Discover new abilities of common system window menu - forget about windows mess!
Actual Window Menu is a suite of the most popular innovative programs which allows users to operate windows on the desktop in some advanced ways: alternatively minimize to Windows notification area (system tray) or to a floating icon on the screen, alter the execution priority of Windows processes on-the-fly, apply semi-transparency effect, roll up/unroll, resize, align, easily move windows between different displays in a multiple display environment, etc. Installation, as well as the use of the program, is extremely easy and does not require much time. After installation, the application embeds its extra commands into each window's system menu. These new commands are as easy to use as common Move/Size/Minimize/Close ones, and they significantly enhance windows management abilities. The set of commands can be customized for particular applications so that you can select just features which are really necessary there and, thus, form a convenient and flexible working environment. Actual Window Menu is irreplaceable when you have to work with numerous applications at once switching from one to another, which is very annoying and frustrating. Moreover, it becomes quite difficult to distinguish between minimized programs as they get the taskbar piled up. Actual Window Menu enables you to forget that chaos and proceed with your work not being disturbed by windows mess on the desktop. System window menu is the standard windows management facility - it's simple, handy and functional. Enhancing it with Actual Window Menu will turn it into a magic wand - powerful and unobtrusive. Here are some key features of "Actual Window Menu":
Minimize to Tray command: · The 'Minimize to Tray' feature lets you save taskbar space while providing access to minimized applications via the system tray icons. Make your own taskbar less cluttered and more handy!
RollupUnroll command: · The 'RollupUnroll' feature lets you minimize windows so only the title bars remain visible.
Stay on Top command: · The 'Stay on Top' feature helps you place the selected windows on top of other ones, so that it were always accessible and couldn't be hidden by other windows. Don't let these windows annoy you when you busy!
Send to Bottom command: · The 'Send to Bottom' feature sends the desired window to the bottom of others. In other words, this button hides a window under other windows, but leaves it on the desktop.
Make Transparent menu: · The 'Make Transparent' feature lets you apply transparency effect from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (solid) rate to any program in Windows 2000/XP. · You can select a different transparency level for any window on the fly, while it is open! Clicking 'Make Transparent' displays a popup menu where you can choose one of the predefined levels of transparency. It's a very gorgeous effect, try it - and you'll like it very much.
Change Priority command: · The 'Change Priority' feature allows changing the desired window's program priority. This command has a submenu that allows you to set the one of the pre-defined levels of the window's program priority: Low, Below Normal, Normal, Above Normal, High and Real-Time.
Align Window menu: The 'Align Window' feature lets you get any application window aligned with any of the 9 positions on the desktop - upper-left, upper-central, upper-right, etc. Clicking 'Align Window' button displays a popup menu where you can choose one of the nine types of alignement:
Resize Window menu: · The 'Resize Window' feature allows you to set the size of any selected application window to have it always opened at the size you want. You can choose any Default Window Size from the list which includes exact window sizes in pixels (e.g. 640 x 480; 800 x 600; 1024 x 768) or in percents from the desktop size (e.g. 100% x 100%; 50% x 50%). Moreover you can set the width and height of any window on your own by using Custom Window Size option. · Resize Window tool is extremely useful for website designers. They can quickly see how their web project looks like in different resolutions by flicking through default window sizes or setting any unique window size on their own.
Hotkeys support: · Now you can minimize programs to the system tray, always keep them on top, roll up windows, make them semitransparent, etc. by means only one keystroke combination. Such a possibility lets you manage the same actions much quicker on condition of using keyboard.
Individual window settings: · You can configure every program's windows to different options, leave them that way for a while, or change the options whenever you wish! Your configuration for each window will remain set after every bootup until you change it.
Multilingual support: · Actual Window Menu supports English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Catalan, Turkish and Polish languages.
Possibility to improve almost each program: · Actual Window Menu is useful for working with e-mail clients (Microsoft Outlook, MS Outlook Express, Eudora, Incredimail etc.); messenger programs (MSN / Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger etc.); office tools (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PhotoShop, Corel Draw etc.); developer tools (MS Visual Studio, Borland Delphi etc.); and many other kinds of programs. Requirements:
· P-III 600+ CPU · 128+ Mb RAM · 10+ Mb free space on HDD · Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher Limitations:
· 30 days trial · Nag screen What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The ability is added to add custom mouse actions for clicks on particular window parts (see the Mouse panel in the Options window).
· The Hand tool is added. It allows scrolling windows by holding down the specified mouse button (right by default) and dragging the mouse.
· Now it's possible to customize the kind of click to invoke the Quick Settings dialog.
· Now it's possible to customize the system speed of scrolling with the mouse wheel.
· Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved.
· Compatiblity of the Scroll Inactive Windows feature is improved with the protected Internet Explorer windows and Outlook 2010 windows.
· Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed.
· Firefox 4 left its icon in the taskbar after minimizing to tray.
· The Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrect with monitors having negative coordinates.
· Aero Snap emulator stopped working in 6.4.
· Edit boxes for time delays worked incorrect with large values.