WindowTop Changelog

What's new in WindowTop 5.22.7

Mar 3, 2024
  • You can even interact with the crop view using your mouse and keyboard. :)
  • You can update and modify the crop region on the fly via the native window or directly from the PiP view
  • You can also use a shortcut key to toggle crop and modify it (not shown in the video)

New in WindowTop 5.22.7 Beta (Mar 2, 2024)

  • Fixed Auto hide taskbar not popping up.

New in WindowTop 5.22.6 (Feb 5, 2024)

  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
  • You can configure it from settings under PiP & Crop tab
  • Global exception handler - added more information in the error window
  • Added toggle to configure enabling the Crop button in toolbar
  • The toolbar settings now include an easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
  • When the user tries to choose a hotkey that is already assigned to another action, the app will ask if you wants to unassign the previous action and use that hotkey for the new action. Before that, it only said that the hotkey was unavailable.
  • The app will display any hotkey already used by another program in red and notify the user. Previously, it did not do this.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
  • Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
  • Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
  • DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
  • Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
  • Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
  • Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
  • Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
  • Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
  • Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
  • Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
  • Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
  • Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
  • Code optimization that may improve performance
  • Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
  • Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
  • Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
  • Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
  • Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
  • Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
  • Changes:
  • [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
  • [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
  • [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
  • [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature
  • Localizations:
  • New! Japanese localization (available from 5.22.5)
  • New! Turkish localization (available from 5.22.5)
  • New! Polish localization (available from 5.22.6)

New in WindowTop 5.22.6 Beta 2 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Polish language (thanks to Jerzy Brania!)
  • Bugfix for #339

New in WindowTop 5.22.5 (Nov 17, 2023)

  • Major updates (from v5.22.0):
  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
  • Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
  • Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
  • DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
  • Localizations:
  • New! Japanese localization (available from 5.22.5)
  • New! Turkish localization (available from 5.22.5)
  • Updated Swedish translation (Thanks to Göran!)
  • Update French translation (Thanks to Ralfou!)
  • Updated Chinese translation (Thanks to Dwhite!)
  • Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
  • Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
  • Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
  • Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
  • Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
  • Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
  • Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
  • Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
  • Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
  • Code optimization that may improve performance
  • Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
  • Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
  • Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
  • Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
  • Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
  • Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
  • Changes:
  • [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
  • [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
  • [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
  • [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature

New in WindowTop 5.22.4 (Oct 29, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
  • The toolbar settings now include an easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
  • Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
  • Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
  • DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
  • Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
  • Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
  • Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
  • Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
  • Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
  • Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
  • Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
  • Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
  • Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
  • Code optimization that may improve performance
  • Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
  • Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
  • Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
  • Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
  • Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
  • Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
  • Changes:
  • [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
  • [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
  • [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
  • [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature
  • Localizations:
  • Updated Swedish translation (Thanks to Göran!)
  • Update French translation (Thanks to Ralfou!)
  • Updated Chinese translation (Thanks to Dwhite!)

New in WindowTop 5.22.5 Beta (Oct 28, 2023)

  • Fixed error NullReferenceException that may happen when changing the monitor

New in WindowTop 5.22.4 Beta (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Fixed DwmRegisterThumbnail exception

New in WindowTop 5.22.3 (Oct 22, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
  • You can configure it from settings under PiP & Crop tab
  • Global exception handler - added more information in the error window
  • Added toggle to configure enabling the Crop button in toolbar
  • The toolbar settings now include an easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
  • When the user tries to choose a hotkey that is already assigned to another action, the app will ask if you wants to unassign the previous action and use that hotkey for the new action. Before that, it only said that the hotkey was unavailable.
  • The app will display any hotkey already used by another program in red and notify the user. Previously, it did not do this.
  • Bugfixes
  • Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
  • Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
  • Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
  • DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
  • Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
  • Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
  • Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
  • Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
  • Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
  • Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
  • Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
  • Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
  • Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
  • Code optimization that may improve performance
  • Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
  • Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
  • Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
  • Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
  • Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
  • Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
  • Changes:
  • [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
  • [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
  • [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
  • [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature
  • Localizations:
  • Updated Swedish translation (Thanks to Göran!)
  • Update French translation (Thanks to Ralfou!)
  • Updated Chinese translation (Thanks to Dwhite!)

New in WindowTop 5.22.2 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Fixed regression from 5.22.1 that the settings UI freezes after the computer wakes up from sleep. The regression was caused by the fix Fixed slow performance issue in the settings window.

New in WindowTop 5.22.1 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Fixed Toolbar problem on Notepad++ with Dspellcheck pluggin #326
  • Fixed bug in toolbar settings that when disabling the toolbar, the hotkeys controls also disabled
  • Fixed bug that the app freezing for 25 seconds when enabling the toolbar
  • Fixed slow performance issue in the settings window

New in WindowTop 5.22.1 Beta (Sep 26, 2023)

  • Fixed #326
  • Fixed bug in toolbar settings that when disabling the toolbar, the hotkeys controls also disabled
  • Fixed bug that the app freezing for 25 seconds when enabling the toolbar
  • Fixed slow performance issue in the settings window

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 (Sep 20, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
  • You can configure it from settings under PiP & Crop tab
  • Global exception handler - added more information in the error window
  • Added toggle to configure enabling the Crop button in toolbar
  • The toolbar settings now include an easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
  • When the user tries to choose a hotkey that is already assigned to another action, the app will ask if you wants to unassign the previous action and use that hotkey for the new action. Before that, it only said that the hotkey was unavailable.
  • The app will display any hotkey already used by another program in red and notify the user. Previously, it did not do this.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug that some windows with empty titles are ignored (e.g., Discord window) (#320)
  • Fixed bug when enabling PiP mode on Discord shared screen window, that the content of the window in the PiP view may become black (#320)
  • Fixed DPI bug in the always-on-top border that sometimes the border position is wrong
  • DPI bugfixes for PiP and Crop
  • Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
  • Improved app stability by removing almost all thread-locking mechanisms and replacing them with a less drastic approach. Freezing is now a very rare case
  • Added recovery logic that triggers in case the app is unable to exit (frozen in exit); in the worst-case scenario - after 30 seconds the app will kill itself
  • Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
  • Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
  • Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
  • Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
  • Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
  • Fixed PIP recovery logic when the program crashes while having PIP view to an elevated window. In such case, when you open the program again, it will able to recover that window
  • Code optimization that may improve performance
  • Fixed a few bugs in the hotkeys settings UI
  • Fixed bug in PiP with the mouse-hover-preview when live preview is disabled
  • Improve and stabilize the core logic of the window-manager system in WindowTop (make it more stable and optimized)
  • Improve, stabilize, and optimize part of the core logic of the anchors system. This may fix some bugs and improve behavior.
  • Fixed bug in Anchors that after moving the window to another screen, the anchor was still located on the previous screen
  • Fixed UI bug in the crop selector toolbar when the Windows theme is in light mode
  • Changes:
  • [PiP - Picture-in-Picture] Added "Spotify.exe" and "Slack.exe" to the default list of applications where the mouse interaction is enabled by default when activating PIP mode (these apps work perfectly with the mode)
  • [Toolbar] Removed the "Disable when maximized" option when showing it on PIP view (PIP can't be maximized)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard] The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
  • [Settings - Hotkeys] Page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)
  • [Settings - Quick Start / Wizard - Anchors tab] Rename the "None" option to "Minimum Movement" in Anchor auto-move configuration
  • [Logs] Remove unused logs from the Anchors feature
  • Localizations:
  • Updated Swedish translation (Thanks to Göran!)
  • Update French translation (Thanks to Ralfou!)
  • Updated Chinese translation (Thanks to Dwhite!)

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 Beta 11 (Sep 18, 2023)

  • The toolbar settings now include easy way to set up hotkeys per each button
  • When the user tries to choose a hotkey that is already assigned to another action, the app will ask if you wants to unassign the previous action and use that hotkey for the new action. Before that, it only said that the hotkey was unavailable.
  • The app will display any hotkey that is already in use by another program in red and notify the user. Previously, it did not do this.
  • Updated Swedish translation
  • Update French translation
  • Updated Chinese translation

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 Beta 10 (Sep 15, 2023)

  • Added option to configure the hidden behavior when you crop a window - you can configure it not to hide the window or to hide it.
  • Set on top tab renamed to "Always on Top"
  • Added toggle to configure enabling the Crop button in toolbar
  • The PiP tab was reorganized from the most useful feature to the least useful
  • The PiP tab name was renamed to "PiP & Crop"
  • Adjusted a few translations
  • Hotkeys settings page adjusted for the Crop hotkey (now possible to run it on a native window instead of having to go to PIP mode first. so now the hotkey page reflects it)

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 Beta 9 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • Code optimization that may improve performance
  • Stabilize

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 Beta 8 (Sep 10, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Fixed bug in PIP that when you minimize the PIP window (directly from PIP mode), the window was not minimized correctly (#314)
  • Fixed bug (regression from beta 5) that sometimes the app added in its memory to the same window more than once and as a result, it caused a lot of issues (with Anchors, PIP, and everything else)
  • Fixed bug (regression from beta 5) that when closing an elevated window with PIP view, the app was unable to detect it and did not remove the PIP view
  • Fixed bug that when having an anchor of a PIP view of an elevated window, the anchor shows the icon of WindowTop with the wrong title
  • Fixed bug with PIP crop selector and anchors that sometimes, while dragging the selected crop region, it may drag the anchor
  • Fixed hotkey bug for PIP that the hotkey did not work for PIP view owned by elevated window
  • Fixed bug in PIP + Interact mode that the mouse scroll working only after the mouse entered the PIP window a second time
  • Fixed a few null exceptions caused by PIP + CROP features

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 Beta 7 (Sep 10, 2023)

  • Fixed (regression from beta 6) issue that the app failed to start when it was configured to start as an admin user
  • Fixed wrong behavior when the user enables crop from the toolbar - the app asks to run as admin, and it should not ask it (because you already know it by the "elevated" icon...). (The OS will prompt the admin permission request anyway.)

New in WindowTop 5.21.2 (Sep 4, 2023)

  • Fixed (5.21.1): Default PIP Size (Picture-in-Picture) doesn't change default PIP size (#310)
  • Fixed (5.21.1): Small bug in PIP that when disabling live-preview and enabling interact mode with read mode, the PIP generates a preview for the mouse.
  • Changed (v5.21.1): Allow to set default PIP size to up to 400% instead of a maximum of 200%
  • Fixed (5.21.2): Invisible windows appeared when saving the configuration for some programs with Always-on-Top (#315)
  • Fixed (5.21.2): Fixed issue with 30 days trial that some users complained that the trial ended before it started

New in WindowTop 5.22.0 Beta 4 (Sep 3, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Ability to crop window directly without setting it first in PIP mode (#313)
  • Ability to adjust the crop from the original window
  • Improvements:
  • Anchors will also appear for PIP windows with an additional icon that indicates their state
  • Bugfixes:
  • For some users the 30 days trial ended before it started
  • Fixed bug that when resizing the source window of the PIP view, the PIP view size and ratio were not updated to the updated size and ratio of the source window
  • More bugfix (WIP - Not documented yet. I will document later)

New in WindowTop 5.21.2 Beta (Aug 26, 2023)

  • Invisible windows appeared when saving configuration for some programs with Always-on-Top

New in WindowTop 5.21.1 (Jul 22, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Option - Do not apply "Always on top" to maximized window
  • Disable.set-top.when.maximized.demo.webm
  • Bugfixes:
  • [Opacity + Always on Top] The border around a window with AOT and Opacity enabled, should have same opacity applied (#299)
  • Minor updates:
  • Fixed: Default PIP Size (Picture-in-Picture) doesn't change default PIP size (#310)
  • Fixed: Small bug in PIP that when disabling live-preview and enabling interact mode with read mode, the PIP generates a preview for the mouse.
  • Changed: Allow to set default PIP size to up to 400% instead of a maximum of 200%

New in WindowTop 5.21.0 (Jun 28, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Option - Do not apply "Always on top" to maximized window (#303)
  • Bugfixes:
  • [Opacity + Always on Top] The border around a window with AOT and Opacity enabled, should have same opacity applied (#299)

New in WindowTop 5.21.0 Beta 1 (Jun 24, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Option - Do not apply "Always on top" to maximized window (#303)

New in WindowTop 5.20.2 (Jun 18, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Picture in Picture (PiP) - Implemented a new feature to allow cropping of a region from the PiP view.
  • You can now select a sub-region to show by clicking on the "CROP" button:
  • Then select a region:
  • And finally, click on the V button!
  • When a region is selected, you will also see an indication about it while interacting with the window:
  • Improvements:
  • Picture in Picture (PiP) - Added option to enable the mouse-interact mode by default for predefined apps:
  • In the PiP settings, we added the following button:
  • From here, you can configure a list of apps that interact mode enabled by default
  • So if you enable PiP for any app under this list, the PiP will automatically be enabled with mouse interact mode (meaning that you will be able to control the window)
  • The advanced hotkey settings were reorganized to be more readable, and the hotkeys descriptions were improved to be more clear:
  • The idea is that we group the hotkeys by the major features that they relate to.
  • So if the user was looking for a specific hotkey about the opacity feature, he expected to find it much more quickly.
  • In addition, I reduced the words on the hotkeys descriptions and improved them to be clearer.
  • Added hotkey to enable crop mode:
  • Implemented option to open the shrink context menu by right-clicking on the title bar:
  • You can now right-click on the PIP title bar, as shown below
  • Before that, you could only do it from the PiP and only when mouse-interact was disabled.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app
  • Fixed some exceptions bugs (bugs that you see the blue window with the scary error)
  • Bugfixes in settings
  • Improve the stability of the Anchors when auto-move is enabled. Sometimes the anchors stopped automatically moving away from text/image, and now it should recover for such failures more
  • (v5.20.1, MS Store version only) Fixed an issue that the button "Purchase or Login (Microsoft Store)" changed to "Purchase (Microsoft Store)" (translation revert by mistake)
  • v5.20.2 - Fixed: Always On Top AOT (red) borderline does not adjust the size with window when resizing horizontally or vertically (#302)
  • Changes:
  • The PiP icon changed to

New in WindowTop 5.20.0 (May 24, 2023)

  • New features:
  • Picture in Picture (PiP) - Implemented a new feature to allow cropping of a region from the PiP view (#133)!
  • You can now select a sub-region to show by clicking on the "CROP" button
  • And finally, click on the V button!
  • When a region is selected, you will also see an indication about it while interacting with the window
  • Improvements:
  • Picture in Picture (PiP) - Added option to enable the mouse-interact mode by default for predefined apps:
  • In the PiP settings, we added the following button
  • The advanced hotkey settings were reorganized to be more readable, and the hotkeys descriptions were improved to be more clear
  • Added hotkey to enable crop mode
  • Implemented option to open the shrink context menu by right-clicking on the title bar:
  • You can now right-click on the PIP title bar
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app
  • Fixed some exceptions bugs (bugs that you see the blue window with the scary error)
  • Bugfixes in settings
  • Improve the stability of the Anchors when auto-move is enabled. Sometimes the anchors stopped automatically moving away from text/image, and now it should recover for such failures more
  • Changes:
  • The PiP icon changed

New in WindowTop 5.20.0 Beta 9 (May 9, 2023)

  • Version status:
  • [Shrink/PiP] Shrink - Live Preview - Add Crop feature (#133) - Status: probably just finished after two months of development
  • Request: Option to export settings and reset to default settings (#63) - I will work on it after #283
  • Add an option to remove saved configurations. (#283) - Started to work on it (at 5.5.23)
  • New features:
  • After two months of development of challenging work, we finally got it! Here is a demo video that shows you the crop functionality that was recently developed!
  • Other improvements:
  • PIP icon changed
  • The advanced hotkey settings were reorganized to be more readable, and the hotkeys descriptions were improved to be more clear
  • The idea is that we group the hotkeys by the major features that they relate to.
  • So if the user was looking for a specific hotkey about the opacity feature, he expected to find it much more quickly.
  • In addition, I reduced the words on the hotkeys descriptions and improved them to be clearer.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app

New in WindowTop 5.20.0 Beta 7 (Apr 29, 2023)

  • New features:
  • After two months of development of challenging work, we finally got it! Here is a demo video that shows you the crop functionality that was recently developed!
  • Other improvements:
  • PIP icon changed
  • The advanced hotkey settings were reorganized to be more readable, and the hotkeys descriptions were improved to be more clear
  • The idea is that we group the hotkeys by the major features that they relate to.
  • So if the user was looking for a specific hotkey about the opacity feature, he expected to find it much more quickly.
  • In addition, I reduced the words on the hotkeys descriptions and improved them to be clearer.
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a lot of DPI bugs in the PIP feature and the app

New in WindowTop 5.19.4 (Feb 26, 2023)

  • Added Korean translation (#288)

New in WindowTop 5.19.3 (Feb 12, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • Implemented option to configure the toolbar hover time (#269)
  • Stability improvement: Improved the recovery logic that was used to avoid the case that the app UI thread froze. The old logic avoided it by allowing the app to crash silently and exit. Now the logic will interrupt the UI thread so the app UI can show the actual fatal error while allowing the user to continue running the app or exit the app and report the error.
  • Implemented "Restart program" button in the global error handler:
  • Now you can easily restart the app instead of relaunching the app (useful when the error does not go away until restart)
  • Removed unneeded logs and improved a few logs
  • Improved a few English text's grammars
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed the issue that the toolbar does not show when the "Whitelist the specified programs" is selected and no programs are added to the list (#275)
  • This time it will not allow you to use this option if the list is empty.
  • Fixed: updated fix for #235 that sometimes the app froze
  • Fixed bug in the Microsoft Store version that when enabling a feature like always on top for an elevated window and confirming the admin permission request, the app froze for a few seconds and failed to enable the feature.
  • Fixed the issue that the toolbar does not show when the "Whitelist the specified programs" is selected and no programs are added to the list (#275)
  • Potential fix for some NullReferenceException exception from the Dispatcher queue (the bug possibly happen when Anchors are enabled in Windows 11)
  • Fix for possible InvalidOperationException exception in RendererManager when killing a renderer process (can happen when disabling dark-mode / glass-mode)
  • Fixed exception in HoverPreviewItem when it sets an invalid Width value for the hover preview in some cases (the bug can happen via the PiP feature when it tries to show a bigger preview when the mouse hovers over the small PiP thumbnail window)
  • Fixed exception when removing hotkey via the getting started window via the backspace button
  • Fixed fatal error in WTToolBarArrow that reported in the Microsoft store version by three users
  • Fixed other different fatal errors that were reported by 8 users (see #282 )
  • Fixed bug: "Disable when Game Mode detected" setting does the opposite (#268)
  • Changes:
  • (v5.19.3) Rename "BiGilSoft" publisher to "WindowTop.Info"

New in WindowTop 5.19.2 (Feb 9, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • Implemented option to configure the toolbar hover time (#269)
  • Stability improvement: Improved the recovery logic that was used to avoid the case that the app UI thread froze. The old logic avoided it by allowing the app to crash silently and exit. Now the logic will interrupt the UI thread so the app UI can show the actual fatal error while allowing the user to continue running the app or exit the app and report the error.
  • Implemented "Restart program" button in the global error handler
  • Now you can easily restart the app instead of relaunching the app (useful when the error does not go away until restart)
  • Removed unneeded logs and improved a few logs
  • Improved a few English text's grammars
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed the issue that the toolbar does not show when the "Whitelist the specified programs" is selected and no programs are added to the list (#275). This time it will not allow you to use this option if the list is empty.
  • Fixed: updated fix for #235 that sometimes the app froze
  • Fixed bug in the Microsoft Store version that when enabling a feature like always on top for an elevated window and confirming the admin permission request, the app froze for a few seconds and failed to enable the feature.
  • Fixed the issue that the toolbar does not show when the "Whitelist the specified programs" is selected and no programs are added to the list (#275)
  • Potential fix for some NullReferenceException exception from the Dispatcher queue (the bug possibly happen when Anchors are enabled in Windows 11)
  • Fix for possible InvalidOperationException exception in RendererManager when killing a renderer process (can happen when disabling dark-mode / glass-mode)
  • Fixed exception in HoverPreviewItem when it sets an invalid Width value for the hover preview in some cases (the bug can happen via the PiP feature when it tries to show a bigger preview when the mouse hovers over the small PiP thumbnail window)
  • Fixed exception when removing hotkey via the getting started window via the backspace button
  • Fixed fatal error in WTToolBarArrow that reported in the Microsoft store version by three users
  • Fixed other different fatal errors that were reported by 8 users (see #282 )
  • Fixed bug: "Disable when Game Mode detected" setting does the opposite (#268)

New in WindowTop 5.19.1 (Nov 1, 2022)

  • Improvements:
  • A massive improvement in the rendering performance of the dark-mode feature by using GPU (graphic card) hardware acceleration.
  • Before this version, GPU acceleration was possible only for NVIDIA GPUs, and now the renderer was rewritten to take advantage of Direct2D API by using filters implemented by standard GPU drivers. The NVIDIA CUDA acceleration option was deleted and replaced with an optimized code that uses acceleration anyway. (#264)
  • The "Filter Images" option (which allows you to exclude images from color inversion/glass) was improved:
  • 2.1. The accuracy of the detection algorithm improved a lot, and the difference is noticed more in non-4 K displays
  • 2.2. The speed of the "Filter Images" option improved by implementing logic to automatically disable the additional processing (of image detection) when we know that the window frame is unlikely to contain any images. The additional algorithm for this task (evaluate if the frame may contain images) is hardware accelerated by the GPU using Direct2D filters.
  • 2.3. memory usage is optimized by automatically cleaning extra buffers that are unnecessary when we know that the window does not contain images.
  • The algorithm to determine if the window is bright/dark was optimized and rewritten by using Direct2D acceleration.
  • Battery usage & rendering speed optimization by:
  • 4.1. Suspending the re-render process of any window fully covered by other windows. If the window is not minimized, but you still can't see it because it is entirely behind the windows above, the renderer of this window will be suspended. This will reduce a lot of CPU/Power usage and improve rendering speed in case of enabling these effects for multiple windows simultaneously.
  • 4.2. Stopping the renderer capture & processing threads and freeing all buffers memory in case the window is minimized or in a different virtual desktop. In these cases, the renderer processes for such windows will not consume any resources until the window returns from minimized state/ visible in the current virtual desktop
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed: when having multiple monitors and each monitor has different DPI scaling - the dark/glass modes were not rendered correctly (#9)
  • When combining dark mode with the always-on-top mode, the border around the window was not visible because it was created behind the dark frame.
  • When closing windows in dark mode, an empty frame is left on the screen that cannot be moved or closed (#257)
  • Partially fixed (the issue is not with any window..): Window position in the maximized state when dark mode is on (#256)
  • Improve stability on Windows 10
  • Fixed bug in the NVIDIA GPU CUDA acceleration of the Glass feature due to an issue that the code compiled with Cuda toolkit 11.8, which does not support old GPUs, and this option is now enabled by default.
  • Fixed input delay lags that may happen when any of these effects are enabled
  • Fixed in v5.19.1: Issue that the filter images option did not apply after enabling/disabling it (needed to re-enable the dark-mode effect for the change to take effect)
  • Changes:
  • The sliders of the Glass effect (smart transparency) were simplified to Opacity, Blur Level, Images, Texts, Filter Images (checkbox), and the effect will render any text in bright with dark background
  • The default settings of the Glass effect changed, and now the blur filter is disabled by default (because the performance has never been good when it is enabled)
  • Other bugfixes:
  • [Toolbar] When the "Integrate with the minimize button" option is enabled, and the DPI scaling is not 100%, in some cases, the edge of the toolbar is placed after the edge of the monitor.
  • [Toolbar] Fixed UI bugs in a few toolbar themes when the windows theme is in light mode
  • Fixed bug that sometimes the app fails to parse the settings, and as a result, it removes them (so all settings, including activation deleted)
  • Fixed the issue that, in some cases, the Microsoft Store version may crash when changing activation settings.
  • Fixed a few English strings (for example: stop using the word "Shrink" and instead always use "PiP")
  • Fixed bug with wizard pages that their settings did not update when returned back to them
  • [Anchors feature] Improve stability (fix the potential error)
  • Fixed some UI bugs
  • Other changes:
  • Few minor changes in the general tab
  • Toolbar Settings: The settings page reorganized

New in WindowTop 5.19.0 (Nov 1, 2022)

  • Improvements:
  • A massive improvement in the rendering performance of the dark-mode feature by using GPU (graphic card) hardware acceleration.
  • Before this version, GPU acceleration was possible only for NVIDIA GPUs, and now the renderer was rewritten to take advantage of Direct2D API by using filters implemented by standard GPU drivers. The NVIDIA CUDA acceleration option was deleted and replaced with an optimized code that uses acceleration anyway. (#264)
  • The "Filter Images" option (which allows you to exclude images from color inversion/glass) was improved:
  • 2.1. The accuracy of the detection algorithm improved a lot, and the difference is noticed more in non-4 K displays
  • 2.2. The speed of the "Filter Images" option improved by implementing logic to automatically disable the additional processing (of image detection) when we know that the window frame is unlikely to contain any images. The additional algorithm for this task (evaluate if the frame may contain images) is hardware accelerated by the GPU using Direct2D filters.
  • 2.3. memory usage is optimized by automatically cleaning extra buffers that are unnecessary when we know that the window does not contain images.
  • The algorithm to determine if the window is bright/dark was optimized and rewritten by using Direct2D acceleration.
  • Battery usage & rendering speed optimization by:
  • 4.1. Suspending the re-render process of any window fully covered by other windows. If the window is not minimized, but you still can't see it because it is entirely behind the windows above, the renderer of this window will be suspended. This will reduce a lot of CPU/Power usage and improve rendering speed in case of enabling these effects for multiple windows simultaneously.
  • 4.2. Stopping the renderer capture & processing threads and freeing all buffers memory in case the window is minimized or in a different virtual desktop. In these cases, the renderer processes for such windows will not consume any resources until the window returns from minimized state/ visible in the current virtual desktop
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed: when having multiple monitors and each monitor has different DPI scaling - the dark/glass modes were not rendered correctly (#9)
  • When combining dark mode with the always-on-top mode, the border around the window was not visible because it was created behind the dark frame.
  • When closing windows in dark mode, an empty frame is left on the screen that cannot be moved or closed (#257)
  • Partially fixed (the issue is not with any window..): Window position in the maximized state when dark mode is on (#256)
  • Improve stability on Windows 10
  • Fixed bug in the NVIDIA GPU CUDA acceleration of the Glass feature due to an issue that the code compiled with Cuda toolkit 11.8, which does not support old GPUs, and this option is now enabled by default.
  • Fixed input delay lags that may happen when any of these effects are enabled
  • Changes:
  • The sliders of the Glass effect (smart transparency) were simplified to Opacity, Blur Level, Images, Texts, Filter Images (checkbox), and the effect will render any text in bright with dark background
  • The default settings of the Glass effect changed, and now the blur filter is disabled by default (because the performance has never been good when it is enabled)

New in WindowTop 5.18.0 (Sep 29, 2022)

  • Fixed a critical issue from v5.17.0 (released a week ago) that occurred due to new build configuration that added a week ago...
  • The issue was that the app was simply unstable, and used to hang, crash, and freeze much more frequently. The solution was just to revert most of the problematic build configurations. I hope that the app will run stable this time as it was before 5.17.0

New in WindowTop 5.17.2 (Sep 25, 2022)

  • Fixed bug with "Save window configuration" that, in some cases, the configuration is not applied automatically (#259)
  • Fixed bug that when exiting the app, the app does not restore the window state (such as opacity, always-on-top, etc.) the default state (relates to #259)
  • Fixed issue with UI on the new Windows 11 version (22H2) (#260)

New in WindowTop 5.17.1 (Sep 23, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • [PiP] Fixed issue in the Microsoft Store version that when enabling PiP mode with mouse-interact mode for an admin (elevated) window, PiP mode crash with part of the app, and the original window disappears.
  • [PiP] Added more error handling logic to avoid cases of windows disappearing due to an unexpected error
  • Fixed issue that, in a lot of cases (including the fixed bug in PiP feature..), unexpected errors (exceptions) crashed the app without triggering the error handler module
  • Fixed a few grammars issues in the English translation
  • Fixed bug in the portable version that the app froze when you try to enable the "Start with windows" option via the settings window

New in WindowTop 5.17.0 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • New Features / Improvements:
  • Allow activating the Microsoft Store version with activation key (#258):
  • Implemented support to activate the Microsoft Store version using the activation key. If you install the app via Microsoft Store, an additional option to activate it
  • Added Italian translation. You can select the Italian language via settings.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Always on Top - Fixed bug that we saw the border (around the top-most window) in all other virtual desktop previews
  • Changes:
  • The app icon updated

New in WindowTop 5.16.2 (Aug 8, 2022)

  • New Features / Improvements:
  • [PiP + Mouse Interact Mode] Implemented feature to show preview also of the mouse pointer (#249)
  • This feature will help a lot when you want to control the PiP window while it is tiny because you see what you are doing, thanks to the advanced preview that also shows the mouse pointer. You can enable/disable this feature via the INTERACT options under the toolbar. The option is "Enable read mode," and when checked, you will get this behavior. By default, the option is enabled. You can disable/enable this option via PiP settings.
  • Added option to configure PiP auto move in quick settings/wizard
  • Implemented saving more specific PiP configurations
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue that sometimes the app freezes when using hotkeys
  • Fixed issue that sometimes HotKeys are not working for shrunk/PiP windows (#247)
  • Fixed old regression bug that the fatal exception handler did not work
  • (v5.16.1 - Hotfix) Fixed regression with PiP INTERACT mode that for some windows like the file explorer, word the mouse events failed to pass to the window (controlling such window via PiP mode was broke).
  • (v5.16.2 - Hotfixes) Fixed multiple bugs and improved stability
  • Changes:
  • Rename the feature "Shrink" to "PiP"

New in WindowTop 5.16.0 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • New Features / Improvements:
  • [PiP + Mouse Interact Mode] Implemented feature to show preview also of the mouse pointer (#249)
  • This feature will help a lot when you want to control the PiP window while it is tiny because you see what you are doing, thanks to the advanced preview that also shows the mouse pointer.
  • You can enable/disable this feature via the INTERACT options under the toolbar
  • The option is "Enable read mode," and when checked, you will get this behavior.
  • By default, the option is enabled. You can disable/enable this option via PiP settings
  • Added option to configure PiP auto move in quick settings/wizard
  • Implemented saving more specific PiP configurations
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed issue that sometimes the app freezes when using hotkeys
  • Fixed issue that sometimes HotKeys are not working for shrunk/PiP windows (#247)
  • Fixed old regression bug that the fatal exception handler did not work
  • Changes:
  • Rename the feature "Shrink" to "PiP"

New in WindowTop 5.15.0 (Jul 11, 2022)

  • New Features / Improvements:
  • Implemented feature to allow Shrinking / PiP + interacting with any window without hiding the window (#243)
  • When the new option "Show original window" is checked, the original window will be visible in addition to the small live-preview
  • In addition, you can even interact with the window as usual while it is visible, and when you click on the small preview, this time it will activate the original window instead of removing the small preview (This is the intended behavior when the window is not hidden)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • [Elevated Window Request] Fixed an issue that when saving window configuration for an admin window did not really save it in case of doing it after WindowTop requested elevated/admin access (to modify the window)

New in WindowTop 5.14.1 (Jul 6, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • (v5.14.1 - hotfix) Fixed an issue that the second elevated WindowTop process did not load the activation state

New in WindowTop 5.13.1 (Jul 1, 2022)

  • Fixed issue that the program froze when closing window from the anchor and the window waiting for user input
  • Fixed issue that sometimes the program froze when picking a window from anchor due to a window that waits for IO input

New in WindowTop 5.13.0 (Jun 23, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed: "Disable opacity when the mouse above the window" isn't saved when saving window configuration (#238)
  • New Features / Improvements:
  • Getting started wizard window & Quick settings - The page for the anchor feature improved by adding more previews for each configuration
  • Anchors tips window - Added a new page that explains the feature to drag to anchor (feature #180)
  • Update Portuguese translation
  • Update French‏‏ translation
  • Update Chinese translation

New in WindowTop 5.12.5 (Jun 18, 2022)

  • Fixed (Again): Sometimes the program froze due to unexpected deadlocks
  • Fixed: [Anchors] Issue that dragging to anchors not working in Admin mode
  • Fixed: [Anchors] Sometimes some anchors disappeared while switching windows

New in WindowTop 5.12.4 (Jun 15, 2022)

  • Fixed: Sometimes the program froze due to unexpected deadlocks.

New in WindowTop 5.12.3 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • Changes:
  • Make the feedback request window to not steal focus and not be on top (#234)
  • [Anchors] Make the default anchors preferred location to the right side of the screen (Change is needed according to users feedback)

New in WindowTop 5.12.2 (May 22, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • [Anchors] Anchors do not keep the correct "Preferred location" configuration overtime when auto-move is enabled (#228)

New in WindowTop 5.12.1 (May 18, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • FixedToolbar "more" arrow is invisible in white toolbar themes (#217)
  • FixedDark mode feature flashing/blinking?? randomly in Windows 11 (#220)
  • FixedDark Mode - Window does not maximize/restore after clicking on the maximize/restore button in Windows 11 (#226)
  • FixedSometimes the dark frame of a maximized window is not at the correct window position (#225)
  • FixediTunes freezes when applying any of those filters (Eg. dark mode) (#218)
  • New Features / Improvements:
  • Dark Mode - Remove the yellow border when the system supports it (#229)
  • Update Portuguese translation
  • Changes:
  • ChangedAfter the first run, the getting started wizard will show the dark-mode configuration page also in Windows 11

New in WindowTop 5.12.0 (Apr 24, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed: Toolbar "more" arrow is invisible in white toolbar themes
  • New Features / Improvements:
  • Implemented: [Anchors] Minimize window with right click on "Anchors" icon

New in WindowTop 5.11.1 (Apr 1, 2022)

  • Fixed: Issue that users getting errors such as "Failed to enter lock for xxx" in v5.11.0 (#214)

New in WindowTop 5.11.0 (Mar 17, 2022)

  • New:
  • [Anchors] Implemented new auto-move algorithm (for now it will use it only in Windows 11). The new auto-move algorithm is capable of detecting almost everything unlike in the old algorithm (#194)

New in WindowTop 5.10.0 (Feb 22, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed: [Always on Top] When the 30-day trial ended, the highlight border for top-most windows not working as expected (#203)
  • Fixed: Memory leak issue when opening the settings window and fixed freezing issue when showing gif-files (#202)
  • New Features / Improvements:
  • [Toolbar] On window integration alternative - alternative way of showing the toolbar (#192, microsoft/PowerToys#15387 )
  • [Translations] Added support for French translation (#179)
  • Changes:
  • [Toolbar] Implemented UI to save and delete window configuration directly from the toolbar (#192)
  • This is instead of right-clicking on the arrow (it is now removed. You can do it only via the toolbar)

New in WindowTop 5.9.0 (Feb 5, 2022)

  • New Features / Improvements
  • [Always on Top] Implement logic to show border with rounded corners for rounded windows in Windows 11 (#197, microsoft/PowerToys#15284 )
  • Changes:
  • [Always on Top] Border will be enabled by default
  • [Anchors] Option "Always show window title for duplicate icons" is enabled by default

New in WindowTop 5.8.0 (Jan 15, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed: Bug that when picking window via anchor, sometimes the shrunken windows lost their top-most behavior
  • New Features:
  • Implemented: Option to temporary disable the opacity when the mouse above the window (Request #190)

New in WindowTop 5.7.9 (Jan 12, 2022)

  • Fixed: NullReferenceException from WindowTop.UI.Features.Anchor.AnchorItem.AnchorItem_OnLocationChanged (#188)
  • Fixed: Issue in settings that it does not allow you to set the preferred anchor location when "stay away from text or image" is disabled
  • Changed: Anchors: ShowTitleForDuplicateIcons is disabled by default

New in WindowTop 5.7.8 (Jan 9, 2022)

  • Implemented: Anchors - Option to hide text for anchors if icons are selected (#181)
  • Implemented: Anchors - Added option "Always show window title for duplicate icons" (#181)
  • Implemented: Anchors - Added option to make the anchors bigger when they most recently used (#181)
  • Improved & Implemented - Anchors - Added preview for the style configuration (#181)
  • Changed: Anchors - Default configuration changed (#181)
  • Optimized: Anchors - The auto position algorithm (for the option "Stay away from text/image") was optimized and work faster
  • Fixed: Text color makes text very hard to read (#182)

New in WindowTop 5.7.7 (Dec 30, 2021)

  • Implemented: Drag to window via the anchor (#180)
  • Fixed: click-through mode not saved when saving window configuration (#162)
  • Fixed: System.InvalidOperationException: Process has exited, so the requested information is not available. (#166)
  • Fixed: Windows Apps losing TopMost functionality after going fullscreen (#171)

New in WindowTop 5.7.6 (Dec 29, 2021)

  • Implemented: Option to disable WindowTop when game-mode detected (#178)

New in WindowTop 5.7.5 (Dec 26, 2021)

  • Implemented: Anchor feature - option to show the window icon in the anchor
  • Fixed: Issue in shrink->title-bar & anchor features that it failed to show icons of UWP apps
  • Improved: Added another gif preview for the set-top feature under the quick settings page
  • Changed: Few default settings (such as default font size) in the anchor feature changed, and by default it will show the window icon

New in WindowTop 5.7.4 (Dec 26, 2021)

  • Implemented: Option to configure the border visibility settings (color and width) of top-mode (#172)
  • Implemented: logic to suggest rating the app

New in WindowTop 5.7.1 (Dec 18, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issue that user can reset the trial in UWP version and the desktop version

New in WindowTop 5.7.0 (Dec 5, 2021)

  • Implemented: Wizard window that helps you to get started (see below)
  • Improved: Now in the Settings -> Getting Started screen, you have quick start settings (see below)
  • Unlocked: Highlight topmost windows feature - now the option available for free (#169)
  • Changed: 30 days trial will start automatically on the first run

New in WindowTop 5.6.9 (Nov 21, 2021)

  • Fixed: Bug that sometimes the settings window frozen
  • Fixed: New fix for #129 that somehow the app thinks that it is already running
  • Added: Portuguese language. Thanks to Geovanesou (#165)

New in WindowTop 5.6.7 (Nov 2, 2021)

  • Fixed: Retaining video aspect ratio in PiP mode on multi-monitors with varying aspect ratios (#156)
  • Fixed: Issue in Shrink+Interact mode that mouse cursor detected as hand for fullscreen youtube video
  • Fixed: Issue with the Shrink feature that when moving the shrink-box to another monitor, the title bar size not reduced when needed
  • Settings window: Reordered the features - Set-Dark & Glass features moved to the bottom of the settings page

New in WindowTop 5.6.6 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issue that the toolbar (Not the arrow) not centered right when before that it showed with different width
  • Fixed: Issue in the settings window that the navigation stopped working correctly after the mouse was above the toolbar preview
  • Fixed: Other issues in the settings window such as NullReferenceError issues (New fix for #119)
  • Fixed: Regression from v5.6.5 that when changing the language to another language, some windows still showing in English
  • Improved: Border around the PiP/Shrink small window will now be black and with 50% opacity
  • Added: Missing German & Chinese translations
  • Fixed: Issue with Anchors feature and Google Chrome / Chromium based browsers - When you pick chrome window via its anchor, sometimes the chrome window is unresponsive
  • Fixed: Issue with Anchors feature and Google Chrome / Chromium based browsers - In case the window behind is fully covered, and the window is a chrome window that playing some video (such as YouTube video) -> When you move the mouse above the anchor of the Chrome window, you will see it's a preview. The problem was that in the preview, the video was blank
  • Changed: Dark Mode is now hidden by default in the toolbar because it is much more irrelevant these days, and unstable in Windows 10 (stable in 11) and still almost no one complained about it so it should be hidden. To enable it again, you can go to settings->toolbar section

New in WindowTop 5.6.5 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Fixed: Tray menu stopped working after PC returned from sleep mode (#155)

New in WindowTop 5.6.4 (Oct 18, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issue in the Microsoft Store version that the fix #104 (comment) did not work because the DLL hook procedure that should fix the issue did nothing (This was the behavior only in case of the MS Store version)
  • Implemented: Addition to #151 that now it will write the version above the fatal error exception

New in WindowTop 5.6.3 (Oct 18, 2021)

  • Fixed: In some cases, the fatal error window (implemented in #151) may try to open an infinite amount of times
  • Fixed: System.NullReferenceException from WindowTop.UI.WTToolBarArrow issues (#154)
  • Implemented: Option to allow running the program without admin privileges when it is installed (#153)

New in WindowTop 5.6.2 (Oct 14, 2021)

  • Implemented: Shrink feature - option in settings to disable the title bar (#152)
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Fatal error bug that when you right-click on the title bar, there is a blue fatal error window
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Fatal error bug that when you have 2 monitors with different DPIs and you drag Shrink window around the monitors, you may get fatal error blue window with a fatal error
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - When you have 2 monitors with different DPIs and you move the shrinking window to an area between the 2 monitors, the title bar width may be calculated wrong
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Small bug that the hover-preview (bigger preview) was behind the shrink title bar in some cases
  • Fixed: Fatal error bug that may happen when navigating in the settings window
  • Changed: Anchors feature - Disable dynamic opacity by default
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Issue with the title bar option that the window title not updated when "always show title bar option" is enabled

New in WindowTop 5.6.0 (Oct 5, 2021)

  • In this release, the main focus was on the Shrink / PiP feature!
  • Fixed issues with mouse hover
  • Fixed issue with mouse click
  • Added global exception handler

New in WindowTop 5.5.8 (Sep 24, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issue that the software sometimes randomly freezing (Possible Fix)
  • Fixed: Issue that sometimes the tray menu not working and does nothing
  • when you right-click on the WIndowTop icon in the tray (Possible Fix)
  • Fixed/Improved: The fix for PiP/Shrink mode with Chrome/Edge was improved and more stable (#146 (comment))

New in WindowTop 5.5.7 (Sep 22, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issue that Google Chrome, Edge browsers stop playing videos when the window is in Shrink/PiP mode (#146, #117, #110, #31)

New in WindowTop 5.5.6 (Sep 21, 2021)

  • Fixed: Regression when enabling dark/glass mode that there is an error of missing MSVCP140D.DLL file

New in WindowTop 5.5.5 (Sep 20, 2021)

  • Changed: Now the Microsoft Store version can be used for FREE and you don't have to purchase it (#147)
  • Fixed: Few window rendering issues in Windows 11

New in WindowTop 5.5.4 (Sep 15, 2021)

  • Fixed: Regression from #143 in glass mode that the blur effect window is not at the position & size of the target window

New in WindowTop 5.5.3 (Sep 14, 2021)

  • Fixed: Regression from #129 that the software allows itself to run when there is another WindowTop instance running

New in WindowTop 5.5.2 (Sep 13, 2021)

  • Major features:
  • Deactivate - If you want to transfer the activation from one computer to another, this option is helpful.
  • Now you can deactivate the program on the first computer so you can use the pro version on another computer instead.
  • Reset key usage - This option will deactivate the program in any other computer except the current computer that uses the key.
  • Use this option if you reached the computer usage limit and you can't activate the pro version on new computers.

New in WindowTop 5.5.1 (Sep 12, 2021)

  • Major Features:
  • Added New toolbar themes
  • Option to change the color of the toolbar arrow
  • Option to reset the activation key usage and deactivate the program:
  • Now there are 2 new options that added:
  • Deactivate - If you want to transfer the activation from one computer to another, this option is helpful.
  • Now you can deactivate the program on the first computer so you can use the pro version on another computer instead.
  • Reset key usage - This option will deactivate the program in any other computer except the current computer that uses the key.
  • Use this option if you reached the computer usage limit and you can't activate the pro version on new computers.
  • These options will solve common problems such as:
  • Needs Reactivate after updating Firmware (#107)
  • When changing CPU clock, program thinks that the activation key registered for another computer (#88)
  • Option to change the default location of the toolbar:
  • Now you don't have to have the toolbar in the center of the window.
  • It is now possible to configure that it will show on the left side by default
  • Others:
  • Fixed: Software settings page looks bad in Windows 11 (#140)
  • Fixed: Dark Mode not working stable in Windows 11 when the window is maximized (#143)
  • Added: Missing German translations

New in WindowTop 5.5.0 (Sep 10, 2021)

  • Option to reset the activation key usage and deactivate the program:
  • Deactivate - If you want to transfer the activation from one computer to another, this option is helpful.
  • Now you can deactivate the program on the first computer so you can use the pro version on another computer instead.
  • Reset key usage - This option will deactivate the program in any other computer except the current computer that uses the key.
  • Use this option if you reached the computer usage limit and you can't activate the pro version on new computers.
  • These options will solve common problems such as
  • Needs Reactivate after updating Firmware (#107)
  • When changing CPU clock, program thinks that the activation key registered for another computer (#88)
  • Added New toolbar themes
  • Option to change the color of the toolbar arrow
  • Option to change the default location of the toolbar:
  • Now you don't have to have the toolbar in the center of the window.
  • It is now possible to configure that it will show on the left side by default

New in WindowTop 5.4.17 (Sep 5, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Bug that the anchors configurations dropdown was fully black in some cases
  • Bug that when changing the preferred location of the anchors, the anchors disappeared

New in WindowTop 5.4.16 (Sep 4, 2021)

  • Implemented: Choose color of anchor text and bullet point (#121)
  • Implemented: Highlight color for anchors of most recent windows (#121)

New in WindowTop 5.4.15 (Aug 30, 2021)

  • Fixed: Getting "App already running error" when WindowTop running in another Windows account (#129)
  • Fixed: Window state restored when changing between desktops (#128)
  • Fixed: Red Border Frame Always On, Regardless of Setting, After Shrink/Restore or Switch desktops (#122)

New in WindowTop 5.4.14 (Aug 30, 2021)

  • Fixed: WindowTop crash when you select "Yes" to purchase the app from Microsoft Store (UWP Version) (#132)

New in WindowTop 5.4.13 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • Implemented: Support deployment as UWP app to Microsoft Store, including also using Microsoft Store activation & purchase system (instead of activating using product key) (#94)
  • Implemented: Feature Request: Keyboard shortcut to toggle anchors (#123)
  • Fixed: Window restored after minimizing it when Shrink enabled before (#124)
  • Fixed: Already-transparent background in a program turns black upon enabling click-through feature (#120)

New in WindowTop 5.4.8.1 (Jul 9, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Build issue with v5.4.8 that caused to dark-mode & glass mode features to fail

New in WindowTop 5.4.8 (Jul 6, 2021)

  • New!! Added new feature called "Anchors" and also added "auto-move" mode for the Shrink/PIP mode
  • Added missing translations
  • Improved: Shrink auto-move mode - If there is an available position on the screen (without text/image) that taken by an anchor, the Shrink item will take this position anyway, and the anchor will move to another available position

New in WindowTop 5.4.7 (Jul 3, 2021)

  • Implemented: Feature Request: Option to keep Anchor Right/Left/Top/Bottom of Screen (#116 )

New in WindowTop 5.4.6 (Jun 27, 2021)

  • Fixed: Anchors feature: Fixed small issue that the anchors could move to above treeview elements such as the treeview in Windows file explorer

New in WindowTop 5.4.5 (Jun 26, 2021)

  • Optimized: Very big optimization for the auto-move functionality used in the Anchors feature and the Shrink feature.
  • This includes reduce of CPU usage and also avoiding cases that sometimes WindowTop caused other programs to froze
  • when the auto-move functionality enabled

New in WindowTop 5.4.4 (Jun 25, 2021)

  • Fixed: Sometimes the program does not exit (#113)
  • Fixed: Issue that there was missing translations for "Window anchors" under ProVsFreeTableControl.xaml

New in WindowTop 5.4.3 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Fixed: Anchors feature: When dynamic opacity enabled, the anchors opacity never get to 100%
  • Fixed: Issue that anchors was showing for hidden UWP windows

New in WindowTop 5.4.2 (Jun 21, 2021)

  • Improved: Auto move algorithm that used for Shrink mode and Anchors feature. Now it should less happen that it will move the anchor to above text
  • Fixed: Bug with the auto move algorithm that causing task manager to freeze
  • New Feature: Pick any window behind another window using anchors (#103)
  • Added: New option in the Shrink mode that will allow auto moving the shrinked window when it covers text/image (#108)
  • Fixed: Few bugs with multiple virtual desktops

New in WindowTop 5.4.0 Pre-release (Jun 20, 2021)

  • New Feature: Pick any window behind another window using anchors (#103)
  • Added: New option in the Shrink mode that will allow auto moving the shrinked window when it covers text/image (#108)
  • Fixed: Few bugs with multiple virtual desktops

New in WindowTop 5.3.1 (May 30, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issue #98 - Incompatible with some program(not function wise)
  • Fixed: Issue #95 - Windowtop moves Small popup windows to center of screen

New in WindowTop 5.3.0 (May 4, 2021)

  • Fixed/Optimized: Dark mode effect works slow on 4K resolution (#19)
  • Developed: Make WindowTop run as Admin to allow controlling also "Admin" windows (#70 )
  • Developed: Option to configure customizable preview size for shrink window (#76 )
  • Developed: Options to enable/disable hotkey notifications for set-top and click-through features (#84)
  • Developed: Option to set default Window Opacity rate globally (#61 )
  • Fixed: Opacity percentage resets upon exit (#27)
  • Added: German language to the UI (#87)
  • Changed: Shrink: Interact mode: Implemented logic to make bigger offset for the big preview when mouse interact enabled
  • Fixed: Shrink: Interact: Fixed bug with interact mode that the hidden window sometimes moved to be above the taskbar
  • Changed: Dark Mode: Changed default settings to disable filter images by default and added a notification to enable the option only when needed

New in WindowTop 5.2.5 (Apr 18, 2021)

  • Added missing chinese translation
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Fixed bug with shrink interact mode that sometimes the hidden window (that mirrored to the shrink-box) moved to position (0,0) and it blocks user input on main screen
  • Fixed issue that the some controls of the UI did now shown in chinese in case the user changed to chinese language

New in WindowTop 5.2.4 (Apr 18, 2021)

  • Fixed: Toolbar - Fixed bug that after disabling the interactive mode via the toolbar, the button still shows as selected
  • Fixed: Bug that when the program starts by windows, dark-mode and glass-mode fail to work (#86)
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Fixed bug that the bigger preview not showing on the small shrink-box when DPI is high
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - Fixed bug that the bigger preview was showing also when the shrink-box was a little big

New in WindowTop 5.2.3 (Apr 16, 2021)

  • Fixed: Bug in the fallback logic to recover disappeared windows that caused a regression that for some programs you can't really "close" their windows
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - fixed bug with mouse interact that sometimes after resizing the window, DWM stop rendering part of the window
  • Fixed: Multiple DPI issues with the shrink feature. Now it should work fine also for higher DPI monitor with higher resolution
  • Improved: Added logic to show better errors when something goes wrong and there is now a hidden option to write to a log file (disabled by default)
  • Fixed: Multiple DPI issues with the Shrink/Shrink interact mode features and improved support for more programs and more DPI/screens configurations
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - fixed DPI issue that you saw the big preview also when the shrink-box was a little big
  • Fixed: issue with the toolbar that it was flickering
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - fixed bug that when the window unshrink on a second, smaller monitor, the window may too big for the smaller monitor
  • Fixed: Shrink feature - fixed issue with interact mode that sometimes you need need to resize the shrink-box so that the mouse will work correctly
  • Added logic to prevent opening multiple WindowTop processes
  • Removed: The default setting to show the glass mode button on the toolbar when software activated

New in WindowTop 5.2.2 (Apr 12, 2021)

  • Fixed bug that when shrinking the window while it maximized, the preview is small window
  • Fixed few more DPI related issues

New in WindowTop 5.2.1 (Apr 12, 2021)

  • Fixed: Bug in scenario {shrink window -> minimize to taskbar -> exit program -> start program} that the program restored the shrink mode while it should not (It should do it only when it crashed before)
  • Fixed: Regression from 5.2.0 that sometimes the fallback logic (for the Shrink feature) to recover disappeared windows triggered without a valid reason. As a result, for some programs, if you close their windows, their window may "recovered" (Happened for example with Slack and Telegram windows)

New in WindowTop 5.2.0 (Apr 11, 2021)

  • New!!: Mouse interact mode for the Shrink feature (#54). Read more (#83)
  • New: Hotkey to enable/disable Shrink mouse interact mode (Part of #54, #83)
  • New: Hotkey to temporary disable the toolbar menu (#75)
  • Fixed: The position of the unshrinked window will be on the monitor when you unshrink it (#77)
  • Improved: The toolbar will show you the hotkey of the function if it configured
  • Changed: Removed notification when enabling/disabling set-top via hotkey
  • Fixed issues with dark-mode and glass-mode that the window may froze when not using it
  • Fixed multiple DPI related issues when the configuration of the monitors have different DPIs
  • Fixed fallback logic to recover disappeared windows in case of bug in the Shrink feature

New in WindowTop 5.1.9 (Mar 31, 2021)

  • Fixed translation issue with string "{0} window(s) minimized"
  • Changed few default settings
  • Fixed bug in the glass feature that the "dark background" option did not work

New in WindowTop 5.1.8 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Fixed: Some translation issue
  • Fixed: Multiple bugs in crash recovery logic
  • Fixed: Some bug in the free mode version with the exclusion windows option

New in WindowTop 5.1.7.1 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Fixed: Build issue

New in WindowTop 5.1.7 (Mar 28, 2021)

  • Fixed: issue in FREE mode - when clicking to save window configuration, it does not suggest purchasing a license and the feature doesn't work anyway
  • Changed: when exiting the program, the tray menu will disappear only after it fully exited

New in WindowTop 5.1.6 (Mar 28, 2021)

  • Improved: Implemented logic to restart the program in case it crashed (It will attempt to restart the program maximum of 3 attempts)
  • Improved: Implemented logic to recover windows that were shrunk in case the program crashed
  • Fixed: Issue in settings->about page that the version number was wrong
  • Added: "WindowTop Error" title to error notification messages
  • Added: missing Chinese strings
  • Fixed: bug with Groupy software that the set-top function did not work on file explorer with tabs
  • Fixed: Issue with Groupy software that toolbar arrow did not show when the window maximized (issue #17)
  • Fixed: Issue that opacity mode is not forced on the app in case it enabled (issue #35)
  • Fixed: Issue that in some cases the red border stays after closing the window that set on top (issue #43)
  • Added: logic to check for updates
  • Fixed: issue that the program may freeze (deadlock) when using hotkeys or in other unknown scenarios
  • Fixed: bug that you may see the window of the notification manager via program switcher
  • Fixed: when DPI is more than 100 the top-most highlight mode enabled, the red border position wrongly
  • Fixed: An issue that takes about 10 seconds until the program closed

New in WindowTop 5.1.5 Beta (Mar 25, 2021)

  • Fixed: Issues that sometimes windows opened at the edge of the screen
  • Changed: When changing the language Chinese, the font will change to "Microsoft YaHei"
  • Fixed: potential crash when opening the tray menu
  • Added: Added missing Chinese string

New in WindowTop 5.1.3 Beta (Mar 23, 2021)

  • Fixed: Bug that in scenario {shrink window --> minimize all shrunk windows --> unminimize the window} the window was set with 75% opacity
  • Reverted: Revert fix for #64
  • Prepare to add more chines strings

New in WindowTop 5.1.2 Beta (Mar 22, 2021)

  • Fixed: Sometimes the program froze on deadlock (hope that it fixed)
  • Added: More chinese strings for the chinese language
  • Fixed: build issue that the renderer process requires some dlls (#62)
  • Fixed: bug that when disabling click-through via hotkey, the window did not restored to original state (#64)
  • Changed: When changing the language the notification will not suggest to restart WindowTop

New in WindowTop 5.1.1 Beta (Mar 21, 2021)

  • Fixed: When setting window on top and then closing the window, their wase notification that set-top failed (Regression from v5.1.0)

New in WindowTop 5.0.3 Beta (Mar 20, 2021)

  • Few bugfixes

New in WindowTop 5.0.2 Beta (Mar 19, 2021)

  • Fixed: Software will now able to configure itself to start with Windows

New in WindowTop 4.1.3 (Nov 8, 2020)

  • Fixed: issue in the "New version released" message that buttons "Yes" and "No" are without text (Regression caused by Chinese translation)
  • Fixed: Bug that the program failed to detect windows that are fully in Chinese / different languages
  • Fixed: Bug that the toolbar menu arrow button shows when it should not (For example, in GIMP software)
  • Improved: Optimized CPU usage by optimizing WinAPI calls overheads

New in WindowTop 4.1.2.1 (Oct 31, 2020)

  • Fixed: Deploy issue - v4.1.2 was deployed with WindowTop.exe version v4.1.1 instead of v4.1.2

New in WindowTop 4.1.2 (Oct 30, 2020)

  • Improved: Modern Menu - Remove the need to install .NET Core Desktop Runtime (Issue #52)
  • Improved: Remove the need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for the Smart Transparency & Dark Mode Pro effects
  • Improved: Chinese translation
  • Fixed: Modern Menu - UI bug when windows not displayed in dark mode

New in WindowTop 4.1.1 (Oct 19, 2020)

  • Fixed: When DPI is not 100%, the modern toolbar menu doesn't show at the correct position (Issue #49)

New in WindowTop 4.1.0 (Oct 18, 2020)

  • Added: Chinese language to the modern toolbar
  • Fixed: Some regression bug in v4.0.3

New in WindowTop 4.0.3 (Oct 18, 2020)

  • Fixed: Modern Toolbar - Fixed bug that when enabling shrink mode, the shrink box still has a shrink button

New in WindowTop 4.0.2 (Oct 17, 2020)

  • Fixed: Issue with modern toolbar when enabling the glass effect, the glass settings are not set

New in WindowTop 4.0.0 (Oct 15, 2020)

  • Added: New toolbar UI that is the default UI in WindowTop 4 Pro (Issue #23)
  • WindowTop is now starting to be rewritten in C# instead of Autoit from version 4.x.x
  • NOTE: Old activation keys that purchased before v4.x.x will still unlock v4.x.x versions.
  • Improved: Removed limitation in the portable version that disables 2 pro features - Dark Mode Pro and
  • Smart Transparency. From now on, the protable version is unlimited in features (As long as you have the needed Microsoft dependencies installed).
  • Changed: The short name of the "Smart Transparency" feature is called "Glass" instead of "Aero" (Noticeable in the new UI).
  • Improved: Installer is more customizable and will take about 2.5MB instead of 15MB.

New in WindowTop 3.5.3 (Aug 28, 2020)

  • Added: Support for subscription activation key

New in WindowTop 3.5.2 (Aug 6, 2020)

  • Fixed: Shrink - After unshrink fullscreen video, the window becomes topmost (Issue #44)

New in WindowTop 3.5.1 (Aug 4, 2020)

  • Improved: User interface design - Tray menu (Issue #41)
  • Added: Chinese translation. UI now have the option to select Chinese language (Issue #40, #38)
  • Fixed: few English spelling issues (Issue #13)
  • Fixed: When program not installed under "C:Program FilesWindowTop" it thinks that it is not installed (Issue #39)
  • Fixed: Program checks for updates every time it launched (Issue #42)
  • Fixed: When using the red border feature (that appears on a top-most window), sometimes we get red borders without windows (Issue #43)

New in WindowTop 3.4.7 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Added: Add option to customize what buttons/features to show in the toolbar menu [Issue #15]
  • Fixed: Window disappears if opacity is disabled while click-through is enabled [Issue #37]
  • Fixed: WSLtty 'forgets' opacity setting on focus [Issue #35]
  • Fixed: Applications that allow the Window.Topmost property to be configured internally make Windowtop behave strangely [Issue #34]
  • Fixed: RDP session windows set on top by default [Issue #33]
  • Fixed: Shrunk window get lost when switching from dual monitor to one monitor [Issue #16]

New in WindowTop 3.4.6 (Jul 6, 2020)

  • Hotkeys not working when disabling WindowTop toolbar [Issue #32]
  • Shrink Pro - Sometimes the live preview is not working when using dual monitors [Issue #31 ]
  • Sometimes the program crash on line 6031 in v3.4.5 when closing shrunken window [Issue #30]
  • Sometimes when using Shrink feature, the toolbar menu no longer available in some cases [Issue #29]
  • bug: crash, Subscript used on non-accessible variable when using Groupy software [Issue #17]
  • Issue on dual monitor configuration when DPI scaling is not the same for each monitor [Issue #9]

New in WindowTop 3.4.5 (May 6, 2020)

  • Improved: Smart transparency effect (aero effect) was rewritten for NVIDIA GPUs. The improvements are:
  • it renders the texts inside the window much better than before. the accuracy of the new algorithm is on average 95% for programs such as text editors, word processors, a code editor, and more.
  • The new algorithm to detect and rerender text pixels is rendering much faster due to:
  • Uses much more GPU cache memory than global memory
  • The new algorithm use a different image processing & recognition technique that works much faster than ever
  • It uses new API to get the window image that included in Windows 10 version 2004
  • The new smart transparency/aero effect will not take 20% CPU usage or more for the average computer because it uses the NVIDIA GPU for the rendering process. It will take up to 5% CPU usage and up to 10% GPU usage (tested on NVIDIA GTX 1050TI) so that the computer fan noise will not be high as before
  • Dark Mode and Smart transparency effect (or aero effect) will work faster also when no NVIDIA Graphic Card is available thanks to new API in Windows 10 update 2004. But the improvements will be much noticeable on with NVIDIA GPU
  • A lot of other bugs fixed before while testing this release

New in WindowTop 3.3.10 (May 1, 2020)

  • Fixed: Bug, when HotKeys disabled for blacklisted window they still block keyboard input.
  • Fixed: Exception when changing hotkeys (#6).
  • Changed: Removed default HotKeys for dark-mode and aero features.
  • Fixed: Bug with HotKey to enable click-through for any transparent window.

New in WindowTop 3.3.9 (Apr 25, 2020)

  • Added: HotKeys for dark mode and aero mode (#12)
  • Added: Option to add a window to blacklist/whitelist so WindowTop will be disabled for the window (#2)
  • Fixed: Issue that Microsoft Edge and few other programs stopped to be on top after some time. WindowTop will now check for every window if stopped to be on top and in such a case it will reset the window to be on top. (#14)

New in WindowTop 3.3.8 (Jan 31, 2020)

  • Fixed: bug on 4k resolution that the arrow menu did not show when the window was not maximized

New in WindowTop 3.4.2 Beta (Sep 29, 2019)

  • Fixed: Crashes when using shrink mode with enabling/disabling the aero/dark mode
  • Fixed: Random crashes when enabling/disabling aero/dark mode

New in WindowTop 3.4.0 Beta (Sep 21, 2019)

  • Improved & Added: NVIDIA CUDA GPU-Accelerated Computing for the dark-mode pro and aero pro effect
  • If you have NVIDIA GPU with CUDA capability, WindowTop can make use of it to accelerate the performance of these effects by up to 300%
  • Improved: In addition to above, a better algorithm developed for the aero effect that is used when you use NVIDIA GPU The better algorithm will be used if GPU-Accelerated enabled The algorithm will render much better the transparency effect
  • Improved & Fixed (For windows 10 OS build 18362 and above): Aero effect will work much better Thanks to a new API in Windows 10 OS build 18362 and above, what shown behind the window will be shown without latency while you move the window around
  • Improved & Fixed (For windows 10 OS build 18362 and above): The aero effect and dark-mode pro effect will work with better performance
  • Improved: Memory & CPU usage of aero effect / dark-mode effect will be lower

New in WindowTop 3.3.7 (Sep 16, 2019)

  • Fixed: High CPU & RAM usage

New in WindowTop 3.3.6 (Aug 11, 2019)

  • Fixed: When using the option "Shrinked windows --> Minimize to taskbar", any window that shrinked using "Shrink Pro" was disappeared.

New in WindowTop 3.3.5 (Jul 9, 2019)

  • Fixed: Windows 10 update 1903 broked the live preview functionality in the Shrink pro feature.

New in WindowTop 3.3.4 (Jul 2, 2019)

  • Changed: The option to show a red border around topmost windows is now disabled by default in the pro version

New in WindowTop 3.3.3 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • Fixed: Sometimes when dark-mode activated and user closed the window, the dark-mode still runs even if the window closed
  • Fixed: Sometimes (if the option to mark topmost windows is enabled) when on-top window marked with red border and user closed the window, the red border still shows even if the window closed
  • Fixed: if the option to mark topmost windows is enabled and the user drags some item in Windows Explorer, the red border shows above the drag effect

New in WindowTop 3.3.2 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • Added: Extra thumbnail live preview of the window when the shrink-box is small enough and The mouse is hovering above the shrink-box (Pro only)
  • demonstration
  • Added: WindowTop main functions are available also for shrink-box via the arrow toolbar, when the shrink-box is big enough.
  • Fixed: Sometimes a window can open at the edge of the screen. Added logic to fix this.
  • Fixed: Sometimes, when disabling/enabling shrink live thumbnail preview, the window can “disappear”

New in WindowTop 3.2.4 (Jun 27, 2019)

  • Added: Option to mark any top-most window with red frame (Pro only)
  • alt text
  • Fixed: User can't drag the arrow toolbar after the first attempt (works only on the first time)
  • Fixed: Sometimes when dark-mode activated and user closed the window, the dark-mode still runs even if the window closed
  • Fixed: Arrow toolbar does not show at the center on the window
  • Fixed: Other bugs

New in WindowTop 3.2.3 (Jun 21, 2019)

  • Changed: Update message box will not cause other programs/games to exit from fullscreen
  • Fixed: Shrink when the window has opacity
  • Fixed: Shrink - Sometimes that window became on top after unshrink
  • Added: License key will validate via server also

New in WindowTop 3.2.0 (Jun 14, 2019)

  • Added: Shrink – Live preview mode for the Shrink feature (Pro only)
  • Added: Shrink – Right click menu with the following options:
  • Close window
  • Minimize to taskbar
  • Enable live preview
  • Keep scale ratio
  • Added: Shrink – Resize shrinked window
  • Fixed: Bug when enabling dark mode on the window that maximized at the external monitor
  • Fixed: When you shrink a “set on top” window and then unshrink it, the window doesn’t remain on top and you have to
  • press ALT+z twice to restore it.
  • Improved: visual studio redistributable 2017 is no longer required to use dark-mode pro and opacity pro.
  • Added: In case you shrinked some window and the program crash with a fatal error, any window that shrinked get “lost”(hidden).
  • In this case, the program will have the second process that will recover these windows and continue running.
  • Improved: Stability of the program. Less chance of fatal error crashes

New in WindowTop 3.1.0 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Fixed: When DPI settings are not 100% (125%, 150%, 200%, etc), the arrow toolbar does not display at the correct position.
  • Added full support for Microsoft Store (WindowTop can be downloaded from Microsoft Store)

New in WindowTop 3.0.9 (Apr 10, 2019)

  • Fixed: dark-mode-free – in Windows 10
  • Fixed: dark-mode-free – When the window is maximized on the second monitor, the dark-mode-free is not working as expected
  • Fixed: When the window is maximized on the second monitor, the arrow-toolbar does not show
  • Changed: Installer replaced to reduce false positive detections by Antiviruses
  • The license states that you allowed decompiling the program for virus analysis purpose

New in WindowTop 3.0.8 (Apr 8, 2019)

  • Removed all pro features. the program is only on FREE mode.
  • Released Source Code of the FREE version (All Autoit code)
  • Potentially discontinued. read more: https://windowtop.info/support-project/

New in WindowTop 3.0.7 (Apr 5, 2019)

  • Removed: Program will no longer open the website windowtop.info after installing it.
  • Changed: The window that suggests buying the program will not load the page from windowtop.info website.
  • It will load the page from resources (the page is included in WindowTop.exe executable and it will load from there).
  • Changed: Source code is no longer compiled with Au3Stripper to reduce false positive detections by Antiviruses companies and Google. Unfortunately, It will remove the "Optimized: RAM usage" in v3.0.6

New in WindowTop 3.0.6 (Jan 27, 2019)

  • Optimized: RAM usage dropped 23MB-30MB to 5MB-6MB (80% less memory usage), without affecting CPU usage
  • Fixed: Shrink feature
  • In Windows 10, user can't use properly the shrink feature when multiple desktops open. When multiple desktops open and some window shrinked in the first desktop, and when shrinking second window in another desktop, it will cause Windows 10 to switch back to the first desktop, and the window will be shrinked in the first desktop
  • The software may crash when if user exit the software while some windows shrinked
  • Fixed: Installer - The installer may crash without internet connection
  • Fixed: Other bugs

New in WindowTop 3.0.4 (Oct 21, 2018)

  • Fixed:
  • Shrink feature
  • The small box may not shown when shrinking the window in some cases
  • The small box may render in black and without preview of the shrinked window
  • The preview of the shrinked window may disappear after some time or under certain conditions
  • The preview of the shrinked window may contain other stuff
  • Shrink & Dark Mode Pro / Smart Aero features - When dark-mode pro or smart-aero is enabled and you shrink the window, then un-shrink it, dark-mode pro or smart-aero will be disabled
  • Improved:
  • General - Removed all adf.ly links

New in WindowTop 3.0.2 (May 21, 2018)

  • Opacity Mode is now called Smart Aero
  • Aero Mode:
  • Blur - adjust the level of the blur effect on an entire window
  • Brightness – Control the intensity of the light behind the window. If the background behind the window is very bright, you can decrease the brightness intensity so that the text will be more noticeable
  • Texts now render sharper and with color, and are no longer black-or-white only
  • Lots of other under-the-hood changes and quality improvements
  • Added option "Show desktop only" - If this is enabled, only the desktop will be displayed by the effect
  • Background (the background around the texts) - added option "dark background". it will force the background around the text to be dark.
  • Dark mode & Smart Aero:
  • Massive performance boost – Up to x3 faster and smoother on Full HD resolutions!

New in WindowTop 2.0.5 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • Fixed: bug with very small windows.

New in WindowTop 2.0.4 (Jan 22, 2018)

  • Added: option to save window configuration.
  • Fixed: critical bug when the hotkeys reset to default after. restart if the user
  • disabled them.
  • Fixed: the dark mode may not always work.
  • Fixed: other bugs.

New in WindowTop 2.0.2 (Jan 10, 2018)

  • Fixed: critical memory leak bug in when Opacity Pro is enabled.

New in WindowTop 2.0.0 (Nov 4, 2017)

  • Added: Opacity Pro - extremely advanced opacity mode that allow to set different transparency levels for 3 recognized elements in the window - backgrounds , texts & shapes and images. (Based on image processing algorithm that detect texts, images, background)
  • This feature is new and currently (in this version) is designed to work only on Windows 10.
  • Fixed: Google Chrome window displayed as black square when it is shrinked.
  • Fixed: "white squares" bugs in the dark mode feature.
  • Fixed: other bugs.

New in WindowTop 1.9.2 (Oct 20, 2017)

  • Fixed: Critical bug - software settings are not saved in some cases.
  • Fixed: The price of the pro version was not displayed.
  • Fixed: Lots of bugs and instability problems.

New in WindowTop 1.9.1 (Oct 8, 2017)

  • Improved: image recognition algorithm of Dark Mode Pro.
  • Reduced installer filesize back to normal size.

New in WindowTop 1.9.0 (Oct 6, 2017)

  • Added: Dark Mode Pro v0.1.0 BETA - Based on image recognition & manipulation algorithm, it will not invert the colors of the images in the window.
  • in addition, it will automatically know when to invert the color and when not - it will invert the colors only when the screnn is not dark. Dark Mode Pro will work also on metro apps.
  • Added: Warning massage about the "click through" feature.
  • Removed: Default Hot-Key for "click through".
  • Fixed: Other bugs.

New in WindowTop 1.5.7 (Sep 3, 2017)

  • Fixed: Hard crash bug when DPI set to more than 100%

New in WindowTop 1.5.4 (Sep 2, 2017)

  • Fixed: Critical bug in windows 10: The "dark mode" feature is magnifying the window when tne DPI set to more than 100%.
  • Fixed: Critical bug in windows 10: Bug in the "Shrink" feature.
  • Added: Disable "Shrink" mode for all windows
  • Added: "shrinked windows --> Minimize to taskbar"
  • Added: Toolbar options -> Arrow: Arrow position settings - "Center" , "Left" , "Right"

New in WindowTop 1.5.2 (Sep 2, 2017)

  • Fixed: small bug

New in WindowTop 1.5.1 (Aug 9, 2017)

  • Removed: unused code
  • Added: hidden settings that will be available from "Toolbar options..." on next versions.
  • Huge optimization: the software will consume much less CPU and RAM usge and will work much faster than before.
  • Fixed hidden bugs
  • Dropped support for 32bit due to serious problems.

New in WindowTop 1.5.0 (Jul 31, 2017)

  • Added:
  • "Toolbar options ..." - ability to customize how the toolbar look - You can set how much buttons to disblay, and set the toolbar background color.

New in WindowTop 1.4.4 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • Fixed: the hotkey "Enable/Disable "Click Through" mode for all transparent windows" - is disabling the shrink mode (if it is active)
  • Added: HotKey for shrinking windows
  • Fixed: Bug in shrink mode

New in WindowTop 1.4.3 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Shrink feature: the box with the arrow still show after this mode activated
  • Bug in the box with the arrow

New in WindowTop 1.4.0 Beta (Jul 17, 2017)

  • Added: Welcome to the "Shrink" feature! added to the toolbar menu.
  • Fixed/Improved: the toolbar menu looks more correct on windows 10 only apps.

New in WindowTop 1.2.0 Beta (Jul 15, 2017)

  • Added 3 HotKeys:
  • Enable/Disable "Click Through" mode for all transparent windows
  • Enable/Disable "Set Top" mode for the active window
  • Enable/Disable window opacity

New in WindowTop 1.1.4 (Jul 14, 2017)

  • Fixed: the arrow button sometimes show up when it's not supposed to.