Free home shell desktop software for windows

Emerge Desktop 4.1.3 is a useful tool which creates a whole new desktop for your computer

Emerge Desktop is a replacement windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and Windows XP (Home and Professional).

Major Features:

1. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, From a design point of view, Emerge Desktop applets are capable of being run as both standalone as well as being integrated.a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the lower right corner in Explorer), called emergeTray.
2. It will also provide access to the users programs (normally accessed with the windows "start" button) via a right-click on the desktop, via emergeCore
3. Emerge Desktop has an open API, which allows for applets to be coded with compilers other than MinGW if someone wishes to do so. In fact Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 project and workspace files are available in CVS in case someone wants to use them.
4. From a design point of view, Emerge Desktop applets are capable of being run as both standalone as well as being integrated.
5. In order for Emerge Desktop applets to communicate with each other, emergeCore must be running. Without emergeCore, each applet will run independently (if, for example, you wish to use them in conjunction with another desktop shell).
6. Emerge Desktop is implemented with MinGW which is an OpenSource implementation of the GNU C compiler and utilities. Up to this point, closed source commercial projects have mainly been used (Microsoft Visual C++, Borland Delphi) to develop alternate shells as they use proprietary Microsoft API features. With Microsoft releasing more detailed information about these API calls, the MinGW win32api is now quite complete. Additionally, several web sites on the internet have started to include documentation and code that illustrate how to access and use these functions.
7. Emerge Desktop is written in C++, primarily developed with MinGW and is licensed as OpenSource (under the GPL). All the source is available in Subversion at Sourceforge. Emerge Desktop can be developed using Code:Blocks, an IDE for MinGW.
8. If you want to participate in this project there are forums and an irc channel (#emergedesktop) on FreeNode.

Enhancements:

• Screen Saver / Power Saver fix

System Requirements: Ebook