If you ever thought that your Windows needs some tweaks and customization and didn't know how to do that, there is a solution to your dilemma: Winstep Xtreme.
This software makes your Windows experience more enjoyable by improving its appearance and its functions.
At first instance, the interface may be confusing because of its numerous functions spread around the desktop, the high amount of options and functionalities not being characteristic to default Windows. After a while, you'll get used to and you'll start enjoying the futuristic design and various desktop themes options.
What Winstep Xtreme does to your Windows is completely changing the look of your desktop by adding a new wallpaper, animations, and modifying the taskbar.
The result is a completely new desktop, one that is equipped with a Workshelf-for better organize documents, work projects, URLs, movies-, Modules, such as Clock, Battery monitor, Moon Phases, Weather monitor, Net and RAM Meters, and an improved Start Menu Organizer.
Moreover, you can create your own customized menus by using the drag&drop function, or you can "attach" menus to different areas of your desktop and applications.
In the end, the price you'll have to pay to enjoy these features is the increase of system resources...and 29.95$ for PRO version of the software.
v18.8 [Sep 11, 2018]
- New Arabic language file.
- Updated the Hungarian language file.
- Updated Portuguese language file.
- The balloon tooltip of the 'Check for Updates' internal command now displays the last check for updates date as 'yesterday at' or 'today at' instead of the full date if the last check for updates occured less than 48 hours ago.
- The 'Task Manager' internal command now also appears in the 'System' category.
- Added support for multiple Shelves. Just like docks, each Shelf can have its own theme and settings.
- Added true high DPI support to Shelves. Previously only font sizes and icon sizes were affected, now the whole Shelf properly scales up on high-DPI systems.
- Added ability to scale Shelves up to 200% via a slider in the Appearence tab of the Shelf Properties dialog.
- Added new 'Scale' sub-menu to the 'Appearance and Sounds' sub-menu of the Shelf's main context menu.
- Number of icon rows shown at once on a Shelf is not collapsed can now go up to 99. The Shelf will only display as many icon rows as will fit on the screen.
- Updated the 'Send to WorkShelf' dialog so it can now handle multiple shelves.
- You can now disable voices independently of sounds and vice-versa.
- Added new 'Lock/Unlock Shelf Theme' option to the 'Appearance and Sounds' sub-menu of the Shelf's main context menu.
- Added support for vertical Shelves and options to dock them on left and right screen edges.
- Added 'Create New Shelf' and 'Duplicate Shelf' options to the 'Dock and Shelf Management' sub-menu of the Shelf's main context menu.
- 'Make Shelf tab from Dock' now prompts the user for a Shelf the new tab should be added to if there is more than one Shelf.
- 'In-Shelf Docks' were renamed to 'Sub-Docks'.
- Added new 'Tone' colorization method to colorize black and white (monochrome) background bitmaps.
- Added new 'Colorize with Windows Accent Color' option (Windows 10 only).
- Added new 'Now Playing' right click context menu option to the Media Player internal command, allowing a song in the currently selected playlist to be selected and immediately played.
- Added 'Repeat every days/months/years' setting to the alarms.
- Added new 'Drawers' object, a sort of single tabbed Shelf which will automatically extend by default to show all its items when open.
- Added 'Create New Drawer' option to the 'Dock and Shelf Management' right-click context menu and to the 'Dock & Shelves' tab in Preferences.
- Resizing a Shelf or Drawer by pulling on the tab header is now performed with a smooth animation.
- Colorization settings in the MOdules tab of Preferences for Desktop modules that are not skinned by the current theme (i.e.; display the iconic form) are now disabled.
- Hovering over a Shelf tab with a truncated name due to lack of space now pops up a tooltip with the full title of the tab.
- Added 'Check Integrity of Dock and Shelves' button to the Troubleshooting Options dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences. This option checks the internal data structures for errors and offers to fix them automatically if it finds any.
- Adjusted the position of dock icon labels for docks not using the magnify effect so the label does not 'sit on the edge' of the dock background bitmap.
- It's now possible to pass arguments to UWP Apps by defining the argument in the Item Properties dialog
- The 'Task Manager' internal command was not working on Windows 10.
- Canceling a theme change in Preferences after applying it was not restoring the proper theme for docks with individual themes.
- A correct minimum Shelf width is now properly enforced when resizing the Shelf.
- Removing an item from the Shelf with auto-hide enabled resulted in the Shelf collapsing while the delete animation was still playing and then popping up as if expanded (but without being truly expanded).
- On certain themes smooth scrolling the Shelf would not display correctly if the Shelf was docked to the top or inverted when docked to the bottom.
- On certain legacy themes (OpenSTEP, for instance) the left and right mini-tab symbols were not displayed if the Shelf was docked to the top of the screen.
- Fixed issues related to being able to horizontally resize the Shelf beyond the minimum Shelf width.
- A dock set to auto-hide for maximized applications when always on top could fail to activate when the maximized application was no longer maximized if the dock was also set to display running applications.
- Fixed many misc.issues related to Shelves.
- Fixed 'Respect space reserved by other docks, toolbars and screen objects' not respecting the space reserved by toolbars perpendicular to the dock or Shelf.
- Changes made to the contents of docks while the Shelf Properties dialog was open would be lost when the dialog was closed.
- It was possible to restore from a backup with Dock and Shelf Properties dialogs still open, holding settings for docks and Shelves that no longer existed after the Restore.
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