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Advanced Desktop Shield
$49 - IM-Soft

Advanced Desktop Shield - security utility is a must for public access PCs located in school or university labs, Internet cafes, libraries and other public places where you need to stop users from changing desktop wallpaper and screen saver, deleting, creating and renaming desktop icons, changing display settings and so on. With Advanced Desktop Shield you can backup, restore and manage your desktop layout and desktop layouts of your users. Desktop layouts are saved to files, which include all files and folders located on the desktop, placement of desktop icons, desired wallpaper and screen saver. If you choose to lock your desktop layout or desktop layouts of your users, every time you or your users reboot your PC, the program will return everything on the desktop back to the original state: wallpaper, screen saver; deleted icons will be recreated and the new icons will be deleted. Desktop management includes creating desktop layouts for different purposes such as gaming, working, surfing the Internet, and providing different users with their own desktops. Using the program is very simple: just place desktop icons on the desktop to required positions, select wallpaper and screen saver using the Display item of Control Panel, double click program's tray icon and click the Save button to create a new desktop layout file. If desktop icons ever get moved or deleted by user or after entering the safe mode or changing the screen resolution, just open the program and click the Load button to return the desktop to any previously saved state. If you are in the Lock Desktop mode, simply reboot PC to restore desktop automatically.

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DesktopPlus
$30 - Advanced Computing Solutions

DesktopPlus allows you to more effectively organize your Windows Desktop by splitting it up into upto 9 'Virtual' Desktops. A Virtual Desktop is like an independent copy of your standard Windows desktop.

Each Virtual Desktop can have its own Applications (Windows), Desktop Icons (Shortcuts), Wallpaper, Resolution and Frequency settings. DesktopPlus can be configured to automatically start your favourite applications on the correct Virtual Desktop.

You can switch between Virtual Desktops using a HotKey combination (e.g. CTRL-1 for Desktop1, CTRL-2 for Desktop2, etc), using the optional floating toolbar or the option tray icons. Windows can be moved between destops using HotKey combinations (e.g. CTRL-SHIFT-1 to move the current window to Desktop 1) or by using the Drag'N'Drop interface of the Arrange window. The same Drag'N'Drop interface can also be used to move icons between desktops.

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WiseDesktop
$17.95 - ALMA Labs

WiseDesktop is an award-winning virtual desktop manager for Windows with user-friendly interface and useful features. WiseDesktop creates four virtual desktops and only one is visible at a time. So, when you switch desktops, all visible application windows just disappear from the screen and from the Windows taskbar. It is possible to quickly change the "active" desktop by using keyboard hotkey, system tray icon or WiseDesktop deskband.
Also you can set custom wallpapers for each desktop, move application windows from one desktop to another by drag'n'drop, keep an application window on all desktops, close an application window from the WiseDesktop main window, change the order of applications on the Windows taskbar etc.
WiseDesktop deskband is a toolbar on the Windows taskbar. It can be used for quickly switching between virtual desktops and running applications by one click.
Be wise enough to choose WiseDesktop for organizing your desktop!

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Easy Desktop Keeper
$49 - Ixis Ltd

Easy Desktop Keeper gives you the ability to save, restore, manage and lock your desktop layout including files and folders located on your desktop, placement of desktop icons, desired wallpaper and screen saver. If you choose to lock your desktop layout, every time you reboot your PC, the program will restore your desktop icons and bring them back to their original positions as well as return your old wallpaper and screen saver to the background. You can create an unlimited number of desktop layouts for different purposes such as gaming, working, surfing the Internet as well as provide different users with their own desktops. Simply place your icons wherever you want them on your desktop, select desired wallpaper and screen saver, double click program's tray icon and click the Save button to create a new desktop layout file. If your icons ever get moved or deleted by any user or after entering the safe mode or changing the screen resolution, just open the program and click the Load button to return your desktop to any previously saved state, or simply reboot your PC if you are in the Lock Desktop mode. Many of you, after meticulously arranging all the icons on your desktop, have been frustrated to no end when somebody else or Windows itself randomly re-arranges them. It is getting more frustrating when you get your icons deleted from your desktop without an ability to recreate them back. System administrators working in educational institutions will realize that Easy Desktop Keeper is just a must for their PC labs because it can be easily used to stop pesky students from changing desktop wallpaper, deleting desktop icons and so on. This easy-to-use utility will give you new exciting abilities to manage and secure your desktop; you'll get rid of a lot of headaches, and get a peace of mind.

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Desktop Fusion
$15.95 - Higher Math

What if you could see images on your desktop in a viewer? What if that viewer were a part of your desktop? What if you could page instantly through your images at the click of a mouse or see them in a slide show?

Desktop Fusion by Higher Math makes your desktop into a dynamic wallpaper viewer and gives you complete control over the appearance of your desktop.

**Manage 1000s of images.

**Show and easily switch among web pages displayed directly on your desktop.

**Integrate background color, wallpaper, desktop image viewer and weather together to form an aesthetic desktop environment.

**Get current weather conditions for your city, updated hourly.

**Place any number of handy notes or reminders on your desktop.

**Easily switch among wallpaper images.

**Optionally, view your images as a slideshow.

**Preview your images in the image list manager as thumbnails or full screen.

**Download includes a set of 27 tasteful sample wallpaper images.

**Move, rename and delete image files and directories on your hard drive.

**Use a stretched or tiled wallpaper image as a backdrop to the image viewer.

**The image viewer stretches the images proportionally to fill the available space but avoid distortion.

**Preview how your integrated desktop will appear before applying any changes.

**Desktop Fusion includes a Windows application for managing your wallpaper images and image viewer lists and for integrating all of these into your desktop in dozens of combinations. And it includes a special desktop web page....your desktop is a web browser...that includes an image viewer, current weather conditions and desktop notes/reminders.

**Non-garish, tasteful news items of interest are shown as part of the desktop web page. This feature can be turned off with the paid license.

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1st Desktop Guard
$49 - Emailarms

1st Desktop Guard lets you prevent your desktop icons from getting rearranged, stop users from changing desktop wallpaper and screen saver, secure your public access computers, save, restore, manage and lock desktop layouts. With personal computers becoming part of our lives and everyone in the household using them, it's hard to keep track of the icons that are located on the desktop. Many times, you might want to arrange them differently for different jobs. Moreover in case the computer is located in a shared environment like public library or university or internet cafe, a lot of people can use it and rearrange the icons or change the wallpaper. Many times icons get accidentally deleted and it is no longer possible to restore. To avoid this problem altogether, we created this software that will help you tidy up your personal desktop space. It will allow you to make your work faster and easier, with a few easy steps and will rid you of the hassles related to your desktop. You can save and restore all the desktop icon positions and if you or somebody else deletes an icon on the desktop, the program will restore it. If the desktop wallpaper has ever been changed, the program will restore it. The software can run in automatic mode, so that desktop is restored automatically. Multiple people can enjoy the comfort of their customized desktop settings without any problems. The program saves and restores not only the position of each icon on the desktop, but also the shortcuts themselves. Deleted icons will be restored from program's repository so no need to worry about lost or deleted icons anymore. You can assign different privileges to different users and protect the program with a password, so that only you could login and change, save, restore or delete any layouts. The program also saves the desktop image in its own repository thus eliminating the need to change it back after each person. This is especially useful for public places where you need to keep desktop layo

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