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

May 28, 2013
New Beta Versions are Available

April 12, 2013
New Version 7.5.1 - Service Release

March 25, 2013
New Version 7.5 - Hotkeys for Popular System Commands, Put into Divider Tile at Startup, Improved Task Switcher in Windows 8

February 19, 2013
New Version 7.4.3 - Service Release

February 5, 2013
New Version 7.4.2 - Service Release

December 31, 2012
New Version 7.4.1 - Service Release

December 18, 2012
New Version 7.4 - Web Picture Sources for Background Wallpaper Slideshow, Classic Start Menu Integrated for Windows Vista/7/8

Actual Window Minimizer Full Changelog

[!] Important [+] New [-] Fixed error [*] Changes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.5.1 (12.04.2013) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows x64: In some environments, memory might leak gradually in the Control Center. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.5 (25.03.2013) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. [*] Hotkeys now work in applications (mostly, video games) that use DirectInput to provide keyboard/mouse control (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.). [-] Windows 7: If Internet Explorer is already open, launching a new instance of it opened an unwanted extra window. [-] The bottom of title buttons was clipped in JRiver Media Center window. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.4.3 (19.02.2013) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with MAXQDA is improved. [-] In some cases specific window settings did not apply to 64-bit applications (e.g. Waterfox). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.4.2 (05.02.2013) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with PTC products (Creo, Windchill, Arbortext, Mathcad, Integrity) is improved. [*] Program dialogs now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.4.1 (31.12.2012) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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.). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.4 (18.12.2012) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Windows 7: The ability to start Actual Window Minimizer 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. [-] SURFCAM 6 crashed in some cases. [-] If there were hotkey combinations already by the system, other hotkey combinations might work incorrectly. [-] Control keys (e.g. Backspace) were blocked while editing file names in the Configuration window. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.3 (22.11.2012) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Minimize-to-Screen icons now can display window preview thumbnails instead of window icons (in non-Aero visual themes, the "Enable preview thumbnails" option must be activated). [+] Now, when you minimize a window to a screen icon, drag the icon somewhere and then restore the window - it will be restored under the mouse pointer. [*] Compatibility with the following programs is restored: - Logitech SetPoint - WordPerfect 12 [*] Compatibility with the following programs is improved: - SmartDraw 12 - HTML-Kit Tools [*] Windows 8: Look of title buttons is improved. [*] Additional title buttons are now available in JRiver Media Center. [*] Minimize-to-Screen icons now cannot be made invisible (100% transparent) - there is no such item in their "Transparency" submenu anymore. [*] The Minimize-to-Screen icon's transparency now can be set via AltMin action options menu. To call this menu, either right click the AltMin title button or open the "Options - AltMin" submenu in the window system menu, then go to "Screen Icon Options - Transparency"). [*] The Minimize-to-Screen icons now react on drag-n-drop attempts: they restore the minimized window so that you can drop there the dragged item. [*] Permanent tray icons now react more consistently to a single click. [*] The list of alternatively minimized windows in the Unhide submenu now is divided into two subsets: the list of windows minimized to tray and the list of windows minimized to screen. [-] 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. [-] Title buttons appeared on fullscreen GOM Media Player. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.2 (16.08.2012) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The library file awmemb64.dll is built using another compiler so we expect the increased stability on 64-bit systems (especially on Windows 7 and Windows 8). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.1 (07.07.2012) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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 and look of the additional title buttons [*] 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. [*] Minimized-to-screen icons save their positions right after moving the icon. [-] Trying to select several Window Settings items in the left panel and delete them resulted in the deletion of a single item only. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 7.0 (13.03.2012) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration window has been revamped. [*] 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. [*] 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. [-] Some window settings re-applied after saving the configuration even if they were not modified. [-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally. [-] In some cases, Control Center might crash upon reloading the configuration. [-] When launching Actual Window Minimizer after Stardock DeskScapes, Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable. [-] With Actual Window Minimizer running, capturing a video in TechSmith's Jing made it crash upon closing. [-] 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. [-] Windows that were minimized to the tray/screen via window menu command did not restore via Unhide submenu. [-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.7.2 (22.11.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.7.1 (11.11.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] The auto-minimization of inactive Outlook dialogs is improved. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.7 (21.10.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Norwegian language is added (translation provided by Stale Pedersen). [+] Ability is added to toggle the "Run the library from the installation folder" option via program's command line (use the L+/L- command line option to turn this option on/off, accordingly; by default, this option is off). [*] Window rules (specifics and exclusions) are now compatible with windows of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. [*] Compatibility with many Adobe products is improved (however, some functions may be unavailable yet). [*] Compatibility with Mindjet's MindManager is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's SnagIt is improved. [*] Tracking of window caption changes is improved (in particular, for own Actual Window Minimizer configuration dialogs). [*] Title buttons look and behave correctly in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 windows. [-] Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 crashed after opening/closing the Chart Source Data dialog. [-] Various Adobe products (like Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator) crashed upon exiting. [-] Autodesk Softimage hung at startup if Actual Window Minimizer was running. [-] Title buttons' glow effect looked wrong with non-standard values of Screen DPI. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.6 (01.08.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. [-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Window Minimizer caused Desktop Window Manager's crash. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.5.1 (11.07.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.5 (25.05.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved. [*] The look of a single title button in Aero is improved. [-] Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed. [-] Firefox 4 left its icon in the taskbar after minimizing to tray. [-] Edit boxes for time delays worked incorrect with large values. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.4 (11.02.2011) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to backup/restore the configuration is added (see the Backup/Restore commands in the File submenu). [+] The ability to undo/redo made changes in the main Configuration window is added (see the Undo/Redo commands in the Actions submenu). [*] The look of extra title buttons is improved in Aero theme. [*] The separate Start/Stop Actual Window Minimizer hotkeys are replaced with the single Toggle Actual Window Minimizer hotkey. [-] Restoring a minimized to tray window via double click made the window disappear from the taskbar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.3 (19.11.2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. [+] 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. [*] Multiple Specific settings can be selected in several ways: - by pressing and holding the left mouse button and dragging the "rubber frame" over desired items - by holding the Shift key and clicking on some item above/below the selected one - by holding the Shift key and pressing the Up/Down keys [*] 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. [-] 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. [-] Invoking the advanced window functions by clicking on standard window parts did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows. [-] Miranda 0.9 contact list window did not close by clicking its Close button. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.2 (04.08.2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption criterion. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.1 (03.06.2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The button to invoke the Context Help in the Options window has been 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. [*] Separate Configuration dialog opened for certain window settings now displays the name of settings being edited. [*] 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. [-] The bug with empty custom tray/screen icon after restarting the application is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 6.0 (12.02.2010) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 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. [+] 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. [*] The Unhide submenu and hints over tray/screen icons now correctly display the Unicode window captions. [*] Tracking of window caption changes has been improved. [-] 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. [-] 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. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 5.4 (09.07.2009) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. [-] The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 5.3 (31.03.2009) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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). [*] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added. [*] Now Configuration windows remember their Maximized state between sessions. [-] 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 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 crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 5.2 (14.10.2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] 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. [-] 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 Minimizer 5.1 (15.05.2008) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. [*] Window menu is slightly improved: additional options of AltMin and Roll Up actions are grouped into a separate submenu. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 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. [+] Now it's possible to use almost any key when specifying a hotkey combination. [+] Now you can provide a custom skin path relative to Actual Window Minimizer'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 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. [*] 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. [-] The custom skin drawing procedure is fixed: now it correctly handles the fully transparent background. [-] 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. [-] 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 Minimizer 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 ability to hide the mouse pointer, while it is floating over the specific window, is added. [+] The "Remove taskbar entry" feature 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. [+] When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons semi-transparent. [+] 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 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. [*] Title buttons appearance in Windows Vista is improved. [-] 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 [-] Now the "Configure..." item of Control Center tray icon's context menu is displayed correctly in Windows Vista. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 4.4 (16.04.2007) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant windows will reapply 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 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 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. [*] 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. [-] 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 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 adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 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 issue with the Yahoo! Widgets windows' hang-up is fixed. [-] The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 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 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" subfolder. [+] The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the tray is added. [*] The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 4.1 (01.08.2006) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in title buttons' tooltips. [+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in 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 minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 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 Specific 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 - reapply 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. [+] 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. [+] 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. [-] 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 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. [*] 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 Minimizer 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. [+] 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's correct restoration when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule" menu command. [-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 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 "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. [*] 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 Minimizer 3.5 (20.01.2005) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Extension Engine is improved. [+] 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 Minimizer 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. [+] A Minimize to Tray button is may be placed in a window title bar. You can minimize the program to the system tray by using the new button or minimize the program to the taskbar with a standard button Minimize. [+] The system menu has a new item Minimize to Tray. [+] Support of hotkeys. A keystroke Win+> minimizes the window to the system tray. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 2.8 (31.08.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added command line support. [+] Added a "silent" installation option. [+] Added Dutch language. [*] Some interface features changed and added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 2.7 (28.07.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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 Minimizer 2.6 (26.05.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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 them easier to find. [*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed. [*] Some interface features changed and added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 2.5 (15.01.2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a new "Minimize Window to Tray When it is Deactivated" option. [+] Added a command for sorting windows rules by name, in order to make the rules easier to find. [+] Added a new "Minimize Window to Tray When it is Launched" option. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 2.0 (15.07.2003) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. [+] Added tooltips for edge icons. [+] Added German language. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.6 (13.01.2003) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a right-click context menu for tray icons. Right-clicking on icon in the tray will now bring up a context menu with two choices: "Restore Window" reopens the icon to be a window and "Close Window" closes the window immediately. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.5 (04.12.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Some small bugs were fixed. [*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface. [+] Added Spanish, French, Catalan and Turkish languages. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.4 (04.11.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added multilingual support. [+] Added English, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish languages. [*] Highly increase program's launching speed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.3 (14.10.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Support of Windows XP themes for icons at screen edge. [+] Added an option "Enable/disable tray icon". [+] Added an option "Load at startup". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.2 (16.09.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added an option "Use large icon" for Minimize to Screen Edge. [+] Added predefined settings for Eudora Email client. [*] Some interface features changed and added. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.1 (05.08.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Some interface features changed and added. [+] Added an option "Permanent tray icon". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Window Minimizer 1.0 (15.07.2002) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Initial Release