Windows Vista

Scan files,folders and hard drives and extract hidden icons and bitmaps contained in program fes (EXE, DLL, OCX and other PE-executable), icon libraries and other types of files. Create multiformat icons from image files, convert icons into images (GIF, PNG, JPEG and BMP formats). Batch creation and convertion icons and images. Supports Windows XP® icons with Alpha channel, Drag&drop, recursive folder searching.

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Excellent database program for cataloguing your slide collection. Include slide thumbnails and full-sized images in the database - see all your slides on your PC. Prepare slideshows, talks and lectures using the light table. Search for slides using simple or complex criteria. Add your own database fields. View a slideshow on your PC. Print slide labels, list reports and contact sheets.

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Excellent database program for cataloguing your slide collection. Include slide thumbnails and full-sized images in the database - see all your slides on your PC. Prepare slideshows, talks and lectures using the light table. Search for slides using simple or complex criteria. Add your own database fields. View a slideshow on your PC. Print slide labels, list reports and contact sheets. For lending libraries - multi-user, event logging, barcoding.

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WindowFX 3 does more than just make Windows cooler to use, it makes it more useful. New features include taskbar thumbnails, new alt-tab task switching options, middle-mouse button task management, and a host of new effects that can give Windows XP users a taste of what Windows Vista can do -- today.

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WinSnap is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. Standard features include easy capture of non-rectangular windows with customized and transparent backgrounds, simple and automatic canvas transformations, coloring effects, and the addition of eye-candy drop shadows. WinSnap supports a variety of image formats and has advanced auto-save features.

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AlphaXP is a powerful system enhancement that adds advanced transparency effects to any Windows 2000/XP computer. AlphaXP sports tons of powerful features (two smooth Fade Effects that creates strikingly beautiful eye-candy, the power to control all transparency, and much more), completely customizable, user-friendly interface, great help and more! Get more info and see pictures of this five-star award-winning software at www.zeroherosoftware.com

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SkinCalc, which is completely free, features standard and advanced calculator functionality, a spreadsheet interface, and skins. Skins make it possible to change the layout and functionality of the software, with effects that include non-rectangular shapes, user-configurable transparency and alpha channel translucency. More than 100 skins are available from the sites listed at skincalc.com, which also has instructions to create your own skins.

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Customize the Windows desktop icon and cursor attributes. Use animated icons, swap your own icons for Network Neighborhood, My Computer, Favorites and other icons which Windows places on your desktop and Explorer. It also lets you change default mouse cursors, make icon text labels transparent, change icon text color, replace Windows startup/shutdown screens, repair icons, change the Start button (except XP), save/restore icon positions, more...

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Translucator is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows. It extracts translucent objects (glass, smoke, fog, fur etc.) from images having complex background content with the minimum efforts. Result may be used for collage, scrabboking and greeting card creation. You do not need accurately draw out an object. Mark translucent area and press Apply. The background removing is adjusted by moving a slider. There are addition tools for result tuning

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You can change the look & feel of your application easily adding this ActiveX control to the forms. With vbSkinner Pro for VB6 your project will have a skin system. The forms will have a ronded look, with a new title bar. It is possible to change the colors and the shape of the forms corners.

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Astatix Launcher allows you to quick start any applications, open documents and explore folders in a single click. It allows assigning hotkeys to any actions, fulfill several special functions: open/close CD door, run screen saver, hide task bar and others. One of additional possibilities is a control of Winamp. You can use any hotkeys and control Winamp player anytime even you are playing full-screen games like Quake or Counter Strike.

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Finally a complete suite of Windows XP Desktop enhancement, XP Visual Tools is loaded with all you need to tweak your Windows XP Desktop. Now you can do anything you want, from changing transparency level of XP Start Menu and XP Taskbar to easy swapping between different Windows XP LogonUI or Windows XP Wallpapers and applying Windows XP Skins (XP Themes) to old programs.

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WorldCalc is a calculator and currency converter with daily exchange rate updates provided by Cloanto, a leader in currency software and services. Features include support for past and future euro currencies, a spreadsheet interface and translucent skins. The unregistered version displays an advertising banner. The registered version can use more than 100 different skins.

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AMC GIF Construction Set Pro is the world's most widely-used GIF animator to assemble, edit, and optimize animations and create transparent GIF files. Features: Animation Wizard, Supercompressor, Banner generator and Transitions for sophisticated animated effects. You can rotate, crop, colour-adjust and resize all or part of an animation sequence. Extensive documentation and tutorials so you can get right down to things that flash and move.

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Aspose.Report is a query building & charting control allowing develoeprs to quickly add ad hoc capabilities to their .NET applications as well as creating 21 popular chart types with stylish effects. Simply drag & drop Aspose.Report component on Web or Win form, assign a DataTable object as data source and abstract a variety of outputs including SQL Statements, Filtered Data Objects and many more.

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Uimix is a window transparency manager that secures the viewing of sensitive information by allowing you to adjust the transparency of a selected window, mixing it with its background. Therefore, the information remains viewable for your eyes only, vital in today's organizations which often have open working areas.

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Auto Window Manager automatically manages any window you specify. It can set application windows to automatically maximize (minimize, normal, minimize to tray, stay on top)every time they start. It also can auto refresh Internet Explorer at custom intervals. Adds several menu items to standard window system menu. The commands are: Minimize programs to system tray, keep window stay on top, Set windows transparency, align window, resize window.

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You can change the look of your application easily adding this control to the forms. With vbSkinner Free your project will have a skin. The forms will have a rounded look, with a new title bar. This version apply the skin in all the forms with just one Skinner control. Also makes the skin in MsgBox and InputBox dialogs.

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Actual Window Menu is an innovative suite of the most popular and essential tools that enables users to operate windows on the desktop in some advanced ways: minimize them to tray, set up priority, apply transparency, roll up/unroll, resize, align, etc. Once installed, the application embeds its extra commands into each window's system menu. These new commands are easy to use and significantly enhance windows management abilities.

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Actual Window Manager is a desktop productivity suite of over 50 tools that lets users change their interaction with windows in many new exciting ways: minimize windows to tray or to a small icon on the desktop, apply transparency, roll up, pin on top, auto-align windows, resize, etc. Any of these operations (and many others) can be done either automatically or manually in a click on the new title bar buttons added after installation.

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