Here are three handy freeware programs for your user interface
By Ray on June 12, 2007 - 4:49pm
RK Launcher organizes your shortcuts on a sidebar application.
ObjectDock can replace your taskbar for icons, tasks, etc.
Winroll is like Windowblinds and "rolls up" a window by rt-click.
All of these are freeware, but ObjectDock comes in a Pro version
which you can purchase with more features for $20. if you like.
These jazz up your desktop without transforming the whole GUI.
If you love something different, try these. That Winroll program
is already built into this Vista Transformation Pack 6.0 that
I'm using on my XP Pro, so I can tell you it works great.
One right-click reduces a window to its title-bar, and one more
brings it back to full size. Check these out for something new.
I wanted to show you a screenshot of this in action, but
it seems to be invisible to the capture of its image, so
I had to take a photo of it. This shows a mouse-over of
the Weather icon, and how it changes into a five-day forecast.
I enjoy checking out things like this, but I don't think I
want the edges of the screen cluttered with gadgets which take
up quite a lot of space. So I didn't keep any of these cute
programs. It's fun finding out how they work, but then it's back
to "Add/Remove Programs" to put things back to normal.
There are some very useful free programs out there, though, and
two that come to mind are EMCO's MoveOnBoot, and Tony Helenius'
EasyCleaner. MoveOnBoot gets rid of those "access denied" bits,
usually DLLs, that you can't otherwise remove and EasyCleaner
does several things, but I use it mainly as a Registry cleaner,
because it removes entries that are no longer valid or needed,
and so far, it hasn't removed anything that should have been kept.
Both these are very handy if you do a lot of "experimenting" with
programs you probably don't want to keep. So check them out....