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Softpedia Editor's Review for Aston
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New generation of Windows desktop enhancement, beauty and power at your service.
Written by Bogdan Popa on February 7th, 2012
Aston is a desktop enhancement tool that changes the whole look of the operating system, boasting several skins to modify the Task Bar, the Start Menu, desktop icons and the other items on your screen.
With a logoff mandatory after installation comes to an end, Aston replaces the Windows interface completely, coming with its very own set of widgets and toolbars.
For example, by default you get dedicated widgets to see the current time, calendar and weather, but also with a dock-like toolbar for launching Internet and office applications.
The Task Bar boasts a whole new design, so is the Start Menu, but the user can change not only the skin, but every single item on the screen. You can choose to enable new panels and widgets, delete the existing ones, modify the look of certain elements or pick a new wallpaper.
The new Windows look is highly customizable and you may spend some time setting it up, but in the end you may get a gorgeous desktop with tons of handy utilities.
If you are wondering, Aston needs just a reasonable amount of computer resources to work properly and it seems to work without a flaw on all Windows versions. Truth is, we're not so impressed by the way it changes the Windows 7 interface, as it brings back the classic Task Bar layout and some of the widgets already available in the operating system.
Other than that, the application sports several other goodies, including live wallpapers, animated skins, color labels for desktop icons, hotkey manager, events manager, sound effects and multi-language support.
Overall, there's no doubt Aston is a great software solution that can help a lot of users turn their Windows operating system into a more eye candy working environment.
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Aston description
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Here are some key features of "Aston":
· Settings flexibility, science fiction themes creation capability
· Animated skins and themes
· Live wallpapers
· Skin 3D objects support
· Widgets support, fixed and floating (analog clock, weather forecast, power management, system resources monitor, etc.)
· Easy wigdets personalization
· Themes' support and their application simpleness
· Customization simplicity and usability even for a novice user
· Multi-language support
· Systems with several monitors support
· Color labels for desktop icons
· Effects support for icons
· Quick search on local disks and in the internet
· Progress indicator for tasks
· Hotkey Manager
· Events Manager
· Task list appearance choice
· Flip3D and Expose modes for open applications view
· Secure Features
· Sound effects
· Start menu items and top programs list customization
Requirements:
· 40 MB free disk space
Limitations:
· 30 days trial period
· Nag screen What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Also some languages have been added to the languages list on the General tab of Aston Preferences.
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