Actual Window Manager, being your best computer friend, will astonish you by its simplicity and functionality! 40 handy tools will let you organize the working process so easily that you won't spend time on endless and tedious switching between windows and hunting for the right application on the cluttered task bar.
The program belongs to the family of the next generation system enhancement applications and it is available for virtually any window system including Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. All controls can be accessed via a row of Window-style title bar buttons placed next to the standard Minimize/Restore/Close. What is more, alongside activating functions with mouse clicks, the new 3.0 version supports hotkey combinations, the standard language of professionals, that allows significantly decreasing the time you spend on doing one action.
Actual Window Manager offers you to set the selected tunings for all applications or just for one of them. Want to prevent accidental close of windows? Or want to open some windows mini/maximized? Only you can decide what tools to apply and only you can change the windows parameters as often as you want. Can't believe in this miracle? Then try the program's demo version for free and convince yourself of the perfect truth of our words!
What's New: [!] Windows Monitoring Log tool is added into the Control Center. It allows
detecting newly appeared windows and check, which window rule has been
applied in each particular case. Now you can easily solve any configuration
ambiguities and detect properties of short-living windows (like tool tips,
popup menus etc.). Be careful using this feature: turned on it may slow down
your system!
[+] The new great long-awaited "Run keyboard macro" feature is added: now you
can define the keyboard macro and send it to a certain window at its
startup, thus automating some regular initial actions.
[+] The new "Change program affinity" feature is added: if using a
multi-processor system, now you can control, which physical processors
a particular application should run on.
[+] The ability to hide the mouse pointer, while it is floating over the
specific window, is added.
[+] The ability to copy settings from a selected window rule to others is added.
[+] The new hotkeys are added:
- "Reapply settings" action (Win+F5 by default)
- Configuration Module's launch (Win+C by default)
- "Unhide" submenu that shows the list of currently minimized/hidden
windows (Win+H by default)
[+] Now the hotkey status is displayed in the "Hotkeys" panel of the "Options"
window: when defining a new key combination, you can see, if the defined
combination is already in use with another application or assigned to
another action.
[+] The on-the-fly transparency setting is added: when right-clicking the
"Make Transparent" title button, the slider control appears instead of the
context menu with predefined values; while dragging this slider, the
transparency level is being changed immediately, thus allowing a quicker
and easier choice of desired appearance.
[+] When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons
semi-transparent.
[+] New title buttons are added: Copy to Clipboard, Paste from Clipboard.
[+] The new "Keep window caption persistent" option is added to the "Change
window caption" feature.
[+] The ability to temporarily disable the automatic rolling up via Roll Up
title button's context menu or Roll Up window menu's submenu is added.
[+] Now the balloon tip is shown over the Control Center's tray icon at first
start after the installation.
[*] The internal mechanism of hotkeys processing is significantly improved.
[*] The long-awaited improvement for permanent tray/screen icons is made: now
permanent icons behave like buttons in the Taskbar (i.e. active window is
minimized, inactive window is activated, minimized window is restored).
[*] The "Index" window rule panel is updated: now it displays all
currently enabled windows settings of a certain rule.
[*] The options structure is redesigned: new "Triggers" and "Actions" grouping
nodes are added.
[*] The "Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder" option has been
moved from General to User Interface.
[*] "Custom Position" and "Custom Size" dialogs now display current window
position/size values in their captions.
[*] The "Alignment" window menu's submenu now displays the current window
position.
[*] Title buttons appearance in Windows Vista is improved.
[*] The placement restriction area visualization is improved for non-standard
taskbar placements.
[-] The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed:
sometimes title buttons used to get detached from their owner window and
stuck on the desktop.
[-] Compatibility conflicts are solved with:
- Quattro Pro X3 menus
- GrabIt internal windows
- MS Office XP CTFMON.EXE service
- X-NetStat application
[-] The conflict with the Microsoft Time Zone window is solved.
[-] Windows Layout tool now correctly handles maximized windows.
[-] Windows Layout tool now correctly handles Photoshop CS2 document
windows while working in a multiple display environment.
[-] Now the "Configure..." item of Control Center tray icon's context menu
is displayed correctly in Windows Vista.
[-] Transparency effect conflicts are solved with:
- CDArtdisplay application
- Emerge Desktop application
- Windows Vista Start button
[-] The bug of the "minimize-to-screen" feature is fixed: sometimes screen
icons used to go out of visible area after minimization.
[-] Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007.
[-] Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved.
[-] The conflict with the IE 7 "Search on this page" window is solved.
[-] The bug of incorrect behavior of "Restrict placement" feature in
multi-monitor configurations is fixed.
[-] Sometimes windows used to freeze in the rolled state and needed to be
resized manually instead of unrolling - now the Unroll function works always
as expected.
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