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Aston2 Menu 1.6.1

New feature-rich Windows start menu replacement with enhanced functionality
Publisher: Gladiators Software
Category: Utilities
Version: 1.6.1
License: shareware
Cost: 19.95$
Size: 9.64 MB
Updated: 21 Apr 2012
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Review
Aston2 Menu opens the new line of Aston2 products, which turn your desktop into a yet more convenient and attractive environment. Aston2 is developed on an absolutely new engine, created from scratch. Aston2 product line includes three basic products:
- Aston2 Menu, which replaces the regular Windows start menu.
- Aston2 Panels, which can replace Windows taskbar and yet enhance the shell functionality.
- Aston2 Desktop, which replaces Windows Explorer desktop and can be filled with any Aston 2 widgets and icons.

Thus, complete Aston2 SHELL can be considered the combination of all the above components. But which of them to use is entirely up to end-user's choice.

Aston 2 Menu features:
- Themes and skins support. Aston2 settings are split into two parts - theme settings and private settings. All Aston2 widgets are skinnable: you can change the skin of any element;
- Widgets support (This demo version contains the following default widgets: Clock, Calendar, Recycle bin, Disks, Power control, Search, Toplist, Username, Weather and Uninstall). Widgets can be built into the desktop, panels or popup menus;
- Fast and convenient search for the files on the local disks and for the information in the Internet;
- Flexible configuration. Every element of the menu can be tweaked and customized, thus letting one to create yet more convenient working area. The same concerns Aston 2 Panels and Aston 2 Desktop as well;
- Animation support in every aspect of Aston2: smooth widgets opening and moving, animated wallpaper, animated icons and other elements of skinned widgets;
- Aston2 Menu can be used both in Aston1 shell (staring from 1.9.5 version) and in Explorer shell.
- Drag'n'Drop operations support, user friendly interface;
- Unicode support;
- XML standard, used for all the parameters setup;
- Multi-language support;
- Plug-ins support.

There are a lot planned features for the future Aston2 Menu release.

Changelog:
Version: 1.6.1(29 Dec 2009)
In this version new functional keypresses are added. Also now calendar can optionally show events with certain level of importance.
Version: 1.4.2(14 Jul 2009)
Windows 7 RC support
Added new visual effects
Ability to disable icon frames on desktop
* Minor bug fixes
Version: 1.3.1(17 Nov 2008)
*Several minor bugfixes and improvement
Version: 1.3(07 Oct 2008)
Ability to edit Main Menu elements
Ability to setup Toplist elements
Enhanced functionality of all the widgets
Various GUI improvements
* Improved compatibility with multimonitor systems
* Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
* Fixed several bugs
Version: 1.2.1(05 Aug 2008)
Increased speed and performance
* Fixed bug with menu items' context menus call
* Sereval minor bug fixes
Version: 1.2(23 Jul 2008)
-New option, which lets switch from single-column to multi-column menu format
- Several new languages
- Increased speed and performance
- Fixed bug with some elements of the control panel and network connections display
- Several minor bugfixes
Version: 1.1(22 Dec 2007)
- Sound support
- Menu speed is significantly increased
- Highlighted item behavior is altered
- Several fixed bugs in the menu and widgets
Version: 1.0
Tags: | Menu | Weather | Customize | Menu Extension

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