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
· there is a limited compatibility with some certain applications (such as Microsoft Excel, Acrobat Reader)
· the minimizing/maximizing animation, if enabled, is played always regarding to the primary Taskbar despite which display the minimized/maximized window resides on
· Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Task Switcher (special system window invoked via Alt Tab) on secondary displays is added.
· Now Windows Layout tool is compatible with Vista Sidebar.
· Extra title buttons are again displayed correctly in the title bar of IncrediMail XE.
· No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog.
· The ability to create/manage virtual desktops is added.
· 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.
· Some minor improvements
· The hotkeys processing is significantly improved
· New hotkeys are added: 'Reapply settings' action (Win F5), Configuration Module's launch (Win C), 'Unhide' submenu (Win H)
· title buttons' appearance in Windows Vista is improved
· now permanent tray/screen icons behave like buttons in Taskbar, i.e. when you click such icon: 1) the active window will be minimized 2) the inactive window will be activated 3) the minimized window will be restored
· When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons semi-transparent
· Now you can temporarily disable the automatic rolling up via Roll Up title button's context menu or Roll Up window menu's submenu
· Now you can easily copy settings from a selected window rule to others
· 'Options' window: the Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder option has moved from the General property sheet to the User Interface property sheet
· 'Options' window: new 'Triggers' and 'Actions' grouping nodes are added
· current window size and position now are displayed in 'Custom Size' and 'Custom Position' dialogs accordingly; current position is also displayed in the 'Alignment' window menu's submenu
· Some minor bug fixes
· The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed
· Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007
· Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved
· Conflict with the Microsoft Time Zone window is solved
· Transparency effect conflict with Emerge Desktop is solved
· Transparency effect conflict with the Start button in Windows Vista is solved
· 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)
· The conflict with Quattro Pro X3 menus is solved
· The conflict with the Internet Explorer 7 'Search on this page' window is solved
· The bug of incorrect behavior of 'Restrict placement' feature in multi-monitor configurations is fixed
· 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.
· 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 The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved.
· The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximizedwindows.
· The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the fourmain 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.
· The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the tray is added
· The speed of window processing is improved
· The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved
· The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized windows
· The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed
· The bug with the "pixels" measure units in the "Restrict window placement" feature is fixed
· Now you can strictly but flexibly constrain window placement on the desktop by defining the limits for window's top-left corner (so it can't be upper/lefter than the defined values) and/or bottom-right corner (so it can't be lower/righter than the defined values).
· Now you can temporarily cancel 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 special "grouping button" is added which contains all the commands of currently unused buttons.
· The issue is fixed: now the "Window caption" criterion correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup (like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).
· 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 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.