Unfortunately Admiral 1.1.2 had a handle-leak which would make it unstable after a while. We are sorry about that, and we have fixed it as fast as we became aware of it. Thanks goes to Jack Sparrow for reporting the bug!

Admiral 1.1.3 may be downloaded here (AdmiralSetup_113.exe (540 KB))

Today we release Admiral 1.1.2 which may be downloaded here (AdmiralSetup_112.exe) (540 KB). This is a minor upgrade with only a few changes:

• Should now support non-latin alphabets
• Quick open has parameters. Use $1, $2, $3. E.g. set alias “not” to “notepad c:\$1\$2″ activate quick-open and “not notes todo.txt” will start “notepad c:\notes\todo.txt”.
• Full-screen application recognition
• Fixed the win-L bug after we finally realized how to reproduce it.
• Hot-zones for multimonitor works better now
• Slight delay before hot-zones are actually activated
• Prefetch window contents now disabled per default.
• Other minor bug-fixes

To upgrade your existing version, simply exit Admiral, download the setup file, run and install over the existing version. Do not uninstall. If you uninstall you loose your settings. 

Enjoy!

We are pleased to release Admiral 1.1.1 which may be downloaded here (AdmiralSetup_111.exe) .

This version of Admiral is a minor update to 1.1 and should feel better than 1.1. New features include:

• Prefetch of window contents — When enabled Admiral will grab contents of windows in the background so miniaturing will be much faster. It seems that there are some compatiblity problems with software like iTunes, PowerPoint, Visual Studio and others. You can disable prefetch in the miniature-settings
• Hotkey for bringing all related windows to front. If your current active window is an explorer window click the hotkey to bring all explorer windows to front. The hotkey-settings may be found under Window-management settings
• Multiple versions warning. If you try to run more than one copy of Admiral you will now get a warning.

As always we strongly encourage you to request features and report bugs to us. At the moment we are very curious about “prefetch”.

Mailing-list

There is now a mailing list for Admiral. We will post info about new versions and we strongly encourage users to post questions to the mailing list. You may subscribe to the list here

Admiral version 1.1 may now be downloaded from here (AdmiralSetup_11.exe (520 KB). This is shareware with a full 30 day trial period. It is 7.99$ to register (9.99$ in EU).

Some of the new features relative to 1.0.1 include:

• Support for drag-and-drop in miniature
• Miniature related windows
• Show desktop
• Switching through windows using mouse wheel or tab/shift-tab
• Improved hotkey support (e.g. win+space)
• Quick-open of custom files
• Improved stability
• Live-update of miniatured windows
• Color coded miniatured windows

This upgrade is free to all users who already registered. To update simply close the old version of Admiral and install the new version to update. Do not uninstall. If you uninstall you will be asked to reenter the license key.

Please report any bugs to us if/when you encounter them. We really want to improve your experience of  Windows!

Thank you - Mexircus!

Ok, this week we have Admiral 1.1 beta 3 ready. You can download it here: AdmiralSetup11_beta3.exe. In addition to mandatory bug-fix we have added:

• Tab’ing during miniature. This is really cool. Activate miniaturization and press tab, shift-tab to move between different “groups” of windows.
• Exclusion of windows during show-desktop. This was a request, and we hope it solves some problems.
• Window-class description. Press ctrl-c to see the class of a window and exclude windows based on class.

Tab’ing

The groups are based on the name of the application of the windows. This was requested by one of our users and we hope we got it right! Thanks for that great idea!

Exclusions based on class

Some people complained that some windows should be excluded but had an empty title. Well the solution is not really to exclude all windows with empty title. Rather exclusions should occur on the name of the window-class. For instance tooltip-windows have the class “tooltip_class32″. So now you can see which class windows have by pressing ctrl-c and then inserting the class description in the exclusions list. Rather than just inserting it in the exclusions list we would be extremely happy to receive class names for silly windows that should not be miniatured; e.g. widgets in Vista. So please let us know what classes you exclude, either by writing on the forum or sending a mail. Thanks!

Once again we hope you will let us know what you think of this new version and report bugs that you find.

We are pleased to announce that you may download a beta version of Admiral 1.1 which brings a few new features and we hope solves some problems of Admiral 1.0.1. New features include:

• The ability to quick-open custom file types (like mp3, url, doc)
• Live-update of window contents — Requires fast machines
• “Show desktop” — Really makes your desktop useful for a change!
• Miniature related windows — Windows which come from the same program
• Drag-and-drop support during miniaturization. You have to use the keyboard, but it works!
• Color code windows during miniaturization

The new version can be downloaded here (AdmiralSetup_11beta2.exe (522 KB))

Please help us improve the next version of Admiral by reporting any bugs that you find.

We are excited to Admiral 1.0.1 which can be downloaded here (AdmiralSetup.exe 500KB).  

• Major crash bug with version 1.0 fixed.
• New settings dialog
• You can now select an item from Quick Open with the mouse
• List of processes can be key-navigated
• It is possible to register as a different user.

Enjoy and please report problems and feature requests in our forums, so that we may fix and build for you!

We are thrilled to present Admiral 1.0 which can be downloaded from our web-site here (AdmiralSetup (500 KB)).

The Admiral is a great piece of software that makes your daily life with Microsoft Windows XP a great deal easier and less frustrating.In short, the Admiral lets you:

• Miniaturize all windows for a fantastic overview of your open application. No more alt-tabbing and guessing which window you want.
• Set priorities for processes - automatically or manually. No more sloppy responses when running processor-intensive tasks in the background.
• Quickly launch programs - or even files or folders. No more searching four columns of the start menu for that lost program.
• Quick switch to windows by typing a few characters of the window name.
• Control your applications - suspend them and resume them later, kill nasty windows that won’t go away, increase or decrease application priority, temporarily set windows to always be on top.

Admiral is shareware and you have a 30 days evaluation period. The price of Admiral is 7.99$. Citizens of EU must pay Danish tax which is 25% to give a total price of 9.99$. Please check the “Buy” page for more information about buying.

Read more details about Admiral (on the right).