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Winstep Xtreme 8.9

DoubleEagle — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:02:26 +0000

submitted by DoubleEagle 2 days, 18 hours ago

Winstep Xtreme is a complete integrated Desktop Environment featuring the next generation of award winning Winstep user interface enhancements: NextSTART and WorkShelf. While most Windows customization software focuses on eye candy, Winstep applications raise the usability bar to another level: they give added functionality to Windows and complete control over every aspect of the user interface. NextSTART is a complete Start Menu, Taskbar and System Tray replacement, famous for its unmatched flexibility. WorkShelf is a desktop replacement and tabbed program launcher. Like a dock, but better. It enables you to organize your most often used applications and documents into categorized shelves while taking as little screen space as possible.... more

Aston2 Menu 1.3

bchick — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:06:21 +0000

submitted by bchick 3 days, 13 hours ago

Aston2 Menu opens the new line of Aston2 products. It completely replaces regular start menu and can be customized and filled with different widgets. Aston2 Menu is skinnable, supports animation, has flexible configuration and is very convenient.... more

lastest changes

Ability to edit Main Menu elements
Ability to setup Toplist (Top Programs)elements
Ability to update languages directly from the website
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EarthView 3.9.3

Alligator — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:03:29 +0000

submitted by Alligator 3 days, 19 hours ago

EarthView is a dynamic desktop wallpaper and screen saver, which displays beautiful views of the earth with daylight and night shadows. It produces high quality images for every screen resolution - even beyond 1600x1200. The program supports map and globe views, urban areas, city lights, geo-political boundaries and much more. Many options allow total customization of all view parameters.... more

lastest changes

Fix: updated city and country database
Fix: daylight saving of Australia

VirtuaWin 4.1 Beta 2

DoubleEagle — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:22 +0000

submitted by DoubleEagle 5 days, 17 hours ago

VirtuaWin is an Open Source, virtual desktop manager for Windows which can organize applications over several "virtual" desktops. For example if you use two virtual desktops you can put a Web browser on desk 1 and by using a desktop manager "switch away" the Web browser and it will seem like you have a new empty workspace (desk 2) to put another application/applications on. The program supports up to 20 desktops, configurable key/mouse control, user defined icons, modules for additional features, and much more.... more

Fresh UI 8.16

gnuclear — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:05:27 +0000

submitted by gnuclear 1 week, 2 days ago

Fresh UI is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings, Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with policies.... more

lastest changes

Options for taskbar

Winter Clock Screensaver 1.0

allsweets — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:08:15 +0000

submitted by allsweets 1 week, 3 days ago

Myriads of snowflakes are slowly reduced playing magic light of the polar lights. Time of a holiday, what is the time comes nearer remained up to Christmas? Snow-white analog clock on a background of the polar lights count stayed time and inform you how much days, hours, minutes and seconds remained up to Christmas. Find out what is the time remained up to Christmas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!... more

System Mechanic Professional 8.0.3.2

MGSolid — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:01:41 +0000

submitted by MGSolid 1 week, 4 days ago

System Mechanic is a nice set of tools that will help you with regular maintenance of your system. Tools include disk clean up, fix broken shortcuts, remove duplicate files, securely delete files, clean registry, safe installer, remove invalid installed info, startup manager, Internet privacy (deletes temporary Internet files and history), and Internet speed up which tweaks your registry settings for you so you get faster connection speeds.... more

Reg Organizer 4.22 Beta 2

beta — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:03:40 +0000

submitted by beta 1 week, 5 days ago

Reg Organizer offers a variety of tools required for effective System Registry and configuration files management. This software lets you view, edit and clean the Registry and preview the registry files you want to import (preview files directly from Windows Explorer). The automatic Registry cleanup mode helps you optimize your system performance. You can thoroughly search the Registry to find all the keys related to a certain application.... more

lastest changes

The Disk Cleanup results view has been optimized, the number of columns in the results table has been reduced for easier reading
The Registry Editing Mode context menu bas been simplified. When right clicking on the key the menu contains only the commands related to the key, not the value, and vice versa
The Automatic Registry Cleanup feature does not show entries which cannot be removed and repaired due to the insufficient privileges of the user in the system

VanDyke ClientPack 6.1

MGSolid — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:03:41 +0000

submitted by MGSolid 2 weeks, 1 day ago

VanDyke ClientPack is a set of command-line utilities for securely automating file transfer, shell, and public-key administration tasks on Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms. With the ClientPack, you can automate many routine administration and configuration tasks, saving time and reducing potential human error.... more

Universal Desktop Ruler 3.2

macyzhu — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:01:46 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Universal Desktop Ruler allows you to measure not only a straight line distance but any curved distance on the Screen. It allows you to quickly and accurately measure distances, areas and perimeters of figures on the screen. You can determine your own scale and get results in pixels and your units of measurement (feet, inches, meters). It is useful for measuring distance and area on a map, finding area and perimeter in a house project for example. Additionally, it has a screen magnifier function.... more

lastest changes

Angle measurement mode
Counting mode

SkinStudio 6.3

DoubleEagle — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:05:11 +0000

submitted by DoubleEagle 2 weeks, 2 days ago

SkinStudio is a program that enables Windows XP to add, edit, and create new visual styles. By default, Windows XP only allows 4 different looks - blue, green, silver, and classic. With SkinStudio XP installed, you can download the thousands of WindowBlinds visual styles on the net and use them to completely customize Windows XP. Because SkinStudio XP comes bundled with the latest version of WindowBlinds, you gain all the benefits of WindowBlinds plus the design features of SkinStudio. SkinStudio makes it easy to create new visual styles, you can even draw up your ultimate masterpiece and import it as a template, highlight each part with the mouse to modify virtually any part of the Windows XP interface. SkinStudio also supports ObjectBar, WebBlinds, and Koala Player skins.... more

IconPackager 4.1

beta — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:05:14 +0000

submitted by beta 2 weeks, 3 days ago

IconPackager allows you to download "packages" of icons and apply them to change virtually all the icons on Windows. It comes with several packs of very high quality icons and hundreds of others are available on the net.... more

lastest changes

Added option to change the Connect To icon on Vista Start Menu
Added option to change the Printers icon on Vista Start Menu
Clicking the rebuild icon cache option will also refresh the desktop icons
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VMware Workstation For Linux 6.5 Build 118166

Alligator — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:01:58 +0000

submitted by Alligator 2 weeks, 3 days ago

VMware Workstation features the ability to run multiple operating systems on the same PC without the need to partition the hard drive, or rebooting. Users can isolate and protect each operating environment, and the applications and data that are running in it. It allows users to interoperate among each of these operating systems, including full networking, device and file sharing, and cut-and-paste capabilities, and undo changes made in a given session. It allows operators to encapsulate and manipulate each operating environment, and have the ability to roll back and restart an application, or move an environment among differently configured machines.... more

WindowBlinds 6.3 Build 67

beta — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:02:39 +0000

submitted by beta 3 weeks, 2 days ago

WindowBlinds is a program that allows you to completely change the look and feel of Windows to however you want it to look like. It allows you to completely customize your desktop by changing the style of title bars, buttons, and toolbars. You can change the look of buttons and check boxes by assigning them skins, or personalities, and you can assign buttons that will launch programs to toolbars. You can create your own skins, choose from the four that are included in the program, or download additional ones. You can also choose to exclude certain programs from WindowBlinds if you don't want to change their appearances.... more

PowerStrip 3.83.635

macyzhu — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:05:06 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 3 weeks, 3 days ago

PowerStrip provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest ATI X1950 Crossfire and NVidia Quad-SLI 7900. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to the x64-bit edition of Vista. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls.... more

ScreenSaver Commander 1.3

macyzhu — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:06:25 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 3 weeks, 3 days ago

ScreenSaver Commander gives you the complete control over the Windows screen-saver - much more than the standard control panel allows. So, if you want to use several screen-savers instead of one, this makes it possible.... more

lastest changes

Added option to change screen-savers on the fly
Added option to specify play-time for all screen-savers
Added option to specify play-time for each screen-saver individually
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Desk Drive 1.6.3

Akimoto — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:03:05 +0000

submitted by Akimoto 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Desk Drive solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window's Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away. Brilliantly simple and effective. Desk Drive sits quietly in the system tray. Configuration (image at right) is just a click away and allows you to specify which types of media to monitor. So simple, it just works. Download it today.... more

lastest changes

X64 compatibility
Added logging
Tweaked language translations

Vista Start Menu 3.0

Akimoto — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:01:49 +0000

submitted by Akimoto 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Vista Start Menu is a convenient alternative to the Start menu. It is much easier to find and run the program you need. Everything is visual and extremely easy to use. Your applications are arranged in a table with icons divided into groups, which makes it easier to work with a lot of programs.... more

Copernic Desktop Search 3.0

beta — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:04:48 +0000

submitted by beta on 12-09-2008

Copernic Desktop Search lets you easily search your entire hard drive in less than a second to pinpoint the right file, e-mail, music or pictures. It brings the power of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you instantly to search files, e-mails, and email attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. It executes sub-second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, and all popular music, picture and video formats. CDS also searches your browser history, favorites, and contacts. Free for Non-Commercial Use.... more

Clock Screen Saver 1.64

ABFsoft — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:00:04 +0000

submitted by ABFsoft on 09-09-2008

Clock Screen Saver is a popular screen saver software that displays the current time in the way of cool digital or analog clock. Program can also display the current date in any time format and randomly change clock position. In addition, Clock Screen Saver can strike sounds of the real clock every hour, minute or second. And cool glow and afterglow effects of the program will make your clock look more attractive.... more

lastest changes

Minor bugs fixed.

Wallpap1 2.01

MGSolid — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:04:09 +0000

submitted by MGSolid on 02-09-2008

Wallpap1 sits in your system tray area and allows you to choose a directory of images you want to use as wallpaper, and Wallpap1 will automatically update/change your wallpaper using the images in the directory you specify, at the cycle/interval you specify. It supports GIF, JPG, and BMP.... more

lastest changes

Minor fix for shutdown

Dexpot 1.4.1

MGSolid — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:09:15 +0000

submitted by MGSolid on 01-09-2008

Dexpot optimizes the window managment of your PC, eleminates the problem of the disorder on your desktop and has many more functions. Extend your Desktop to a multiple: Dexpot makes working with your system substantially faster and more comfortable. All functions use a unified graphical interface which is very easy to operate. Freeware for private users.... more

lastest changes

Support for 64-bit operating systems
Improved support for Windows Vista
Portable version
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ShellToys 6.4.0

asmith — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:04:33 +0000

submitted by asmith on 01-09-2008

CFi ShellToys puts the tools you need right where you need them â€“ just a click away on your context menu. Right-click one or more files or folders, the desktop or the window background for instant access to 50 context-sensitive shell extensions.... more

lastest changes

Adds support for 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP
Adds support for Windows Server 2008
The Custom Menus feature now allows you to define your own named submenus (in addition to the default 'Rarely Used' submenu) and organize related context menus items into different submenus. In Windows Vista and higher, with desktop composition enabled, y
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SharpE 0.8 Build 5

asmith — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:07:21 +0000

submitted by asmith on 29-08-2008

SharpE is a free Windows shell replacement that works on all ranges of Windows. It completely replaces your regular Windows desktop with all new powerful tools all designed to enhance your computing experience. Things like taskbar, tray, desktop, and startmenu all have their counterpart. It not only completely replaces your regular Windows desktop, it adds to it, features like crash protection, online updates, global hotkeys, virtual window manager, and alot more.... more

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Keep NOT Running 1.1.0

macyzhu — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:05:20 +0000

submitted by macyzhu on 27-08-2008

Keep NOT Running can be useful in a few ways... Let's say someone leaves Outlook running, thereby chewing up bandwidth by checking their POP account for new spam every 2 minutes, when the machine is idle (they haven't moved the mouse or pressed a key in awhile) then kill off outlook.exe. Let's say someone launches NBC video in their browser, then goes to lunch, when the machine is idle kill off iexplore.exe. Let's say someone logs onto a computer as administrator, then gets distracted and leaves, when the machine is idle logoff the user.... more