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xpize, Vize and Sevenize
Bored by the default Windows themes? You can spize up your Windows OS with xpize, Vize and Sevenize in an easy, quick and convenient way. Get an impression!
Screenshots: Set 1 Set 2 xpize Desktop
The Homepages: xpize Vize Sevenize
SwapMouseButtons and Dmouse
For left-handed users, who want to swap the mouse buttons under Windows easily.
SwapMouseButtons allows not only to swap the mouse buttons, it also allows to turn the arrows from right to left and you can flip the mouse buttons easyily with CTRL + F12, a custom Hotkey or thru clicking an icon on your Quick Launch toolbar. It's very useful when lefties sharing a computer with righties!
View some Screenshots to get an impression.
Compatible with Windows 98, NT, ME, 2000 and XP.
You can download SwapMouseButtons 2.3 right here cause the Hompage is no longer available but I keep SwapMouseButtons on my web page and on my computer. It seems that both tools are identically but you can see the first differences when you view the Screenshots.
Dmouse integrates into the Taskbar and is also easily usable on Touchscreens.
Here are some Screenshots of DMouse.
Visit the Hompage and get Dmouse.
Dmouse is compatible with Windows 98 - Vista, maybe Windows 7.
In general you can copy or unpack all Windows Cursor Themes (*.cur and *.ani) to the folder Cursors which is a subfolder of C:\Windows. That applies also to earlier versions of Windows like 98, Me, 2000, XP and Vista. To select a new theme or switch to another theme, go to Control Panel - Mouse - Pointers.
A lot of cursors for lefties and righties: FunUtilities and RealWorld Cursors.
Aero Cursor Sets for Windows Vista and 7: MSDN Archive and deviantART.
CursorFX is a program with integrated cursors for Windows. You can get more than 20 000 cursors in addition and there are some for lefties, too. Here are two I found quickly: jahjah and Green Dots
Create your own cursors with one of the following free tools:
RealWorld Cursor Editor, Free Icon Editor, AniFX, IcoFX and IcoFX Portable.
Cursors for Linux Desktops: GNOME, KDE and Xfce. There you'll find also Cursor and Mouse Themes respectively, for lefties (Yellow Dot - Left Handed, crystal cursors, Faber Cursors and Grounation). Often you can install the crystal cursors thru the repositories of Debian and Debian based systems like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Simply start the Synaptic Package Manager, search for crystalcursors, select and install them.
The cursor which (LBluecurve) you can see on the screenshots is originally from Redhat and Fedora, respectively. There are two cursors for lefties and two for righties. Cause it's hard to find a package, I packed all four themes including a ReadMe text file including installation instructions (Screenshots) for newbies plus copyright and license (GPL 2) notice to an archive so that you could get them easily.
The themes are working really fine under current and older releases of Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint. A version for Windows with integrated cursor for lefties is also available. As Leftie, go to Control Panel - Mouse - Pointers, mark Normal Select, click on Browse and replace normal.cur with alternate.cur from the unpacked archive. Windows folder for cursors: C:\Windows\Cursors.
JoJoSaver
JoJoSaver is a screensaver, which indicates pictures of the file types JPG, BMP, GIF, png, TIF, WMF, TGA and PCX in a Diashow. These pictures can be in freely selectable listings. The time intervals between the picture changes as well as the kind of the sequence of the pictures (coincidental, according to file names sorts ...) can be stopped. The picture change can be accomplished by a multiplicity of selectable, genuine class effects. Languages: Dansk, Deutsch, English, Espanol, Francais, Hrvatski, Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk. You need administrative rights during the installation process!
For Windows 9x, NT4, ME, 2000, XP and Vista.
Attention: After the installation process each picture change fig. must have been 3-5 times gone through, until the timing parameter for the respective PC was determined.
The VB Runtimes are required for JoJoSaver, take the Full Setup which includes the Runtimes, if you are not sure!
Dexpot
A great tool for people who need more space on their Desktops is Dexpot. You can use up to 20 virtual Desktops at the same time and you can select a own wallpaper for each Desktop. Switch between the Desktops (Desktop Manager) and define your personal combinations of hotkeys. Dexpot runs under Windows 2000 - 7 and 64-bit versions. You need administrative rights during the installation process!
Compatible with Windows 2000 - 7 (32/64-bit).
Dexpot is free for private, none commercial use only!
Download setup or portable: Dexpot Homepage.
A Desktop Manager for Windows 9x - 7: VirtuaWin
Desktop Notes
We love sticking those little yellow notes around our monitors, fridges and everywhere in our offices and at home. Often, our monitors are sticked with so much notes that we can't see the whole desktop. These useful notes are avalaible as little helper applications for computers since a long time but until now only two links were available on my page Useful. Now I introduce some of them here on my desktop related page where is the only right place to do that.
PNotes (Open Source) runs under Windows 98 - 7 and 64-bit, is available within an archiv and therefore usable without installation process and naturally usable on your USB flash drives. PNotes is very customizable!
View some Screenshots to get a first impression.
Download Setup, Portable and one of more than 30 language files.
Stickies (Freeware) runs under Windows 98 - 7 and is another of this great little programs for placing your sticky notes around the Desktop.
Download language files and the setup file.
Two Programs for Linux: Xpad and Tomboy.
Four Firefox Addons:
Internote: Homepage Mozilla-Addons
fireNotes: Homepage Mozilla-Addons
FloatNotes: Homepage Mozilla-Addons
Xsticky: Homepage Mozilla-Addons
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