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DeskTiles Beta 2

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New Version 0.3 Released --- [link]

You all have heard or experience about new live tiles feature of windows 8 start menu.
Here is a small utility to get these live tiles in XP, Vista or Seven created by me named as DeskTiles.

Now DeskTiles Beta 2 has been released.
which comes with some new improvements.

Changelog:

1. Hover effects has been added on tiles so that people can know whether the tile is getting focus.
2. Another button is added for Showing All Tiles with Hiding All Tiles.
3. Splash Screen has been removed.

Thanks To VG (AskVG.com) for giving these ideas.

Features:
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- simple installation
- very low resources usage
- full notify icon functionality
- desktop or fullscreen view
- also a sidebar can be used in fullscreen view
- on click to hide all tiles
- run on startup option
- simple and clean metro look
- at its very first beat 1 build , it has 20 tiles

Tiles:
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- show desktop - shows your clear desktop by hiding all tiles but you can still use them by notify icon
- my computer - opens my computer
- Recycle bin - opens recycle bin
- Date time - shows current date and time
- Power options - log off, restart and shutdown
- control panel - opens control panel
- internet explorer - opens internet explorer
- user picture - shows current user pic with user name
- calendar - shows calendar
- Notepad - opens notepad
- memory information - shows total and available physical memory and total and available virtual memory
- start menu - opens start menu
- google and youtube - search directly in google and youtube
- computer information - shows Operating system, OS platform and full user name
- notes - make your notes by directly click on tile and start writing
- website links - links to popular websites like askvg, facebook, devianart, winmatrix, softpedia, google+ , twitter and tweaks.com
- clipboard - shows current clipboard text and also can clear clipboard
- wallpaper - shows current wallpaper
- media player - can play mp3 songs directly without opening another player
- system storage - shows four drives with labels, free space and clean progress bar. You can also open drives by clicking on progress bar of respective drives.

HOPE YOU ALL LIKE IT...

COMMENTS ARE WELCOME>>>
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deema78's avatar
Hi, this looks great. Fantastic use of color location. I think that may work well within a splinterface that i am building, the point of which is to show that there is no need for 8 yet, that the features and functionalities can and do work better in 7 and without all of the MS tracking and lack of freedom. Any interest in some type of collaboration?