What's New in the Latest Version - Actual Window Manager

Actual Window Manager Full Changelog

[!] Important [+] New [-] Fixed error [*] Changes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.1 (03.06.2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Pin to taskbar" feature on secondary taskbars. [+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Show captions" option under Windows 7. [+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the Aero Peek mode under Windows 7. [+] Now you can invoke window's system menu by the right-click on its taskbar button's live preview. [+] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper now has the Slideshow mode (either a single slideshow on entire desktop or a separate slideshow on each monitor). [+] The ability to toggle secondary monitors via tray icon's context menu is added. [+] New hotkeys to disable/enable all secondary monitors at once have been added. (Please, note that these hotkeys are turned off by default - you can enable them in the "Options - Hotkeys" panel). [+] The ability to switch the primary monitor via tray icon's context menu is added. [+] The new Maximize to Desktop title button has been added. [+] The new Maximize to Desktop system window menu command has been added. [+] The ability to customize the layout of monitors and their settings without the need to create a desktop profile is now available (see the "Monitors Layout and Settings" panel). [+] The Show Desktop button has been added to secondary taskbars under Windows 7. [+] New group operations have been added into the context menu of secondary taskbars: - Send all windows from this monitor to a specified one - Get all windows from a specified monitor to this one - Gather all windows to this monitor [+] The ability to watch a preview of the Multi-monitor Screen Saver is added. [+] The ability to close a window by clicking its title bar is added. [+] The button to invoke the Context Help in the Options window has been added. [+] The ability to set a delay before making an inactive window transparent is added. [+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring Log window is added. [*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended in Vista/7. [*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved. [*] The Start button on secondary taskbars works more similar to the main one. [*] The default key combinations for the following actions have been changed because of conflicts with Windows 7 reserved hotkeys: - Desktop Profiles popup menu (Win+W instead of Win+P) - Make Transparent window action (Win+Y instead of Win+T) - Move to Next/Previous Virtual Desktop (Win+\ instead of Win+= and Win+Shift+\ instead of Win+Shift+=) [*] Separate Configuration dialog opened for certain window settings now displays the name of settings being edited. [*] The shift values for Align title button/window menu can be customized in the Position property sheet too. [*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver has been made compatible with screen savers that do not clear the screen completely (such as Bubbles in Windows 7). [*] Monitors' ordinal numbers displayed in the lists of available displays now match actual display device indexes shown when you press the "Identify" button in the Windows Display Properties dialog. [*] Now Vista SideBar widgets are visible on all virtual desktops. [*] Change Window Icon action now uses high quality versions of icons under Windows 7. [*] Maximize to Desktop action now performs correct maximization: maximized window has no borders and it can't be dragged. [*] The multi-selection editing mode is significantly accelerated for large quantities of selected window settings. [-] Title buttons were drawn incorrectly in windows using right-to-left languages. [-] Easy windows dragging/sizing did not work for 64-bit applications. [-] The bug with empty custom tray/screen icon after restarting the application is fixed. [-] Multi-monitor Taskbar reacted incorrectly on pressing the Win+M system hotkey. [-] The bug with empty icons in secondary taskbars after changing the visual theme is fixed. [-] Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrectly for windows maximized via regular Maximize button. [-] When clicking the Start button on a secondary taskbar, the Start menu flickered on a primary monitor first (fixed in all visual themes except Windows Classic). [-] Taskbar buttons for console windows displayed on a wrong secondary taskbar in the individual Multi-monitor Taskbar mode. [-] Sometimes under Windows 7 secondary taskbars' buttons displayed icons smaller than normal. [-] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper worked incorrectly when the leftmost monitor was not primary and Active Desktop was enabled. [-] Conflict with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 6.0 (12.02.2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The Multi-monitor Taskbar now emulates the notification area (system tray) on secondary monitors with the ability to display the clock and manually re-order icons by dragging them with the mouse. [!] The main Taskbar toolbars (like Quick Launch, Desktop, Address, etc.) are available on secondary taskbars as well. [!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7. [!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and retrieving information about latest version available has been added. The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options panel). [+] All executable files (including setups) are digitally signed. [+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the "Control Center Options" group). [+] The long-awaited Window Snapping feature has been added: when you drag or resize a window with the mouse it can stick certain window border/corner to - desktop/monitor border (from inside); - other windows (from outside); - grid with defined cell size. To customize this feature, see the Window Snapping panel in the Options window. [+] The ability to drag window by holding the left mouse button anywhere within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Ctrl+Win by default) has been added. [+] The ability to resize window by holding the right mouse button anywhere within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Ctrl+Win by default) has been added. You can enable/disable this feature and customize the set of modifier keys in the Options window (select the new Triggers->Mouse item to display the Mouse Options page). [+] The manual re-ordering of icons in the primary notification area by dragging them with the mouse has been added. [+] The Multi-monitor Taskbar extension now supports the "Small icons" option in Windows 7. [+] The ability to make taskbars transparent is added (see the "Transparency" option in the "Taskbar" panel). [+] Now you can customize the modifier keys for reordering taskbar buttons. [+] Move to Monitor at Startup action is available in the Default settings. [+] You can specify the "Primary" value for the "Target monitor" option of the Move to Monitor at Startup action. [+] The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture" wallpaper mode is added. [+] The partial ability to control display orientation via desktop profiles has been added. It will work only with the display adapters that explicitly report about their rotation capabilities to Windows; in other words, the list of supported video modes for such adapter will contain appropriate entries (for example, 768x1024 for the "portrait" orientation). If your display adapter allows such way of display rotation, you will see the additional "Display Orientation" group of controls on the "Multiple Monitors -> Desktop Profiles -> Monitors Layout and Settings" tab. [+] The ability to stretch the Start button out to the multiline Taskbar in old visual themes (such as Windows Classic, XP Blue/Green/Silver) has been added (see the "Stretch the Start button out to the taskbar" option in the Taskbar panel). [+] The ability to minimize all windows on a particular monitor has been added (see the "Minimize all" command in secondary taskbar's context menu). [+] The set of advanced window actions to invoke via mouse clicks on standard window parts (such as title bar, regular Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, etc.) has been extended - the following combinations have been added: - minimize window by clicking the title bar (Win+RClick by default); - minimize window to tray by clicking the title bar (Ctrl+RClick by default); - minimize window to screen by clicking the title bar (Ctrl+MClick by default); - roll window up by clicking the title bar (Shift+RClick by default); - minimize window to tray by clicking the Minimize button (RClick by default); - minimize window to screen by clicking the Minimize button (MClick by default); - maximize window to desktop by clicking the Maximize button (RClick by default); - maximize window just horizontally by clicking the Maximize button (Shift+RClick by default); - maximize window just vertically by clicking the Maximize button (Ctrl+RClick by default). You can customize the default combinations in the Options window (select the new Triggers->Mouse item to display the Mouse Options page). [+] The Minimize to Screen action has been improved: now when you minimize a window to screen, the icon will appear by default exactly under the mouse pointer so that you can quickly restore window back or immediately drag the icon anywhere you like. If you need to store certain icon's position on the screen, you can enable the newly added "Save position" option. [+] AltMin screen icons now snap to desktop borders and other windows. [+] The option to select the click type (single or double) to restore a window from the tray/screen icon has been added. [+] The Transparency and Ghost features are available for console windows on any version of Windows starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7. [+] The Cut to Clipboard title button has been added. [+] Preview thumbnails are now shown over rolled up windows. [+] The ability to send a window to bottom upon its startup is added. [+] The Aero Snap mode now supports the horizontal maximization: just drag the left or right window border towards the corresponding monitor boundary to make window fit monitor width. [+] New "Crop to fit" wallpaper position mode has been added. [+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center (Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added. Please note that they are disabled by default. [+] New hotkey combinations to save/restore the desktop icons order (Ctrl+Shift+S/Ctrl+Shift+R by default, respectively) have been added. Please note that they are disabled by default. [+] New hotkey combination to move a window to the previous monitor in a multi-monitor environment (Win+Shift+/ by default) has been added. [+] The ability to turn off automatic switching of virtual desktops has been added (see the "Virtual Desktops Options" group in the Virtual Desktops tab). [*] The Multi-monitor Background/Screen Saver tabs in the Configuration window more accurately display the current system settings. [*] The Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher now correctly display the Unicode window captions. [*] The Virtual Desktops Switcher now correctly displays the Unicode window captions. [*] The Unhide submenu and hints over tray/screen icons now correctly display the Unicode window captions. [*] You can finely tune the blocking of window appearance before startup actions (like Align/Resize) are applied: if the default blocking mode causes any problems you can enable the compatibility mode or turn the blocking off completely. [*] The "Custom Window Size" dialog is improved: it's initialized with actual window dimensions for the first use and displays values for all available measure units (pixels, percent of monitor/desktop). [*] Tracking of window caption changes has been improved. [*] The "Keep persistent" option of the Change Window Caption action has been restored so that one might just freeze certain window caption string, without the need to specify the replacing string value. [*] Now if the "Transparent when inactive" option is enabled for some window the window won't become transparent if it loses focus because of its child window appearance (i.e. you still continue to work with the same application so that it remains active in whole). [-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is fixed. [-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed. [-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been fixed. [-] Monitors' names were not detected correctly in some cases. [-] Title buttons looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs (e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled). [-] Minimization by clicking the Close button stopped working. [-] Aero Snap emulation didn't work for console windows when the "Show window contents while dragging" system option was turned off. [-] After suspending/resuming Control Center, windows weren't returned to their assigned virtual desktops. [-] The bug with interrupted Desktop Background Slideshow feature in Windows 7 has been fixed. [-] The unwanted auto-exit of the multi-monitor screen saver on some display configurations is fixed. [-] The leaks of graphics resources on Windows x64 when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension have been fixed. [-] Some applications now minimize correctly on secondary monitors - their taskbar button doesn't jump to the primary monitor's Taskbar. [-] Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic theme is fixed. [-] When you make a window always-on-top via Quick Settings dialog it does not get behind the window. [-] The intermittent crash of Windows Explorer when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed. [-] The intermittent crash of Control Center when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed. [-] The crash of Control Center because of graphics resources exhaustion when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed. [-] The unwanted automatic cyclic switching of virtual desktops has been fixed. [-] The bug with corrupted icons in the Virtual Desktop Switcher has been fixed. [-] The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed. [-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set of title buttons. [-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under Vista Aero has been fixed. [-] Crash of some programs (e.g. WinZip 14 Professional) when using system menu commands has been fixed. [-] Auto-restoration of some windows (like Acrobat Reader 8.1.2) which were maximized using the Aero Snap works as expected now. [-] Specifying more than 1000 pixels for window width/height in the Quick Settings dialog no more led to window shrinking. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.4 (09.07.2009) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The core engine has been slightly improved: now startup actions are applied to a window before it becomes visible so there will be no annoying blinking when changing window's position/size upon its startup. [+] The Windows 7 Aero Snap emulation is added. It allows you: - auto-maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of desktop; - auto-restore a maximized window by starting drag it as any normal window; - auto-span a window to the left/right half of desktop by dragging it to the left/right edge of desktop correspondingly; - auto-maximize a window just vertically while dragging its top/bottom edge to the top/bottom edge of desktop correspondingly. [*] Now you can turn off the buttons re-ordering mode for the primary Taskbar. [+] Now you can re-order buttons on the primary Taskbar even if the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option is enabled. [+] Now the primary Taskbar buttons re-ordering works under Windows 2000. [+] Virtual Desktops Switcher window is added: it displays a set of toolbars (one toolbar per virtual desktop) where each toolbar shows the icons of applications running on its corresponding virtual desktop. You can toggle this Switcher window via special hotkey (Alt+` by default). [+] Windows Thumbnails feature is added. Once enabled, it creates a small preview copy for each running window (either visible or hidden) and displays this preview as a visual tip in one of the following places: - over Taskbar buttons; - over AltMin screen icons; - over Virtual Desktops Switcher buttons. [*] Virtual Desktops panel is slightly redesigned: - background and hotkey settings are divided onto separate tabs; - the Switcher settings group is added. [*] Configuration user interface has been slightly changed: Virtual Desktops and Desktop Profiles panels are now grouped in the main window with the Window Settings panel. [+] The ability to set up multi-monitor wallpaper/screen saver immediately (without the need to create and activate certain desktop profile) is added. Because of this, all multi-monitor-related options (Taskbar, Background, Screen Saver, Desktop Profiles) have been regrouped under the Multiple Monitors tab in the main Configuration window. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar extension is now compatible with Windows 7. [*] Now the Multi-monitor Task Switcher extension is compatible with the TaskSwitch XP PowerToy utility. [-] Conflicts with the following products have been fixed: - Microsoft NetMeeting - NetOp Remote Control (Host) - RAdmin Server - Ad Muncher - Calendar Magic - Microsoft Flight Simulator X [-] The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks. [-] The bug is fixed: the Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher windows disappeared in Windows 7 when the Aero Peek was activated. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.3 (31.03.2009) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The multi-monitor desktop profile manager is added. Now you can create customized settings - profiles - for your desktop, including displays' layout and per display properties (such as screen resolution, color quality, refresh rate, etc.). Also, there are advanced abilities to control the desktop background and screen saver: you can either stretch a single picture/screen saver over entire desktop or specify individual pictures/screen savers for each display. You can create as many profiles as you need and then activate them via Control Center's context menu, as circumstances require. Also, this menu can be invoked via hotkey (Win+P by default). [+] Now virtual desktops support the extra multi-monitor settings for their wallpapers. [+] The "Start Program" action is added: you can select a program or document to be launched in a manner similar to defining regular Windows shortcuts and then start it via special title button or system window menu command. [+] Now the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension supports the Auto-hide and Lock features on the per monitor basis. [+] Now you can manually order the buttons on secondary taskbars as well as on the primary one using the simple mouse drag-n-drop (for now, it is available only under Windows XP or later; also, it does not work when the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option is enabled). [+] Now you can quickly align a window by clicking the right mouse button on window's border with the Ctrl key pressed. [+] The Description field is added for Default settings. [+] The Description field is added for Exclusions. [*] The amount of consumed Windows graphics resources is decreased significantly (this prevents the resource exhaustion when too many windows stay open). [*] Now you can switch on/off different ways of invoking the Quick Settings dialog in the General panel of the Options window. [*] Now you can customize hotkey groups for quick window alignment/stretching. [*] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added. [*] Now hotkeys in active window work even if it has no title bar. [*] Now Configuration windows remember their Maximized state between sessions. [*] The Description edit field at the Index panel now automatically wraps its content and automatically fills the rest of panel's area. [-] The bug in Configuration user interface with non-disappearing horizontal scroll bar is fixed. [-] Now the additional title buttons and system window menu items work as expected in Windows Live Mail. [-] Now the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension correctly restores after unlocking the workstation. [-] The crash of Multi-monitor Task Switcher extension under Windows Vista x64, when using the Alt+Tab key combination, is fixed. [-] Now console windows are correctly extended in the zero user session on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003. [-] The long unwanted pause, when closing console windows via Close title button, is removed. [-] The incorrect behavior of Virtual Desktops (activating hidden windows, such as Sound Volume Control, unintentionally activated the first virtual desktop), is fixed. [-] The incorrect behavior of Virtual Desktops under Windows Vista, when using the Alt+Tab key combination (the appearance of the Task Switcher window unintentionally activated the first virtual desktop), is fixed. [-] Now virtual desktops with custom wallpaper correctly consider the Desktop Background settings of the Remote Desktop Client. [-] Retrieving current displacement for a window with the Window Finder in the "Align at startup to" group now correctly considers multiple monitors (shift values are calculated relative to window's host monitor, not the primary monitor). [-] The "Restrict placement" function now correctly handles the maximized windows. [-] Windows Layout tool now skips the full-screen windows. [-] Windows Layout tool is now compatible with Plemsoft's PowerBar. [-] The crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.2 (14.10.2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Taskbar on secondary displays is added. Secondary taskbars emulate the functionality of the primary Taskbar with the following remarks: - the secondary taskbars can work either independently or consistently with the primary Taskbar: in former case each secondary taskbar displays only the buttons of windows that reside on the same monitor; in latter case all secondary taskbars display the contents of the primary Taskbar (the mirror mode) - you can change the order of buttons on secondary taskbars dragging the desired button by the mouse with the Shift key pressed - the minimizing/maximizing animation, if enabled, is played always regarding to the primary Taskbar despite which display the minimized/maximized window resides on When running, Multi-monitor Taskbar provides the following abilities: - the emulation of Start button on each secondary taskbar - flashing of taskbar buttons for windows that are about to become active - correct hiding of secondary taskbar when some window goes full-screen - adjusting Multi-monitor Taskbar options via context menu - displaying of thumbnail previews in Windows Vista Aero [+] Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Task Switcher (special system window invoked via Alt+Tab) on secondary displays is added. [+] The new Quick Settings feature is added: now you can open for a certain window the special dialog which gives access to most popular Actual Tools features at once. Using this dialog, you can quickly set up window's appearance (including its position, size, transparency, caption icon, caption string, etc.). You can invoke the Quick Settings dialog either clicking the middle mouse button on desired window's title bar, pressing the special hotkey (Win+Q by default) or via extra "Quick settings..." item in window's system menu. To close this dialog, you can simply click anywhere outside of it. The important thing is that you can use this dialog even with windows that have been excluded. [*] Now the title buttons look fully native under Windows Vista Aero. [*] Now you can cancel the changes of Target Window edit fields made with the Window Finder by pressing the Escape key. [*] Now the window settings commands (like "Modify applied settings", "Create new specific settings", "Exclude this window") open the specially designed light-weight Configuration dialog containing the subject settings only. [*] The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64. [-] The bug caused the Explorer crash when trying to delete files under Windows Vista/2008 x64 is fixed. [-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly handles the change of order in the list of virtual desktops. [-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly handles the tool windows of Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Flash CS3 when switching between desktops. [-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly reacts on pressing the Win+D system hotkey. [-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility is compatible with windows of Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird). [-] Now the Virtual Desktops facility correctly keeps the custom wallpaper while running via the Remote Desktop connection. [-] Now Total Commander refreshes its file lists as usual while being pinned to desktop. [-] Now Windows Layout tool is compatible with Vista Sidebar. [-] No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog. [-] Extra title buttons are again displayed correctly in the title bar of IncrediMail XE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.1 (15.05.2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The ability to create/manage virtual desktops is added. Now you can: - create as many virtual desktops as you need - assign custom wallpaper to a certain virtual desktop - assign custom hotkey to a certain virtual desktop for its quick activation - switch between existing virtual desktops via special "Next desktop"/"Previous desktop" hotkeys - send any specific window upon its startup to a certain virtual desktop or make it visible on all virtual desktops - move windows between virtual desktops via special title button/window menu item [+] Now you can edit multiple specific settings at once in the Configuration Module (use Ctrl+ to select several items). [+] Now you can specify a custom icon for a window minimized either to the system tray or on the screen. [+] The custom hotkeys for standard Windows "Minimize"/"Maximize" commands are added (by default Win+/Win+ accordingly). [+] The compatibility mode for moving maximized windows between monitors is added: if you have troubles when trying to move a maximized window to another monitor then try to activate this mode to fix the problems. [*] Window menu is slightly improved: additional options of AltMin and Roll Up actions are grouped into a separate submenu. [*] Now you can remove or reposition special "Pin to desktop" and "Restrict placement" window menu items as well as any other menu items. [-] Now extra title buttons don't appear in the fullscreen mode of Microsoft Word 2003/2007. [-] The compatibility with applications written in Visual Basic is improved (in particular, with WorkCentrics and NCSS 2007). [-] The bug is fixed: enabling the Command Prompt Windows Support when Tiny Personal Firewall is running led to system crash. [-] Now window size can exceed the size of a single monitor in multi-monitor configurations when resizing window in pixels and the "Keep window within the desktop boundaries after resizing" option is enabled. [-] Now the Unroll action correctly considers the placement restrictions when they are enabled. [-] Now windows pinned to desktop react properly when the Control Center is stopped/unloaded. [-] Now the Change Window Title action works properly if the Window Caption criterion is enabled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 5.0 (16.01.2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The support for command prompt (or console/CMD/DOS) windows in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista is added. [!] The full support on native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64 platform is added. [!] Now the Control Center automatically defines the order of specific settings considering their preference rank (this order affects the process of selecting a proper rule for a certain window). See the "Principles of Operation -> Preference Rank" article in program's Help for more information. [+] The ability to change the default window icon to a selected one is added. [+] There are added some predefined hotkeys (non-configurable yet) for easy window alignment/stretching: now you can use the Win+NumPad1..NumPad9 key combinations to quickly align a window to 9 predefined positions, and the Win+Ctrl+NumPad1..NumPad9 (except for NumPad5) key combinations to quickly stretch a window to 8 predefined directions. Note: NumLock must be turned on to make these hotkeys operational. [+] Now when you resize a window manually (either with a mouse or keyboard) the tooltip is displayed showing the actual window size. [+] Now it's possible to use almost any key when specifying a hotkey combination. [+] Now it's possible to include key combinations involving the special "Win" key into macro sequences. [+] Now it's possible to specify custom alignment position in the "Alignment" submenu. [+] Now you can provide a custom skin path relative to Actual Window Manager's installation folder. [+] Now it's possible to double-click an item in the list of "Copy Settings from..." window to auto-select this item and close the window. [+] Now it's possible to sort the list of specific settings and the list of exclusions by clicking on their column headers. [*] Both Control Center's and Configuration Module's memory consumption is optimized. [*] In the Configuration window time units are changed from milliseconds to seconds so now it's possible to provide fractional values for time delays (e.g. 0.2 seconds, 1.7 seconds etc.). [*] Now Align Window/Resize Window actions can be applied only if the target window is in proper state: normal - for Align Window, normal or maximized - for Resize Window. Otherwise, corresponding title buttons/window menu commands are disabled. [*] The Align Window action's detail panel in the Startup property sheet is made identical to its corresponding "Align at startup to" detail panel in the Position property sheet. [*] The "Keep persistent" option is removed from the Change Window Caption action: now after setting the new caption string it prevents further attempts of caption change constantly. [*] Now the "Enable logging" option can be turned on/off via tray icon's menu and the log window is independent of the logging status so the log contents can be viewed any time. [*] Index panel status lines are formatted now to improve their recognition. [*] The "Manage Window Settings" menu is renamed and slightly redesigned. [*] The overall stability of "Send Configuration" commands is improved. [-] The compatibility is improved with the following applications/windows: - Windows Vista Start Menu user picture (doesn't turns black if transparent) - Xfire 1.81 (now it correctly minimizes to tray) [-] The constant CPU utilization by the Configuration Module application is fixed. [-] Crashes of Sysinternals Process Explorer and Microsoft IntelliPoint when using the Window Finder are fixed. [-] The bug caused sometimes the "green-filled" desktop appearance in Vista Aero is fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: title buttons were painted twice in Vista Aero after restoring a window minimized to tray. [-] The bug is fixed: title buttons appeared displaced in Windows Media Player in Vista Aero. [-] Now the title bar double-click is correctly handled in Office 2007 windows. [-] The custom skin drawing procedure is fixed: now it correctly handles the fully transparent background. [-] The bug caused "black windows" problem (e.g. with Windows Vista Sidebar) is fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: moving a maximized window to another monitor, then minimizing it (optionally), then restoring it led to appearance of window on the initial monitor. [-] The incompatibility of using "Resize at startup"/"Align at startup" actions together with the "Open as: minimized/maximized" action is fixed: now both specified position and size are correctly set before the target window becomes minimized. [-] The bug is fixed: when "Rolled up if inactive" and "Smooth Rollup" options were enabled, dragging the rolled window led to "Roll Up" function's disability. [-] The bug is fixed: using the "Roll Up" hotkey along with "Smooth Rollup" option enabled led to window's hang-up. [-] The bug is fixed: "Unrolled while being mouse-hovered" option didn't work properly. [-] The bug is fixed: the "Change priority when minimized" option wasn't applied if window was minimized using the AltMin title button/window menu command. [-] The bug of absense of title buttons in Remote Desktop Client is fixed: now extra buttons are correctly displayed when Remote Desktop Client is launched in full-screen mode and then switched to window mode. [-] The compatibility with the Launchy application is improved. [-] Now the Resize Window action works as expected with PuTTY. [-] Now the "Unghost temporarily" key combination is checked exactly as specified (in previous versions there was an ability to press any extra keys but the combination was still considered as valid). [-] Now Configuration window's status bar doesn't cut long hint strings. [-] The incompatibility of the "Send Configuration -> Send to the Tech Support" command and Microsoft Outlook is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.5 (20.06.2007) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Monitoring Log tool is added into the Control Center. It allows detecting newly appeared windows and check, which window rule has been applied in each particular case. Now you can easily solve any configuration ambiguities and detect properties of short-living windows (like tool tips, popup menus etc.). Be careful using this feature: turned on it may slow down your system! [+] The new great long-awaited "Run keyboard macro" feature is added: now you can define the keyboard macro and send it to a certain window at its startup, thus automating some regular initial actions. [+] The new "Change program affinity" feature is added: if using a multi-processor system, now you can control, which physical processors a particular application should run on. [+] The ability to hide the mouse pointer, while it is floating over the specific window, is added. [+] The ability to copy settings from a selected window rule to others is added. [+] The new hotkeys are added: - "Reapply settings" action (Win+F5 by default) - Configuration Module's launch (Win+C by default) - "Unhide" submenu that shows the list of currently minimized/hidden windows (Win+H by default) [+] Now the hotkey status is displayed in the "Hotkeys" panel of the "Options" window: when defining a new key combination, you can see, if the defined combination is already in use with another application or assigned to another action. [+] The on-the-fly transparency setting is added: when right-clicking the "Make Transparent" title button, the slider control appears instead of the context menu with predefined values; while dragging this slider, the transparency level is being changed immediately, thus allowing a quicker and easier choice of desired appearance. [+] When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons semi-transparent. [+] New title buttons are added: Copy to Clipboard, Paste from Clipboard. [+] The new "Keep window caption persistent" option is added to the "Change window caption" feature. [+] The ability to temporarily disable the automatic rolling up via Roll Up title button's context menu or Roll Up window menu's submenu is added. [+] Now the balloon tip is shown over the Control Center's tray icon at first start after the installation. [+] Translation to the Dutch language is added (thanks to Onno Verschoor). [*] The internal mechanism of hotkeys processing is significantly improved. [*] The long-awaited improvement for permanent tray/screen icons is made: now permanent icons behave like buttons in the Taskbar (i.e. active window is minimized, inactive window is activated, minimized window is restored). [*] The "Index" window rule panel is updated: now it displays all currently enabled windows settings of a certain rule. [*] The options structure is redesigned: new "Triggers" and "Actions" grouping nodes are added. [*] The "Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder" option has been moved from General to User Interface. [*] "Custom Position" and "Custom Size" dialogs now display current window position/size values in their captions. [*] The "Alignment" window menu's submenu now displays the current window position. [*] Title buttons appearance in Windows Vista is improved. [*] The placement restriction area visualization is improved for non-standard taskbar placements. [-] The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed: sometimes title buttons used to get detached from their owner window and stuck on the desktop. [-] Compatibility conflicts are solved with: - Quattro Pro X3 menus - GrabIt internal windows - MS Office XP CTFMON.EXE service - X-NetStat application [-] The conflict with the Microsoft Time Zone window is solved. [-] Windows Layout tool now correctly handles maximized windows. [-] Windows Layout tool now correctly handles Photoshop CS2 document windows while working in a multiple display environment. [-] Now the "Configure..." item of Control Center tray icon's context menu is displayed correctly in Windows Vista. [-] Transparency effect conflicts are solved with: - CDArtdisplay application - Emerge Desktop application - Windows Vista Start button [-] The bug of the "minimize-to-screen" feature is fixed: sometimes screen icons used to go out of visible area after minimization. [-] Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007. [-] Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved. [-] The conflict with the IE 7 "Search on this page" window is solved. [-] The bug of incorrect behavior of "Restrict placement" feature in multi-monitor configurations is fixed. [-] Sometimes windows used to freeze in the rolled state and needed to be resized manually instead of unrolling - now the Unroll function works always as expected. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.4 (16.04.2007) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant windows will re-apply their settings when the configuration has been saved. [+] The long-awaited feature is added: now all the minimized windows can be restored via "Unhide"/"Unhide All" items of Control Center's tray icon context menu. [+] The Windows Layout tool is added: it provides the ability to automatically or manually relocate/resize your currently opened windows to keep them within desktop when its resolution is changed (it's very useful when working with the same workstation both locally and through the Remote Desktop client). [+] The long-awaited feature is added: now it's possible to remove the standard window parts like Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, window icon, window sizeable border, or window caption so fixing window in its current state and preventing its moving/resizing/minimizing/closing. [+] The new Pin-to-Desktop feature is added: when window is pinned it disappears from taskbar and Alt-Tab sequence and can't be minimized in any way so it's visible all the time until it's unpinned. [+] The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module (refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window). [+] The ability is added to turn on smooth transitions between different transparency levels (refer to the "Make Transparent Action" property sheet in the "Options" window). [+] The ability is added to turn on the smooth rolling up/unrolling of windows (refer to the "Roll Up Action" property sheet in the "Options" window). [+] The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later. [+] Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and Polish languages are added. [*] Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced. [*] All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned; the new window rule features' Index panel is added. [*] Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and column widths in most of list boxes. [*] The transparency effect compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds is improved. [*] The Resize Action Options property sheet is improved: now you can copy items and adjust the height of Sizes list box. [*] The visualization of allowed area provided by the Show button of the "Restrict placement" feature is improved: now it displays the semi-transparent green rectangle that shows the area of allowed placement. [*] The "Unused Buttons" button (grouping button) is improved: now it takes the icon and the tooltip of assigned function, if mouse-hovered. [*] Now title buttons are displayed correctly when using Vista Transformation Pack, XP Media Center Edition theme or some of StyleXP themes. [-] The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed. [-] The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed. [-] Transparency effect's conflict with Rainlendar 2, RocketDock, Samurize and Y'z Shadow is fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: XP Remote Desktop client was crashed if minimized to the system tray, and then the configuration was saved. [-] The bug is fixed: the Windows Vista Firewall with Advanced Security's GUI was hung when the "New Rule..." button was pressed while running the Actual Tools program. [-] The bug is fixed: now title buttons work correctly in Excel 2007. [-] The bug is fixed: now multiple instances of Excel 2003/2007 workbooks and Acrobat 7 documents can be correctly minimized to the system tray. [-] The bug is fixed: if in multi-monitor configuration some windows were placed to a secondary display, and it was unplugged during the session then such windows are moved automatically to the primary display. [-] The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed. [-] Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) left their taskbar entry if they were minimized to the system tray via the standard Minimize button. [-] The bug with VMware Workstation 5.5 crash while opening the Snapshot Manager is fixed. [-] The visual glitch is fixed when using the Tabbed Browsing plugin of Windows Live! Toolbar. [-] The bug is fixed: Eudora was crashed immediately at startup if there any of extra Actual Tools buttons were added. [-] The bug of incorrect window placement to a primary display while it's resized on secondary display is fixed. [-] The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.3 (15.12.2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Since this release Actual Tools are fully compatible with Windows Vista. [!] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly in Windows Vista (both in Aero Basic and Aero 3D modes). [!] Now all the configuration files are stored in user's profile (in the folder like "%UserProfile%\Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager"). [+] The new "Manage Window Settings" title button is added. [+] The support of extra title buttons in Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft Word 2007 is added. [-] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly for the non-standard sizes. [-] The old known issue with the Lotus Notes client's crash at startup is fixed. [-] The known issue with the Internet Explorer 7 crash while saving the configuration is fixed. [*] Now the Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista. [-] The issue with the Mozilla-based browsers' (like Firefox, Seamonkey etc.) undesired focus switch is partially fixed (the issue still presents in Win9x). [-] The issue of the malfunction of drag-n-drop in the Opera browser is fixed. [-] The visual glitch of Windows Vista Sidebar widgets when they are made transparent is fixed. [-] The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed. [-] The minimal/maximal window size settings are now correctly maintained in Windows 2003 Server. [-] The multi-monitor issues of the "Restrict placement" feature are fixed. [+] The ability to automatically reposition windows splitted across several monitors is added; it can be used both in the general multi-monitor environment and when using the multi-monitor client system in the Terminal Server environment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.2 (10.10.2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The long-awaited feature is added: now the "Window caption" criterion correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup (like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.). [*] The "Manage Window Rule" submenu is renamed to "Manage Window Settings". [+] The "Modify default settings" command is being included now into the "Manage Window Settings" submenu if the "All Windows" settings were applied. [+] The translations to German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian are added. [+] Now you can strictly but flexibly constrain window placement on the desktop by defining the limits for window's top-left corner (so window can't be upper/left than the defined values) and/or bottom-right corner (so window can't be lower/right than the defined values). [+] Now you can suspend the ghost mode with the special hotkey pressed (Ctrl+Shift by default). [+] Now you can minimize a window by clicking the standard Close caption button. [+] The support for the default Windows XP Media Center Edition visual theme is added (the proper title button skin was contributed by Riza Berbatovci). [*] The skin naming system is changed: now when you select a theme for Windows XP the program will use the proper skin automatically if it's present in the "Skins" sub-folder. [+] The special "grouping button" is added; it contains all the commands of currently unused buttons. [+] The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the tray is added. [*] The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved. [*] The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized windows. [*] The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the four main directions independently. [-] The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed. [-] The bug with the neglect of options other than "keep aspect ratio" in the "After Moving to Another Monitor" group is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.1 (01.08.2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to next monitor" title button is added. [+] Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to" window menu option is added. [+] Multi-monitor support: the ability to move a window to the selected monitor at window's startup is added. [+] The ability to maximize window to desktop by the right-click on the standard Maximize title button is added. [+] The ability to stretch window by the right-click on its border is added. [+] the ability to set the custom position for a window on the fly is added. [+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the title buttons' tooltips. [+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the window options' names. [+] The translations to Japanese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional are added. [*] The work speed and overall stability were slightly improved. [-] The bug with the internal windows of MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 is fixed. [-] The bug of MS Outlook Express auto-restoration from the tray while changing the display properties is fixed. [-] The bug is fixed: even if the maximal window size was constrained in the configuration, the Maximize button still had expanded it to the whole desktop. [-] The minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 4.0 (05.05.2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The Configuration Module's user interface is redesigned totally. [!] Settings file size is significantly reduced comparing to the previous versions. [!] Executable modules' size and run-time memory consumption are slightly reduced. [!] The Help contents is redesigned almost from scratch. [+] The Help system has become context-sensitive. [+] Added the ability to copy window rules. [+] Added the ability to customize an icon for a particular Specfic Window rule. [+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the attached configuration file. [+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button. [+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's taskbar button. [+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities for a particular window: - create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule - create an Excluded Window rule - re-apply the window rule [+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the "Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name. [+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars' buttons size). [*] Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as a template. [+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options. [*] The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using the non-standard screen DPIs. [+] Added the ability to set different settings for the different window events/states for the following properties: transparency level - for the creation, movement, resizing, deactivation, mouse hovering, title bar double-click, "Transparency" title button priority level - for the creation, minimization, deactivation, "Priority" title button [+] Added the ability to combine automatically some window states: transparency - with stay-on-top, ghost rollup - with stay-on-top [+] Added the ability to provide a shift values when a window is aligned. [+] Added the ability to set the desired width/height values as a percent of the corresponding desktop size. [+] Window Finder internal tool was adapted for the detection of the current window size and position. [+] Minimization-to-tray and minimization-on-screen actions were unified into a single action named "AltMin" (Alternatively Minimize) which provides the unified options and the ability to select the minimization mode on the fly. [+] The ghost mode was separated from the transparency and now can be turned on independently. [+] Added the new title buttons items for the following actions: Ghost, Change Priority. [+] Added the new window menu items for the following actions: Ghost, Change Priority. [+] Added the indication of the current state for the following title buttons: AltMin, Change Transparency, Align, Resize, Ghost, Change Priority. [+] Added the skin support for the title buttons to fit them into the different visual themes. [+] Added the ability to change the order of title buttons' appearance. [+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra title buttons for a particular window rule. [+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra window menu items for a particular window rule. [+] Added the ability to "freeze" the window stay-on-top state which prevents the application from resetting this state. [*] The recognition of window mouse-hovering is improved. [-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was started. [-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus after selecting any tool in the Tools panel. [-] Fixed the bug with the Windows folders: if you close the rolled up folder window then it will be restored with the incorrect size. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.8 (23.09.2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Fixed the bug: if minimized-to-tray application was restored by self or other application and not through the tray icon, in some programs icon remained in tray. To name just a few: Windows Task Manager, TextPad, Microsoft Outlook. [*] Fixed the bug with undesired window activation from the tray when delayed auto-minimizing of inactive window is turned on. [*] Default Window Rule: the bug with transient transparency effects (when "set transparency while being moved/dragged" and "set transparency while being resized" options are enabled) was fixed. [-] Default Window Rule: the bug with "temporarily unroll the window while the mouse cursor moves over the window" effect was fixed. [*] Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified. Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first symbol in window position fields is possible. [*] Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed. [-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of "Window class" field's entered string into real window class name. [*] Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was finally solved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.7 (02.08.2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Fixed the bug that caused blinking of the title buttons. Support of visual themes in Windows XP for title buttons has also been improved. [-] The "Resize Window" action have been improved. The new version restores window sizes correctly. Also the program works fine with windows opened full screen. [-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow setting the previous level of transparency correctly in Windows 2000. [+] A new rule has been added to apply a semi-transparency effect to Tablet PC Input Panel. [+] Added supports of RAdmin remote access windows. [*] We have improved window class identification. Exact matching of the entered window class with the real window class is no longer required. [-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow the Configuration Module to restore correctly when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule" command of the menu. [-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.6 (06.04.2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] New way to create the custom options for specific windows. The new item "Create Window Rule" is included in the system window menu of all windows. With a right mouse click on the window title call a menu and follow the item "Create Window Rule" to create a rule for this window. The new rule will be created automatically and what is left is to specify the actions which you would like to apply to this window. [+] New option "Restore total visibility to the window" is added to Resize Window action. It enables to enlarge the window without having it partly hidden beyond the bottom right-hand corner of your desktop. The window is automatically shifted in the top left-hand corner direction and thus recovers entire visibility. [+] New "Do not add icon to the tray" option is added to "Minimize to Tray" action. This option is useful for windows that have their own tray icons, such as Microsoft Outlook 2003, Windows Messenger and so on. [*] The functioning logic of the action Run Mode is modified. Now it's in progress in 100% of cases. In earlier versions Internet Explorer Maximization sometimes failed to function. [*] Custom window rules are added in for the browsers Mozilla Firefox and Opera. Moreover, some settings of already existing rules are modified. [-] The defect in holding-up the window after its deactivation to minimize it to tray is corrected. In version 3.5 the value of this option couldn't be reset, the hold-up was fixed always as 0. [*] The interface of the program is slightly changed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.5 (20.01.2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Extension Engine is improved. [+] Added "Set Minimum Size" and "Set Maximum Size" actions. [+] Added "Hide Configuration Window when using the Window Finder (gunsight) tool" option. [+] Added "Enable All Rules" and "Disable All Rules" commands. [+] Added context menu for Window Rules. [+] Supports of MFC windows (window class like Afx:X:X:X:X:X) [*] Memory usage and load speed optimization. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 3.0 (13.10.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Hotkeys support: Now you can minimize programs to the system tray, always keep them on top, roll up windows, make them semitransparent, etc. by means only one keystroke combination. Such a possibility lets you manage the same actions much quicker on condition of using keyboard. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.8 (31.08.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a "Resize Window" action. A Resize Window option lets you set the size of any selected application window to have it always opened at the size you want. A Resize Window tool is extremely useful for website designers. They can quickly see how their web project looks like in different resolutions by flicking through default window sizes or setting any unique window size on their own. [+] Added command line support. [+] Added a "silent" installation option. [+] Added Dutch language. [*] Some interface features changed and added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.7 (28.07.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added an "Align window" action. Now the user may get any application window aligned with any of the 9 positions on the desktop: upper-left, upper-central, upper-right, etc. [+] Added a "Set window position when it is created" action. [+] Added a "Set window size when it is created" action. [+] Added a new "Temporarily stop program" option to a context menu. [+] Now supports Mozilla FireFox and Netscape browser. [*] Some small bugs were fixed. [*] Some interface features changed and added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.6 (26.05.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added tooltips for additional caption buttons. [+] Added Danish and Russian languages. [+] Added a description field for Window Rule. [+] Added commands for moving windows' rules up and down, in order to make the rules easier to find. [*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed. [*] Some interface features changed and added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.5 (19.11.2003) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added a new "Window Menu" program. You can now add several new menu items ("Minimize to Tray," "Stay on Top," "Make Transparent," etc.) to the standard window menu that appears when you click the application icon in the title bar. [+] Added a context menu for the "Make Transparent" title button. Now you can select a different transparency level for any window on the fly, while it is open! [+] Added the option "Set Transparency so the Window Becomes Transparent While Being Moved/Dragged or Resized." [+] Added a new "Minimize Window to Tray When it is Deactivated" option. [+] Added a new "Send to Bottom" title button. [+] Added a "Shift Buttons" option to use when adding title buttons. This allows you to shift the buttons you add so they will not overlap or hide the existing program buttons at the top margin of your program. [+] Added the option "Toggle Transparency\Opaque Window State by Double Clicking on Title Bar." [+] Added the new action "Change Window Title." Now you can replace the original title of a window to say whatever you want to! For example, you can rename your word processor, a game, etc. [+] Added the new action "Change Program Priority." This can change the speed of execution for any program from low to high or back. Be careful, and don't make changes unless you know what you are doing. [+] Added the new action "Remove window from taskbar." [+] Added a command for sorting windows rules by name, in order to make the rules easier to find. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 2.0 (02.06.2003) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added "Default Window Rule." The Default Window Rule now lets you define and apply new options to ALL windows in your system. The ability to apply different options to individual windows still exists. [+] Added a "Program" choice for applying individual settings to selected windows. [+] Added a dialog for choosing a window among existing windows to apply individual settings. [*] Improved Windows XP Visual Styles support for new title buttons. [*] Replaced rollup\unroll engine with newer, faster engine. [+] Added tooltips for edge icons. [+] Added a "Prevent accidental close of window" action. This feature can save you a lot of annoyance! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.6 (24.03.2003) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a new "Rollup\Unroll Window" title button. Roll up windows so only the title bars remain visible. [+] Added a "Ghost mode" option for transparent windows. Ghost mode lets mouse be clicked and moved through transparent window to underlying windows. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.5 (27.01.2003) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added a new Actual Window Rollup program. Roll up/unroll windows: minimize windows so only title bars remain visible. This is better than minimizing them to icons. [+] Added a right-click context menu with Restore Window and Close Window commands for tray icons --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.4 (18.12.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added support and predefined settings for standard Windows and Microsoft Office Comboboxes and DropDown lists. [+] Added French and Turkish languages. [*] Some small bugs were fixed. [*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.3 (25.11.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added multilingual support. [+] Added English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Catalan and Polish languages. [*] Highly increase program's launching speed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.2 (28.10.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a "Make Transparent" title button. [+] Added a window action "Stay On Top". [*] Support of Windows XP themes for icons on screen edge. [+] Added an option "Enable\disable tray icon". [+] Added an option "Load at startup". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.1 (28.09.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a window action "Save size and position of windows" [+] Added an option "Use large icon" for a "Minimize to Desktop Edge" action [*] Added predefined settings for Calculator, Notepad, Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer Find Dialog, Eudora Email client. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Manager 1.0 (12.09.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Initial Release