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Enhanced Virtual Desktops
      for Win32 
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Enhanced Virtual Desktops is a program that permits you to have up to nine virtual desktops for better applications management.
This means that you can work in a more clean environment dividing active applications in more desktops.
This version of EVD contains a lot of new features like rules for starting applications, password for desktops or Active Desktop management and is more stable and compatible with third party applications.
After EVD starts you should see a small icon in the tray area of your pc (the right part of the Windows taskbar); simple left click on it to change desktop or right click on it to show the menu and the options. By pressing SHIFT while clicking EVD will show all active applications.
The green rectangle in the icon signals the current desktop (from left to right, top to bottom); the last desktop (9) is the right/bottom one ;-)


These are the main program features:
* You can work using nine different desktops
* Each desktop can have a custom name, custom wallpaper, custom password for accessing it
* It's possible to hide applications running in a certain desktop from other desktops
* You can set hot-keys for fast desktop switching (and for fast application moving) and temporaly disable them (very useful if you have to run a game that needs the same combination of hot-keys used by EVD).
* When the program autostarts with Windows it is able to maintain the taskbar button order
* You can view all active applications and the icon associated
* You can move applications from a desktop to another (by menu, by hot-keys or automatically by rules)
* Compatible with all Windows versions
* It's possible to protect program options and unload by setting a global password
* You can create rules for starting application which with you can move, minimize, maximize, kill or make transparent applications (transparency requires Win 2000/XP)
* Using rules you can also tell EVD to ignore some applications that must be always visible, very useful when you use for example programs that change the default shell (explorer) to another. This guarantee EVD to be compatible with all systems and all configurations!
* It's able to maintain applications focus between desktops
* Multilanguage support (EVD 4 is now multilanguage!)
* Tray Icon Recovery
Some time the Windows shell (also know as Program Manager) crashes and some icons in the tray area disappear while relative applications continuing work; in this case you lose the EVD tray icon. Now you can restore application icon by simply relauch program!
* Compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher
Internet Explorer has a very strange behavior; it tries to kill all windows that are in other desktops!
* Blocks windows that want to change desktop automatically


History  

Changes from EVD 4.6
- Finally EVD can maintain correctly the window focus between desktops
- Fixed some minor bugs

Changes from EVD 4.5
- Fixed a bug on the Rules window that causes the program to crash
- By clicking on the applications menu you can now directly focus the window you want.

Changes from EVD 4.4
- Changed EVD dialogs management, now settings are saved immediately
- ALT+Gr is no more an Hot-Key

Changes from EVD 4.3
- Added option Ignore Windows with no title
- Different management of menu
- Patched a problem with Hot-Keys

Fixes from EVD 4.0
- EVD 4.2 is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher
- It blocks windows that want to change desktop automatically

Fixed bugs from EVD 3.0:
- EVD may lose applications if changing desktop while CPU is busy
- pressing ALT+F4 over a dialog causes EVD to close unexpectedly
- some applications was managed bad
- hot-keys management
- desktop icons disappear if Active Desktop was enabled
- if explorer exit EVD loses tray icon
- EVD go wrong in resetting original wallpaper
- double message may appear and EVD closes unexpectedly
- some applications icon may appear too big

Enhancements from EVD 3.0
- cross check for applications that compare in more that one desktop
- EVD is able to reset the icon tray if lost
- Active Desktop management
- application rules
- multilanguage support
- autoreload active applications on all dialog
- password for desktops and for application
- fast application move with SHIFT+Hot-Key
- ability to hide applications running in a certain desktop
- ability to maintain focus when changing desktop
- ability to ignore some applications
- EVD 4 hides itself from applications list of task manager
- the 'move to' dialog return on top after each window movement 



This program is shareware. See the file 'license.txt'.

Please send bugs or suggestions at http://www.hexagora.com

3rd part software:
- This product includes a library developed using Pelles C 2.80 for Windows (by Pelle Orinius - http://www.smorgasbordet.com)

Copyright  2003/2004 by Lorenzi Davide
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