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What's new in the latest version
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Window Minimizer 5.1 (15.05.2008)
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[+] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 5.0 (16.01.2008)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 4.5 (20.06.2007)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 4.4 (16.04.2007)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 4.3 (15.12.2006)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 4.2 (10.10.2006)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 4.1 (01.08.2006)
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[+] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 4.0 (05.05.2006)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 3.8 (23.09.2005)
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[*] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 3.7 (02.08.2005)
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[-] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 3.6 (06.04.2005)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 3.5 (20.01.2005)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 3.0 (13.10.2004)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 2.8 (31.08.2004)
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[+] Added command line support.
[+] Added a "silent" installation option.
[+] Added Dutch language.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Minimizer 2.7 (28.07.2004)
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[+] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 2.6 (26.05.2004)
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[+] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 2.5 (15.01.2004)
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[+] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 2.0 (15.07.2003)
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[!] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.6 (13.01.2003)
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[+] 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.
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.5 (04.12.2002)
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[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface.
[+] Added Spanish, French, Catalan and Turkish languages.
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.4 (04.11.2002)
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[!] Added multilingual support.
[+] Added English, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish languages.
[*] Highly increase program's launching speed.
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.3 (14.10.2002)
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[+] Support of Windows XP themes for icons at screen edge.
[+] Added an option "Enable/disable tray icon".
[+] Added an option "Load at startup".
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.2 (16.09.2002)
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[+] Added an option "Use large icon" for Minimize to Screen Edge.
[+] Added predefined settings for Eudora Email client.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.1 (05.08.2002)
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[*] Some interface features changed and added.
[+] Added an option "Permanent tray icon".
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Actual Window Minimizer 1.0 (15.07.2002)
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[!] Initial Release
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