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* Drag and Drop buttons on taskbar and change their order as you wish * Save and Restore order of taskbar buttons * Hide buttons on taskbar. See Demo * Disable annoying Startup programs * Schedule automatic System shutdown/logoff/restart * Quick shortcuts to shutdown, logoff or reboot your machine.

  • Platform: WinOther

Quick Shell adds options to the system menu of all windows to make them always on top, transparent or collapse them to the titlebar. Also, menus can be made transparent. For Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP..

  • Platform: Win2000, WinOther
  • WindowFX
  • License: Shareware
  • Price: 19.95
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WindowFX allows Windows 2003/XP users to add a host of special effects and enhancements to their windows.

WindowFX features include: true shadows under windows, transition effects for minimizing, maximizing, closing, and opening windows. Transparency effects, the ability to have large icons on the desktop while having normal sized icons elsewhere, desktop icon special effects and label effects, maximize to a set resolution, and much more.

  • Platform: Windows Server, WinOther

Modern computers' power is enough to let you run numerous applications at the same time. You can surf the Internet, listen to the music and chat with your friends at the same time, but the more tasks you launch, the harder it gets to manage them. Second monitor may seema s way out, but AltDesk gives you a better choice.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

Desktop Magnifier is, just as its name indicates, a magnifier utility/tool for your desktop. Although you probably have something like this already installed on your system among "Accessibility" tools, you will immediately notice the difference.

  • Publisher: Coder Ltd.
  • Date: 29-10-2006
  • Size: 835 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

MaxiVista turns any spare Laptop or Tablet PC into a second monitor for your primary PC. Program windows can be extended across both PC's screens, while the programs are still all controlled from the primary PC. Simply connect up to four PCs via Ethernet, a wireless LAN, FireWire, or a USB network and enjoy giant desktop real estate of up to 7,680x1,200 pixels.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

Starting from Windows XP, Microsoft Corp. introduced the Theme Manager component that enables users to customize visual appearance of all applications that run in Windows. Users may customize literally all visual attributes, including colors, fonts, headings, borders, buttons style and so on.

  • Platform: WinOther

Great tool to set the icon colors suitable to your wallpaper image. Change the desktop icon's text color and the desktop icon text's background color, even to transparent! Now with Windows XP shadow support. A handy tool, with a functionality not possible before in Windows.

  • Platform: Tablets, Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

Desktop Ruler is, just as its name indicates, a virtual ruler utility/tool for your desktop. Need some freedom for your creativity? Small by size, our ruler grew into a very sophisticated product, where you can customize almost anything you can think of: size, colors, transparency, orientation, scale, measuring units, resolution, double-click actions, behavior, display of additional information.

  • Publisher: Coder Ltd.
  • Date: 29-10-2006
  • Size: 879 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
  • Fedgees
  • License: Shareware
  • Price: 14.95
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Fedgees is a utility that lets you create unique desktop pals that include pictures, sounds, and conversations. Fedgees can be customized to anything your imagination can create, so the possibilities are endless. Plus, once you see how easy it is to make your own Fedgees, you can distribute your creations called Packs and share them with our online community.

  • Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64

Hide My Windows is created mostly for people working in the office, whose computer activity is usually under strict control. It hides or closes games, entertainment web pages, private documents and other windows or applications that a user needs to hide.

  • Publisher: ALSEDI
  • Date: 14-12-2008
  • Size: 1398 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

Draxysoft Wallpaper Sequencer (Walser) is a state-of-the-art wallpaper manager for Windows. Semi-transparent wallpaper calendar with various skins. With Wallpaper Sequencer you can create collections of your favorite wallpapers (BMP, JPG, PNG, WMF, EMF, GIF, PSD, PDD, PCX, PCC, WBZ, PSP, GIF, TIF, TIFF, PGM, PBM, TGA, VST, ISB, VDA, WIN, RLA, RPF, CEL, PIC image formats are supported and images in ZIP-archives) and automatically change them on each Windows startup or at specified time intervals that can be as small as 1 minute (for less memory usage Walser can be closed after the wallpaper change).

  • Publisher: Draxysoft
  • Date: 22-07-2006
  • Size: 4324 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

Do you need to hide windows or complete applications from the sight of others? To surf through the internet without anyone seeing the contents of the sites you have access to? To keep a conversation using a messenger or enter the number of your bank account with total privacy? Warning! The Boss! will kept you preserve your privacy hiding windows, applications and the icons in the systray and mute the sound of your PC.

  • Platform: Win2000, WinOther

PC Icon Editor is a powerful tool designed to Create, Edit, and Manage Windows icons, cursors, and Icon Library files. Create Windows icon from digital photos and images. Export icons to bitmap file with ability to define transparency color. Also able to EXTRACT Windows icons from inside of EXE, DLL, DRV, SCR, and ICO files on your computer and save them into ICO and Icon Library file.

  • Publisher: Program4Pc
  • Date: 03-07-2009
  • Size: 5695 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

With the Windows start menu replacement My Menu Explorer you easily customize your personal start menu for Windows according to your needs. My Menu Explorer combines valuable features of a customizable start menu with the familiar user interface of Windows Explorer.

  • Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP, Windows 8

enable Virtual Desktop is the next generation virtual desktop from Enable Software. Work faster, work easier, work smarter - get the freedom to work your way. Features include: multiple monitor support, customizable desktop size, hotkey desktop switching, mouse and window selectors, fully customizable appearance (including different wallpaper/patterns/colors for each desktop).

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

SWF to Screensaver Scout: converts Flash to Screensaver (FLV, SWF to SCR, EXE) BENEFITS: * Make screensavers from flash FLV movies and SWF files - create out-of-the-box standalone .EXE and .SCR files for Windows 2000 and higher (up to Windows Vista and Windows 7); * DUAL monitors configurations support: screensaver runs on each additional monitor automatically; * Set custom icons (.

  • Publisher: ByteScout
  • Date: 10-04-2013
  • Size: 4994 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

Help organize your life with ease! (For Windows 95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP/Vista) This is a very simple, easy to use, task list management system which allows you to export your tasks to HTML, XML, or standard TXT files. It is very lightweight (the executable is less than 175KB) and is compatible with any windows based system from Windows 95 through the latest pre-releases of Windows Vista.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

Tray Weather Forecast is a desktop application to view a weather forecast. It is nice and simple to use. Icon in the system tray (notification area near desktop clocks) show current outdoors temperature. Click on icon bring weather forecast window to desktop.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

ShutDownOne runs in the system tray and allows you to quickly shut down Windows. You can choose from a full shutdown, reboot, log off, power off and also lock the work station, activate hibernate. Any operation can be executed as an emergency (force) shut down.

  • Publisher: DimaWare
  • Date: 14-01-2007
  • Size: 297 KB
  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

QuuSoft Desktop Manager is a highly flexible tab-like style program that can be used to greatly enhance the user's experience on managing applications and desktop shortcuts. Since QuuSoft Desktop Manager is designed with the intuitive and straightforward interface, you can easily categorize each item into different groups where the shortcuts of any program, folders and files can be elegantly and effectively managed.

  • Publisher: QuuSoft.com
  • Date: 29-05-2010
  • Size: 1894 KB
  • Platform: Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

Disk TuneUp is generally for running a maintenance task on your PC. It will not help you remove viruses or malware. For that, you will require an antivirus. It will not able to defragment hard drive. Once removed, files cannot be recovered..

  • Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinVista, WinVista x64, WinXP

Forget about the lousy 'Alt-tab', now you can have it always on-top!" -Do you ever have many windows open at the same time? -Tired of scrolling up and down on the taskbar and not being able to find the window you are looking for? or perhaps, -you are just looking for some way to spice up the most personalized part of your computer; the desktop.

  • Platform: Win2000, WinOther

AltSwitch is an advanced replacement for the standard Windows Alt+Tab task switcher. AltSwitch lets easily navigate between tasks running on your computer using keyboard and/or mouse, mouse wheel supported as well. For each task small preview image is displayed, size of the preview image is adjustable.

  • Platform: Windows Server, WinOther

Aston2 Panels are a state-of-the-art utility (integral part of Aston2 Suite) that allows users to change the appearance of regular Windows taskbar while at the same time offering unique user experience with plenty of out-of-the-box features. By applying skins you can make your desktop look like an alien spaceship's computer interface, alternative operating system or anything your heart desires in just a split of a second.

  • Platform: Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

Is your taskbar cluttered? Getting lost in jungle of windows? Do you need a simple and versatile solution for creating distinct work areas for your different tasks? Create up to 9 separated screens, so called virtual desktops. Move applications between desktops easily! Use tabs, hotkeys, mouse gestures, drag-and-drop interface, system menu integration and other methods to manage your desktops and windows.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

Talking graphical user interfaces, there is hardly an innovation since the ingenious invention of a window. Indeed, the concept of representing information as a variety of windows, also called perception frames, seems to be a time-proven solution for majority of computer interaction tasks.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

WindowShade lets you hide the windows that are obscuring your view temporarily -- completely hassle-free and unobtrusive for your eye. Just by double-clicking the window titlebar, or pressing the Shift or Control key twice, the window will roll into just the window title bar, letting you see and interact with the windows located below the current window.

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

Fast Folder Access is a shell enhancement that gives you quick jump to your favorite folders in Common Open/Save dialogs, in Windows Explorer, the desktop and the Start Button.You access the Fast Folder menu by right-clicking anywhere in the File,Directory,directory background (right pane) of Windows Explorer, the "white area" of Common Open/Save -dialogs,on the desktop and the Start button.

  • Platform: Win2000, Win7 x32, WinOther, WinVista
  • VSFNotes
  • License: Freeware
  • Price: 0.00
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Write notes and place them on the desktop..

  • Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther

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