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ChimingClock Your PC becomes a pendulum clock : chose among five clocks, four very British chimes, every hour or quarter of an hour ... Uses PC clock. Of course, among options, clock can be hidden and/or chime switched off.

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth. The imagery is based on NASA's Blue Marble Next and Earth's City Lights.

TrayURL Info A "portable" bookmark program. It is small, fast, and simple. The program supports categories. Have all your favorite bookmarks right at your fingertips in the system tray. Works with most browsers and with your flash drive.

txtDrop.com - Windows Vista Gadget Download Free Text Messaging Gadget For Windows Vista

The Travel Wizard - Search Multiple Travel Sites - Windows Vista Gadget to Search for Travel Deals

StickyNotes is a program that adds a program icon to your taskbar. Left clicking the icon by your clock, or right clicking and choosing add allows you to add a note that stays below all other Windows on your desktop. It was built to remind you to do something, and can be extremely useful.

Stop Screen Saver Have you ever wanted to control the running of the screen saver from the click of a button?

Magnify - Magnify a portion of the Windows desktop from 2 to 5 times.

Magnifixer- Advanced Screen Magnifier is a screen magnifier utility. You can place it anywhere on your screen, make it any size you want and select a zoom level. Magnifixer will always show the area of your screen where the mouse cursor resides.

Magnifier- PCLoupe, great freeware for graphic artists or the visual impaired.

Google Calendar

GalCiv2 - Calendar by RomanDA DesktopX is a desktop utility designed to enable users to build their own desktops, widgets, and gadgets.

Free Gadgets for Windows - Discover AOL The AOL Search Gadget allows you to easily search the Web from your Windows Vista desktop.

LClock - free Longhorn systray clock program LClock also comes with a simple but configurable popup calendar that opens when the systray clock is clicked.

Desktop Events Planner This program is very useful for entering and viewing any events that you want to keep handy on your Desktop. It can be viewed easily and yet stay out of your way if necessary.

Animated Desktop Wallpaper DreamRender is a (FREEWARE) Windows desktop wallpaper animation utility that can replace your desktop wallpaper with stunning animations, and visual effects. You can choose from 1000's of different effects ranging from slow and peaceful through to chaotic, and manic.
Some effects can also react to your currently playing music.

GoToMyWebServer is a free and complementary BarracudaDrive product. With GoToMyWebServer you can easily and securely remote control your office or home PC from anywhere. GoToMyWebServer allows you to display a screen of another computer and to use your keyboard and mouse to control the other computer remotely.

PCalGen - A Semi-Perpetual Calendar Generator is an easy to use program that automatically creates "on-the-fly" calendar pages using the current month and images from your "My Picures" folder and then displays the resulting image as your desktop background. If you are fed up with floating over the clock on the taskbar to get the date... or worse, double clicking the thing to ge a glimps of what the current month looks like... this program is for you! PCalGen is FREE for personal use.

Virtual Magnifying Glass Virtual Magnifying Glass is a free, open source, screen magnification tool for Windows and Linux. It is simple, customizable, and easy-to-use.

Vista Start Menu – Convenient alternative to Start menu

WallUp - A Desktop Wallpapaer Manager

Walyk Wallpaper Changer

Flash Wanted - Labs - Snow effect Snow Flash Effect is a component creating the effect of falling snowflakes or space flight.

slim apps » World Display World Display is a fun new way to automatically update your Desktops Wallpaper to beautiful pictures from all across the globe! Using Google Maps and Panoramio images, World Display lets the user choose and add locations from all over the earth to display images from. Simply drag the Google Map to a location, type in a tag name, hit the add button and World Display will begin to display random photos from that region!

WallpaperQ- A Wallpaper Management Tool - The Code Project - Free Tools WallpaperQ (short for Wallpaper Queue), is an application which will change your Windows wallpaper at system startup or after a configurable timer interval. The next wallpaper image is retrieved from a list or "queue" of valid image files in sequential order or randomly per the program's configuration.

Any Wallpaper Try Any Wallpaper now, the free wallpaper changer that rotates your wallpapers automatically.

Custom Skin Clock Custom Skin Clock is a FREE customizable analog clock located on the desktop. This elegant modern clock will make your desktop more interactive. You can easily move the clock on the desktop, adjust the scale, customize the clock face, change the color of clock hands and manage the clock position settings. It's FREEWARE.

FlyakiteOSX.com - Transform Windows Look to Mac

50.000 Vista Icons - Full Vista Bundle

Streaming Tv Widget - Yahoo! Widgets This Widget brings shortcuts to Streaming TV channels to your desktop. It now includes instructions. Please note that the availability of streams depends on the broadcaster.

Hot Corners is an easy to use, handy program launching tool for windows. It now features the Mouse Move activation feature which is totally unheard of before, because I thought of it.

Vista Start Menu SE Vista Start Menu was specifically designed to replace the often confusing menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista. For your convenience, the interface has been developed with human psychology taken into account. Solve tasks in a simpler and quicker way. Vista Start Menu offers many new features not available in the system Start menu.

Amnesty™ Generator for Vista Easily convert millions of web widgets, games and videos – designed to live on home pages, blogs or MySpace – into gadgets for your Sidebar. If you like widgets on the web, you’ll love them on your Sidebar.

EvJOSoft- EvJO Wallpaper Changer

Vista Start menu Emulator - This project has been started to all of you who’d still like to use Windows XP SP2 but also want to see the Start menu of Windows Vista.

Desktop Sidebar Enhance XP with a Vista-like sidebar that includes: calendars, calculators, and more.

Wallpaper Friend Program changes desktop wallpaper on the given time period.
Just select wallpapers directory. Software auto starts with Windows.

MediaTicker A fun, scrolling ticker that delivers your local digital photos and remote RSS feeds directly onto your desktop

Arty Composer Arty composer is used for creating PC desktop wallpapers. This program can be helpful for easy combining images. It has easy-to-use controls. You can change size, order, position or crop images quickly. Only one click and you would set wallpaper to the screen of your computer.

Download details- Windows Desktop Search RTW for Windows XP

Free Desktop Calendar and Planner from Wildlife Pictures Online This useful, attractive calendar and planner will boost your efficiency by helping you organize your personal and business life.

Free Launch Bar - Free replacement for standard Quick Launch is a Free replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in Free Launch Bar. However, the Free Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. Free Launch Bar allows you to combine your shortcuts into groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This vastly improves the management of your shortcuts and save working space on your desktop. By using Free Launch Bar, you speed up the launching of your applications like never before.

Yahoo! Widgets - Get Weather, Photos, Calendar, and More on Your Mac or Windows Desktop Keep the stuff that you love right at your fingertips.
Bring life to your desktop with fun, stylish,
and useful Yahoo! Widgets.
To get Widgets on your desktop, you first need
to download the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

SceneSaver is a complimentary screen saver of twenty-two high resolution photographs of some of the best nature has to offer our world. Each of the twenty-two images comprises an astonishingly beautiful scene taken of the outdoors. From Oregon's Painted Hills National Park to Big Sur, California, each image is breathtakingly beautiful and relaxing to view.

Desktop Messager is a utility allowing you to draw or write cursive texts on Windows' desktop, thus leaving a visual message on your monitor if you have to go away for a while. Messages are fully customizable and can also be saved. In fact, the way they are displayed is also very interesting because the sequences are played chronologically such as they were held during the recording process, therefore exactly like you made them!

Free Windows icons, desktop icons, clip art

OPTIONALREACTION BGEye renders system information as the desktop wallpaper. The information is rendered as a variable array of elements, together with icons, onto a pre-defined background, before being saved as a bitmap and temporarily set as the wallpaper.

Desktop Sidebar

Desktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the internet. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and control.

FuzLez -WheelsOfVolume uses the mouse wheel to control the volume of your computer. When ever you turn the mouse wheel when it is not used by any application (in other words) when it is on the desktop, the volume of your computer will be adapted. When you are in a full screen application you will have the same effect when you move the mouse to the top right corner of the screen. To mute the sound you just have to click the mouse wheel.

Rainbow changes your wallpaper automatically

Floating Clock PS Floating Clock PS is a freeware clock, calendar program designed to run on the top of your desktop. There are ten settings you can choose to run, from Long Date to Long Time and all the settings in between.

KaleidosWallpaper - Kaleidoscopic wallpaper generator

PS WhiteBoard this cool little utility is designed to be your own personal White Board. Write on it, mark it up. Scrawl down your notes and important things to do so when you're sitting at your monitor so you don't forget those things you got to do!

WinExt Desktop Bar Customise your desktop with a horizontal bar that gives you easy access to all your programs and documents. WinExt is not an alternative to the windows shell, but a good expansion which gives your shell at set of new features.

Desktop Calendar A small calendar and event reminder that unobtrusively sits on your desktop and is ready to use any time. No taskbar button, no system tray icon, the calendar is transparent so it's not an eyesore and consumes very little memory (less than 600KB idle). Enter as many daily or regular events as you like.

DesktopIconFun That allow you to have some fun with you windows desktop icons. Access configuration from windows tray icon

Google Desktop Download Get all your personalized info in one place with Sidebar

HyperHide instantly make any window hidden or visible with the press of a key-

Windows--Desktop Music Stays in Windows and keeps playing music all the time. It changes music's reacting to PC operation. The window can be hidden in task bar. To open the window again, click an icon in task tray on right bottom of screen.

EfreeBuy Folder Icon allows you to give an icon for all your folders on your computer,making every folder different. The simple and cool interface makes it easy to change the look of an individual folder.It is a powerful software and easy to use. You can change icons of all your folders quickly and freely.Also you can extract an icon from any type of resource files like .exe files.Aren't you bored with the way the standard Windows folders look?Make your folders different,make them lovely with EfreeBuy Folder Icon!

BigTime Screen Saver Clock Screen Saver

Resolution Changer I originally wrote this application for my children because they have programs that require 640x480 with 256 colors or 800x600 with 32-bit color or some other combination. I didn't expect my (then) 4-year-old to be able to change Windows display settings, so I wrote this program to do it automatically. Resolution Changer can change the display resolution, run a program, then restore the original settings.

Desktop Fun - Games and Soft Development Do you like jokes or to fool others ?
Then, this program is for you.
Choose deskop effect - it will be shown in preview window.
You can choose some effects to run. Just select them with mouse.
Button "Start" - launches effect in fullscreen mode.
Button "WallPaper" - sets new wallpapers with effect screen.
Desktop effect will be repeated in selected time interval.

Wallpap1 - a great freeware wallpaper change program! This program sits in your system tray area and allows you to choose a directory of images you want to use as wallpapers, and Wallpap1 will automatically update your wallpaper using the images in the directory you specify and at the cycle/interval you specify. It supports GIF, JPG, PNG, and BMP. You can also set it to minimize/start on start-up and rotate them randomly.
You can right-click on the tray icon for the basic options.
No dll's or OCX's needed!

Magnifying Glass The program magnifies part of screen, pointed by cursor.
Magnification range: 1 x - 10 x.

Resolution Changer SX2 allows you dynamically switch your screen resolution with an easy and accessible system tray utility, without the incessant hassle of windows and prompts.

Get the Code Amber Ticker now provides Desktop Tickers for the US and Canada. You may download both the US and Canadian Desktop tickers on the next page. Enter your email address and name only if you would like to be notified of Code Amber updates. Your information will never be shared with any third party.

Tooler is a unique program that allow you to create special type of shortcuts. What's so special about them ? They have all features of the typical shortcuts, so you can move them, rename them, or change their icons. But they also allow you to easy accomplish such tasks like turning off the monitor, restarting your PC or ejecting selected CD-ROM tray. This program is very easy to use, requires no installation and the exe file has only 50KB - so you can take it wherever you'll need it.

Ccy Wallpaper Changer (software) Do you feel bored with your desktop? It's time to have different pictures with ease. Just set the interval and Wallpaper Changer will change it one at a time. This good tool is guaranteed to bring you fun.

Date utility for the Windows tray - DateInTray is a freeware program that displays the day of the month next to the clock in the system tray. It is not fancy, but it does the job.

INICIO - Desktop general utility is a freeware desktop utility designed to run as a web page (Html and Javascript) at any screen resolution, with Internet Explorer, and as a stand-alone application (HTA). It does not need special installation (only to copy the files, 140 Kb total size, with no other alteration to your computer). It is simple to use and represents a small load to your computer.

ObjectDock is a free program that allows you to have a nice animated launchbar/taskbar on your screen that reacts to your mouse when you mouse over it.

DateInTray is a Win9x/NT/2k/XP freeware utility that displays the day of the month in the system tray (the part of the taskbar which includes the clock, and is known in Windows XP as the Notification area).

White Flower Clock screensaver Free Clock screensaver brings magical time and date on the natural flower.

Stardock Object Desktop - Theme Manager is a front end that seamlessly works with your other desktop enhancements to apply skins, themes, icon packages, and suites all from the same user interface. Once you have your desktop just the way you want, you can take a snapshot of your desktop that is saved as a .suite file.

Gudds Desktop Do you get bored by seeing the same Desktop wallpaper each time you logon to WINDOWS™? Have you ever thought of having a tool that could change it for you? Well, Gudds Desktop is the answer. It will just sit in the system tray (next to the clock) and do its job.

Traymark is a useful utility that allows you to add bookmarks to web pages and programs to a right-click menu in your system tray.

ENewsBar a scrolling news ticker for your desktop

Desktop Wallpaper Changer - Freeware! is a wallpaper changer and manager. It will automatically change your wallpaper depending on a number of settings.

Frix QuickRes It is designed to take as little effort as possible to change resolution, a doubleclick on the icon in systray will shift between your two preferred resolutions.

Wallpaperer is a powerful utility for automatically switching wallpaper at a specified interval and/or at reboot. Just add your wallpaper, set the frequency of wallpaper changing, and let Wallpaperer do the rest.

Liquid Desktop Awesome 3D liquid melting takes over a screen shot of your desktop. This screen saver liquefies your desktop by running waves through it while simultaneously tweaking the color intensity of each ripple, resulting in a mesmerizing and soothing feeling. Use the chrome effects to render a metallic mirror surface.

Norway's Fjords & Scenery

LaunchMate is the program launcher that will end your search. It can dock to any edge of the screen just like the Windows taskbar. You can organize your programs in up to 50 categories a sure a way to remove the clutter.

Deskroller Screensaver is a screensaver that scrolls your desktop in random direction.You can specify the speed of motion.

Free Atom Clock screen saver by 7art-screensavers.com. Know exact time at any time with this beautiful screensaver!

MoodBook. Bring art to your desktop! is a tiny Windows utility that brings art to your desktop and sets a tone for your daily mood and emotions! MoodBook runs on every Windows platform of 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP

Paper Change - is a small application for changing the background wallpaper on the windows desktop from a random selection of JPEG images within a specified folder

Snowflake 3D Grab the best snowflake screen saver on the web. Both large and small snowflakes are drawn in 3D which create a beautiful snow image you will have to see to believe. Options include changing the background color, the number of snowflakes active, the speed at which they fall, and much more. Resolution switching, passwords, and mouse filtering are fully supported.

Windowpaper XP Information Do you like to customize your desktop with wallpaper? Why stop there? With Windowspaper XP, you can put wallpaper in the back of any window—just like your desktop. That's why we call it Windowpaper, because "it makes a better door than your window." ™

Google Deskbar Google Deskbar enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard. Installs easily in your Windows taskbar.

Goat 1000 - JPEG Saver screen saver It's a Windows screen saver for displaying images with a few options that make it a bit more interesting.

AlphaXP is more than just a transparency program though. With cool features you won't find anywhere else such as three fully configurable ways to set transparency, smooth fade effects, menu, tooltip, and taskbar transparency with a smooth fade in option, flicker-free & glitch-free extras, a great looking skin, and more!

Clint's Wallpaper Master

Changes your desktop wallpaper periodically.

Dexpot - The utility for virtual desktops increases the area of your screen by up to 20 times. It creates several Virtual Desktops to work easier and faster with many open windows on Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP.

Dcat's Windows Programs - Dcat Screen Saver is a screen saver which allows you to use your own images and audio. Version 1.41 supports MP3 files and Wave audio files. You can create a list of your own transitions from the 81 available transitional effects. Images and the Transition effects can be shown in alphabetical order, list order, your own list order and your own list randomly or with no transitions at all. The screen saver can be set to cover the full desktop or run in a window. The Screen Saver has the ability to shut down/restart the computer or log off the current user. The screen saver can be sent to the Traybar when not required. The last image displayed can be set as the wallpaper. The Audio capability has been greatly enhanced with several ways to manipulate the Audio for best effect.

Winpix for windows desktop, digital photos and movies, digital camera, slide show, screen saver, wallpaper rotations, BMP, GIF,

Microangelo the Grand Daddy of All Icon Software Here you can download free accessories that we hope you'll enjoy.
We continue to compile collections of desktop themes, icons and cursors to brighten your desktop. Have fun customizing your own system!

WinRoll 1.2.1 easily manages the height of windows. Right click the title bar of a window to minimize its height, leaving only the title bar visible. Another right click to the same area restores the original height. The same effect can be obtained by right clicking either the minimize or the maximize button. You may also choose to "rollup" or "unroll" all visible windows from the tray icon application which is written in 100% pure assembly language. Best of all ... it's FREEWARE! ...

ClickZap allows you to run a predefined action when you right click two or three times at your current mouse double-click speed. There is no faster way to lock your computer when screen security is needed quickly.

Background Changer is an freeware program from Mikael Isacson Lindström Software. It changers your Windows 95/98/2000/NT Wallpaper as often as you like. It's all free, but you will have to register it thoug in order to use it for an longer period of time ( more than 30 days ), so register your copy of the program today! So, how to register... well it's easy! Just send me an E-mail with your name, an were you're from (Also give me your E-mail, if other than the one you are writing to me from.)

PhotoSaver Use any directory on your hard drive as a slideshow screensaver (Installs as a screensaver - use the screensaver settings to select the directory and options). (Now fully XP compatible).

sqlDESKTOP an office productivity product for Linux and Windows can organize
the mountain of disparate information you regularly access !

DeskDeco Fill your life with colour!
Once you set up DeskDeco, let it automatically change your desktop wallpaper.

Window Hider Why do I need the DVD console when, all the features of the application are available by right clicking the view window? Do the developers think I have an infinite amount of desktop space or patience? This simple utility hides (or unhides) those unsightly control panels or console windows of background tasks! Just drag the icon over a window and click hide! Its that simple!

WipeOut is an application which moves obstructive windows to show you your desktop.

VB Doodle Use this program to draw all over your computer screen.

Avalon Icon Library Viewer Quick and easy access to icons located inside Icon library files. Browse icons, located inside exe, dll, ocx, cpl, icl, il and nil files. Support for both 16- and 32- bit versions of icon library modules. Extract icons to ico file or save each of images as a bitmap file with specified background. Copy each of images to the Windows clipboard.

The Nostalgic Screensaver No, not Nostalgic as in an old screensaver, Nostalgic as in when you use this screensaver you will feel nostalgic because this screensaver shows your images in a way similar to how many documentaries and biographies show still images from a history or a person's past

Onefog Games - DesktopShooter Your desktop becomes your playground with DesktopShooter.
Shoot your e-mail, shoot up your icons. But don’t worry, the desktop distortion is only temporary; press a key and it’s all cleaned up. Different digital distractions bring instant excitement to your computer!

Ozq's Icons

Ozq's Startup and Shutdown Screens

Save My Desktop Have you ever got your Shortcuts Icons on your Desktop just the way you want them when someone comes along and messes them all up? This program save your Desktop's Icons current postion. When your icons get rearranged just run the program to restore the icons back to their original postions. ***NOTE*** This program does not restore Icons that has been deleted or moved to a different folder.

Aligner -- You can do more than just center or tile your wallpaper! Aligner can move it anywhere on the desktop. You even see a preview of what your desktop will look like.

BossKey is a simple virtual desktop program. Create hot-keys to switch between the desktops and have one set of windows/applications on one and a different set of windows/applications on another and flip between them instantly with a single keypress. Up to 10 virtual desktops can be defined and windows can be designated always visible.

Leo's Icon Archive - 7000+ free icons & graphics, caps, comics, buttons, bars,...

ResolutionChanger allows you to change your desktop width, height, color depth, and refresh rate temporarily or permanently (via command line switches). You can have ResolutionChanger run another application in a specific display resolution and return to the previous resolution when the application finishes. The command lines switches let you alter only certain dimensions and choose the best refresh rate (or a specific one).

Flippi.net - Countries - Scotland Pics of Scotland.

Screen Saver Toggle Block your screen saver (toggle it off while defragging, etc., then toggle it back on). Don't be fooled by the installer size; the program is only ~50K after installation.

AnyImage SS you can display any type of image for your desktop enjoyment. AnyImage supports JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF and ICO formats. Just copy anyimage.scr into your Windows directory and store your images in a directory on your computer. Next configure AnyImage to point to your images directory. It is as simple as that!

Iconoid - Hide and show desktop icons, make transparent backgrounds

SaverWiz allows you to create self-contained Windows screen savers using your own pictures in just a few easy steps.
Accepts pictures in a number of formats.
Resize or rotate your screen saver pictures.
Add captions to each picture.
Add transition effects.
Test and install your screen saver directly using SaverWiz.

Dutch's Wallpaper Changer Here is a cool Windows Wallpaper Changer! Program changes the wallpaper of your desktop daily according to setup that you specify for each weekday. It Works with JPG/GIF, and HTML files without BMP conversion.

FreeShade Window shading is when you double-click on a window's caption and the window rolls itself up so that only its caption (or title bar) is visible.

TurboTop You're probably familiar with the "Always on Top" feature of some programs. This allows their window to "float" above other windows even when it doesn't have the focus. This can be extremely useful. Unfortunately, not many programs implement this feature. TurboTop is designed to remedy that problem!

Pathbuddy.com Easily change to predefined folders in the Windows file Explorer and in 'Open' & 'Save' dialogs with hotkeys or thru a browseable list. Pathbuddy gives you quick access to frequently used folders.

Title Bar Reader - Read jokes, lyrics, dictionaries, famous quotes, poems, proverbs, and witty quips in your title bar. is a freeware that can subtly display texts in the title bar of your foreground active window. There are ample short texts that come with the program by default: these include quotes, proverbs, one-liners, redundancies, dumb questions, insulting words and more. You can easily edit existing files and add or remove information. The program is very useful when you want to give your mind a rest in-between tedious work.

7art-screensavers - the harmony at your desktop

AutoSizer - Resize your programs automatically automatically resizes any window you specify. For instance, some web browsers open up in a non-maximized window. Using AutoSizer, you can set those windows to automatically maximize every time they’re opened. It works with almost any program, including web browsers.

Calendar for Windows is a small utility that will display a monthly calendar on the Windows desktop. The calendar is similar to the one found in most checkbooks.

Desktop Calendar - A simple calendar that sits on your desktop The desktop calendar is a great tool & its very very convenient. I use a planner but since I found this I do not use that because The Desktop Calendar is always in front of me.

DesktopFreak A FREE utility that lets you change you desktop theme, as
well as change your wallpaper, screen saver, icons, pointers,
sounds and logo screens manually!

WallFreak A FREE,simple-to-use Desktop Wallpaper/Theme Changer.
Pick the images/themes you want to display, tell WallFreak
how often to change, and it does it for you automatically!

DesktopGeek is desktop program shortcut manager for windows based personal computers.
It can manage and run easily and quickly program shortcuts on the desktop screen.

Wallpaper Changer Here is a cool Windows Wallpaper Changer! Program changes the wallpaper of your desktop daily according to setup that you specify for each weekday. It Works with JPG/GIF, and HTML files without BMP conversion.

Wallpaper Changer

Webshots Desktop - Add color to your day!

Hide Me Have you ever been doing something on the computer you shouldn't have when someone walks in on you? Do you wish you had a program that hides the applications from view? This program hides open windows with a copy of your Desktop!!

WindowSize You want to test how your program or web site looks on a screen with lower resolution than your's?
You can change your screen's resolution of course.
But it is probably more convenient just to resize your program's or browser's window to the desired width and height. All you have to do is to select the desired size and then click on the big button. The next window that becomes the forground window (by clicking on that window or it's taskbar button) will be resized.

Desktop Manager is a virtual desktop program and Windows shell. A virtual desktop program gives you more work space, you use a control of some kind and you switch to another virtual screen where you can run different applications. So, instead of hunting for windows behind other windows on one cramped screen you can keep them separate and switch to them when you need to work with them. A Windows shell is what you see on the desktop, the interface for interacting with the system, it includes the icons, folders, the taskbar, etc.

Wallpaper Manager Bored with the same desktop wallpaper every time you switch on your PC - but too busy to select something new? Help is at hand! Wallpaper Manager has an Autochanger which you can load with up to ten picture files. These will then be rotated to give you a different background each time you start your PC. There are also Hot Buttons which enable you to quickly preview, or change, your wallpaper.

Doughnut -Doughnut is a small program which lives in your system tray (aka the Notification Area, ie those icons on your Start bar). When Doughnut 0.7 is running, you have 3 excellent new mouse functions.........

Keep your time synchronized with Atomic Time servers, using customizable digital desktop clock.

Blue Cat's Graphics - Original Cat and Non-Cat Stuff

HideOE Ever wanted the ability to hide Outlook Express or to minimize it to the sytem tray?
Now you can! Outlook Express Hider creates a Tray Icon, and allows you to show and hide Outlook Express by clicking the icon. It can also be set to hide Outlook Express when you minimize it.

NeonJax 3D - 6-Dimensional Color-shifting Plasma Background

Clay's Christian Wallpapers

DeskSweeper Hide all desktop icons (including Recycle Bin, My Computer, Network Neighbourhood, etc.) DeskSweeper is always visible in the Windows system tray for easy access. A single mouseclick is all you need to hide or view your desktop icons. This version includes several new options and features. Freeware.

Verschwindibus - is a powerful and free desktop tool. It hides any running window (the hidden program remains in memory) and reactivates it if needed. The hotkeys and system tray icon are customizable and start menu & desktop icons can be toggled visible/invisible. Verschwindibus can easily be controlled through the system tray and has received high ratings

Hide-it's Hide-it allows you to hide any application window and it's button in the taskbar, the application is also removed from the Alt-Tab chain, so it won't disturb your task switching, it's just as if it wasn't there. You can later access it's window un-hiding it, you just need to right-click in the small Hide-it's icon in the system tray area and select it.

TrayBar You can add programs, folders, etc. You can also create sub menus in wich you can place even more programs, folders and separators.
You can also specify how you want programs launched: minimized, hidden, maximized, or in a normal state.
Besides programs you can also add e-mail contacts to send an e-mail in no-time!
Traybar is 100% Spyware free and is NOT ad-supported, so give it a try.

Wallpaper Calendar Changer. By default the program starts at each start-up of the computer, checks the current date, and if necessary, refreshes a wallpaper with calendar of the current month with highlighted todays date automatically. However, that can be disabled by un checking "Run at start-up..." option.

Cycler A very small application which automatically changes your desktop wallpaper every time the computer is booted, or logged on. Cycler has a very tiny memory footprint, and is only resident for an instant - it doesn't hog memory or sit in your system tray.

-Desktop Pulse- is a freeware utility which can automatically download .jpg and .gif images and put them onto your desktop as wallpaper. You can setup as many pictures as you want. Choose the frequency of update, change the sequnce of the pictures. Using Desktop Pulse, you can constanly monitor stock exhange graphs, monitor any pictures (like webcams) or simply put nice wallpapers onto your desktop every minute!

Another Lens displays a magnified view of the area of the mouse cursor. Quite handy, for example, for drawing software. The window contents can be locked, and saved to a file or copied to the clipboard for taking screenshots. Several additional options, like crosshairs, resizing the window and hiding the caption bar and/or main menu. Stays on top of other windows optionally

DesktopFrames allows you to place bitmap, gif, and jpg images randomly around your desktop. Each picture (or 'frame') can have an action associated with it. It handles gif transparency very nicely. This was made with LiteStep users in mind (since it essentially allows something similar to active desktop) but anyone can use it!

PrintDeskTop lets you print your screen with the click of a mouse or the shortcut key of your choice.

Wallpapers showing EARTH-MOON in real-time

Sound Association A noisy computer is a good computer! Put your .wav files to good use and assign them to all of your most-used programs with this free utility. Sound Association (formerly Souser-Sound Association) lets you easily assign sound events to any Windows executable file. For instance, you can have a specific .wav file play when you open Word, another when you fire up Notepad, and still another when you launch your Web browser. Besides "Open" sound events, you can add hooks for Close, Maximize, Minimize, Restore Up, Restore Down, and more. Just type in the program's "friendly" name, browse for its .exe, and check off the sound hooks you want to add. Then, push a button to go directly to the Control Panel Sounds area to assign .wav files to your sound events.

Ghost-It! Ghost-It! is a program that runs in the system tray, and lets you turn windows into "ghost" windows.
Ghost windows are very special windows. First of all, a ghost window is translucent, meaning you can see through it to whatever is underneath. Secondly, a ghost window will always appear on top of other windows. Thirdly, when a ghost window loses the input focus, it remains translucent and always on top, but all clicks will pass right through it like it wasn't even there—until it becomes the active window again.

Suzi's Stuff Recycle bin icons

SP Shell icons Nice program which will change Windows icons to it's own. Also you'll be able to assign your own icons to specified ext.

XP Skins is another free software from CronoSoft !!!
As the new operating system from Microsoft is here (Windows XP) and not all the older programs can take advantage of the new features of skinable option, we thought that a program who can change with one click this problem will be very useful for you.

FastOpen - Your personal Start menu Manager FastOpen is a FREE ZDNet 5 stars awarded system tray utility that provides a handy way to access frequently used programs and folders.

3D Matrix Clock 3D Matrix Clock is a freeware screensaver by Winsquad. Inspired by the "Matrix" movie, this futuristic screensaver presents an original 3d hand clock on a colourful and futuristic background. Choose between the 'classic' and the 'alternative' look , featuring numbers and zodiac symbols respectively.

EdenSoft My Logo You can change the little logo in the upper right-hand corner of your browser to the animation or image of your choice. You can even play movies while waiting for Web pages to load!!
You can change the text that appears in the title bar after the Web page title to the text of your choice,
You can play a sound of your choice when a Web page is completely loaded.
You can select a Web Page to load when you double-click on the logo - sort of a "second home".

Wallpaper Changer Wallpaper Changer is a FREEWARE Windows 9x/NT wallpaper manager that can change your background images on every startup, once a day or at regular intervals. It features JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP support. Several options are provided, including the ability to change your images in random order.

WallsMedia Flash Entertainment Product This is a revolutionary program which allows you to set Macromedia Flash (*.swf) files as your wallpaper on the Windows desktop. You can set to change wallpapers in random sequence, change them after the program starts, or after a time delay.[

Greatis Calendar Greatis Art Print Calendar for 2002.
You may download it and print by your printer.
Choose American date style or European date style

Desktop RJL Software designs many free desktop programs for Windows 95/98/NT. They are suitable for everyone from the power user to the every-day user.

DoubleDesktop double your screen space!

Quick-Tray Shutdown (FREE!)

StatBar is a freeware system status bar which allows you to quickly get an overview of your system's condition (memory, CPU, uptime, and much more).

MultiRes (50kb) is a 32-bit alternative to QuickRes, which adds refresh rate and multi-monitor support, as well as optional timed confirmation prompts. The little utility supports Windows 9x/Me/NT4, as well as Windows 2000 and XP.

Registry Explorer home page free software for windows is a freeware program that is intended to replace regedit. This free software is a system tool that puts itself into Windows Explorer.

ResMan integrates a resource monitor, process manager and memory recovery into a single little utility (124 kb) for Windows 9x/Me that resides in the system tray. ResMan will require the Microsoft libraries in this 16kb archive if they aren't already installed in your system directory.

BringWinTop is an application for manipulating windows . It can bring a window to top position so that the other windows can not block it even if those windows get the mouse click or called get focus. An example is when you are editing a document with some other document opened in an another window and needed refered to when editing. When you do editing , the reference document window will be covered by your edit window so that you can not see it.

NoSleep! allows you to temporarily deactivate the screen saver and any standby feature directly from the system tray. NoSleep! is minimal in size, yet it provides remote control capabilities, a full (un)installation routine and - as a bonus feature - Swatch Internet Time.

BossKey BossKey is a simple virtual desktop program. Create hot-keys to switch between the desktops and have one set of windows/applications on one and a different set of windows/applications on another and flip between them instantly with a single keypress. Up to 10 virtual desktops can be defined and windows can be designated always visible.

Dotico.Com cool icons for windows users

PowerMenu Power Menu is a small app I wrote that adds "Always On Top", "Minimize To Tray", "Priority" and "Transparency" sub menus to all top level window menus..

SimpleMenu Homepage SimpleMenu is a little toolbar program that creates a menu along the top edge of the screen
and is used to run programs, files etc.

QuickMenu Displays a tree like menu of customisable quick launch applications, projects and documents which can be organised into groups. It can also check your POP3 e-mail regularly and launch your default E-Mail reader when new mail arrives.

Sticky Note Organizer The Sticky Note Organizer helps you to remember and organize the little things that come and go throughout the day. With an easy to use interface and a pleasant design, the Sticky Note Organizer can be the answer to your office / desk problems. By placing your notes on your computer screen, it can help remove the clutter from your desk caused by too many paper notes.

Automatic Wallpaper changer AutoWall 2.0 is a freely redistributable utility, which can change the background wallpaper whenever you log to your computer. It is running on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT and can be downloaded here as a ZIP archive !
A beta version with JPEG support can be downloaded here. Install AutoWall 2.0 first, then copy the new AutoWall.cpl and AutoWall-jpeg.dll into the Windows\System directory to update the installation.

Konst Hotbar is a program for speed up Your job. OrganizeYou favorites program into one folder for launch

TaskTamer Centralize program-launching and window/program manipulation. Organizes your existing taskbar much more efficiently.
Taskbar-buttons are moved into graphical, easily recognized, single-button groups.
From these buttons you can quickly and easily launch programs and manipulate multiple windows

WinLogo Changer A small tool to replace Startup/Wait/Shutdown screens manually or automatically

DoubleDesktop Clever and simple freeware utility that instantly doubles the width of your Windows desktop. Download v2.0 for free and start using it today

Desktop Decorator Welcome to Desktop Decorator. Where decorating
your computer is easy, fun & FREE!!!

Toolbar Wallpaper

This program will change the dull Grey toolbar at the top of Windows Explorer, My Computer, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to a bright 'Clouds' image. Update includes new user interface and shows the registered owner. Free!

ePrompter 470 KB is a free email notification utility that automatically checks up to eight AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, and POP3 email accounts at the same time, featuring a unique screensaver that lets you know at a glance the current status of your selected email accounts, whether your computer is online or offline