Sometimes you need to quickly remove your active window to see the information which underlies it but you don't want to close it. So you have to minimize and then restore it but this requires redundant and ineffective mouse manipulations because you need, at first, move the mouse pointer to the Minimize button, then, secondly, move the mouse pointer down to window's taskbar button. These chores can be made much more easier, quicker and more fun with Actual Window Rollup.

As its name implies, Actual Window Rollup lets you roll your windows up like blinds/shades/curtains - hide window's contents area and leave only its title bar visible! Such way of window manipulation has come from the Unix/Linux world - there it became a good habit for millions of users worldwide. Now it's available for Windows so if you get used to this feature in KDE windows manager then try Actual Window Rollup - keeping the good habit is worth trying! If you are, on the contrary, a pure Windows user then try it anyway - making a good habit is worth trying indeed! People use the Roll Up feature much more often than the standard minimization to the taskbar because rolling up is much more quick, convenient and, finally, it's intuitively resembles the way you look out of the window - you pull the curtain up, not down.

Actual Window Rollup is a small but powerful utility which is only needed to be installed to bring the Roll Up ability online in a most quick and easy way: it adds the extra Roll Up button to each and every window's title bar so that you can roll any window up/down in a single mouse click! You can use Actual Window Rollup for free for 60 days after it has been installed so just download and see all the Roll Up benefits yourself now.

What's New

  • Memory consumption and overall system load is slightly reduced.
  • In some rare cases multi-window applications might crash silently after closing and re-opening a window of the same type (e.g. separate message window in email client).
  • Compatibility is improved with custom cursors provided by Yolo Mouse.
  • Title Buttons: Compatibility with Bluebeam Revu is improved.
  • After exiting and then starting Actual Window Rollup back, some features in some applications might work erratically.
  • In multi-window applications memory leaked slightly after each cycle of closing a window and then opening two windows in a row.
  • Excel 2007+ hung after closing some of its standard dialogs: Protect Sheet, Conditional Formatting, Chart Data, etc.
  • Windows 11, Title Buttons: In some system applications (e.g. Windows Paint) unwanted visual effects might appear if any extra buttons were added to their windows.
  • Title Buttons: X1 Search hung at startup if any extra buttons were added to its window.
  • Title Buttons: In some specific applications (especially having windows with non-standard frames) title buttons might appear invisible.
  • Title Buttons: In some specific applications (e.g. X1 Search, SnagIt!) the Compact View popup toolbar appeared empty.
  • Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons might not work in MDI windows.
  • Window Actions, Mouse: The support for windows with a non-standard window frame to intercept clicks on a title bar, sizeable border, and standard Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons to invoke assigned mouse actions, as well as to prevent accidental window closing, added in the previous version, did not work in systems before Windows 10.
  • Window Actions: If a window was rolled up and then minimized, pausing or exiting Actual Window Rollup did not restore window's original position and size.
  • Configuration: For some combinations of non-default font and non-default font size, the layout of controls got messed in the "Options" group of the "Title Buttons" property sheet.
  • Configuration: The Send to Tech Support feature did not recognize Windows 11 marking the sent configurations as Win10-built.