Advanced Desktop Shield 2.7

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• Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.00 to buy
• Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
• Date added: October 23, 2009
• Total Downloads: 769
• Downloads last week: 7
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET staff on January 12, 2009

Advanced Desktop Shield installs an icon in the system tray that lets you access a nicely designed and easy-to-use interface. In our tests, saving a managing desktop layout was simple, and we mastered the process in less than two minutes, thanks to the clearly defined buttons and layout of the interface.

This application performed quickly in all our tests, and it restored changed desktop layouts quickly and without fail after multiple boots and restarts, even when we changed the wallpaper. If your PC has multiple users, this application offers a great method for each to have a customized desktop layout if one or the other simply can't stop from moving or changing desktop elements during their session. Further, if you dedicate sessions to certain tasks that require specific desktop elements, you can customize a number of layout files for each type of session, and apply them as needed from the application's interface.

This easy-to-use application gets a thumb's up from us, but some folks may be intimidated by the price. Still, it may be a small cost to easily restore your desktop to your specification.

Publisher's description

Advanced Desktop Shield - protect public access PCs, stop users from changing desktop wallpaper and screensaver, deleting, creating and renaming desktop icons, and changing display settings. Backup, restore and manage desktop layouts, which include desktop files and folders, placement of desktop icons, wallpaper and screen saver.

If you choose to lock desktop layout, each time PC is rebooted, the program will return everything on the desk.

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