Object Desktop is Stardock''s whole ball of wax. If you want to customize Windows to the nth degree and get the kinds of features that may be in the next version of Windows, Object Desktop is the way to go.
After all, Object Desktop users in 2000 were enjoying shell integrated ZIP supoprt, GUI skinning, folder customization, etc. long before Windows XP was a beta. And now Object Desktop''s DesktopX features, WindowFX compositing, WindowBlinds progress screen changing, Keyboard LaunchPad''s Windows automation features are the kinds of things one might expect in say 2006/2007 in Windows Longhorn.
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