Hey hey

I've got a couple of feature requests regarding the DisplayFusion behaviour on Windows 8.

I like the idea of an alternative startmenu, even tho I also like the "Modern UI" (formerly known as Metro), but:
- What really annoys me is that you can't change the hotkey (Windows-Key) to open the alternative startmenu. You should also be able to unbind any hotkeys that open the alternative startmenu.
- Is it possible to inject the startmenu in the default Windows taskbar?

- Is it possible to (optional) include the "show desktop" button in the default Windows taskbar?

- Is it possible to automatically open "Modern UI" on the current/focused screen? You can kinda "force" "Modern UI" to open on a specific screen by hovering over the bottom left corner. Maybe you can abuse that behaviour?

- Is it possible to (optional) disable the (I think they're called) action areas (all four corners)?

- The searchbox of the alternative startmenu should have focus when opening the startmenu to match the behaviour of "Modern UI", Windows 7's and Vista's startmenu

- Rightclicking the alternative taskbar should have the same contextmenu that will be opened by WIN+X

Btw. is there any ETA on Beta 15?

1) Awesome, thanks!

2) Good Luck!

3) Yes, you're right. I just couldn't see the native Aero Peek button. I just recognized him on the DF-Taskbars in the older versions where the button had a nice little effect.

4) That would be more than awesome if you can manage to get it working!

5) I've found a tool or a registry path which can be used to disable them globally :/ However, maybe it helps you in your further investigations http://www.instantfundas.com/2012/08/disable-start-screen-and-hot-corners-in.html

6) Sad :/ This is the main-issues which forces me to disable the alternative startmenu and use Metro to quickly find what I'm looking for.

7) On any DF supported screen I don't have a lower-left Hot Corner. Doesn't matter whether the alternative startmenu is enabled or not.

I found this tool that can disable the Hot corners individually - http://www.askvg.com/skip-metro-suite-settings-freeware-to-skip-start-screen-and-disable-app-switcher-and-charms-bar-in-windows-8/

Possibly you could contact Happy Bulldozer - the author and he could share the info so it could be built into your UI rather than incorporating the tool ?

also i found that start8 can get rid of the corners and load the desktop and not start on win logon.

Hiya Keith! I'm a former problem child user (I previously had some issues with regard to memory usage that you have fixed) with (now) a new computer and some new small feature request issues.

The above is definitely one of the issues that I'd love to see fixed. I'm using Win8x64 Pro on a new machine and 3 displays now, along with the latest DF beta. I'd love to have the Start menu/button/whatever available on the "main display". If that is something that I ought to be seeing, I'm not and I've not had any luck getting it there, aside from the "TaskbarsAllMonitors" advanced setting (which doesn't help at all here). What I have had success with is using the actual current release of Classic Start Menu, which places a Start menu/button on my main display, with DF placing it's custom Start menu/button on the other 2 displays.

Secondly, I'd *love* to have the ability for Alt-Tab to do any or all of 3 things:
1) Show an Alt-Tab popup on my main display, showing all windows from every display.
2) Show an Alt-Tab popup on the display where my cursor currently is, showing all windows from every display.
3) Show an Alt-Tab popup on the display where my cursor currently is, showing ONLY windows from the current display.

I know these things are possible in previous versions of Windows via 3rd party tools (see: NTWind's VistaSwitcher http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html and TaskSwitchXP http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html. I know that the current VistaSwitcher has some issues with Win8, and I'm doubtful that TaskSwitchXP works any better on it. At any rate, those are 2 tools that have done it previously.. Just hoping that you might be able to pull some more tricks out of your sleeve and do something similar for Win8- The existing code must be attempting to do *something*, because when DF is running, the Alt-Tab popup only shows on the main display and only shows windows from the main display- If I exit DF, the Alt-Tab popup displays shows up on the main display and shows windows from all the displays.

-mike