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Actual Multiple Monitors 8.10.1
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Actual Multiple Monitors improves Windows user interface when working with several monitors at once.
Install Actual Multiple Monitors to get such essential controls as Taskbar, Start menu,
system tray and Task Switcher on each connected display, quickly allocate windows between monitors
(either manually or automatically), improve the look-and-feel of your desktop with the
multi-monitor desktop wallpaper and screen saver, switch your laptop between internal
display and external displays in a click with desktop profiles. Play your favorite games on one
monitor and chat, serf web, stream online video, etc. on the others at the same time without fear that the game will minimize.
With these subtle but indispensable enhancements your productivity may be increased several times!
 
Multi-Monitor Taskbar
You no longer need to move the cursor to the primary screen to access the taskbar. With Actual Multiple Monitors
you will get a fully functional taskbar onto each display.
   
Additional Title Bar Buttons
Be saved from routine tossing of windows between monitors - new buttons in
each window's title bar give an instant access to advanced window functions and let apply them in a single click


Custom Hotkeys
Hotkeys is the tool of professionals, and Actual Multiple Monitors supports them in full. Most of program
functions can be activated via hotkey, and you can customize the key combinations at will.
Moreover, you will be able to add your own hotkeys for some window operations    

Multi-Monitor Gaming
Gamers will appreciate several features of Actual Multiple Monitors that were developed specifically for
enhancing multi-monitor gaming experience, making it more attractive and convenient
and many others
   
Desktop Divider
Divider allows you to divide the entire large desktop or each monitor

Window Snapping
If you prefer arrange your windows manually, Actual Multiple Monitors
will help you make it faster and more accurate by snapping a certain edge of the dragged window to:

Multi-Monitor Wallpaper
Using Actual Multiple Monitors, you can set up any kind of Desktop's background on multiple displays:

Multi-Monitor Screen Saver
Actual Multiple Monitors gives new abilities for screen savers
(even those that don't have native multi-monitor support) - you will be able to:


 
Desktop Mirroring
Mirroring is a special function that allows observing a certain window, monitor
or a custom part of desktop in a separate window on another monitor. It can be useful in various specific situations:

Actual Multiple Monitors 8.10.1 (20.02.2017)
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[+] Localizaton: Arabic language is added (translation made by Thamer Mousa).

[*] Windows 10: Title buttons now look correct in the Office 2013/2016 apps
    when their "File" tab gets active.

[*] Configuration: Now it's possible to press the Ctrl key to prevent the
    auto-snapping of a being dragged splitter to its siblings in the adjacent
    row/column.

[*] Mirroring: Now the "Keep aspect ratio" option is available for
    hardware-accelerated mirrors with such source types as "Monitor" or
    "Part of desktop".

[-] Mirroring: In Windows 10, a hardware-accelerated mirror with "Window" source
    type had a black border around the mirrored image.

[-] Actual Taskbar: Icons on buttons disappeared after applying any change of
    Actual Multiple Monitors settings made in the Configuration window.

[-] Configuration: The following bugs have been fixed in the Desktop Divider
    Tiles Editor:

    - on some multi-monitor configurations it did not allow to customize
      the layout on certain monitors;

    - splitters did unwantedly snap to the left/top border of a tile
      when being dragged closely to that border;

    - splitters did not scale properly on monitors with high DPI resolution.

[-] Configuration: Test Regexp dialog displayed an error if it was opened
    on a monitor with high DPI resolution.

[-] Updating: If the "New version is available" balloon notification was shown,
    right click on the Actual Multiple Monitors notification area icon
    started the installation instead of displaying icon's context menu.

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Actual Multiple Monitors 8.10.2 (28.03.2017)
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[+] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now display the Windows Action Center button.
Click on this button shows the Action Center Notifications window
on a primary monitor.

[*] Actual Taskbar: Start button now displays a context menu on right click.

[*] When using the Move to Monitor window action for a window that was snapped
to left/right half of a monitor, the window now retains its snapped state
on another monitor and gets exactly half its size.

[*] The "Move to" monitor selector dialog again displays the monitor numbers.

[-] Actual Taskbar: In some cases Calendar did not show up after clicking
the clock.

[-] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars looked wrong in the recent builds of Windows 10
Insider Preview.

[-] Title Buttons: Numerous Windows 10 compatibility fixes:

- incorrect Compact View background color fixed

- incorrect glyph color fixed with the enabled auto-selection of the main
UI color

- incorrect glyph color fixed in UWP apps in the recent builds of Windows 10
Insider Preview

[-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the standard ones in the Start
Screen window of Office 2016 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) since the recent
update.

[-] UltraEdit main window consumed CPU a lot with Actual Multiple Monitors
running.

[-] Configuration: In Windows 7+, web links always opened in Internet Explorer,
not default web browser.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 8.11.1 (27.07.2017)
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[!] Windows 8+: Multi-monitor Task Switcher is finally fully compatible with
Actual Taskbar's Individual mode: now it displays all windows on all
monitors. Thanks to this, the "Replace the system task switcher" option
became useless and has been removed from the "Multiple Monitors - Taskbar"
panel.

[*] Windows 10: Multi-monitor Task Switcher is now compatible with the old
Alt-Tab view if it was enabled in the Registry.

[*] Actual Taskbar: Context menu items to toggle taskbar controls (Start button,
tray, clock, etc.) have been moved to a submenu.

[*] Title Buttons: Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons
is improved in the latest versions of Google Chrome.

[-] Windows 10: Some apps (like Visual Studio 2012 installer and components,
or iTunes Helper) crashed when Actual Multiple Monitors was running.

[-] Windows 10: Windows Magnifier got hung when its Lens mode was active
and Actual Multiple Monitors was running.

[-] Windows 10: Refreshing a desktop with the "solid color" background made
the desktop black.

[-] Actual Taskbar: Start button did not show its context menu right after
the Start menu was closed by clicking the Start button.

[-] Actual Taskbar: Start menu did not close after clicking the Start button
second time or after clicking empty taskbar space.

[-] Actual Taskbar: Click on the Touch Keyboard button forced a currently active
window to lose focus.

[-] Title Buttons: System window menu flickered constantly in apps where
auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons enabled (Google Chrome,
Mozilla Firefox, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office apps).

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Actual Multiple Monitors 8.11 (20.06.2017)
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[!] Windows x64: The speed of advanced mouse features is greatly improved,
especially on systems with multi-core CPUs (with 8+ real cores).

[+] Actual Taskbar: Taskbars now display the following standard controls:

- Input Language Switch button (since Windows 8)

- Touch Keyboard button (since Windows 10)

- Ink Workspace button (since Windows 10 Anniversary Update)

- Touchpad button (since Windows 10 Creators Update and in Tablet mode only)

In systems before Windows 8 (except Windows Vista) the Input Language Switch
button can be displayed only on one of Actual Taskbar instances (via
"Toolbars - Language bar" taskbar context menu command).

In Windows Vista the Input Language Switch button is unavailable.

[+] Windows 10: Now you can create specific window settings for Metro (UWP) apps
(e.g. Settings, Edge, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.).

[+] The following image file types are now available for selection in
the background settings: DIB, RLE, EMF, WMF, TIFF, ICO.

[*] The factory exclusion rule "All unnamed windows" is added to skip all
windows with an empty caption.

[*] Windows 10: Size of Actual Taskbar controls now is adapted automatically
for touch screens.

[*] Windows 10: Actual Taskbar now considers the "Show badges on taskbar
buttons" system option.

[-] Windows 10: Actual Multiple Monitors prevented the background spellchecking
in Microsoft Word 2016.

[-] Windows 7+: If the system option to show labels on taskbar buttons was
enabled, overlay icons (like Skype status) displayed in a wrong place.

[-] Windows 7+: After modifying Actual Taskbar settings, icons on some task
buttons got small.

[-] Actual Taskbar: In server editions of Windows, Start button had no label
if the Terminal Services service was running.

[-] Background Slideshow/Slideshow Screen Saver: In multi-monitor mode, if time
intervals were different, slide change moments calculated incorrectly
that led to inconsistent results.

[-] Background Slideshow: Picture source caption might display in a wrong place
if the background slideshow worked in the "Single picture over entire
desktop" mode.

[-] Background Slideshow: When the "Show picture source" option was enabled,
refreshing the desktop (either via F5 hotkey or via "Refresh" context menu
command) in the Aero visual theme made the picture source captions disappear
until next slide change.

[-] Windows 10: Metro (UWP) apps did not put into Desktop Divider tiles when
being dragged by the mouse.

[-] Desktop Profiles: Display orientation could not be set to portrait or
reversed portrait in Windows 7+.

[-] Configuration: The list of desktop profiles displayed incorrect captions
in the Background column.

[-] Configuration: Captions on the Tools panels got cut in high DPI resolutions.

[-] Configuration: Exclusion detail panel did not refresh after adding a new
exclusion in the list.
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Quote:Actual Multiple Monitors 8.13 (21.08.2018)
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[!] Windows x64: The overall workload on a system has been reduced
   significantly, especially on multi-core CPUs.

[+] Windows Layout: Automatic keeping and restoration of current window layout
   per desktop configuration has been finally implemented.

   It works as follows: each 5 seconds Actual Window Manager stores
   the placements of currently open windows. When the desktop configuration
   (or desktop geometry) changes (you plug/unplug a monitor, put a laptop
   into a docking station, change a monitor resolution, etc.), it checks
   if there is stored information for the new desktop configuration, and if
   there is then it applies the kept placement info to all open windows,
   scattering them as they were. In other words, the window layout is restored
   when you return to some already known desktop configuration.

   See the options to control this new feature in the "Layout and Snap -
   Windows Layout" panel.

[*]Configuration: Windows are now properly scaled at startup to conform with
   the DPI resolution set for a monitor, which they are opening on.

[*]Mirroring: Now you can toggle the mirrors full-screen using the left double
   click or pressing Alt-Enter/F11. Also, you can exit full-screen by pressing
   Esc.

[*]Wrap Desktop: The feature has been rewritten from scratch to provide more
   predictable and expected behavior, especially on non-uniform desktop
   configurations.

[-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: Programs running with administrative privileges
   can't be minimized by clicking their task button.

[-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 7+: Preview thumbnails were not scaled correctly in
   high DPI resolutions.

[-] Actual Taskbar, Windows 10: Preview thumbnails looked differently than
   in the system taskbar.

[-] Desktop Divider: In some cases the "Put into" dialog did not display some
   tile layouts in full.

[-] Save Idle Screens: Numerous fixes in the automatic mode:

   - idle screen saver did not start on a primary monitor in Windows 10 if
     Actual Multiple Monitors was installed with the support of system utilities
     and administrative tools

   - idle screen saver stopped if the Desktop itself was activated

   - idle screen saver did not restart after closing it because of moving
     the mouse

   - idle screen saver can't be stopped on a monitor disconnected and then
     connected back

   - idle screen saver can't be stopped after switching to another user account
     and then returning back

   - the feature ignored mouse movements on monitors with no active window

[-] Drag to Scroll, Windows x64: The feature didn't work for 32-bit
   applications unless its activation mouse button was set to "left".

[-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing, Windows x64: The feature didn't work for
   32-bit applications.

[-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing, Windows 10: The feature didn't work for
   UWP applications (e.g. Settings, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.).

[-] Easy Window Dragging/Sizing: The feature didn't work for Chromium-based
   applications (e.g. Google Chrome and Vivaldi web browsers, Slack desktop
   client, Microsoft Teams desktop client, etc.).

[-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not react on right clicks in Foxit Reader.

[-] Title Buttons: Detecting free place for extra buttons stopped working in
   Google Chrome in high DPI resolutions since its version 67.

[-] Move to Monitor: After moving a maximized Google Chrome window to a monitor
   with a different DPI resolution, the window got beyond the visible desktop
   area.
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