UltraView Desktop Manager version 3.0 was released October 1, 2022. Existing version 2.0 users can still access help for version 2.0 at this link. Version 3.0 is available for $99 per PC for new installations or as an upgrade from 2.0 for $25. The most important new feature in 3.0 is full compatibility with Windows 11. Additional new features include Monitor Fading and Window Position Profiles.

You can order a license for UltraView Desktop Manager here.

UltraView Desktop Manager is an application that is always running in the background. To adjust any UltraView Desktop Manager settings, or use UltraView Desktop Manager to set your desktop wallpaper, just right-click the UltraView Desktop Manager icon in the system tray.

Windows will sometimes hide system tray icons. If you don’t see the icon, please read the How To Show All System Tray Icons section below.

Tray Icon Actions:

• Double Left-Click: Opens the Wallpaper window
• Right-Click: Opens the right-click context menu

On some computers, the UltraView Desktop Manager system tray icon might be hidden by Windows. You will need to expand the system tray and drag the UDM icon out.

When you right-click the system tray icon, the UltraView Desktop Manager system tray context menu will appear.

The Desktop Wallpaper Settings menu allows you to control the UltraView Wallpaper settings, along with your different Wallpaper Profiles.

The Monitor Profiles menu allows you to switch to any of your saved Monitor Profiles. Clicking the Create/Edit Monitor Profiles menu item will open the Monitor Configuration window.

If you right-click on a UltraView Desktop Manager Taskbar, you can adjust the size, position and auto-hide settings, Start Button, and more for that Taskbar. If you right-click on the UltraView Desktop Manager system tray icon you can enable and disable the Taskbar feature for all monitors.

The Taskbar Shortcuts menu allows you to edit the Shortcuts for the selected Taskbar, or choose which side of the Taskbar the Shortcuts get aligned to. This can be the left/right sides for a horizontal Taskbar or the top/bottom sides for a vertical Taskbar.

The Taskbar Size menu allows you to change the size of the Taskbar. By default it will be the same size as the Windows Taskbar, but you can set any custom value you need.

This window allows you to specify a custom value for the Taskbar's size.

The Taskbar Position menu allows you to change which edge of the monitor the Taskbar is located. You can also disable the Taskbar for a specific monitor from here as well.

The Taskbar Auto-Hide menu allows you to set which Auto-Hide mode you would like to use. You can disable Auto-Hide, enable Auto-Hide or enable Auto-Hide and show the UltraView Desktop Manager Taskbar when the Windows Taskbar is visible as well.

The System Tray menu allows you to adjust which side of the Taskbar the clock and tray icons appear on. This menu also allows you to disable the Clock and Tray Icons. To disable each one individually, use the "Show/Hide" options, or to disable both of them, use the "Disabled" option.

The Start Button menu allows you to choose which side of the Taskbar the Start button gets aligned to. This can be the left/right sides for a horizontal Taskbar or the top/bottom sides for a vertical Taskbar, or it can be disabled completely.

The 'Show Desktop' Button menu allows you to choose which side of the Taskbar the 'Show Desktop' button gets aligned to. This can be the left/right sides for a horizontal Taskbar or the top/bottom sides for a vertical Taskbar, or it can be disabled completely.

The Taskbar Button Alignment menu allows you to choose which side of the Taskbar the application buttons get aligned to. This can be the left/right sides for a horizontal Taskbar or the top/bottom sides for a vertical Taskbar.

The Button Style sub-menu allows you to change the taskbar button type to Icons Only, Icons and Text, or automatically based on the native Windows taskbar button setting.

The Group Buttons menu allows you to enable or disable the Taskbar from grouping the buttons by program.

The Screen Saver context menu allows you to control the UltraView Desktop Manager Screen Saver and its settings.

The Audio Devices menu allows you to easily switch between different devices used for recording and playback on your system.

The Desktop Wallpaper window allows you to control how UltraView Desktop Manager will load, format and size your wallpaper images. There are many options and many sources to load your images from.

The controls at the top of the Wallpaper window allow you to add, remove, duplicate, and delete Wallpaper Profiles. You can create many different wallpaper profiles for different wallpaper settings.

The Background Mode options allow you to choose whether you want to use a different image on each monitor, the same image on each monitor, or a single image spanned across all monitors.

The Wallpaper Source options allow you to choose whether you would like to use a solid color as your wallpaper, or choose images from your local computer or various online sources. After choosing the image source, you can configure the various options available for the selected source.

When you choose a wallpaper source, but leave the "Load random images" option disabled, you can select a single image from your chosen wallpaper source to use as your desktop wallpaper.

When "My Computer" is chosen as the wallpaper source, and the "Load random images" option is enabled, you will see the screen below. You can add folders and/or files from your computer to the list of images that UltraView Desktop Manager will randomly choose from.

When an online provider such as Vladstudio is chosen as the wallpaper source, and the "Load random images" option is enabled, you will see the screen below. You can use the "Get Settings" button to adjust the criteria that UltraView Desktop Manager will use when choosing images from the source.

When you choose the Load from URL source, you can specify a website URL to load images from. If you'd like UltraView Desktop Manager to update the wallpaper on an interval using that URL, you can also enable the "Load random images" checkbox and specify the interval at which UltraView Desktop Manager should refresh the image.

The Image Color tab allows you to choose from various color modes (Normal, Grayscale, Sepia Tone, Inverted), and also allows you to set the background color that should be used when a wallpaper does not fill the screen. If you select "Solid Color" as the image source, the background color on this tab will be used.

The wallpaper adjustments allow you to modify the size, location, and rotation of the image. You can also flip the image horizontally or vertically.

The Image Info tab allows you to specify text that you would like displayed on top of the wallpaper on each screen. This text can be manually entered, or you can add Info Tags that will display text dynamically based on the context.

Right-click any monitor displayed at the top of the Wallpaper window to show this context menu. From here, you can load or clear images, as well as copy or swap settings from other monitors.

This option allows you to directly specify the URL of the image you'd like to use as your wallpaper.

This window allows you to search for images in any of the online providers included in UltraView Desktop Manager (Flickr, Vladstudio, Google Image Search, deviantArt, and other online providers). The various online providers may include options in addition to searching, such as category selection, safe search filters, and more.

Various wallpaper settings are available on this window. Everything from pausing the random wallpaper changer while your computer is running on battery, to having UltraView Desktop Manager automatically fix your wallpaper when your monitor configuration changes.

This is the Jump List menu that gets shown when you right-click a UltraView Desktop Manager Taskbar button.

This window allows you to configure your monitors, including screen resolution, color depth, orientation, and the monitor position. You can also save the configuration as a Monitor Profile to be loaded at a later time.

The Splits and Padding feature allows you to split a physical monitor into smaller virtual monitors that have their own taskbar, wallpaper, and screen saver. Application windows will also maximize within the splits, rather than the entire physical monitor. Note: It's not currently possible to constrain full screen videos or full screen games to monitor splits. You can use the Preset Splits button to choose from various symmetrical split layouts, and then tweak the settings further if you like. It's possible to adjust the splits to work with bezel corrected Surround/Eyefinity setups as well.

This window allows you to rename, delete, and assign Wallpaper Profiles and HotKey combinations to your saved Monitor Profiles.

This window allows you to manually specify the X and Y location values for the selected monitor. You can access this window by right-clicking the monitor you want to edit the location for. Note that it is not possible to set the location to something that would not share at least part of an edge with another monitor.

This window allows you to set or edit the key combination that is assigned to a Function. This window can be accessed from the Functions tab in the UltraView Desktop Manager Settings, as well as from the Manage Monitor Profiles window.

You can use the Settings window to control all the different functions of UltraView Desktop Manager. You can create your own Functions or TitleBar Buttons, configure your proxy settings, adjust how your multi-monitor taskbar looks and much more. To open the Settings window:

• Right-click on the UltraView Desktop Manager System Tray icon and select Settings
• Right-click on any UltraView Desktop Manager Taskbar and select Settings
• Right-click on any UltraView Desktop Manager TitleBar Buttons and select Settings
• Right-click on the Desktop and select UltraView Desktop Manager Settings
• Navigate to Start > All Programs > UltraView Desktop Manager > UltraView Desktop Manager Settings

This tab in the Settings window allows you to check for program updates and modify application settings.

The Functions tab allows you to add, modify, or remove Functions. Functions can be run on Windows, toggle UltraView Desktop Manager features, or perform system actions, such as starting the screen saver. You can assign key combinations to Functions, add Functions as TitleBar Buttons, and add Functions as entries in the Taskbar Jump Lists. Note: The built-in Functions cannot be deleted.

If you are editing a default Function, most of these fields will be unavailable.

This window is used to download scripted functions that have been created by the community.

You can create your own custom Image Sets and Button Images. Just create a folder in your UltraView Desktop Manager installation folder under "Program Files\UltraView Desktop Manager\TitleBar Buttons\Buttons\{your folder name}" and drop your images into this folder. Just select your folder from the "Image Set" list and you can use your custom images.

The code editor window allows you to write function code in C# or VB .net. If you start typing "BFS." the auto-complete will pop up a list of scripting functions that you can use. You can also use any regular C# or VB .NET code.

The Triggers tab allows you to configure rules that run on certain conditions, and perform actions as specified in the rules.

The Trigger edit window appears when you click the Add or Edit buttons on the Triggers tab.

This window appears when you add the "Move window to specific size and location" Action to a Trigger rule.

Use the Taskbar tab to configure the global UltraView Desktop Manager Multi-Monitor Taskbar settings. To configure individual per-taskbar settings, just right-click on the Taskbar you want to configure.

The Taskbar Shortcuts window allows you to add shortcuts to your Taskbars. You can add spplications, files, folders or website URL shortcuts.

You can use this window to create or edit an Application shortcut. Just select the application's executable and set the other options as desired.

You can use this folder to create or edit a Folder shortcut. Just browse to the folder and select whether you would like the folder to be forced to the same monitor that the shortcut is located on.

You can use this window to create or edit a Website shortcut. Just enter the website's address (URL) and select whether you would like it to open in a new window on the same monitor that the shortcut is located on.

The options on this tab enable and disable the various Windows 11 specific tweaks.

The options on this tab enable and disable the various Windows 10 specific tweaks.

The options on this tab enable and disable the various Windows 8 and Windows 10 specific tweaks.

On the Windows Lock Screen tab, you can customize your Windows Lock Screen image. You can use any of the available wallpaper sources (Flickr, Vladstudio, Google Image Search, deviantArt, and other online providers), or you can use any image from your local computer. The settings here behave the same as in the Desktop Wallpaper window.

Use the Screen Saver tab to configure the UltraView Desktop Manager multi-monitor Screen Savers. From here you can span a single Screen Saver across all of your monitors, or load a different Screen Saver on each monitor.

The Monitor Fading feature allows you to have certain monitors faded when enabled. It also has the ability to automatically fade and unfade based on which monitor or application window is currently active. You can also customize the level of opacity from 1 to 100%.

Window snapping allows application windows to be snapped to the edges of the monitors. Just enable this setting, then drag and drop an application’s window within a preset number of pixels (shown below) from a monitor's edge and it will be moved or “snapped” over to the edge. If you are using UltraView Desktop Manager Pro, you can also snap window edges to other window's edges. Just drag a window near a monitor edge or another window and release the mouse button to let UltraView Desktop Manager snap the window into place.

On this tab, you can configure how UltraView Desktop Manager handles application windows. You can have UltraView Desktop Manager drag maximized windows between monitors, or just have UltraView Desktop Manager move a window to the next monitor by middle-clicking in the window's caption bar at the top of the window.

UltraView window management lets you easily manage your desktop windows using a variety of settings and features below.

The Mouse Management tab in the Settings window allows you to configure the various mouse enhancements. These include allowing the mouse wheel to scroll windows that are not focused, mouse wrapping, and preventing the mouse cursor from snagging on the edges between monitors of different sizes.

The Alt+Tab tab in the Settings window allows you to configure UltraView Desktop Manager's Alt+Tab Handler. This handler can replace the default Windows Alt+Tab functionality, and gives you more options, such as showing Alt+Tab on the current monitor, instead of only the primary.

The Window Position Profiles tab allows you to save or load positions for the currently opened windows. Selecting an existing Profile before clicking the Save button will overwrite that Profile with the current window positions.

This window shows you all of the details for the windows that are saved in the Profile. You can also edit each entry, add new entries, or remove entries.

This window allows you to edit or add a window in the Profile. You can specify which criteria you want to match on, and specify the size and location of the window when the Profile is loaded.

The Desktop Icon Profiles tab allows you to save or load your Desktop Icon Profiles. Selecting an existing Profile before clicking the Save button will overwrite that Profile with the current desktop icon positions.

If you are having a problem with one of UltraView Desktop Manager's features with a certain application, just add it to this list and exclude it from that feature.

This window allows you to configure special compatibility options for an application.

This tab in the Settings window displays your current License key, and allows you to update the License Key or revert to the free version.

The troubleshooting tab contains information and options that are only useful for troubleshooting when something isn't working correctly. The text area contains all the information required by Digital Tigers Support when submitting a help request. The button with the blue arrows allows you to refresh the information listed here. The Logging drop-down list allows you to set the Debug Logging Level. This typically only needs to be enabled when requested by the Digital Tigers support team.

This dialog allows you to customize to connect to the internet to search for updates or to sync settings and profiles with your Digital Tigers account.

You can use these Advanced Settings to control hidden options.

This window is used to edit your advanced settings. There are different types of advanced settings: true/false settings or string value settings.

This window allows you to select from a list of currently running applications, or browse for an application on your computer.

This window allows you to submit a support request, along with your Troubleshooting information and debug log (if debug logging is enabled on the Troubleshooting tab in the settings window).