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Stardock Fences
Fences is a one-of-a-kind program, allowing you to draw labeled shaded areas on your desktop, which become movable & resizable containers for your desktop icons. These groups can help bring organization and consistency to your computer's desktop, solving the "constant mess" problem that has plagued the desktop since its inception.
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Vistaglazz
By default, Windows only allows you to use visual styles signed by Microsoft. Vistaglazz overcomes that limitations, allowing you to utilize the incredible third-party themes available on the web. It also improves transparency effects.
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Launchy
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
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RocketDock
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.
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Rainmeter
Rainmeter is a customizable resource meter that can display various performance data in different formats. The plethora of skins and themes for Rainmeter allow it to do much more.
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Humanized Enso
Enso Launcher is a slick program with a unique user experience. It is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
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