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Trombettworks Software Flash Desktops 2.52.94

Flash Desktops is a real time virtual desktop manager. It`s an advanced version of Free Desktops, which is the precursor to this program. The program has been rewritten from scratch and is now much bigger, more reliable, has about eight times the number of options.

Latest Changes:

In case there would be nonresponding windows, in most cases routing windows between desktops was impossible. Fixed
Detected some kind of system windows which don`t react well to desktopping and avoided them (also, they were not visible to the user). So there should be noticeably less nonresponding windows now, and consequently less bother for the user
The Autohide on load option wasn`t working properly. Fixed. Thanks to Jernej for reporting this
WindowRules->Action->DeleteFrom or AddTo: should desktops 5-8 be selected without desktops 1-4, current, next or previous being selected, the settings woulndn`t be saved. Fixed. Thanks to Morfic for reporting this
Should WindowsExplorer be terminated while there were nonresponding windows (possibly WE itself), in some cases Flash Desktops could take 100% of the CPU until explorer.exe was started again. Fixed
In particular conditions, tray icons 5 to 8 could appear in the system tray even if FD was set to use only 4. Fixed. Thanks to Grant for reporting this
The tray icon for desktop 1 had a blank string associated to it instead of `Desk 1`. This prevented WindowsXP from being able to hide it. Fixed. Thanks to Robert for reporting this bug
There was a mistake in the sample rule called No focus remove from Notepad: requesting the Visible flag among the at-creation styles prevented the rule from working, because the notepad window starts as invisible for a fraction of second then becomes vis
The `tray icons are hidden` state used to be remembered across FD sessions, but this behaviour was causing far more confusion than benefits. Changed so that now at FD startup the tray icons always appear (up to the number of desktops you have chosen, of c