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.
v16.3 [Mar 12, 2016]
Updated Spanish language file.
Added 'Lock Size of Desktop Modules' setting, enabled by default, to the Theme Options dialog. With that setting enabled, current desktop module scaling is preserved when switching themes. If the setting is disabled, the scaling of desktop modules is associated to a particular theme, e.g.; this allows you to have desktop modules automatically scaled to 150% whenever you switch to theme A and 100% when you switch to theme B.
'Double caching of icons' performance setting is now enabled by default.
The CD Control internal command was displaying an error message on some systems.
Lauching items pointing to shortcuts (.lnk files) of a 64 bit application resulted in a 'File not found' error.
Dropping a shortcut file (.lnk file) into a folder item in the dock now copies/moves the shortcut as it should instead of the original file.
A dock brought to the foreground via an edge bump would auto-hide as soon as the mouse pointer left it even if a sub-dock was currently open.
Double clicking the icon of a running application on the dock would open a second instance of that application.
Mousing over the running application icon of a task that had just closed could result in a 'Access Violation' error.
An always-on-top dock set to hide automatically for maximized windows was not hidding for full screen windows (e.g.; watching a video full screen on Youtube).
Wallpaper color-hot track is now correctly previewed when trying new themes and wallpapers in the Themes tab.
Fixed the 'Stop' image in the Troubleshooting dialog so it properly scales up on high-DPI systems and displays a flat-image icon on Windows 10 systems.
Decreased the luminance value of the smaller and thinner language identifier text in the Language Bar icon so it's a bit more visible.
The CD Control internal command was unable to eject media on computers that did not support loading media via software.
The 'Auto-Hide after a short delay' setting in the Behavior tab of the Shelf Properties dialog was not doing anything.
It is now possible to change an item's icon by drag & dropping an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file into the icon even if the dock is locked.
The result of a drag & drop operation (i.e.; Copy, Move or Link) is now accurately and immediately reflected even when the dock is locked. As before, pressing the SHIFT key forces a move, and pressing the CTRL key forces a copy. Locked docks do not allow items to be moved/re-arranged within the dock, but they still allow a) customizing dock item icons via drag & drop of image files, b) launching a document with a particular application by dropping that document into the application's icon in the dock and c) copying and moving files into drive folders in the dock.
Locked docks were not accurately reflecting which item was being affected by the file being dropped (i.e.; with unlocked docks, dropping an item before the middle half of a dock icon would insert that item before the icon, dropping it after the middle half would insert the item after the icon. Since locked docks do not allow the insertion of items, this would not accurately reflect which dock item was being targeted by the drag & drop operation).
The Shelf was still shifting icons in a 'Regular' tab type to make room for dropped items even if the Shelf was locked.
If the 'Enable double caching of icons' performance setting was enabled, non-magnified icons on the dock could appear slightly blurred because they were being drawn with the High Quality *Bilinear* interpolation mode instead of High Quality *Bicubic*.
The systray icons of a handful of applications (such as KVirc and Agnitum Outpost Pro) were not playing well with the system tray handling of Winstep applications because they reported a pre-Vista notify icon structure to the system but actually expected mouse click messages to be passed using the post NOTIFYICON_VERSION_4 format.
Drag & dropping a program (executable) from an Explorer window into the Shelf's Quick Launch tab was showing a 'Move File' visual indication instead of the correct shortcut (Link) visual cue.
Fixed the 'Opaque on mouseover' desktop module feature which was not working properly and improved the smoothness of the fading in and out animation.
Text on Windows 7-style Balloon tooltips was not being correctly centered vertically.
Scaling of desktop modules is no longer reset when you switch to a different theme, unless the new 'Lock size of Desktop Modules' setting is disabled.
Fixed bug that could cause the Shelf to display a tab of blank icons if a Modal settings window was opened when the Shelf needed to refresh the contents of a tab.
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