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Be my folder has three functions - The Folders Wizard which gives you full control over the construction and appearance of your folders. The Shortcuts Wizard that lets you make a shortcut for any kind of file and place it wherever you wish. You can create a lot of menu-like additions in your Start Menu, in your Start/Programs, in your IE Favorites or on your Quick Launch Bar. The Taskbar Iconizer which lets you view open applications' tasks as icons in your taskbar (and the ability to restore the default settings).

Get your old Win32 apps looking like their Windows XP counterparts! XP Style Hacker is a small unique tool that instantly transforms applications, that do not recognise Windows XP visual styles, to be "style aware". Just select the EXE file from the program dialog and the next time you run the program it will adapt to your current XP theme. XP Style Hacker creates a manifest file that is placed in the program`s folder and automatically used by it. It does not modify the program in any way. To remove the syle support, simply delete the manifest file. The program works with all Win32 programs that use a standard Windows interface and controls.

This gift basket contains a nice suite of beautiful Harmonious Bells System Sounds for your Computer Desktop. It also downloads and installs InspiredCode's (shareware) ChurchBells Carillon System Program which works for free for 30 days AND every December, all month. The desktop sounds never expire and, if you want the carillon program to work all the time you can buy it for $35.

Tired of hearing the same boring start sound every time Windows starts? StartSoundRandomizer sets a randomly chosen start sound which is played each time Windows is started. Simply download the program, place a shortcut to it in your StartUp folder, collect some .wav sounds, run the program and tell it where to find them!

MoodBook is a tiny Windows utility that brings art to your desktop and sets a tone for your daily mood. With MoodBook your desktop looks like an art gallery changing art expositions either automatically, at regular time intervals, or manually with a click. Each exposition has either a tranquil, neutral or vivid background and a picture of art in the center.

Bored with the pale Explorer Toolbar within the colorful windows environment? IEmage offers a way to change your Toolbar Image locally, you just can display any BMP or JPG image independent of its size as a Background Image. This Picture will be visible in the Toolbar of the Explorer as well as in Outlook Express! You can even create a new image with IEmage. Just take a personal picture, resize it, use some filter functions and choose a suitable tiled, massive or gradient background. Then save it as personal Toolbar Image.

This program will change the dull Gray toolbar at the top of Windows Explorer, My Computer, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to a bright "Clouds" image. Uninstall included should you wish to restore the original Gray image.

A noisy computer is a good computer! Put your .wav files to good use and assign them to all of your most-used programs with this free utility. Sound Association (formerly Souser-Sound Association) lets you easily assign sound events to any Windows executable file. For instance, you can have a specific .wav file play when you open Word, another when you fire up Notepad, and still another when you launch your Web browser. Besides Open sound events, you can add hooks for Close, Maximize, Minimize, Restore Up, Restore Down, and more. Just type in the program's friendly name, browse for its .exe, and check off the sound hooks you want to add. Then, push a button to go directly to the Control Panel Sounds area to assign .wav files to your new sound events.

Windows XP is here but not all the older programs can take advantage of the xp themes option (xp visual styles or xp skins), we thought that a program which can resolve with one click this problem will be very useful for you: XP Skins by CronoSoft! XP Skins it's a Windows XP utility that help you to change the look of older windows programs with one click of the mouse: now all your programs will support xp skins (Windows XP themes).