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NextSTART

NextSTART - 3.41

skinnable menu & task management utility

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Version 3.41: Not rated (0.0)
Selected Version: 3.41
Release Date: 2006-01-31
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 3.41): 190
Downloads (all versions): 2,848
Price: $24.95

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Product Description:

NextSTART, by Winstep Software Technologies, skinnable, and dynamic pop-up menu that can be used as a replacement or supplement to the Windows Start Menu and taskbar. NextStart also offers flexibility so that the user can customize it to his needs and desires.

NextStart does NOT require you to re-enter the paths to all the programs listed on your Start Menu. NextStart will automatically read the directory structure of your Programs folder(s) and create a menu for you on the fly! Thanks to NextStart's dynamic menu support, it will create as many menus as you wish based on any hard drive or directory!

NextSTART features built-in task management to control running apps and the Windows System Tray. Gain access to your running apps via handy task icons/tiles right on your desktop. Best of all, you can choose the position of the "task list", the style, and even which icons should be displayed for specific applications. NS also allows you to place the Systray anywhere on your desktop!

Not happy with the default NextSTART configuration? Would you prefer a menu system that emulated BeOS or Mac? How about transparent menus? No problem...You can configure how the menus look and behave! Choose where scroll-buttons are located, how menu selection is made, which mouse button activates the menus, assign hot keys and more! You can choose the font, the size, the colors (even use gradients and bitmaps with transparency!), 3D effects, custom icons and, still, more! In fact, thanks to the improved Theme support of the NextSTART Preferences Manager you can now import and export themes based on the above options. Download hundreds of FREE themes from http://themes.winstep.net !

What's new in this version:

  • It was no longer possible to re-arrange menu items even if pressing the SHIFT key, the item was always copied.
  • Menus that turned Inactive by becoming semi-transparent could momentarily be displayed as a black rectangle while the new sub-menu opened (the larger the sub-menu, the longer the parent menu remained black). Now you should, at the most, get a flicker lasting a fraction of a second.
  • Z-Order (Always On Top) problems: the Startbar/Tasklist and Hotspot buttons could under certain conditions lose their Always On Top status.
  • If you chose not to display the Systray, NextSTART would show a gray bar at the top of the screen on startup.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 95

Additional Requirements:

  • Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003

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NextSTART CommentaryNOT freeware - Version: 3.41, 1/31/2006 07:29AM PST

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shishittu
guys, the program is SHAREWARE, read here:
http://www.winstep.net/default.asp?cat=nextstart#reg

NextStart 3.x is SHAREWARE. You may try it for a period of 30 days, after which you must either purchase the component or remove it from your system. The unit price for NextStart 3.x is $24.95 USD.
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NextSTART ReviewThe best user… - Version: 3.0, 8/16/2001 12:50AM PST

tersono
interface enhancement for windows bar none. Not only a pretty face, it offers so much more functionality than the startmenu and taskbar. Simply superb :)
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