Winstep Software Technologies - Software Products

WorkShelf

Imagine no longer having to dig through countless menus and Explorer windows just to find what you're looking for. Try to visualize NOT having to minimize all your open windows just to launch a program on your desktop. With Workshelf running on your computer those time-wasting actions are a thing of the past! This powerful and intuitive desktop organization tool allows you to arrange, by simple drag and drop, frequently used files, folders, applications and URLs into their own groups and categories, providing quick access without disrupting your work environment. Workshelf also gives you quick access to special system folders like the Windows Desktop, My Computer, Control Panel, Printers, and much more! WorkShelf can be attached to the top or bottom of the screen or simply left floating on the desktop. To save valuable screen space, Workshelf can be hidden from view or collapsed down to a simple tab display. Quickly moving the mouse to the associated screen edge is all it takes to make it fully visible again, even when covered by other windows. Workshelf fully supports drag & drop, making it simple to manage applications, files, printers, etc... With drag & drop you can move, copy and re-arrange items from one location to another, both inside and outside WorkShelf. WorkShelf features useful modules like an animated Recycler bin and a speaking Digital/Analog Clock that synchronizes the time with time servers on the internet, with more forthcoming... Modules can be displayed 'in-shelf' among other items or as free-form/free floating objects on your desktop! WorkShelf is fully customizable, with hundreds of themes freely available online. Best of all, it integrates perfectly with NextSTART, Winstep's Start Menu and taskbar replacement: changing a theme in NextSTART will automatically apply it onto Workshelf and vice-versa.

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NextSTART

NextSTART, by Winstep Software Technologies, is a powerful, skinnable, and dynamic pop-up menu that can be used as a replacement or supplement to the Windows Start Menu. NextStart also offers an incredible amount of flexibility so that the user can customize it to his needs and desires. Unlike many other menu programs, NextStart does NOT require you to re-enter the paths to all the programs listed on your Start Menu. NextStart will automatically read the directory structure of your Programs folder(s) and create a menu for you on the fly! In fact, thanks to NextStart's dynamic menu support, it will create as many menus as you wish based on any hard drive or directory! NextSTART features built-in task management to control running apps and the Windows System Tray. Gain access to your running apps via handy task icons/tiles right on your desktop. Best of all, you can choose the position of the "task list", the style, and even which icons should be displayed for specific applications. NS also allows you to place the Systray anywhere on your desktop! Not happy with the default NextSTART configuration? Would you prefer a menuing system that emulated BeOS or Mac? How about transparent menus? No problem...You can configure how the menus look and behave! Choose where scroll-buttons are located, how menu selection is made, which mouse button activates the menus, assign hot keys and more! You can choose the font, the size, the colors (even use gradients and bitmaps with transparency!), 3D effects, custom icons and, still, more! In fact, thanks to the improved Theme support of the NextSTART Preferences Manager you can now import and export themes based on the above options. Download hundreds of free themes from http://themes.winstep.net !

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Winstep Xtreme

Winstep Xtreme is a powerful suite of User Interface replacement applications that merge incredible usability and performance with breathtaking eye candy: NeXuS is the dock system, and is just perfect for super fast access to your most used applications. You can have as many docks as you want, and each can have multiple sub-docks! When not in use, docks can hide behind your screen edges, taking virtually no screen space. WorkShelf is a tabbed dock, better suited to complex organizational duties like organizing documents, URLs, movies, work projects, etc... If a dock is the top of your desk, then Workshelf is all the drawers below it. NextSTART is the menu system - and takes care of all your task management needs as well. Menus are great for accessing infrequently used files and system related commands that aren''t easily reachable in the file system or that have no readily user-recognizable graphic representation. You can create as many menus as you want, and, with NextSTART hotspots, you can invoke each of these menus by a super fast screen edge/corner bump with the mouse pointer. The task management part of NextSTART allows you to efficiently organize and manipulate running tasks and windows. Using nothing but drag & drop, you can re-organize the items in your taskbar so that all your related documents are together (thus easier to find) and where you expect them to be, instead of where Windows decided to put them. Modules, widgets, gadgets, docklets, desklets, are all different words to describe the same thing: mini-applications that usually live on your desktop and provide a staggering amount of information regarding your system, the weather, etc... Winstep Xtreme currently includes the following modules: a speaking Atomic Clock, Recycle Bin, Email Checker, Weather Monitor, CPU, Net and RAM Meters and the amazing ''fortune cookie'' Wanda. New modules are constantly being added.

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