WinScreen 1.0.0

The first stable release. With automatic updates on, installed copies now update themselves.

• Chrome and Edge can be used right inside a view without turning on experimental features: choose Interactive in the view's menu. For other apps it's still experimental.
• When a click through a view doesn't get through, the view says so and offers to show the original.
• Save diagnostics in the tray menu makes a small file you can attach to a problem report. Window titles, file paths and anything you type are never in it.
• Your settings are kept when you update from an earlier version.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-1.0.0-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.10.3-beta...v1.0.0

WinScreen 0.10.3 beta

Views work with more apps, and windows come back the way you expect.

• Classic menu bars (File, Edit and so on) open through a view.
• A click on a view of a Java app shows the original, so you can work in it.
• A browser that goes full screen inside a view stays hidden behind it, and comes back to its place when it leaves full screen, even after the view has closed.
• Roll up, Borderless and Send to bottom work on a minimized or maximized window: it comes back first. Send to bottom also takes off a pin or an app's own always-on-top, and Put back restores it.
• Crop brings a minimized window back before you choose a part, and tells you when an app puts its own shape back.
• Crop, Glass and Dark mode ask you to show a window that is hidden behind a view first.
• Dark title bar works on a minimized window.
• The toolbar and automatic Anchors leave administrator apps alone when WinScreen isn't running as administrator.
• Fixes: mouse gestures no longer stay off until a restart when Windows interrupts a drag, and a click on an app that is busy for a moment is no longer dropped.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.10.3-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.10.2-beta...v0.10.3-beta

WinScreen 0.10.2 beta

Settings that apply as you change them, and fixes for the window toolbar and window looks.

• Settings applies each change on the spot: no more Save or Discard. A shortcut that is already taken goes back to what it was, and you're told why.
• The mouse wheel only scrolls Settings. It no longer changes a setting, a slider or a list on the way past, and it leaves the menu's opacity slider alone too.
• Removing a program from a list keeps the page where it was.
• The window toolbar has a new button for the window menu, with what the bar doesn't already show. Its menus now open under their button and stay open.
• Dark mode and Glass are never on together on one window. Turning one on turns the other off, and if it can't turn on, the other stays as it was.
• Borderless and Fill display work on windows that draw their own title bar.
• Arrange and Move to display work on a maximized window: it is placed where you chose, and stays maximized when moved to another display.
• Anchors can be shown without a background.
• Enhanced hover is offered on Windows 10 too.
• Fixes: File Explorer's menus stay where a view put them, Dark mode and Glass no longer keep a window busy on PCs with an input method, clicks reach small views on a second display at a different scale, and typing in Settings' search box is no longer interrupted when the page changes.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.10.2-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.10.1-beta...v0.10.2-beta

WinScreen 0.10.1 beta

A new look that follows Windows 11, and new ways to act on every window at once.

• Settings looks like Windows 11's own: each setting in its own card with an icon and a description, the same text sizes and text drawing, and one tidy column. Settings can be resized, minimized and maximized, and opens where you left it.
• Numbers are set with sliders, and lists are just as wide as their choices, as in Windows 11.
• Settings is quick to scroll and switch pages, including the list of actions and shortcuts.
• New coloured icons in the menus, the window toolbar and Settings.
• Menus stay open while you turn things on and off, and get Windows 11's blurred background when its Transparency effects is on. A switch in Settings turns that off.
• New in the tray menu: turn off click-through everywhere, unpin all windows, hide all Anchors, and hide the toolbar for now.
• Anchors show a live preview when you rest the pointer on one, show window titles when several come from the same program, and can take their windows off the taskbar.
• Run as administrator from Settings, to work with apps such as Task Manager.
• A view can keep its title bar showing.
• Diagnostics and window details open in front without blocking anything.
• Fixes: a shrunk window comes back in front of others, the mouse wheel moves the menu's opacity slider, program lists show program icons, and Settings no longer shows a dark scroll bar after being maximized and put back.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.10.1-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.9.1-beta...v0.10.1-beta

WinScreen 0.9.1 beta

Tidier menus that work better with the keyboard, and light and dark that change straight away.

• Light and dark change at once, without restarting WinScreen.
• Everything experimental carries the same yellow "Experimental" tag, in Settings and in every menu.
• Program boxes in Settings suggest running programs, with their icons, as you type.
• Settings → Picture-in-Picture can turn on middle-click scrolling for new interactive views.
• The grid of places in the window menu is bigger and works with the arrow keys, Enter and screen readers, so Arrange window there lists only the other commands. The toolbar's Arrange button still has all of them.
• A view's Help lists each gesture on its own line.
• Choices where only one can be on show a dot, and the opacity slider stops at 20%, as windows do.
• The toolbar's Arrange menu, the Anchor menu and the shrink-tile menu now look like the others.

Tooltips still don't show through a view.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.9.1-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-beta...v0.9.1-beta

WinScreen 0.9.0 beta

A fresh look for Settings and menus, and a way back to the real window for apps that don't work through a view.

• Settings looks like Windows 11's own: pages listed on the left, a search box that finds any setting, options in cards, and colours that follow your light or dark theme and accent colour. Save and Discard show only when something has changed.
• Menus are redesigned: commands under short headings, an opacity slider and a grid of places in the window menu, and sharper, coloured icons with Windows 11 spacing.
• "Use original, then hide it again" on any view whose original is hidden: the original comes back where it was and hides again once you switch away. In Settings → Picture-in-Picture you can choose programs that always do this on a click.
• Enhanced hover gains "Choose for me", on by default.
• An app's own middle-click scrolling works when Enhanced hover is on.
• WinScreen's menus and Settings no longer flicker against the screen snip or the taskbar's flyouts.

Tooltips still don't show through a view.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.9.0-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.8.2-beta...v0.9.0-beta

WinScreen 0.8.2 beta

A large round of compatibility and reliability work for Interactive PiP.

• Enhanced hover (experimental): hover effects keep showing while you use an app through a view. Pick the apps in Settings → Picture-in-Picture: Chrome, Edge, Brave and Vivaldi, Firefox, apps like VS Code and Discord, File Explorer, or any program you add. You can still switch it for one view from its menu. Needs Windows 11 on a 64-bit Intel or AMD PC.
• Middle-click scrolling: an option in a view's menu to scroll by moving away from where you middle-clicked.
• Menus behave better through a view: a submenu opens beside its menu and stays above it.
• A view of a hidden window keeps that window's own minimize, maximize and close buttons.
• Turning Interactive PiP on and off keeps the "hide original" choice you had before.
• Fixed a case where a view could stop updating.
• WinScreen now supports Windows 10 and 11 on x64 only. This release has no ARM64 download, and ARM64 copies of earlier versions stay as they are.

With Enhanced hover on for File Explorer, the right-click menu of a tab may not respond; leave it off there if you use tab menus. Tooltips still don't show through a view, and File Explorer's newer menus can flicker while they open.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.8.2-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit Intel or AMD PCs (x64). There is no ARM version of this release.

Full Changelog: v0.8.1-beta...v0.8.2-beta

WinScreen 0.8.1 beta

• Use picture-in-picture views more reliably: smoother input, working double-clicks and text selection, and better handling of menus and dialogs.
• Use supported controls in Store apps and modern Windows interfaces directly through a view, including clicks, context menus and scrolling.
• Restore hidden windows more reliably after an unexpected exit, and keep views on screen when displays change.
• Installer and portable download names now show the version and architecture.

Some apps still cannot be hidden while updating. On some modern controls, hover, dragging and text selection are unavailable.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-0.8.1-beta-release-x64-Setup.exe for most PCs, WinScreen-0.8.1-beta-release-arm64-Setup.exe for Windows 11 on ARM.

Full Changelog: v0.8.0-beta...v0.8.1-beta

WinScreen 0.8.0 beta

Picture-in-Picture views are reworked:

• Use this view directly (experimental): click, type, select text and scroll in the app inside a view, with its own pointer. The original stays out of sight.
• Every view has a title bar that appears when you hover. Drag it to move the view; right-click it for the view's menu.
• Resize a view from its edges and corners. It keeps its shape.
• While a view keeps it updating, the original leaves the taskbar and Alt+Tab.
• WinScreen's menus stay above views, and views no longer cover the taskbar.

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-win-Setup.exe for most PCs, WinScreen-win-arm64-Setup.exe for Windows 11 on ARM.

Full Changelog: v0.7.1-beta...v0.8.0-beta

WinScreen 0.7.1 beta

This is a beta. Things may still change, and installed copies won't update to betas automatically.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it doesn't recognize it. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Which file? WinScreen-win-Setup.exe for most PCs, WinScreen-win-arm64-Setup.exe for Windows 11 on ARM.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/DarkLian/WinScreen/commits/v0.7.1-beta