WindowFX 4 Beta Has Arrived!

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The long awaited beta for WindowFX 4 has arrived today, and users with an active Object Desktop subscription can download the beta via Impulse.  This is a completely new app with a new direction from what you might have experienced with previous versions.

The beta includes:

  • Custom animations for window open/close/minimize/restore
  • Enhanced window resizing options when dragging to screen edges
  • Eliminate distractions by drawing attention to the foreground window
  • Enable window momentum when moving windows
  • Window Flick mouse actions to customize window movement, maximizing, and monitor location
  • Allow Flash videos to run full-screen on one monitor (on a multi-monitor system)
  • Semi-transparent windows when inactive or moving a window
  • Keep a clean desktop by automatically minimizing inactive windows after a configurable period
  • Extend right-click window menus with additional features including custom maximized window sizes and always-on-top visibility settings

We will be talking a lot more about the features soon, so keep an eye out for those articles.  It’s not too late to get your Object Desktop subscription and check out not only WindowFX 4, but full versions of our other desktop enhancement apps like WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DeskScapes, and more!

www.objectdesktop.com

10-28-2010 2-05-40 PM 10-28-2010 2-51-02 PM
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

(issue resolved ) nothing to see here..

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

:grin: Playing and exploring now....so far--very cool.

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nice! So far, so good, working quite well on 64bit Win 7. :)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Aleatoric ... your avatar is my second favorite looney tunes character, Marvin the Martian. Nice to meet another dude with good taste. As for WindowsFX ...... I'll pass for now. It might give my laptop the willies. :w00t:

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I am using it now, Win 7 64 bit. Loving it!   This rocks, and I'm sure there's more coming!!

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oboy oboy oboy new tool-toy! :grin: Thanks!

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is one of those programs that you need to take a little time with and see exactly what it does.  Thank you Stardock.  :sun:

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sweeeeeet

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nice to see a new version finally. This program is cool, while being a little pointless apart from asthetic value. Playing with it now but i cannot see myself using this for any long term period. Thanks stardock. (P.S. Rightclick update anytime soon?)

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Playing with it now. It works fine Windows 7m x64. This looks wild at first view. Thank yo Stardock. :thumbsup:

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Working fine here on W7 32bit, great, great app.....thank you Stardock. :thumbsup:

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I got bug with Thunderbird(Minimize to tray add-on enabled)....when WindowFX is enabled, Thunderbird can not open window. :(

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting PianoArt, reply 12
I got bug with Thunderbird(Minimize to tray add-on enabled)....when WindowFX is enabled, Thunderbird can not open window.

Which features do you have enabled in WindowFX?

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Works as advertised sofar, win7 x64. One very happy puppy.

One glitch, when setting the option: make windows darken etc. it also darkens the Deskscape dream which to me is not really effective.

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting petrossa, reply 14
Works as advertised sofar, win7 x64. One very happy puppy.

One glitch, when setting the option: make windows darken etc. it also darkens the Deskscape dream which to me is not really effective.

Unfortunately thats how it will always work.  The dream is below everything else and so will be darkened when any other window has focus.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

When I reposition a window in Photoshop, it minimizes the window and it won't come back.

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Will there be a bug report thread?

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Had some weired issues with Outlook 2007. When I would try to reply to an email or start a new email the window for it would not be visible. I could go to the taskbar and see that it had opened a new window for the reply or new mail. On the taskbar preview i right-clicked and selected move then hit my left arrow key. I could see that it was moving a window but that window was not visible.

Had to un-install WindowFX. Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.
Disabling it still leaves at least two processes running. (something that needs fixed)Could that be why?

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Phoon, reply 18
Had some weired issues with Outlook 2007. When I would try to reply to an email or start a new email the window for it would not be visible. I could go to the taskbar and see that it had opened a new window for the reply or new mail. On the taskbar preview i right-clicked and selected move then hit my left arrow key. I could see that it was moving a window but that window was not visible.

Had to un-install WindowFX. Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.

It sounds like there was an issue with animations and turning them off and then closing and reopening outlook would have resolved it.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 19

Simply disabling it would not fix the problem.Disabling it still leaves at least two processes running. (something that needs fixed)Could that be why?

This is not a bug.

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.
That is good to know, but why leave unnecessary processes running?

 Consider this more of a request than an actual bug.

I like to keep running processes and services in check. It would be nice if "Disabled"  meant completely unloaded.

 

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 16
When I reposition a window in Photoshop, it minimizes the window and it won't come back.

Same with Firefox...it won't restore from minimized state. And as a side note, ever since installing WinFX, it takes 21 seconds from the time I right click the desktop to the time I get a context menu.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I agree with reply 22.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is not a bug.

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.

If that were true then disabling would have solved the issue, and yes I had restarted outlook after disabling it.