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AltDesk lets you easily arrange multiple tasks by means of Virtual Desktops used for the storage of individual groups of windows. You can switch Desktops and even swap tasks between them by using Drag and Drop. With AltDesk, you don't have to open and close numerous programs dozens of times a day: just place them on separate Virtual Desktops and turn to them only when they're really needed. You can create as many Virtual Desktops as you want.
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| Company: Gladiators Software | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 3.x,WinNT 4.x,WinXP,Windows2000,Windows2003,Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vi | |||
Handwizard Is Your Hand Wizard Mode. Handwizard provides automated cursor moving and command entry by mouse steps. Handwizard is based on such inventions as "Cursor displacement control method" and "Data input method", which define its purpose and functionality. Handwizard gives the user: time and health savings due to work with the mouse, and new level of freedom in artistic self-expression.
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| Company: Microxe | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003,Windows Vista Home Basic | |||

Drive Vaccine. Mac - Rollback Mac workstations to desired configurations by simply rebooting.
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| Company: Horizon DataSys Inc. | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||

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| Company: Ruslan Mukhin | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win 95/98/ME, Win 2000/NT, Windows XP | |||

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| Company: Information Packaging | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win 95/98/ME, Win 2000/NT, Windows XP, Palm OS | |||

Emulate the famous LCARS terminals and computerscreens.
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| Company: P.T. van Stralen | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win 95/98/ME, Windows XP | |||
Activity Timer keeps track of the time you spend at the computer on projects or activities. It keeps track of all the times when you use the mouse or keyboard. You can also set it to automatically change project when you use particular windows.
You can also play or shows screen alarms as a reminder to stop work after a preset period of time.
You can also set it to play or show reminders to look away from the screen for a few seconds from time to time as advised by eye doctors - this can mitigate that tiredness of the eyes that can result from long periods of staring at a computer monitor.
When minimized you can see the time so far by hovering the mouse over its icon. You can also change the project or set it to working or not working with a quick right click on the icon. Also can be set so that the projects list shows whenever you move the mouse into the top left or bottom right corners of the screen
You can set it to flash its icon, flash the border of the screen, show a splash screen, or play any tune or CD track when your desired time for the session is over. The tray icon can show the session time as a pie chart.
You can also run a screen saver as the end of session or eye protection reminder.
You can choose when you want each day to roll over to the next - preset to 6 a.m. which is suitable for most. Year 2038 compliant.
You can show a summary report of all the time spent on every project, and make a combined database showing the total time spent on all the projects for each day worked.
You can set it to start whenever you start the computer.
Easy to add a new project - just enter its name into the box and press the New Project button and it is done.
Free with splash screen - bar charts disabled and some of the special features. Low price if you pay for the extra features.
Straight forward layout. Extremely easy to use
You can also edit text for its windows and menus, for instance to translate into your own language.
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| Company: Robert Walker | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win 95/98/ME, Win 2000/NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista | |||

ViVi Ripple is desktop enhancement software; it ripples your desktop wallpaper making water pictures come alive. The water will perform wave ripple when moving mouse and (or) clicking mouse button. You can use the Mirror Desktop option to mirror the mountain, the tree, the sun, the building and so on, just like a lake on your screen.
ViVi Ripple makes a perfect addition to a home or office computer! It is extremely suit for your boring desktop, the ripple and the mouse effects can make your screen become interesting and vivid.
Key Feature:
1.The alive and vivid desktop you have never seen before. Auto detecting your CPU and chose the best method to perform the ripple.
2.ViVi Ripple is set to be an idle priority process this means ViVi Ripple never slow down your computer.
3.Auto update desktop wallpaper if you change the windows theme.
4.Support wide screen monitor.
System Supports
Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
From now on, you can get your ViVi Ripple life. For more information please visit ViVi Software, Inc. -- www.vivisoftware.com
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| Company: ViVi Software, Inc. | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||

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| Company: H-SW | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win 95/98/ME, Win 2000/NT, Windows XP | |||

Manage your desktop icons, background image and media message on your LAN or home network. This software is great for Network managers who want to control the Desktops within their network and keep desktops clean and tidy. It even allows you to add your own Media message (video, image or HTML) that can be displayed on the remote Desktops within the network. Simply specify a LAN path and place your files there, and every time the computer is logged on, it will automatically clean up the icons, set the background image and display a media message! Great for schools, LAN, Networks, small offices etc. Anywhere within a local area network or even home network.
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| Company: Media Creations Ltd | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||

Use Cute Context Menu to quickly access your favorite files with a simple right click of the mouse.For WindowsMore Info
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| Company: Ulove Software | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||

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| Company: Harmony Hollow Software | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||

Aston shell is a powerful and flexible shell replacement application. Unlike many competing products, you do not have to have an expensive powerful computer to run Aston. Combining high speed and eye-candy it consumes less RAM, than default Windows shell and needs few processor resources. It is fast and stable, so you can save your computer's power for other tasks.
Aston fully replaces standard Windows Desktop and adds numerous new features:
- Nice looking, easily configurable interface;
- Detailed configuration of any element;
- Simple visual configuration;
- Custom skins for all elements;
- Ability to change system colors, icons and cursors;
- Icons of any size and shape, animated and transparent icons;
- Transparency and animation effects;
- Plugins, adding new features to your shell;
- Hotkeys for any actions (launching applications, URLs, minimizing Windows, etc...);
Besides, Aston contains all elements of default Windows shell: Desktop, Taskbar, System Tray, Main Menu, etc...
Aston is based on completely original code and it is not a clone of any other shell. Its code is highly optimized by speed and size.
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| Company: Gladiators Software | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: WinNT,Windows 2000,WinXP,Win98,WinME,Windows Server 2003 | |||

Text Capture Library is a powerful, but easy to use TEXT capture COM component with many features:
1. Capture and process on-screen text of most windows control seen on your computer.
2. Capture all items of folder trees, file lists, status lines, text content of messages and dialog boxes, include visible and invisible items.
3. Scan Mode can capture the text of database table reports, visible text of legacy systems, and more.
4. Support DOS Console output window for Windows 2000/XP system.
5. Support to get html source code from MS Internet Explore or from applications embedded the MS webbrowser control.
6. Fully commented sample applications for various languages, including VB, VBA, VBScript, Visual C++, C#, C++ Builder and Python.
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| Company: skesoft | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||

TextCatch is a powerful windows TEXT capture program with many features and options.
It allows to capturing text from Windows screen, under the control of another program.
It can be used to capture text from another application and then the result can be saved in ASCII format and are usually appended with a .TXT filename extension, not bitmaps or graphics.
While most computer programs can make copies of text and paste it, but not all screens or programs have these edit features. TextCatch capture TEXT from screens that do not allow copy and paste! It works with most windows control seen on your computer: Button; ComboBox; Edit; ListBox; StatusBar; RichEdit; Static; ListView; TreeView; Toolbar, Internet Explorer_Server. It can capture all items of folder trees, file lists, status lines, text content of messages and dialog boxes, include visible and invisible items.
It add support of INPUT option for DOS Console output window(Only for Windows 2000 / XP).
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| Company: skesoft | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||
PopBar lives in your system tray and it's only job is to hold your favorite programs and internet links and have them available at the click of a button! You can add any file on your system or internet link to PopBar. When your screen becomes cluttered with Windows, icons, etc, and you want to launch one of your favorite files, just look in your system tray for PopBar! Get this program for free as part of the JGOware Software Membership.
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| Company: JGOware | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win95,Win98,WinME,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003 | |||

Return to those nostalgic days when your taskbar and traybar had a clean and clear look!Innovatools Desktop Commander gives you the chance to change the look of the taskbar and traybar in a way that will allow you to work more efficiently. It allows you to keep the most used applications, programs, documents, favorite pictures, email applications or even folders containing everything you need just one click away. This way, the taskbar and traybar can look and function exactly like you desire. Innovatools Desktop Commander also helps you protect your privacy. With a simple shortcut you can hide all the icons and windows or just some of them and you will be able to prevent the prying eyes from finding out what you are doing on your computer at a particular moment.
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| Company: Innovatools, Inc. | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows 3.1, Win 95/98/ME, Win 2000/NT, Windows XP | |||
It is a desktop draw tool, can lock desktop,and draw line on it free,you can set line's color or width.Clear the points(lines) that you drawed(when you clear on Desktop,it will be magic)!,for education,demo,explaining,for doodling too.1.Draw on your desktop;
2.Draw on a "pure paper";
3.Rubber tool;
4.Double mouse click to Clean them;
4.Spot light tools
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| Company: Hongdi software Company | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win 3.1x,Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 3.x,WinNT 4.x,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003,WinME,Linux | |||
EasyConsole Dos shell utility lets you navigate in drives and through folders using Windows issuing DOS commands on a slave MSDOS console, saving command-line instructions for future use.Last 20 commands are memorized and you will be able to store 10 long most used or favorite command lines on 10 buttons to be launched with a click instead of typing again and avoiding fastidious repetitive commands.
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| Company: Soft Experience | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003 | |||

Aston2 Menu opens the new line of Aston2 products, which turn your desktop into a yet more convenient and attractive environment. Aston2 is developed on an absolutely new engine, created from scratch. Aston2 product line includes three basic products: - Aston2 Menu, which replaces the regular Windows start menu. - Aston2 Panels, which can replace Windows taskbar and yet enhance the shell functionality. - Aston2 Desktop, which replaces Windows Explorer desktop and can be filled with any Aston 2 widgets and icons. Thus, complete Aston2 SHELL can be considered the combination of all the above components. But which of them to use is entirely up to end-user's choice. Aston 2 Menu features: - Themes and skins support. Aston2 settings are split into two parts - theme settings and private settings. All Aston2 widgets are skinnable: you can change the skin of any element; - Widgets support (This demo version contains the following default widgets: Clock, Calendar, Recycle bin, Disks, Power control, Search, Toplist, Username, Weather and Uninstall). Widgets can be built into the desktop, panels or popup menus; - Fast and convenient search for the files on the local disks and for the information in the Internet; - Flexible configuration. Every element of the menu can be tweaked and customized, thus letting one to create yet more convenient working area. The same concerns Aston 2 Panels and Aston 2 Desktop as well; - Animation support in every aspect of Aston2: smooth widgets opening and moving, animated wallpaper, animated icons and other elements of skinned widgets; - Aston2 Menu can be used both in Aston1 shell (staring from 1.9.5 version) and in Explorer shell. - Drag'n'Drop operations support, user friendly interface; - Unicode support; - XML standard, used for all the parameters setup; - Multi-language support; - Plug-ins support. There are a lot planned features for the future Aston2 Menu release
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| Company: Gladiators Software | Web Site: Click Here | ||
| OS: Windows | |||








