Desktop3D is tailored to replace the standard Windows Desktop and bring new features.Comments on:

By: sam

sam — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:19:03 +0000

i like it

By: karma

karma — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:52:39 +0000

the skin page still isnt working , do they have plans on opening a skins page or is the application going to be limited to the few it has ?
seems kinda odd they have the skins page built into the application yet the feature is unavailable.

By: Ruard

Ruard — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:40:42 +0000

I install Desktop 3D on my computer now 4 times & it just wont work. I install the daily download & 3 times the trial version, but it just stay the same.

It keep on giving me this error message:

Error signature
AppName: desktop3d_dx.exe AppVer: 2.0.0.0 ModName: desktop3d_dx.exe
ModVer: 2.0.0.0 Offset: 00003908

Please help me, I would love to use this software. I use Windows XP.

Thanks,

Ruard

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:59:24 +0000

I HAVE XP SERVICE PACK 3 WITH DUEL CORE 2gb of memory Ram And I FOUND MY CURSER WITH THIS SOFTWARE DESKTOP3D WAS UNSTABLE IE JUMPING AROUND ALL OVER THE SCREEN AS WELL AS SLOWING UP MY pc.once I had uninstalled the software i had no further problems.Anyone else had this problem?

By: poollizard

poollizard — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:02:08 +0000

installed fine, said it activated,next day it siys that it needs to be registered. cute effect but not worth $19.95. I guess that I’ll be uninstalling after the trial period.

By: Julian Provazek

Julian Provazek — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:53:07 +0000

I hate this program. It clutters up my desktop. Doesnt activate on every account. Good thing I got it free . Will be deleting.

By: benji

benji — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:03:21 +0000

installed ok on winvista, but lacks compatibility/functionality for multiple monitors.

By: kathleen

kathleen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:52:52 +0000

I could never get past the error reports. Shame …

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:54:19 +0000

Good piece of software,Only problem was that i downloaded software for new themes/skins and for some reason i could not open them? anyone know why.

By: lostinlodos

lostinlodos — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:19:44 +0000

To number 6
2 system test
System 1 Windows XP Pro SP3 x32
System 1 Vista Ultimate x64
System 2 Windows XP-IA64 SP2

System 1 install, uninstall, reinstall went smooth. No issues. Both OSs

System 2 install, uninstall. Could not recover dozens of old icons and had internal program issues. The DLL file was just gone! Reinstall, Old icons worked, DLL was back! Weird. Can’t uninstall without loosing system DLLs.

Note: MAJOR MEMORY LEAK ISSUE on IA64 system.

CPU Usage on x32 2%-5% load
CPU Usage on IA64 >1%-27%

Memory usage on x32 2Mb

Memory usage on IA64:
Up to 27Gb (yes gigs) after close before I shut down the lingering process. Closing the program on IA doesn’t close the sub-process. And left unchecked it WILL cause instability and eventual crash. I let it go until Tasker (3rd party process/service manager, eg task manager) became slow to respond.
Obviously not intended for IA systems. Though for a free program on a free service I’m not going to dig deeper to find out if it’s an issue with the programming code or the fact that IA windows runs X services in a quasi-sandbox.

#7: Doesn’t work well, if at all on dual “spread” or “expanded” monitor displays. DOES work with dual mirrored displays. However, that’s not a problem with the program, it’s poor graphics drivers.

TO NOTE
Most of what this does is available for free from Microsoft in Vista on Home Premium and Ultimate with Aero and DreamScene, and both services run more STABLE on Vista than this does. HOWEVER this uses less resources than the Aero and DS. So you’ll need to decide if you prefer resources or total stability.

For XP and lower Vista packages: this uses less resources overall than WinBlinds, Total Conversion Pro, TC Xtra, and Desktop Cover, but more than FancyScene and Total Conversion Lite.