Desktop Layout and Bac Software for Windows

BackRex Easy Backup
$39.95 - BackRex Software

BackRex Easy Backup is a settings backup and restore tool. It allows you to save your current Windows configuration (settings, customizations, and user profile), such as desktop layout, mouse cursors schemes, sound schemes, regional settings, etc. BackRex will also save customizations for Microsoft Office 95/97/2000/XP suite, Outlook and Internet Explorer settings including personal address books, mail and news folders, contacts, tasks, notes, dial-up preferences and much more.

BackRex Easy can help you to transfer all your settings and customizations from one computer to another, even with different version of Windows (for example from Windows 2000 to Windows XP or vice versa).

BackRex Easy is very useful for IT people who support multiple workstations - using BackRex Easy Backup, reinstalling several computers becomes very simple. Instead of spending hours, to setup customized environment for every user, you just restore user settings into the fresh installed system.

How does it work?
Run BackRex Easy Backup on the computer, which settings and/or profile(s) you want to save, then choose Back up option in the program, and finally choose a folder to save all collected data in. When BackRex Easy Backup finishes its work, keep the results in a safe place - you'll need them to restore your settings, profile(s) and customizations.
To restore your data, start BackRex Easy Backup, select a folder, created during the backup process, and in a few minutes all your settings, customizations and profile(s) will be restored, you'll just need to reboot the computer. Easy, isn't it?

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UIFriend
$19.98 - Intrepix LLC

UIFriend is a handy Windows utility that makes it easy to change screen settings to fit each user's needs and whims. With just two clicks, you can change your monitor's screen resolution, color depth, and refresh rate.

With UIFriend's customizable menu, the display settings that you use most often will be available for you to switch between whenever you need to. It's easy to use the program's quick resolution changing feature to tune your monitor to your mood, or to the tasks at hand. The program also remembers the location and layout of your desktop icons, and it correctly restores them as you move among display settings.

UIFriend also offers a display setting management feature for multiple users that makes it easy to share a computer with colleagues or family. Each user specifies his or her display setting preferences and UIFriend takes care of the rest by automatically applying the settings as each user uses the computer.

UIFriend's desktop icon layout protection feature ensures that your desktop layout is protected from those frequent but unexplainable times when your desktop icons turn to scrambled eggs. You'll enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing your desktop layout is protected.

The program offers advanced features that improve your screen aesthetics in many subtle ways. UIFriend's double buffering ensures reduced flicker and smoother drawing of the desktop. You can change the color of the text that appears below your icons, and you can make the text's background transparent. It's easy to start your screen saver to secure your computer before you leave it or mute the sound while your screen saver is active.

Whether you need to switch on occasion to a higher resolution to see more cells in your spreadsheets, you want to spruce up the aesthetics of your desktop, or you want to allow multiple users to create custom display settings when they're sharing a computer, UIFriend has the tools you need.

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BackRex Expert Backup
$69.95 - BackRex Software

Let's face it! We all live in the age of Information Technologies. Day after day we become more and more dependent on information. Not only our financial data and job-related information moved from paper to computer, our day planners, diaries, address books and even calendars are now all-digital. The process of our life relies heavily on machines that are tireless and accurate in everything that concerns things important to us. Isn't it the dream?
There is one thing however that spoils this ideal world: data vulnerability! Imagine what would happen to your life if your social security data gets lost due to hardware crash? What would have happened to Tolstoy if he'd have lost his WarAndPeace.doc due to hard drive failure? Psychiatrists around the globe have already reported numerous hysteria and suicidal behavior cases caused by important data loss! Do you want to be the next on their list?
No way! BackRex Expert Backup is here to save the day! You will definitely enjoy this powerful settings backup and migration tool allowing you to backup your current Windows configuration to be restored later or transferred to another machine or the same machine under another OS environment. Among the settings being backed up are desktop layout, cursors and sound schemes, regional settings, etc.
BackRex Expert Backup can save customizations of Microsoft Office 95/97/2000/XP suite, Outlook data folders, e-mail, contacts, tasks, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer settings including personal address books, mail folders, dial-up settings and much more.
Another great use for this tool is setting up Windows on multiple machines. Instead of spending hours and even days on setting up several perfectly configured systems you can create the perfect copy once and put it on as many computers as you wish with just one click!
So, if you are looking for really convenient and feature-rich backup and migration tool you should definitely give BackRex Expert Backup a try!

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Desktop Icon Toy
$19.95 - iDeskSoft

Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to make many funny but useful things for your windows desktop icons.

What cool things could you do with Desktop Icon Toy?

Arrange Desktop Icons
You can arrange desktop icons by many complex figures, like:
Clock (all the icons will be aligned as a clock, showing the exact time)
Circle, Cross, Around, Spiral, Horizontal Ellipse, Vertical Ellipse.
Triangle, Rhombus, Pentagon, Hexagon.
4-pointed Star, 5-pointed Star, 6-pointed Star, Hearts
Align to left, right, top or bottom.

Animate Desktop Icons
With Desktop Icon Toy, you could add a hover effect by placing the mouse over a desktop icon. This makes the icon dance or blink & shake its text.

Show/hide Desktop Icons on Demand
With Desktop Icon Toy, your desktop icons could be always hidden. And only would be shown when you really need them (like click desktop, mouse over desktop or over desktop icons).

Now, you could be always enjoying your beautiful wallpaper.

Hide Desktop Icon Texts
You can remove the classic ugly text of desktop icons, optional, instead of a cool pop-up tooltip. The whole desktop will become neat and tidy.

Lock Desktop Icons
Besides save and restore icons layout, Desktop Icon Toy also allows you to lock the desktop icons. Don't worry about carelessly moving your icons again.

More Funny Things
You can remove all desktop icons, but only keep the icon texts.
You can change desktop icons to report mode, all icons will become small, and icon text will be placed on the right of icons.

Other Features
Save different icons' layout according to different screen resolution.
Automatically re-layout/restore-layout when change screen resolution, or add/delete icons.
Remove desktop icon shortcut overlay.
Transparent background of desktop icon texts.
Change the font color and background color of desktop icon texts.

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12Ghosts SaveLayout
$22 - 12Ghosts Inc.

Keep changes to your desktop icon layout once and forever. This is the final answer to the Windows desktop imperfection, keeping a strong backlog of icon layouts. Restore at resolution switching, or when the taskbar is moved. Transfer icon layout between Windows versions and PCs. Optional tray icon, hotkey, and command line options for automated backups. Comes with a one-click accessible desktop simulation tool, and a taskbar tray application launcher.

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Desktop Emailer Professional
$79.99 - DigitalBorneo.com

Desktop Emailer Professional is a mailing list management software that allows you to manage your contacts and send out personalized emails to an unlimited number of recipients.

When a person sees their own name in your email, it will grab their attention, ensuring that they will read your message. With Desktop Emailer Professional, you can use the mail merge feature and personalized up to 15 custom fields.

Desktop Emailer works with any SMTP/POP3 mail server on any platform/ISP). Whether you are connected through dialup, ISDN, DSL, or a permanent internet connection (LAN), all you need is access to an SMTP server and Desktop Emailer will go to work for you. In this latest version, you can even use the built-in SMTP server to send emails directly from your computer bypassing the external SMTP server requirement.

The multi-threading function allows you to create up to 50 connections simultaneously ensuring lighting fast delivery.

Other email marketing software programs have different pricing options for different version of their software (i.e. Home, Professional, Plus, etc.). Each limits the number of recipients you can manage. As a result, you'll end up paying hundreds of dollars if you want to manage larger lists. Unlike our competitors, our software allows you to send your message to an unlimited number of recipients for a one-time fee, saving you money.

Desktop Emailer includes a powerful built-in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor to help you with design and layout.

Importing contact data from existing databases couldn't be easier with its ability to translate to and from the most popular formats: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, CSV, and delimited text files.

Desktop Emailer also supports bounce emails checking, split marketing test, delivery logging, signature manager and more.

With a familiar user interface and full Help documentation, you can quickly start managing and emailing your contacts right away.

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