DESKonTOP 2.00.81

Publisher's description of DESKonTOP

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Solve window clutter, speed-launch desktop shortcuts and access icons on your computer desktop. With just one mouse click you'll get a small copy of your desktop with all shortcuts and icons. Another click will launch a shortcut. No need to minimize or move windows around. No need for Start menu exploration. No playing hide-and-seek with your windows. All it takes is one click on Deskontop icon, and one more click to launch a shortcut. Version 2.00.81 includes unspecified updates.

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Editor's review of DESKonTOP

If you're less of a true multitasker and more of a flitter, then switching screens every time you pop over to your desktop produces a cognitive interruption that could derail concentration. DESKonTOP erases even that small annoyance. The simple freeware utility inhabits the system tray and lets you view desktop files and icons regardless of which window is currently open. Right-click to pull up a complete list of desktop files and left-click for an icon-driven view. Either way, clicking the individual file launches it on top of your current screen, which saves you time manually switching.

You do have some control over cosmetic trifles such as icon size on the virtual desktop view and whether or not the program runs on start-up, but additional preferences are scant--this is a one-trick program. The interface could use a smidgen of spit polish, and we would love it if the app could also display the properties of Desktop items.

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  Inutile

  by: WrnEgaid on 16-Jul-2008 04:44:06 AM

  Cons: It's a waste of system resources, and a sizeable one at that. The desktop can be accessed at anytime via Right-click on the Windows Task Bar, "Show the Desktop"

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  Handy

  by: Skaifey001 on 15-Jul-2008 09:36:03 PM

  Pros: Easily brings up all your desktop icons, great when you have multiple programs running.

  Cons: Takes a fair bit of memory to run for what it is.

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