Download Actual Multiple Monitors 5.1.0

Actual Tools has released a new version of Actual Multiple Monitors. This program, of which there is no longer a free version since version 5.0, is intended for people who work with more than one screen. For example, it can put a taskbar and start button on any screen, even under Windows 8. It can create a wallpaper that spans across all screens and adds buttons to move programs to another screen or open them across screens. Actual Multiple Monitors can be tried for 30 days and a license costs $24.95. Since version 5.0.3, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Actual Multiple Monitors 5.1

Important

• Global system hooks are replaced with the hooks local for each process. This should fix some known compatibility problems (eg with Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat) and also improve the overall stability.

New

• Ability is added to put a specific window at startup into the selected tile of a chosen Desktop Divider layout.

changes

• List of hotkey actions can be filtered by hotkey category (System, Mouse, Custom, etc.).
• Hotkeys now work in applications (mostly, video games) that use DirectInput to provide keyboard/mouse control (eg Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.).
• CPU load is reduced when moving a window with the Desktop Divider active.
• Classic snapping now ignores the 100%-transparent (ie invisible) windows.

Fixed error

• Windows 7: If Internet Explorer is already open, launching a new instance of it opened an unwanted extra window.
• Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not:
  • switch to a window by clicking its preview
  • support switching via rolling the mouse wheel
  • activate the desktop, in some cases
• In some cases, programs launched under adminstrator might lose their taskbar button after moving to a secondary monitor and then back to the primary one (eg Malwarebytes Anti-Malware).
• Windows 7: Start button on Actual Taskbar got lost after invoking the “Gather all windows here” command.
• Actual Multiple Monitors Slideshow screen saver stopped showing pictures on existing monitors after attaching an additional one.
• The bottom of title buttons was clipped in JRiver Media Center window.
• Moving a window between monitors via Monitor Selector dialog made the Move to Monitor title button’s tool tip incorrect.
• Windows x64: In some cases, scrolling a window with the “Scrolling inactive windows” feature beyond the bottom made the scroller bounce at the end of scrollbar.

Current Multiple Monitors 5.0.4

Important

• Actual Taskbar did not appear at startup if the “Show window contents while dragging” option was disabled in Windows.

changes

• Compatibility with MAXQDA has been improved.
• Windows 7: “Desktop Divider’s Up/Down/Left/Right” hotkey combinations are modified to avoid conflicts with the system hotkeys.

Fixed error

• In some cases specific window settings did not apply to 64-bit applications (eg Waterfox).
• Windows 8: Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not switch windows when pressing Alt-Tab shortly.
• Mouse pointer moved to a wrong place when activating Excel windows via taskbar previews if the “Put the mouse into window on preview click” option was enabled.
• When locking the mouse in a maximized window, the mouse pointer could be dragged beyond monitor boundaries.
• Windows 7: Hand tool did not work with the folder tree in Windows Explorer windows.