Archive for the ‘Desktop Enhancements’ category

Fk Desktop 3.0.17

ตุลาคม 2nd, 2009
  • Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.90 to buy
  • Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98
  • Date added: June 08, 2009
  • CNET editors’ review

    Reviewed by: CNET Staff

    Although it’s not the most feature-rich application, Fk Desktop offers a straightforward approach to creating and navigating virtual desktops that any user can appreciate.

    Fk Desktop offers a plain and simple interface that’s accessible through the system tray. You can create as many desktops as you want and move between them through the tray icon. In our tests, we were also able to modify desktop names, set wallpaper, and specify background and font colors without any glitches. Unlike similar desktop organizers, this one doesn’t support hot keys, and we needed to look just above the Windows clock or mouse over the tray icon to know which desktop we were currently logged on. We easily created shortcuts to folders and files, and we copied and moved them onto any of the virtual desktops we created.

    You’ll find a few extras, including an alarm feature, calendar, and clock. But its Fk Desktop’s simple approach to desktop management that will be the drawing card for users at any level.

    Publisher’s description

     

    Why do you have only one desktop, if you can have as many as you wish? Create a Desktop for your business applications, another one for your private applications, or games, multimedia, tools, etc. On each one you can create up to 48 shortcuts to applications, folders or archives.

    Actual Virtual Desktops 2.0

    ตุลาคม 2nd, 2009
  • Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $19.95 to buy
  • Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7
  • Date added: August 12, 2009
  • Publisher’s description

    If your computer is your workplace, with this virtual desktop manager you will be able to increase your productivity sufficiently – work on multiple tasks simultaneously and stay focused on just those that you need at the moment. Plus, you won’t be distracted by what’s not currently urgent or necessary and by the crowd of windows on your desktop and icons on the taskbar, as you’ll see just those that are related to your current job. Actual Virtual Desktops is a virtual desktop manager that allows creating an activity-focused work environment and remove the unnecessary distraction by scattering the multitude of piled up application windows over a number of independent virtual desktops and grouping the applications on the desktops by activities they involved into. With Actual Virtual Desktops, you can create as many virtual desktops as necessary, replacing the single, often overcrowded Windows desktop, and utilize the full power of your operating system, including Windows system utilities, in any window on any of your numerous virtual desktops. You can arrange your applications on your desktops by hand or have the program do that automatically. To arrange application windows automatically, simply define the rules telling the program on which desktop the certain window is to be sent whenever it’s launched. The program installs seamlessly, doesn’t require extensive configuration or in-depth computer expertise. To quickly identify each of your virtual desktops, you can set custom wallpaper on each desktop. To quickly switch between desktops, you can assign custom hotkey to each virtual desktop. And to manage your windows manually within the virtual desktops infrastructure, you can use the typical window control elements like extra caption button, special item in each window’s system window menu, customizable hotkeys.

    Version 2.0 has added Virtual Desktops Switcher window which displays a set of toolbars to show the icons of applications running on its corresponding virtual desktop,includes Windows Thumbnails feature, and ability to shift the extra title button along title bar is added.

     

    What’s new in this version:

    Version 2.0 has added Virtual Desktops Switcher window which displays a set of toolbars to show the icons of applications running on its corresponding virtual desktop,includes Windows Thumbnails feature, and ability to shift the extra title button along title bar is added.