Actual Window Guard is a proven desktop productivity enhancement solution that allows users to extend and manage their desktop for increased productivity and manageability. Actual Window Guard benefits from the proven technology of Actual Tools and includes the following functionality: close annoying pop-ups or other windows user don't want to see, automatically minimize certain programs upon startup or open them full screen, save and restore size and positions of windows and much more.
Software License: Shareware
Operating Systems Support: Microsoft Windows
Download Link: Actual Windows Guard 4.0
Homepage: Actual Windows Guard
Version ChangeLog:
[!] The Configuration Module's user interface is redesigned totally.
[!] Settings file size is significantly reduced comparing to the previous
versions.
[!] Executable modules' size and run-time memory consumption are slightly
reduced.
[!] The Help contents is redesigned almost from scratch.
[+] The Help system has become context-sensitive.
[+] Added the ability to copy window rules.
[+] Added the ability to customize an icon for a particular Specfic Window rule.
[+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the
attached configuration file.
[+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button.
[+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows
the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's
taskbar button.
[+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into
a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities
for a particular window:
- create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule
- create an Excluded Window rule
- re-apply the window rule
[+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the
"Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name.
[+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars'
buttons size).
Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as a template.
[+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific
Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options.
The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using the non-standard screen DPIs.
[+] Added the ability to set different settings for the different window
events/states for the following properties:
transparency level - for the creation, movement, resizing, deactivation,
mouse hovering, title bar double-click,
"Transparency" title button
priority level - for the creation, minimization, deactivation,
"Priority" title button
[+] Added the ability to provide a shift values when a window is aligned.
[+] Added the ability to set the desired width/height values as a percent of
the corresponding desktop size.
[+] Window Finder internal tool was adapted for the detection of the
current window size and position.
[+] Added the ability to "freeze" the window stay-on-top state which
prevents the application from resetting this state.
[-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was
started.
[-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus
after selecting any tool in the Tools panel.
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Actual Window Guard 3.8 (23.09.2005)
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Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified. Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first
symbol in window position fields is possible.
Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed.
[-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has
been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of
"Window class" field's entered string into real window class name.
Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was
finally solved.
