Thanks Uktus for bringing this to my attention.
Talisman replaces the old and inconvenient Windows desktop by creating your own
unique interface or using one of the hundreds professionally designed desktops created for Talisman. Talisman works on all Windows systems from Windows 95 to Windows XP.
Even the users of old Win95 and NT4 systems can use all newest features on their desktops:
high resolution icons, wide spectrum of graphical styles, unique effects, objects and functions.
The quantity and variety of desktop elements in Talisman are not limited: from simple icons,
graphical buttons and zoomers "like in MacOS" to complex scripts, plugins, java games,
FLASH, HTML, "Longhorn sidebars" and other objects.
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
What's New:
- Using Talisman forms as Main Menu.
- New options for Calendar object: displaying events and texts in the associated Text Block.
- New TimeZone and Scripting functions for the Sytem Clock object.
- New plugin "sendcommand.exe" to send any Talisman commands from third-party applications
or Flash movies into Talisman.
- New options for InputBox object: creating Google (Yahoo,MSN and other) searchboxes.
- Connections, Drives, RecentFolders, RecentFiles, Tasks and other new menus and List objects.
- New unique effects for desktop wallpapers. Works by one click!
- Many other new functions, commands and bug fixes.
Screenshot: >> Click here
Download: Talisman Desktop 2.8 Beta
News source: In House