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Stardock Central 2.54
content distribution/management more>> Stardock Central is a new way of getting software to you quickly and easily. Its how Stardock delivers Galactic Civilizations, WindowBlinds, DesktopX, WinCustomize, CursorXP, and dozens of other popular programs to millions of users today. What makes Stardock Central so special is that it integrates content distribution and management together into a single interface. You can manage your Stardock.net account, get instant updates, chat, get the latest news, download skins, themes, and wallpapers, and much more.<<less

Stardock StyleVista 0.10 beta
Stardock StyleVista(font) is a new program designed to let Windows Vista more>> Stardock StyleVista(font) is a new program designed to let Windows Vista users stylize their Windows Vista experience. The first alpha of it, for instance, allowed Windows Vista users to change the color and opacity of Aero (which MS later added).<<less
ObjectDock 1.9 Build 543
ObjectDock allows you to have a nice animated launchbar/taskbar on your screen that reacts to your mouse when you mouse more>>
In short, its a task bar and program launcher that does it with style.
Main features:
- Put short-cuts on your dock
- Display running tasks on your dock
- Put docklets on your dock
- Icons zoom on mouse-over
- Change the appearance of the icons of running tasks and short-cuts
- Position dock on any edge of the screen
- Optionally represent running programs by snapshot of their window
- Optionally hide Windows taskbar
- Skinnable
- Optional rocking icons on mouse over
Note: Free for non-commercial use!
License:Freeware
Stardock Systems - ObjectDock. ObjectDock is a program that acts as both a task manager and a program launcher. It lets you organize your short-cuts and running tasks onto an extremelyLicense:Freeware
Stardock Systems - Free animated launchbar and taskbar. ObjectDock. ObjectDock is a program that acts as both a task manager and a program launcherLogonStudio 1.0.64
Allows Windows XP users to edit, change, and apply new logon screens xp logons. more>> LogonStudio is a free program that allows users to change their Windows XP logon screens. It comes with several logon screens to choose from, along with thousands that are available online from Web sites, such as WinCustomize.com.
It also includes an editor for creating your own logon screen. You can build or modify logon screens by tweaking parameters on a list of elements. This allows you to customize everything from background to letterings to buttons.
Note: Windows XP Professional machines joined to an Active Directory domain cannot use LogonStudio since logon screens arent applicable
Features
Visual Editor
Comes with pre-made logons<<less
Stardock Systems - Customize your Windows XP logon screenSkinStudio 6.4
Create your own WindowBlinds skins to change the look and feel of your desktop. more>>
Create your own Windows graphical user interface with SkinStudio. With SkinStudio, you can design your own title bars, Start menu, push buttons, scrollbars and virtually every other visual element of Windows XP or Windows Vista. Then save your creations and apply with Stardock WindowBlinds to give Windows a whole new experience.
Version 6.4 adds support for glass menu bars on Windows Vista, and support for different mouseover images on the right hand side of the Start Menu.

Stellar Frontier 1.1
Command your own starship in an all-out, drag-down, knockout battle between solar systems. more>>
Stellar Frontier 1.1 is an attractive multiplayer game that plays like an arcade game, but with an overall strategic look and feel. You are in command of a single starship for a chosen civilization (Humans, Drengin, or Arceans) either offline for fun, or online on servers that act as other players' star systems, advancing in rank as you gain experience.
Major Features:
- Stellar Frontier is freeware for the standard game.
- It is designed to be played exclusively on the Internet though players can practice against the computer players.
- This allows you to fly different ships and try out weapons, as well as command AI-controlled ships.
Requirements:
- Pentium 233 or higher.
- 36 megabytes of memory.
- 28.8k modem Internet Connection.

Dell Dock 1.50c
Dell Dock is a free task-based organizer that helps users sort their software applications into friendly categories, which can be accessed easily from a dock. So that the user can leave the desktop free of clutter. more>>
Dell Dock 1.50c is a free task-based organizer that helps users sort their software applications into friendly categories, which can be accessed easily from a dock. So that the user can leave the desktop free of clutter.
Customers don't have to locate and open a prorgam by application name by rather can locate it by task, like "email & chat", "security", "view photos", "play music", etc. Users can choose the Dock's location, color, and adjust its contents however they see fit.
Stardock Corporation - Dell DockLicense:Freeware

SoundPackager 1.2
Manage, create, and apply your own Windows sound schemes. more>>
SoundPackager 1.2 is a useful program built to make it a snap to download and apply Windows sound schemes.
If you've gotten a little tired of the default Windows sound scheme, download SoundPackager. It also includes several new high quality sound schemes as well as links to download hundreds of packages of sound schemes.
Major Benefits:
- Not Just Ear Candy:
- SoundPackager not only makes Windows sound more alive, but it makes changing your mind easier. Pick from the sound packages that ship with the product or more available for download.
- Before SoundPackager users who wanted to modify their sound scheme would have to use the Windows interface to select each sound individually. That usually meant downloading sounds, one at a time, that did not match and then associating those sounds painstakingly one-at-a-time. SoundPackager takes the work out of that process while at the same time delivering themes with sounds that go together for a complete desktop experience.
- SoundPackager not only makes Windows sound more alive, but it makes changing your mind easier. Pick from the sound packages that ship with the product or more available for download.
- You are in control: Although many sound packages are available prepackaged, users can still use SoundPackager to mix-and-match. You want your favorite sounds from four sports, you got it with an intuitive user interface for importing and assigning sounds to Windows events.
- Premium Sound Packages Available Now
- Stardock Design created some original, high quality sound packages to kick things off. Customers will see these sound packages when they start up SoundPackager for the first time.
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- Aquarium
- Football
- Stardock
- These sound packages have been uploaded to the Wincustomize SoundPackager gallery as free downloads:
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- Baseball
- Basketball
- Hockey
- Nature
- Racing
- Rock
- Techno
- Bringing sound back to Windows
- SoundPackager is a fairly straight forward program. It simply packages up Windows sound schemes to make it easier for people to share them with each other as well as create them.
- Ever since Windows 95, Windows has focused less and less on letting people change the sounds of Windows. Today, it is fairly tedious to change your Windows sounds. You have to go through every event and assign a sound manually. And other than passing around ZIP files full of .WAV files, there's no easy way to save and share sound schemes. That's where SoundPackager comes in.
- Your Sound Packages
- SoundPackager keeps your sound packages in compressed archives that you can apply by selecting and choosing "apply package". Clicking on the edit button brings up a dialog listing the various events of the operating system as well as any programs that comply with the Microsoft sound scheme specification (so you can change the sounds in third-party programs that follow the rules too).
- Similarly, you can easily create your own sound packages to store your custom sound scheme, assign an icon, and share it with others or save for future use.
- New Sounds for Windows: SoundPackager includes several premium quality sound schemes created by Stardock Design. Additional sound schemes were packaged and submitted to WinCustomize.com. If you're finally getting a little tired of the default sound scheme in Windows XP or Windows Vista, definitely download SoundPackager, it has some excellent sound packages available for it to choose from.
Major Features:
- Includes professionally authored, themed sound packages
- Application of a sound package easily assigns 30+ individual settings. This feature saves time and allows users to easily switch between different sound themes without having to set each sound one-at-a-time.
- Clean and easy-to-understand configuration dialog.
- Create, edit and save sound packages.
- Users can change sound assignments in a sound packages.
- Preview sounds before assigning them to events
- Share sound packages with other users
Enhancements:
- Adds additional sound packages
- Lots of tweaking options.
Requirements:
- Windows XP (32 bit)/Server 2003/Vista
- Minimum screen resolution: 1024x768
- 1GHz 32bit (x86)
- 30GB hard drive with at least 100MB of available space
- 512MB
- Internet access (to activate the software and obtain more sound packages)
- Impulse must be installed in order to download and update software
Stardock Systems - SoundPackager. SoundPackager makes customizing your sound experience in Windows easy! Before SoundPackager, users would need to edit each system soundLicense:Freeware
TweakVista 1.1
Stardocks TweakVista enhancement application helps you configure Windows Vista. more>> Stardocks TweakVista enhancement application helps you configure Windows Vista to meet your personal needs by improving performance.
Unlike other power tools for Windows, TweakVista automatically prompts enhancement recommendations, offering easy one click updates to otherwise complex configuration changes. TweakVista is also safe to use. By utilizing Microsofts system-restore technology any changes you make can easily be rolled back. You can freely experiment with different settings without disabling your computer.
Features:
Security - Tweak Vista has easy to configure security settings for managing the new security features of Windows Vista.
Start-Up Manager - See what programs are being launched on start-up and quickly find out what they are doing and whether you need them.
Internet Optimization - TweakVista can improve your Internet surfing performance by changing the underlying Internet settings on Windows Vista to fit the capabilities of your PC.
Performance Optimization - TweakVista knows all the default services on Windows Vista and many of them are not needed for most people.
Process Identification - Leveraging the community, users can read and create information regarding each process currently running.
Recommendations - Automatically evaluate all aspects of your Windows Vista configuration with detailed, yet easy to understand, suggestions provided to help you get more control over your Windows Vista PC.
Assessment Comparison - TweakVista allows the user to use Windows Vistas built in Assessment information to compare their computer against other TweakVista users. Data can be anonoymously uploaded and compard against averages and top scores.
Startup Analysis - By utilizing the startup monitor built into Windows Vista to analyze problems; processes that take longer to start or shutdown are flagged for review.
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LogonStudio Vista 2
Edit, change, and apply new logon screens xp logons. more>> LogonStudio is a free program that allows users to change their Windows XP logon screens. It comes with several logon screens to choose from, along with thousands that are available online from Web sites, such as WinCustomize.com.
It also includes an editor for creating your own logon screen. You can build or modify logon screens by tweaking parameters on a list of elements. This allows you to customize everything from background to letterings to buttons.
Features
Visual Editor
Comes with pre-made logons
Note: Windows XP Professional machines joined to an Active Directory domain cannot use LogonStudio since logon screens arent applicable.<<less
Stardock Systems - Vista. Vista 1 allows you to change the user logon screen to Windows Vista. Many logons are included with the program and hundreds
ThemeManager 3.0
Theme Manager is a program that changes the look and feel of the entire Windows environment. It works by talking to existing desktop enhancement programs and then applying a MyColors or Suite file. more>>
Theme Manager is a program that changes the look and feel of the entire Windows environment. It works by talking to existing desktop enhancement programs and then applying a MyColors or Suite file. In short, Theme Manager is a front-end to other desktop enhancement programs to simplify the user experience.
Theme Manager supports:
- Wallpapers
- Visual Styles (WindowBlinds)
- Animated Wallpaper (Deskscapes format)
- MP3 Players (Windows Media Player)
- Sounds (SoundPackager format)
- Mouse cursors (both Windows and CursorFX)
- Logon Screens (LogonStudio Vista format)
- Boot Screens (BootSkin Vista format)
- Icons (IconPackager themes)
- Widgets (DesktopX Widgets)
- Screen Savers (Windows format)
- Launchers (ObjectDock)
Control your desktop experience Theme Manager, and manage all your skins, themes, wallpapers, icons, etc. from a single interface. You can even mix and match them together to create your own Suite files!
System Requirements: Windows XP (32-bit) or Vista (32 bit or 64 bit)
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ThemeManager 2004
Manage all your skins, themes, wallpapers, icons, etc. from a single interface. more>> Theme Manager is a front end that seamlessly works with your other desktop enhancements to apply skins, themes, icon packages, and suites all from the same user interface. Once you have your desktop just the way you want, you can take a snapshot of your desktop that is saved as a .suite file.<<less
Theme Manager 3.09.000
This application allows to you apply complete themes and suites easily and safely. more>> <<less
License:Freeware
Stardock - 2005 - freeware program that lets users work with all their skins, themes, icons, and wallpapers 2005 is a new free software
Northpole Showdown
Stop evil robots from taking over the North Pole. more>>
Northpole Showdown is an adventure game that gives you the feelings of joining a battle. Santa needs your help. Robots designed to help Santa's elves have gone haywire and are trying to take over the North Pole. You must battle your way to Santa's workshop to warn Santa before it's too late.
ASUS Desktop Theme
Stardock, ASUSTek Computer and NVIDIA have partnered together to offer PC users around the world a free ASUS desktop theme more>>
Powered by Theme Manager OEM from Stardock, the theme adds an ASUS-branded look to the Windows XP desktop. The theme features original graphics created by graphic artist Ian Black for Stardock?s design group, Stardock Media, and includes a WindowBlinds visual style, Windows icons and custom wallpaper.
Sean Lai, VGA Product Manager said ?Stardock is the worldwide leader in desktop customization software. Working with them, we were able to create a desktop theme that reflects ASUS corporate image and gives our many loyal users a way to let the world know that they are using the best products.?
Larry Kuperman, Sales Manager at Stardock, added ?ASUSTek is recognized as the worldwide leader in PC technology. We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with such a well-respected company."
Bill Rehbock, Director of Developer Marketing for NVIDIA, said ?NVIDIA continues to be impressed by what Stardock is capable of doing with the Windows desktop and user interface environment. NVIDIA looks forward to working with Stardock to bring the advanced features of NVIDIAs hardware to Stardock?s software suite.?
Since Theme Manager was first introduced in 2002, many companies have licensed this product from Stardock to create and distribute branded desktops for use in marketing. Clients include some of the largest and most well known companies in the world, such as Nintendo, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Alienware Computers, Warner Bros., Goodyear Tire and Rubber and many others
