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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $29.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: July 20, 2006
- Total Downloads: 150,576
- Downloads last week: 36
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- Average user rating: stars out of 32 votes
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Publisher's description
From Gladiators Software :Aston Shell is a Desktop replacement application, which lets you save your computer's resources while giving your Desktop a unique look. Aston completely replaces your old Desktop with a new one, providing numerous additional features and saving computer resources for more necessary tasks. By installing Aston, you acquire a lot more than just a fancy look, you get a more efficient way of using your computer. Aston looks similar to the Desktop you're already familiar with, but its components offer much more functionality.
Whether you have a five year old PC or a powerful high-end system, Aston is always the right choice. Aston, running with its most feature packed eye candy Themes, usually consumes about half the RAM that Windows XP Desktop normally needs and gives you much more in return. Aston is already known to be one of the most stable Windows shells ever. Version 1.9.2 adds multi-monitor support and task previews on hovering Taskbar buttons.
What's new in this version:
- Multimonitor support (you can place different wallpapers and icons on all monitors)
- New resource types supported:3pic,ANKz
- Completely new documentation
- new theming tutorial
- Tray clock plug-in now has a build-in calendar
- New search plug-in
- Task previews
- Lots of bugfixes
- Lots of small tweaks
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User reviews of Aston 1.9.2
- Average user rating: 3.2 stars out of 32 votes
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17 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: Aston 1.9.2
"Pretty good, but be careful during uninstall."
Pros: Aston has a very nice and customizable shell interface. It has a nice, sleek, bluish look. What I loved most about this program was that it didn't overhaul your entire system. It installs in about 5 seconds, and then when opened, you have a choice, Aston, or Explorer shells. I setup Aston to always give me a choice between explorer and Aston at startup. That's a big plus. No system overhaul and a choice between default and Aston.
Cons: Like I said above, I told Aston to give me a choice between their shell, and the default shell at startup. Normally, that would be a good thing, but after uninstalling Aston, the next morning, I went to boot up, and explorer wouldn't load. I received no error messages, or anything like that, it just wouldn't appear. All that was there was my desktop wallpaper. Fortunately, I had the installer of Aston on my USB Pen Drive, so I plugged it in, and ran the installer through task manager.
After Reinstalling Aston, (Which I uninstalled the day I got it, so my 30 day trial wasn't up,) I pressed the famous Ctrl Alt Del buttons and opened task manager. I was able to open My Documents and from there, navigate to the desktop and run Aston. I logged back on via the Aston Shell, and reconfigured Aston to not run at startup and to revert back to explorer. I exited Aston, and attempted to re-run explorer. This time, it worked! Explorer loaded successfully and I uninstalled Aston. I restarted to make sure the problem wouldn't persist and Aston is now 100% off of my PC and Explorer is back to normal. A little advice: Never install any shell pack, (Whether it be Aston, Vista Inspirat, Flyakite OSX, VTP, etc.) unless you know what you're doing. If a problem occurs, and you don't know how to fix it, then you can run into some major issues. Fortunately for me, this problem was minor.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Aston 1.9.2
"Its a weaker version of other customization programs"
Pros: Combines alot of different customization aspects into a single package.
Cons: Even though its many in one, its quality seems to be lacking somewhat. There are other programs out there that allow you to do most of the same things, like windowblinds and whatnot, that dont lose settings.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Aston 1.9.2
"Awful software,Totally wrecked my computer"
Pros: Didn't like anything about it,I think I will stick with talisman 2 .I don't know if something on my computer clashed with it but I had to restore it twice.Might work for you,didn't work for me.
Cons: Everything
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Aston 1.9.2
Cons: User will not be able to find out how to set this thing without causing any issues to the basic set up files. If you are not a computer expert, dont try this, because you might mess up your system big time. I uninstalled this programme within 10 mts of my first use, and it was a tough task to find out how to leave the system as it was before using it. Thanking the windows restore point for no damages, that was created before installing aston.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Aston 1.9.2
"I can't recommend this product highly enough!"
Pros: 1. Aston lets you customise your desktop to suit the way you work.
2. It gives you several alternative ways to access your programs, using pop-up and drop-down menus, as well as tabs.
3. Its shell swapper utility allows you to switch between Aston and Windows Explorer shells quickly and easily.
4.There's a huge choice of different eye-candy themes downloadable from the Astonshell website, each with its own arrangement of icons and buttons. You can even design your own! Or customise the four themes provided by default.
Cons: 1. Accessing system tools such as disk defragmenter from the Aston desktop is difficult, so you should either switch shells or download third-party utilities.
2.Some of the reviewers here complain about difficulties with uninstalling Aston.
Make sure you switch back to windows explorer first, then you'll have no problems at all!
3. Aston desktop doesn't show Windows Explorer icons. This may be alarming at first, but all the programs you had desktop shortcuts to can be instantly accessed from the Desktop Shortcuts menu item. I find this arrangement very convenient and easy to use
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