options" window). [+] The ability is added to turn on the smooth rolling up/unrolling of windows (refer to the "Roll Up Action" property sheet in the "Options" window). [+] The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later. [+] Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and Polish languages are added. [*] Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced. [*] All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned; the new window rule features' Index panel is added. [*] Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and column widths in most of list boxes. [*] The transparency effect compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds is improved. [*] The Resize Action Options property sheet is improved: now you can copy items and adjust the height of Sizes list box. [*] The visualization of allowed area provided by the Show button of the "Restrict placement" feature is improved: now it displays the semi-transparent green rectangle that shows the area of allowed placement. [*] The "Unused Buttons" button (grouping button) is improved: now it takes the icon and the tooltip of assigned function, if mouse-hovered. [*] Now title buttons are displayed correctly when using Vista Transformation Pack, XP Media Center Edition theme or some of StyleXP themes. [-] The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed. [-] The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed. [-] Transparency effect's conflict with Rainlendar 2, RocketDock, Samurize and Y'z Shadow is fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: XP Remote Desktop client was crashed if minimized to the system tray, and then the configuration was saved. [-] The bug is fixed: the Windows Vista Firewall with Advanced Security's GUI was hung when the "New Rule..." button was pressed while running the Actual Tools program. [-] The bug is fixed: now title buttons work correctly in Excel 2007. [-] The bug is fixed: now multiple instances of Excel 2003/2007 workbooks and Acrobat 7 documents can be correctly minimized to the system tray. [-] The bug is fixed: if in multi-monitor configuration some windows were placed to a secondary display, and it was unplugged during the session then such windows are moved automatically to the primary display. [-] The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed. [-] Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) left their taskbar entry if they were minimized to the system tray via the standard Minimize button. [-] The bug with VMware Workstation 5.5 crash while opening the Snapshot Manager is fixed. [-] The visual glitch is fixed when using the Tabbed Browsing plugin of Windows Live! Toolbar. [-] The bug is fixed: Eudora was crashed immediately at startup if there any of extra Actual Tools buttons were added. [-] The bug of incorrect window placement to a primary display while it's resized on secondary display is fixed. [-] The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed. Version 4.3 - Dec 16, 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 reposition windows splitted across several monitors is added; it can be used both in the general multi-monitor environment and when using the multi-monitor client system in the Terminal Server environment. Version 4.2 - Oct 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" sub-folder. [+] The special "grouping button" is added; it contains all the commands of currently unused buttons. [+] The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the tray is added. [*] The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved. [*] The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized windows. [*] The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the four main directions independently. [-] The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed. [-] The bug with the neglect of options other than "keep aspect ratio" in the "After Moving to Another Monitor" group is fixed. Version 4.1 - Aug 2, 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 the title buttons' tooltips. [+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the window options' names. [*] 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. Version 4.0 - May 31, 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 Specfic Window rule. [+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the attached configuration file. [+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button. [+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's taskbar button. [+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities for a particular window: - create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule - create an Excluded Window rule - re-apply the window rule [+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the "Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name. [+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars' buttons size). [*] Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as a template. [+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options. [*] The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using the non-standard screen DPIs. [+] Added the ability to set different settings for the different window events/states for the following properties: transparency level - for the creation, movement, resizing, deactivation, mouse hovering, title bar double-click, "Transparency" title button priority level - for the creation, minimization, deactivation, "Priority" title button [+] Added the ability to combine automatically some window states: transparency - with stay-on-top, ghost rollup - with stay-on-top [+] Added the ability to provide a shift values when a window is aligned. [+] Added the ability to set the desired width/height values as a percent of the corresponding desktop size. [+] Window Finder internal tool was adapted for the detection of the current window size and position. [+] Minimization-to-tray and minimization-on-screen actions were unified into a single action named "AltMin" (Alternatively Minimize) which provides the unified options and the ability to select the minimization mode on the fly. [+] The ghost mode was separated from the transparency and now can be turned on independently. [+] Added the new title buttons items for the following actions: Ghost, Change Priority. [+] Added the new window menu items for the following actions: Ghost, Change Priority. [+] Added the indication of the current state for the following title buttons: AltMin, Change Transparency, Align, Resize, Ghost, Change Priority. [+] Added the skin support for the title buttons to fit them into the different visual themes. [+] Added the ability to change the order of title buttons' appearance. [+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra title buttons for a particular window rule. [+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra window menu items for a particular window rule. [+] Added the ability to "freeze" the window stay-on-top state which prevents the application from resetting this state. [*] The recognition of window mouse-hovering is improved. [-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was started. [-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus after selecting any tool in the Tools panel. [-] Fixed the bug with the Windows folders: if you close the rolled up folder window then it will be restored with the incorrect size. Version 3.8 - Mar 26, 2006
[*] Fixed the bug: if minimized-to-tray application was restored by self or other application and not through the tray icon, in some programs icon remained in tray. To name just a few: Windows Task Manager, TextPad, Microsoft Outlook. [*] Fixed the bug with undesired window activation from the tray when delayed auto-minimizing of inactive window is turned on. [*] Default Window Rule: the bug with transient transparency effects (when "set transparency while being moved/dragged" and "set transparency while being resized" options are enabled) was fixed. [-] Default Window Rule: the bug with "temporarily unroll the window while the mouse cursor moves over the window" effect was fixed. [*] Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified. Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first symbol in window position fields is possible. [*] Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed. [-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of "Window class" field's entered string into real window class name. [*] Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was finally solved.
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