v8.9 [Jul 25, 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 "Move to specific virtual desktop" menu (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:
ActualWindowManagerCenter.exe CFL "<full_path_to_the_folder>"
[*] 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).
[*] Windows 10: The Virtual Desktops Switcher button now can be added both to
the system taskbar and Actual Taskbars.
[*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for:
- Actual Taskbar jump lists and thumbnail previews
- Virtual Desktop Switcher
- extra title buttons
- Log window
- AltMinimize floating screen preview
[*] Evaluation dialog has been restyled.
[*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for
program dialogs (About, Register, Check for Updates, Quick Settings, 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 Window Manager 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 : Adding the Virtual Desktops Switcher button to system taskbar
caused the immediate disappearance of thumbnail previews.
[-] Windows 8.1: Mirroring of Windows Media Player stopped working if the player
window was relocated.
v8.7 [Feb 5, 2016]
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[!] The navigation panel in the main Configuration window has been replaced.
[!] 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: 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.
[*] Configuration: Now the Browse for Folder dialog remembers the last choice
and restores it next time when adding new items to the Favorite Folders
list.
[*] 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.
[-] Outlook 2016 window dropped the transparency applied at startup.
[-] 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.
v8.6 [Oct 12, 2015]
Multi-monitor Screen Saver stopped working.
"Preview" button did not work for the "Current Windows screen saver" option.
v8.5 [Aug 28, 2015]
Vista : Aero Snap and Classic Snap behavior has been improved in the Aero visual theme and high screen DPIs.
v8.4 [May 27, 2015]
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[ ] 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 Window Manager 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 Window Manager.
[-] The bug prevented NuSphere PhpEd 15 debugger from starting is fixed.
[-] Magix products (Movie Edit, Music Maker) stopped responding during loading.
v8.2 [Sep 25, 2014]
Version 8.2
Compact View for Title Buttons
Quick Setup
Multi-window Configuration
Better Compatibility with Windows 8.1
v8.1 [Jan 27, 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 Window Manager along with the StartIsBack app.
- Various apps might crash randomly upon loading Actual Window Manager if the Desktop Divider was active.
- Some windows might disappear if the "Fix maximal window size" feature was active (in particular, the "Open File" dialogs in Actual Window Manager Configuration).
- Windows XP/Vista: Command prompt windows launched after starting Actual Window Manager remained unprocessed.
v8.0 [Aug 17, 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: ActualWindowManagerShellCenter.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.
v7.5 [Mar 27, 2013]
- Changes:
- Desktop icons order restoration is improved.
- Windows 8: Now Alt-Tab Task Switcher activates the next task surely even when pressing Alt-Tab instantly.
- Fixed error:
- 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.
- Winamp Library window disappeared after rolling it up.
v7.4 [Dec 19, 2012]
Web Picture Sources for Background Wallpaper Slideshow, Classic Start Menu Integrated for Windows Vista/7/8
v7.2 [Aug 17, 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.
[ ] Combo Action feature is added. Now you can add custom title buttons and
custom hotkeys that, being clicked, run the defined sequence of actions
at once. Thus, you can apply an arbitrary combined effect to a certain
window in a single click.
[ ] Window 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 Divide: 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 etwork 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).
[*] RocketDock is always displayed on all virtual desktops.
[*] Now it's possible to drag items between different Virtual Desktop Switchers
in the Independent mode.
[*] Compatibility with NVIDIA nView is improved.
[*] In the Aero visual theme, now it's possible to resize a window
when the mouse is over additional title buttons.
[*] Minimized-to-screen icons save their positions right after moving the icon.
[*] Windows 7: The "Run as different user" option of the Start Program action
now displays the dialog prompting for credentials (instead of running as
administrator by default).
[-] 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.
v7.1 [Jul 8, 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.
[ ] Combo Action feature is added. Now you can add custom title buttons and
custom hotkeys that, being clicked, run the defined sequence of actions
at once. Thus, you can apply an arbitrary combined effect to a certain
window in a single click.
[ ] Window 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 Divide: 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 etwork 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).
[*] RocketDock is always displayed on all virtual desktops.
[*] Now it's possible to drag items between different Virtual Desktop Switchers
in the Independent mode.
[*] Compatibility with NVIDIA nView is improved.
[*] In the Aero visual theme, now it's possible to resize a window
when the mouse is over additional title buttons.
[*] Minimized-to-screen icons save their positions right after moving the icon.
[*] Windows 7: The "Run as different user" option of the Start Program action
now displays the dialog prompting for credentials (instead of running as
administrator by default).
[-] 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.
v7.0 [Mar 14, 2012]
- Configuration window has been revamped.
- Desktop Divider feature has been added. It allows sub-dividing the entirelarge 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).
- Commands to save/restore the order of desktop icons are added into the Desktop's context menu.
- Windows 7: The option has been added to control the height of rolled up Windows Explorer windows (either roll them up completely or leave the breadcrumb navigation bar visible to distinguish rolled up folders better).
- 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 Window Manager is now compatible with virtual video devices (like those added by MaxiVista or iDisplay).
- Further improvements of compatibility between Scroll Inactive Windows and Volumouse.
- Virtual Desktops: The Independent mode is improved.
- 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.
- Some window settings re-applied after saving the configuration even if they were not modified.
- 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 Window Manager after Stardock DeskScapes, Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable.
- With Actual Window Manager running, capturing a video in TechSmith's Jing made it crash upon closing.
- Windows 7: Sometimes Actual Window Manager 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.
- Actual Window Manager crashed when trying to toggle the Virtual Desktops Switcher.
- Virtual Desktops Switcher had numerous problems in the Independent mode.
- 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.
- Upon launching Actual Window Manager, 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.
- Windows that were minimized to the tray/screen via window menu command did not restore via Unhide submenu.
- Saving the configuration changed the active virtual desktop to a first desktop in the list.
- 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.
- The Remove Taskbar Entry action worked unstable.
- After unghosting a window with the "Unghost temporarily" key combination,the window could not be ghosted back.
- Maximizing a window pinned to desktop in a multi-monitor system made it span the entire desktop instead of the current monitor.
- Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled.
v6.7 [Oct 24, 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.
v6.6 [Aug 3, 2011]
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 Window Manager 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.
v5.4 [Jul 10, 2009]
The core engine has been slightly improved: now startup actions
are applied to a window before it becomes visible so there will be
no annoying blinking when changing window's position/size upon its startup.
The Windows 7 Aero Snap emulation is added.
Now you can turn off the buttons re-ordering mode for the primary Taskbar.
Now you can re-order buttons on the primary Taskbar even if the "Group similar taskbar buttons" option is enabled.
Now the primary Taskbar buttons re-ordering works under Windows 2000.
Virtual Desktops Switcher window is added.
Windows Thumbnails feature is added.
Virtual Desktops panel is slightly redesigned:
- background and hotkey settings are divided onto separate tabs;
- the Switcher settings group is added.
Configuration user interface has been slightly changed: Virtual Desktops
and Desktop Profiles panels are now grouped in the main window with the
Window Settings panel.
The ability to set up multi-monitor wallpaper/screen saver immediately
(without the need to create and activate certain desktop profile) is added.
Multi-monitor Taskbar extension is now compatible with Windows 7.
Now the Multi-monitor Task Switcher extension is compatible with the TaskSwitch XP PowerToy utility.
Conflicts with the following products have been fixed:
- Microsoft NetMeeting
- NetOp Remote Control (Host)
- RAdmin Server
- Ad Muncher
- Calendar Magic
- Microsoft Flight Simulator X
The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks.
The bug is fixed: the Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher windows disappeared in Windows 7 when the Aero Peek was activated.
v5.3 [Apr 6, 2009]
Virtual desktops support the extra multi-monitor settings for their wallpapers.
"Start Program" action.
You can manually order the buttons on secondary taskbars as well as on the primary one using the simple mouse drag-and-drop.
Description field added for Default settings and for Exclusions.
Quick alignment of windows.
Multi-monitor Taskbar extension supports the Auto-hide and Lock features on the per monitor basis.
v5.0 [Mar 2, 2008]
1) The support for command prompt (a.k.a. console/CMD/DOS) windows in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista is added. 2) The full support of native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64 platform is added. 3) The ability to change the default window icon to a selected one is added.
