Download Actual Multiple Monitors 8.5.0

Actual Tools has released version 8.5.0 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New

• Vista+: The long-awaited ability to customize the Logon/Lock Screen background image is added. On multi-monitor systems, it also allows to run picture slideshow on secondary monitors (see the new “Logon Screen” section in the Quick Setup wizard and the main Configuration window).
• Vista+: Default Audio Device Switcher has been added. It lets you quickly switch the audio device used in the system by default for sound output, if you have more than one audio hardware device installed in your PC (most modern video cards have embedded audio hardware to support such combined video/audio output standards as HDMI or DisplayPort).
• You can invoke the list of available devices via special hotkey combination (Win-Ctrl-A by default, can be changed on the “Hotkeys – Actions” panel in the “Tools” group).

changes

• Now, when running multi-monitor slideshow, the “Next slide” command affects only the monitor where it has been invoked.

Fixed errors

• Windows 10: Numerous fixes for Current Taskbar:
  • wrong colors were used for text displayed in task buttons and clock and for taskbar background (“black taskbar” issue)
  • running Metro apps did not have corresponding task buttons
  • Clock/Calendar window did not appear when clicking the clock on Actual Taskbar
  • task buttons were wider than in the system taskbar
  • preview thumbnails looked different than in the system taskbar
  • notification area button was smaller than in the system taskbar
  • progress was not indicated in task buttons
  • Start menu did not go to secondary monitors when being invoked from Actual Taskbar
  • it was impossible to pin a button to Actual Taskbar using drag-n-drop (using the “Pin” command in the right-click menu works as expected)
  • Actual Taskbar displayed the pinned buttons of running applications different than the system taskbar
  • icons in the task buttons of Metro apps were changed after minimizing/restoring the app
• Windows 10: Numerous fixes for extra title buttons:
  • size was calculated incorrectly
  • used button glyphs were of improper color
  • Compact View window looked wrong
  • detecting free place for extra buttons worked wrong
• Windows 8+: Middle click on Windows Explorer button in Actual Taskbar did not open a new Explorer window.
• Windows 7+: Graphical resources leaked when using Jump Lists in Actual Taskbar.
• Windows 7+: Jump Lists were displayed incorrectly after an item pinning.
• On some systems, Actual Taskbar settings on different monitors might be mistaked one for another.

Windows 10 known issues (subject to fix in the next updates):

• Clock/Calendar window do not go to secondary monitors when being invoked from Actual Taskbar
• Clock/Calendar window does not close on second click on Actual Taskbar clock
• extra title buttons do not work in Microsoft Edge web browser
• extra title buttons look wrong in applications with non-standard title color (like Photos, Windows Mail)
• hotkeys don’t work in Metro apps
• extra menu commands do not appear in Metro apps
• gradual Compact View does not work in Metro apps
• Logon Screen slideshow runs behind the Logon background window
• Classic Snap does not snap windows accurately (a small gap remains)