Actual Window Minimizer was created to bring more convenience in window management, offering new ways for optimizing your workspace that standard Windows functions don`t provide. It lets you minimize any window to the system tray, thus leaving the taskbar empty and your workspace more organized. It`s also possible to minimize a window to any space on the desktop. The tool has different ways of minimization. You can manually turn on the feature with the special Minimize-to-Tray button in window`s title bar, via system window command or using the hotkey. It`s also possible to adjust automatic minimization upon window`s startup or deactivation. Finally, you can replace the function of default buttons (either Minimize or Close). The thing particularly helpful for fine-tuning minimization is that the tool can apply individual settings for a single window type. You can either set options for all windows or adjust minimization properties for particular window types. Such division allows you getting precisely the effect you want from working with the program. All the adjustments are extremely easy to set as the interface is very close to ideal and takes no time to familiarize with it.
Actual Window Minimizer is also at its best with window compatibility as it supports most of window types, including command prompt windows (also known as console/CMD/DOS ones).
Type :
Shareware ($19.95) »
EULAOS Support : Windows All + Vista
Date stamp / Size : Mar, 16. 2010 / 3870 kBytes
Asked : P-III 600+ CPU, 128+ Mb RAM, 10+ Mb free space on HDD
Update history of Actual Window Minimizerv6.2 (August, 7. 2010)
1) Title buttons compatible with MS Office 2010. 2) Regular expressions to detect a target window by its caption. 3) Excessive consupmtion of graphic resources at the high system load under Windows 7 x64 fixed. 4) Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under Windows 7.
v6.1 (June, 9. 2010)
1) Support of administrative tools in Vista/7. 2) Improved support of console windows in Windows 7. 3) Ability to create specific settings from the Log tool. 4) Multi-selection edit mode optimized. 5) Title button fixed in right-to-left language windows. 6) Empty custom icon fixed.
v6.0 (March, 1. 2010)
1) Console windows support on Win7. 2) Minimize (to tray/screen) by click on title bar. 3) Snap screen icons to desktop. 4) Restore by single/double click on tray/screen icon. 5) Auto-check for updates. 6) New hotkeys to suspend/resume the program. 7) Many fixed bugs/stability issues on x64.
v5.4 (July, 28. 2009)
1) Windows Thumbnails feature is added. 2) Compatibitily with full-screen applications is improved.
v5.3 (April, 12. 2009)
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Actual Window Minimizer 5.3 (31.03.2009)
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[+] The Description field is added for Exclusions.
[*] The amount of consumed Windows graphics resources is decreased
significantly (this prevents the resource exhaustion when too many windows
stay open).
[*] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added.
[*] Now Configuration windows remember their Maximized state between sessions.
[-] The bug in Configuration user interface with non-disappearing horizontal
scroll bar is fixed.
[-] Now the additional title buttons and system window menu items work
as expected in Windows Live Mail.
[-] Now console windows are correctly extended in the zero user session
on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003.
[-] The long unwanted pause, when closing console windows via Close
title button, is removed.
[-] The crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed.
v5.2 (November, 1. 2008)
1) Now the title button looks fully native under Windows Vista Aero. 2) The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64. 3) Now the window settings commands open the specially designed light-weight Configuration dialog containing the subject settings only.
v5.0 (February, 12. 2008)
1) The support for command prompt (or console/CMD/DOS) windows in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista is added. 2) The full support of native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64 platform is added.
Distribution permissions for Actual Window Minimizer
Actual Tools allows and encourages all websites, online services, shareware disk vendors, CD/DVD-ROM vendors, bulletin board systems, and end users to freely distribute the shareware version of this program. You may always obtain the most recent version of our program from our website (http://www.actualtools.com/download/). It is generally not necessary to contact Actual Tools for authorization, and you may begin offering the shareware version immediately. For more information visit www.ActualTools.com.
