Best desktop enhancement software for free download

Folder Marker Home is a powerful helper specially designed for home work. It enables you to quickly change folder color or mark folders to indicate priority (high, normal, low), level of project completeness (done, half-done, planned) by work status (approved, rejected, pending) and type of information stored in folder (work, important, temp and private files).
The icons in Folder Marker are self-explanatory and include many colors, dark and light colors, many categories, and they carry letters and numbers. Of course, the default set of icons can be expanded with the unlimited number of new icons that you have downloaded from the internet, or created in the icon editor yourself.
How to change folder icons in the Folder Marker’s way?
Select an icon from the right-click menu of a folder.
That’s it! Only one step to change a folder icon! Isn’t that cool or what? Using Folder Marker Home couldn’t be simpler. The application’s designers wanted to make the ability to change a folder icon or a folder color as painless as possible and they’ve done an outstanding job. Folder Marker is #1 folder color and icon changer in Internet!
Users can take advantage of great customization flexibility. You can, for example, modify a right-click menu of a folder by adding new menu items and categories and assigning icons to them. The user can select to make folders, customized with Folder Marker Home, distributable. This means a color-coded icon remains unchanged even if the folder is copied onto a new computer or the system has been
re-installed. Also, you can apply a selected icon for all subfolders in a given folder.
Folder Marker Home is a cute little desktop enhancement tool that’s worth its virtual weight in the agony and frustration it may save you from when you find it difficult to find the folder you need. Many people use the program to change folder icons just because Folder Marker Home made it fun.

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Aston Secure Desktop is a security build of Aston 1.x branch. It possesses all the features of regular Aston shell, but constrains the ability to alter the admin-defined settings.

This restricted version is highly recommended to Internet-cafes and kiosks administrators, colleges and companies authorities, and parents willing to find their Desktop settings unaltered after their kids incursions. This is also a perfect way out in other situations when users' ability to customize their working area needs to be limited.

With Aston Shell Secure Desktop you get a restricted but still beautiful and powerful desktop enhancement. It no way limits the comfort and attractiveness of regular Aston.

Key features:
* Limited ability to alter the admin-defined settings
* Fast, stable and highly responsive even on slow computers
* Easy customization of any Desktop parameter via Admin mode and no chance to do it from the User mode
* Lots of advanced features (hotkeys, Toolbars, freeform animated icons)
* Dozens of various plug-ins

Aston Secure Desktop has two modes - User mode and Admin mode. From within the Admin mode one can set the programs and applications to be available from the Main Menu, both Toolbars, Panels (regular and vertical) and Desktop. When in the Admin mode, one can also tweak the system date and time and the screen settings, the same concerns Themes and skins. In a word, the Admin mode of Aston Secure Desktop behaves like regular Aston shell. User mode gives no opportunity to change the pre-defined settings - the user can only start the programs and apps permitted by the Administrator.

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Bring your desktop to life with Tropical Beach Living Desktop! Enjoy pristine tropical beaches complete with palm trees and beautifully rendered rippling water effects. You won't believe your eyes as your desktop is transformed into a living scene so life-like you will feel like your computer is a window into another beautiful world. Tropical Beach includes three incredible animated scenes with beaches from the Cook Island and peaceful lagoon settings. Tropical Beach Living Desktop - its like having your own personal island getaway right on your desktop!

Living Desktops are an exciting new desktop enhancement technology from Lumesoft ready to transform your desktop into a living scene filled with color and animation. Living Desktops use minimal system resources and have been optimized to run without slowing the computer down. All Living Desktops work as both an animated wallpaper and as a screensaver.

Why settle for the same old wallpaper when you can have a Living Desktop?

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Bring your desktop to life with Surreal Sunset Living Desktop! Be swept away as night falls on a dreamlike landscape. Gentle waves ripple beneath a sky afire with rich color and splashed with the stars and planets of the galaxy. Surreal Sunset includes three incredible animated scenes of sunsets over tropical beaches with planets and stars. Surreal Sunset Living Desktop - experience a sunset that is truly out of this world!

Living Desktops are an exciting new desktop enhancement technology from Lumesoft ready to transform your desktop into a living scene filled with color and animation. Living Desktops use minimal system resources and have been optimized to run without slowing the computer down. All Living Desktops work as both an animated wallpaper and as a screensaver.

Why settle for the same old wallpaper when you can have a Living Desktop?

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Bring your desktop to life with SnowFall Living Desktop! Watch as beautiful winter scenes come to life on your desktop complete with gently drifting snow. Allow your desktop to be enchanted this winter as you enjoy the peace of falling snow. SnowFall Living Desktop allows you to change a number of features including the number of snowflakes, the speed that they drift as they fall, the size of the snowflakes and winter scene selected for the background.

Living Desktops are an exciting new desktop enhancement technology from Lumesoft ready to transform your desktop into a living scene filled with color and animation. Living Desktops use minimal system resources and have been optimized to run without slowing the computer down. All Living Desktops work as both an animated wallpaper and as a screensaver.

Why settle for the same old wallpaper when you can have a Living Desktop?

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Christmas comes alive on your desktop with these beautiful candelit Christmas scenes. Photorealistic flickering candlelight illuminates five different holiday scenes sure to brighten your desktop and your holiday season. Each scene is unique and features up to four beautiful moving candle flames casting light over the whole scene in real time right before your eyes. If you have one desktop enhancement this holiday season, make it this one.

Living Desktops are an exciting new desktop enhancement technology from Lumesoft ready to transform your desktop into a living scene filled with color and animation. Living Desktops use minimal system resources and have been optimized to run without slowing the computer down. All Living Desktops work as both an animated wallpaper and as a screensaver.

Why settle for the same old wallpaper when you can have a Living Desktop?

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CoralPic Photo Show can help put up photos with fancy frames on your desktop, like the way you hang up photos on the wall.

Many people have tens of hundreds of digital photos, some are pictures of themselves taken with digital camera, some are pictures of favored stars and animated GIFs. With CoralPic Photo Show, you can easily put up these photos on your desktop, just like the way you hang up a drawing on the wall. One of the beauties using CoralPic is that you don't need to change computer's wallpaper. And what's more? You can also add up fancy photo frames and display animated effects.

Just a few clicks, photos with frames are hung up on your desktop. CoralPic allows you to move, resize photos and display animation effects. A lot of fancy photo frames are provided. For those photos with single colored background like those of stars downloaded from the web, you can use the Blue Screen Imaging tool to remove the background, making stars look in harmony with the desktop. In short, CoralPic Photo Show makes it possible for you to view your favored photos on the desktop at anytime.

Features:

-Creating fantastic photo animation on your desktop
-Fancy photo frames created by professional artists
-Creating GIF animations on the desktop
-Blue screen imaging tool for remove background, perfect for stars' photos edit
-Tools for brightness, contrast and Gamma value adjust
-Grayscale conversion
-Photo blurring and sharpness enhancement
-Photo rotation
-Photo resizing
-Photo moving
-Printing
-Saving as a file and email to a friend
-History memory of opened files


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With AIM Keys 5.5, and it's universal macro features that can now be APPLICATION specific, you can quickly and easily record and playback a complex series of keystrokes with a single text or key shortcut.

Learn more about the latest 5.5 version at: http://www.aimkeys.com

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MouseImp is a handy tool that helps you to use your conventional mouse more efficiently. The AutoShrink feature increases your available workspace by removing toolbars from the screen so that only caption bars remain. To access a toolbar, just point to its caption, and it will be restored immediately. The Direct Scroll feature makes it easier to scroll through windows. Instead of using a scroll bar, you can activate MouseImp and scroll by moving the mouse up or down anywhere in the window.

MouseImp also gives you the ability to shrink windows temporarily.

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WindowBlinds is the world's most popular desktop enhancement utility. With a user base estimated at around 10 million, WindowBlinds is used by both consumers and corporations who want to change the way the Windows user interface looks and feels. It is the only program of its kind used and certified by Microsoft.

WindowBlinds 4.5 includes the new ability to change the color of visual styles through hue shifting along with modifying the brightness and saturation of the visual style. It also includes the ability to have alpha blended Start menus and standard menus which enable users to have semi-transparent pieces to those parts of Windows XP and eliminates the "jagged" look around the edges of the interface. WindowBlinds 4.51 enables users to have semitransparent pieces in the Start menu, adds support for 64-bit version of Windows XP and enhanced support for instant messenger clients.

Consumers can purchase the enhanced version of WindowBlinds for $19.95 which adds the ability to skin more elements of the Windows user interface and can skin even non-theme aware applications.

See http://www.stardock.com/products/directskin/ for information on how you can make your own application skinnable.

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Use hundreds of frames of different styles, themes and categories, to enhance your digital photos with remarkable ease!
Make your photo albums more unique and personalize your desktop, projects, websites, etc. through an intuitive user interface.
Photo Frame Show latest version based on the Adobe AIR technology, offers advanced features, such as:
- Use multiple frames/photos on a single design
- Add and format rich text on your framed images to make your design more personalized
- Add clipart, graphics or logos to give your framed photos a funny (teasing) or creative (professional) look
- "Skew" objects (in addition to rotate/zoom/move)
- Use the application on all major Operating Systems (Win, Mac, Unix)
- Fast image manipulation/rendering
Apart from the frames found within the application, hundreds more are available for download at the Online Frame Gallery. Impress your loved ones with frames from multiple categories: Classical, Shapes, Emotions, Occasions, Seasons, Sports, Locations, Music, Family and much more!
Send framed images as e-Cards (via email) or use our free e-Cards online service on any occasion or event.
Frame your photos and 'say it' with style!

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Design your own Windows GUI with SkinStudio. SkinStudio lets you create your own Start bar, Start button, title bar buttons, push buttons, scrollbars, toolbar icons, progress bars, and much more. Your new interface can then be applied by popular programs such as WindowBlinds to change the look and feel of the entire Windows GUI.

SkinStudio 4.5 enables you import MSStyles into WindowBlinds seamlessly. It also allows users to create visual styles with semi-transparent Start menu elements (per pixel alpha blending).

• Supports Universal Skin Format (USF)
• Create a skin from a pre-made image
• Create WindowBlinds Skins
• Import .msstyles into USF

SkinStudio is free. The free version supports Universal Skin Format (USF), creating a skin from a pre-made image, creating a WindowBlinds skin and importing .msstyles into USF.

Version 5.01 is a maintenance release over 5.0 which was released last November. It includes performance enhancements, further support for other languages, and better skin previewing.

An enhanced version is also available for $19.95, which adds additional features such as using pre-made GUI widgets, importing parts from other skins and advanced skin colorizing. The Pro version is $29.95 and allows you to create Media Player Skins. The Pro version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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RightClick enables users to extend or even completely redesign the Windows desktop right-click mouse menu. When a user right-clicks on their Windows desktop, RightClick's custom made menus comes up. Users can add short-cuts, tasks, system commands, and much more to the menu. It's also fully skinnable and can be set to automatically inherit the user's current WindowBlinds visual style. For users who normally have their desktop covered up, a hot key can be set up so that will activate it at any time.

RightClick supports displaying running tasks, the Start menu, the system tray and virtually anything else one might imagine having on there allowing the user to replace the Start bar if they so chose (and in fact RightClick supports hiding the Start bar).

A trial version is available for download. Users can purchase it stand-alone for $14.95 or as part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes RightClick, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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Keyboard Launchpad (KLP) is a program that allows you to quickly and easily assign hot keys to launch programs, visit URLs, paste saved clipboards, control individual programs, perform system commands, and more.

What makes KLP special is that it works system wide. No matter what program you're in, no matter what you're doing, you can always access the hotkeys of KLP. It also has an open plugin format so that if there is a specialized program you wish to add your own hot key support to, you can do so.

KLP can turn your current clipboard into a permanent hotkey. Technical support departments use KLP to store “canned replies” for customers, marketing and legal departments use KLP to store logos, letter heads, signatures, and more. And Internet users can use KLP to store passwords, signatures, and frequent responses.

Keyboard LaunchPad is available as a free download. An enhanced version is also available for $9.95, which allows an unlimited number of shortcuts. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes Keyboard LaunchPad, IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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More than an icon theme changer, more than an icon editor, IconX is a program that turbo-charges your Windows desktop icons. It can put shadows, make them bigger, have them zoom up when you put your mouse over them, even change color based on what you are doing.

-Set your icons to be any size and react to different mouse states. Use the built in pre-loads for easy use or go in and set it up for yourself.

-Change font, size and color label of the icon for easier viewing or better looking desktop.

-Set up special effects for your icons.

-Control which icons show up on your desktop.

-Easily replace any icon on your desktop with a new icon or PNG image.

IconX is available as a free download. For those who need to configure their desktops down to the last detail an enhanced version is also available for $9.95, which adds additional features such as enabling animation and saving changes between start-ups. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock’s premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconX, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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IconDeveloper is a program that makes it a snap to create your own icons for Windows. Most icon editors come with their own graphics editor. IconDeveloper doesn't. Instead, it assumes that most people who want to create icons are either going to create them using an existing graphics package like Photoshop, MS Paint, CorelDraw, or they take existing images (.BMP, .PNG, .JPG, etc.) and turn those into icons.

So instead of putting effort into a bitmap editor, IconDeveloper focuses itself on making it really, really easy to turn existing images into Windows icons and allowing for common modification of those icons (resizing, color changing, etc.). The result is a program that makes icons extremely fast, extremely well and extremely easily.

The free version allows for the creation of standard Windows icons, Windows XP icons, and shell integration.

An enhanced version is also available for $19.95, which adds additional features such as creating and editing any sized icons at any resolution up to 256x256, changing the hue/gamma/color of the icons, batch convert and batch colorize entire folders of icons. The enhanced version is part of Object Desktop, Stardock's premiere suite of desktop enhancement programs that let you customize Windows to look, feel and function how you want it to. Object Desktop is only $49.95 and includes IconDeveloper, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, WindowFX, SkinStudio and much more! For more information visit: http://www.stardock.com/products/icondeveloper/.

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WindowBlinds is the world's most popular desktop enhancement utility. With a user base estimated at around 10 million, WindowBlinds is used by both consumers and corporations who want to change the way the Windows user interface looks and feels. It is the only program of its kind used and certified by Microsoft.

WindowBlinds 4.5 includes the new ability to change the color of visual styles through hue shifting along with modifying the brightness and saturation of the visual style. It also includes the ability to have alpha blended Start menus and standard menus which enable users to have semi-transparent pieces to those parts of Windows XP and eliminates the "jagged" look around the edges of the interface. WindowBlinds 4.51 enables users to have semitransparent pieces in the Start menu, adds support for 64-bit version of Windows XP and enhanced support for instant messenger clients.

Consumers can purchase the enhanced version of WindowBlinds for $19.95 which adds the ability to skin more elements of the Windows user interface and can skin even non-theme aware applications.

See http://www.stardock.com/products/directskin/ for information on how you can make your own application skinnable.

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