Actual Window Manager 8.15.4

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[!] Internal low-level structures are cleaned and optimized;
also, their processing is highly accelerated on x64 systems,
resulting in overall speed increase.

[+] Tabbed Explorer: The long-awaited feature is finally implemented:
now Actual Window Manager remembers the layout and contents
of its tabbed containers on pause/exit and restores them as before
on start/resume, keeping the placement of container windows
and tab order in them.

[*] Tabbed Explorer: Numerous fixes and improvements:

- tab deletion in various ways now is more consistent and expected

- after pausing/exiting Actual Window Manager,
cascaded File Explorer windows now are kept completely
within desktop boundaries

- tab loading animation is added

- when switching tabs fast (especially via a keyboard shortcut),
their respective File Explorer windows might flicker on a desktop

- sometimes the File Explorer window enclosed within a tab
might appear shifted right-down in the tab

- first tab icon was painted over by the last tab icon after
deleting a tab in the middle

- after deleting a tab via its taskbar preview, the number of previews
did not update

- in Windows 11+, File Explorer windows containing old Control Panel
did not get into containers

[*] Virtual Desktops: Numerous fixes and improvements for the Independent mode:

- the facility handled improperly desktop geometry transitions
"from lesser to greater number of active monitors" (like from
one to two, or from two to four, etc.) if started initially
with the lesser number of active monitors

- after detaching a monitor from the desktop, windows being resided on
other monitors' active desktops might disappear

- after detaching a monitor from the desktop, the drag-n-drop
in the VD Switchers on remained monitors might stop working

[-] On some multi-monitor systems, the primary display might be detected
incorrectly, resulting in various visual and logical issues.

[-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 11 22H2+: Numerious fixes:

- in some systems, the "Replace the system taskbar" feature
might work improperly

- certain apps' tray icons (e.g. WhatsApp, MS Teams, Daemon Tools)
were empty

- Security system tray icon did not respond to left/right mouse clicks

- Safe Removal system tray icon was white in the Light visual theme

[-] Save Idle Screens: Screen savers did not start automatically even if
the "Start automatically" option was enabled until making some changes
in the Actual Window Manager settings and applying them
while Actual Window Manager was running.

[-] Window Actions, Window Menu: "Show clipboard templates" and "Quick settings"
items stopped being added to a window's system menu even if they
were enabled in the Actual Window Manager settings.

[-] Configuration, Desktop Profiles: The profile options detail panel flickered
when changing a selected profile element in the list of profiles.

[-] Configuration, Multiple Monitors: The "Monitors' Layout and Settings" panel
might look garbled in some combinations of font face/size (some controls
covered their neighbors partially/completely).

Обновил ссылки:
тема на форуме (смотрите Старые полезные советы/Программы, Справки, Ролики для версии Actual Window Manager 8.14.3)
плейлист на rutube (все ролики есть на Яндекс диске в соответствующей папке)

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[!] The overall speed is slightly increased.

[+] Mouse: Now the system-wide mouse input processing can be disabled completely
by turning off all the mouse hook-dependent features:

- Mouse > Actions > Quick window settings

- Mouse > Drag and Scroll > Make the entire window area responsive to
dragging/sizing

- Mouse > Drag and Scroll > Scroll inactive windows with the mouse wheel

- Mouse > Drag and Scroll > Drag the mouse to scroll windows (Hand tool)

- Mouse > Multiple Monitors > Tight monitor boundaries

- Mouse > Multiple Monitors > Wrap the desktop

- Multiple Monitors > Screen Saver > Save Idle Screens > Start
automatically when a monitor remains idle for

This can be useful if you do not need those features and have any problems
with the input processing (delays, mouse stuttering, overall performance
degradation, etc.).

Turning all those features off tells Actual Window Manager not to install
a new (or remove the existing) system mouse hook. Turning any of them on
keeps the system mouse hook on and operational.

[+] Virtual Desktops: Now the "Show Expose task switcher" hotkey displays
the Virtual Desktops Expose switcher instead of a plain Expose switcher,
if the Virtual Desktops facility is active.

[*] Window Actions: Now certain controls in the Quick Settings dialog can be
quickly activated by pressing an appropriate Alt- keyboard shortcut.

[*] Hotkeys: Now, if Actual Window Manager is paused, only two its hotkeys
remain available: "Configure" (Win-C by default) and "Pause/resume"
(Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Num- by default).

[-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10+: The following Light visual theme
incompatibilities have been fixed:

- in Windows 10+, taskbar toolbar items were white

- in Windows 11 22H2+, system tray icons, like Network/Sound/Battery,
were white

[-] Title Buttons, Vista+: In some rare cases, extra buttons could prevent
the main app window from receiving input focus.

[-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing: Once enabled, the feature remained active
even if it was disabled in the Configuration window - until
Actual Window Manager complete reloading (i.e. exiting and
starting again).

[-] Window Layout: In some cases, fast sequential display configuration
transitions could be handled improperly.

[!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: Compatibility is improved
(checked on Windows 11 Version 23H2, build 22631.3447):

- the system tray is restored (however, it still may be incompatible
with particular apps - empty icons, not working mouse clicks, etc.)

- the Input Language Switch button is restored

- the Action Center button is functional again

- system tray icons (e.g. Sound Volume, Network, Battery) display their
corresponding flyout windows (still Win10-style though)

- Start button displays its context menu on mouse right click
(although the context menu responds to keyboard only yet)

[+] Configuration, Desktop Divider: Ability is added to make the Tiles Editor
windows semi-transparent to adjust the tiles more accurately with the
actual layout of desktop windows.

[*] Mouse Drag and Scroll: The window dragging part of the "Make the entire
window area responsive to dragging/sizing" feature has been reimplemented:
now it works much more stable and smoother (no more unwanted title button
activations, sizing instead of dragging, or sudden window jumps while
dragging), and is compatible with most of the apps.

The known issues: tabbed CMD/PowerShell/Notepad/Explorer windows in Win11,
Actual Tools Tabbed Explorer windows.

[-] Windows 11 22H2+, Keyboard Modifier Keys: Any specified modifier key
combination stopped being recognized after dragging out any tab in the
system tabbed apps (File Explorer, Notepad, CMD/PowerShell). So the
Actual Window Manager features based on those combinations stopped
working as well.

[-] Windows 11, Tabbed Explorer: Folders stopped being put into containers
since the update 22621.2861.

[-] Windows 10+, Window Settings: In some cases, settings stopped being applied
to Metro/UWP apps after restarting Actual Window Manager.

[-] Logon Screen Slideshow: The slideshow processes remained running in
inactive user sessions after stopping the Logon Screen service of
Actual Window Manager.

[!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: List of knows issues in this version
(subject to fix in the future updates, last checked on Windows 11
Version 23H2, build 22631.3447):

- the entire visual style and behavior of Actual Taskbar is more similar
to Windows 10 than to Windows 11

- there is no ability to align the taskbar buttons (including Start,
Search, Virtual Desktops, Recycle Bin) center/right

- system tray is incompatible yet with particular apps

- sometimes Start menu on secondary monitors does not show up after
clicking the Actual Taskbar's Start button

- Start button's context menu does not react on mouse

- Actual Taskbar does not handle the overflow (i.e. when there are
so many apps open so that their buttons do not fit taskbar's
visual space)

- additional buttons (like Recycle Bin or Actual Tools VD Switcher)
do not appear in the system taskbar

[!] Windows 11, Title Buttons: List of knows issues in this version
(subject to fix in the future updates, last checked on Windows 11
Version 23H2, build 22631.3447):

- extra buttons may cover tabs in the system tabbed apps (File Explorer,
Notepad, CMD/PowerShell)

Ссылки не рабочие

Thank you, but the keygen from radixx11 doesn't work on v8.15.

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[!] Security: Now all Actual Tools runtime executables natively support
the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization
(ASLR) security technologies provided by the system. That hardens
the overall system security by preventing various exploit attacks.

[+] Multiple Monitors: The option "On internal borders only" has been added to
the "Wrap the Desktop" feature.

[+] Windows x64, Tabbed Explorer: On 64-bit systems Tabbed Explorer now runs
as a native 64-bit executable.

[*] Windows 11, Tabbed Explorer: Tabbed Explorer now is compatible with native
tabs in Explorer windows (it fully replaces them).

[*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: The overall robustness is improved.

[*] Per-application Audio Device Switcher: Sound switching now works in other
Chromium-based browsers, like Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Yandex.Browser.

To make a browser compatible with Audio Switcher, you must insert
the following key into a command line of a browser's launching shortcut:

--disable-features=AudioServiceSandbox

[*] Mouse Drag and Scroll: Now the "Make the entire window area responsive to
dragging/sizing" feature is compatible with the Chromium-based apps:
Google Chrome and other web browsers (Brave, Opera, Vivaldi,
Yandex.Browser), Slack, WhatsApp, MS Teams, Upwork, Spotify, etc.

[*] Title Buttons: Numerous fixes and improvements in Chromium-based apps:

- glyphs on extra buttons did not change their color when toggling
an app's window active/inactive

- automatic gradual compact mode did not work in Opera and Vivaldi
(so the extra buttons covered the browser tabs and the "New tab" button)

Note: If you have specific windows settings for these browsers (either
factory or custom) then you need to reset there the "Title Buttons >
Options > Shift the buttons horizontally" value back to 0 to make
the gradual compact mode work properly.

- in some cases current title bar color could not be detected correctly,
and the glyphs looked wrong (e.g. white in the Light visual theme)

[-] Windows 11, Alt-Tab Task Switcher: Task switcher windows did not show up
on secondary monitors. Also, white full-screen windows might appear on
secondary monitors after invoking the Alt-Tab Task Switcher.

Known issue: In this version, secondary task switcher windows do not
react on mouse actions yet.

[-] Windows 10+, Actual Taskbar: Taskbar button icons for Metro apps were
contrast white-black instead of their colorful versions in the Light
visual theme.

[-] Windows 10+, Actual Taskbar: Some Metro apps (like Notepad, WhatsApp,
Telegram Desktop, Trello, TradingView, and others) did not launch properly
from their buttons pinned to Actual Taskbar.

[-] Windows 10, Actual Taskbar: System tray icons (like Network or Sound Volume)
did not change their color properly after toggling the Light/Dark visual
theme.

[!] Windows 11, Actual Taskbar: List of knows issues in this version
(subject to fix in the near future updates, last checked on Windows 11
Version 22H2, build 22621.1848):

- the entire visual style and behavior of Actual Taskbar is more similar
to Windows 10 than to Windows 11

- there is no ability to align the taskbar buttons (including Start,
Search, Virtual Desktops, Recycle Bin) center/right

- sometimes Start menu on secondary monitors does not show up after
clicking the Actual Taskbar's Start button

- Actual Taskbar's Start button does not display its context menu
on mouse right click

- Actual Taskbar does not display the system tray

- Actual Taskbar does not handle the overflow (i.e. when there are
so many apps open so that their buttons do not fit taskbar's
visual space)

- click on the Actual Taskbar's Action Center button does nothing

- additional buttons (like Recycle Bin or Actual Tools VD Switcher)
do not appear in the system taskbar

В-общем, пользуйтесь: ссылка на тему (папка Обновлённая версия)

[!] 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).

[*] Windows 11, Tabbed Explorer: Compatibility is improved:

- File Explorer toolbar is no more dark in the Light visual theme

- empty header space above File Explorer toolbar is removed

[*] 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 Window Manager 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 Window Manager.

[-] 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 10+, Tabbed Explorer: Numerous fixes and improvements:

- Explorer might crash after restarting Actual Window Manager
or closing a container window and opening another one

- Explorer crashed after adding a new File Explorer window
to an existing container and then opening the Task View window

- it was impossible to switch system virtual desktops after
switching to a desktop with no containers and opening there
a new File Explorer window

- if there were any open Control Panel windows then toggling
the Tabbed Explorer feature off/on made it work erratically
(e.g. some windows stopped to being gathered into containers
and remained free)

- sometimes after toggling the Tabbed Explorer feature off
extra buttons were invisible in some freed File Explorer windows

- Alt-Tab switcher window displayed unwanted empty entries for
the File Explorer windows opened after starting Actual Window Manager

- container window did not activate after clicking any of
its taskbar previews

- several fast clicks on different tabs within a container
produced delayed and sometimes unexpected visual response
(tab activation order did not follow the order of clicks)

- now initial creation of a container window works faster
as well as closing individual containers

[-] 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, Title Buttons: The Resize Window title button disappeared
after minimizing/restoring a window.

[-] Window Actions, Title Buttons: The Align Window title button did not restore
the original window placement after changing the alignment several times
in a row.

[-] 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.

[-] Window Actions, Hotkeys: The Move to Next Monitor hotkey stopped working
when its corresponding title button was disabled but the corresponding
system menu command was enabled.

[-] Window Actions: If a window was rolled up and then minimized, pausing
or exiting Actual Window Manager did not restore window's original
position and size.

[-] 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-built.

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