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What's new in the latest version
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Window Guard 4.5 (20.06.2007)
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[!] Windows Monitoring Log tool is added into the Control Center. It allows
detecting newly appeared windows and check, which window rule has been
applied in each particular case. Now you can easily solve any configuration
ambiguities and detect properties of short-living windows (like tool tips,
popup menus etc.). Be careful using this feature: turned on it may slow down
your system!
[+] The 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 new "Keep window caption persistent" option is added to the "Change
window caption" feature.
[+] Now the balloon tip is shown over the Control Center's tray icon at first
start after the installation.
[+] Translation to the Dutch language is added (thanks to Onno Verschoor).
[*] The internal mechanism of hotkeys processing is significantly improved.
[*] The "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.
[*] The placement restriction area visualization is improved for non-standard
taskbar placements.
[-] 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.
[-] 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.
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Actual Window Guard 4.4 (16.04.2007)
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[!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant
windows will re-apply their settings when the configuration has been saved.
[+] The Windows Layout tool is added: it provides the ability to automatically
or manually relocate/resize your currently opened windows to keep them
within desktop when its resolution is changed (it's very useful when working
with the same workstation both locally and through the Remote Desktop
client).
[+] The long-awaited feature is added: now it's possible to remove the standard
window parts like Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons, window icon, window
sizeable border, or window caption so fixing window in its current state
and preventing its moving/resizing/minimizing/closing.
[+] The new Pin-to-Desktop feature is added: when window is pinned it disappears
from taskbar and Alt-Tab sequence and can't be minimized in any way so it's
visible all the time until it's unpinned.
[+] The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module
(refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu
command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the
archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later.
[+] Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and
Polish languages are added.
[*] Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced.
[*] All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned;
the new window rule features' Index panel is added.
[*] Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and
column widths in most of list boxes.
[*] The Resize Action Options property sheet is improved: now you can copy
items and adjust the height of Sizes list box.
[*] The visualization of allowed area provided by the Show button of the
"Restrict placement" feature is improved: now it displays the
semi-transparent green rectangle that shows the area of allowed placement.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed.
[-] The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: if in multi-monitor configuration some windows were placed
to a secondary display, and it was unplugged during the session then such
windows are moved automatically to the primary display.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed.
[-] Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed.
[-] The bug of incorrect window placement to a primary display while it's
resized on secondary display is fixed.
[-] The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed.
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Actual Window Guard 4.3 (15.12.2006)
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[!] Since this release Actual Tools are fully compatible with Windows Vista.
[!] Now all the configuration files are stored in user's profile (in the folder
like "%UserProfile%\Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager").
[*] The old known issue with the Lotus Notes client's crash at startup is fixed.
[*] The known issue with the Internet Explorer 7 crash while saving the
configuration is fixed.
[*] Now the Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista.
[*] The issue with the Mozilla-based browsers' (like Firefox, Seamonkey etc.)
undesired focus switch is partially fixed (the issue still presents in
Win9x).
[*] The issue of the malfunction of drag-n-drop in the Opera browser is
fixed.
[*] The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed.
[*] The minimal/maximal window size settings are now correctly maintained in
Windows 2003 Server.
[*] The multi-monitor issues of the "Restrict placement" feature are fixed.
[+] The ability to automatically reposition windows splitted across several
monitors is added; it can be used both in the general multi-monitor
environment and when using the multi-monitor client system in the Terminal
Server environment.
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Actual Window Guard 4.2 (10.10.2006)
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[!] The long-awaited feature is added: now the "Window caption" criterion
correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup
(like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).
[*] The "Manage Window Rule" submenu is renamed to "Manage Window Settings".
[+] The "Modify default settings" command is being included now into the "Manage
Window Settings" submenu if the "All Windows" settings were applied.
[+] The translations to German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian are added.
[+] Now you can strictly but flexibly constrain window placement on the desktop
by defining the limits for window's top-left corner (so window can't be
upper/left than the defined values) and/or bottom-right corner (so window
can't be lower/right than the defined values).
[*] The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized
windows.
[*] The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the four
main directions independently.
[-] The bug with the neglect of options other than "keep aspect ratio" in the
"After Moving to Another Monitor" group is fixed.
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Actual Window Guard 4.1 (01.08.2006)
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[+] Multi-monitor support: the ability to move a window to the selected monitor
at window's startup is added.
[+] The ability to maximize window to desktop by the right-click on the standard
Maximize title button is added.
[+] The ability to stretch window by the right-click on its border is added.
[+] The translations to Japanese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese
Traditional are added.
[*] The work speed and overall stability were slightly improved.
[-] The bug with the internal windows of MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: even if the maximal window size was constrained in the
configuration, the Maximize button still had expanded it to the whole desktop.
[-] The minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is
fixed.
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Actual Window Guard 4.0 (05.05.2006)
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[!] The Configuration Module's user interface is redesigned totally.
[!] Settings file size is significantly reduced comparing to the previous
versions.
[!] Executable modules' size and run-time memory consumption are slightly
reduced.
[!] The Help contents is redesigned almost from scratch.
[+] The Help system has become context-sensitive.
[+] Added the ability to copy window rules.
[+] Added the ability to customize an icon for a particular Specfic Window rule.
[+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the
attached configuration file.
[+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button.
[+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows
the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's
taskbar button.
[+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into
a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities
for a particular window:
- create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule
- create an Excluded Window rule
- re-apply the window rule
[+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the
"Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name.
[+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars'
buttons size).
[*] Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as
a template.
[+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific
Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options.
[*] The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using
the non-standard screen DPIs.
[+] Added the ability to set different settings for the different window
events/states for the following properties:
transparency level - for the creation, movement, resizing, deactivation,
mouse hovering, title bar double-click,
"Transparency" title button
priority level - for the creation, minimization, deactivation,
"Priority" title button
[+] Added the ability to provide a shift values when a window is aligned.
[+] Added the ability to set the desired width/height values as a percent of
the corresponding desktop size.
[+] Window Finder internal tool was adapted for the detection of the
current window size and position.
[+] Added the ability to "freeze" the window stay-on-top state which
prevents the application from resetting this state.
[-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was
started.
[-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus
after selecting any tool in the Tools panel.
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Actual Window Guard 3.8 (23.09.2005)
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[*] Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified.
Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first
symbol in window position fields is possible.
[*] Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are
disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed.
[-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has
been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of
"Window class" field's entered string into real window class name.
[*] Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of
Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was
finally solved.
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Actual Window Guard 3.7 (02.08.2005)
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[-] The "Resize Window" action have been improved. The new version restores
window sizes correctly. Also the program works fine with windows opened
full screen.
[+] Added supports of RAdmin remote access windows.
[*] We have improved window class identification. Exact matching of the
entered window class with the real window class is no longer required.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow the Configuration Module to restore
correctly when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule"
command of the menu.
[-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree.
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Actual Window Guard 3.6 (06.04.2005)
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[!] New way to create the custom options for specific windows.
The new item "Create Window Rule" is included in the system window menu
of all windows. With a right mouse click on the window title call a
menu and follow the item "Create Window Rule" to create a rule for this
window. The new rule will be created automatically and what is left is
to specify the actions which you would like to apply to this window.
[*] The functioning logic of the action Run Mode is modified. Now it's in
progress in 100% of cases. In earlier versions Internet Explorer
Maximization sometimes failed to function.
[*] Custom window rules are added in for the browsers Mozilla Firefox and
Opera. Moreover, some settings of already existing rules are modified.
[*] The interface of the program is slightly changed.
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Actual Window Guard 3.5 (20.01.2005)
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[!] Windows Extension Engine is improved.
[+] Added "Set Minimum Size" and "Set Maximum Size" actions.
[+] Added "Hide Configuration Window when using the Window Finder
(gunsight) tool" option.
[+] Added "Enable All Rules" and "Disable All Rules" commands.
[+] Added context menu for Window Rules.
[+] Supports of MFC windows (window class like Afx:X:X:X:X:X)
[*] Memory usage and load speed optimization.
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Actual Window Guard 3.0 (13.10.2004)
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[*] Maintenance Release
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Actual Window Guard 2.8 (31.08.2004)
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[+] Added command line support.
[+] Added a "silent" installation option.
[+] Added Dutch language.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Guard 2.7 (28.07.2004)
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[+] Added a "Set window position when it is created" action.
[+] Added a "Set window size when it is created" action.
[+] Added a new "Temporarily stop program" option to context menu.
[+] Now supports Mozilla FireFox and Netscape browser.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Guard 2.6 (26.05.2004)
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[+] Added Danish and Russian languages.
[+] Added a description field for Window Rule.
[+] Added commands for moving windows' rules up and down, in order to make
them easier to find.
[*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Window Guard 2.5 (18.02.2004)
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[+] Added the new action "Change Window Title." Now you can replace the
original title of a window to say whatever you want to say! For
example, you can rename your word processor, a game, etc.
[+] Added the new action "Change Program Priority." It can change the
speed of execution for any program from low to high or back. Be
careful, and don't make changes unless you know what you are doing.
[+] Added the new action "Remove window from taskbar."
[+] Added a command for sorting windows rules by name, in order to make
the rules easier to find.
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Actual Window Guard 2.0 (26.08.2003)
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[!] Added "Default Window Rule." The Default Window Rule now lets you
define and apply new options to ALL windows in your system. The
ability to apply different options to individual windows still
exists.
[+] Added a "Program" choice for applying individual
settings to selected windows.
[+] Added adialog for choosing a window among existing windows to apply
individual settings.
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Actual Window Guard 1.5 (21.04.2003)
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[+] Added "Prevent accidental close of window". This feature can save you
a lot of annoyance!
[+] Added German language.
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Actual Window Guard 1.4 (11.12.2002)
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[+] Added Spanish, French, Catalan and Turkish languages.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface.
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Actual Window Guard 1.3 (07.11.2002)
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[!] Added multilingual support.
[+] Added English, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish languages.
[*] Highly increase program's launching speed.
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Actual Window Guard 1.2 (16.10.2002)
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[+] Added a window action "Stay On Top".
[+] Added an option "Enable\disable tray icon".
[+] Added an option "Load at startup".
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Actual Window Guard 1.1 (19.09.2002)
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[+] Added a window action "Save size and position of windows"
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Actual Window Guard 1.0 (01.09.2002)
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[!] Initial Release
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