Taskbar Alternatives

WindowLab project is a small and simple window manager of novel design. It has a click-to-focus but not raise-on-focus policy, a window resizing mechanism that allows one or many edges of a window to be changed in one action, and an innovative menubar that shares the same part of the screen as...

FreeHA is designed to provide a free, portable, and easy to use (compared to alternatives) program to run nodes in a high availability cluster. FreeHA will let you run a service (program), or group of services, on a computer, but have one or more others running in standby mode. The service can...

Geronimo projects goal is to produce a server runtime framework that pulls together the best Open Source alternatives to create runtimes that meet the needs of developers and system administrators. Our most popular distribution is a fully certified J2EE 1.4 application server runtime. We are...


Platforms: *nix

It conceals the windows of visible programs of your own choice (including from the taskbar). When "Hide an active window" is switched on, the analogue of the "anti-boss" key is added to the window that is active at this moment. The change of the icon of the program in the system tray....


Platforms: Windows

Shutdown8 is a simple program that very simply allows you to add the shutdown button onto the taskbar and select the Shut down, Log off, Restart, Timer, Sleep or Hibernate menu. Users can use the shutdown button on the taskbar more quickly and power off computers at a specified time with a...


Platforms: Windows

Tray Tools allows you to place up to 24 program icons in the Taskbar Tray. Program icons that you place there can be launched by simply clicking your mouse on them. To add new programs or modify existing items click your mouse on the small red toolbox icon displayed in the tray. You can also...


Platforms: Windows

Windows System Tray Disabler is a small, simple piece of software specially designed to help you disable your system tray icons that are showing on your Windows taskbar. Things are kept as easy as posible: you just open the app and select the action to perform. for WindowsXP, Vista, 7


Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 7

NCS WinVisible is a utility that hides applications from your taskbar. Improve your privacy by selecting applications you wish to hide to a hotkey. When you press the hotkey, the application will become invisible. You can assign a seperate hotkey to bring the window back. Hide applications...


Platforms: Windows

MiniBin is a free recycle bin for your Microsoft Windows system tray area; the area next to the clock in your taskbar. Minibin may come handy when you're hiding the recycle bin from your desktop or if you're using a replacement shell that provides a system tray but no useable recycle bin (like...


Platforms: Windows

New Blackbox for Windows x64 generation Including * bbKeys - configurable hotkeys * bbLeanBar - a fluxbox style taskbar * bbLeanSkin - window skinning * bbSlit - a side-(top-bottom-)bar for other plugins * bbIconBox - icons in the box * bbStyleMaker - what you see is what you get bbLean is a...


Platforms: Windows

Desk Band Clock-7 is program that displays the current time or date on the taskbar or, as dock able, on the desktop. You can widely change appearance of the clock: use custom font, colors, background fill, format of the current time or date. Features: 1. Use any font for show the current time or...


Platforms: Windows

Hide cluttered desktop icons to a neatly to taskbar tray. Lauch program with one click. It will hide all desktop icons and right click on happy icon to show it. This program hides the Desktop icons, Task Bar and Task Menu. With a simple toggle on all three can be hide and shown.


Platforms: Windows

AeroVG Se7en theme provides excellent transparency in Taskbar, Startmenu, Explorer, etc. It also changes lots of visual things like menubar, progressbar and much more. In short it provides maximum transparency and glass effect in Windows 7. Features List: * More Transparent Start Menu and...


Platforms: Windows

Catfood Weather provides a regularly updated seven day forecast on your desktop. The forecast is downloaded from the National Weather Service for any location in the continental United States, easily configured by entering a ZIP code. Catfood Weather runs as a taskbar icon that is updated to show...


Platforms: Windows

New Blackbox for Windows generation Including * bbKeys - configurable hotkeys * bbLeanBar - a fluxbox style taskbar * bbLeanSkin - window skinning * bbSlit - a side-(top-bottom-)bar for other plugins * bbIconBox - icons in the box * bbStyleMaker - what you see is what you get...


Platforms: Windows

Catalogue of EuropeSoftwares software and services. It also performs backups of configuration files. A personal folder is also available for backup and restore. Easy to use and discreet, it is present in the form of an icon in the taskbar. International languages. This program was developed by...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server, Java,Other

XSLaunch is a simple but a most efficient Windows Explorer add-on which operates from the taskbar. Launch the Windows Explorer like you want it. If you enter or paste URL's in it, it will launch the default web browser. Options/Features: - operates from the taskbar - option to remain in front of...


Platforms: Windows

XP coolmove is small utility to bypass an obvious limitation in XP. The taskbar items and Tray notification icons in XP cannot be re-arranged and is fixed. So using this utility, you can drag and move the tasks in the order you choose. Hense cool Move.


Platforms: Windows

There are two types of tools in this page: * The File Read Test tools read disk files or directories and stop on the first read error. There are two alternatives to choose from: a Java application (with a point-and-click user interface) and a perl script (to use from the command-line). * The...


Platforms: Mac

Squarefish is a new endeavour to provide alternatives to boring programming languages and applications with the added bonus of very nice GUIs in most products thanks to the java look and feel!


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux