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This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.

This fork supports:

    + Splitting Tabs into views (horizontally and vertically)
    + Grouping views (so input sent to one goes to all of them)
    + Windows Vista aero glass theme
    + Windows 7 jumplist
    + Windows 7 wallpaper positions and slideshow
    + Windows 8 wallpapers on dual screen
    + Zooming with Ctrl-Mouse
    + Quake style console animation
    + Strict monospace font rendering
    + Settable opacity of text background color
    + and more...

Changelog

    * : fixed
    - : removed
    ! : changed
    + : added

Changes in 1.06.0 (24 Mar 2013)

    ! the cloned tab title is suffixed with (2)
    ! about dialog box improvement
    ! hotkeys are displayed in the menu
    ! restart is no longer needed for these appearance settings:
      "Caption"
      "Resizable"
      "Border"
      "Taskbar button"
    + new option "Net Only" to "Run as user"
      the user credentials are used only to access network resources
      the user is displayed in tab title surrounded with braces
    + "Run as user" supports UNC user names
    + new buttons in the toolbar:
      "Rename tab"
      "Split Horizontally"
      "Split Vertically"
    + new hotkeys:
      "New Tab 11" (default: CTRL+F11)
      "New Tab 12" (default: CTRL+F12)
      "Switch to left view" (default: ALT+LEFT)
      "Switch to right view" (default: ALT+RIGHT)
      "Switch to top view" (default: ALT+UP)
      "Switch to bottom view" (default: ALT+DOWN)
    + Windows key can be used in global hotkeys
    + The glass frame extended in client area (toolbar and tabs) can be used to
      move the window.
    + The glass frame extended in client area (tabs only) can be used to
      maximize or restore the window by double clicking.
    * If the only one tab was cloned, the "delete" button remained disabled.
    * Under Windows 8, the call to GetTextMetrics function failed with some fonts
      The return code wasn't checked and char metrics wasn't correctly initialized.
    * wrong tabs scrolling
    * close button drawing
    * background of tab was black with basic Windows theme
    * error handling and return code checking
    * Re-add tray icon if Windows Explorer restarts.
    * When files are dropped on a view, this view gets the focus.
    * Title was not updated when view changed.

Changes in 1.05.0 (2 Feb 2013)

    ! FreeImage 3.15.4
    ! Visual Studio 2012
    ! WTL 8.1.12085
    ! force monospace displaying
      by adjusting the size of chars larger than average width font          
    ! limit vertical scrolling to the furthest buffer location viewed        
    + Windows 8 can use a wallpaper per monitor
    + display a closing confirmation when there is only one tab
      but multiple views
    + improve the status bar with:
      console buffer size, console screen size,
      selection size and console PID
    * dropping a file affects all views in a group
    * aero glass margins are resetted when composition change
      (hibernation disables DWM, at wakeup ConsoleZ was fully transparent)

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