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Get rid of mess on your desktop. It's time to work quickly and brilliantly.

Actual Window Manager, being your best computer friend, will astonish you by its simplicity and functionality! 40 handy tools will let you organize the working process so easily that you won't spend time on endless and tedious switching between windows and hunting for the right application on the cluttered task bar.

The program belongs to the family of the next generation system enhancement applications and it is available for virtually any window system including Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. All controls can be accessed via a row of Window-style title bar buttons placed next to the standard Minimize/Restore/Close. What is more, alongside activating functions with mouse clicks, the new 3.0 version supports hotkey combinations, the standard language of professionals, that allows significantly decreasing the time you spend on doing one action.

Actual Window Manager offers you to set the selected tunings for all applications or just for one of them. Want to prevent accidental close of windows? Or want to open some windows mini/maximized? Only you can decide what tools to apply and only you can change the windows parameters as often as you want. Can't believe in this miracle? Then try the program's demo version for free and convince yourself of the perfect truth of our words.

What's New:

5.1 (15.05.2008)

[!] The ability to create/manage virtual desktops is added. Now you can:
- create as many virtual desktops as you need
- assign custom wallpaper to a certain virtual desktop
- assign custom hotkey to a certain virtual desktop for its
quick activation
- switch between existing virtual desktops via special "Next
desktop"/"Previous desktop" hotkeys
- send any specific window upon its startup to a certain virtual desktop or
make it visible on all virtual desktops
- move windows between virtual desktops via special title button/window
menu item
[+] Now you can edit multiple specific settings at once in the Configuration
Module (use Ctrl+ to select several items).
[+] Now you can specify a custom icon for a window minimized
either to the system tray or on the screen.
[+] The custom hotkeys for standard Windows "Minimize"/"Maximize" commands are
added (by default Win+/Win+ accordingly).
[+] The compatibility mode for moving maximized windows between monitors is
added: if you have troubles when trying to move a maximized window to
another monitor then try to activate this mode to fix the problems.
[*] Window menu is slightly improved: additional options of AltMin and Roll Up
actions are grouped into a separate submenu.
[*] Now you can remove or reposition special "Pin to desktop" and
"Restrict placement" window menu items as well as any other menu items.
[-] Now extra title buttons don't appear in the fullscreen mode of
Microsoft Word 2003/2007.
[-] The compatibility with applications written in Visual Basic is improved
(in particular, with WorkCentrics and NCSS 2007).
[-] The bug is fixed: enabling the Command Prompt Windows Support
when Tiny Personal Firewall is running led to system crash.
[-] Now window size can exceed the size of a single monitor in multi-monitor
configurations when resizing window in pixels and the "Keep window within
the desktop boundaries after resizing" option is enabled.
[-] Now the Unroll action correctly considers the placement restrictions when
they are enabled.
[-] Now windows pinned to desktop react properly when the Control Center is
stopped/unloaded.
[-] Now the Change Window Title action works properly if the Window Caption
criterion is enabled.