Aston fully replaces standard Windows Desktop and delivers a host of new features. It`s nice and easy to work on a computer with Aston installed.

Aston does not require a powerful and expensive computer.

Aston replaces the standard Windows Desktop and provides you with a host of new features, such as Sidebars, clock, weather monitor, animated buttons, transparency effects and much more.

Aston also supports Themes, which allow you to change its appearance and functionality according to your mood and needs. No matter what visual style you like: XP, Aqua or something else; you can always download hundreds of Themes, created by professional designers or amateurs from Aston's homepage or one of numerous other skin sites.

Aston features a powerful and user friendly interface, which lets you change your new desktop's appearance and behavior in few seconds. No need to learn complicated configuration files, everything can be configured in a simple graphical interface.

A great balance between performance and appearance allows you to launch Aston even on out of the date PCs or its enjoy many advanced features on more modern computers.

Aston is very stable and has a small memory footprint and low CPU usage, so you can free your processor time for other tasks.With Aston your system is much more stable. Small footprint in RAM and few processor resources yield higher performance.

Here are some key features of "Aston":

· Toolbars ((side panels on the left and right sides of the screen) give you easy access to the most needed documents, applications and web links.
· Multistate Taskbar buttons let you know exactly if a certain window is active or minimized, they also adapt to the width of the Taskbar and are thus easier to manage: no precious screen space is wasted.
· Aston Quick launch can be as small as a single button: easy access to your shortcuts without turning the Taskbar into a garbage dump.
· You can hide and restore System Tray icons with a single click or keystroke. This feature even works under Windows 98/Me/2K.
· Keep your Desktop clean: use the Panel plug-in to organize your files without turning the desktop into a dumping ground.
· Desktop icons can have any size, any form (thanks to alpha-blending) and can be animated as well. Get rid of regular limitations.
· Aston Disks and Trash Can let you visually monitor their fill states
· A built-in Hotkey Manager makes your work with Aston even more pleasant and effective.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Aston now supports AltDesk "Individual set of icons for each desktop"
· When placing an icon of a picture to the desktop, the picture itself is not opened
· Shell stability is increased. Now the shell will not crash even in case there is a mistake in some of the plug-ins.
· Event option is added to the Calendar. It lets you to create a reminder about some occasion for a certain date.
· Panel plug-in is completely rewritten anew - now you can add elements to categories by means of Drag&Drop, move the Panel while holding Shift button pressed, open categories up, and so on.
· * Fixed bug: previews error in Win2000 - now previews don't cause Aston crash
· * Fixed bug: error on context menu call for some plug-ins.
· * Fixed bug: tray hints were sometimes displayed incorrectly (flickering effect on displaying hints)
· * Lots of fixed bugs in Search, Main Menu, DiskEx and SkinClckEx plug-ins