Release Notes for UltraMon 3.0.5 Beta

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This release has several bug fixes.

Release notes for previous releases:

Installation

Setup will upgrade your existing installation and preserve your settings and registration information. You don't need to uninstall your current installation of UltraMon first.

UltraMon 3 requires Windows 2000/XP or later, Windows 98/Me are no longer supported.

Please note that configuration settings may not be preserved when upgrading from version 2.6 or earlier. Display profiles, shortcuts and wallpapers will be preserved.

Fixed issues

Window buttons get added to application which has no regular title bar

After changing the key combination for a hotkey, the original key combination still works on Windows Vista

• No window buttons added to Access 2007 on Windows XP

ClipMate not listed as running application under UltraMon Options > Compatibility > Configure settings

• The Bat! not listed as running application under UltraMon Options > Compatibility > Configure settings

Window buttons added to eMule and ConTEXT when restoring a minimized window even though only a single monitor is enabled

Choose Monitor window too large if one or more monitors are disabled

• UltraMon crashes when deleting the MUIVerb value under registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\umshortcutfile\shell\edit

Fatal error in WndExt.cpp at line 757 when starting an application or UltraMon

gVim crashes when maximizing window if UltraMon window buttons are enabled for the application

Ava Find menu and toolbar don't work if window buttons are enabled for the application

Fatal error in MultimonGUI.cpp at line 3183 when right-clicking the UltraMon icon in the system tray to bring up the menu

• Window buttons don't get added to Office 2003 applications on Vista when using the Aero or Vista Basic themes

Fatal error in ButtonRendererVistaComposited.cpp at line 43 when using the Windows 7 M1 Aero for Vista skin

Fatal error in ButtonRendererVistaNonComposited.cpp at line 47 when launching a game

• The Bat! e-mail client: when closing the address book, the main application window doesn't get the focus

Total Commander: when closing the multi-rename tool, another open application may get activated instead of the main application window

• Timeslips by Sage: can't open settings etc or close the application if window buttons are enabled for the application

Fatal error in WndExt.cpp at line 1443 when starting an application

• Window buttons incorrectly positioned for Live Messenger on XP

• When minimizing the second Firefox instance, the first one doesn't get the focus if UltraMon window buttons are enabled

Orphaned window buttons when using Live Messenger with Messenger Plus chat tabs enabled

Options dialog can be opened multiple times

• Fatal error in WndExt.cpp at line 1486 when starting IceSword

• Smart Taskbar may crash during startup if there is a problem with the Smart Taskbar settings

• True Launch Bar toolbar added to UltraMon taskbar may display wrong folder if UltraMon wasn't closed manually before logging off/restarting the system

• Caption for task button still shows (Not Responding) for application which has become responsive again

Task button icon partially off the button when using positive MinWidth registry value to set task button width

Fatal error in WallpaperUtil.cpp at line 174 when display configuration change takes a long time

• Fatal error in WallpaperUtil.cpp at line 117 when upgrading video card drivers

Known issues

• WindowBlinds skins which use transparency aren't fully supported on Windows XP, you'll get a black background where the taskbar should be transparent. There is no fix for this, it does work fine on Windows Vista though

Docking hints from Xceed Docking Windows library don't work if UltraMon window buttons are enabled for the application

• Windows 2000: if you don't have Windows Installer version 3 or later installed, a driver used by UltraMon's mirroring feature won't get updated correctly when doing an upgrade install. Repairing the installation will fix the problem