Windows Always On Top and Desktop Icon Software for Windows

Taskbar Hide - hide windows program
$19.95 - Eusing Software

With Taskbar Hide you can fully control the taskbar.As a hide windows tool,it could hide windows program (hide applications,hide program) completely through a hotkey,also you can minimize them to the system tray instead of an icon on your taskbar.You also can change the icon and title of any window or close windows program anytime .For example,you hide some selected programs by pressing hotkey.At a later time you will be able to return all hidden windows back to the desktop and continue your work.And you also can close those hidden windows through another hotkey.

Hide some of the less used icons from the system tray.Reorder and arrange the windows on taskbar based on your choice.Set any application windows always on top or say stay on top.Show window property of application,such as window handle,class name,process id etc.Hide any of following:taskbar,start button,task window,system tray, and time clock.

This program also could maximize or minimize all windows or only IE windows.You could set options to automatically maximize new Internet Explorer window or all windows.

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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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Aston
$29.95 - Gladiators Software

Aston Shell is a flexible and powerful Desktop replacement application, which lets you save your computer's resources while giving your Desktop a unique look. Aston completely replaces your old Desktop with a new one, providing numerous additional features and saving computer resources for more necessary tasks. By installing Aston, you acquire a lot more than just a fancy look, you get a more efficient way of using your computer. Aston looks similar to the Desktop you're already familiar with, but its components offer much more functionality:

-Toolbars (side panels on the left and on the right sides of the screen) offers easy access to the documents, applications and web links you need the most.
-Multi-state Taskbar buttons let you know exactly if a certain window is active or minimized (they are also adapted to the width of the Taskbar and are thus easier to manage: no precious screen space is wasted.)
-Aston Quick launch Panel can be as small as a single button: you get easy access to your shortcuts without turning the Taskbar into a garbage dump.
-You can hide and restore System Tray icons with a single click or a keystroke.
-Keep your Desktop clean: use the Panel plug-in to organize your files without turning the Desktop into a dumping ground.
-Desktop icons can be of any size, any form (thanks to alpha-blending) and can be animated as well. Standard limitations are gone!
-Aston Disks and the Recycle Bin let you visually monitor their fill states.
-Multi-monitor support.
-A built-in Hotkey Manager makes your work with Aston even more pleasant and effective.

Whether you have a five year old PC or a powerful high-end system, Aston is always the right choice. Aston, running with its most feature packed eye candy Themes, usually consumes about half the RAM that Windows XP Desktop normally needs and gives you much more in return. Aston is already known to be one of the most stable Windows shells ever.

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Overseer Network Monitor
$50 - Sensible Software Solutions

Award-winning Windows-based network/system monitoring software designed to monitor websites, network devices, services, event logs, processes, available disk space servers, etc. Notifications are sent via Email(including cell phone/pager!) and/or net send.

Overseer supports monitoring multiple types of resources. Ping allows you to monitor any computer or network device to make sure it is connected to the network. The HTTP/HTTPS resource type allows you to monitor your websites to make sure they're responding to user's requests. The Windows Service resource type allows you to monitor services running on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 servers. The Windows Event Log resource type allows you to monitor event logs from your Windows computers. And the Available Disk Space resource type will regularly poll your servers' hard drives to make sure they don't run out of space. The new Process Monitor allows you to make sure your critical non-service processes are still running.

Overseer can be configured to send notifications after a resource has been down for a certain amount of time, re-send notifications at specific intervals, stop sending once a certain period of time has elapsed and even notify you once a resource comes back on-line.

Letting Overseer watch your systems 24 hours a day will give you peace of mind that your systems are always available and can potentially save your company thousands of dollars in downtime. Download the fully-functional trial today.

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enable Virtual Desktop
$19.95 - Enable Software Pty Ltd

enable Virtual Desktop is the next generation virtual desktop from Enable Software. Work faster, work easier, work smarter - get the freedom to work your way. Features include: multiple monitor support, customizable desktop size, hotkey desktop switching, mouse and window selectors, fully customizable appearance (including different wallpaper/patterns/colors for each desktop). Customise the mini-window via semi-transparent display, titlebar control, both Taskbar and SysTray icons, Always on top and Autohide facilities. Contents mode displays an exact miniature replica of your desktop, while you can set up desktop themes and global hotkeys. Switch desks quickly by dragging your mouse to the desk boundary or use it to navigate around your virtual desktops as if they were one single continuous desktop. Move windows between desktops using the mini-window or the "Move to..." option in the window title bar, or assign hotkeys. Assign rules for windows, including sticky windows (window appears in all desktops), window behaviour such as snap-to-desk, always-on-top and transparent, and the initial desktop, size and position of windows. Save configured properties and window rules, either for backup, or to allow easy switching between different configurations. Also includes integrated screen dump facility to dump images to the clipboard or directly to file.

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XNeat Windows Manager
$0 - X Neat Software

X Neat Software is an effective utility in the must have list. XNeat gives you full control over your Windows by extending it's features like:

1) TaskBar Utility ( Manager - Sorter - Arranger ) : allows you to order ( sort ) taskbar's entries the way you want !!

2) Stay On Top: When any window is selected to be Always On Top it will never be overlapped by others windows.
Some Applications provide keep window on top feature in its menu like MSN Messenger, but most applications don't.
Window always On Top is very handy if you want to keep yourself isolated from all annoying windows that may popup while you are working or to keep some information always in front of your eye & sure it provides fast access ..

3) Show/Hide Windows: When any window is selected to be hidden it will disappear.
Some Applications provide this feature like MSN Messenger.. but most applications don't like Microsoft outlook express.
Show/Hide Windows feature is very handy if you want to keep an application running in the background, or to hide a window that will not be used for a while.
Show/Hide Windows helps you to clean your desktop and add more space to your taskbar.

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