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Actual Multiple Monitors is the comprehensive solution to improve the functionality of MS Windows user interface for comfortable and effective work with multi-monitor configurations. The smart app emulates standard Windows services on secondary monitors, and offers new window management services to free you from routine clicking and let you concentrate on your work undisturbed. Powerful yet easy-to-use, Actual Multiple Monitors emulates the original Windows Taskbar on the secondary displays, allowing you to manage windows in your usual manner. Such Taskbar can work in the individual mode, displaying only the tasks running on the same monitor, or in the mirror mode, displaying all the tasks running on all monitors in your setup.
Taskbar on each monitor
. Start menu
. notification area a.k.a. system tray
. clock
. Jump Lists support under Windows 7
. Pin to Taskbar
. grouping similar buttons
. preview thumbnails (with the Aero Peek feature under Windows 7)
. progress bars on taskbar buttons under Windows 7
. Show Desktop button under Windows 7
. Quick Launch and other toolbars
. dragging the taskbar buttons with the mouse on systems before Windows 7
. dragging the system tray icons with the mouse on systems before Windows 7
. semi-transparent taskbars on systems before Windows 7
. native look in any visual theme - from Windows Classic to Windows 7 Aero
Alt-Tab Task Switcher window on each monitor
. new window controls specially designed for a work with multiple monitors
. additional button in each window's title bar to put a window instantly to any monitor
. additional button in each window's title bar to maximize a window to entire desktop
. special hotkeys to put a window instantly to the next/previous monitor
. automatic placement of windows by default to the monitor which the mouse pointer is on
. automatic placement of certain windows to the specified monitors
. easy dragging/sizing of windows - by clicking anywhere inside a window
. snapping a dragged/sized window to desktop boundaries and other windows ("sticky borders")
. emulation of Windows 7 Aero Snap on Windows XP/Vista
. single-click maximization of windows - to entire desktop, to monitor's width, to monitor's height
. custom wallpaper - single on entire desktop or individual per monitor (with the ability to run a background slideshow)
. custom screen saver - single on entire desktop or individual per monitor
. custom desktop profiles - switch between various desktop configuration in a flash!
. keeping the order of desktop icons after the desktop configuration/resolution has been changed
. desktop mirroring - observe various parts of desktop (windows, monitors, arbitrary areas) in separate floating windows called mirrors
Changelog:
[+] 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:
[+] 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.
[+] 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:
[+] 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:
[*] 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:
[-] 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.
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