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[!] Important [+] New [-] Fixed error [*] Changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.15.1 (27.04.2024) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: Compatibility is improved (checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447): - the system tray is restored (however, it still may be incompatible with particular apps - empty icons, not working mouse clicks, etc.) - the Input Language Switch button is restored - the Action Center button is functional again - system tray icons (e.g. Sound Volume, Network, Battery) display their corresponding flyout windows (still Win10-style though) - Start button displays its context menu on mouse right click (although the context menu responds to keyboard only yet) [+] Configuration, Desktop Divider: Ability is added to make the Tiles Editor windows semi-transparent to adjust the tiles more accurately with the actual layout of desktop windows. [*] Mouse Drag and Scroll: The window dragging part of the "Make the entire window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature has been reimplemented: now it works much more stable and smoother (no more unwanted title button activations, sizing instead of dragging, or sudden window jumps while dragging), and is compatible with most of the apps. The known issues: tabbed CMD/PowerShell/Notepad/Explorer windows in Win11, Actual Tools Tabbed Explorer windows. [-] Windows 11 22H2+, Keyboard Modifier Keys: Any specified modifier key combination stopped being recognized after dragging out any tab in the system tabbed apps (File Explorer, Notepad, CMD/PowerShell). So the Actual Multiple Monitors features based on those combinations stopped working as well. [-] Windows 10+, Window Settings: In some cases, settings stopped being applied to Metro/UWP apps after restarting Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Logon Screen Slideshow: The slideshow processes remained running in inactive user sessions after stopping the Logon Screen service of Actual Multiple Monitors. [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: List of knows issues in this version (subject to fix in the future updates, last checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447): - the entire visual style and behavior of Actual Taskbar is more similar to Windows 10 than to Windows 11 - there is no ability to align the taskbar buttons (including Start, Search, Virtual Desktops, Recycle Bin) center/right - system tray is incompatible yet with particular apps - sometimes Start menu on secondary monitors does not show up after clicking the Actual Taskbar's Start button - Start button's context menu does not react on mouse - Actual Taskbar does not handle the overflow (i.e. when there are so many apps open so that their buttons do not fit taskbar's visual space) - additional buttons (like Recycle Bin or Actual Tools VD Switcher) do not appear in the system taskbar [!] Windows 11, Title Buttons: List of knows issues in this version (subject to fix in the future updates, last checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447): - extra buttons may cover tabs in the system tabbed apps (File Explorer, Notepad, CMD/PowerShell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.15 (26.06.2023) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Security: Now all Actual Tools runtime executables natively support the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security technologies provided by the system. That hardens the overall system security by preventing various exploit attacks. [+] Multiple Monitors: The option "On internal borders only" has been added to the "Wrap the Desktop" feature. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: The overall robustness is improved. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching now works in other Chromium-based browsers, like Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex.Browser. To make a browser compatible with Audio Switcher, you must insert the following key into a command line of a browser's launching shortcut: --disable-features=AudioServiceSandbox [*] Mouse Drag and Scroll: Now the "Make the entire window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature is compatible with the Chromium-based apps: Google Chrome and other web browsers (Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex.Browser), Slack, WhatsApp, MS Teams, Upwork, Spotify, etc. [*] Title Buttons: Numerous fixes and improvements in Chromium-based apps: - glyphs on extra buttons did not change their color when toggling an app's window active/inactive - automatic gradual compact mode did not work in Opera and Vivaldi (so the extra buttons covered the browser tabs and the "New tab" button) Note: If you have specific windows settings for these browsers (either factory or custom) then you need to reset there the "Title Buttons > Options > Shift the buttons horizontally" value back to 0 to make the gradual compact mode work properly. - in some cases current title bar color could not be detected correctly, and the glyphs looked wrong (e.g. white in the Light visual theme) [-] Windows 11, Alt-Tab Task Switcher: Task switcher windows did not show up on secondary monitors. Also, white full-screen windows might appear on secondary monitors after invoking the Alt-Tab Task Switcher. Known issue: In this version, secondary task switcher windows do not react on mouse actions yet. [-] Windows 10+, Actual Taskbar: Taskbar button icons for Metro apps were contrast white-black instead of their colorful versions in the Light visual theme. [-] Windows 10+, Actual Taskbar: Some Metro apps (like Notepad, WhatsApp, Telegram Desktop, Trello, TradingView, and others) did not launch properly from their buttons pinned to Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar: System tray icons (like Network or Sound Volume) did not change their color properly after toggling the Light/Dark visual theme. [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: List of knows issues in this version (subject to fix in the near future updates, last checked on Windows 11 Version 22H2, build 22621.1848): - the entire visual style and behavior of Actual Taskbar is more similar to Windows 10 than to Windows 11 - there is no ability to align the taskbar buttons (including Start, Search, Virtual Desktops, Recycle Bin) center/right - sometimes Start menu on secondary monitors does not show up after clicking the Actual Taskbar's Start button - Actual Taskbar's Start button does not display its context menu on mouse right click - Actual Taskbar does not display the system tray - Actual Taskbar does not handle the overflow (i.e. when there are so many apps open so that their buttons do not fit taskbar's visual space) - click on the Actual Taskbar's Action Center button does nothing - additional buttons (like Recycle Bin or Actual Tools VD Switcher) do not appear in the system taskbar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.7 (22.06.2022) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Memory consumption and overall system load is slightly reduced. [!] In some rare cases multi-window applications might crash silently after closing and re-opening a window of the same type (e.g. separate message window in email client). [*] Desktop Divider: Now tile preview works faster and looks more consistent. [*] Compatibility is improved with custom cursors provided by Yolo Mouse. [*] Title Buttons: Compatibility with Bluebeam Revu is improved. [-] After exiting and then starting Actual Multiple Monitors back, some features in some applications might work erratically. [-] In multi-window applications memory leaked slightly after each cycle of closing a window and then opening two windows in a row. [-] Excel 2007+ hung after closing some of its standard dialogs: Protect Sheet, Conditional Formatting, Chart Data, etc. [-] In some cases Control Center might get stuck in memory after exiting Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some scenarios tray icons of some specific apps did not update properly. [-] Save Idle Screens: idle screen savers started exactly on 1 minute of idle time no matter what actual idle time-out value was specified. [-] Windows 11, Title Buttons: In some system applications (e.g. Windows Paint) unwanted visual effects might appear if any extra buttons were added to their windows. [-] Title Buttons: X1 Search hung at startup if any extra buttons were added to its window. [-] Title Buttons: In some specific applications (especially having windows with non-standard frames) title buttons might appear invisible. [-] Title Buttons: In some specific applications (e.g. X1 Search, SnagIt!) the Compact View popup toolbar appeared empty. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons might not work in MDI windows. [-] Window Actions, Mouse: The support for windows with a non-standard window frame to intercept clicks on a title bar, sizeable border, and standard Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons to invoke assigned mouse actions, as well as to prevent accidental window closing, added in the previous version, did not work in systems before Windows 10. [-] Configuration: For some combinations of non-default font and non-default font size, the layout of controls got messed in the "Options" group of the "Title Buttons" property sheet. [-] Configuration: The Send to Tech Support feature did not recognize Windows 11 marking the sent configurations as Win10-built. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.6.1 (25.11.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Actual Taskbar: Captions on taskbar buttons did not match actual window titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.6 (22.11.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Some internal components are made more concurrency-friendly by removing redundant locks and eliminating bottlenecks that might cause a noticeable system slowdown on multi-core CPUs in some scenarios. [!] Internal consumption of memory and system resources is slightly reduced, some memory/resource leaks are fixed. [!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: Actual Taskbar did not work in some Windows 11 installations because the ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter[64].exe process crashed instantly at startup. [+] Windows 10: Some improvements for UWP apps: - extra menu commands added by Actual Multiple Monitors are finally available in the system window menu invoked by a title bar right click - mouse actions assigned to a title bar and standard title buttons now work as expected [+] Window Actions, Mouse: The support is added for windows with a non-standard window frame to intercept clicks on a title bar, sizeable border, and standard Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons to invoke assigned mouse actions, as well as to prevent accidental window closing. [+] Title Buttons: The option is added to disable the button's context menu showing in response to a "long" left click (see the "Window Settings > Global Options > Title Buttons" panel). [*] Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons now are contrast in Chromium-based apps, like web browsers (Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave), collaboration tools (Microsoft Teams, Slack for Desktop, Upwork), media players (Spotify), etc. [*] Multiple Monitors, Mouse: Wrap the Desktop feature is improved: now it always "teleports" the mouse pointer to a nearest monitor in the straight mouse moving direction, or to a farthest monitor in the opposite direction. In particular, that solves the issue of the mouse pointer stuck in a corner of a monitor with a higher display resolution when trying to move the mouse to an adjacent monitor with a lower display resolution, which is not explicitly adjacent by that corner. Also, the feature now shows the "mouse sonar" circles when it "teleports" the mouse pointer to another monitor. [*] Window Actions, Multiple Monitors: The Move to Monitor action now works more accurately in the "Keep aspect ratio" mode when moving a window between monitors with different both display and DPI resolutions (calculation of both the window location and size has been improved). [*] Window Actions, Mouse: The "Maximize horizontally/vertically" mouse actions work again in a "toggle" manner (i.e. restore the previous window size on a second click). [-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar, Title Buttons: In some scenarios, the UWP apps showing in Actual Taskbar might cause an unwanted CPU consumption if any extra buttons were added to their windows' title bars. [-] Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons were not contrast in desktop apps in the Dark visual theme. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Google Chrome windows on monitors with high (> 200%) DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the tabs in Microsoft Edge windows. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Slack for Desktop 4.20+. [-] Title Buttons: dragging/sizing a window by the mouse imposed some excessive CPU consumption if any extra buttons were added to the window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons became clipped at the bottom after moving their host window from a monitor with a low (< 150%) DPI resolution to a monitor with a high (> 200%) DPI resolution. [-] Window Settings, Windows 7+: Another proper specific settings did not apply to a File Explorer window with some specific settings already applied when its caption changed after switching to a certain folder and the Explorer option "Display the full path in the title bar" was on. [-] Multiple Monitors: The "Save Idle Screens" screen saver exited when running on a primary monitor if a system service window appeared (like Start menu, Alt-Tab task switcher, etc.). [-] Windows 11, Multiple Monitors, Window Actions: Applying the Move to Monitor action to maximized windows produced unwanted behavior and visual glitches. To prevent this, the "Enable compatibility mode for maximized windows" option now is enabled by default (see the "Window Settings > Default Settings > Startup" panel). [-] Window Actions: Some fixes and improvements for the Monitor Selector dialog: - in the "Move to" mode, the dialog closes after releasing the left mouse button only if some real movement can be made, otherwise the dialog stays active - in the "Move to" mode, dragging the window preview thumbnail is improved - now drawing is faster due to removing some redundant operations - in UWP apps, the dialog did not activate after being invoked - title bar did not scaled properly to a current DPI resolution - being called for a Maximize to Desktop title button, dialog scaled using the primary monitor's DPI resolution instead of a current DPI resolution - in some cases, visual glitches might appear when drawing active dots in the "Move to" mode [-] Window Actions: The "Display current window position" feature did not activate when a window was being resized either by its top-right or bottom-left corner. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.5 (12.02.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Overall system load is reduced. [!] Windows 10 Insider x64 build 21277+: The program crashed at startup. [+] Licensing: The evaluation period is prolonged by a third of its original duration for the update versions released after the Free Updates Subscription expiration date. [+] Mirroring: Ability is added to flip the mirrored content both horizontally and vertically (except the window-to-window hardware accelerated mirrors). [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching now works in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. [-] An invalid memory operation could cause cascading errors in the Control Center at its startup if the "Collect usage statistics" option was enabled. [-] Some application windows (e.g. Directory Opus) stopped reacting on Control Center commands (like pausing/resuming or modifying the settings). [-] Actual Taskbar, Mouse Actions: Creating a custom mouse action assigned to taskbar button left double click with no modifiers blocked single clicks and therefore prevented normal taskbar operations, such as window activation, minimization/restoration, etc. [-] Window Layout: In some cases statistics data could be flooded with erroneous events. [-] Configuration, Desktop Profiles: The "Preview" button did not work if the "Current Windows screen saver" option was selected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.4 (10.10.2020) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Internal security has been accurately revised and tightened to follow the principle of least privilege (in particular, for kernel objects used for inter-process communication). [!] Internal error handling has been revised and improved for better interoperability with apps using .NET runtime (and probably some other frameworks). [!] Internal handling of display-related information has been optimized to reduce the overall delay after changing the desktop geometry (i.e. attaching/detaching a monitor or changing a monitor resolution). [*] Actual Taskbar: Compatibility with Open-Shell Start Menu is restored. [-] In some rare cases some apps might get hung after reapplying their window settings or unloading Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10 build 19041+: The Network window stopped moving to secondary monitors after clicking the Network icon in a secondary taskbar's notification area. [-] Mouse: Moving a mouse (either freely or holding the left button pressed) imposed unwanted CPU consumption if the "Tight monitor boundaries" option was off. [-] Mouse, Windows 7+ x64: If a 32-bit app that installs system-wide mouse hook was launched after Actual Multiple Monitors then clicking the right mouse button in any 64-bit console app's window (Command Prompt, Power Shell, etc.) made ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe "run away", therefore hogging the CPU heavily. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7+: MS SQL Server Management Studio got hung after trying to close it via "File -> Exit" menu command if any extra buttons were added to its main window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 x86 build 19041+: UWP apps crashed at startup if any extra buttons were added to their window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Mozilla Firefox got hung after activating an Adobe Flash element in a web page, if any extra buttons were added to its window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases the Move to Monitor button's tooltip displayed incorrect monitor index (e.g. when a window was moved to another monitor using the alignment dots in the "Move to..." dialog). [-] Title Buttons, Slack for Desktop 4.5+: Extra buttons covered new elements in Slack window' title bar (like Search edit box, Help button, or user's avatar button). [-] Desktop Divider: The following bugs are fixed: - tile layout frame's right/bottom border did not display on secondary monitors - tile layout frame's thickness did not scale propery in high DPI resolutions - CPU consumption skyrocketed needlessly when moving a mouse over a tile layout's preview in the "Put into" helper dialog - tile preview sometimes did not update correctly when moving a mouse over a tile layout's preview in the "Put into" helper dialog [-] Mirroring: Launching a window mirror with loose criteria (e.g. "Program" only) could result in capturing an improper window (like tooltip). [-] Mouse Drag and Scroll: Pale Moon got hung after activating an Adobe Flash element in a web page if the "Make the entire window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature was enabled. [-] Mouse: The "Activate window on mouse hover" feature stopped working after connecting to an already opened user session via Remote Desktop. [-] Window Actions, Mouse: Custom mouse action "Move to monitor - Having mouse pointer" could be applied only once to a certain window. [-] Window Actions, Mouse: In some cases, "Maximize horizontally" or "Maximize vertically" mouse actions did not work as expected on their first call. [-] Window Actions: Windows of Mozilla-based apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, Pale Moon, etc.) could not be resized by dragging their right/bottom border if they were stretched or snapped to a right/bottom boundary of a monitor. [-] Window Actions: The following bugs are fixed in the "Move to" helper dialog: - dialog was twice as large on monitors with higher DPI resolution - when dragging a window preview, you could not align it using the Aero Snap feature if the native Aero Snap was enabled in the system - when a green alignment dot was hovered by a mouse, the desktop preview window that shows the dot's corresponding target location was slightly bigger than required and so might go beyond monitor's visible area [-] Desktop Profiles: Monitors could not be turned on in portrait orientation. [-] Configuration, Desktop Profiles: If a monitor was turned off in portrait orientation, its properties in the "Multiple Monitors > Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel got empty on next Configuration window opening. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.3 (27.12.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] In some rare cases, running applications might crash randomly. [!] Actual Multiple Monitors work might get disrupted at random moments if it was installed into an unsecured folder (i.e. other than "Program Files"). [!] Some applications (Adobe products, TechSmith products, Parametric Technologies products, and some others) got hung if two or more Actual Tools programs were running at once (exiting all but one Actual Tools programs made hung applications responsive back). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons looked shorter than regular ones in maximized windows of Chromium-based applications (Google Chrome, Slack for Desktop, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex.Browser, Spotify, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Slack for Desktop: The following bugs are fixed: - extra buttons covered the regular ones if zero horizontal button shift was specified - extra buttons were almost invisible as their glyphs were of the same color as the title bar - window couldn't be maximized correctly if there were any extra buttons [-] Title Buttons: In some rare cases, extra buttons might disappear until a window got dragged/sized. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons might either get behind their host window's title bar or get visible through other windows in the following cases: - after minimizing and then restoring windows via Aero Shake - after starting a capture in Windows Snipping Tool - in Excel 2013+, after opening the "Find and Replace" dialog and then activating a main Excel window [-] Window Actions: The "Block premature appearance of window" option did not work as declared in Chromium-based applications. [-] Desktop Profiles, Configuration: The Identify button in the "Multiple Monitors - Desktop Profiles" panel displayed a monitor number in wrong place if monitor coordinates stored in a profile differed from actual ones. [-] Text on buttons in the Evaluation dialog was garbled in some Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.2 (29.10.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Numerous fixes of runtime internals to improve speed, robustness, and reliability. [+] Ability to update an existing license key is added: see the "Enter new license key" item either in the "Tools - License" Configuration window panel or in the Actual Multiple Monitors notification area icon's context menu. [*] Title Buttons: Automatic placement of extra buttons is restored in Google Chrome 75+. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching is restored in Google Chrome 76+. [*] Window Layout: Speed and reliability of the "Bind layout to desktop geometry" facility is greatly improved. [-] Actual Taskbar: Action Center button in secondary taskbars did not work if the main system taskbar was hidden. [-] Windows Monitoring Log: The following bugs are fixed: - dragging an excluded window filled the log quickly with duplicate "New window" events - a "Caption changed" event was always followed by the duplicate "New window" event - the Log window itself did not appear in the log ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.1 (09.07.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Internal logic of global hook handlers is revised to improve the compatibility with the systems running on multi-core CPUs. [!] Title Buttons, Windows 10 build 18362+: Notepad got frozen when opened empty (i.e. with no document specified). [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Action Center did not open by clicking its button in the Actual Taskbar if the "Replace the system taskbar" option was enabled. [-] Windows 10: Default icon was used for UWP apps right after their launch instead of their native icon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14 (15.05.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Microsoft Office 2013+: Application windows got frozen for a long time (up to several minutes) after locking the user session and then unlocking it back. [+] Mirroring: The long-awaited active mirroring is finally implemented. Active mirrors make the mirrored content available for mouse clicks, pen drawings, and touch gestures as if you would interact with the mirror's source itself. Note: Pen/touch support now reliably works in Windows 10 only. [+] Multi-monitor Background, Slideshow Screen Saver: The "shrink to fit" mode is added to the "Wallpaper position" option. For images larger than their host monitor, it works the same as the "proportional stretch" mode, whereas the images smaller than the host monitor are shown as is in the center of the monitor. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Compatibility is improved with newer builds (18885+). [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Jump List support for UWP apps is finally implemented. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Now taskbars look correct in the Light visual theme. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Action Center, Sound Volume and Network windows now move to a monitor where a corresponding icon has been clicked. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Action Center icon now displays the status of the "Focus assist" setting. [*] Actual Taskbar: Now you can cancel dragging a button in taskbar or notification area by pressing Esc. [*] Configuration: Now configuration windows and dialogs correctly scale their content to a current DPI resolution, including on-the-fly scaling when dragging them between monitors with different DPI resolutions. [-] Mirroring, Windows 10: In some cases, hardware accelerated mirrors froze on a first frame and did not update. [-] Actual Taskbar, Window Actions: Sometimes moving a maximized window between monitors using the Move to Monitor action made the window's task button disappear from all taskbars forever (until you close the window and open it again). [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: UWP apps' icons did not update correctly in task buttons and Jump Lists when switching between Light and Dark visual themes or changing the system accent color. [-] Actual Taskbar, Window 10: Fixed some issues with supporting high DPI resolutions: - Start button's icon was too small - Touch Keyboard button displayed a wrong icon [-] Actual Taskbar, Window 10: In some cases preview thumbnails might look incorrect. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7: Horizontal taskbar painted incorrectly in the Classic visual theme. [-] Multiple Monitors, Windows 10: On some hardware configurations, toggling secondary monitors via Actual Multiple Monitors notification area icon's context menu did not work. [-] Desktop Divider: Fixed some issues with supporting high DPI resolutions: - active tile border did not scale properly - after putting a DPI-aware app's window into a tile, the window popped out of the tile - when dragging a not-DPI-aware app's window, highlighting an active tile did not correspond with a mouse pointer's position - tile layout preview looked wrong for Microsoft Outlook 2019 windows [-] Desktop Profiles: Adding or removing a profile in a Configuration window did not update the list of profiles in Control Center context menus. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Firefox Quantum windows maximized on a secondary monitor that was shifted up or down relative to a primary one. [-] Title Buttons: Main window of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010+ got hung after closing it via the "File - Exit" menu command or the Alt-F4 hotkey if the Aero visual theme was active and any of extra buttons was added to that window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons looked and placed wrong in Microsoft Office 2019 windows in high DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not work in Sticky Notes windows. [-] Window Actions: Service windows, like "Move to monitor", "Put into Divider tile", did not scale properly to a current DPI resolution. [-] Configuration, Desktop Divider: When copying a tile layout in Tiles editor between monitors with different resolutions, tiles' relative sizes were not preserved. [-] Configuration: The "Copy settings from" command stopped working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13.3 (28.11.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 build 17763+: System SmartScreen process ate up to 100% CPU resources when Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [!] Window Settings: Exclusions stopped working since the version 8.13. [*] Configuration: Specific Settings editing windows now are truly independent of the main Configuration window: - clicking the Apply button in such window now immediately saves the changes (no need to click Apply in the main window as well) - after closing the main window these windows remain fully functional [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: In some cases, after changing the desktop geometry (i.e. positions/resolutions of secondary monitors) windows on secondary monitors got squeezed either vertically or horizontally. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: In individual mode, after switching system virtual desktops task buttons of windows from inactive desktops on secondary monitors appeared in the system taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar: Icons on extra taskbar buttons (Search, Recycle Bin, Ink Workspace, Input Language Switch) flipped in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Glyphs on extra buttons flipped in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not update properly after toggling any of them on/off in the Aero visual theme in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 build 17763+: - extra buttons appeared in wrong place if any of secondary monitors was located in negative screen coordinates - extra buttons overlapped the system ones in maximized windows of Microsoft Office 2007 apps and might cause temporary hanging when moving the mouse over the overlapped Minimize button - glyphs on extra buttons blended with title bar in the Dark visual theme if the "Show color on title bar" system option was off [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 Insider build 18267+: - glyphs on extra buttons blended with title bar if the "Show color on title bar" system option was off - extra buttons did not react on changing the system accent color [-] Title Buttons: Mozilla Firefox 50+/Quantum might hang when displaying content-rich pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13.2 (12.10.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Vista/7: Process dwm.exe crashed each time after unloading Actual Multiple Monitors Control Center. [*] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons automatic placement is improved in Google Chrome of version 66 and higher in non-standard DPI resolutions. [*] Title Buttons: Extra buttons now work in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [*] Mouse Actions: Invoking advanced window actions now work in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [*] Desktop Divider: Placing a window into a tile now works in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows: If the feature was active, scrolling with the mouse wheel did not work in active windows of some applications (e.g. Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers). [-] Logon Screen Slideshow, Windows x64: The slideshow displayed the evaluation period reminder even in a registered copy of Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Configuration: In really high DPI resolutions (> 200%), caption of a first option in each group overlapped the group's title. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13.1 (27.09.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: In some cases the Task View window might get broken when Actual Multiple Monitors was set to load at system startup. [+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to create custom Put into Divider Tile hotkey actions, mouse actions, and title button actions. [*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Compatibility is improved with Sonic Suite 3 and Nahimic 2 audio software. [*] Windows 7+: Showing the notification area icons (e.g. Task Manager, Skype) for apps launched with different user credentials is restored. [*] Configuration: Now all toobars respect the options of the "Toolbars" group in the "Options - User Interface" panel. [-] Multi-monitor Task Switcher stopped working in all systems before Windows 10. [-] Actual Taskbar: The MS Teams app button remained in a taskbar after minimizing its window to a notification area icon using its own means. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Balloon notifications for notification area icons of such programs as AVG and Avast kept popping up and could not be closed. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some rare cases notification areas in secondary taskbars might remain empty. [-] Actual Taskbar: Sometimes, after restoring a minimized window, its button might disappear from a taskbar if the animation effects for minimization/restoration were enabled. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: After clicking the Show Desktop button, the Aero Peek effect remained active until the mouse pointer was moved outside the button. [-] Windows 10, Window Settings: Specific settings did not apply to UWP apps running full-screen (e.g. Groove, Solitaire Collection). [-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar: Task buttons did not show for UWP apps running full-screen. [-] Windows 10, Title Buttons: After switching a UWP app from full-screen to windowed, the extra buttons did not show in its title bar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13 (21.08.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows x64: The overall workload on a system has been reduced significantly, especially on multi-core CPUs. [+] Windows Layout: Automatic keeping and restoration of current window layout per desktop configuration has been finally implemented. It works as follows: each 5 seconds Actual Multiple Monitors stores the placements of currently open windows. When the desktop configuration (or desktop geometry) changes (you plug/unplug a monitor, put a laptop into a docking station, change a monitor resolution, etc.), it checks if there is stored information for the new desktop configuration, and if there is then it applies the kept placement info to all open windows, scattering them as they were. In other words, the window layout is restored when you return to some already known desktop configuration. See the options to control this new feature in the "Layout and Snap - Windows Layout" panel. [*] Configuration: Windows are now properly scaled at startup to conform with the DPI resolution set for a monitor, which they are opening on. [*] Mirroring: Now you can toggle the mirrors full-screen using the left double click or pressing Alt-Enter/F11. Also, you can exit full-screen by pressing Esc. [*] Wrap Desktop: The feature has been rewritten from scratch to provide more predictable and expected behavior, especially on non-uniform desktop configurations. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: Programs running with administrative privileges can't be minimized by clicking their task button. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: Preview thumbnails were not scaled correctly in high DPI resolutions. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Preview thumbnails looked differently than in the system taskbar. [-] Desktop Divider: In some cases the "Put into" dialog did not display some tile layouts in full. [-] Save Idle Screens: Numerous fixes in the automatic mode: - idle screen saver did not start on a primary monitor in Windows 10 if Actual Multiple Monitors was installed with the support of system utilities and administrative tools - idle screen saver stopped if the Desktop itself was activated - idle screen saver did not restart after closing it because of moving the mouse - idle screen saver can't be stopped on a monitor disconnected and then connected back - idle screen saver can't be stopped after switching to another user account and then returning back - the feature ignored mouse movements on monitors with no active window [-] Drag to Scroll, Windows x64: The feature didn't work for 32-bit applications unless its activation mouse button was set to "left". [-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing, Windows x64: The feature didn't work for 32-bit applications. [-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing, Windows 10: The feature didn't work for UWP applications (e.g. Settings, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.). [-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing: The feature didn't work for Chromium-based applications (e.g. Google Chrome and Vivaldi web browsers, Slack desktop client, Microsoft Teams desktop client, etc.). [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not react on right clicks in Foxit Reader. [-] Title Buttons: Detecting free place for extra buttons stopped working in Google Chrome in high DPI resolutions since its version 67. [-] Move to Monitor: After moving a maximized Google Chrome window to a monitor with a different DPI resolution, the window got beyond the visible desktop area. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.12.2 (21.05.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: Metro/UWP apps crashed at startup when Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [*] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now support the new acrylic transparency visual effect. [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Flyout window with additional notification area icons now looks more similar to the one in the system taskbar. [-] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons got invisible in some windows (like Settings applet). [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Both Actual Taskbar and Windows Explorer hung when displaying a tooltip for a taskbar button (Search, Show hidden notification icons, etc.) if monitors had different DPI resolutions and the tooltip tried to appear on the edge between monitors. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 8.1+: Notification area icons did not update after changing DPI resolution of the host monitor. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: In some cases, autohidden taskbar might appear on a wrong monitor. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Task buttons in the appearing autohidden taskbar flashed once in wrong positions. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Jump Lists did not display icons on their Pin/Unpin buttons for documents items. [-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Jump List height calculated incorrectly on a secondary monitor if a primary monitor had different DPI resolution. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7: Auto-detection of free space for extra buttons did not consider the own extra buttons in Mozilla Thunderbird and the Microsoft Office 2013/2016 apps in the Classic and Aero Basic visual themes. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7: Extra buttons got shrunk vertically in maximized windows of Mozilla Thunderbird and the Microsoft Office 2013/2016 apps in the Aero Basic visual theme. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons got shrunk vertically in maximized windows of the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.12.1 (21.04.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: The following windows now open on a correct monitor when clicking their corresponding buttons in Actual Taskbar: - Search/Cortana window - Ink Workspace window [-] Windows x64: In some rare cases applications might crash. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: In some applications extra buttons looked and located incorrectly when dragging an application window between monitors with different DPI resolutions (from lower to higher). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: In some applications glyphs on extra buttons looked too large on monitors with high DPI resolutions. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some cases icon on a pinned Windows Explorer button got replaced by an icon of an active Explorer window, if the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option was enabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.12 (03.03.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Per-application Audio Device Switcher has been finally implemented (see the "Multiple Monitors - Audio Switcher" panel). Now you can bind available audio devices (internal/external sound cards, HDMI/DisplayPort outputs, etc.) to certain monitors, so that any multimedia application being put on a monitor will automatically redirect its audio playback to the bound audio device. Also, you can change the audio device used by a certain multimedia application in its specific window settings - either automatically (at startup) or manually (via title button, window menu item, or special window that can be invoked via "Show application audio manager" tray icon's context menu command). The feature is compatible with most popular types of multimedia applications that can play audio: web browsers (both HTML5 and Flash media content), media players, videogames. IMPORTANT: This feature works since Windows Vista, earlier versions of Windows are not supported. Known issues: - some media players (VLC, Media Player Classic) are not compatible with this feature by default; to make them compatible, you must set the audio output to "WaveOut" in their preferences - not fully compatible media players: Windows Media Player 9 and higher - not fully compatible web browsers: Internet Explorer 8 and higher - not yet supported media players: iTunes, Foobar 2000 - not yet supported web browsers: MS Edge [*] Actual Taskbar: Handling of Metro apps' icons is improved. [*] Actual Taskbar: Jump Lists now look more accurate in high DPI resolutions. [*] Actual Taskbar: Jump Lists and task buttons now look similar to the system taskbar ones in Windows 10. [-] Actual Taskbar: Arrangement of toolbars in multi-row taskbars lost after each restart. [-] Actual Taskbar: Pinning a shortcut to a taskbar via drag-n-drop stopped working in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. [-] Actual Taskbar: After closing a Metro app having its button pinned to a taskbar, the pinned button's icon got replaced with an improper icon. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the My Account button in Google Chrome since its version 64. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases extra buttons in Firefox Quantum got misplaced and drawn in wrong color. [-] Some applications (e.g. Malwarebytes) might hang at startup if Actual Multiple Monitors was running. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.11.3 (30.12.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Sometimes an active application might hang forever because of rolling the mouse wheel actively. [-] Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: CPU consumption by Actual Taskbar increased unwantedly if monitors had different DPI resolutions. [-] Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: After restarting Actual Multiple Monitors, Actual Taskbar lost its toolbar arrangement. [-] Windows 10 Creators Update: Actual Taskbar did not display tooltips for notification area icons of some system apps (Windows Defender, Audio Volume Control, Disk Eject, etc.). [-] Windows 10 Creators Update: In some cases Actual Taskbar became fully transparent when positioned vertically. [-] Windows 10 Anniversary Update: After switching to Tablet mode and back, right click on the Action Center button in Actual Taskbar displayed the Network Neighbourhood context menu instead of the Action Center menu. [-] Windows 10: Action Center notification count displayed unwantedly in popup tooltips for notification area icons in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar got cut in the Classic visual theme when positioned vertically. [-] Mirroring: Window mirrors in software mode did not retain the source window picture if the source window was minimized or rolled up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.11.2 (28.09.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Creators Update: Metro (UWP) apps crashed at startup if Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [!] Actual Taskbar: Active window did not minimize on clicking its taskbar button. [+] Windows 8+: The ability is added to change the default PNG codec used to create multi-monitor background images to a JPEG codec to reduce the size of a result image and avoid violating the 20 Mb background image size limit in synchronized user accounts (may be actual for 4K monitor owners). To switch to a JPEG codec, add the following Registry value: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Actual Tools\Actual Multiple Monitors\Command Center\Plugins\WallpaperManager] "use_jpeg_codec"=dword:00000001 [*] Windows 10 Creators Update: Extra title buttons now have correct glyph/background colors in Metro (UWP) apps with custom-colored title bars (Edge, People, Store, Maps, Settings, Connect, Xbox, Alarms & Clock, Calculator, Paint 3D): - while being mouse-hovered/pressed - in the Compact View popup toolbar [*] Multi-monitor Background: If various picture sources are used in multi-monitor slideshow (local files and web), background picture will be set immediately as at least one picture gets available (i.e. the slideshow engine no more waits until all pictures get downloaded). [-] Actual Taskbar: Action Center button on secondary taskbars either displayed the notification count in wrong location or did not display it at all. [-] Actual Taskbar: Hints for task buttons, notification area icons, toolbars, etc. got behind windows being set on top of others. [-] Actual Taskbar: In Windows 7+, if the "On Top" taskbar option was turned off, its Start button: - got in front of other windows at startup - got in front of other windows after invoking the Start menu [-] Actual Taskbar: In Windows 7, Start menu got behind a vertical taskbar placed to the left, and if it was also set on top of other windows. [-] Title Buttons: In Metro (UWP) apps, popup toolbar popped up again instead of closing after a second click on the Compact View title button. [-] Multi-monitor Background: There was unwanted single pixel lines of wrong color on right and bottom edges of background pictures. [-] Multi-monitor Background: The "Show picture source" option stopped working in the Aero visual theme. [-] Window Settings: Hints with current window position/size showed incorrect values on some desktop configurations. [-] Save Idle Screens: In some cases automatic activation of the feature might not work. [-] Lock Mouse: In some cases soft mouse locking might not work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.11.1 (27.07.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 8+: Multi-monitor Task Switcher is finally fully compatible with Actual Taskbar's Individual mode: now it displays all windows on all monitors. Thanks to this, the "Replace the system task switcher" option became useless and has been removed from the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel. [*] Windows 10: Multi-monitor Task Switcher is now compatible with the old Alt-Tab view if it was enabled in the Registry. [*] Actual Taskbar: Context menu items to toggle taskbar controls (Start button, tray, clock, etc.) have been moved to a submenu. [*] Title Buttons: Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons is improved in the latest versions of Google Chrome. [-] Windows 10: Some apps (like Visual Studio 2012 installer and components, or iTunes Helper) crashed when Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [-] Windows 10: Windows Magnifier got hung when its Lens mode was active and Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [-] Windows 10: Refreshing a desktop with the "solid color" background made the desktop black. [-] Actual Taskbar: Start button did not show its context menu right after the Start menu was closed by clicking the Start button. [-] Actual Taskbar: Start menu did not close after clicking the Start button second time or after clicking empty taskbar space. [-] Actual Taskbar: Click on the Touch Keyboard button forced a currently active window to lose focus. [-] Title Buttons: System window menu flickered constantly in apps where auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons enabled (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office apps). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.11 (20.06.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows x64: The speed of advanced mouse features is greatly improved, especially on systems with multi-core CPUs (with 8+ real cores). [+] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now display the following standard controls: - Input Language Switch button (since Windows 8) - Touch Keyboard button (since Windows 10) - Ink Workspace button (since Windows 10 Anniversary Update) - Touchpad button (since Windows 10 Creators Update and in Tablet mode only) In systems before Windows 8 (except Windows Vista) the Input Language Switch button can be displayed only on one of Actual Taskbar instances (via "Toolbars - Language bar" taskbar context menu command). In Windows Vista the Input Language Switch button is unavailable. [+] Windows 10: Now you can create specific window settings for Metro (UWP) apps (e.g. Settings, Edge, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.). [+] The following image file types are now available for selection in the background settings: DIB, RLE, EMF, WMF, TIFF, ICO. [*] The factory exclusion rule "All unnamed windows" is added to skip all windows with an empty caption. [*] Windows 10: Size of Actual Taskbar controls now is adapted automatically for touch screens. [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now considers the "Show badges on taskbar buttons" system option. [-] Windows 10: Actual Multiple Monitors prevented the background spellchecking in Microsoft Word 2016. [-] Windows 7+: If the system option to show labels on taskbar buttons was enabled, overlay icons (like Skype status) displayed in a wrong place. [-] Windows 7+: After modifying Actual Taskbar settings, icons on some task buttons got small. [-] Actual Taskbar: In server editions of Windows, Start button had no label if the Terminal Services service was running. [-] Background Slideshow/Slideshow Screen Saver: In multi-monitor mode, if time intervals were different, slide change moments calculated incorrectly that led to inconsistent results. [-] Background Slideshow: Picture source caption might display in a wrong place if the background slideshow worked in the "Single picture over entire desktop" mode. [-] Background Slideshow: When the "Show picture source" option was enabled, refreshing the desktop (either via F5 hotkey or via "Refresh" context menu command) in the Aero visual theme made the picture source captions disappear until next slide change. [-] Windows 10: Metro (UWP) apps did not put into Desktop Divider tiles when being dragged by the mouse. [-] Desktop Profiles: Display orientation could not be set to portrait or reversed portrait in Windows 7+. [-] Configuration: The list of desktop profiles displayed incorrect captions in the Background column. [-] Configuration: Captions on the Tools panels got cut in high DPI resolutions. [-] Configuration: Exclusion detail panel did not refresh after adding a new exclusion in the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.10.2 (28.03.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now display the Windows Action Center button. Click on this button shows the Action Center Notifications window on a primary monitor. [*] Actual Taskbar: Start button now displays a context menu on right click. [*] When using the Move to Monitor window action for a window that was snapped to left/right half of a monitor, the window now retains its snapped state on another monitor and gets exactly half its size. [*] The "Move to" monitor selector dialog again displays the monitor numbers. [-] Actual Taskbar: In some cases Calendar did not show up after clicking the clock. [-] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars looked wrong in the recent builds of Windows 10 Insider Preview. [-] Title Buttons: Numerous Windows 10 compatibility fixes: - incorrect Compact View background color fixed - incorrect glyph color fixed with the enabled auto-selection of the main UI color - incorrect glyph color fixed in UWP apps in the recent builds of Windows 10 Insider Preview [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the standard ones in the Start Screen window of Office 2016 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) since the recent update. [-] UltraEdit main window consumed CPU a lot with Actual Multiple Monitors running. [-] Configuration: In Windows 7+, web links always opened in Internet Explorer, not default web browser. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.10.1 (20.02.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Localizaton: Arabic language is added (translation made by Thamer Mousa). [*] Windows 10: Title buttons now look correct in the Office 2013/2016 apps when their "File" tab gets active. [*] Configuration: Now it's possible to press the Ctrl key to prevent the auto-snapping of a being dragged splitter to its siblings in the adjacent row/column. [*] Mirroring: Now the "Keep aspect ratio" option is available for hardware-accelerated mirrors with such source types as "Monitor" or "Part of desktop". [-] Mirroring: In Windows 10, a hardware-accelerated mirror with "Window" source type had a black border around the mirrored image. [-] Actual Taskbar: Icons on buttons disappeared after applying any change of Actual Multiple Monitors settings made in the Configuration window. [-] Configuration: The following bugs have been fixed in the Desktop Divider Tiles Editor: - on some multi-monitor configurations it did not allow to customize the layout on certain monitors; - splitters did unwantedly snap to the left/top border of a tile when being dragged closely to that border; - splitters did not scale properly on monitors with high DPI resolution. [-] Configuration: Test Regexp dialog displayed an error if it was opened on a monitor with high DPI resolution. [-] Updating: If the "New version is available" balloon notification was shown, right click on the Actual Multiple Monitors notification area icon started the installation instead of displaying icon's context menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.10 (29.12.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: Extra title buttons now look correct on windows with colored title bars (Messaging, Phone, Photos, Windows Mail) and in the Dark visual theme. [!] Windows x64: Stability is greatly improved (there should be no more high CPU usage or app crashes at Actual Multiple Monitors startup). [*] Configuration: Test Regexp and Select Window From List dialogs now look and work correct in high DPI resolutions. [*] Configuration: Desktop Divider Tiles Editor window now looks and works correct in high DPI resolutions. [-] There was possible (of low probability, though) security breach when running Actual Multiple Monitors library from the %Temp% folder. [-] Extra title buttons covered standard title buttons in the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. [-] Windows 10: Extra title buttons covered tabs in Google Chrome windows. [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar crashed at startup in the systems with F-Secure software products running. [-] Windows 10: Search box in the system taskbar got reset to Search button at each startup of Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Windows 10: Calendar window stopped showing up after clicking the clock in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 10: Some hidden windows might appear in the Expose task switcher. [-] Configuration: Check box and radio button captions got cut in high DPI resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.9.2 (29.10.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: Since the Anniversary Update, Actual Taskbar got hung after placing the mouse pointer over any task button for a while if the host monitor DPI resolution was higher than 100%. [*] Logon Screen Service: The "unquoted service path" vulnerability has been fixed. [-] Windows 10: Search field in the primary taskbar got reset back to Search icon at each startup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.9.1 (06.09.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar stopped displaying Jump Lists since the Anniversary Update. [-] Windows 10: Since the Anniversary Update, Actual Taskbar got white when taskbar color and transparency were disabled in the system taskbar settings. [-] Windows 7+: Group window functions "Gather all windows" and "Send all windows" stopped working. [-] Windows 8+ x64: Lock Screen background picture did not set. [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver: "Screen saver failed to start" error message has been displayed on a monitor if the "Screen saver: None" has been set for that monitor. [-] Configuration: Only the main window got hidden if the "Hide Configuration Module while using the Window Finder" option was enabled. [-] Configuration: Panel header font size was too big in high DPI resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.9 (22.07.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability is added to invoke advanced title button dialogs (usually invoked via right-click on a button) for a currently active window via hotkeys. The following hotkeys have been added: - Show the "Move to specific monitor" dialog (Win-Ctrl-/) - Show the "Maximize to selected monitors" dialog (Win-Ctrl-Num*) - Show the "Put into Divider tile" dialog (Win-Ctrl-Num5) You can change the default key combinations in the Hotkeys-Actions panel. This feature can be useful on monitors with high resolutions (up to 4K) where distance to a required button may be too long to drag the mouse there just to invoke the dialog via right click. Using the hotkeys above will make the dialogs appear exactly under the mouse pointer, ready for immediate use. [+] The CFL command line switch is expanded with the ability to specify an arbitrary folder where the configuration files should be stored: ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe CFL "" [*] Overall stability is improved. [*] Image processing for slideshows (both background and screen saver) has been optimized to use less memory and work faster even for huge images (like NASA space photos having up to 20K pixels resolution). [*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for: - Actual Taskbar jump lists and thumbnail previews - extra title buttons - Log window [*] Evaluation dialog has been restyled. [*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for program dialogs (About, Register, Check for Updates, etc.). [-] Actual Taskbar did not get behind fullscreen Google Chrome windows. [-] Windows 7: Multi-monitor Alt-Tab Task Switcher showed only once in the Classic visual theme. [-] Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons worked incorrectly in high DPI resolutions for Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office windows. [-] Some features stopped working in Skype windows after saving the Actual Multiple Monitors configuration. [-] Windows 7+: Specific window settings with certain Window Caption criterion specified did not apply to Microsoft Management Console windows (Event Viewer, Task Scheduler, Disk Manager, etc.). [-] Intuit QuickBooks windows hung for a while after right clicking the extra title buttons. [-] Windows 10: Start Screen parts were unwantedly touched by the group commands like "Gather all windows from" or "Swap all windows with" (if the program was installed with the support of administrative utilities). [-] Windows 10: If the "Replace the system taskbar" option was on, the system taskbar Search box popped over Actual Taskbar after clicking the Start button. [-] Windows 10: "Desktop Divider Up/Down/Left/Right" hotkeys worked improperly. [-] Windows 10: Desktop Divider layouts did not switch on mouse wheel rolling. [-] Window did not restore properly its position and size if the Maximize to Desktop action was applied several times in a row. [-] Windows 8.1: Mirroring of Windows Media Player stopped working if the player window was relocated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.8.3 (13.05.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows 10: Vertical Actual Taskbar (either in Left or Right position) got half screen width each time at startup. [-] Windows Vista/7: Start button did not stretch out to a multi-row taskbar in the Classic visual theme. [-] Windows Vista/7: Start button got reversed in the Classic visual theme for right-to-left writing languages (like Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.8.2 (06.05.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Taskbar did not appear in the Windows Classic visual theme. [*] Windows 10: Calendar window now moves to a monitor where a taskbar clock has been clicked (works only since build 14328). [*] Configuration: Navigation pages now display a tooltip with the full caption text over their header if the caption text does not fit the header visible area. [-] Configuration: With large interface font size (either set manually in the User Interface settings or generated automatically because of a high screen DPI resolution), navigation page captions did not fit the headers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.8.1 (29.04.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: False-positive SmartScreen warning about setup file corruption is finally remedied. [*] Actual Taskbar now scales correctly on monitors with high DPI resolutions. [*] Windows 10: Multi-monitor Alt-Tab Task Switcher is restored. [*] Windows 10: Support of Metro apps in Actual Taskbar is improved. [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar flyout window with additional notification area icons now looks the same as in the system taskbar. [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar displayed windows located on inactive system virtual desktops. [-] Windows 10: Windows put into a Desktop Divider tile did not fill it entirely, some gaps remained. [-] Windows 10: Stretch window action left a gap between window border and monitor border. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.8 (31.03.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration: Global options of window settings (like title buttons skin, window menu items order, pre-defined window sizes, etc.) have been moved from the Options category to the Window Settings category in the main Configuration window. [!] Configuration: Global Options subitems have been removed from the Window Settings navigation tree and transformed into tabs of the Global Options detail panel. [+] Configuration: Back/Forward buttons have been added into each Configuration window to provide the navigation through the user interface panels like in web browsers. [+] Configuration: Incremental Search box has been added into each Configuration window. Now you can quickly discover a panel that contains the required option just by typing several letters of what you want to find. Search engine considers the following text information: 1) captions of user interface panels and all their sub-controls (control hints are ignored at the moment for the sake of search speed) 2) captions of built-in and user-added objects of the following types: - specific window settings - window exclusions - desktop profiles - desktop mirrors - Desktop Divider layouts - hotkeys - mouse actions - title buttons - window menu commands [*] Configuration: Undo/Redo commands now track the changes separately for each window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.7 (04.02.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The navigation panel in the main Configuration window has been replaced. [!] Configuration: The Desktop Divider category in the main Configuration window has been renamed to "Layout and Snap", and the Windows Layout options and the Window Snapping options have been moved there from the Options category. The "Desktop Divider - Tile Layouts" panel has been split into two: Desktop Divider - global on/off switch, activation mode Tile Layouts - list of tile layouts itself [!] Google web slideshow source has been removed because Google discontinued their Google Image Search service. [+] The long-awaited ability is added to resize/drag together windows snapped to each other (no matter in what way - using either Classic Snap, Aero Snap, Desktop Divider or even manually). In short, group operations on adjacent windows work as follows: Group Size - when you resize a window, windows adjacent to a border/corner being dragged are resized accordingly (as if there were a splitter between them) Group Drag - when you drag a window, its adjacent windows come along with it (as if they were a single large window) By default, both these features are turned on in the "While not pressed - Ctrl" mode, i.e. you can disable it temporarily by pressing the Ctrl modifier key. You can disable these features, or switch the mode to "While pressed", or change the modifier keys combination in the new "Layout and Snap - Group Size/Drag" panel. [+] Configuration: Ability is added to select all items in the lists with multi-selection allowed by pressing the Ctrl-A hotkey. As this key combination was reserved for adding a new item to a list, the New Item hotkey has been changed to Ctrl-N. [*] Configuration: Hotkey combinations for list operations have been unified for all list-editing panels: Ins, Ctrl-N - add new item Del, Ctrl-D - delete selected item F5 - copy selected item Ctrl-=, Ctrl-Num+ - enable all items (where available) Ctrl--, Ctrl-Num- - disable all items (where available) Ctrl-A - select all items (where available) [*] Configuration: Confirmation request for the Delete Item operation has been removed in all list-editing panels. If you accidentally removed the needed item - you can click the Undo button in the bottom-left corner of the main Configuration window or press the Undo hotkey (Ctrl-Z by default). [*] Configuration: The flickering has been reduced significantly when resizing either the Configuration windows themselves or their internals. [*] Windows 10: Hotkeys now work in Metro apps. [*] Windows 10: Extra title buttons now work in the Edge web browser (and probably other Metro apps). [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now highlights the group buttons the same way the system taskbar does. [*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now displays progress indicator on buttons the same way the system taskbar does. [*] Backup/Restore now includes the Logon Screen settings. [*] Logon Screen service now has proper description. [*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver now detects if some specified screen saver failed to start or does not support preview mode and displays a message instead of an empty screen. [*] Configuration: Separate Window Settings windows now retain their position and size when you open them again. [-] Office 2013+: Extra title buttons overlapped the standard ones. [-] In some cases, extra title buttons did not redraw in the Aero visual theme. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Alt-Tab Switcher displayed the hidden windows. [-] Windows 10: Windows PowerShell did not "run as administrator" from a button pinned to Actual Taskbar. [-] Installer: The uninstaller popped up interactive dialog requests even if it had been launched with /SILENT or /VERYSILENT command line option. [-] Actual Taskbar: Start menu did not show in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview (build 11102). [-] Actual Taskbar: Group commands Minimize All/Restore All worked incorrectly. [-] Actual Taskbar: The Show Desktop button did not react on clicking its rightmost pixels. [-] Desktop Divider: Resizing a window put into Divider tile changed its original size (i.e. the one it had before putting into a tile) if the Classic Snap with snapping to Divider tiles was enabled. [-] Windows 10: In some cases, the Tiles Editor window displayed cut on secondary monitors. [-] Web slideshow settings did not apply in the Configuration window if the Control Center was unloaded. [-] Windows Vista/7: The progress bar flickered when applying the Logon Screen background settings for a primary monitor. [-] Configuration: Minimized windows did not restore on clicking the notification area icon or pressing the Configure hotkey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.6.2 (23.11.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver stopped working. [-] "Preview" button did not work for the "Current Windows screen saver" option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.6.1 (20.11.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability is added to swap windows between monitors (see the "Swap all windows with" command in the Actual Taskbar context menu). [*] Overall stability is improved. [*] Buttons on the "Tools - Control Center" panel are made more usable. [*] Multi-monitor background slideshow now gets suspended while screen saver is running or session is locked. [*] Windows 10: Compatibility is improved with the recently released Threshold 2 update (build 10586): - Actual Taskbar context menu readability is restored - showing of recent items in the Actual Taskbar Jump Lists is restored - gap between Actual Taskbar and Jump Lists is removed [*] Windows 10: Showing of the system Background Settings dialog is restored when clicking the "Current Windows background - Settings" button. [-] Windows 10: Size of extra title buttons calculated incorrectly for MDI windows. [-] In some cases (e.g. for digital connectors like DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort), monitor order numbers might differ from the system. [-] Slideshow Screen Saver settings got reset after clicking the Preview button. [-] Attempt to select several entries in a slideshow playlist caused an error when configuring Actual Slideshow Screen Saver via system Screen Saver dialog. [-] In some cases, Logon Screen Slideshow might keep running in background even after logging into a session, interfering with UAC prompts and needlessly utilizing the CPU. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.6 (06.10.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The popular request to display the system Recycle Bin in taskbars is fulfilled. The Recycle Bin is available as an extra button in both the system taskbar and the Actual Taskbar, and this button provides exactly the same operations as the Recycle Bin icon on the desktop: - you can drag-n-drop documents onto it to put them into the Recycle Bin - you can left-click it to open a folder window showing the Recycle Bin contents - you can right-click it to invoke the Recycle Bin context menu On the system taskbar, you can toggle the Recycle Bin button presence in the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel, in the "System Taskbar - Additional Buttons" group. On any instance of Actual Taskbar, you can toggle the Recycle Bin button presence using the "Show the Recycle Bin" command in the taskbar's context menu. [+] Now you can suspend/resume Actual Multiple Monitors via command line using the following syntax, respectively: ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe suspend ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe resume [*] Windows 10: Compatibility with 3rd party Start menu alternatives (Classic Shell, Start10, Start Menu X, StartIsBack++) is restored. [*] If Actual Multiple Monitors was installed into a trusted location (such as "Program Files" folder) using administrative privileges and then used under non-privileged user account, Actual Multiple Monitors update installer now warns that it must be run as administrator to update the installation in a trusted location. [-] Windows 10: System Alt-Tab switcher worked wrong if the "Move to monitor at startup - Where mouse pointer" action was enabled in the default window settings. [-] If a Remote Desktop Client window was open full-screen and then was switched back to windowed mode, extra title buttons did not appear in the title bar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.5.3 (19.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] On some combinations of video hardware and drivers Actual Multiple Monitors crashed at startup. [!] To prevent possible security breach, now Logon Screen Service checks integrity and digital signature of an executable file being run. [*] Vista+: Aero Snap and Classic Snap behavior has been improved in the Aero visual theme and high screen DPIs. [-] Windows 10: Classic Snap did not snap windows accurately (a small gap remained). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.5.2 (09.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Logon Screen Slideshow stopped reading its configuration. [-] Logon Screen Slideshow displayed the Evaluation dialog even for registered users. [-] In some cases automatic Save Idle Screens did not stop. [-] The Preview button in the "Multiple Monitors - Screen Saver" panel did not work for modes other than "Current Windows screen saver" until the Apply button was clicked. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.5.1 (04.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] On some hardware configurations, Actual Multiple Monitors crashed at startup. [-] Hardware-accelerated mirrors might hang or crash on some versions of Nvidia/AMD video drivers. [-] On some configurations, using Logon Screen Slideshow made the "EFCreate runtime error" message appear. [-] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar did not indicate task buttons as active if they represented not a single window but group of windows. [-] Windows 10: The "Minimize All command affects only the monitor with mouse pointer" option stopped working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.5 (26.08.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Vista+: The long-awaited ability to customize the Logon/Lock Screen background image is added. On multi-monitor systems, it also allows to run picture slideshow on secondary monitors (see the new "Logon Screen" section in the Quick Setup wizard and the main Configuration window). [+] Vista+: Default Audio Device Switcher is added. It lets you quickly switch the audio device used in the system by default for sound output, if you have more than one audio hardware device installed in your PC (most modern video cards have embedded audio hardware to support such combined video/audio output standards as HDMI or DisplayPort). You can invoke the list of available devices via special hotkey combination (Win-Ctrl-A by default, can be changed on the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel in the "Tools" group). [*] Now, when running multi-monitor slideshow, the "Next slide" command affects only the monitor where it has been invoked. [-] Windows 10: Numerous fixes for Actual Taskbar: - wrong colors were used for text displayed in task buttons and clock and for taskbar background ("black taskbar" issue) - running Metro apps did not have corresponding task buttons - Clock/Calendar window did not appear when clicking the clock on Actual Taskbar - task buttons were wider than in the system taskbar - preview thumbnails looked different than in the system taskbar - notification area button was smaller than in the system taskbar - progress was not indicated in task buttons - Start menu did not go to secondary monitors when being invoked from Actual Taskbar - it was impossible to pin a button to Actual Taskbar using drag-n-drop (using the "Pin" command in the right-click menu works as expected) - Actual Taskbar displayed the pinned buttons of running applications different than the system taskbar - icons in the task buttons of Metro apps were changed after minimizing/restoring the app [-] Windows 10: Numerous fixes for extra title buttons: - size was calculated incorrectly - used button glyphes were of improper color - Compact View window looked wrong - detecting free place for extra buttons worked wrong [-] Windows 8+: Middle click on Windows Explorer button in Actual Taskbar did not open a new Explorer window. [-] Windows 7+: Graphical resources leaked when using Jump Lists in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 7+: Jump Lists were displayed incorrectly after an item pinning. [-] On some systems, Actual Taskbar settings on different monitors might be mistaked one for another. [!] Windows 10 known issues (subject to fix in the next updates): - Clock/Calendar window do not go to secondary monitors when being invoked from Actual Taskbar - Clock/Calendar window does not close on second click on Actual Taskbar clock - extra title buttons do not work in Microsoft Edge web browser - extra title buttons look wrong in applications with non-standard title color (like Photos, Windows Mail) - hotkeys do not work in Metro apps - extra menu commands do not appear in Metro apps - gradual Compact View does not work in Metro apps - Logon Screen slideshow runs behind the Logon background window - Classic Snap does not snap windows accurately (a small gap remains) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.4 (27.05.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Automatic detection of free place for extra title bar buttons is added in: - popular web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox; - Microsoft Office applications (since Office 2007); - Windows Explorer (since Windows 8). This feature should prevent the overlapping of extra title bar buttons provided by Actual Multiple Monitors with standard controls available in a window (like standard buttons, browser tabs, New Tab button, etc.). [+] Automatic gradual Compact View is added for extra title bar buttons: now the buttons are getting hidden/shown 1-by-1 if there is not enough (or enough again) place in the title bar to show the full list of enabled extra buttons. When some buttons get hidden, the special Compact View button automatically appears on the left of remained buttons: click on this button will display the currently hidden buttons. [*] Multi-monitor taskbar is now compatible with latest builds of Windows 10. [-] Actual Taskbar flickered with Kaspersky Internet Security running. [-] Sometimes running programs might crash after unloading Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] The bug prevented NuSphere PhpEd 15 debugger from starting is fixed. [-] Magix products (Movie Edit, Music Maker) stopped responding during loading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.3 (15.04.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The overall support of high screen DPIs is improved. [+] AeroSnap emulator has been extended with the Snap Assist feature presented in Windows 10. [+] Search button has been added to Actual Taskbar that invokes the system Search window. [+] Desktop Divider: Now there is no need to drag a window to a tile border to put the window into the tile if the "Activate When Dragging a Window" option is set to "While pressed". [+] The ability is added to show/hide desktop icons by the middle mouse button double click on the desktop. [*] Compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds on 64-bit systems is improved. [*] The "Open slide" desktop context menu item now appears disregarding the "Show picture source" option. [*] Last used path is saved in the Configuration Backup/Restore dialogs. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Google Chrome disappeared from the Alt-Tab task switcher after adding a new tab if the "Replace the system task switcher" option was enabled. [-] In some cases Actual Taskbar was displayed on top of fullscreen windows. [-] It was impossible to make the auto-hidden Actual Taskbar appear when certain program (like Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird) was maximized on that monitor. [-] In some cases Jump Lists didn't display their items properly. [-] Windows 8.1: Multi-monitor Screen Saver showed a black screen with the KB3000850 Windows Update installed. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Title buttons didn't change their color on mouse hovering. [-] Expose task switcher could be invoked when no window was visible. [-] It was possible to make several auto-starting desktop profiles by copying a single auto-starting one. [-] The "Start automatically" option in the Desktop Profiles panel got grayed after some changes and did not restore back. [-] Desktop Divider: In some cases a window could not be put into a tile by dragging it to the tile border. [-] The multi-selection of specific window settings got broken. [-] New Specific Settings displayed the title buttons for features not available in Actual Multiple Monitors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.2.2 (01.11.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Actual AeroSnap is enhanced with the ability to make a window quarter monitor size by snapping it into monitor corners, like in Windows 10. [+] Ability is added to specify the "Change interval" for wallpaper slideshow in seconds. [-] Windows disappeared after minimizing/restoring them on the taskbar button click. [-] Wallpaper slideshow in the "Individual picture on each monitor" mode worked wrong on display configurations having cloned monitors. [-] Multi-monitor screen saver and slideshow screen saver worked wrong on display configurations having cloned monitors. [-] If the compact view for title buttons was on, sometimes the popup toolbar appeared behind the main window. [-] If an MDI window was snapped within its parent window using Actual AeroSnap and the parent window was resized, the subject window did not retain the parent size. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.2.1 (24.10.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Windows 10 basic compatibility is added: - the "black Actual Taskbar" bug is fixed - Start button's visibility is restored - Start menu pops up on a proper monitor - Jump Lists' native look is restored - Actual Taskbar does not display service windows of Modern (Metro) apps [*] Title buttons compact mode now works correctly in systems with right-to-left languages (like Arabic or Hebrew). [*] Windows 7+: Jump Lists' appearance is slightly improved. [*] "Start/stop window mirror" hotkey is added. [*] Window mirrors activated in window settings (via title button/window menu or at startup) now can run full-screen on a specified monitor. [-] Windows 8.1 x64: Some windows could not be dragged/sized if both the "Aero Snap" and "Disable the native Windows 7 Snap" options were enabled. [-] Background settings changes were reset after reloading. [-] Screen savers showed the nag screen even if the evaluation period did not expire. [-] Hardware-accelerated mirroring of a monitor or a part of desktop worked wrong if the mirrored area was in negative coordinates. [-] Title buttons in compact mode were positioned incorrectly in the following cases: - in Windows 7 and later with the Aero visual theme activated - with vertical shift applied - when maximizing/restoring a window where the compact mode was activated automatically (i.e. the window's title in normal state was too narrow to embrace the full list of buttons) [-] Desktop Divider layouts were not displayed while configuring "Specific Settings - Startup - Put into Divider tile". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.2 (22.09.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The Configuration Module now can run multiple windows at once. For example, you can open several Window Settings windows using the "Manage window settings" title button (separate window for each settings). When several configuration windows are open at once, changes made within a particular window are isolated there until you click the Apply button in that window. [!] Changes made in the Default Window Settings now are propagated automatically to all existing specific window settings (provided that the old value was the same in both Default and particular specific settings). [+] Quick Setup wizard is added. It allows to tune up quickly the most frequently used features (according to collected and analyzed usage statistics) without diving into details. [+] Compact mode for extra title buttons is now available: it displays the small narrow button instead of the full list of active buttons. Click on this button expands the list of active buttons so they can be used as usual. Second click on this button or click somewhere else collapses the list of active buttons so they do not block the view (this can be especially useful in non-standard windows like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox). The compact mode activates either automatically (when the extra buttons do not fit the title bar) or it can be set permanently for particular windows in the Window Settings options (see the "Title Buttons - Options" group). [+] In addition to a right click on extra title buttons, now you can hold the left mouse button on them for some time to invoke their extended abilities (like context menus or special dialogs). [+] The Manage Window Settings button is added. It allows to quickly modify the actual applied window settings, create new specific window settings or exclude a certain window from %appname% processing. [+] The ability is added to specify exact secondary display position (see the "Display Position" group in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel). [+] Windows 8/8.1: Option to cancel the replacement of the system Alt-Tab Task Switcher is added. [+] The "Popular" filter is added in the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel and set as default filter there. It lists the most frequently used key combinations based on the usage statistics analysis. [*] Compatibility with Windows 8.1 Service Pack 1 has been improved. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Alt-Tab Switcher is improved: - now it respects the system "Repeat delay" and "Repeat rate" values - it does not activate Aero Peek until the switching is stopped for at least 1 second - it can't be moved using the Easy Window Dragging/Sizing feature - CPU load is reduced significantly when moving a mouse over its window - redundant redraws are fixed [*] Monitors' layout preview in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel now properly aligns the disabled monitors. [*] After disabling the cloning of displays, they both are automatically set to their preferred resolutions. [*] The "Arrange Monitors" feature now takes into account the enabled displays only (so that if there is just a single display enabled then the "Arrange Monitors" button gets grayed). [*] Compatibility of the Ignore Deactivation feature with League of Legends and Final Fantasy XIV is restored. [*] Windows 7+: The speed of Desktop Divider layouts switching has been increased significantly and the system load has been reduced. [*] Now it's possible to select several picture files in the "Add File" dialog while configuring the Slideshow screen saver. [*] The "Move the mouse pointer along with window" option now works even if there are no modifier keys specified. [*] Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature with old versions of Google Chrome is restored. [*] The window invoked by the "Copy Settings from..." command now does not display the target Window Settings item. [-] Downloaded setups of newer versions were installed automatically even if the automatic updates were disabled (which prevented the rolling back to any previous version if a newer version setup was available). [-] In some cases Start menu submenus might appear invisible, having only a shadow. [-] Numerous fixes in Actual Taskbar's Jump Lists: - some kinds of links did not open properly (e.g. sessions in PuTTY) - improper items could be dragged out of Jump List - items in custom categories could not be pinned/unpinned - some items could not be unpinned (e.g. sessions in PuTTY) - Windows x64: in some apps (e.g. PuTTY, Mozilla Firefox), links dragged out of Jump List did not work [-] Windows x64: Mirror windows showed white rectangle instead of mirrored content when monitor or part of desktop was mirrored and the hardware acceleration was disabled. [-] In some cases, Actual Taskbar displayed the wrong icon for a window in its taskbar button (e.g. for the Google Hangouts app). [-] Actual Taskbar always displayed on top of Firefox windows, even if they were fullscreen. [-] On some configurations, cloned displays showed the wrong list of available resolutions in the "Multiple Monitors - Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel. [-] Save Idle Screens automatic mode did not close a screen saver running on an idle monitor when the mouse entered that monitor. [-] Desktop Divider: Switching the layouts quickly with the mouse wheel got stuck after some scrolls and even might cause a crash of the active app. [-] Desktop Divider: In some cases tile size could not be set exactly in pixels using the Resize button while editing a layout. [-] The Ignore Deactivation feature made apps crash if it was activated via hotkey with the "Compatibility mode" option enabled. [-] After being pressed, user-added title buttons affected the state of the factory title button of the same kind and displayed the wrong hint. [-] In some cases extra title buttons in Microsoft Word 2013 might disappear. [-] Extra title buttons did not work in Autodesk Design Review 2013. [-] In the Aero visual theme, Visual Studio 2012 got hung upon closing. [-] Extra title buttons did not appear in X1 Search. [-] NuSphere PhpEd 12 crashed when trying to scroll the File Explorer view. [-] Windows 7: Tooltips did not display in command prompt windows. [-] Avast! notification area popup did not close in the Actual Taskbar. [-] Unloading 1st Clock right after restoring from hibernation made Windows Explorer hung. [-] Drag to Scroll feature worked inconsistently in Process Explorer, Process Lasso, system Window Firewall applet and the latest version of Google Chrome. [-] The "Use hardware acceleration" option did not switch in the Configuration window for mirroring-related title button/window menu/startup actions. [-] In some cases hotkey combinations worked twice although being pressed once (for example, Ctrl-C worked like Ctrl-C-C and triggered the appearance of the ABBYY Lingvo window). [-] Canceling the download in the "Check for Updates" dialog caused an error. [-] Pressing Enter in the "Check for Updates" dialog after the download was started caused the restart of downloading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.1.4 (10.04.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] German translation is revised. [*] Windows 8.1: The "Show the Apps list" option is made inaccessible because of its incompatibility with this version of Windows. [-] Windows 8.1: System taskbar became black when using Actual Multiple Monitors along with the StartIsBack app. [-] Various apps might crash randomly upon loading Actual Multiple Monitors if the Desktop Divider was active. [-] Windows blinked on their original monitor first when moving them at startup to another monitor. [-] Windows XP/Vista: Command prompt windows launched after starting Actual Multiple Monitors remained unprocessed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.1.3 (20.03.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability is added to view and set Desktop Divider tiles' exact size in pixels while configuring the layout. [*] Incompatibility with Mikrotik's Winbox windows is fixed. [*] Scrolling of inactive zones in active windows with the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is restored. [-] Adobe Acrobat Standard X/XI crashed upon trying to start a new scan. [-] The upper area of buttons in Actual Taskbar did not react properly on mouse clicks in the Aero visual theme. [-] Active window became always-on-top after invoking the Start menu on Actual Taskbar by pressing the Win key if the system taskbar was always-on-top. [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver worked wrong if any of screen savers was deleted or uninstalled. [-] Tooltip displaying current window position left visible after docking the Google Chrome tab into another Chrome window. [-] The "Display current window position" feature did not work if the "Show window contents while dragging" system option was disabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.1.2 (04.03.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability to display the picture source in desktop background slideshow is added. You can open any current slideshow picture file in your default picture viewer by using the "Open slide" command in the Desktop context menu. [+] The automatic rotation/flipping of pictures in desktop background slideshow to their original orientation is added. [+] Ability to specify file masks (using the "*" and "?" symbols) for the Program target window criterion is added. [*] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar is compatible with ClassicShell Start menu. [*] Additional title buttons are now compatible with Stardock WindowFX. [*] Compatiblity with Agnitum Outpost Security Suite is restored. [*] Compatibility with Foxit PDF Reader is improved. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar now correctly handles the 0% transparency value and can be made opaque. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Now switching between running applications while keeping Alt-Tab pressed is faster. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Internet Explorer 11 closed immediately when running in Metro mode. [-] In some cases opening a new window of Internet Explorer 11 also opened additional unwanted IE window. [-] In some cases Start menu on the main taskbar could not be invoked by pressing Win or Ctrl-Esc. [-] Adobe Flash Installer crashed after clicking the Quit button if Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [-] It was impossible to drop the dragged Google Chrome tab back into window when the Desktop Divider facility was active. [-] In some cases scrolling a Google Chrome window changed unwantedly the zoom level first before the scrolling started. [-] When scrolling a Cyberfox window with the Drag to Scroll feature made the feature stuck if the mouse went outside the window. [-] Terratec Home Cinema window got hung if the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active. [-] Running Actual Multiple Monitors stole the focus from the active window. [-] Gather All Windows command stopped working. [-] In some cases changing Actual Multiple Monitors language made some of additional title buttons and window menu commands disappear. [-] Some windows (like Query Builder in MS Visual Studio 2010) were falsely incompatible with Desktop Divider. [-] Windows 8.1: Desktop Divider did not work with individual per-monitor DPI. [-] Desktop Divider tile preview was drawn incorrectly (without considering the layout frame width). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.1.1 (31.01.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Sometimes running programs might crash after unloading Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Some kinds of windows stopped working correctly when extended by Actual Multiple Monitors (in particular, windows of the Investor/RT app). [-] Actual Taskbar might stop responding after clicking an icon in the notification area. [-] World of Tanks game client stopped responding after applying the Ignore Deactivation action. [-] Activating/deactivating a windowed Modern (Metro) app produced the "screen flip" animation if the "Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing" system option was enabled. [-] In some cases, active window might lose the focus when mouse hovered over the desktop if the "Activate on Mouse Hover" feature was active. [-] Some kinds of windows might not fit the Desktop Divider tiles in Aero visual themes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.1 (22.01.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Windows 8/8/1: Ability to toggle active Modern (Metro) app to windowed mode is added (see the "Toggle windowed mode for a Modern app" hotkey in the Tools group on the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel). [+] Ability to activate windows by placing the mouse over them is added (see the new "Mouse - Options" panel). [+] Now the Desktop Mirroring feature uses the hardware video acceleration available for Windows Desktop presentation since Windows Vista. This allows the near-real-time performance for such graphics-intensive applications as video players, video games and other similar programs where high performance mirroring is required. Note: Hardware accelerated mirroring is available only when the Aero visual theme is active. [+] The Save Idle Screens feature now can be configured to start automatically on a monitor when no mouse and application activity occurs on that monitor for a specified time. [+] Now it is possible to specify the default location of configuration files via command line: run "ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe CFL 1|2|3|-", where 1 - program installation folder 2 - "Application Data" folder in the All Users user profile 3 - "Application Data" folder in the current user profile (default) - - remove the value from the Registry [+] Sending of collected usage statistics is added. [*] Alt-Tab Task Switcher is compatible with Windows 8.1. [*] Windows 8.1: Look of the Start button in Actual Taskbar is improved. [*] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar now supports the Start menu provided by the Start8 program. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Support of Classic Shell Start Menu and StartIsBack is improved. [*] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar now considers the docked Modern (Metro) apps when calculating the monitor work area. [*] Actual Multiple Monitors screen savers are compatible with Windows 8.1. [*] The Ignore Deactivation feature compatibility with Hitman: Absolution (and possibly some other games) is improved. [*] Compatibility with the Directory Opus "Open on Desktop double-click" feature is improved. [*] Desktop background slideshow now displays pictures in the same order as they are shown by Windows Explorer being sorted by their file names. [*] Check for Updates options are moved into separate panel in the Options page. [*] Now it is possible to open the Check for Updates options from the Check for Updates window. [*] Now it is possible to restore the lost registration code from the Registration dialog. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Running programs in "Windows XP/Vista compatibility" mode made them hung at startup. [-] Flash Player running in the Firefox Plugin Container consumed system resources constantly. [-] Unloading 1st Clock made Windows Explorer hung. [-] Zoom screen sharing utility worked improperly when Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [-] Google Chrome crashed when Actual Multiple Monitors tried to display tooltips for its title buttons. [-] Google Chrome crashed when Actual Multiple Monitors tried to display a tooltip showing window position/size when dragging/sizing Chrome window. [-] Windows 8.1 x64: ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter64.exe sometimes crashed when using Alt-Tab. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher always displayed Modern (Metro) apps first, no matter were they active or not. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher got cycled after switching from active Modern (Metro) app. [-] Windows 8.1: Start screen opened via Actual Taskbar's Start button did not close on the second click on Start button. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar and Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not display Windows Task Manager when it was always-on-top. [-] Actual Taskbar displayed unwanted Start button copies when working with Classic Shell. [-] In some cases Actual Taskbar did not display separators in Jump Lists. [-] Actual Taskbar's look differed from the system one with non-standard system metrics. [-] Windows 7+: Actual Taskbar decreased the monitor work area incorrectly if any Windows Sticky Notes window was snapped to it closely. [-] Actual Taskbar appeared on top of other windows even if its "On top" option was disabled. [-] Actual Taskbar appeared on top of topmost windows (even if its "On top" option was disabled) when placing the mouse into any preview thumbnail or invoking the taskbar's context menu and opening any its submenu. [-] Actual Taskbar's preview thumbnails hid behind topmost windows. [-] Windows Sticky Notes icon always displayed in the primary taskbar no matter what monitor the notes were actually on. [-] Actual Taskbar did not recognize moving the BitKinex windows to another monitor. [-] Windows 7+: Sometimes toggling monitors via "Manage Secondary" context menu did not work. [-] Activating a desktop profile reset the Save Idle Screens settings. [-] Windows 7: Google Photos screen saver did not run within the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Photos screen saver froze on a first slide within the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver. [-] Monitor settings on the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel did not update after changing the desktop configuration outside the Configuration window. [-] When configuring mirrors with the "Window" source type, some controls were out of sight in the "Source Parameters" group. [-] Windows 7+: Title buttons did not appear in: - Remote Desktop Client - Steam client - Spotify [-] Flickering of title buttons in MS PowerPoint 2010 windows is reduced. [-] Incorrect hint was displayed for the Move to Monitor title button. [-] Put into Divider Tile title button displayed incorrect hint after using the "Desktop Divider's up/down/left/right" hotkeys. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Windows Explorer windows could not be dragged using the Easy Windows Dragging/Sizing feature. [-] Some hotkeys remained operative even if the Control Center had been stopped. [-] Automatic mouse locking remained operative even if the Control Center had been stopped. [-] After locking the mouse within a window and then dragging that window the lock got lost. [-] Mouse actions did not work when specifying single left click on title bar (with no modifiers or any set of them). [-] Applying the Ignore Deactivation feature to several windows of the same app might cause the undefined behavior. [-] Windows 7+: The "Program" target window criterion did not work in console windows. [-] Automatic update always downloaded the latest available setup file from the server no matter it was already downloaded or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.0.3 (14.09.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Actual Slideshow Screensaver now can skip the content of sub-folders when adding a folder to slideshow playlist. [-] After downloading the update, setup did not run after clicking on the tray balloon "Click here to install it right now" message if the "Load at startup" option was enabled. [-] Windows 8.1: ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter.exe sometimes crashed when trying to display a preview thumbnail. [-] Windows x64: Sometimes Directory Opus got a new lister window behind other windows when using the left double-click on the Desktop. [-] The "Move the mouse pointer along with window" feature did not work if the "Tight monitor boundaries" feature was active. [-] The "Move to monitor - Having mouse pointer" hotkey worked only once for a certain window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.0.2 (30.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] With larger size of system dialog font, registration codes were cut down after pasting into the Registration dialog so that the program could not recognize them as valid codes. [-] Installer froze for 10 seconds after copying the files. [-] Windows 7: Enabling a monitor in the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel caused an error. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows feature did not work with the Channel Chat window of mIRC 7.32. [-] Even if a mirror item was disabled but its hotkey was enabled, the mirror could be launched by pressing that hotkey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.0.1 (19.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Uninstallation did not work because of the "DLL not found" error. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 8.0 (15.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Beginning from the version 8.0, the Licensing Policy changes: now you must purchase as many copies of the program as many users will use the program simultaneously. There is no limit on the number of computers the program can be installed on and registered with the same registration code as long as the number of simultaneous users is less than or equal to the number of purchased copies. For more information, please refer to the license.txt document in the program's installation folder or visit this page. [!] Beginning from the version 8.0, the Upgrade Policy changes: now purchasing the registration code grants you the Free Upgrades Subscription for a certain period (a year). During this period, you are eligible to get any new versions of the program for free. After this period expires, you will have to purchase another registration code to prolong the Free Upgrades Subscription (in case you want to do so). Otherwise, you can continue to use the last actual version of the program, it will remain registered and fully functional. [!] Due to copyright reasons, the Classic Shell Start Menu is removed from Actual Multiple Monitors setup. To continue using the Classic Start Menu in new versions of Windows, you can download the entire Classic Shell suite from its official project page: http://www.classicshell.net/ [+] Support of child windows within multi-document interface (MDI) applications is added. The most well-known example of such windows are Microsoft Excel workbooks. However, because of speciality of such windows some window actions cannot be applied to them, and others work differently than for usual top-level windows (for more information, please refer to User Manual). [+] The Save Idle Screens feature is added: it allows you to run screen savers on monitors unused at the moment, without the need to turn them off (which may lead to re-configuration of multi-monitor desktop on systems since Windows 7). Unlike usual system screen saver, this feature activates screen savers by special hotkey combination (Win-Ctrl-S by default), and screen savers do not shut down when you use mouse or keyboard. To stop them, you should press the same hotkey again. You can select screen savers to run and adjust the key combination on the "Multiple Monitors - Screen Saver - Save Idle Screens" panel. [+] Emulation of Mac OS Expose task switcher is added. You can toggle it via special hotkey combination (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-P by default, can be changed on the "Hotkeys - Actions" panel in the "Multiple Monitors" group). [+] Korean language is added (translation provided by pCsOrI). [+] The ability is added to put the mouse pointer automatically into a window moved to another monitor, if certain modifier keys (Ctrl by default) are pressed when invoking the Move to Monitor action. If the Move to Monitor action is invoked via title button then the mouse pointer will be placed over that title button. Otherwise, the mouse pointer is placed over window's title bar. You can activate this feature and adjust the modifier keys in the "Options - Actions - Move to Monitor" panel. [+] AutoUpdate is finally available. Now, Actual Multiple Monitors not only checks for a new version but also downloads and installs it automatically. [+] Monitor Selector dialog is improved: - now you can not only move a window to certain monitor but also to align it within that monitor in a single click - with the new Align Hotspots (green dots displayed within the monitor preview under the mouse) - window preview can be dragged by the mouse; while dragging the preview, both Classic Snap and Aero Snap features are active - preview of a new window position is added, both in the Monitor Selector itself and on the desktop - animation effects are added - the extra button is added to Actual Taskbar preview thumbnails to invoke the Monitor Selector [+] Collection of usage statistics is added. When enabled, it is keeping record of any window manipulation you undertake in a special log file. Collection of usage statistics is enabled by default. If you encounter any problems with it then you can disable it in the "Options - General" panel. Otherwise, please keep it enabled for a sufficient time (at least several days) to let Actual Multiple Monitors collect enough statistical data. Then, please send us your configuration using the Send to Tech Support button in the "Tools - Configuration" panel. This will help us analyze and better understand the preferences and needs of our users and improve our products more consciously and purposefully. [*] Dutch translation is revised. [*] Compatibility with Windows 8.1 Release Preview is improved. [*] Compatibility with Citrix products (XenDesktop, XenApp) is improved. [*] Scroll Inactive Windows feature is now compatible with: - Altap Salamander - mIRC [*] "Hotkeys - Actions" panel's look and behavior is restored. [*] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher now shows the Metro applications. [*] Activating the Ignore Deactivation feature now releases the mouse pointer and lets move it out of the monitor occupied by the game in the following games: - games that use DirectInput (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3) - games based on the Unreal Engine 3 technology (e.g. Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect 3, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands 2) - Diablo III [-] Calendar window did not appear when first clicking the clock on system taskbar and then clicking the clock on Actual Taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar displayed the wrong hint window over Network Connection icon. [-] Desktop icons order restoration worked wrong if there were icons with the same name but of different types. [-] Title buttons did not appear in Bluebeam Revu windows. [-] Windows 8 x32: Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not show other screen savers because of the incompatibility with the NVIDIA drivers since 314.22. [-] Windows 8: Desktop icons disappeared when selecting the Desktop icon in the Alt-Tab switcher. [-] Start/Stop Window Mirror hotkey did not work. [-] Scroll bars did not appear on the "Window Settings - Specific Settings - Title Buttons" panel even if the panel was larger than its visible size. [-] Actual Multiple Monitors began to crash after installing the latest drivers for Intel and NVIDIA video cards. [-] If Actual Taskbar had pinned buttons, invoking the "Minimize all" command did not activate the "Restore all" command. [-] Preview thumbnails on system taskbar began to get behind the active window after starting/stopping Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not close on pressing the Esc key. [-] Windows x64: Native 64-bit screen savers did not start within the Multi-monitor Screen Saver. [-] Windows 8: Start screen size calculated incorrectly for vertical placements of taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar did not update the clock after changing the date/time settings. [-] In some cases Actual Taskbar displayed the black square instead of a program icon. [-] Windows x64: Using the Easy Window Dragging/Sizing feature did not change the mouse pointer accordingly in 64-bit applications. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows feature worked incorrectly in Excel dialogs (e.g. Format Cells) placed over the worksheet window. [-] Desktop Divider: Copying a tile layout in the Configuration window made invalid copies that could not be activated at runtime. [-] In some cases, Actual Taskbar might disappear because of invalid toolbar settings stored in the Registry. [-] Clicking and holding the left mouse button on a program icon in the Actual Taskbar's system tray invoked the right-click menu for that icon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.1.1 (12.04.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Desktop icons order restoration is improved. [*] Windows 8: Now Alt-Tab Task Switcher activates the next task surely even when pressing Alt-Tab instantly. [-] Windows x64: In some environments, memory might leak gradually in the Control Center. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar did not update the file copying progress bar on Total Commander buttons when copying was finished or canceled. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar displayed no icon for the buttons that referred to a missing file shortcut. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar displayed an incorrect state for AIMP buttons when AIMP played a radio station. [-] Windows 8: Scrolling the mouse wheel over Alt-Tab Task Switcher worked incorrectly if the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was enabled. [-] After applying the Ignore Deactivation feature to a window, it was impossible to work with its subwindows (like Open/Save As dialogs). [-] Dragging the monitor previews on the Monitors Layout and Settings panel might unwantedly activate the Desktop Divider. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.1 (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. [+] Ability is added to put a specific window at startup into the selected tile of a chosen Desktop Divider layout. [*] List of hotkey actions can be filtered by hotkey category (System, Mouse, Custom, etc.). [*] Hotkeys now work in applications (mostly, video games) that use DirectInput to provide keyboard/mouse control (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.). [*] CPU load is reduced when moving a window with the Desktop Divider active. [*] Classic snapping now ignores the 100%-transparent (i.e. invisible) windows. [-] Windows 7: If Internet Explorer is already open, launching a new instance of it opened an unwanted extra window. [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not: - switch to a window by clicking its preview - support switching via rolling the mouse wheel - activate the desktop, in some cases [-] In some cases, programs launched under adminstrator might lose their taskbar button after moving to a secondary monitor and then back to the primary one (e.g. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware). [-] Windows 7: Start button on Actual Taskbar got lost after invoking the "Gather all windows here" command. [-] Actual Multiple Monitors Slideshow screen saver stopped showing pictures on existing monitors after attaching an additional one. [-] The bottom of title buttons was clipped in JRiver Media Center window. [-] Moving a window between monitors via Monitor Selector dialog made the Move to Monitor title button's tool tip incorrect. [-] Windows x64: In some cases, scrolling a window with the "Scrolling inactive windows" feature beyond the bottom made the scroller bounce at the end of scrollbar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.4 (19.02.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Taskbar did not appear at startup if the "Show window contents while dragging" option was disabled in Windows. [*] Compatibility with MAXQDA is improved. [*] Windows 7: "Desktop Divider's Up/Down/Left/Right" hotkey combinations are modified to avoid conflicts with the system hotkeys. [-] In some cases specific window settings did not apply to 64-bit applications (e.g. Waterfox). [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not switch windows when pressing Alt-Tab shortly. [-] Mouse pointer moved to a wrong place when activating Excel windows via taskbar previews if the "Put the mouse into window on preview click" option was enabled. [-] When locking the mouse in a maximized window, the mouse pointer could be dragged beyond monitor boundaries. [-] Windows 7: Hand tool did not work with the folder tree in Windows Explorer windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.3 (05.02.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with PTC products (Creo, Windchill, Arbortext, Mathcad, Integrity) is improved. [*] Actual Taskbar, preview thumbnails, mirror windows, Desktop Divider previews now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Program dialogs now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Mirror windows are improved: - right click on a title bar displays the system window menu instead of the mirror context menu - mirror can be closed via Alt-F4 - selecting "Configure" in mirror's context menu opens the Configuration with the subject mirror selected in the list of mirrors [*] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar now supports the Start menu provided by the StartIsBack program. [*] Default hotkey combinations for moving a window between Desktop Divider tiles are modified to avoid conflicts with the system ones. [-] ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter64.exe consumed too much memory (up to 4 GB). [-] Graphic resources leak in Actual Taskbar led to various problems with Windows Explorer in the systems with the two-byte system language (like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew) set for non-Unicode applications. [-] Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not display windows placed on secondary monitors if the "Individual" mode was set for Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 8: In some cases, work area on secondary monitors calculated incorrectly (so the maximized windows did not fill the entire visible space). [-] In some cases, Directory Opus toolbar disappeared after docking it to the primary taskbar. [-] In some cases, Classic Shell Start menu popped up in a wrong place when called from Actual Taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar handled the user-created toolbars incorrectly. [-] When minimizing/restoring windows in Actual Taskbar, the animation was led to the primary taskbar. [-] In higher screen DPIs, clock in Actual Taskbar did not display the date. [-] In some cases, buttons pinned to Actual Taskbar might have common icons instead of specific ones (for example, Control Panel button had general Window Explorer icon). [-] Jump List displayed wrong caption for a pinned button after restarting Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar kept reacting on Aero Shake even after disabling it in the Windows Registry. [-] Hand tool stopped working in Google Chrome. [-] Configuration backup might fail with the "Failed to get data for 'enable_classic_shell_start'" message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.2 (02.01.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Registration codes for the version 4.x did not get accepted as correct codes for the version 5.x. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0.1 (31.12.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to switch the Desktop Divider layouts using the combo box in the "Put into" dialog is added. [+] The ability to toggle the logging on-the-fly in the Log window is added. [+] The ability to open the Configuration window for certain window settings or an exclusion by double-clicking its entry in the Log window is added. [*] Compatibility with Adobe Premiere is improved. [*] Title buttons now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Preview thumbnails now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [*] Classic Shell Start Menu settings are now stored in the configuration backup along with the program settings. [-] In some cases, auto-hidden Actual Taskbar got behind an active full-screen window. [-] Actual Taskbar stopped tracking the changes of the system taskbar options. [-] When the system taskbar placed vertical, Start menu might appear in a wrong place on secondary monitors. [-] The "Properties" command stopped working in the Actual Taskbar context menu. [-] If the Actual Taskbar was placed on the edge between monitors, it might appear first on a wrong monitor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 5.0 (18.12.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Multiple Monitors has no Free version anymore. [+] The ability to download pictures from web for the background wallpaper slideshow is added. At the moment, two picture sources are available: Google Image Search and Flickr. [+] The ability is added to skip the content of sub-folders when adding a folder to file slideshow playlist. [+] The ability to invoke the classic Start menu on secondary taskbars is added (included the Start menu component from the Classic Shell project by Ivo Beltchev, http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/). [*] Windows 7: The ability to start Actual Multiple Monitors at the end of the installation is restored. [*] Additional title buttons work correct in Mozilla Thunderbird 17. [*] Compatibility with JRiver Media Center 18 is finally fixed. [*] In case Actual Taskbar crashes due to some unhandled error, the main program tries to relaunch it automatically. [-] SURFCAM 6 crashed in some cases. [-] If there were hotkey combinations already by the system, other hotkey combinations might work incorrectly. [-] 64-bit Actual Taskbar displayed garbled icons in task buttons and Jump Lists and might crash in systems with two-byte system locale activated (Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). [-] There were some slight memory leaks in Actual Taskbar. [-] Background slideshow stopped after locking the workstation, leaving it for a while and then unlocking it back. [-] The additional commands disappeared from the Desktop context menu. [-] Windows 8: In some cases, the disabled Start button on Actual Taskbar might re-appear. [-] Mozilla Firefox 17, when maximized, blocked the access to auto-hidden Actual Taskbar. [-] Control keys (e.g. Backspace) were blocked while editing file names in the Configuration window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 4.3 (22.11.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Taskbar now runs as a separate process (ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter.exe). This should increase the speed and stability of this feature. Also, now it works natively on 64-bit systems; that should result in better handling of native 64-bit applications. [+] Windows 8: Start Screen options has been added (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel). [+] Now it's possible to pin/unpin items in the Actual Taskbar's Jump Lists in the same manner as in the system taskbar's Jump Lists. [+] The Maximize to Desktop Divider Tile mouse action is added (middle click on Maximize button by default - see the "Mouse - Actions" panel). [+] Ability to disable the Desktop Divider for specific windows is added (see the "Disable Desktop Divider" option in the "Startup - Options" group). [+] The Mouse Sonar effect can be displayed after switching the mouse between monitors via hotkeys to indicate new mouse location. [*] Compatibility with the following programs is restored: - Logitech SetPoint - WordPerfect 12 [*] Compatibility with the following programs is improved: - SmartDraw 12 - HTML-Kit Tools [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar now is compatible with Start Menu X and Classic Shell Start Menu. [*] Windows 8: Look of title buttons is improved. [*] Windows 8: The look of preview thumbnails in Actual Taskbar is improved. [*] Start button in Actual Taskbar now looks correct in higher screen DPIs on Windows Vista and higher. [*] Group preview in Actual Taskbar now reacts on drag-n-drop attempts. [*] Handling of links pinned to secondary taskbars is improved. [*] The order of monitors used in the Move to Monitor feature now is the same as in the system. [*] The "Move to" monitor selector dialog now displays the system monitor numbers. [*] Additional title buttons are now available in JRiver Media Center. [*] Desktop Divider now reacts on temporary deactivation even if the window is not moving. [*] When you left-click the Put into Divider Tile title button, the mouse pointer now follows this button so that you can quickly put the window into a desired tile by simply making several consecutive clicks, without moving the mouse. [*] You can select several files at once in the "Add File" dialog to add them to slideshow playlist. [-] Language Bar's context menu disappeared immediately after popping up. [-] In some cases, on 64-bit systems some windows might display their caption text in Chinese. [-] The "&" symbol did not displayed in window captions. [-] Tooltips disappeared in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher. [-] Windows 8: System secondary taskbars did not hide when Actual Taskbar activated. [-] Windows 8: Actual Taskbar was not semi-transparent. [-] Windows 8: Start Screen could not be invoked from the system taskbar when the "Show the Start menu for hidden Start button" option was enabled. [-] Windows 8: Start menu did not hide on a second click on the Start button in Actual Taskbar. [-] Windows 8: The "Open With" list of options disappeared immediately if the "Move to Monitor at Startup" feature was enabled in the Default Settings. [-] Windows 7 x64: Actual Taskbar might work wrong if Actual Multiple Monitors was installed with the "Support of system utilities and administrative tools" option enabled. [-] Windows 7: Start menu did not pop up when clicking the leftmost Start button's boundary. [-] Windows 7: The Onscreen Keyboard's taskbar button did not display in Actual Taskbar on secondary monitors. [-] Windows 7: System screen savers were affected by the "Move to Monitor at Startup" feature enabled in the Default Settings. [-] The "No Disk" error message was displayed when trying to open the Jump List that contained links to files on a removable or network disk, and that disk was removed or unavailable. [-] In somes cases, new items could not be pinned to Actual Taskbar. [-] Actual Taskbar, while auto-hidden, did not show up if the Google Chrome window was maximized on that monitor. [-] Title button separator made the buttons unusable in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher applications. [-] With the "Show the buttons in group preview" option enabled, group previews might exceed the monitor boundaries. [-] The "Put the mouse pointer into window on preview click" feature kept on working even when the preview thumbnails were turned off. [-] Click on preview thumbnail of a web browser tab placed the mouse pointer to incorrect position when the "Put the mouse pointer into window on preview click" feature was enabled. [-] Title buttons appeared on fullscreen GOM Media Player. [-] The Aero Snap preview did not hide if other window popped up while dragging a window. [-] Classic window snapping to Desktop Divider tiles did not work when the snapping to desktop/monitor boundaries was disabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 4.2 (16.08.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to run the desktop profile from the command line is added. Use the following syntax: ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe dp "your_profile_name" [+] The options to remove the taskbar group commands from a group preview/Jump List are added (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel). [+] The new feature is added: when you click on taskbar preview, the mouse pointer jumps to the corresponding point in the window (see the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar" panel). [!] The library file ammemb64.dll is built using another compiler so we expect the increased stability on 64-bit systems (especially on Windows 7 and Windows 8). [-] Sometimes the work area on secondary monitor was not updated consistently while dragging the taskbar with the mouse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 4.1 (07.07.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Custom grouping of taskbar buttons is now available in Actual Taskbar. To add certain window into a group, drag its preview thumbnail and drop it onto the group button (or another window's button to make a new group). To remove window from a group, drag its preview thumbnail and drop it onto the empty taskbar space. To handle groups in a quick and easy manner, the "Tile/Cascade/Minimize/Restore/Move to Monitor" commands have been added. These commands can be invoked: - via group's Jump List - via caption buttons in the group's preview window - via group button's context menu (you can invoke it using Shift-RClick on the group button) Note: Dragging the preview of a browser tab (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) will add the entire browser window into the group, not just that separate tab. [+] You can add custom title buttons at the level of particular window settings (either Default or Specific). Also, you can change the order of buttons and tell apart the groups of similar buttons by adding separators between them. Note: There's no "Title Buttons Order" group anymore in the "Options - Title Buttons" panel because now the order can be adjusted for different window settings individually. Warning! Custom title buttons are not compatible with the Multi-selection Edit yet so please avoid any manipulations with them (adding, deleting, moving) when several window settings are selected to prevent the corruption of your settings. [+] Windows 8: Start button is restored in Actual Taskbars (click on this button invokes the system Start screen). [+] Special multi-monitor slideshow screen saver has been added (see "Multiple Monitors -> Screen Saver -> Slideshow on each monitor"). [+] The "Tile/Cascade/Undo" commands has been added to the Actual Taskbar's context menu. [+] Desktop Divider: Now you can switch the layouts on the fly by scrolling the mouse wheel: 1) while dragging a window 2) over the "Put into" dialog [+] Desktop Divider: The ability to copy a layout is added. [+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to copy a layout from one monitor to another in the Tiles Editor. [+] Desktop Divider: The ability is added to auto-generate the grid division of defined dimensions. [+] Italian language is added (translation provided by Davide Pari). [*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Release Preview is improved: - correct work with 64-bit Internet Explorer and administrative tools - correct size on the Multi-monitor Task Switcher on secondary monitors - correct size and look of the additional title buttons - correct placement of the multi-monitor background wallpaper pictures - improved quality of the multi-monitor background wallpaper pictures [*] Windows 7: Group buttons' look is improved in Actual Taskbar. [*] The Network Connection pop-up window appears on the monitor where the Network tray icon was clicked. [*] Multi-monitor wallpaper cache folder is cleared upon exiting the program or closing the Configuration window. [*] Desktop Divider: In the "While pressed" activation mode, now it's possible to press the modifier keys after the moment you began to drag a window, i.e. you can activate/deactivate the Desktop Divider anytime. [*] Desktop Divider: Tiles Editor better displays the hierarchy of panels forming the layout: the deeper the panel is - the lighter its splitter looks. [*] Desktop Divider: In the Tiles Editor, splitters snap to their neighbours located on the same horizontal/vertical line. [*] Now it's possible to disable the classic snapping of windows to Desktop Divider tiles (see the "To Desktop Divider tiles" option in the "Options - Window Snapping" panel). [*] Compatibility with NVIDIA nView is improved. [*] In the Aero visual theme, now it's possible to resize a window when the mouse is over additional title buttons. [-] Actual Taskbar detected the full-screen windows wrong in the Aero visual theme. [-] In "Use small icons" mode, group buttons in Actual Taskbar displayed large icons scaled down instead of the small icons. [-] Actual Taskbar in not on-top mode did not come forward after clicking its sub-controls (like toolbars). [-] Icons of the following programs displayed in the primary taskbar even when their windows were moved to a secondary monitor: - Digsby - ProCall One [-] Windows 7: Actual Taskbar did not displayed the icon for Windows Picture Viewer. [-] In some cases, photo slideshow screen savers (Windows Photos, Google Photos, etc.), while being assigned to run on different monitors, stopped at first slide. [-] Desktop Divider: Stretching a window across several tiles didn't work in some cases. [-] Desktop Divider: After placing a window into a tile on another monitor and then maximizing the window, its restoration brought it back to the original monitor. [-] Desktop Divider: Activating another layout did not make its tiles conform with the Desktop work area. [-] Clicking the Maximize button in a window that was Aero-snapped to left/right half of desktop did not maximize the window. [-] IrfanView became unresponsive after trying to scroll its window by the mouse wheel with the Scroll Inactive Windows feature active. [-] Tooltip that shows current window position displayed the top-left of window's client area instead of the top-left for the outer window frame. [-] Ignore Deactivation action made the Lock Mouse action stop working. [-] Trying to select several Window Settings items in the left panel and delete them resulted in the deletion of a single item only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 4.0 (13.03.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration window has been revamped. [!] Desktop Divider feature has been added. It allows sub-dividing the entire large desktop or each monitor into several non-intersecting areas (tiles). You can create as many custom tile layouts as you need and activate them on the fly as circumstances require. [+] Multi-monitor Taskbar: The Mixed mode is added. In this mode, taskbar on the primary monitor shows all running applications on all monitors, whereas taskbars on secondary monitors show only applications running on their corresponding monitors. [+] Multi-monitor Taskbar: The option is added to disable the preview thumbnails completely. [+] Mirroring: The ability is added to run a mirror full-screen. [+] Mirroring: The ability is added to adjust mirror's parameters on-the-fly via right-click context menu. Also, you can toggle a mirror full-screen and back using the Alt-Enter hotkey. [+] Compatibility mode is added for the Lock Mouse and Ignore Deactivation hotkeys (try to activate it if these hotkeys do not work by default for a particular game/application). [+] Now it's possible to activate the Lock Mouse and Ignore Deactivation features automatically at specific window's startup. [+] Commands to save/restore the order of desktop icons are added into the Desktop's context menu. [*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Consumer Preview is improved. [*] Compatibility with Windows Snipping Tool is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's Snagit is improved. [*] Compatibility with GOM Media Player is improved. [*] Compatibility with Gyazo is improved. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar: Compatibility with Winamp is improved. [*] Multi-monitor Task Switcher now reacts on mouse clicks. [*] Actual Multiple Monitors is now compatible with virtual video devices (like those added by MaxiVista or iDisplay). [*] Further improvements of compatibility between Scroll Inactive Windows and Volumouse. [*] Classic window snapping is improved: now it does not snap to maximized windows and to the borders of windows, which are partially or completely covered by other windows. [*] The "C" command line option has been modified: now it expects a fully qualified name of a folder that contains alternative configuration files to load. [-] In some rare cases, window settings did not re-apply after modification. [-] After saving the settings in Freeware mode, Specific window settings got lost. [-] Excel 2007/2010 workbooks did not activate after clicking their corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars. [-] Active Excel sheets did not minimize on clicking their buttons in secondary taskbars. [-] Context menu did not work in the thumbnail previews for inactive Excel sheets. [-] Outlook 2010 left a blank button in the taskbar after launching from a pinned button. [-] Internet Explorer 9/10 shortcuts did not pin to secondary taskbars when being dragged from the Address bar. [-] Sometimes buttons disappeared from secondary taskbars. [-] In some cases group buttons in secondary taskbars displayed the icon of some window in the group instead of the application icon. [-] Multi-monitor Taskbar: In some cases multi-row taskbar lost its height after changing its properties. [-] Windows 7: Delays for hiding/unhiding an auto-hidden taskbar differed from the system ones. [-] With the Auto-hide feature enabled, Multi-monitor Taskbar got auto-hidden when placing the mouse within a preview thumbnail. [-] Being in both Auto-hide and Locked mode, secondary taskbar got hidden even if it was clicked. [-] Start menu on secondary monitors had no proper right border in some cases. [-] Start menu did not appear after pressing Win/Ctrl-Esc if the mouse pointer was on a monitor with no taskbar. [-] Windows 7: Icons were cut in secondary notification areas in the Windows Classic visual theme. [-] Overlay icons on taskbar buttons disappeared after moving a window to the primary monitor and back. [-] Taskbar buttons for windows in the new version of Google Talk showed in wrong taskbars. [-] Aero Peek invoked immediately after moving the mouse into a preview thumbnail, without any delay. [-] Sometimes tooltip showing current window position displayed incorrect values. [-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally. [-] In some cases, Control Center might crash upon reloading the configuration. [-] When launching Actual Multiple Monitors after Stardock DeskScapes, Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable. [-] With Actual Multiple Monitors running, capturing a video in TechSmith's Jing made it crash upon closing. [-] Windows 7: Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed when creating the secondary taskbars. [-] Control Center might crash when starting the wallpaper slideshow if the number of slideshow files changed since the last launch. [-] Multi-monitor Background parameters did not update after switching the Background Mode only. [-] Windows 7: Desktop profiles with cloning could not be activated in the Control Center (via hotkey, at startup, via tray's menu, etc.). [-] Windows 7: Photos screen saver, being run in a multi-monitor mode, got frozen on a first image, if the "On resume, display Welcome screen" option was active. [-] Screen saver continued to show the Buy Now reminders in the Free mode. [-] Upon launching Actual Multiple Monitors, title buttons in maximized windows shifted down if the Multi-monitor Taskbar was active. [-] Title buttons did not appear in the Windows Media Center window. [-] Additional commands did not appear in the Windows Media Center window menu after switching its window back from full-screen. [-] Hand tool interfered with the gameplay in some games (such as Cogs). [-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not work on a monitor where Internet Explorer window was maximized. [-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4.2 (22.11.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] The quality of multi-monitor wallpaper pictures is improved in Windows 7. [*] In Aero visual theme, Multi-monitor Taskbar's color is now exactly the same as the system taskbar's. [*] Delay before activating a preview when moving the mouse within a multi-preview for a grouped task is added (for now, it's hard-coded to 200 ms). [-] The Scroll Inactive Windows feature stopped working in previous update. [-] Activating the maximized windows from secondary taskbars forced them back to a normal state. [-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed. [-] Window icon and caption did not update in preview thumbnails. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4.1 (11.11.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability is added to invoke a Jump List by dragging taskbar button out of the taskbar. [+] Auto-scrolling of tabs in the Settings dialog is added so the active tab should remain always visible and other tabs fill the entire visible space. [*] Compatibility of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with third party products that also extend the mouse wheel processing. [*] Jump Lists' look in the Aero visual theme is slightly improved. [*] Preview thumbnails' look is improved. [-] Preview thumbnails stopped showing for Excel 2007 workbooks. [-] Preview thumbnails did not close after moving the mouse out of them if the taskbar auto-hiding was enabled. [-] In some cases, windows stopped come to front after clicking their corresponding buttons/preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars. [-] In some cases, notification area in secondary taskbars made a noticeable CPU load in the Windows Explorer process. [-] Mirror windows did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected. [-] The "Area around the mouse pointer" mirror worked wrong for negative screen coordinates. [-] Title buttons did not update their placement in Mozilla Firefox 7 windows after maximizing/restoring a window. [-] In some cases, console windows might hung for some time at startup. [-] Some Configuration windows (like Select Window from List, Test Regexp) did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected. [-] Sometimes, empty match lines appeared in the Test Regexp results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.4 (21.10.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability is added to activate a desktop profile at Actual Multiple Monitors startup. [+] Monitor auto-arrangement tool is added (see the "Arrange monitors" button in the Monitors' Layout and Settings panel). [+] Ability is added to show/hide secondary taskbars both via Desktop's context menu and via Configuration dialog (see the "Unhide taskbars" button in the Taskbar panel). [+] Ability is added to invoke Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper settings via Desktop's context menu. [+] Ability is added to apply desktop profiles and invoke Desktop Profiles settings via Desktop's context menu. [+] Ability is added to hide/show the Show Desktop button via taskbar's context menu. [+] Ability is added to display the Start menu only on monitors with the visible Start button when the Win key is pressed (to get this, disable the "Show the Start menu for hidden Start button" option in the Taskbar panel). [+] Ability is added to display window's current position in a popup tooltip while dragging a window. [+] Ability is added to assign a custom mouse action for taskbar button click. [+] Ability is added to customize modifier keys for the "Scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel" feature. [+] Norwegian language is added (translation provided by Stale Pedersen). [+] Ability is added to toggle the "Run the library from the installation folder" option via program's command line (use the L+/L- command line option to turn this option on/off, accordingly; by default, this option is off). [*] Window rules (specifics and exclusions) are now compatible with windows of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. [*] Compatibility with many Adobe products is improved (however, some functions may be unavailable yet). [*] Compatibility with Mindjet's MindManager is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's SnagIt is improved. [*] Tracking of window caption changes is improved (in particular, for own Actual Multiple Monitors configuration dialogs). [*] Title buttons look and behave correctly in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 windows. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar works correctly in Windows 8 Developer Preview. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar is now compatible with various sidebar apps (like Vista Sidebar, 7 Sidebar, Google Desktop Sidebar, etc.). [*] Multi-monitor taskbar now respects the "NumThumbnails" registry setting when displaying a multi-preview for a grouped/tabbed taskbar button: if the number of previews exceeds this setting - windows/tabs are shown in a simple list. [*] Monitor detection to apply individual taskbar settings is improved. [*] Start menu's look and behavior on secondary monitors is improved. [*] Maximize to Desktop feature is improved to better handle custom monitor configurations. [*] Advanced title buttons are disabled in the Free version. [-] Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 crashed after opening/closing the Chart Source Data dialog. [-] Various Adobe products (like Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator) crashed upon exiting. [-] Autodesk Softimage hung at startup if Actual Multiple Monitors was running. [-] In Windows 7/8, opening lot of tabs in Internet Explorer 9/10 and then hovering its taskbar button led to a continuous cycling of the tabs list. [-] After restarting Windows Explorer, the Win key stopped invoking the Start menu. [-] Taskbar button's extra features (like progress indicator, overlay icon, control buttons in a preview) stopped working in the primary taskbar after moving a window to a secondary monitor and then returning it back to the primary. [-] Auto-hidden secondary taskbar did not appear after pressing the Win key. [-] Taskbar buttons for Google Talk windows showed in a wrong taskbar. [-] Minimized Windows Media Player with skinned view (like "Now playing") did not restore on clicking its button in a secondary taskbar. [-] Hiding the taskbar on a certain monitor did not restore that monitor's work area. [-] In Windows Vista/7, Start button extended to other monitor when a taskbar was on the horizontal edge between monitors and the "Small icons" option was active. [-] When invoking a Jump List for a taskbar with the Auto-hide mode enabled, the taskbar hid (and closed the Jump List) when the mouse went out of its boundaries. [-] When invoking a hidden icons popup window for a taskbar with the Auto-hide mode enabled, the taskbar hid. [-] Pinned taskbar button looked tabbed even after closing its corresponding application (for example, Opera web browser with several opened tabs). [-] Even when the "Use drop shadows for icon labels" system option was turned off, the wallpaper slideshow mode made it active again. [-] After restoring a system from standby/hibernation, the slideshow did not start. [-] Slideshow run even when the "Desktop background" was disabled in the Remote Desktop Connection settings. [-] Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars sometimes stopped showing the desktop on mouse hovering. [-] Windows 7: Switching monitors on/off via desktop profiles did not work in some cases. [-] Windows 7: Hidden tray icons popup window did not close in some cases when clicking outside of it. [-] If an application (like fullscreen game) locked the mouse within the primary monitor at startup, the mouse was freed unwantedly. [-] Soft Mouse Lock did not work on desktop boundaries when the Wrap the Desktop feature was active. [-] Soft Mouse Lock worked incorrectly for dragging a window between monitors. [-] Wrap the Desktop feature wrapped the mouse locked in a window within that window. [-] Wrap the Desktop feature did not wrap the mouse on the top/left desktop boundary on some monitor configurations. [-] Zooming the contents in a WordPerfect active window with the Ctrl+Mouse wheel did not work when the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active. [-] Scrolling the contents in Adobe Audition windows did not work when the Scroll Inactive Windows feature was active. [-] Title buttons' glow effect looked wrong with non-standard values of Screen DPI. [-] After maximizing a window to desktop, the Restore menu command got disabled. [-] Hotkeys for Minimize and Maximize/Restore system commands did not work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.3 (01.08.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Actual Multiple Monitors is now a freeware with limited functionality. Right after installation, it grants the 30-day fully functional trial. When the trial expires, some features become unavailable; to unlock them, user must purchase a license. The rest of features can be used for free (for personal, non-commercial purposes only). [+] Ability is added to hide secondary taskbars per monitor: right click the taskbar and select the "Hide taskbar" command in its context menu. You can restore the taskbar via "Taskbars" submenu in Actual Multiple Monitors tray icon's context menu. [+] Controls on secondary taskbars (Start button, notification area, clock) can be toggled per taskbar: right click the taskbar and select the required item in its context menu. [+] Preview thumbnails can display window icon/caption. [+] The option is added to always show window icon/caption in preview thumbnails, disregarding the OS settings (can be useful for tabbed windows, like web browsers). [+] Wrap the Desktop mouse tool is added. When activated, it wraps the opposite edges of desktop and therefore makes the mouse pointer travel through them freely. For example, when you drag the mouse beyond the right edge it appears on the left edge, and vice versa. [+] Indonesian language is added (translation provided by Elda Taluta). [*] Windows Vista/7: When installing a new version, special system mechanism is used to avoid the reboot after updating program's runtime library. [*] Multi-monitor Taskbar extension tracks multi-window applications (like MS Visual Studio) more accurately. [*] Hand tool works more consistently. [-] Windows 7: Sometimes Multi-monitor Taskbar caused Windows Explorer's crash when working with applications that add control buttons into their preview thumbnails. [-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors caused Desktop Window Manager's crash. [-] If a window was maximized to desktop and then maximized in usual way, its buttons remained in secondary taskbars. [-] Winamp 5, when in skinned mode, did not appear in secondary taskbars. [-] Soft Mouse Lock could not be activated without the full reload of Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Hand tool stopped working after restarting Actual Multiple Monitors. [-] Multi-monitor Wallpaper extension crashed on invalid image files. [-] Upon closing, Configuration window sent the unwanted Back command to an underlying window (Windows Explorer, any web browser, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.2.1 (11.07.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] You can toggle the Multi-monitor Taskbar's "Always-on-top" state via its context menu. [*] The Soft Mouse Lock works more accurate and stable. [-] Multi-monitor wallpapers looked wrong if there were portrait-oriented monitors. [-] Desktop profile hotkeys stopped working after applying the configuration changes. [-] Slideshow parameters were not modified after activating another desktop profile. [-] The "Next slide" command did not appear in Desktop's context menu when Actual Multiple Monitors was installed with the support of administrative tools. [-] Multi-monitor Screen Saver did not run the Blank screen saver if it was assigned to a second/third/etc. monitor. [-] Sometimes the Multi-monitor Taskbar's context menu initially appeared behind the taskbar. [-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching. [-] Scroll Inactive Windows tool did not work with Corel WordPerfect. [-] Hand tool did not work with Winamp. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.2 (25.05.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Desktop profiles support advanced display management features available in Windows 7 (such as displays cloning, image rotation). [+] In Windows 7, preview thumbnails in secondary taskbars display custom control buttons (like Play/Pause/Forward/Back for Windows Media Player) and application's notification icons. [+] In Windows 7, secondary taskbars display the hidden notification icons in a special fly-out window. [+] Jump Lists in secondary taskbars display a context menu for their items (menu's content may differ from a menu displayed for Jump List items in the system taskbar). [+] Now it's possible to drag items out of Jump Lists and drop them into other applications. [+] The soft lock of the mouse within monitor (a.k.a. "tight monitor boundaries") is added. This mode holds the mouse pointer on the boundary between monitors for some specified time and prohibits moving the mouse to another monitor unless you drag it there forcibly (i.e. longer than the specified amount of time). You can enable this mode and adjust the hold time in the new "Multiple Monitors -> Mouse" panel. [+] The new Lock Mouse in Monitor hotkey is added (Alt-P by default). [+] The ability is added to add custom mouse actions for clicks on particular window parts (see the Mouse panel in the Options window). [+] The Hand tool is added. It allows scrolling windows by holding down the specified mouse button (right by default) and dragging the mouse. [+] The Mirror window action is added. It allows creating mirrors for certain windows on the fly via title button/window menu/hotkey. [+] Now it's possible to assign a hotkey for a certain desktop profile to activate it quickly. [+] Now it's possible to assign a hotkey for a certain mirror to activate it quickly. [+] Now it's possible to customize the system speed of scrolling with the mouse wheel. [*] Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved. [*] In Windows 7, the look of Start button in secondary taskbars is improved in Aero. [*] Clock in secondary taskbars is highlighted when the mouse pointer hovers over it. [*] Calendar is now shown on the monitor where the taskbar clock was clicked. [*] The look of taskbar clock is improved in Vista. [*] In Windows 7, the Show Desktop button in secondary taskbars reacts on a drag-n-drop attempt. [*] Desktop Profiles Manager remembers the successfully applied desktop configurations and does not display the confirmation dialog for next activations of such configurations. [*] Compatiblity of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with the protected Internet Explorer windows and Outlook 2010 windows. [*] The look of a single title button in Aero is improved. [-] Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed. [-] Multi-preview for several Excel 2010 workbooks displayed incorrect in secondary taskbars (a single image of the active workbook was duplicated for all others instead of individual images for each workbook). [-] Pinning icons of games to secondary taskbars worked incorrect. [-] Secondary taskbar sometimes did not pop up on top when switching from a full-screen window to a regular one. [-] Buttons pinned to secondary taskbars had the incorrect width. [-] Sometimes in WinXP the context menu for a group button in secondary taskbar displayed just a single item for a first window in the group. [-] In Windows 7, buttons on secondary taskbars were grouped incorrect when the "Never combine" option was enabled for the system taskbar. [-] The Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrect with monitors having negative coordinates. [-] Aero Snap emulator stopped working in 3.1. [-] Actual Multiple Monitors hung when trying to update a preview for a hung application. [-] Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed after changing the mirroring options. [-] Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed while playing the wallpaper slideshow. [-] Sometimes Actual Multiple Monitors crashed while displaying a multi-preview. [-] The Identify button worked incorrect when the Move to Monitor Having the Mouse Pointer feature was enabled by default (all monitors' numbers were displayed on the same monitor). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.1 (11.02.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The ability to mirror certain parts of desktop in a floating window is added (see the "Multiple Monitors - Mirroring" panel). The following kinds of mirroring are available: - area around the mouse pointer - specified window - specified monitor - arbitrary part of desktop Mirrored area can be zoomed in or out up to ten times. [+] The ability to add custom hotkeys for certain actions is added (see the Hotkeys tab). [+] The ability to pin documents to Jump Lists of applications pinned to secondary taskbars is added. [+] The ability is added to launch a new application instance via Shift-left click on application's button in a secondary taskbar (Ctrl-Shift-left click launches a new instance of that application with the administrative privileges). [+] The ability to close a window via the Close button in window's live preview is added. [+] The ability to disable the scrolling of inactive windows in Specific window settings is added. [+] The "Next slide" command has been added to Desktop's context menu. It allows you switching to the next slide picture immediately when the Slideshow mode is enabled for the Desktop background. [+] The option is added to disable the random play order of the background slideshow. [+] The option is added to customize the modifiers key combination that disables the window snapping temporarily (see the Window Snapping tab). [+] The ability to backup/restore the configuration is added (see the Backup/Restore buttons in the Configuration toolbar). [+] The ability to undo/redo made changes in the main Configuration window is added (see the Undo/Redo buttons in the Edit toolbar). [*] Now Aero Shake and Win+M hotkey minimize windows on a monitor with the mouse pointer only. [*] The separate Start/Stop Actual Multiple Monitors hotkeys are replaced with the single Toggle Actual Multiple Monitors hotkey. [-] Icons pinned on secondary taskbars sometimes disappeared. [-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars disappeared after changing taskbar's placement. [-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars was misplaced after hiding/showing taskbar's clock. [-] The empty space left in a window group's multi-preview after closing some windows in that group. [-] It was impossible to modify the wallpaper position after it was set once. [-] Remote Desktop session window painted incorrect after maximizing it via Aero Snap. [-] Scrolling of inactive Internet Explorer windows did not work in Protected mode. [-] The "Disable the native Windows 7 Snap" option also disabled Aero Shake. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 3.0 (19.11.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Taskbars on secondary displays support the basic functions of the Windows 7 Jump Lists feature (under Windows 7 only). The following functions ARE NOT implemented yet: - pin/unpin Jump List items - drag Jump List items with the mouse - display a context menu for a Jump List item [+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display the progress bar on their buttons when needed. [+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display the colorized highlighting for a button under the mouse pointer. [+] (Win7 only) Secondary taskbars display a separate preview for each tab of a tabbed web browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.). [+] (Win7 only) The ability is added to pin applications to secondary taskbars by files/shortcuts drag-n-drop (may be incompatible with some native 64-bit applications, e.g. MMC applets or Internet Explorer). [+] The ability to replace the system taskbar on a primary monitor with its enhanced Actual Tools implementation is added. [+] Now you can specify the Wallpaper Slideshow mode on a per monitor basis. [+] The ability is added to set the wallpaper picture by drag-n-drop in the Background settings panel. [+] Ability to scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel is added (see the "Triggers -> Mouse" panel in the Options window). [+] New hotkeys to quickly place the mouse pointer to the next monitor (Win-` by default), to the previous monitor (Win-Shift-` by default) and to the center of the primary monitor (Ctrl-Alt-P by default) are added. [+] The ability is added to move windows to next/previous monitor by clicking the middle mouse button on window's title bar with the Alt/Shift-Alt keys pressed. [+] The glow effect when hovering the extra title buttons with the mouse pointer in Aero visual theme is added. [+] Title buttons' skins for the Black and Silver Office 2007 styles are added. [+] Maximize to Desktop now supports a partial maximization (i.e. to the selected monitors). The selection can be made in the preview dialog, which can be opened by right-clicking the Maximize to Desktop title button. [+] Right click on the Move to Monitor title button now opens a dialog with monitors' preview instead of a plain menu if there are more than two monitors attached (for two monitors, right click does the same as the left click). [+] The "locked mouse" status is stored on a per window basis, i.e. you can lock the mouse pointer in two different windows at the same time. [+] Now you can adjust various preview thumbnail options: - toggle the multi-previews - toggle the smooth transitions between previews and preview fading - adjust the delay before the preview appearance [+] The Identify button is added to the "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel. [+] Monitor previews support the right-click context menu. [+] Secondary taskbar can be also repositioned via special command in its context menu (in addition to dragging the taskbar with the mouse). [+] You can launch Windows Task Manager from the secondary taskbar's context menu. [+] The option to select which kind of click (single or double) on the program's tray icon is used to launch the Configuration is added. [+] The ability to toggle and colorize the Aero Snap preview is added (see the "Window Snapping" panel in the Options window). [+] The ability to disable the native Windows 7 Aero Snap is added (see the "Window Snapping" panel in the Options window). [+] You can temporarily disable the Aero Snap emulation while dragging a window by pressing and holding the Ctrl key. [*] Now it's possible to turn on the Classic Snapping and the Aero Snap mode at the same time (see the "Window Snapping" panel in the Options window). [*] The Background and Screen Saver panels have been slightly redesigned. [*] If a window is maximized to desktop - taskbar button for this window will be visible on each monitor occupied by the window. [*] When invoking the Start menu via Win or Ctrl-Esc key, it appears on the monitor with the mouse pointer. [*] Start button on secondary taskbars is compatible with Vista Start Menu by OrdinarySoft. [*] Vista/7 desktop gadgets are no more affected when moving groups of windows between monitors via "Send/Get/Gather all windows" commands. [*] Specific Settings list and Exclusions list do not display the value of criterion (class, caption, program) for a certain item if the criterion in this item is disabled. [*] Configuration panels can be scrolled with the mouse wheel. [-] Display devices' vertical refresh rates were dropped to their default values (usually, 60 Hz) after switching the primary display or disabling/enabling secondary displays via tray icon's context menu. [-] When a window was minimized on a secondary monitor, the Minimization animation was played for the primary taskbar instead of an appropriate secondary taskbar. [-] Taskbar on secondary displays was stretched to a half monitor right after loading if the taskbar was aligned vertically. [-] Secondary taskbars did not restore their width under Windows 7 if being aligned vertically. [-] The Sound Volume applet did not work in secondary taskbars under Windows Vista/7. [-] Sometimes tray icons did not appear in the secondary taskbars. [-] Title buttons did not work in Office 2010 64-bit edition. [-] Title buttons disappeared after moving a window to secondary monitor on some display configurations. [-] Window snapping did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows. [-] Invoking the advanced window functions by clicking on standard window parts did not work in Office 2007/2010 windows. [-] The width of buttons pinned on secondary taskbars was calculated incorrectly in some cases. [-] Sometimes preview thumbnails appeared below windows. [-] Sometimes preview thumbnails had a black non-transparent background. [-] Google Chrome sometimes caused the phantom buttons appear in secondary taskbars. [-] Windows 7 Photos screen saver did not work in a multi-monitor mode. [-] If the Configuration window was closed on a secondary monitor and then the monitor had been unplugged - the Configuration window had not returned into a visible desktop area. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 2.3 (04.08.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Secondary taskbars are able to group similar taskbar buttons in a same way as the primary taskbar does. [+] Window thumbnails are available for button groups on secondary taskbars. [+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption criterion. [+] Classic window snapping supports the "Snap to windows from inside" mode (see the Window Snapping panel in the Options window). [+] You can temporarily disable the classic snapping by pressing and holding the Ctrl key. [+] New "Lock mouse" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L by default) has been added. Press it to prevent the mouse pointer from going outside the current window; press it once more to make the mouse pointer free again. [+] New "Ignore deactivation" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I by default) has been added. Press it to prevent the current window from reacting on losing the input focus (so the window would "think" it's still active); press it once more to let the current window react on deactivating. [*] The Maximize to Desktop action now takes into account the work areas of monitors, i.e. maximized windows do not cover (or hide under) the taskbars. [*] Now Aero Peek on secondary taskbars depends on the value of the "Use the Aero Peek for a Desktop preview" system option. [-] Title buttons did not appear in MS Office 2010 applications. [-] Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under Windows 7. [-] At the high load on the system (with dozens of windows opened at once), the program began to consume too much graphic resources under Windows 7 x64. [-] At the high continuous load on the system, Multi-monitor Taskbar began to mix up the icons on secondary taskbars. [-] Second activation of the desktop profile having the slideshow mode set stopped the slideshow. [-] If certain display device did not support the resolution stored in desktop profile's settings - the resolution was reset to a first available (usually low and therefore inappropriate). [-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars hid windows on a primary monitor only. [-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars showed the frames of hidden windows after showing the desktop. [-] The icon of a button pinned on secondary taskbar changed to the icon of the first window opened via that button. [-] Some programs (e.g. Sticky Notes) could not be pinned on secondary taskbars under Windows 7 x64. [-] Phantom buttons appeared on secondary taskbars for MS PowerPoint and MS Access. [-] Program constantly made redundant queries into the Registry. [-] Windows disappeared after maximizing to desktop if the primary monitor was not leftmost. [-] Window maximized to desktop shrank automatically to the primary monitor only after the "deactivation-activation" cycle. [-] Maximize to Desktop worked incorrect with MS Office 2007 applications. [-] Creating/modifying window settings from the Windows Monitoring Log window did not work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 2.2 (03.06.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The new Maximize to Desktop title button has been added. [+] The new Maximize to Desktop system window menu command has been added. [+] The Show Desktop button has been added to secondary taskbars under Windows 7. [*] Maximize to Desktop action now performs correct maximization: maximized window has no borders and it can't be dragged. [*] The Start button on secondary taskbars works more similar to the main one. [-] When clicking the Start button on a secondary taskbar, the Start menu flickered on a primary monitor first (fixed in all visual themes except Windows Classic). [-] The main Slideshow options did not refresh properly after applying a profile. [-] Pinning to secondary taskbars did not work for 64-bit applications. [-] Easy windows dragging/sizing did not work for 64-bit applications. [-] Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrectly for windows maximized via regular Maximize button. [-] Sometimes under Windows 7 secondary taskbars' buttons displayed icons smaller than normal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 2.1 (01.05.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. [+] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper now has the Slideshow mode (either a single slideshow on entire desktop or a separate slideshow on each monitor). [+] The ability to toggle secondary monitors via tray icon's context menu is added. [+] New hotkeys to disable/enable all secondary monitors at once have been added. (Please, note that these hotkeys are turned off by default - you can enable them in the "Options - Hotkeys" panel). [+] The ability to switch the primary monitor via tray icon's context menu is added. [+] The ability to customize the layout of monitors and their settings without the need to create a desktop profile is now available (see the "Monitors Layout and Settings" panel). [+] New group operations have been added into the context menu of secondary taskbars: - Move all windows from this monitor to a specified one - Move all windows from a specified monitor to this one - Gather all windows to this monitor [+] Now you can invoke window's system menu by the right-click on its taskbar button's live preview. [+] The ability to watch a preview of the Multi-monitor Screen Saver is added. [+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring Log window is added. [*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended in Vista/7 (only in case Actual Multiple Monitors is installed into a trusted location - e.g. the "Program Files" folder). [*] Monitors' ordinal numbers displayed in the lists of available displays now match actual display device indexes shown when you press the "Identify" button in the Windows Display Properties dialog. [*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved. [*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver has been made compatible with screen savers that do not clear the screen completely (such as Windows 7 Bubbles). [*] Factory key combination setting for the Desktop Profiles popup menu has been changed to Win+W because of a conflict with the Windows 7 reserved hotkey. [*] The ability to turn off the resizing tool tip is added. [-] Now Multi-monitor Taskbar reacts correctly on pressing the Win+M system hotkey or using Windows 7 Aero Shake. [-] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper works correctly when the leftmost monitor is not primary and Active Desktop is enabled. [-] The bug with empty icons in secondary taskbars after changing the visual theme is fixed. [-] Taskbar buttons for console windows are displayed on a correct secondary taskbar in the individual Multi-monitor Taskbar mode. [-] Title buttons are drawn correctly in windows using right-to-left languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 2.0 (01.02.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The main Taskbar toolbars (like Quick Launch, Desktop, Address, etc.) are available on secondary taskbars as well. [!] The Multi-monitor Taskbar now emulates the notification area (system tray) on secondary monitors with the ability to display the clock and manually re-order icons by dragging them with the mouse. [!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7. [!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and retrieving information about latest version available has been added. The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options tab). [+] The manual re-ordering of icons in the primary notification area by dragging them with the mouse has been added. [+] The ability to minimize all windows on a particular monitor has been added (see the "Minimize all" command in secondary taskbar's context menu). [+] The Multi-monitor Taskbar extension now supports the "Small icons" option in Windows 7. [+] The ability to make taskbars transparent is added (see the "Transparency" option in the "Taskbar" panel). [+] The ability to stretch the Start button out to the multiline Taskbar in old visual themes (such as Windows Classic, XP Blue/Green/Silver) has been added (see the "Stretch the Start button out to the taskbar" option in the Taskbar panel). [+] Move to Monitor at Startup action is available in the Default settings. [+] You can specify the "Primary" value for the "Target monitor" option of the Move to Monitor at Startup action. [+] The long-awaited Window Snapping feature has been added: when you drag or resize a window with the mouse it can stick certain window border/corner to - desktop/monitor border (from inside); - other windows (from outside); - grid with defined cell size. When it is enabled, you can control it on-the-fly for a particular window via window's system menu (see the Snap item in the menu itself and in its Options submenu). [+] The Aero Snap mode now supports the horizontal maximization: just drag the left or right window border towards the corresponding monitor boundary to make window fit monitor width. [+] The set of advanced window actions to invoke via mouse clicks on the regular Maximize title button has been extended - the following combinations have been added: - maximize window just horizontally (Shift+RClick by default); - maximize window just vertically (Ctrl+RClick by default). [+] The ability to drag window by holding the left mouse button anywhere within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Win+Ctrl by default) has been added. [+] The ability to size window by holding the right mouse button anywhere within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Win+Ctrl by default) has been added. [+] New "Crop to fit" wallpaper position mode has been added. [+] The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture" wallpaper mode is added. [+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center (Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added. Please note that they are disabled by default. [+] New hotkey combinations to save/restore the desktop icons order (Ctrl+Shift+S/Ctrl+Shift+R by default, respectively) have been added. Please note that they are disabled by default. [+] New hotkey combination to move a window to the previous monitor in a multi-monitor environment (Win+Shift+/ by default) has been added. [+] Now you can customize the modifier keys for reordering taskbar buttons. [+] The partial ability to control display orientation via desktop profiles has been added. It will work only for the display adapters that explicitly report to Windows about their rotation capabilities; in other words, the list of supported video modes for such adapter will contain appropriate entries (for example, 768x1024 for the "portrait" orientation). If your display adapter allows such way of display rotation, you will see the additional "Display Orientation" group of controls on the "Multiple Monitors -> Desktop Profiles -> Monitors Layout and Settings" tab. [+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the "Control Center Options" group). [*] The Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher now correctly display the Unicode window captions. [*] The Multi-monitor Background/Screen Saver tabs in the Configuration window more accurately display the current system settings. [-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is fixed. [-] Intermittent crashes of Windows Explorer when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed. [-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed. [-] The crash of Control Center because of graphics resources exhaustion when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed. [-] The leaks of graphics resources on Windows x64 when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension have been fixed. [-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been fixed. [-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed. [-] The unwanted auto-exit of the multi-monitor screen saver on some display configurations is fixed. [-] Intermittent crashes when exiting the multi-monitor screen saver are fixed. [-] The problem with the interrupted desktop slideshow in Windows 7 has been fixed. [-] Monitors' names were not detected correctly in some cases. [-] Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic theme is fixed. [-] Some applications now minimize correctly on secondary monitors - their taskbar button does not jump to the primary monitor's Taskbar. [-] Auto-restoration of some windows (like Acrobat Reader 8.1.2) which were maximized using the Aero Snap works as expected now. [-] Title button looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs (e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled). [-] The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed. [-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under Vista Aero has been fixed. [-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set of title buttons. [-] The redundant Excel button appeared on secondary taskbars. [-] Aero Snap emulation did not work when the "Show window contents while dragging" system option was turned off. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Multiple Monitors 1.0 (01.07.2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Initial Release
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