Actual Window Manager Changelog

What's new in Actual Window Manager 8.15.0

Jun 26, 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.
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)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.7 (Jun 23, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.6.1 (Nov 25, 2021)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.6 (Nov 22, 2021)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.5 (Feb 13, 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.
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).
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 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.
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
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

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.4 (Oct 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.
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.
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.3 (Dec 27, 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).

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.2 (Oct 29, 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

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14.1 (Jul 10, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14 Beta 3 (Apr 1, 2019)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14 Beta 2 (Feb 18, 2019)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.14 beta 1 (Dec 30, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.13.3 (Nov 29, 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.
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.
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.13.2 (Oct 13, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.13.1 (Sep 27, 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.
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 minimize 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.13 (Aug 22, 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.
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.
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

New in Actual Window Manager 8.13.0 Beta 2 (Aug 1, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.13.0 Beta 1 (Jun 14, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.12.2 (May 22, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.12.1 (Apr 21, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.12 (Mar 3, 2018)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.11.3 (Dec 30, 2017)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.11.2 (Sep 28, 2017)

Windows 10 Creators Update: Metro (UWP) apps crashed at startup
if Actual Multiple Monitors 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_USERSoftwareActual ToolsActual Multiple MonitorsCommand CenterPluginsWallpaperManager]
"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
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).
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.
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.
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.11.1 (Jul 27, 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).

New in Actual Window Manager 8.11 (Jun 23, 2017)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.10.2 (Mar 28, 2017)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.10.1 (Feb 20, 2017)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.10 Beta 2 (Nov 7, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.10 Beta 1 (Nov 7, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.9.2 (Oct 31, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.9.1 (Sep 7, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.9 (Jul 29, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.8.2 (May 8, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.8.1 (Apr 29, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.8 (Apr 1, 2016)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.7 (Feb 5, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.6.2 (Nov 23, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.6.1 (Nov 23, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.6 (Oct 6, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.5.3 (Sep 20, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.5.2 (Sep 10, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.5.1 (Sep 5, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.5 (Aug 27, 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 mistaken one for another.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.4 (May 27, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.4 Beta 1 (May 8, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.3 (Apr 16, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.3 Beta 3 (Apr 1, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.3 Beta 2 (Feb 11, 2015)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.3 Beta 1 (Dec 29, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2.2 (Nov 3, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2.1 (Oct 25, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 (Sep 23, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 Beta 6 (Sep 6, 2014)

Now if several configuration windows are open at once (e.g. main Configuration window, Quick Setup wizard window, several Window Settings windows), changes made within a particular window are isolated there until you click the Apply button in that window.
The ability is added to specify exact secondary display position (see the "Display Position" group in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel).
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).
Now it's possible to select several picture files in the "Add File" dialog while configuring the Slideshow screen saver.
Now if several configuration windows are open at once, each such window has its own button in the Taskbar and separate entry in the Alt-Tab switcher.
Separate Window Settings windows now have the Help, Undo and Redo buttons.
The window invoked by the "Copy Settings from..." command now does not display the target Window Settings item.
On some configurations, cloned displays showed the wrong list of available resolutions in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel.
Desktop Divider layouts did not switch in any way other than via "Put into" selector window.
The "Use hardware acceleration" option did not switch in the Configuration window for mirroring-related title button/window menu/startup actions.
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.
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 Beta 5 (Aug 21, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 Beta 4 (Aug 21, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 Beta 3 (Aug 21, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 Beta 2 (May 24, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.2 Beta 1 (Apr 26, 2014)

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).
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).
Windows 8/8.1: Option to cancel the replacement of the system Alt-Tab Task Switcher is added.
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 Ignore Deactivation feature with League of Legends and Final Fantasy XIV is restored.
Unwanted extra buttons of Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat appeared in the Virtual Desktops Switcher after switching the desktops with those programs running.
In some cases extra title buttons in Microsoft Word 2013 might disappear.
Extra title buttons did not work in Autodesk Design Review 2013.
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.
Desktop Divider: In some cases tile size could not be set exactly in pixels using the Resize button while editing a layout.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1.4 (Apr 11, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1.3 (Mar 20, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1.2 (Mar 5, 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
Compatibility 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

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1.1 (Feb 1, 2014)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1 (Feb 1, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1 Beta 3 (Dec 30, 2013)

Ability to toggle active Metro app to windowed mode is added (see the "Metro frame window" 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).
Alt-Tab Task Switcher is compatible with Windows 8.1.
Actual Window Manager screen savers are compatible with Windows 8.1.
Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar now considers the docked Metro apps when calculating the monitor work area.
Clipboard Templates now support Unicode texts.
Clipboard Templates: Now it is possible to drag templates between groups of different levels.
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.
Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher always displayed Metro apps first, no matter were they active or not.
Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher got cycled after switching from active 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 8/8.1: 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.
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.
Save Idle Screens: automatic mode blocked the launch of the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver if it was set as system screen saver.
Activating a desktop profiled 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.
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.
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.
Put into Divider Tile title button displayed incorrect hint after using the "Desktop Divider's up/down/left/right" hotkeys.
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1 Beta 2 (Nov 12, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.1 Beta 1 (Oct 15, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.0.3 (Sep 30, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.0 Beta 3 (Jul 8, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 8.0 Beta 2 (Jul 2, 2013)

Due to copyright reasons, the Classic Shell Start Menu is removed from Actual Window Manager setup.
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.
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.
Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher now shows the Metro applications.
Activating the Ignore Deactivation feature in games that use DirectInput now releases the mouse pointer and lets move it out of the monitor occupied by the game.
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.
In some cases, Expose Task Switcher displayed the minimized windows incorrectly.
Expose Task Switcher windows were affected by the "Move to Monitor - Where Mouse" feature.
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.
Numerous fixes and improvements in the Monitor Selector dialog:
Align Hotspots moved out of monitor previews to save the active area
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

New in Actual Window Manager 8.0 Beta 1 (May 28, 2013)

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.
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 Inactive Screens" panel.
Emulation of MacOS 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.
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 new Align Hotspots (green dots displayed within the monitor preview under the mouse).
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.
"Hotkeys - Actions" panel's look and behavior is restored.
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 latest NVIDIA driver 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 7.5.1 (Apr 12, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 7.5 (Mar 25, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 7.5 Beta 2 (Mar 15, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 7.5 Beta 1 (Feb 23, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 7.4.3 (Feb 19, 2013)

New in Actual Window Manager 7.4.2 (Feb 6, 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
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.
Configuration backup might fail with the "Failed to get data for
enable_classic_shell_start'" message.
Rolled up windows had the bottom border cut in the Aero visual themes.

New in Actual Window Manager 7.4.1 (Dec 31, 2012)

New in Actual Window Manager 7.4 (Dec 19, 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).
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 7.4 Beta 1 (Dec 13, 2012)

New in Actual Window Manager 7.3 (Nov 22, 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.
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.
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. 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
Compatibility with the following programs is restored:
Logitech SetPoint
WordPerfect 12
Compatibility with the following programs is improved:
SmartDraw 12
HTML-Kit Tools

New in Actual Window Manager 7.2 (Aug 16, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 7.1 (Jul 19, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.7.2 (Nov 23, 2011)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.7.1 (Nov 12, 2011)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.7 (Oct 22, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.6 (Aug 2, 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.).

New in Actual Window Manager 6.6 Beta 2 (Jul 27, 2011)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.6 Beta 1 (Jul 12, 2011)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.5 (May 26, 2011)

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 item (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.
Compatibility 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).

New in Actual Window Manager 6.4 (Feb 14, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.4 Beta 3 (Jan 25, 2011)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.3 Beta 1 (Sep 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
Secondary taskbars display the progress bar on their buttons when needed.
Secondary taskbars display a separate preview for each tab of a tabbed web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.).
Secondary taskbar can be also repositioned via special command in its context menu (in addition to dragging the taskbar with the mouse).
Title buttons' skins for the Black and Silver Office 2007 styles are added.
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).
Right-clicking on the Move to Monitor title button now opens a dialog with monitors' preview instead of a plain menu.
Maximize to Desktop now supports a partial maximization (i.e. to the selected monitors). The selection can be made in the preview dialog, which can be opened by right-clicking the Maximize to Desktop title button.
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!
More accurate detection of display rotation capabilities.
If a window is maximized to desktop - taskbar button for that window will be visible on each monitor occupied by the window.
Start button on secondary taskbars is compatible with Vista Start Menu by OrdinarySoft.
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.
Taskbar on secondary displays was stretched to a half monitor right after loading if the taskbar was aligned vertically.
The Sound Volume applet did not work in secondary taskbars under Windows Vista/7.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.2 (Aug 6, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.2 Beta 1 (Jun 28, 2010)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.1 (Jun 3, 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.
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.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.1 Beta 2 (May 26, 2010)

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.
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.
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 close a window by clicking its title bar is added.
The button to invoke the Context Help in the Options window has been added.
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.
Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved.
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.
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 blinked on a primary monitor first.
Pinning to secondary taskbars did not work for 64-bit applications.
Taskbar buttons for console windows are displayed on a correct 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 works correctly when the leftmost monitor is not primary and Active Desktop is enabled.
Title buttons are drawn correctly in windows using right-to-left languages.
Easy windows dragging/sizing works correctly in 64-bit applications.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.1 Beta 1 (May 21, 2010)

New in Actual Window Manager 6.0 (Feb 13, 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
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.
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, not only 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 6.0 Beta 1 (Jan 15, 2010)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.5 Beta 4 (Dec 10, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.5 Beta 3 (Nov 20, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.5 Beta 2 (Nov 20, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.5 Beta 1 (Sep 25, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.4 (Jul 9, 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

New in Actual Window Manager 5.4 Beta 3 (Jun 23, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.4 Beta 2 (Jun 9, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.4 Beta 1 (May 9, 2009)

New in Actual Window Manager 5.3 (Apr 7, 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 fortheir 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.
he 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 5.2 (Oct 15, 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.

New in Actual Window Manager 4.5 (Jun 22, 2007)

New in Actual Window Manager 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.