ActualTools - Tools for Professionals

Actual Tools - Tools for Professionals: Actual Tools company is a developer of award-winning Windows desktop extensions: Window Manager, Multiple Monitors, Window Guard, Virtual Desktops, Title Buttons, Transparent Window, Window Minimizer, Window Rollup, and Window Menu. Actual Tools - tools for professionals! [Actual Tools, ActualTools, tools for professionals, window manager, windows, minimize, transparent, rollup, guard, title buttons, window menu, virtual desktops, windows desktop, utility, enhancement]

Actual Window Rollup | Actual Tools

Actual Window Rollup - Roll up/unroll windows! Minimize them not to icons but so only the title bars remain visible. Make your work easier and more fun by improving the way Windows opens and closes on your Windows desktop! And you thought there was only one way to open and close windows! Make everyday window open and close chores easier and more fun with Actual Window Rollup. It has helpful features and excellent ways to make the windows on your desktop better behaved-and easier to use. - Minimize open windows, not icons, so only the title bars remain visible. Title bars are easier to find than programs minimized to icons. You won't have to hunt for the windows you were using! Click on a window, and it becomes a title bar; Click on the title bar and restore it to an open window! Easy! Handy! Visible! - Want even more control? Select "Automatic Control," and selected windows will automatically roll up into title bars whenever they become inactive. The rolled-up title bars will then automatically unroll when you want to work with them again! - And even more? Activate the "Temporarily Unroll the Window" feature. This will make a window temporarily unroll when the mouse cursor hovers over it. Simply pass your mouse cursor over them, and they unroll! Easier than clicking! You can set Actual Window Rollup features for manual, automatic, or both. You can mix manual and automatic controls in various ways to satisfy your preferences and for individual programs. Actual Window Rollup gives you the maximum utility and ease! Once you use it, you won't want to go back to the old way of working with Windows! Try it and see! Actual Window Rollup has multilingual support. It supports English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and others!

Actual Window Rollup

Actual Window Minimizer | Actual Tools

Actual Window Minimizer - Minimize any application to a small icon in the System Tray or at any Screen Edge. This feature helps save the Taskbar and desktop space. Actual Window Minimizer lets you minimize any application to a small icon in the System Tray or Screen Edge. This feature helps save the Taskbar and desktop space and use them more efficiently. Actual Window Minimizer is an ideal solution for programs such as e-mail clients (Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, etc.), audio players (Windows Media Player, CD Player, etc.), offline browsers, and FTP clients, or any background processing programs. To minimize a window to a System Tray or a Screen Edge, simply click the minimize button in the window title bar as usual. You need to configure the program only once: Actual Window Minimizer will remember all your settings and apply them on the next startup. So, you can set up any application just once, and this program will always be minimized to a tray or any screen edge by your choice. But, of course, you can change these settings any time you want. Actual Window Minimizer now has multilingual support. It supports English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and others!

Actual Window Minimizer

Actual Window Menu - This program adds several menu items to the standard window menu accessible via the application icon in the title bar. Among them: Is the roll-up \ Unroll window; computers have gone a long way from primitive number-crunching machines to advanced entertainment systems and serious business machines. Technology advancement made it possible to implement various graphical user interfaces with the only aspect in mind - end-user convenience. Modern operating systems have all it takes to operate the computer fast. Common user interfaces allow for almost intuitive understanding, which in turn means less time spent on learning how to operate the machine and more time spent on actual usage of computer power. However, the rich functionality of Windows has to be hidden sometimes to leave a reasonable number of choices for the end-user in each given situation. This way, novice users learn the interface faster, but advanced users are deprived of powerful features that may further speed up the computer's operation. Actual Tools introduces the Actual Window Menu, the unique standard window menu extension that provides advanced users with alternative ways of organizing and managing windows. The actual Window Menu adds several menu items to the standard window menu accessible via the application icon in the title bar. Among new commands are: Roll Up \ Unroll window, Set window transparency, change program priority, minimize to task tray, and always keep window on top. These new features allow advanced and newbie Windows users to save their time and desktop space by neatly organizing windows. Unlike simple shell extension solutions, the Actual Window Menu allows you to create rules (i.e., available menu items and corresponding settings) for each application which is most convenient for automating the organization process. Find the window you would like to configure and use a straightforward interface to configure its extended menu and its settings. Next time you run the program, the settings will automatically take effect! The actual Window Menu is available under flexible licensing conditions and comes with a free trial version you can download right now!

Actual Window Manager | Actual Tools

Actual Window Manager - Try this technologically advanced tool that interacts with the operating system core to bring extended functionality to every window on the system. It allows you to roll up and unroll windows, hide them to TaskTray, and keep them on top. Actual Window Manager integrates and combines all of the great features from four of our award-winning Actual Tools programs: Actual Title Buttons, Actual Transparent Window, Actual Window Minimizer, and Actual Window Guard. Actual Transparent Window allows you to make any window transparent from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (opaque and solid) in Windows 2000/XP. Want a window on top, but need to see through it? Transparent Windows is perfect for this! You might want to do this for your Windows taskbar, Winamp, your e-mail program, or instant messenger.

Transparent Windows is great with Notepad or other accessories where you need to work in one window while looking at another. Actual Window Minimizer eliminates toolbar clutter by letting you minimize any open program to an icon at the screen edge or, if you wish, to the system tray near the clock. This is an ideal solution for programs such as browsers, e-mail, audio players, or other programs running in the background that you don't want to close. Actual Title Buttons allow you to add new "Minimize To Tray," "Stay On Top," and "Make Transparent" buttons to any window's title bar. These useful new buttons are as easy to use as the standard Minimize/Restore/Close and can be used to minimize an open program to the tray or to keep on top a window you need to keep viewing or make it semi-transparent. Actual Window Guard will help you automatically minimize certain programs upon startup or open them full screen. It will also help you automatically close annoying pop-ups and other windows you don't want to see. If the windows of the programs you run are always appearing somewhere, you don't want or in some size that you don't want - then Actual Window Guard will allow you to "discipline" unruly windows and put your desktop in order. And more. You can configure every program's windows to different options, leave them that way for a while, or change the options whenever you wish! Your configuration for each window will remain set after every bootup until you change it. Actual Window Manager now has multilingual support. It supports English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and others!

Actual Window Manager

Actual Window Guard | Actual Tools

Actual Window Guard - Auto- minimize or maximize certain programs on their startup, get rid of annoying pop-up windows. Actual Window Guard will help you automatically minimize certain programs upon startup or open them full screen. Another helpful feature of Actual Window Guard is that you can set it to close annoying pop-ups automatically or other windows you don't want to see. If the windows of the programs you run are always appearing somewhere you don't want, in some size that you don't want, or not as visible as you want - then Actual Window Guard will delight you. It will allow you to "discipline" unruly windows and put your desktop in order. The Stay On Top feature brings the window to the top of the desktop and doesn't allow other windows to hide it. Actual Window Guard now has multilingual support. It supports English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and others! This small utility is the final step to optimize your use of program windows and make them more comfortable to use!

Actual Window Guard

Actual Virtual Desktops | Actual Tools

Actual Virtual Desktops is a technologically advanced utility tool that extends the standard window manager of the Windows operating system with the virtual desktops facility. Virtual desktop technology allows the software emulation of several instances of the general Windows desktop. Each such instance can contain windows; windows can be allocated between those instances, and only one instance can be visible at once. Thus, you can group all your open windows into independent subsets devoted to certain activities and, therefore, get an activity-based working environment that is not overburdened with a pile of windows irrelevant to the activity at hand. In short words, you can have far more windows open at once, but they won't distract you from your current activity. Running Actual Virtual Desktops, you will be able to: * Create as many virtual desktops as you need * Assign custom wallpaper to a certain virtual desktop * Assign a 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 any window between virtual desktops via additional caption button or additional option in the system window menu The application operates semi-automatically, which means you won't have to spend hours trying to figure out how it works. It is now the perfect time to sort the Windows mess out and take advantage of the FREE trial version!

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Actual Transparent Window | Actual Tools

Actual Transparent Window lets you apply a transparency effect to any window in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The transparency effect looks very impressive and can be highly useful with such windows as the Windows Taskbar, WinAmp, the Start menu, drop-down menus and lists, any Instant Messenger, and even application windows. Some examples: A transparent Taskbar doesn't hide any part of your desktop wallpaper! A transparent Start menu does not obscure icons on your desktop. Do you like changing skins on Winamp? A semi-transparent Winamp looks stylish and impressive! You can add different transparency rates for each Winamp window, such as Winamp Main Window, Winamp Playlist Editor, Winamp Equalizer, and so on. A transparent drop-down menu does not obscure the main program window. A transparent window need not obscure another window below. For example, you can key in notes to Notepad while reading the contents of the window beneath! A simple setting will adjust the transparency of either window - or any other window you wish! Actual Transparent Window lets you set an individual transparency rate for each window. You can change transparency from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (solid) to achieve the desired effect. The actual Transparent Window also has the option to set transparency so it occurs only when the window becomes inactive. And when you activate this window, it becomes solid. This option can be especially useful for your Instant Messenger (Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or any other). The actual Transparent Window saves all your settings, so you need to set the transparency only once for each window. Or, tinker with your settings as often as you like. This is an attractive, handy, and fun utility!

Actual Transparent Window

Actual Title Buttons | Actual Tools

Actual Title Buttons are intended both for home and corporate users who would like to optimize daily window management chores by utilizing the hidden power of modern operating systems with just one mouse click! Actual Title Buttons let you add the new Minimize to Tray, Rollup, Stay-on-Top, Change Transparency, and many other buttons to any program's title bar next to the Windows standard Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons. The new buttons are as easy to use as the standard ones: you can minimize any window to the system tray, force it to stay on top of other windows, make it semi-transparent, or roll up it with a single mouse click. The Minimize to Tray feature lets you save the taskbar space by hiding the window to a tray icon. Make your Taskbar less cluttered and handier! The Stay on Top feature brings the window to the top of the desktop and doesn't allow other windows to hide it. Don't let these windows annoy you when you are busy! The Make Transparent feature lets you apply a transparency effect from 0% (fully transparent) to 100% (solid) rate to any program, such as Instant Messenger, Notepad, Outlook Express, and others in Windows 2000/XP. The Roll up\Unroll feature lets you minimize windows so only the title bars remain visible. You won't have to hunt for the windows you were using! Actual Title Buttons can be useful for working with e-mail clients (MS Outlook Express, Eudora, etc.), messenger programs (Windows/MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger! etc.), text editors (Notepad, Windows Word) and offline browsers and FTP clients and many other kinds of programs. You can add new title buttons to all windows in your system as well as configure every program's windows to different options! Configure any window to suit your tastes! Actual Title Buttons now have multilingual support. It supports English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and others!

Actual Title Buttons

Actual Multiple Monitors | Actual Tools

Actual Multiple Monitors is a comprehensive solution to improve the functionality of the Windows® user interface for comfortable and effective work with multi-monitor configurations. The smart app emulates standard Windows® services on secondary monitors and offers new window management services to free you from routine clicking and let you concentrate on your work undisturbed. Multi-monitor Taskbar: Powerful yet easy to use, the program emulates the original Windows® Taskbar on the secondary displays, allowing you to manage Windows in your usual manner. Such a Taskbar can work in the individual mode, displaying only the tasks running on the same monitor, or in the mirror mode, displaying all the tasks running on all monitors in your setup. Moreover, you can also choose to emulate the Start button to launch apps more quickly and easily and the Task Switcher to switch between apps without having to redirect your attention to another monitor.

Actual Multiple Monitors

Actual File Folders | Actual Tools

Free trials, shareware, and ebooks! Today, it is not quite simple to work with a large amount of information. You need to make many mouse manipulations to get the desired result when saving many files into different folders, for example. But there are Actual File Folders to avoid routine actions with folders. Actual File Folders is the little solution to improve the functionality of Windows folder navigation. Just two features help to improve folder navigation: Recent Folders track automatically which folders you have been visiting recently, and Favorite Folders lets you create a list of shortcuts to the folders you use the most often. Each feature has its title button. Now you do not need to make a way to the desired folder manually; just select the desired folder from Favorite or Recent Folders.

ActualTools - Tools for Professionals

ActualTools - Tools for Professionals