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Introduction

Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancement utilities designed to let users turbo-charge Windows.

The core programs of Object Desktop 2010 include:

WindowBlinds

A program that can customize the look and feel of the entire Windows graphical user interface by applying new “skins” that change title bars, taskbars, scrollbars, and nearly every other part of Windows.

DeskScapes

A program that lets users customize their wallpapers or even apply animated wallpapers (there are hundreds of free animated wallpapers available to choose from).

Fences Pro

A program that lets users organize the icons on their desktops into groups of easily manageable “fences”.

Tweak

A program designed to make it easy to modify various hard to find Windows settings and control what gets loaded (or not loaded) onto your system.

IconPackager

A program that can apply new icons themes by loading up a package of icons.

SkinStudio

A program that makes it easy for users to create their own user interfaces to apply to Windows.

Theme Manager

A program that ties it all together. Get your desktop just the way you want and save it or apply themes created by others that include WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DeskScapes and other customization program content.

In addition Object Desktop users get a host of other programs to enhance Windows such as DesktopX, WindowFX, IconDeveloper, SoundPackager, Keyboard LaunchPad, RightClick, and more.

Users of Object Desktop don’t just get what is in Object Desktop today but also everything released or updated for it in the year after purchase. Even now, Stardock’s developers are working on programs that can give new options to Windows 7 users, get the most out of Windows XP, Vista, and more.

Object Desktop is only $49.95. For users who want to keep getting updates to the programs after the first year, they can renew their access for only $34.95!

Seeing is believing

WindowBlinds 7

With WindowBlinds 7, you finally gain full control over the Windows GUI. There are literally thousands of free skins available for download online that can customize Windows a bit or completely transform the GUI to look like another OS or something completely different.

DeskScapes 3

DeskScapes 3 isn’t just about animated wallpaper anymore. Now, you can take your existing wallpaper and apply a variety of effects for it. This kind of obvious enhancement to Windows is why Object Desktop has remained so popular. Object Desktop isn’t simply about doing cool stuff to your computer but extending Windows in ways that seem obvious in hindsight.

Tweak

The Tweak series of utilities (TweakVista and Tweak7) give users streamlined access to underlying capabilities of Windows that normally would require scouring the net for registry secrets. For example, Object Desktop users were able to alter their UAC behavior on Windows Vista in ways that are now only now coming to Windows in Windows 7 (which means in Tweak7 we’ve upped the features further).

Impulse

Impulse is the descendent of Component Manager (right image). While most people were updating programs by sifting through websites looking for “patches” Object Desktop users simply loaded up Component Manager to see what new cool stuff Stardock had developed. Impulse has been steadily building on to these possibilities (which we’ll talk about more at the end of this document).

Fences Pro

Fences, possibly the hottest new desktop utility to be released in the last couple of years. Screenshots don’t do it justice. Fences Pro, available only for Object Desktop users right now, has an additional set of amazing features such as auto-fences and more.

IconPackager

IconPackager is another program that seems so obvious that one wonders why there aren’t dozens of programs like it. But it remains the only program that can take a package of icons and apply them to any version of Windows. The IconPackager format has become the defacto standard for users to pass around sets of icons. The latest version of IconPackager (always on Object Desktop) lets users change their Windows 7 icons and modify live folders.

SkinStudio

SkinStudio is the only program available that lets users create their own GUIs for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7

The Future…

Meanwhile, with the release of Windows 7, Stardock’s labs are full of new features to be added to Object Desktop to take it even further into the future. Power users will soon be able to greatly extend their windows experience in all kinds of ways that will extend their capabilities. With more and more users having high end 3D hardware, multiple PCs they have access to, higher resolution monitors, the possibilities are endless and you will find them on Object Desktop.