File Details |
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| File Size | 10.4 MB |
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| License | Shareware, $49.95 |
| Operating System | Windows (All) |
| Date Added | October 10, 2020 |
| Total Downloads | 3,938 |
| Publisher | Actual Tools |
| Homepage | Actual Window Manager |
Publisher's Description
Actual Window Manager is an innovative desktop organization application which introduces unconventional window controls and also automatic general window operations making your work more productive, convenient and enjoyable. It has more than 50 handy tools to help you in daily routine window manipulations.
Latest Reviews
UPieper reviewed v8.2 Beta 5 on Aug 21, 2014
This application has now replaced 6 programs on my PC:
- Multimon (2nd taskbar)
- Winsize (window size and position)
- Glass2k (transparency)
- Dialogmate
- Rtvreco (clicking buttons)
- Wizmouse
Amazing!
Betanoob reviewed v7.2 Beta 2 on Aug 16, 2012
Amazing! Nothing comes close to this brilliant coding.
-1 reviewed v6.5 Beta 3 on Jan 6, 2012
A valuable utility. I will never run Windows without it.
emanresU deriseD reviewed v6.0 on Mar 4, 2010
Still the best of its kind, by far. Still doing what idiots like the developer of PuTTY should be doing for their own applications.
UPieper reviewed v5.5 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2009
This is the swiss army knife of window and multi monitor management...and what I really like, too, is the fact that the developpers are VERY responsive and user friendly :-)
emanresU deriseD reviewed v5.5 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2009
Yeah it is worth it. It's so incredibly helpful to reign in the many moronic applications that don't remember their sizes and/or positions. You can use it to dismiss annoying and needless dialogs (such as when some idiotic mundane application asks you to confirm its exit--as if your life will be torn to shreds if you don't reconsider). And that's just the tip of this application's proverbial iceberg of features.
Diam0nd reviewed v5.5 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2009
Very expensive, but g**d*** it's worth it!!! The new window snap function is simply irreplaceable!
UPieper reviewed v5.2 on Dec 8, 2008
This application has replaced 5!! programs on my PC and is giving me even more functionality...
The programs it has replaced are:
- Multimon (2nd taskbar)
- Winsize (window size and position)
- Glass2k (transparency)
- Dialogmate
- Rtvreco (clicking buttons)
why hello there reviewed v4.5 on Dec 21, 2007
Wonderful application, and version 5.0 is going to be a nice upgrade when it comes out (officially) in early 2008. Even the 5.0 betas have been very good so far.
DM2 is not a comparison. Give me a break. And if you don't want title bar buttons with AWM, configure it so that it doesn't add them.
I have read the writings of some people (not here) who claim that AWM does nothing worthwhile. These people must not use a lot of software. The software I use often fails to remember its size or position, or it uses always-on-top windows/dialogs unnecessarily, and so on. AWM helps me keep the tiny shred of sanity I have left. Take PuTTY for example. Nice application, but the author has the absolutely nutty idea that applications should not have to remember their sizes and positions (instead, he thinks it should be someone else's problem). Thank goodness the AWM authors have done the PuTTY author's work for him.
Diam0nd reviewed v4.4 Beta 3 on Mar 20, 2007
Great as usual, but a bit pricy.
UPieper reviewed v8.2 Beta 5 on Aug 21, 2014
This application has now replaced 6 programs on my PC:
- Multimon (2nd taskbar)
- Winsize (window size and position)
- Glass2k (transparency)
- Dialogmate
- Rtvreco (clicking buttons)
- Wizmouse
Amazing!
Betanoob reviewed v7.2 Beta 2 on Aug 16, 2012
Amazing! Nothing comes close to this brilliant coding.
-1 reviewed v6.5 Beta 3 on Jan 6, 2012
A valuable utility. I will never run Windows without it.
emanresU deriseD reviewed v6.0 on Mar 4, 2010
Still the best of its kind, by far. Still doing what idiots like the developer of PuTTY should be doing for their own applications.
UPieper reviewed v5.5 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2009
This is the swiss army knife of window and multi monitor management...and what I really like, too, is the fact that the developpers are VERY responsive and user friendly :-)
emanresU deriseD reviewed v5.5 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2009
Yeah it is worth it. It's so incredibly helpful to reign in the many moronic applications that don't remember their sizes and/or positions. You can use it to dismiss annoying and needless dialogs (such as when some idiotic mundane application asks you to confirm its exit--as if your life will be torn to shreds if you don't reconsider). And that's just the tip of this application's proverbial iceberg of features.
Diam0nd reviewed v5.5 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2009
Very expensive, but g**d*** it's worth it!!! The new window snap function is simply irreplaceable!
UPieper reviewed v5.2 on Dec 8, 2008
This application has replaced 5!! programs on my PC and is giving me even more functionality...
The programs it has replaced are:
- Multimon (2nd taskbar)
- Winsize (window size and position)
- Glass2k (transparency)
- Dialogmate
- Rtvreco (clicking buttons)
why hello there reviewed v4.5 on Dec 21, 2007
Wonderful application, and version 5.0 is going to be a nice upgrade when it comes out (officially) in early 2008. Even the 5.0 betas have been very good so far.
DM2 is not a comparison. Give me a break. And if you don't want title bar buttons with AWM, configure it so that it doesn't add them.
I have read the writings of some people (not here) who claim that AWM does nothing worthwhile. These people must not use a lot of software. The software I use often fails to remember its size or position, or it uses always-on-top windows/dialogs unnecessarily, and so on. AWM helps me keep the tiny shred of sanity I have left. Take PuTTY for example. Nice application, but the author has the absolutely nutty idea that applications should not have to remember their sizes and positions (instead, he thinks it should be someone else's problem). Thank goodness the AWM authors have done the PuTTY author's work for him.
Diam0nd reviewed v4.4 Beta 3 on Mar 20, 2007
Great as usual, but a bit pricy.
Diam0nd reviewed v4.4 Beta 2 on Feb 23, 2007
Great app. Great support (lots of updates, bugfixes and they really DO listen to their customers). BUT a bit expensive for such a small utility. Still, a great product.
Free, open source alternative: DM2. Which might be not supported as well as this puppy, BUT some might consider it ever better than AWM, because it has fairly the same core functionality BUT it does not add any extra buttons on panels! :)
Diam0nd reviewed v4.4 Beta 1 on Jan 27, 2007
Good. Very expensive.
vixen69 reviewed v4.3 Beta 1 on Nov 30, 2006
I disagree with comeoffit on only one point, "you have to be on a 10-day drunk" is not enough need to be on some speed / weed too...LOL. AWM is just amazing!
comeoffit reviewed v4.3 Beta 1 on Nov 30, 2006
PowerMenu is a nice little freeware app, but you have to be on a 10-day drunk to think it comes close to AWM. I mean, come on, at least read the description (when the bottle's not in the way).
philosopher_dog reviewed v4.3 Beta 1 on Nov 29, 2006
Extremely useful program if you like having lots of windows going and need them to behave the way you'd like. This is pretty regularly updated. 60 day trial is nice too.
Diam0nd reviewed v4.2 Beta 2 on Sep 23, 2006
Good. Useful. Expensive.
Zero-Point reviewed v4.2 Beta 2 on Sep 20, 2006
"same functionality"?!?!
come'on did you even try it???
comeoffit reviewed v4.2 Beta 1 on Sep 14, 2006
Now that I have been using Actual Window Manager, I scream and cry when it isn't running. Or that could be the French roast at at work.
ranasrule reviewed v4.1 on Aug 3, 2006
awesome !!!
nefarious1 reviewed v4.0 Beta on Feb 15, 2006
DM2 does not do all that AWM can do. It doesn't alter title bars (from what I can tell), and it is nowhere near as easy to use as AWM. Oh boy, so I can memorize 52 different hotkey combinations to manipulate windows. That sounds easier than clicking buttons on the title bar.
Rating a software down just because something else performs a similar function is just plain stupid.
I rate AWM with a 1 because the moment I launched it and double clicked on a folder under the Start Menu, Explorer froze. AWM also made Firefox freeze.
httpd.confused reviewed v2.6 on Jun 7, 2004
I have found Actual Windows Manager to be a well-designed and helpful addition to my system. I was able to replace several other utilities with it, although it did cost me money. The configurability (including the ability to exclude windows from modification by AWM) makes it worth it. The author is responsive as well, which I appreciate.