Welcome
desktopApps is home to a small collection of Windows applications which we have written or adapted ourselves, and which are now available for download, free of charge.
We use (and tinker with) these applications regularly and find them both useful and (touch wood) stable. We hope you enjoy using them too.
What's on offer?
- menuApp- a menu based application launcher.
- audioApp- for all your one-click muting needs.
- monitorApp- a small system resource monitor.
- imageApp- a digital image viewer.
Update - 26 March 2012
After a lot of head-scratching we finally figured it out!
menuApp now picks up theme settings and sets the menu font to match!
It also handles Windows Classic mode in Win 7.
...and that annoying recycle crash on 32bit systems has been fixed.
Download from the menuApp page.
Update - 05 February 2012
We're on a bit of a roll now!
After playing around with the desktop double click feature we decided to extend it so that clicking on different areas of the desktop will launch a different menu or application.
This works by splitting the desktop into a 3x3 grid, with each square able to be separately configured.
Full details are on the menuApp help section.
Update - 08 January 2012
So, following a very long hiatus, after which you might have thought we'd packed our bags and gone home, here's another update!
This includes the much requested 64 bit version, a revision of the configuration options plus various bug fixes and improvements to stability.
The configuration change means instead of using ini file sections to set display parameters these parameters are now passed to each individual menu. As always, the details are in the menuApp help section.
Update - 21 July 2010
menuaApp has been updated to allow you to launch a menu by double clicking on the desktop.
We've had this feature in the back of our minds for ages and finally got round to doing something about it.
In practice it's even more useful than we thought it would be.
Details of how to set it up are at the end of the menuApp help section covering hotkeys.
Update - 14 July 2010!
Several people have let us know that monitorApp isn't working because of a missing dll.
We've added the dll to the zip file so if you've hit the problem you just need to download again.
News - Summer 2010
We've had a bit of a refresh on the site and uploaded new versions of all the apps.
They are all Vista / Windows 7 compatible and most of them have some new features.
menuApp now supports Vista / Windows 7 style menus. It has also been steadily updated with minor fixes which users have highlighted. If you've dropped us a mail over the years your suggested improvement may well be in there.
monitorApp now recognises Vista and Windows 7 and correctly differentiates bewteen workgroups and domains.
imageApp now supports all formats recognised by the underlying CxImage library and has some minor usability improvements.
There are many other changes but we've forgoten exactly what they are so you'll have to download the apps and find out for yourselves.
As ever, if you have any suggestions or comments, please drop us a line.
What systems are supported?
The apps are developed and tested on Windows XP and Windows 7 and might work on Vista (although we've never actually owned a copy of Vista so we're guessing really).
Other versions of Windows may work, but no promises.
How do we contact you?
Drop us a line:
Please bear in mind that we all have day jobs so, depending on the volume of mail and the impact of Real Life, it could take a while to get back to you.