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Actual Multiple Monitors Full Changelog
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.1.1 (12.04.2013)
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[!] Actual Multiple Monitors has no Free version anymore.
[*] Desktop icons order restoration is improved.
[*] Windows 8: Now Alt-Tab Task Switcher activates the next task surely
even when pressing Alt-Tab instantly.
[-] Windows x64: In some environments, memory might leak gradually in the
Control Center.
[-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar did not update the file copying progress bar on
Total Commander buttons when copying was finished or canceled.
[-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar displayed no icon for the buttons that referred
to a missing file shortcut.
[-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar displayed an incorrect state for AIMP buttons
when AIMP played a radio station.
[-] Windows 8: Scrolling the mouse wheel over Alt-Tab Task Switcher worked
incorrectly if the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was enabled.
[-] After applying the Ignore Deactivation feature to a window, it was
impossible to work with its subwindows (like Open/Save As dialogs).
[-] Dragging the monitor previews on the Monitors Layout and Settings panel
might unwantedly activate the Desktop Divider.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.1 (25.03.2013)
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[!] Global system hooks are replaced with the hooks local for each process.
This should fix some known compatibility problems (e.g. with Lotus Notes,
Adobe Acrobat) and also improve the overall stability.
[+] Ability is added to put a specific window at startup into the selected tile
of a chosen Desktop Divider layout.
[*] List of hotkey actions can be filtered by hotkey category (System, Mouse,
Custom, etc.).
[*] Hotkeys now work in applications (mostly, video games) that use DirectInput
to provide keyboard/mouse control (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim,
Battlefield 3, etc.).
[*] CPU load is reduced when moving a window with the Desktop Divider active.
[*] Classic snapping now ignores the 100%-transparent (i.e. invisible) windows.
[-] Windows 7: If Internet Explorer is already open, launching a new instance
of it opened an unwanted extra window.
[-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not:
- switch to a window by clicking its preview
- support switching via rolling the mouse wheel
- activate the desktop, in some cases
[-] In some cases, programs launched under adminstrator might lose their taskbar
button after moving to a secondary monitor and then back to the primary one
(e.g. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware).
[-] Windows 7: Start button on Actual Taskbar got lost after invoking the
"Gather all windows here" command.
[-] Actual Multiple Monitors Slideshow screen saver stopped showing pictures
on existing monitors after attaching an additional one.
[-] The bottom of title buttons was clipped in JRiver Media Center window.
[-] Moving a window between monitors via Monitor Selector dialog made
the Move to Monitor title button's tool tip incorrect.
[-] Windows x64: In some cases, scrolling a window with the "Scrolling inactive
windows" feature beyond the bottom made the scroller bounce at the end of
scrollbar.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.4 (19.02.2013)
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[!] Actual Taskbar did not appear at startup if the "Show window contents while
dragging" option was disabled in Windows.
[*] Compatibility with MAXQDA is improved.
[*] Windows 7: "Desktop Divider's Up/Down/Left/Right" hotkey combinations
are modified to avoid conflicts with the system hotkeys.
[-] In some cases specific window settings did not apply to 64-bit applications
(e.g. Waterfox).
[-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not switch windows when pressing
Alt-Tab shortly.
[-] Mouse pointer moved to a wrong place when activating Excel windows via
taskbar previews if the "Put the mouse into window on preview click" option
was enabled.
[-] When locking the mouse in a maximized window, the mouse pointer could be
dragged beyond monitor boundaries.
[-] Windows 7: Hand tool did not work with the folder tree in Windows Explorer
windows.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.3 (05.02.2013)
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[*] Compatibility with PTC products (Creo, Windchill, Arbortext, Mathcad,
Integrity) is improved.
[*] Actual Taskbar, preview thumbnails, mirror windows, Desktop Divider previews
now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language
installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.).
[*] Program dialogs now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left
writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.).
[*] Mirror windows are improved:
- right click on a title bar displays the system window menu instead of
the mirror context menu
- mirror can be closed via Alt-F4
- selecting "Configure" in mirror's context menu opens the Configuration
with the subject mirror selected in the list of mirrors
[*] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar now supports the Start menu provided by
the StartIsBack program.
[*] Default hotkey combinations for moving a window between Desktop Divider
tiles are modified to avoid conflicts with the system ones.
[-] ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter64.exe consumed too much memory
(up to 4 GB).
[-] Graphic resources leak in Actual Taskbar led to various problems with
Windows Explorer in the systems with the two-byte system language (like
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew) set for non-Unicode applications.
[-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not display windows placed on secondary
monitors if the "Individual" mode was set for Actual Taskbar.
[-] Windows 8: In some cases, work area on secondary monitors calculated
incorrectly (so the maximized windows did not fill the entire visible
space).
[-] In some cases, Directory Opus toolbar disappeared after docking it to the
primary taskbar.
[-] In some cases, Classic Shell Start menu popped up in a wrong place
when called from Actual Taskbar.
[-] Actual Taskbar handled the user-created toolbars incorrectly.
[-] When minimizing/restoring windows in Actual Taskbar, the animation was led
to the primary taskbar.
[-] In higher screen DPIs, clock in Actual Taskbar did not display the date.
[-] In some cases, buttons pinned to Actual Taskbar might have common icons
instead of specific ones (for example, Control Panel button had general
Window Explorer icon).
[-] Jump List displayed wrong caption for a pinned button after restarting
Actual Multiple Monitors.
[-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar kept reacting on Aero Shake even after disabling
it in the Windows Registry.
[-] Hand tool stopped working in Google Chrome.
[-] Configuration backup might fail with the "Failed to get data for
'enable_classic_shell_start'" message.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.2 (02.01.2013)
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[!] Registration codes for the version 4.x did not get accepted as correct codes
for the version 5.x.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.1 (31.12.2012)
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[+] The ability to switch the Desktop Divider layouts using the combo box
in the "Put into" dialog is added.
[+] The ability to toggle the logging on-the-fly in the Log window is added.
[+] The ability to open the Configuration window for certain window settings
or an exclusion by double-clicking its entry in the Log window is added.
[*] Compatibility with Adobe Premiere is improved.
[*] Title buttons now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing
language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.).
[*] Preview thumbnails now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left
writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.).
[*] Classic Shell Start Menu settings are now stored in the configuration backup
along with the program settings.
[-] In some cases, auto-hidden Actual Taskbar got behind an active full-screen
window.
[-] Actual Taskbar stopped tracking the changes of the system taskbar options.
[-] When the system taskbar placed vertical, Start menu might appear in a wrong
place on secondary monitors.
[-] The "Properties" command stopped working in the Actual Taskbar context menu.
[-] If the Actual Taskbar was placed on the edge between monitors, it might
appear first on a wrong monitor.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0 (18.12.2012)
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[+] The ability to download pictures from web for the background wallpaper
slideshow is added. At the moment, two picture sources are available:
Google Image Search and Flickr.
[+] The ability is added to skip the content of sub-folders when adding a folder
to file slideshow playlist.
[+] The ability to invoke the classic Start menu on secondary taskbars is
added (included the Start menu component from the Classic Shell project
by Ivo Beltchev, http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/).
[*] Windows 7: The ability to start Actual Multiple Monitors at the end of
the installation is restored.
[*] Additional title buttons work correct in Mozilla Thunderbird 17.
[*] Compatibility with JRiver Media Center 18 is finally fixed.
[*] In case Actual Taskbar crashes due to some unhandled error, the main program
tries to relaunch it automatically.
[-] SURFCAM 6 crashed in some cases.
[-] If there were hotkey combinations already by the system, other hotkey
combinations might work incorrectly.
[-] 64-bit Actual Taskbar displayed garbled icons in task buttons and Jump Lists
and might crash in systems with two-byte system locale activated (Chinese,
Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.).
[-] There were some slight memory leaks in Actual Taskbar.
[-] Background slideshow stopped after locking the workstation, leaving it
for a while and then unlocking it back.
[-] The additional commands disappeared from the Desktop context menu.
[-] Windows 8: In some cases, the disabled Start button on Actual Taskbar might
re-appear.
[-] Mozilla Firefox 17, when maximized, blocked the access to auto-hidden Actual
Taskbar.
[-] Control keys (e.g. Backspace) were blocked while editing file names in the
Configuration window.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 4.3 (22.11.2012)
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[!] Actual Taskbar now runs as a separate process
(ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter.exe). This should increase the speed and
stability of this feature. Also, now it works natively on 64-bit systems;
that should result in better handling of native 64-bit applications.
[+] Windows 8: Start Screen options has been added (see the "Multiple Monitors -
Taskbar" panel).
[+] Now it's possible to pin/unpin items in the Actual Taskbar's Jump Lists
in the same manner as in the system taskbar's Jump Lists.
[+] The Maximize to Desktop Divider Tile mouse action is added (middle click on
Maximize button by default - see the "Mouse - Actions" panel).
[+] Ability to disable the Desktop Divider for specific windows is added (see
the "Disable Desktop Divider" option in the "Startup - Options" group).
[+] The Mouse Sonar effect can be displayed after switching the mouse between
monitors via hotkeys to indicate new mouse location.
[*] Compatibility with the following programs is restored:
- Logitech SetPoint
- WordPerfect 12
[*] Compatibility with the following programs is improved:
- SmartDraw 12
- HTML-Kit Tools
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar now is compatible with Start Menu X and Classic Shell
Start Menu.
[*] Windows 8: Look of title buttons is improved.
[*] Windows 8: The look of preview thumbnails in Actual Taskbar is improved.
[*] Start button in Actual Taskbar now looks correct in higher screen DPIs on
Windows Vista and higher.
[*] Group preview in Actual Taskbar now reacts on drag-n-drop attempts.
[*] Handling of links pinned to secondary taskbars is improved.
[*] The order of monitors used in the Move to Monitor feature now is the same
as in the system.
[*] The "Move to" monitor selector dialog now displays the system monitor
numbers.
[*] Additional title buttons are now available in JRiver Media Center.
[*] Desktop Divider now reacts on temporary deactivation even if the window
is not moving.
[*] When you left-click the Put into Divider Tile title button, the mouse
pointer now follows this button so that you can quickly put the window
into a desired tile by simply making several consecutive clicks, without
moving the mouse.
[*] You can select several files at once in the "Add File" dialog to add them
to slideshow playlist.
[-] Language Bar's context menu disappeared immediately after popping up.
[-] In some cases, on 64-bit systems some windows might display their caption
text in Chinese.
[-] The "&" symbol did not displayed in window captions.
[-] Tooltips disappeared in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher.
[-] Windows 8: System secondary taskbars did not hide when Actual Taskbar
activated.
[-] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar was not semi-transparent.
[-] Windows 8: Start Screen could not be invoked from the system taskbar when
the "Show the Start menu for hidden Start button" option was enabled.
[-] Windows 8: Start menu did not hide on a second click on the Start button
in Actual Taskbar.
[-] Windows 8: The "Open With" list of options disappeared immediately if the
"Move to Monitor at Startup" feature was enabled in the Default Settings.
[-] Windows 7 x64: Actual Taskbar might work wrong if Actual Multiple Monitors
was installed with the "Support of system utilities and administrative
tools" option enabled.
[-] Windows 7: Start menu did not pop up when clicking the leftmost
Start button's boundary.
[-] Windows 7: The Onscreen Keyboard's taskbar button did not display in
Actual Taskbar on secondary monitors.
[-] Windows 7: System screen savers were affected by the "Move to Monitor at
Startup" feature enabled in the Default Settings.
[-] The "No Disk" error message was displayed when trying to open the Jump List
that contained links to files on a removable or network disk, and that disk
was removed or unavailable.
[-] In somes cases, new items could not be pinned to Actual Taskbar.
[-] Actual Taskbar, while auto-hidden, did not show up if the Google Chrome
window was maximized on that monitor.
[-] Title button separator made the buttons unusable in Microsoft Office 2007
and higher applications.
[-] With the "Show the buttons in group preview" option enabled, group previews
might exceed the monitor boundaries.
[-] The "Put the mouse pointer into window on preview click" feature kept on
working even when the preview thumbnails were turned off.
[-] Click on preview thumbnail of a web browser tab placed the mouse pointer
to incorrect position when the "Put the mouse pointer into window on preview
click" feature was enabled.
[-] Title buttons appeared on fullscreen GOM Media Player.
[-] The Aero Snap preview did not hide if other window popped up while
dragging a window.
[-] Classic window snapping to Desktop Divider tiles did not work when
the snapping to desktop/monitor boundaries was disabled.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 4.2 (16.08.2012)
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[+] The ability to run the desktop profile from the command line is added.
Use the following syntax:
ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe dp "your_profile_name"
[+] The options to remove the taskbar group commands from a group preview/Jump
List are added (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel).
[+] The new feature is added: when you click on taskbar preview, the mouse
pointer jumps to the corresponding point in the window (see the
"Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel).
[!] The library file ammemb64.dll is built using another compiler so we expect
the increased stability on 64-bit systems (especially on Windows 7 and
Windows 8).
[-] Sometimes the work area on secondary monitor was not updated consistently
while dragging the taskbar with the mouse.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 4.1 (07.07.2012)
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[+] Custom grouping of taskbar buttons is now available in Actual Taskbar.
To add certain window into a group, drag its preview thumbnail and drop it
onto the group button (or another window's button to make a new group).
To remove window from a group, drag its preview thumbnail and drop it
onto the empty taskbar space.
To handle groups in a quick and easy manner, the
"Tile/Cascade/Minimize/Restore/Move to Monitor" commands have been added.
These commands can be invoked:
- via group's Jump List
- via caption buttons in the group's preview window
- via group button's context menu (you can invoke it using Shift-RClick
on the group button)
Note: Dragging the preview of a browser tab (Internet Explorer, Chrome,
Firefox, etc.) will add the entire browser window into the group, not just
that separate tab.
[+] You can add custom title buttons at the level of particular window settings
(either Default or Specific). Also, you can change the order of buttons and
tell apart the groups of similar buttons by adding separators between them.
Note: There's no "Title Buttons Order" group anymore in the "Options - Title
Buttons" panel because now the order can be adjusted for different window
settings individually.
Warning! Custom title buttons are not compatible with the Multi-selection
Edit yet so please avoid any manipulations with them (adding, deleting,
moving) when several window settings are selected to prevent the corruption
of your settings.
[+] Windows 8: Start button is restored in Actual Taskbars (click on this button
invokes the system Start screen).
[+] Special multi-monitor slideshow screen saver has been added (see
"Multiple Monitors -> Screen Saver -> Slideshow on each monitor").
[+] The "Tile/Cascade/Undo" commands has been added to the Actual Taskbar's
context menu.
[+] Desktop Divider: Now you can switch the layouts on the fly by scrolling
the mouse wheel:
1) while dragging a window
2) over the "Put into" dialog
[+] Desktop Divider: The ability to copy a layout is added.
[+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to copy a layout from one monitor
to another in the Tiles Editor.
[+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to auto-generate the grid division of
defined dimensions.
[+] Italian language is added (translation provided by Davide Pari).
[*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Release Preview is improved:
- correct work with 64-bit Internet Explorer and administrative tools
- correct size on the Multi-monitor Task Switcher on secondary monitors
- correct size and look of the additional title buttons
- correct placement of the multi-monitor background wallpaper pictures
- improved quality of the multi-monitor background wallpaper pictures
[*] Windows 7: Group buttons' look is improved in Actual Taskbar.
[*] The Network Connection pop-up window appears on the monitor
where the Network tray icon was clicked.
[*] Multi-monitor wallpaper cache folder is cleared upon exiting the program
or closing the Configuration window.
[*] Desktop Divider: In the "While pressed" activation mode, now it's possible
to press the modifier keys after the moment you began to drag a window, i.e.
you can activate/deactivate the Desktop Divider anytime.
[*] Desktop Divider: Tiles Editor better displays the hierarchy of panels
forming the layout: the deeper the panel is - the lighter its splitter
looks.
[*] Desktop Divider: In the Tiles Editor, splitters snap to their neighbours
located on the same horizontal/vertical line.
[*] Now it's possible to disable the classic snapping of windows to Desktop
Divider tiles (see the "To Desktop Divider tiles" option in the "Options -
Window Snapping" panel).
[*] Compatibility with NVIDIA nView is improved.
[*] In the Aero visual theme, now it's possible to resize a window
when the mouse is over additional title buttons.
[-] Actual Taskbar detected the full-screen windows wrong in the Aero visual
theme.
[-] In "Use small icons" mode, group buttons in Actual Taskbar displayed
large icons scaled down instead of the small icons.
[-] Actual Taskbar in not on-top mode did not come forward after clicking its
sub-controls (like toolbars).
[-] Icons of the following programs displayed in the primary taskbar even when
their windows were moved to a secondary monitor:
- Digsby
- ProCall One
[-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar did not displayed the icon for Windows Picture
Viewer.
[-] In some cases, photo slideshow screen savers (Windows Photos, Google Photos,
etc.), while being assigned to run on different monitors, stopped at first
slide.
[-] Desktop Divider: Stretching a window across several tiles didn't work
in some cases.
[-] Desktop Divider: After placing a window into a tile on another monitor
and then maximizing the window, its restoration brought it back
to the original monitor.
[-] Desktop Divider: Activating another layout did not make its tiles conform
with the Desktop work area.
[-] Clicking the Maximize button in a window that was Aero-snapped to left/right
half of desktop did not maximize the window.
[-] IrfanView became unresponsive after trying to scroll its window
by the mouse wheel with the Scroll Inactive Windows feature active.
[-] Tooltip that shows current window position displayed the top-left of
window's client area instead of the top-left for the outer window frame.
[-] Ignore Deactivation action made the Lock Mouse action stop working.
[-] Trying to select several Window Settings items in the left panel and delete
them resulted in the deletion of a single item only.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 4.0 (13.03.2012)
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[!] Configuration window has been revamped.
[!] Desktop Divider feature has been added. It allows sub-dividing the entire
large desktop or each monitor into several non-intersecting areas (tiles).
You can create as many custom tile layouts as you need and activate them
on the fly as circumstances require.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar: The Mixed mode is added. In this mode, taskbar on
the primary monitor shows all running applications on all monitors, whereas
taskbars on secondary monitors show only applications running on their
corresponding monitors.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar: The option is added to disable the preview thumbnails
completely.
[+] Mirroring: The ability is added to run a mirror full-screen.
[+] Mirroring: The ability is added to adjust mirror's parameters on-the-fly
via right-click context menu. Also, you can toggle a mirror full-screen
and back using the Alt-Enter hotkey.
[+] Compatibility mode is added for the Lock Mouse and Ignore Deactivation
hotkeys (try to activate it if these hotkeys do not work by default for
a particular game/application).
[+] Now it's possible to activate the Lock Mouse and Ignore Deactivation
features automatically at specific window's startup.
[+] Commands to save/restore the order of desktop icons are added into
the Desktop's context menu.
[*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Consumer Preview is improved.
[*] Compatibility with Windows Snipping Tool is improved.
[*] Compatibility with TechSmith's Snagit is improved.
[*] Compatibility with GOM Media Player is improved.
[*] Compatibility with Gyazo is improved.
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar: Compatibility with Winamp is improved.
[*] Multi-monitor Task Switcher now reacts on mouse clicks.
[*] Actual Multiple Monitors is now compatible with virtual video devices
(like those added by MaxiVista or iDisplay).
[*] Further improvements of compatibility between Scroll Inactive Windows and
Volumouse.
[*] Classic window snapping is improved: now it does not snap to maximized
windows and to the borders of windows, which are partially or completely
covered by other windows.
[*] The "C" command line option has been modified: now it expects a fully
qualified name of a folder that contains alternative configuration files
to load.
[-] In some rare cases, window settings did not re-apply after modification.
[-] After saving the settings in Freeware mode, Specific window settings
got lost.
[-] Excel 2007/2010 workbooks did not activate after clicking their
corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars.
[-] Active Excel sheets did not minimize on clicking their buttons in
secondary taskbars.
[-] Context menu did not work in the thumbnail previews for inactive Excel
sheets.
[-] Outlook 2010 left a blank button in the taskbar after launching from
a pinned button.
[-] Internet Explorer 9/10 shortcuts did not pin to secondary taskbars when
being dragged from the Address bar.
[-] Sometimes buttons disappeared from secondary taskbars.
[-] In some cases group buttons in secondary taskbars displayed the icon of
some window in the group instead of the application icon.
[-] Multi-monitor Taskbar: In some cases multi-row taskbar lost its height
after changing its properties.
[-] Windows 7: Delays for hiding/unhiding an auto-hidden taskbar differed
from the system ones.
[-] With the Auto-hide feature enabled, Multi-monitor Taskbar got auto-hidden
when placing the mouse within a preview thumbnail.
[-] Being in both Auto-hide and Locked mode, secondary taskbar got hidden
even if it was clicked.
[-] Start menu on secondary monitors had no proper right border in some cases.
[-] Start menu did not appear after pressing Win/Ctrl-Esc if the mouse pointer
was on a monitor with no taskbar.
[-] Windows 7: Icons were cut in secondary notification areas
in the Windows Classic visual theme.
[-] Overlay icons on taskbar buttons disappeared after moving a window
to the primary monitor and back.
[-] Taskbar buttons for windows in the new version of Google Talk showed
in wrong taskbars.
[-] Aero Peek invoked immediately after moving the mouse into a preview
thumbnail, without any delay.
[-] Sometimes tooltip showing current window position displayed
incorrect values.
[-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally.
[-] In some cases, Control Center might crash upon reloading the configuration.
[-] When launching Actual Multiple Monitors after Stardock DeskScapes,
Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable.
[-] With Actual Multiple Monitors running, capturing a video in TechSmith's
Jing made it crash upon closing.
[-] Windows 7: Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed when creating
the secondary taskbars.
[-] Control Center might crash when starting the wallpaper slideshow
if the number of slideshow files changed since the last launch.
[-] Multi-monitor Background parameters did not update after switching
the Background Mode only.
[-] Windows 7: Desktop profiles with cloning could not be activated in
the Control Center (via hotkey, at startup, via tray's menu, etc.).
[-] Windows 7: Photos screen saver, being run in a multi-monitor mode,
got frozen on a first image, if the "On resume, display Welcome screen"
option was active.
[-] Screen saver continued to show the Buy Now reminders in the Free mode.
[-] Upon launching Actual Multiple Monitors, title buttons in maximized windows
shifted down if the Multi-monitor Taskbar was active.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in the Windows Media Center window.
[-] Additional commands did not appear in the Windows Media Center window menu
after switching its window back from full-screen.
[-] Hand tool interfered with the gameplay in some games (such as Cogs).
[-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not work on a monitor where Internet Explorer
window was maximized.
[-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located
on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4.2 (22.11.2011)
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[*] The quality of multi-monitor wallpaper pictures is improved in Windows 7.
[*] In Aero visual theme, Multi-monitor Taskbar's color is now exactly the same
as the system taskbar's.
[*] Delay before activating a preview when moving the mouse within
a multi-preview for a grouped task is added (for now, it's hard-coded
to 200 ms).
[-] The Scroll Inactive Windows feature stopped working in previous update.
[-] Activating the maximized windows from secondary taskbars forced them back
to a normal state.
[-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed.
[-] Window icon and caption did not update in preview thumbnails.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4.1 (11.11.2011)
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[+] The ability is added to invoke a Jump List by dragging taskbar button
out of the taskbar.
[+] Auto-scrolling of tabs in the Settings dialog is added so the active
tab should remain always visible and other tabs fill the entire visible
space.
[*] Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with
third party products that also extend the mouse wheel processing.
[*] Jump Lists' look in the Aero visual theme is slightly improved.
[*] Preview thumbnails' look is improved.
[-] Preview thumbnails stopped showing for Excel 2007 workbooks.
[-] Preview thumbnails did not close after moving the mouse out of them
if the taskbar auto-hiding was enabled.
[-] In some cases, windows stopped come to front after clicking their
corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars.
[-] In some cases, notification area in secondary taskbars made a noticeable
CPU load in the Windows Explorer process.
[-] Mirror windows did not return into a visible area after their last monitor
was disconnected.
[-] The "Area around the mouse pointer" mirror worked wrong for negative
screen coordinates.
[-] Title buttons did not update their placement in Mozilla Firefox 7 windows
after maximizing/restoring a window.
[-] In some cases, console windows might hung for some time at startup.
[-] Some Configuration windows (like Select Window from List, Test Regexp)
did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was
disconnected.
[-] Sometimes, empty match lines appeared in the Test Regexp results.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4 (21.10.2011)
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[+] Ability is added to activate a desktop profile at
Actual Multiple Monitors startup.
[+] Monitor auto-arrangement tool is added (see the "Arrange monitors" button
in the Monitors' Layout and Settings panel).
[+] Ability is added to show/hide secondary taskbars both via Desktop's context
menu and via Configuration dialog (see the "Unhide taskbars" button in the
Taskbar panel).
[+] Ability is added to invoke Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper settings
via Desktop's context menu.
[+] Ability is added to apply desktop profiles and invoke Desktop Profiles
settings via Desktop's context menu.
[+] Ability is added to hide/show the Show Desktop button via taskbar's
context menu.
[+] Ability is added to display the Start menu only on monitors with the visible
Start button when the Win key is pressed (to get this, disable the "Show the
Start menu for hidden Start button" option in the Taskbar panel).
[+] Ability is added to display window's current position in a popup tooltip
while dragging a window.
[+] Ability is added to assign a custom mouse action for taskbar button click.
[+] Ability is added to customize modifier keys for the "Scroll inactive windows
with the mouse wheel" feature.
[+] Norwegian language is added (translation provided by Stale Pedersen).
[+] Ability is added to toggle the "Run the library from the installation
folder" option via program's command line (use the L+/L- command line option
to turn this option on/off, accordingly; by default, this option is off).
[*] Window rules (specifics and exclusions) are now compatible with windows of
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
[*] Compatibility with many Adobe products is improved (however, some functions
may be unavailable yet).
[*] Compatibility with Mindjet's MindManager is improved.
[*] Compatibility with TechSmith's SnagIt is improved.
[*] Tracking of window caption changes is improved (in particular, for own
Actual Multiple Monitors configuration dialogs).
[*] Title buttons look and behave correctly in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
windows.
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar works correctly in Windows 8 Developer Preview.
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar is now compatible with various sidebar apps
(like Vista Sidebar, 7 Sidebar, Google Desktop Sidebar, etc.).
[*] Multi-monitor taskbar now respects the "NumThumbnails" registry setting
when displaying a multi-preview for a grouped/tabbed taskbar button:
if the number of previews exceeds this setting - windows/tabs are shown
in a simple list.
[*] Monitor detection to apply individual taskbar settings is improved.
[*] Start menu's look and behavior on secondary monitors is improved.
[*] Maximize to Desktop feature is improved to better handle custom monitor
configurations.
[*] Advanced title buttons are disabled in the Free version.
[-] Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 crashed after opening/closing the Chart Source
Data dialog.
[-] Various Adobe products (like Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver,
Fireworks, Illustrator) crashed upon exiting.
[-] Autodesk Softimage hung at startup if Actual Multiple Monitors was running.
[-] In Windows 7/8, opening lot of tabs in Internet Explorer 9/10 and then
hovering its taskbar button led to a continuous cycling of the tabs list.
[-] After restarting Windows Explorer, the Win key stopped invoking
the Start menu.
[-] Taskbar button's extra features (like progress indicator, overlay icon,
control buttons in a preview) stopped working in the primary taskbar after
moving a window to a secondary monitor and then returning it back to
the primary.
[-] Auto-hidden secondary taskbar did not appear after pressing the Win key.
[-] Taskbar buttons for Google Talk windows showed in a wrong taskbar.
[-] Minimized Windows Media Player with skinned view (like "Now playing")
did not restore on clicking its button in a secondary taskbar.
[-] Hiding the taskbar on a certain monitor did not restore that monitor's
work area.
[-] In Windows Vista/7, Start button extended to other monitor when a taskbar
was on the horizontal edge between monitors and the "Small icons" option
was active.
[-] When invoking a Jump List for a taskbar with the Auto-hide mode enabled,
the taskbar hid (and closed the Jump List) when the mouse went out of its
boundaries.
[-] When invoking a hidden icons popup window for a taskbar with the Auto-hide
mode enabled, the taskbar hid.
[-] Pinned taskbar button looked tabbed even after closing its corresponding
application (for example, Opera web browser with several opened tabs).
[-] Even when the "Use drop shadows for icon labels" system option was turned
off, the wallpaper slideshow mode made it active again.
[-] After restoring a system from standby/hibernation, the slideshow did not
start.
[-] Slideshow run even when the "Desktop background" was disabled in the
Remote Desktop Connection settings.
[-] Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars sometimes stopped showing
the desktop on mouse hovering.
[-] Windows 7: Switching monitors on/off via desktop profiles did not work
in some cases.
[-] Windows 7: Hidden tray icons popup window did not close in some cases
when clicking outside of it.
[-] If an application (like fullscreen game) locked the mouse within the primary
monitor at startup, the mouse was freed unwantedly.
[-] Soft Mouse Lock did not work on desktop boundaries when the Wrap the Desktop
feature was active.
[-] Soft Mouse Lock worked incorrectly for dragging a window between
monitors.
[-] Wrap the Desktop feature wrapped the mouse locked in a window
within that window.
[-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not wrap the mouse on the top/left desktop
boundary on some monitor configurations.
[-] Zooming the contents in a WordPerfect active window with the Ctrl+Mouse
wheel did not work when the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active.
[-] Scrolling the contents in Adobe Audition windows did not
work when the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active.
[-] Title buttons' glow effect looked wrong with non-standard values of
Screen DPI.
[-] After maximizing a window to desktop, the Restore menu command got disabled.
[-] Hotkeys for Minimize and Maximize/Restore system commands did not work.
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[!] Actual Multiple Monitors is now a freeware with limited functionality.
Right after installation, it grants the 30-day fully functional trial.
When the trial expires, some features become unavailable; to unlock them,
user must purchase a license. The rest of features can be used for free
(for personal, non-commercial purposes only).
[+] Ability is added to hide secondary taskbars per monitor: right click
the taskbar and select the "Hide taskbar" command in its context menu.
You can restore the taskbar via "Taskbars" submenu in
Actual Multiple Monitors tray icon's context menu.
[+] Controls on secondary taskbars (Start button, notification area, clock)
can be toggled per taskbar: right click the taskbar and select the required
item in its context menu.
[+] Preview thumbnails can display window icon/caption.
[+] The option is added to always show window icon/caption in preview
thumbnails, disregarding the OS settings (can be useful for tabbed windows,
like web browsers).
[+] Wrap the Desktop mouse tool is added. When activated, it wraps the opposite
edges of desktop and therefore makes the mouse pointer travel through
them freely. For example, when you drag the mouse beyond the right edge
it appears on the left edge, and vice versa.
[+] Indonesian language is added (translation provided by Elda Taluta).
[*] Windows Vista/7: When installing a new version, special system mechanism
is used to avoid the reboot after updating program's runtime library.
[*] Multi-monitor Taskbar extension tracks multi-window applications (like
MS Visual Studio) more accurately.
[*] Hand tool works more consistently.
[-] Windows 7: Sometimes Multi-monitor Taskbar caused Windows Explorer's crash
when working with applications that add control buttons into their preview
thumbnails.
[-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors caused Desktop Window
Manager's crash.
[-] If a window was maximized to desktop and then maximized in usual way,
its buttons remained in secondary taskbars.
[-] Winamp 5, when in skinned mode, did not appear in secondary taskbars.
[-] Soft Mouse Lock could not be activated without the full reload of
Actual Multiple Monitors.
[-] Hand tool stopped working after restarting Actual Multiple Monitors.
[-] Multi-monitor Wallpaper extension crashed on invalid image files.
[-] Upon closing, Configuration window sent the unwanted Back command to
an underlying window (Windows Explorer, any web browser, etc.).
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[+] You can toggle the Multi-monitor Taskbar's "Always-on-top" state via
its context menu.
[*] The Soft Mouse Lock works more accurate and stable.
[-] Multi-monitor wallpapers looked wrong if there were portrait-oriented
monitors.
[-] Desktop profile hotkeys stopped working after applying the configuration
changes.
[-] Slideshow parameters were not modified after activating another desktop
profile.
[-] The "Next slide" command did not appear in Desktop's context menu when
Actual Multiple Monitors was installed with the support of
administrative tools.
[-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not run the Blank screen saver
if it was assigned to a second/third/etc. monitor.
[-] Sometimes the Multi-monitor Taskbar's context menu initially appeared
behind the taskbar.
[-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching.
[-] Scroll Inactive Windows tool did not work with Corel WordPerfect.
[-] Hand tool did not work with Winamp.
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[!] Desktop profiles support advanced display management features available
in Windows 7 (such as displays cloning, image rotation).
[+] In Windows 7, preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars display custom
control buttons (like Play/Pause/Forward/Back for Windows Media Player)
and application's notification icons.
[+] In Windows 7, secondary taskbars display the hidden notification icons
in a special fly-out window.
[+] Jump Lists in secondary taskbars display a context menu for their items
(menu's content may differ from a menu displayed for Jump List items in
the system taskbar).
[+] Now it's possible to drag items out of Jump Lists and drop them into other
applications.
[+] The soft lock of the mouse within monitor (a.k.a. "tight monitor
boundaries") is added. This mode holds the mouse pointer on the boundary
between monitors for some specified time and prohibits moving the mouse
to another monitor unless you drag it there forcibly (i.e. longer than
the specified amount of time). You can enable this mode and adjust
the hold time in the new "Multiple Monitors -> Mouse" panel.
[+] The new Lock Mouse in Monitor hotkey is added (Alt-P by default).
[+] The ability is added to add custom mouse actions for clicks on
particular window parts (see the Mouse panel in the Options window).
[+] The Hand tool is added. It allows scrolling windows by holding down
the specified mouse button (right by default) and dragging the mouse.
[+] The Mirror window action is added. It allows creating mirrors for certain
windows on the fly via title button/window menu/hotkey.
[+] Now it's possible to assign a hotkey for a certain desktop profile to
activate it quickly.
[+] Now it's possible to assign a hotkey for a certain mirror to activate it
quickly.
[+] Now it's possible to customize the system speed of scrolling with the mouse
wheel.
[*] Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved.
[*] In Windows 7, the look of Start button in secondary taskbars is improved
in Aero.
[*] Clock in secondary taskbars is highlighted when the mouse pointer
hovers over it.
[*] Calendar is now shown on the monitor where the taskbar clock was clicked.
[*] The look of taskbar clock is improved in Vista.
[*] In Windows 7, the Show Desktop button in secondary taskbars reacts on
a drag-n-drop attempt.
[*] Desktop Profiles Manager remembers the successfully applied desktop
configurations and does not display the confirmation dialog for next
activations of such configurations.
[*] Compatiblity of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with
the protected Internet Explorer windows and Outlook 2010 windows.
[*] The look of a single title button in Aero is improved.
[-] Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed.
[-] Multi-preview for several Excel 2010 workbooks displayed incorrect in
secondary taskbars (a single image of the active workbook was duplicated
for all others instead of individual images for each workbook).
[-] Pinning icons of games to secondary taskbars worked incorrect.
[-] Secondary taskbar sometimes did not pop up on top when switching from
a full-screen window to a regular one.
[-] Buttons pinned to secondary taskbars had the incorrect width.
[-] Sometimes in WinXP the context menu for a group button in secondary taskbar
displayed just a single item for a first window in the group.
[-] In Windows 7, buttons on secondary taskbars were grouped incorrect
when the "Never combine" option was enabled for the system taskbar.
[-] The Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrect with monitors having
negative coordinates.
[-] Aero Snap emulator stopped working in 3.1.
[-] Actual Multiple Monitors hung when trying to update a preview
for a hung application.
[-] Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed after changing the mirroring
options.
[-] Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed while playing the wallpaper
slideshow.
[-] Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed while displaying a multi-preview.
[-] The Identify button worked incorrect when the Move to Monitor Having the
Mouse Pointer feature was enabled by default (all monitors' numbers were
displayed on the same monitor).
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[!] The ability to mirror certain parts of desktop in a floating window is added
(see the "Multiple Monitors - Mirroring" panel).
The following kinds of mirroring are available:
- area around the mouse pointer
- specified window
- specified monitor
- arbitrary part of desktop
Mirrored area can be zoomed in or out up to ten times.
[+] The ability to add custom hotkeys for certain actions is added
(see the Hotkeys tab).
[+] The ability to pin documents to Jump Lists of applications pinned
to secondary taskbars is added.
[+] The ability is added to launch a new application instance via Shift-left
click on application's button in a secondary taskbar (Ctrl-Shift-left click
launches a new instance of that application with the administrative
privileges).
[+] The ability to close a window via the Close button in window's live preview
is added.
[+] The ability to disable the scrolling of inactive windows in Specific
window settings is added.
[+] The "Next slide" command has been added to Desktop's context menu.
It allows you switching to the next slide picture immediately when
the Slideshow mode is enabled for the Desktop background.
[+] The option is added to disable the random play order of the background
slideshow.
[+] The option is added to customize the modifiers key combination that disables
the window snapping temporarily (see the Window Snapping tab).
[+] The ability to backup/restore the configuration is added (see
the Backup/Restore buttons in the Configuration toolbar).
[+] The ability to undo/redo made changes in the main Configuration window
is added (see the Undo/Redo buttons in the Edit toolbar).
[*] Now Aero Shake and Win+M hotkey minimize windows on a monitor with
the mouse pointer only.
[*] The separate Start/Stop Actual Multiple Monitors hotkeys
are replaced with the single Toggle Actual Multiple Monitors hotkey.
[-] Icons pinned on secondary taskbars sometimes disappeared.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars disappeared after changing
taskbar's placement.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars was misplaced after
hiding/showing taskbar's clock.
[-] The empty space left in a window group's multi-preview after closing some
windows in that group.
[-] It was impossible to modify the wallpaper position after it was set once.
[-] Remote Desktop session window painted incorrect after maximizing it
via Aero Snap.
[-] Scrolling of inactive Internet Explorer windows did not work
in Protected mode.
[-] The "Disable the native Windows 7 Snap" option also disabled Aero Shake.
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[!] Taskbars on secondary displays support the basic functions of the Windows 7
Jump Lists feature (under Windows 7 only). The following functions ARE NOT
implemented yet:
- pin/unpin Jump List items
- drag Jump List items with the mouse
- display a context menu for a Jump List item
[+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display the progress bar on their buttons
when needed.
[+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display the colorized highlighting
for a button under the mouse pointer.
[+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display a separate preview for each tab
of a tabbed web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome,
Opera, Safari, etc.).
[+] (Win7 only) The ability is added to pin applications to secondary taskbars
by files/shortcuts drag-n-drop (may be incompatible with some native 64-bit
applications, e.g. MMC applets or Internet Explorer).
[+] The ability to replace the system taskbar on a primary monitor with its
enhanced Actual Tools implementation is added.
[+] Now you can specify the Wallpaper Slideshow mode on a per monitor basis.
[+] The ability is added to set the wallpaper picture by drag-n-drop in the
Background settings panel.
[+] Ability to scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel is added
(see the "Triggers -> Mouse" panel in the Options window).
[+] New hotkeys to quickly place the mouse pointer to the next monitor (Win-`
by default), to the previous monitor (Win-Shift-` by default) and
to the center of the primary monitor (Ctrl-Alt-P by default) are added.
[+] The ability is added to move windows to next/previous monitor by clicking
the middle mouse button on window's title bar with the Alt/Shift-Alt keys
pressed.
[+] The glow effect when hovering the extra title buttons with the mouse pointer
in Aero visual theme is added.
[+] Title buttons' skins for the Black and Silver Office 2007 styles are added.
[+] Maximize to Desktop now supports a partial maximization (i.e. to the selected
monitors). The selection can be made in the preview dialog, which can be
opened by right-clicking the Maximize to Desktop title button.
[+] Right click on the Move to Monitor title button now opens a dialog with
monitors' preview instead of a plain menu if there are more than two
monitors attached (for two monitors, right click does the same as the left
click).
[+] The "locked mouse" status is stored on a per window basis, i.e. you can lock
the mouse pointer in two different windows at the same time.
[+] Now you can adjust various preview thumbnail options:
- toggle the multi-previews
- toggle the smooth transitions between previews and preview fading
- adjust the delay before the preview appearance
[+] The Identify button is added to the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel.
[+] Monitor previews support the right-click context menu.
[+] Secondary taskbar can be also repositioned via special command in its
context menu (in addition to dragging the taskbar with the mouse).
[+] You can launch Windows Task Manager from the secondary taskbar's
context menu.
[+] The option to select which kind of click (single or double) on the program's
tray icon is used to launch the Configuration is added.
[+] The ability to toggle and colorize the Aero Snap preview is added (see the
"Window Snapping" panel in the Options window).
[+] The ability to disable the native Windows 7 Aero Snap is added (see the
"Window Snapping" panel in the Options window).
[+] You can temporarily disable the Aero Snap emulation while dragging a window
by pressing and holding the Ctrl key.
[*] Now it's possible to turn on the Classic Snapping and the Aero Snap mode
at the same time (see the "Window Snapping" panel in the Options window).
[*] The Background and Screen Saver panels have been slightly redesigned.
[*] If a window is maximized to desktop - taskbar button for this window will be
visible on each monitor occupied by the window.
[*] When invoking the Start menu via Win or Ctrl-Esc key, it appears on the
monitor with the mouse pointer.
[*] Start button on secondary taskbars is compatible with Vista Start Menu
by OrdinarySoft.
[*] Vista/7 desktop gadgets are no more affected when moving groups of windows
between monitors via "Send/Get/Gather all windows" commands.
[*] Specific Settings list and Exclusions list do not display the value
of criterion (class, caption, program) for a certain item if the criterion
in this item is disabled.
[*] Configuration panels can be scrolled with the mouse wheel.
[-] Display devices' vertical refresh rates were dropped to their default values
(usually, 60 Hz) after switching the primary display or disabling/enabling
secondary displays via tray icon's context menu.
[-] When a window was minimized on a secondary monitor, the Minimization
animation was played for the primary taskbar instead of an appropriate
secondary taskbar.
[-] Taskbar on secondary displays was stretched to a half monitor right after
loading if the taskbar was aligned vertically.
[-] Secondary taskbars did not restore their width under Windows 7 if being
aligned vertically.
[-] The Sound Volume applet did not work in secondary taskbars under Windows
Vista/7.
[-] Sometimes tray icons did not appear in the secondary taskbars.
[-] Title buttons did not work in Office 2010 64-bit edition.
[-] Title buttons disappeared after moving a window to secondary monitor on
some display configurations.
[-] Window snapping did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows.
[-] Invoking the advanced window functions by clicking on standard window parts
did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows.
[-] The width of buttons pinned on secondary taskbars was calculated incorrectly
in some cases.
[-] Sometimes preview thumbnails appeared below windows.
[-] Sometimes preview thumbnails had a black non-transparent background.
[-] Google Chrome sometimes caused the phantom buttons appear in secondary
taskbars.
[-] Windows 7 Photos screen saver did not work in a multi-monitor mode.
[-] If the Configuration window was closed on a secondary monitor and then
the monitor had been unplugged - the Configuration window had not returned
into a visible desktop area.
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[+] Secondary taskbars are able to group similar taskbar buttons in a same way
as the primary taskbar does.
[+] Window thumbnails are available for button groups on secondary taskbars.
[+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption
criterion.
[+] Classic window snapping supports the "Snap to windows from inside" mode
(see the Window Snapping panel in the Options window).
[+] You can temporarily disable the classic snapping by pressing and holding
the Ctrl key.
[+] New "Lock mouse" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L by default) has been added.
Press it to prevent the mouse pointer from going outside the current window;
press it once more to make the mouse pointer free again.
[+] New "Ignore deactivation" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I by default) has been
added. Press it to prevent the current window from reacting on losing
the input focus (so the window would "think" it's still active); press it
once more to let the current window react on deactivating.
[*] The Maximize to Desktop action now takes into account the work areas of
monitors, i.e. maximized windows do not cover (or hide under) the taskbars.
[*] Now Aero Peek on secondary taskbars depends on the value of the "Use the
Aero Peek for a Desktop preview" system option.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in MS Office 2010 applications.
[-] Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under
Windows 7.
[-] At the high load on the system (with dozens of windows opened at once),
the program began to consume too much graphic resources under Windows 7 x64.
[-] At the high continuous load on the system, Multi-monitor Taskbar began to
mix up the icons on secondary taskbars.
[-] Second activation of the desktop profile having the slideshow mode set
stopped the slideshow.
[-] If certain display device did not support the resolution stored in desktop
profile's settings - the resolution was reset to a first available (usually
low and therefore inappropriate).
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars hid windows on a primary
monitor only.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars showed the frames of hidden
windows after showing the desktop.
[-] The icon of a button pinned on secondary taskbar changed to the icon of
the first window opened via that button.
[-] Some programs (e.g. Sticky Notes) could not be pinned on secondary taskbars
under Windows 7 x64.
[-] Phantom buttons appeared on secondary taskbars for MS PowerPoint and
MS Access.
[-] Program constantly made redundant queries into the Registry.
[-] Windows disappeared after maximizing to desktop if the primary monitor was
not leftmost.
[-] Window maximized to desktop shrank automatically to the primary monitor only
after the "deactivation-activation" cycle.
[-] Maximize to Desktop worked incorrect with MS Office 2007 applications.
[-] Creating/modifying window settings from the Windows Monitoring Log window
did not work.
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[+] The new Maximize to Desktop title button has been added.
[+] The new Maximize to Desktop system window menu command has been added.
[+] The Show Desktop button has been added to secondary taskbars under
Windows 7.
[*] Maximize to Desktop action now performs correct maximization:
maximized window has no borders and it can't be dragged.
[*] The Start button on secondary taskbars works more similar to the main one.
[-] When clicking the Start button on a secondary taskbar, the Start menu
flickered on a primary monitor first (fixed in all visual themes except
Windows Classic).
[-] The main Slideshow options did not refresh properly after applying
a profile.
[-] Pinning to secondary taskbars did not work for 64-bit applications.
[-] Easy windows dragging/sizing did not work for 64-bit applications.
[-] Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrectly for windows maximized via
regular Maximize button.
[-] Sometimes under Windows 7 secondary taskbars' buttons displayed icons
smaller than normal.
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[!] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Pin to taskbar" feature on secondary
taskbars.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Show captions" option under
Windows 7.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the Aero Peek mode under Windows 7.
[+] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper now has the Slideshow mode (either
a single slideshow on entire desktop or a separate slideshow on each
monitor).
[+] The ability to toggle secondary monitors via tray icon's context menu
is added.
[+] New hotkeys to disable/enable all secondary monitors at once have been
added. (Please, note that these hotkeys are turned off by default - you
can enable them in the "Options - Hotkeys" panel).
[+] The ability to switch the primary monitor via tray icon's context menu
is added.
[+] The ability to customize the layout of monitors and their settings without
the need to create a desktop profile is now available (see the "Monitors
Layout and Settings" panel).
[+] New group operations have been added into the context menu of secondary
taskbars:
- Move all windows from this monitor to a specified one
- Move all windows from a specified monitor to this one
- Gather all windows to this monitor
[+] Now you can invoke window's system menu by the right-click on its taskbar
button's live preview.
[+] The ability to watch a preview of the Multi-monitor Screen Saver is added.
[+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring
Log window is added.
[*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended
in Vista/7 (only in case Actual Multiple Monitors is installed into
a trusted location - e.g. the "Program Files" folder).
[*] Monitors' ordinal numbers displayed in the lists of available displays now
match actual display device indexes shown when you press the "Identify"
button in the Windows Display Properties dialog.
[*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved.
[*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver has been made compatible with screen savers that
do not clear the screen completely (such as Windows 7 Bubbles).
[*] Factory key combination setting for the Desktop Profiles popup menu has been
changed to Win+W because of a conflict with the Windows 7 reserved hotkey.
[*] The ability to turn off the resizing tool tip is added.
[-] Now Multi-monitor Taskbar reacts correctly on pressing the Win+M system
hotkey or using Windows 7 Aero Shake.
[-] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper works correctly when the leftmost monitor
is not primary and Active Desktop is enabled.
[-] The bug with empty icons in secondary taskbars after changing the visual
theme is fixed.
[-] Taskbar buttons for console windows are displayed on a correct secondary
taskbar in the individual Multi-monitor Taskbar mode.
[-] Title buttons are drawn correctly in windows using right-to-left languages.
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[!] The main Taskbar toolbars (like Quick Launch, Desktop, Address, etc.) are
available on secondary taskbars as well.
[!] The Multi-monitor Taskbar now emulates the notification area (system tray)
on secondary monitors with the ability to display the clock and manually
re-order icons by dragging them with the mouse.
[!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7.
[!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and
retrieving information about latest version available has been added.
The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined
period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now
button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options tab).
[+] The manual re-ordering of icons in the primary notification area by dragging
them with the mouse has been added.
[+] The ability to minimize all windows on a particular monitor has been added
(see the "Minimize all" command in secondary taskbar's context menu).
[+] The Multi-monitor Taskbar extension now supports the "Small icons" option
in Windows 7.
[+] The ability to make taskbars transparent is added (see the "Transparency"
option in the "Taskbar" panel).
[+] The ability to stretch the Start button out to the multiline Taskbar
in old visual themes (such as Windows Classic, XP Blue/Green/Silver)
has been added (see the "Stretch the Start button out to the taskbar" option
in the Taskbar panel).
[+] Move to Monitor at Startup action is available in the Default settings.
[+] You can specify the "Primary" value for the "Target monitor" option
of the Move to Monitor at Startup action.
[+] The long-awaited Window Snapping feature has been added: when you drag or
resize a window with the mouse it can stick certain window border/corner to
- desktop/monitor border (from inside);
- other windows (from outside);
- grid with defined cell size.
When it is enabled, you can control it on-the-fly for a particular window
via window's system menu (see the Snap item in the menu itself and in its
Options submenu).
[+] The Aero Snap mode now supports the horizontal maximization: just drag
the left or right window border towards the corresponding monitor boundary
to make window fit monitor width.
[+] The set of advanced window actions to invoke via mouse clicks on
the regular Maximize title button has been extended - the following
combinations have been added:
- maximize window just horizontally (Shift+RClick by default);
- maximize window just vertically (Ctrl+RClick by default).
[+] The ability to drag window by holding the left mouse button anywhere within
window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Win+Ctrl by
default) has been added.
[+] The ability to size window by holding the right mouse button anywhere
within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Win+Ctrl
by default) has been added.
[+] New "Crop to fit" wallpaper position mode has been added.
[+] The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture"
wallpaper mode is added.
[+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center
(Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combinations to save/restore the desktop icons order
(Ctrl+Shift+S/Ctrl+Shift+R by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combination to move a window to the previous monitor in a
multi-monitor environment (Win+Shift+/ by default) has been added.
[+] Now you can customize the modifier keys for reordering taskbar buttons.
[+] The partial ability to control display orientation via desktop profiles
has been added. It will work only for the display adapters that explicitly
report to Windows about their rotation capabilities; in other words,
the list of supported video modes for such adapter will contain appropriate
entries (for example, 768x1024 for the "portrait" orientation).
If your display adapter allows such way of display rotation, you will see
the additional "Display Orientation" group of controls on the "Multiple
Monitors -> Desktop Profiles -> Monitors Layout and Settings" tab.
[+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been
added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the
"Control Center Options" group).
[*] The Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher now correctly display the Unicode
window captions.
[*] The Multi-monitor Background/Screen Saver tabs in the Configuration window
more accurately display the current system settings.
[-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Windows Explorer when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The crash of Control Center because of graphics resources exhaustion
when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The leaks of graphics resources on Windows x64 when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension have been fixed.
[-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed.
[-] The unwanted auto-exit of the multi-monitor screen saver on some display
configurations is fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes when exiting the multi-monitor screen saver
are fixed.
[-] The problem with the interrupted desktop slideshow in Windows 7 has been
fixed.
[-] Monitors' names were not detected correctly in some cases.
[-] Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic
theme is fixed.
[-] Some applications now minimize correctly on secondary monitors - their
taskbar button does not jump to the primary monitor's Taskbar.
[-] Auto-restoration of some windows (like Acrobat Reader 8.1.2) which were
maximized using the Aero Snap works as expected now.
[-] Title button looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs
(e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled).
[-] The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox,
Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed.
[-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under
Vista Aero has been fixed.
[-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set
of title buttons.
[-] The redundant Excel button appeared on secondary taskbars.
[-] Aero Snap emulation did not work when the "Show window contents while
dragging" system option was turned off.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 1.0 (01.07.2009)
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[!] Initial Release
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