Vista sidebar for Microsoft Windows XP and Vista has gadgets like media players, google search, yahoo search and lots of more search engines. It has also gadgets like weather and system uptime and lots of more useful gadgets.

The sidebar uses 50% less RAM and is faster than the original Microsoft Sidebar with more extras and works on Microsoft Windows Vista and XP. Thoosje´s Vista Sidebar is also part of the Vista Transformation Pack that turns your XP OS into Windows Vista.

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IcoFX is a freeware icon editor. Create easily icons with transparency for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

In the integrated workspace you can easily preview, save, change your icons. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the help of many tools and more than 40 effects icon creation is made easy. It offers powerful tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen for retouching your icons in minutes.

Features:

* Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
* Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
* Support for transparency (alpha channel)
* More than 40 effects + custom filter
* Resolutions up to 256×256
* Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
* Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
* Import and export images
* Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools

XPize is a resources transformation pack for Windows XP and above. It replaces most of the non-XP icons, AVIs and BMPs that Microsoft has always overlooked. The installer simply automates the process of replacing resources in critical system files, making your XP´s look better. It also includes some extras and an updater which you can use after visiting Windows Update.

What’s new in this release:

Files:

* Removed wininet.dll

“Alarm me” can be your favorite time organizer as it is powerful, regarding its capabilities, and its user interface is great. Includes general alarms, repeating alarms, perfect Birthday reminder, Address Book facillity, build in Diary and more. It contains Timer and Countdown utility. Also it supports the “shut down feature” which means that you can schedule when to shut down (restart, log off, Stand By or Hibernate) your system.

ScreenHunter Free is a completely free screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots.

ScreenHunter can capture a rectangle area, an active window and full screen. It automatically saves captures in BMP, JPEG or GIF file format, so you don’t have to stop each time and you can capture as many as you like. It also can save to Clipboard to be copied to other programs, such as Motion Studio and Word.

ScreenHunter has selectable hotkey capture (F1 to F12 and Print Screen), delayed capture, and uses virtually no system resources on standby.

Vista Start Menu is a completely another approach to the interface. In the process of development we were oriented towards how people perceive information and also towards the ability to remember the position of items.

All you see in the standard menu is a long list and you have to read most names in order to find the program you need. Vista Start Menu will show program icons that is why it is a lot easier to find the program you need with just one glance. Besides, the programs are arranged in a table visually divided into sections, which also contributes to finding what you need in no time.

With Vista Start Menu, you just open the menu and click the program icon. If you need supplemental files installed together with the program, just move the mouse pointer over the icon and you will see a submenu where you can find all you need.

FreeNote is a Windows application that lets you place virtual sticky notes around your desktop.
What is the best place to write notes and memos on? Of course your PC desktop, where they are all visible at a glance. FreeNote lets you create a number of virtual sticky notes around your PC screen.
FreeNote also offers the option to personalize your notes colors, dimensions and behaviour, a quick note content Internet search utility.
FreeNote includes a multi-language interface (English, Italian, French, more).

Google Desktop Search introduces new ways to access relevant and timely information. When you view a web page in Internet Explorer, it “caches” or stores its content so that you can later look at that same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or you’re offline.

It organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.

Google Desktop finds:

- Outlook / Outlook Express
- Word
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Excel
- Internet Explorer
- PowerPoint

Here are some key features of “BioniX Desktop Wallpaper Changer”:

· realy low memory usage (1-3MB of your system memory. See Note*)
· very small size
· very low CPU usage
· IS STILL PURE FREEWARE. NO NAG SCREEN
· embbeded screen saver
· playlist editor
· drag and drop from outside (from Windows) into application
· you can drag and drop a playlist over BioniX Wallpaper icon (e.g. the Desktop icon) and BioniX will start with that playlist
· can skip invalid file (that don’t exist any more on HDD) in playlist. Also you can automatically clear all invalid files from your playlist.
· can turn back at a previous wallpaper (use the ’Back’ button on main interface)
· skinable. You can download new skins, or you can create your own skins in just 3 minutes.
· it can automatically turn off the Active Desktop (Windows 98)
· support more then 10000 files in playlist. While other wallpaper changers freeze trying to load huge playlists, BioniX will work without problems.
· if user double click a file with the ‘BIO’ extension (this is the extension for playlist file), BioniX will start & load that playlist
· it is clean: it don’t modify your Windows configuration, it doesn’t install no single file in your Windows/system, it don’t install spyware or other companion software (like DivX for example), it don’t mess your registry. Because this, BioniX doesn’t need installer/uninstaller.
· easy to use (good for beginner users but also for advanced users)
· support for BMP, JPG, JPEG, JFIF; GIF, EMF, WMF, ICO (soon will be supported more types)
· time resolution: 1sec
· time interval: 1sec to few days

zune carbon vista is new theme for Microsoft Windows XP.