Download Actual Multiple Monitors 8.1

Actual Tools has released version 8.1 of Actual Multiple Monitors. This program is intended for people who work with more than one monitor. Thus, it can put a taskbar and start button on every screen. Windows 8 used Classic Shell for this, but should no longer be included, although it still works fine with it. Actual Multiple Monitors can further create a background that spans all screens and adds buttons to move programs to another screen or open them across different screens. The program can be tried for 30 days and a license costs $ 24.95.

New

• Windows 8/8/1: Ability to toggle active Modern (Metro) app to windowed mode is added (see the “Toggle windowed mode for a Modern app” hotkey in the Tools group on the “Hotkeys – Actions” panel).
• Ability to activate windows by placing the mouse over them is added (see the new “Mouse – Options” panel).
• Now the Desktop Mirroring feature uses the hardware video acceleration available for Windows Desktop presentation since Windows Vista. This allows the near-real-time performance for such graphics-intensive applications as video players, video games and other similar programs where high performance mirroring is required.
  Note: Hardware accelerated mirroring is available only when the Aero visual theme is active.
• The Save Idle Screens feature now can be configured to start automatically on a monitor when no mouse and application activity occurs on that monitor for a specified time.
• Now it is possible to specify the default location of configuration files via command line: run “ActualMultipleMonitorsCenter.exe CFL 1|2|3|-“, where
  • 1 = program installation folder
  • 2 = “Application Data” folder in the All Users user profile
  • 3 = “Application Data” folder in the current user profile (default)
  • – = remove the value from the Registry
• Sending of collected usage statistics has been added.

changes

• Alt-Tab Task Switcher is compatible with Windows 8.1.
• Windows 8.1: Look of the Start button in Actual Taskbar has been improved.
• Windows 8: Actual Taskbar now supports the Start menu provided by the Start8 program.
• Windows 8/8.1: Support of Classic Shell Start Menu and StartIsBack is improved.
• Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar now considers the docked Modern (Metro) apps when calculating the monitor work area.
• Actual Multiple Monitors screen savers are compatible with Windows 8.1.
• The Ignore Deactivation feature compatibility with Hitman: Absolution (and possibly some other games) is improved.
• Compatibility with the Directory Opus “Open on Desktop double-click” feature has been improved.
• Desktop background slideshow now displays pictures in the same order as they are shown by Windows Explorer being sorted by their file names.
• Check for Updates options are moved into separate panel in the Options page.
• Now it is possible to open the Check for Updates options from the Check for Updates window.
• Now it is possible to restore the lost registration code from the Registration dialog.

Fixed error

• Windows 8/8.1: Running programs in “Windows XP/Vista compatibility” mode made them hung at startup.
• Flash Player running in the Firefox Plugin Container consumed system resources constantly.
• Unloading 1st Clock made Windows Explorer hung.
• Zoom screen sharing utility worked improperly when Actual Multiple Monitors was running.
• Google Chrome crashed when Actual Multiple Monitors tried to display tooltips for its title buttons.
• Google Chrome crashed when Actual Multiple Monitors tried to display a tooltip showing window position/size when dragging/sizing Chrome window.
• Windows 8.1 x64: ActualMultipleMonitorsShellCenter64.exe sometimes crashed when using Alt-Tab.
• Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher always displayed Modern (Metro) apps first, no matter were they active or not.
• Windows 8/8.1: Alt-Tab Task Switcher got cycled after switching from active Modern (Metro) app.
• Windows 8.1: Start screen opened via Actual Taskbar’s Start button did not close on the second click on Start button.
• Windows 8/8.1: Actual Taskbar and Alt-Tab Task Switcher did not display Windows Task Manager when it was always-on-top.
• Actual Taskbar displayed unwanted Start button copies when working with Classic Shell.
• In some cases Actual Taskbar did not display separators in Jump Lists.
• Actual Taskbar’s look differed from the system one with non-standard system metrics.
• Windows 7+: Actual Taskbar decreased the monitor work area incorrectly if any Windows Sticky Notes window was snapped to it closely.
• Actual Taskbar appeared on top of other windows even if its “On top” option was disabled.
• Actual Taskbar appeared on top of topmost windows (even if its “On top” option was disabled) when placing the mouse into any preview thumbnail or invoking the taskbar’s context menu and opening any its submenu.
• Actual Taskbar’s preview thumbnails hid behind topmost windows.
• Windows Sticky Notes icon always displayed in the primary taskbar no matter what monitor the notes were actually on.
• Actual Taskbar did not recognize moving the BitKinex windows to another monitor.
• Windows 7+: Sometimes toggling monitors via “Manage Secondary” context menu did not work.
• Activating a desktop profile resets the Save Idle Screens settings.
• Windows 7: Google Photos screen saver did not run within the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver.
• Windows 8/8.1: Photos screen saver froze on a first slide within the Multi-Monitor Screen Saver.
• Monitor settings on the “Monitors’ Layout and Settings” panel did not update after changing the desktop configuration outside the Configuration window.
• When configuring mirrors with the “Window” source type, some controls were out of sight in the “Source Parameters” group.
• Windows 7+: Title buttons did not appear in:
  • Remote Desktop Client
  • steam client
  • Spotify
• Flicking of title buttons in MS PowerPoint 2010 windows is reduced.
• Incorrect hint was displayed for the Move to Monitor title button.
• Put into Divider Tile title button displayed incorrect hint after using the “Desktop Divider’s up/down/left/right” hotkeys.
• Windows 8/8.1: Windows Explorer windows could not be dragged using the Easy Windows Dragging/Sizing feature.
• Some hotkeys remained operative even if the Control Center had been stopped.
• Automatic mouse locking remained operative even if the Control Center had been stopped.
• After locking the mouse within a window and then dragging that window the lock got lost.
• Mouse actions did not work when specifying single left click on title bar (with no modifiers or any set of them).
• Applying the Ignore Deactivation feature to several windows of the same app might cause the undefined behavior.
• Windows 7+: The “Program” target window criterion did not work in console windows.
• Automatic update always downloaded the latest available setup file from the server no matter it was already downloaded or not.