License: Shareware $19.95
OS: WinXP,Windows2003,Windows Vista Starter,Windows Vista Home Basic,Windows Vista H
Requirements: 20 MB free disk space
Publisher: Gladiators Software
Homepage: http://www.astonshell.com
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.
