Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13 Software
Actual Multiple Monitors is a comprehensive solution designed to improve the functionality of Windows user interface when working 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. You can also download Actual Window Manager 8.13.
Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13 Software
Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.7- 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-builtActual Multiple Monitors 8.14.6.1- Actual Taskbar: Captions on taskbar buttons did not match actual window titlesActual Multiple Monitors 8.14.6- Some internal components are made more concurrency-friendly by removingredundant locks and eliminating bottlenecks that might cause a noticeablesystem 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 11installations because the ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter[64].exe processcrashed instantly at startup.Windows 10: Some improvements for UWP apps:- extra menu commands added by Actual Multiple Monitors are finallyavailable in the system window menu invoked by a title bar right click- mouse actions assigned to a title bar and standard title buttonsnow work as expected- Window Actions, Mouse: The support is added for windows with a non-standardwindow frame to intercept clicks on a title bar, sizeable border, andstandard 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 menushowing 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 arecontrast 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 italways "teleports" the mouse pointer to a nearest monitor in the straightmouse moving direction, or to a farthest monitor in the opposite direction.In particular, that solves the issue of the mouse pointer stuck in a cornerof a monitor with a higher display resolution when trying to move the mouseto an adjacent monitor with a lower display resolution, which is notexplicitly 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 worksmore accurately in the "Keep aspect ratio" mode when moving a window betweenmonitors with different both display and DPI resolutions (calculation ofboth the window location and size has been improved).- Window Actions, Mouse: The "Maximize horizontally/vertically" mouse actionswork again in a "toggle" manner (i.e. restore the previous window size ona second click).- Windows 10, Actual Taskbar, Title Buttons: In some scenarios, the UWP appsshowing in Actual Taskbar might cause an unwanted CPU consumption if anyextra buttons were added to their windows' title bars.- Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons werenot contrast in desktop apps in the Dark visual theme.- Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Google Chromewindows 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 inSlack for Desktop 4.20+.- Title Buttons: dragging/sizing a window by the mouse imposed some excessiveCPU consumption if any extra buttons were added to the window's title bar.- Title Buttons: Extra buttons became clipped at the bottom after moving theirhost window from a monitor with a low (a monitor with a high (> 200%) DPI resolution.- Window Settings, Windows 7+: Another proper specific settings did not applyto a File Explorer window with some specific settings already applied whenits caption changed after switching to a certain folder and the Exploreroption "Display the full path in the title bar" was on.- Multiple Monitors: The "Save Idle Screens" screen saver exited when runningon 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 Monitoraction 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 > DefaultSettings > Startup" panel).Window Actions: Some fixes and improvements for the Monitor Selector dialog:- in the "Move to" mode, the dialog closes after releasing the leftmouse button only if some real movement can be made, otherwisethe 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 usingthe primary monitor's DPI resolution instead of a current DPI resolution- in some cases, visual glitches might appear when drawing active dotsin the "Move to" mode- Window Actions: The "Display current window position" featuredid not activate when a window was being resized either by its top-rightor bottom-left corner.Actual Multiple Monitors 8.14.5- 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 windowactivation, 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 selectedActual Multiple Monitors 8.14.4New:- 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).Changed:- Actual Taskbar: Compatibility with Open-Shell Start Menu is restoredFixed:- 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 openingActual Multiple Monitors 8.14.3- In some rare cases, running applications might crash randomly- Actual Window Manager 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)- Virtual Desktops: The ability is added to resize a Virtual Desktop Switcher window on-the-fly as any regular sizeable window. Set location/size are remembered (per each monitor either in Independent mode or for cloned switchers in Classic mode)Virtual Desktops: The following bugs are fixed:- Suspending/resuming the Actual Window Manager Control Center might cause random memory errors in the Control Center process- An active window on a desktop did not always get foreground when switching to that desktop- Activating a desktop by clicking empty space of its cell in the switcher forced the desktop to lose its active window (if any)- An active window lost its activation after being moved to "all desktops" (either manually or automatically)- Changing a mode (Classic/Independent) messed Z-order of currently open windows- Excel 2013+ "Find and Replace" dialog disappeared after switching to another desktop and back- Launching Mozilla Firefox on a certain desktop, then switching to another desktop and launching another Firefox instance activated the first desktop- First virtual desktop got activated always when invoking a notification area icon's context menu for the following applications: Intel GraphicsControl Panel, Skype for Desktop, Slack for Desktop, MS Teams, KiTTY, Insync, Everything- After switching from Classic to Independent mode, on some multi-monitor configurations two switchers might appear on the same monitor- After changing a mode, switcher's placement stored and restored incorrect- Tooltips with desktop names sometimes appeared in the top-left corner instead of the center- After dragging a minimized wi- ndow's icon between switchers on different monitors the source switcher retained the icon until window's restoration- Tabbed Explorer, Windows 10: The Search box stopped working in the tabbed- File Explorer windows since the November update 1909 (build 18363)- Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons looked shorter than regular ones in maximized windows of Chromium-based applications (Google Chrome, Slackfor 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- Window Actions: Applying the "Send to bottom" action at startup might make the Alt key appear to be pressed (actual pressing/releasing the physicalAlt key removed that effect)- Window Actions: Custom title buttons/hotkeys for the "Run keyboard macro" action stopped working in the Default window settings- 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- 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 extr