Real Desktop make your Windows desktop 3D, less useful

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Real Desktop make your Windows desktop 3D, less useful

by Brad Linder Feb 5th 2008

We can't count the number of times we wished our Windows desktop was as messy as a regular desk. You know, because we've never really wished for that. But that's exactly what Real Desktop lets you do. Oh yeah, it also turns your desktop into a 3D workspace.

While the 3D desktop is certainly pretty, we're not sure it's particularly useful. You can move icons around the screen with a left click. Click both of your mouse buttons to "pick up" an icon, or click the edge to rotate it. Probably the most fun you can have is when you highlight a bunch of icons and then drag them into another group of icons and watch them scatter like bowling pins.

The problem is there doesn't appear to be a way to automatically reorganized your icons once you've made a mess of things. Right clicking on the desktop brings up your usual Windows options like "Refresh" and "Arrange Icons By." But when you select those items, nothing happens.

Real Desktop comes in two editions. The free Lite version is sort of a one trick pony, while the $25 standard edition lets you customize your desktop with a variety of colors, themes, and other goodies.

This is hardly the most realistic 3D desktop we've ever seen. But for the life of us, we couldn't figure out how to install the other one.

[via TechnoBuzz]

Tags: 3d, desktop, real-desktop

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

LisKiller said 7:36PM on 2-05-2008

Inspired from BumpTop 3D Desktop Concept, which hasn't been released yet.
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8941

Raj said 9:56PM on 2-05-2008

[via TechnoBuzz] link is not working.

Rocketboy said 2:59PM on 2-06-2008

Wow, they are still selling this dreck?

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