AltDesk 1.8Comments on:

By: user

user — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:38:49 +0000

if you like this, you are gonna love the parent product, aston. complete desktop skinning, truely active desktops with more productive capabilities, the website is a must see… http://www.astonshell.com

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:28:10 +0000

I wanted this software :( I was out of town without my computer, had to go for a funeral and it was offered when I was away. Is there any way to still get it from GAOD?? Please!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:26:05 +0000

“DexTop fits my needs better, as I can keep one desktop covered with icons, as a storage room, for all of my projects and have clean screens for the others.”

Uhh… AltDesk will do the same thing. Apparently you didn’t notice the first section of the preferences called “General” where it plainly has the option to select… drum roll please… “Individual set of icons for each desktop!”

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:44:46 +0000

DexTop fits my needs better, as I can keep one desktop covered with icons, as a storage room, for all of my projects and have clean screens for the others.

I do like the detachable controls (Dock?)for AltDesk and it is great program for those who don’t use a desktop storage room as their way to organize.

By: Candy

Candy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:44:15 +0000

I tried this out and it is kind of neat to have different wallpaper on each one. But I remember one a long time ago that did that too. I’ve lost it in the shuffle somehow. It also let you slide between the windows, bringing two apps side by side to work with them, you could slide over to one for detail and back to the other. It also had an option to make the main window much larger so you had a virtual desktop that was maybe 28oo by when I was running 640 by the result was you still had 640 in view but you could scroll to the rest of the screen by moving your mouse or ctrl alt a program that was off screen. It was as good or better than this one. Wish I could tell you its name. LOL

By: Fubar

Fubar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:12:35 +0000

On Vista, I had to run this as an Administrator, and it also required a DEP exception. Same as #43, caulbox, “Turn off IE5 and higher compatibility mode” was set, but if it does what it says, should be cleared (unless it’s a typo, maybe they meant “on” instead of “off”). I’m unlikely to use this, but you can leave it installed without running it at startup.

By: Jur

Jur — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:54:51 +0000

Installed well under Windows XP sp3, activation worked, program runs well with the administrators account I used to install. However running the software with the regular user account I use most caused an “Unregistered version” window, any tips on solving this issue?

By: Shankar

Shankar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:11:40 +0000

I installed the program. Wall paper changed & so uninstalled. To my astonishment the wall paper wasnot reverted back to the original. Is it acting as a spyware? Any answer?

By: hotdoge3

hotdoge3 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:52:23 +0000

Good but take time to see all it can do still testing

By: Reality

Reality — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:37:57 +0000

I’ve always been a firm believer that it should be illegal for a great number of people to own computers and the posters of comments #31, #52 and #78 on this page make an excellent argument for that very thing.

The 16 bit requirement the three of you babble on about is one of the minimum system requirements not a requirement that you run your desktop in a 16 bit mode for Gods sake!

This app is perfectly capable of running 32 bit. Unbelievable!