Aston 1.9.6

Aston 1.9.6 offers you a flexible and powerful Desktop replacement tool to save your computers 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.

Major Functions:

Aston looks similar to the Desktop you're already familiar with, but its components offer much more functionality:

1. 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.
2. Multistate 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.)
3. 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.
4. You can hide and restore System Tray icons with a single click or a keystroke.
5. Keep your Desktop clean: use the Panel plug-in to organize your files without turning the Desktop into a dumping ground.
6. Desktop icons can be of any size, any form (thanks to alpha-blending) and can be animated as well. Standard limitations are gone!
7. Aston Disks and the Recycle Bin let you visually monitor their fill states.
8. Multimonitor support.
9. A builtin Hotkey Manager makes your work with Aston even more pleasant and effective.
10. 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.
    

Major Features:

1. Speed.
   • Most desktop enhancement software tools slow down your system, consuming additional memory and processor resources. Unlike these tools, Aston completely replaces your old desktop and releases your computer's resources for other tasks. Aston runs nicely on systems that labor with the normal Windows XP desktop.
2. Reliability.
   • Tested extensively on numerous computers Aston is known to be the most stable program of this kind. It's much more stable than competing programs and even the native Windows 98 and Me desktop.
3. Power.
   • Whether you have Windows XP or Windows 98, Aston runs smoothly on any system, providing you with additional tool bars, launch panels and other useful components, allowing you to get more control on your system.
4. Beauty.
   • Aston looks great out of the box and if you want more, you can get free Themes from our Themes section or one of numerous related sites. You can change the look and feel of your Desktop with few mouse clicks.
5. Flexibility.
   • Create your own desktop and make it look and behave the way you like. That's the main idea behind Aston. Bind hotkeys, tweak desktop components, install plugins, never lose control over your desktop. No wizardry here, everything is simple. Even if you're not an experienced designer or programmer, you can create your own desktop the way you want it, not like someone else does.

• Improved Windows Vista support
• Increased stability and performance
• Improved support for multimonitor system
• Fixed bug with shutdown and recycle options
• Fixed bugs in DiskEx, Recycle bin, Panel and Nettrafic plug-ins
• Fixed bug with plug-ins setting