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Download Desktop Manager V .060 (July 11th)
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Introduction

What is it? What’s it good for? Is it fit to eat?

Desktop Manager is a virtual desktop program and Windows shell. A virtual desktop program gives you more work space, you use a control of some kind and you switch to another virtual screen where you can run different applications. So, instead of hunting for windows behind other windows on one cramped screen you can keep them separate and switch to them when you need to work with them. A Windows shell is what you see on the desktop, the interface for interacting with the system, it includes the icons, folders, the taskbar, etc. Desktop Manager is what you make of it, these are your options:
  • You can just use the main executable by itself for a virtual desktop program with each desktop having it’s own display mode, colours, and wallpaper.
  • You can use the modules to extend the functionality of Desktop Manager (refered to from here on as DM) to add more preferences and functionality, including the ability to have a hot bar of your most frequently used icons in a strip to the right of your desktop, keep an eye on your ram usage and check your email.
  • Finally, you can replace Explorer with DM as your Windows shell. In the Extras part of the archive are special modules that provide extra functionality for this purpose. Needless to say, this is still experimental in nature, there is little to no documentation for this kind of thing available to programmers.

Features:

  1. No MFC used resulting in small executables.
  2. Each desktop can have it's own display resolution, system colours, and wallpaper image.
  3. Modular to the extreme, very extendable and customizable.
  4. Can be used as a Windows replacement shell.
  5. Works under Win95/Win98 and WinNT SP4/Win2K.. *
*Not all features available under Win95 and WinNT

Legal Status

Versions .060 and below of Desktop Manager are freely distributable and the use of the program is free of charge for individuals. Distribution will be as is, with no modification of the archive contents.

This means that you keep the files together as is in the archive, and if it's just you using the program I'm not asking for any money. If you wish to use this program for any other purpose you should contact me first. This means that if you want to install DM throughout your company or something similar contact me and we can work something out. Use you common sense in other words, I didn't spend the time and effort on the thing for other people to make money from it.

DM doesn’t come with a warranty, express or implied, use this software at your own risk.

Please contact me in case of any problems, the program is what you make it, the more you help me, the better it will be.

What's New:

V .060

  • Hotkey editing added to Advanced Prefs. HotKeyModifier retired, each hotkey can be whatever.
  • Window updating is now done with a windows hook if hooks.dll is available.
  • Prefs now integrate the user selected window colour for the background. Bitmap is now shared among all the tabs.
  • Added system quit capability to Shortcut Manager. Both Desktop and SM show logow.sys from the Windows dir. Override with ExitLogoBitmap.
  • File operations are now done is batch mode instead of one file at a time.
  • Copying files now shows progres box.
  • Fixed Alternate Wallpaper detection.
  • Fixed DM draw thumbnail window brush deletion bug.
  • Fixed SM Prefs and taskbar issue wrt the taskbar showing SM's wallpaper
  • Fixed Desktop folders bug when changing the background to a wallpaper, it no longer shows a second border.
  • Fixed icon position bug when changing SM to small icon mode and back with autoarrange turned off.
  • Added FindExe capability, identical to FindFolder, but executed when the find menu item is selected in a context menu.
  • Misc other tweaks and bug fixes.

See file for more details..