Originally Posted by Polska

That one is called Object Dock. You can find it at Stardock: ObjectDock - Organize shortcut and tasks onto a customizable dock

They make all sorts of neat programs to customize your windows environment. The main difference between the trial and full software version is that the full allows you to have multiple bars on the screen.

The couple other things on my desktop come from Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly known as Konfabulator).

Stardock makes some pretty neat stuff to custimize Windows, and Yahoo Widget Engine is nice too but I found that though they work great when I'm doing simple tasks like internet browsing and email, they can really slow things down when I play games (at least newer games... They make playing Oblivion very unpleasant). I used to use ObjectDock to access all of my frequently used programs (I'm impatient with computers, so the Start menu is simply not an option) but it would sometimes minimize programs that were running in fullscreen mode if you got the mouse near the top of the screen. So in FPS games like UT2004, ObjectDock + Looking up = DEAD. Then I started using the "LaunchIt" widget in the Yahoo Widget Engine to open up programs quickly. It was pretty good, but again, leaving it running in games caused problems. The widgets seem to like reading lots of stuff off the hard drive at inconvient times so they can cause some nasty FPS drops when the video card is trying to load textures. Now I use a program called Bayden Slickrun. It's very similar the widget I was using but it's much more effecient and it does more too. It works like the Run window but it's faster and you have to type only a few letters of the program you want. You can turn it into a clock when you're not using it too.

Anyways..... here's my desktop, or at least what it looks like at the moment. I change it all the time. I had a dark theme with a nice Quake Wars wallpaper, but I'm trying not to think too much about ETQW, hoping that the wait will seem shorter.