November 23rd, 2011· The quality of multi-monitor wallpaper pictures is improved in Windows 7.
· In Aero visual theme, Multi-monitor Taskbar's color is now exactly the same as the system taskbar's.
· Delay before activating a preview when moving the mouse within a multi-preview for a grouped task is added (for now, it's hard-coded to 200 ms).
· The Scroll Inactive Windows feature stopped working in previous update.
· Activating the maximized windows from secondary taskbars forced them back to a normal state.
· Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed.
· Window icon and caption did not update in preview thumbnails.
November 12th, 2011· The ability is added to invoke a Jump List by dragging taskbar button out of the taskbar.
· Auto-scrolling of tabs in the Configuration window is added so the active tab should remain always visible and other tabs fill the entire visible space.
· The auto-minimization of inactive Outlook dialogs is improved.
· Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with third party products that also extend the mouse wheel processing.
· Jump Lists' look in the Aero visual theme is slightly improved.
· Preview thumbnails' look is improved.
· Preview thumbnails stopped showing for Excel 2007 workbooks.
· Preview thumbnails did not close after moving the mouse out of them if the taskbar auto-hiding was enabled.
· In some cases, windows stopped come to front after clicking their corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars.
· In some cases, notification area in secondary taskbars made a noticeable CPU load in the Windows Explorer process.
· Mirror windows did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected.
· The "Area around the mouse pointer" mirror worked wrong for negative screen coordinates.
· Title buttons did not update their placement in Mozilla Firefox 7 windows after maximizing/restoring a window.
· In some cases, console windows might hung for some time at startup.
· Some Configuration windows (like Select Window from List, Test Regexp) did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected.
· Sometimes, empty match lines appeared in the Test Regexp results.
October 22nd, 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.
August 2nd, 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.).
July 27th, 2011· Ability is added to hide secondary taskbars per monitor.
· Controls on secondary taskbars (Start button, notification area, clock) can be toggled per taskbar.
· Indonesian language is added
· 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).
· 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.
· 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.).
July 12th, 2011· You can toggle the Multi-monitor Taskbar's "Always-on-top" state via its context menu.
· The Soft Mouse Lock works more accurate and stable.
· Multi-monitor wallpapers looked wrong if there were portrait-oriented monitors.
· Desktop profile hotkeys stopped working after applying the configuration changes.
· Slideshow parameters were not modified after activating another desktop profile.
· The "Next slide" command did not appear in Desktop's context menu when Actual Window Manager was installed with the support of administrative tools.
· Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not run the Blank screen saver if it was assigned to a second/third/etc. monitor.
· Sometimes the Multi-monitor Taskbar's context menu initially appeared behind the taskbar.
· Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching.
· Scroll Inactive Windows tool did not work with Corel WordPerfect.
· Hand tool did not work with Winamp.
May 26th, 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).
February 14th, 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.
January 25th, 2011· 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 "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 Close button in preview thumbnails appeared behind the preview in the Aero theme.
· The Start button on the main Taskbar looked wrong in Vista/7 after
· changing the main Taskbar's transparency.
· The "Disable the native Windows 7 Snap" option also disabled Aero Shake.
September 11th, 2010Taskbars 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.
August 6th, 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.
June 28th, 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.
· Windows disappeared after maximizing to desktop if the primary monitor was not leftmost.
June 3rd, 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.
May 26th, 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.
May 21st, 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 while hovering the mouse pointer over secondary taskbars' buttons.
· 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 watch a preview of the Multi-monitor Screen Saver is 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 extendedin Vista/7.
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)
· Make Transparent window action (Win+Y)
· Move to Next/Previous Virtual Desktop (Win+\ and 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.
· Now Multi-monitor Taskbar reacts correctly on pressing of the Win+M system hotkey.
· The bug with empty icons in secondary taskbars after changing the visual theme is fixed.
· The bug with empty custom tray/screen icon after restarting the application is fixed.
· Conflict with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is fixed.
· The multi-selection editing mode is significantly accelerated for large quantities of selected window settings.
February 13th, 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.
January 15th, 2010· The ability to make taskbars transparent is added (see the "Transparency" option in the "Taskbar" panel).
· The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture" wallpaper mode is added.
· Preview thumbnails are now shown over rolled up windows.
· AltMin screen icons now snap to desktop borders and other windows.
· The ability to send a window to bottom upon its startup is added.
· Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed.
· Automatic checking for updates started even if there was no active Internet connection.
· Value for the time interval of automatic update checks couldn't be modified (it was "once per day" always).
· Title buttons looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs (e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled).
· After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set of title buttons.
· Active profile wasn't marked correctly in the Profiles menu.
· Monitors' names were not detected correctly in some cases.
· The redundant Excel button appeared on secondary taskbars.
· While dragging taskbar buttons, visual indicator of new position was not visible.
· Minimization by clicking the Close button stopped working.
· Classic snapping worked inconsistently in some cases.
· Aero Snap emulation didn't work 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.
December 10th, 2009· The 4th beta of the upcoming Actual Window Manager 5.5 is supposed to be the last beta release before releasing the final version 5.5: you are welcome to test the new "Check for Updates" module, many slight usability improvements (like Stop/Start hotkeys, Aero Snap horizontal maximization, Start button stretched in old visual themes) and many bugfixes
November 20th, 2009· The 3rd beta of the upcoming Actual Window Manager 5.5 presents the extended Windows Snapping feature (to desktop borders, to other windows, to a grid), enhanced notification area on secondary taskbars (now it hides inactive icons), support of the "Small icons" option for secondary taskbars under Windows 7 and some crucial bugfixes.
November 20th, 2009· The 2nd beta of the upcoming Actual Window Manager 5.5 presents the notification area on secondary taskbars (with the ability to reorder icons by the mouse and display the clock), new advanced mouse actions in response to clicking on the title bar, easy windows moving/sizing, the transparency effect and ghost mode for console windows in all versions of Windows, and the new Cut to Clipboard title button.
September 25th, 2009· The console windows support is available on Windows 7.
· The main Taskbar toolbars (like Quick Launch, Desktop, Address, etc.) are available on secondary taskbars as well.
· 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 "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).
· 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.
· Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic theme is fixed.
· The unwanted auto-exit of the multi-monitor screen saver on some display configurations is fixed.
· When you make a window always-on-top via Quick Settings dialog it
· does not get behind the window.
· The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox,
· Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed.
· The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is
· fixed.
July 9th, 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
June 23rd, 2009· Desktop Icons Manager is added: it allows storing the current layout of desktop icons and restoring it then, in case it was broken in some way.
· Multi-monitor Taskbar extension is now compatible with Windows 7.
Virtual Desktops panel is slightly redesigned:
· - background and hotkey settings are divided onto separate tabs;
· - the Switcher settings group is added.
· The fatal deadlock in the Virtual Desktops Switcher is fixed.
June 9th, 2009· The 2nd beta of the upcoming Actual Window Manager 5.4 presents the Virtual Desktops Switcher, long-awaited Window Thumbnails facility and the extended support of Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper/Screen Saver.
May 9th, 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.
· 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.
· 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.
Conflicts with the following products have been fixed:
· Microsoft NetMeeting
· NetOp Remote Control (Host)
· RAdmin Server
· Ad Muncher
· Calendar Magic
April 7th, 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.
October 15th, 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.
June 22nd, 2007· This release introduces a new level of automation with the new powerful Run Keyboard Macro feature, an effective problem-solving Windows Monitoring Log tool, a bunch of very handy features for Tablet PC users, and many other changes and improvements.
April 18th, 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.
December 16th, 2006· Since this release Actual Tools are fully compatible with Windows Vista.
· Now the title buttons are displayed correctly in Windows Vista (both in Aero Basic and Aero 3D modes).
· Now all the configuration files are stored in user's profile (in the folder like "%UserProfile%Application DataActual ToolsActual Window Manager").
· The new "Manage Window Settings" title button is added.
· The support of extra title buttons in Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft
· Word 2007 is added.
· Now the title buttons are displayed correctly for the non-standard sizes.
· The old known issue with the Lotus Notes client's crash at startup is fixed.
· The known issue with the Internet Explorer 7 crash while saving the configuration is fixed.
· Now the Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista.
· The issue with the Mozilla-based browsers' (like Firefox, Seamonkey etc.) undesired focus switch is partially fixed (the issue still presents in Win9x).
· The issue of the malfunction of drag-n-drop in the Opera browser is fixed.
· The visual glitch of Windows Vista Sidebar widgets when they are made transparent is fixed.
· The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed.
· The minimal/maximal window size settings are now correctly maintained in Windows 2003 Server.
· The multi-monitor issues of the "Restrict placement" feature are fixed.
· The ability to automatically reposition windows splitted across several monitors is added; it can be used both in the general multi-monitor environment and when using the multi-monitor client system in the Terminal Server environment.
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