What's new in WindowTabs 2013.4.2
Jan 10, 2014
- Fixed Issue with activating license key in new versions
New in WindowTabs 2013.2.20 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Added auto hiding right click on a maximized tab to enable it per group
New in WindowTabs 2013.1.23 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Fixed: Clicking the top edge of tabs to activate
- Fixed: Ctrl + PageUp/PageDown for switching tabs
- Fixed: Outlook moves off screen when calendar items opened.
- Added option to replace "Alt+Tab" with a WindowTabs task switcher, and options to only show one window per group in task switcher (see "Behavior" settings)
- Fixed: Slow, ugly animiation when minimize / restore groups
- Fixed: Custom colors not working in appearance tab
New in WindowTabs 2012.12.30 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Fixed a bug which caused some windows not to minimize with a tab group
New in WindowTabs 2012.12.24 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Fixed an issue with the installer on Windows 8
New in WindowTabs 2012.12.20 (Jan 10, 2014)
- Fixed a bug which causes windows to minimize / maximize in an endless loop in some circumstances
New in WindowTabs 2012.5.25 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Minimize all windows in the group together instead of having to minimize each window separately
New in WindowTabs 2012.5.7 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Added the ability to switch tabs by using the mouse scroll button (either hover over tabs and scroll or hold shift and scroll mouse over a window)
- Added support for Skype
New in WindowTabs 2012.4.19 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Flash taskbar item when any window in tab group is flashed (e.g. IM chat window)
- Fixed small bug causing taskbar preview window to show tab as flashed after it has stopped flashing
New in WindowTabs 2012.4.17 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Added tab flashing when the taskbar button flashes (for example, instant messenger windows)
- Fixed crash when using group switcher on Windows versions earlier than Windows 7
- Fixed occasional crash in process settings window
- Fixed occasional crash during drag drop of a tab
New in WindowTabs 2012.3.21 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Fixed bug which caused crash in Diagnostics view on 64bit windows
New in WindowTabs 2012.3.20 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Activate window when draging an item over the tab
- Allow dropping files onto an Explorer tab to copy / move files
- Added "Diagnostics" tab in settings, use this if an app has no tabs and you want to figure out why
- Fixed problem in group switcher that caused it to fail to activate group in some situations
- Fixed problem in group switcher which caused it to display behind other windows in "peek" mode
- Changed defaults for group switching to "CTRL + PageDown" and "Ctrl + PageUp"
- Eliminate dialogue windows from group switcher list
- fixed intermittent crash in WindowTabs
New in WindowTabs 2012.3.8 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Fixed intermittent crash when closing windows introduced in version 2012.3.6
- Send error reports to windowtabs.com for investigation
New in WindowTabs 2012.3.6 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Added ability to switch between groups, similar to windows "ALT+TAB" switcher (use "CTRL+ALT+DOWN" or edit the hotkeys in Settings/Keyboard)
- Changed hotkeys for switching tabs in a group to "CTRL+ALT+LEFT" and "CTRL+ALT+RIGHT"
New in WindowTabs 2012.2.26 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Activate group when taskbar button is clicked
- Add configurable hotkeys for switching between tabs in a group
- Add WindowTabs icon to taskbar button for grouped windows to indicate its a group
- Apply changes as they are made in "Appearance" settings
- Fixed bug which caused tabs to be placed on incorrect monitor for some applications (e.g. Outlook)
- Improved compatibility, allowing more programs to be tabbed
- Renamed "Filters" to "Programs"
- Improve application compatibility when a window is closed by clicking the "x" on a tab
New in WindowTabs 2012.2.18.1 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Added a version checker, it runs once per day and displays up a notification bubble if a new version is available
- Enabled WindowTabs for more types of applications
New in WindowTabs 629 (Oct 6, 2010)
- Fix a bug in 625 which causes WindowTabs to exit when you access the settings menu from the tray icon.
New in WindowTabs 625 (Oct 6, 2010)
- Fixed small issue with diagnostics report.
- Reduced startup time.
New in WindowTabs 580 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed issue with hitting the three tab limit on licensed versions of WindowTabs.
- Added a cancel button to the “Feedback” form.
New in WindowTabs 570 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed an issue which caused settings to not be saved on x64 Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Fixed a bug where you are prompted to restart WindowTabs after viewing advanced settings, even if you have not made changes to the settings.
- WindowTabs is now installed to your user data directory instead of Program Files.
- Added version info to the WindowTabsSetup.exe file.
- Added the WindowTabs version to the WT notify icon tooltip.
- Removed the license.txt and desktopstate.dat, save that data to settings.dat.
New in WindowTabs 540 (Feb 10, 2010)
- WindowTabs sends an error report if the WindowTabs dll fails to unload, this will help me eliminate some of the errors caused by locked dll’s when upgrading
- WindowTabs sends a ping to Google Analytics when it starts, this will help me track the number of successfully completed installs.
- Added a feedback form, right click on a tab and click “feedback”.
- Changed the AutoHide setting back to false by default.
- Save the location of the settings form.
- Made the settings form a tool window.
- Fixed an issue which prevented tabbing between items in the settings form.
- Minimizing a window now minimizes the whole group instead of removing the window from the group (this was an issue when you turned the Hide in taskbar setting off).
New in WindowTabs 510 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added the “Hide taskbar buttons for tabbed windows” option
- Made auto hide turned on by default for new installs
- Made the option to add tabs to CMD windows on by default and removed the check box, if you want to remove tabs from CMD windows, just use the standard filtering mechanism
New in WindowTabs 490 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added a version check to the installer for the WindowTabs32.dll. This should make it much less likely that upgrades will fail due to the WindowTabs32.dll being in use.
- Fixed a bug where tabs appear “behind” windows sometimes. This often happend on top level windows like Task Manager.
- Fixed a random crash bug that was introduced in build 465 (sorry!)
- Fixed a bug where a two tabs could appear for the same window if you drag the window out of a tab group quickly.
- Fixed a minor issue where windows would be shuffled around in zorder when WindowTabs starts.
- Fixed a very rare crash issue when restoring a window.
New in WindowTabs 465 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added a right click context menu for accessing WindowTabs settings.
- Fixed a bug where hidden tabs would reappear incorrectly when your mouse moved over another window.
- Disabled DWM transition animations so that you don’t see as much “flicker” when switching tabs and so that tabs don’t appear before the window when you restore a window from minimize.
- Reduced the delay when hiding tabs on a maximized window.
- Fixed a crash on Windows 2000.
New in WindowTabs 450 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed the diagnostics report, it was not working at all in previous builds.
- Fixed an issue where “close all tabs” dialoge box would fall behind other windows when closing IE8. This also affected text editors which promt when you close with unsaved text.
- Fixed a very rare crash which happens if a window closes while the trial splash screen is showing.
- Fixed an issue where IE8 would display artifacts and not properly redraw.
- Fixed a rendering issue where Chrome would not draw its tabs on Windows 7.
- The drag thumbnail now dissapears before showing the window which looks nicer.
New in WindowTabs 430 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Windows Live Messenger works (again) on Vista / Windows 7
- Restarting windows tabs after changing settings no longer causes random crashing
- Whitespace is now correctly removed from your filtering settings, this was causing the filter to not recognize some process names
- You can now drag files, text – anything – over a tab and the tab will activate, take a look
New in WindowTabs 420 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Automatically hide tabs on maximized windows so they don’t cover the caption bar (in Chrome for example), take a look
- Fixed an issue where apps like VS .NET and Windows Live Messenger stayed on top of other apps
- Fixed an issue where the tabs would disappear on maximized VS.NET windows
- Removed the keyboard shortcut to hide tabs on a window – auto hide makes this unnecessary
- Fix a bug where closing a Word document in a group of multiple documents would leave tabs floating in space
- Fixed an issue where tabs were not being hidden after you close an Outlook window
- The “latest version” checker wasn’t working quite right, now it is
- Fixed an issue where Outlook would dissapear if you closed an email window in a group
New in WindowTabs 380 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Fixed a crash while dragging and dropping
- Fixed a crash while coming back from Suspend
- Fixed a crash while idle
- Windows are now restored correctly when WindowTabs is closed
- Capitalization no longer counts when adding processes to the filter list
- You can now filter executables which have spaces in their name
- Command windows now come to the front when the caption is clicked
- Fixed an issue where tabs were not disappearing when you minimize Windows Messenger
New in WindowTabs 350 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Added support for tabs on CMD / PowerShell windows
- Tabs are now positioned correctly on Windows Live Messenger windows instead of floating above them (on XP)
- Fixed several crash issues
- Fixed an issue where the tabs would disappear briefly when moving them on a maximized window
- Fixed a bug where the first drag operation after starting WindowTabs was sluggish
- Fixed a bug where rapidly resizing windows was slow
- Fixed an issue where PowerPoint windows would disappear
- Fixed an issue where windows would disappear after closing WindowTabs
- The settings page no longer causes random hangs
- Fixed an issue where tabs were not visible for Excel 2003
- Fixed an issue where windows would change location and loose focus randomly