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What To Do (Window Actions)

Actual Tools programs provide a wide variety of features for advanced control of the various windows on your system. Among them are:

Align - now you can precisely control the placement of windows on your desktop, automatically or manually arranging your windows exactly where you want them.
Center to point - centers a window to the specified point of desktop.
Change caption - if you don't like the default title bar caption or want to make it clearer you can change it to anything you like.
Change program priority - now you can tweak your system for the most efficient use of hardware resources.
Change run mode - select the most convenient window appearance for your day-to-day applications.
Close - automatic release of unwanted/needless windows.
Ghost - to "ghost" a window means that it will remain visible but all mouse clicks will pass through it without producing an effect.
Make transparent - making windows semi-transparent is a stunning effect and can be very useful in certain situations.
Minimize - used for the same reasons as the Close action but this just hides windows from the desktop keeping them running in background.
Minimize alternatively (AltMin™) - now you are able to minimize your windows not only to the taskbar but to alternate locations as well - such as the system tray and specific locations on the screen.
Move to monitor - in multi-monitor configurations you are able to send the desired window to any connected monitor.
Pin to desktop - when pinned to desktop, window can't be minimized in any way.
Remove standard window parts - finely tweak window's appearance and behavior.
Remove taskbar entry - rid your taskbar of unwanted buttons.
Resize - in addition to automatic alignment of your windows you can also define optimum dimensions for specific windows.
Restrict placement - split your desktop into a well-defined zones for differently-purposed windows and keep your workspace ordered neatly.
Roll up - another way to free your desktop of currently inactive windows, the rollup function leaves only the window's title bar visible while hiding its contents.
Send to bottom - if you don't need a certain window at the moment but still want to keep it on the desktop you can use this feature to instantly place it on the bottom of the windows pile.
Stay always-on-top - now you can precisely control this highly useful window state to keep desired windows visible on top of others.
Stretch - an useful combination of aligning and resizing which moves the selected window's border/angle towards the corresponding desktop edge.

Also you can learn more about when you can use the actions listed above.


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 Last modified: April 13, 2007.