Yod´m 3D is a virtual desktop manager with the fashionable effect: the cube.

By default, the rotation of the cube is done with the keys - CTRL+SHIFT+Arrows:

• CTRL+SHIFT+Left/Right = Next/prev desktop
• CTRL+SHIFT+Up = Activate and show a "far" view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube
• CTRL+SHIFT+Down = Activate and show a "near" view of the current desktop, Left and right to turn the cube
• Hold down CTRL+SHIFT to use the mouse to turn the cube. (The rotation is possible only horizontally)

To move a windows to another desktop:

• Click on the title bar of the window (not maximized if possible), hold down
• Push CTRL+SHIFT to activate the cube, hold down
• When the cube is activated, move the window on left or right
• Release CTRL+SHIFT

To change the wallpaper of a desktop:

• Just use Windows!
• For each desktop, change the wallpaper using the windows display setting.

Switch to another application:

• Click on the Yod´m 3D icon in the taskbar, the list of the windows opened in other desktop appear.
• Click on the application to switch to the desktop.

Available languages: English, French, German, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Spanish, Czech, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Russian.

This handy utility allows you to manage context menus items of file objects displayed in a file manager, such as Windows Explorer or Total Commander.

With Fast Explorer you can create new menu items, submenus, dividers, specify menu bitmaps and hint text, and manage existing menu items added by other programs.

For an ultimate control over dynamic menu items added from within Fast Explorer you can define your own look & feel using the custom-drawing feature.

Fast Explorer is a very simple way to make your often used file actions quickly accessible!

What's New in version 3.0.10.395:

• fix: accidental crash in Registry Bugs dialog when pressing F1 for help;
• fix: crash on click on the Find button for invalid or non-existing application path;
• fix: crash on loading of the associated icons when no 16x16 equivalent is available;
• fix: crash on switching of the viewing kind in the file types list;
• fix: accidental crash when a referred file type is no more registered in the system.

The Windows shell-development team did some extra programming and put together a set of tools called Power Toys. If you´re a power user, go ahead and try them out, but be forewarned that Power Toys aren´t supported by Microsoft because they´re not part of Windows. This group of "toys" lets you adjust your Windows user interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Are you tired of Vista´s Aero theme? A patched uxtheme.dll gave you the freedom to use un-signed custom visual style in Windows XP but in Windows Vista you have to replace three dll files to use third party visual styles.

Those three files are uxtheme.dll, shsvcs.dll and themeui.dll.

How To Install:

1. Login as a user with Administrative privileges -or- have Administrative credentials ready (check under the keyboard for a slip of paper).
2. Navigate to %systemroot%\System32
3. Right-click uxtheme.dll and click properties.
4. Take ownership of the file and close dialogs.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for themeui.dll and shsvcs.dll
6. Right-click uxtheme.dll and click properties.
7. Give yourself (or group) Full Control permissions and close dialogs.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 for themeui.dll and shsvcs.dll.
9. Rename uxtheme.dll to uxtheme.old.
10. Rename themeui.dll to themeui.old.
11. Rename shsvcs.dll to shsvcs.old.
12. Copy patched files into %systemroot%\System32
13. Reboot (yes, this is really required)
14. Enjoy!

With the help of this utility you can add any folders and programs in "My Computer" and "Control Panel".

Features:

• Addition / change / removal of any folder and programs in a folder "My Computer" and "Control Panel"
• A choice of type of a created shortcut: the Explorer opened in the same window or in new
• An opportunity of a choice of an alternative icon for a folder
• It is possible to create folders both for the current user and for all users in system
• Addition / change / removal of any program in a folder " My Computer " and in "Control panel"
• Program loading for display of new folders, after creation of necessary folders is not required
• Now includes translation in: English, Russian, Arabian, Portuguese (Brazil) and French languages

Visual Task Tips was designed to be a simple lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides a thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar, like in Microsoft Windows Vista.

Features:

• Simple - Visual Task Tips is a quite simple utility. Just download and install it.
• Useful - By using Visual Task Tips you will significantly increase your workflow productivity.
• Free - Yes, it´s absolutely free for non-commercial use.

What's New in version 3.4:

• Text tooltips placement errors fixed.
• No more hungs on "busy" applications.
• Problem with tasks located outside of primary monitor bounds fixed.
• Minor drawing performance optimizations.
• Updates check removed from the program, RSS news added on the website.

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. How can you make this possible? Choose from among a wide selection of information conduits (MS Outlook, toolbars, newsfeeds), called ´panels.´

Fully customizable, Desktop Sidebar allows you to dock these panels to the edge of the screen, or arrange them anywhere on your desktop as you wish. All panels are configurable with a number of specific options. With hundreds of skins available on our Web site and an easy-to-use Skin Editor, you can freely change the appearance of Desktop Sidebar to suit your tastes.

Available panels: Newsroom, Calendar, Tasks, Inbox, Notes, Performance, Mail Checker, Clock, Messenger, Miranda IM and ICQ, Media Player, WinAmp, Volume Control, Toolbar, Weather, and Search Bar.

The Universal UXTheme Patcher patches the uxtheme.dll file, which will allow you to use 3rd party (non-Microsoft created) visual styles in Windows.

This utility supports all Windows XP+ based Operating Systems. This includes Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition, Server 2003 (all variations), XP Home and Pro and has full 64-bit (x64) support. The tool is only 66.5kb, takes about 1 second to patch the system, avoids Windows File Protection and only requires a restart for the patched file to go into effect.

Samurize is the popular advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more.

Samurize´s rich feature set includes:

• an unrivalled set of built-in meters (Disk utilization, CPU usage, network traffic, system temperatures...)
• ultimate customizing and skinning possibilities with no programming knowledge required
• monitoring your own computer or others over a network
• tiny memory footprint and CPU usage
• the first system monitoring tool with a true WYSIWYG editor
• full extensibility via scripts and plugins with a powerful plugin SDK/API
• minimal software requirements (no .NET or Service Packs necessary)
• multimonitor support
• many usage options (desktop, taskbar and clock clients, server outputting to XML or image formats, screensaver)

Get your old Win32 apps looking like their Windows XP counterparts! XP Style Hacker is a small unique tool that instantly transforms applications that do not recognise Windows XP visual styles to be "style aware". Just select the EXE file from the program dialog and the next time you run the program it will adapt to your current XP theme. XP Style Hacker creates a manifest file that is placed in the program`s folder and automatically used by it. It does not modify the program in any way. To remove the syle support, simply delete the manifest file. The program works with all Win32 programs that use a standard Windows interface and controls.

BricoPack Vista Inspirat is a free pack which modifies Windows XP system files in order to change its appearance and make it look like Windows Vista.

Rewarded by a lot of magazines, Vista Inspirat BricoPack Ultimate 2 is the best way to change quickly and easily your Windows icons, logon and visual style.

Warning : the use of a BricoPack installed without following our instructions can make your system down. Before installing this BricoPack, please read the instructions page "About the BricoPacks". You must not install this pack on Windows x64.

Windows Vista comes with a new bootloader and gives users much more control over the bootloading process - but it´s almost impossible to use. EasyBCD is an advanced GUI that makes it easy to modify the Windows Vista bootloader and the entries in it, all of it is a click away.

EasyBCD is a utility used to add, remove, change, and configure entries in the normally difficult to tweak Windows Vista boot loader, and allows end users to perform a range of actions that include adding Vista and Legacy based entries to the boot loader, backing up and restoring boot loader settings, disabling x64 Edition driver checks, limiting the amount of physical memory and/or processors available to Windows Vista, recovering a fried Master Boot Record, and regaining lost operating systems from Windows 2000, XP, and Vista.

It works with all versions of Windows Vista since Beta 1, and includes advanced features such as allowing the installation of unsigned device drivers, limiting memory, and debugging Windows.

What's New in version 1.7.2:

• Possible incorrect startmenu locations on non-English locales
• Buttons in setup do not work on Vista SP1

Crystal Clear is the new pack created by the CrystalXP.net Team! Based on Everaldo’s Crystal icons, this new BricoPack will entirely change the appearance of your Windows XP by modifying system files.

The Crystal Clear pack integrates a visual style which will bring some freshness to your Windows. In order to answer all your desires, several versions of this style are proposed. So, you have the choice between an Aero style or a Classic one, a Tux or a Windows button, a normal taskbar and a thin taskbar.

The aim of our Bricopacks is to make your desktop more beautiful, but also more practical. So Crystal Clear Bricopack brings some additional software. For example, you will be able to change the colour of your folders so you can locate an important folder easier. And why don’t you choose a magnificent Dock on your Desktop to organize your shortcuts elegantly?

In addition to icons, the visual style, and the additional software, this pack will change your logon, some common windows, and also mouse cursors.

The Crystal Clear Bricopack has a new control panel. You decide which software you activate or not, and if you want to restore your old Windows XP, uninstalling the pack will bring everything back!

Before installing this BricoPack, please read the instructions:

First, make sure that the pack is compatible with your system (to check you system’s information, right click on “my computer”, then, click on “proprieties”).

Here is the list of compatible systems:

• Windows XP
• Windows XP SP1
• Windows XP SP2
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows XP Media Center (SP1, SP2 or without SP)
• Windows XP Tablet Edition
• Be careful, this pack isn’t compatible with 64 bit versions (x64) of Windows XP

• You must uninstall other software like Bricopack, ShellPack or CustoPack before the installation of a new Bricopack.
• We don’t guarantee the compatibility of our Bricopack with modified (Gold, Light, LSD…) versions of Windows
• You must have “administrator” rights in Windows XP to install this pack safely.
• If for X reasons your machine not work with the first boot following the installation of the pack, you can restore your system: Put your CD of XP in the reader and launch the restore console. Type "R" at the invites setup. You have the console with prompt "the c:\WINDOWS >", type: "BATCH BricoPackUninst.txt". Type EXIT when the operation finished.

XPize is a GUI enhancer for Windows XP and 2003. It replaces most of the non-XP icons, avis and bmps that Microsoft has always overlooked. The installer simply automates the process of replacing resources in system files, making your XP's look better.

It also includes some extras and a reloader, which you can use after visiting Windows Update. XPize does not contain any spyware or ad-ware of any kind. If you are not satisfied with the results, you can completely uninstall XPize.

XPize is compatible with any version (except x64) and any language of Windows XP (Home, Pro & MCE) and 2003.

Features:

• Patches more than 150 system files without user interaction.
• Updates tons of old resources still existent in Windows XP coming from Windows 95/98/2000.
• Gives Windows XP a fresh new look, with new animations, icons and images.
• Installs some cool extras, such as a boot screen, logon screen, screensaver and more.
• Lets you create a custom Windows CD using the XPized ISO feature.
• Is compatible with nLite's hotfix integration.
• Has advanced switches to let you install it silently and with the components you want.

There is a lite version of XPize which does not include 128x128 icon size support. The lite version of XPize is also available for download on FreewareFiles.com.

Change your old Windows XP theme to look like Vista using MSStyles. You computer will look like Windows Vista, but move like Windows XP.

This visual styles pack contains:

• Windows Aero
• Windows Vista Basic
• Aero Style (WindowBlinds skin)

You MIGHT need to patch your uxtheme.dll, if you didn´t already to get this to work. If you want to try patching it, check out Windows X´s UXTheme Multi-Patcher available here on FreewareFiles.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers experience with the operating system.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.

Crystalize XP is a small utility that provides explorer level transperency for Windows XP, Currently available in Microsoft Windows Vista.

Crystalize XP runs very low on system resources and is perfectly integrated with OS.

Features:

• Very smart blur algorithm with low CPU load.
• Works fast.
• Works without any other tools, such as WindowBlinds, StyleXP…
• Works in Background.
• Just Install it Quickly and there it goes.

Vista Customization Pack is a free and useful language independant (all languages are supported) shell pack for all Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Important: Please switch off your Antivirus / Firewall Software in order to get it installed properly!

Features:

• New Installer offering 2 different setup options
• Full Installation
• Goodies (Aero Visual Style, Styler Toolbar themes, The WB Skin, Wallpaper)
• Language Independant
• Dialogues are customized
• IconCache rebuild
• New System & Desktop Properties
• New Wallpapers
• Uninstaller [Revert your system easily]
• DLL Patching [similar to Brico´s Pack]
• Msstyle and WB 5 Theme
• New Icons Installation
• Modded UXTheme
• WMP 11 Skin
• New Screensavers (Aurora)
• New tray icons(audio and network)

Uxtheme Multi-patcher will allow you to use any 3rd party msstyle theme on Windows XP/SP1/SP2 or Windows Server 2003 (with Themes enabled) just by patching the uxtheme.dll (dynamic link library).

It´s quite disappointment that 4.0 which claimed it should work on x64 OS but it didn´t work. This time it wouldn´t disappoint you since I tested the method and it can finally by-pass 32-bit redirection system. Grab the world's first 32-bit patcher that works on x64 OS today!.

What's New in version 6.0:

• Added Windows XP Service Pack 3 build 5512 (official) support
• Fixed clicking "Cancel" button but works like "Patch" button.

BricoPack Vista Inspirat is a free pack which modifies Windows XP system files in order to change its appearance and make it look like Windows Vista (the next operating system made by Microsoft).

Rewarded by a lot of magazines, Vista Inspirat BricoPack is the best way to change quickly and easily your Windows icons, logon and visual style.

Warning : the use of a BricoPack installed without following our instructions can make your system down. Before installing this BricoPack, please read the instructions page "About the BricoPacks". You must not install this pack on Windows x64.