- Name: Desktop3D 2.0.2
- File Size: 13.15MB
- Date: 22 Nov 2008
- License: Shareware
- Price: $19.95
- Eval: 10 days
- System Requirements: Win 2000/XP/Vista/Vista x64, DirectX 9.0c
Developer's Description: "Desktop3D is tailored to replace the standard Windows Desktop and bring new features. Desktop3D includes more of 100 icons that replaces the default icons on a large and beautiful with alpha - effect (Transparency). Desktop3D replaces the wallpaper on animated pictures that will definitely give a twist to your desktop. The default setup includes three skins, there are a beautiful blue sea representation, a fire and a nice looking rainy autumn day, and more skins is available on the web-site. Desktop3D features a user friendly interface, which lets you change your new desktop's appearance and behavior in few seconds. Desktop3D is fully integrated with Windows Shell. The program is very stable and has a small memory footprint and low CPU usage, so you can free your processor time for other tasks." More info-ArcticLine Software
- Name: Talisman Desktop 2.99
- File Size: 7.42MB
- Date: 12 Jan 2008
- License: Shareware
- Price: $25.00
- Eval: 30 days
- System Requirements: Win 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista, Pentium, 64MB RAM.
Developer's Description: "Talisman Desktop is a desktop manager and shell-replacement for Windows 9x/ME and NT/2000/XP/Vista. The program lets users design their own desktops and interfaces or choose from hundreds of downloadable themes, which work either atop or as complete replacements for the default Windows shell. Unlike Windows XP themes, Talisman Desktop lets you completely customize the Windows interface. Its power extends from adding new toolbars to designing a brand-new desktop with any combination of drop-down menus, buttons and panels. The program allows any number of fixed or free-moving icons, buttons, or other objects that launch programs, Web sites, or internal shell commands; HTML and Flash objects; a customizable taskbar, system tray, calendar, clock; and customizable Start, folder, and task menus, as well as a powerful script language and plugins. Originally created for home users who enjoy outdoing the Mac OS or "Longhorn" designers, Talisman has also been adopted as a front-end interface for public and corporate PCs and kiosks. Currently, there are over 1000 customizable themes (interfaces) that can be used for personal PCs, standardized corporate desktops, car PCs, Home Theater and MediaCenter interfaces, touch-screen computers, protected interfaces for museums, libraries and other organization. New in this release:
- Vista support.
- New "Theme Manager 3.0 beta", including: Theme Manager, Theme Installer, Theme Builder, Shape Builder, Object Collector.
- New TSHAPE 3.0 format for alpha-blended Shape objects.
- New "Resize" function for Shape objects. Now you can resize an unlocked Shape object by dragging its bottom-right (8x8 pixels) conner.
- New internal commands: restart, power off, hibernate. Use these commands to directly restart/shutdown or hibernate computer without Windows dialog.
- And much more."
More info-Lighttek Software
- Name: Windowblinds 6.3 build 67
- File Size: 21.0MB
- Date: 20 Sep 2008
- License: Shareware
- Price: $19.99 (other pricing options available)
- Eval: 30 days
- System Requirements: Win XP/2003/Vista/Vista x64, 60MB free disk space, 256MB RAM.
Customize the look and feel of Windows XP or Vista with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. It can "skin" your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, radio buttons, and nearly every other part of Windows. There are thousands of freely available skins to choose from. Use WindowBlinds to make Windows look like another operating system (Mac, Linux, etc.) or give it your own unique look and feel. You can also create your own skins using the freely available SkinStudio. WindowBlinds eliminates the need for any stay-resident program making it use virtually no extra memory. It also makes use of hardware acceleration found on most nVidia and ATI cards resulting in an overall performance increase. WindowBlinds 5 also supports per-pixel alpha blending allowing for "glass" effects, semi-transparent titlebars/borders, smooth borders. This means that title bars, borders, menus and other User Interface elements seamlessly blend in to what is around them. Glassy skins, skins with very smooth edges, and irregularly shaped menus and other pieces become possible. More info-Stardock Systems