Impulse Holiday Gift Guide – Day 3: Desktop Enhancements
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
The holiday season is here again, and it’s time for the 2008 Holiday Gift Guide. One of the great things about Impulse is the ability to purchase gifts for other people, and they will be able to download them without having to wait for a package to arrive through the mail.
Day 3 we are going to go right into desktop enhancements, most of which will be applications to help you customize and organize your desktop.
WindowBlinds 6
There is no better way to change the complete look and feel of Windows, than with WindowBlinds. WindowBlinds 6 brings a ton of new features and performance enhancements that makes this perfect for anyone who wants to get away from Windows default look. Whether it’s wild or mild, there are skins to fit just about every personality.
Link: WindowBlinds 6 ($19.95)
IconPackager 4
If you want to change the entire set of Windows icons, or each individually, IconPackager 4 will make any geek happy. There are hundreds of icon packages available on sites like WinCustomize.com that are available to download and use with IconPackager. Many icon packs are made to match a particular WindowBlinds skin, and many are just completely new designs that look great with any theme.
Link: IconPackager 4 ($19.95)
Object Desktop/Object Desktop Ultimate
Object Desktop is a suite of desktop enhancements, which include both WindowBlinds and IconPackager. Both Object Desktop and Object Desktop Ultimate contain the same core applications, the Ultimate upgrade adds additional applications such as SoundPackager, TweakVista, IconDeveloper, and more. Object Desktop 2009 was recently released, so now is a perfect time to get started.
Link: Object Desktop ($49.95)
ObjectDock Plus
ObjectDock is the best when it comes to an application which can help you organize your desktop with an animated and fully functional dock. ObjectDock Plus adds the ability to have multiple docks, tabbed docks, system tray support, and more. View a demo video here.
Link: ObjectDock Plus ($19.95)
Reply #2 Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:09 AM
The free version of ObjectDock is awesome. But now ObjectDock Plus has become the main app-launching center on my system, replacing... uh... SD's own Impulse. Go figure.
'Course, Impulse is still the game center on my system.
Reply #3 Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:08 PM
Object dock plus is amazing, bought it recently and it slowly replaces impulse dock, just dont have enough time to transfer all the shortcust over. ( i do have quite a lot of them)
Unfortunately there are 2 drawbacks thats stop me from getting rid of windows taskbar completely, netiher startmenu nor systray work through objectdock plus in vista x64. Does anyone have any ideas when these features gonna be implemented in 64bit systems?
Apart from that class app. Would deffinetly reccomend it!
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:36 PM
That red windowblind, if I'm not mistaken, is Plastic Fantastic, by vStyler. But even better, that wallpaper is one of mine Grunge Hero from my misc. wall pack 2. Thanx ID!! I am honored! 
Reply #5 Friday, December 26, 2008 3:52 AM
Right click might take care of your needs...worth a try.
Kodiak-
Reply #6 Friday, December 26, 2008 3:58 AM
After seeing that red WB, I definately have to get this
That red windowblind, if I'm not mistaken, is Plastic Fantastic, by vStyler. But even better, that wallpaper is one of mine Grunge Hero from my misc. wall pack 2. Thanx ID!! I am honored!
I'm a big fan of both! 
Reply #7 Friday, December 26, 2008 8:15 AM
Sorry what do you mean? When i right click it just brings up the object dock or particular shortcut properties, there is no way to override start menu or systray info/error message that goes something like "this feature is not available on 64bit systems and will be implemented later on, thank you for your patience" Or am i missing something?
Reply #8 Friday, December 26, 2008 1:29 PM
RightClick is a Stardock app. https://www.stardock.com/products/rightclick/
Reply #9 Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:00 AM
A name just waiting to be confused with something else ^^
When I see an OS/2 Warp or AmigaOS skin for WB/OD I'm all there Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone!
Reply #10 Sunday, December 28, 2008 7:27 AM
LOL Thank you, i thought i was missing something there. Never accured to me it could be a name of an app.
Reply #11 Tuesday, December 30, 2008 6:36 PM
Ask and ye shall receive: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=1&search=Amiga
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Reply #1 Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1:39 AM
After seeing that red WB, I definately have to get this