Desktop Icon Toy
Desktop Icon Toy is a desktop icon enhancement tool that allows you to manage your windows desktop icons. Currently, there are most of similar tools, such as make desktop icon backgrounds transparent, arrange desktop icons. But none of them can animate desktop icons, add hover effects to desktop... Change the font color and background color of desktop icon texts. ... Hover Effects You can add visual effects when mouse hover desktop icons, like dance icon, shake icon text and blink icon text. ... Remove Icon Texts You can remove the classic ugly text of desktop icons, optional, instead of...
http://www.idesksoft.com/DesktopIconToy.exe - 395Kb - Download - Screenshot

WinRider
WinRider is a nice program, which scrolls your colored text on your desktop window. You can specify the speed of the text, it's vertical position on desktop,change direction of scrolling - left or right, and select the font of the text, where you can specify typeface, italic, bold, size of... It can scroll strings as by order, so random. ... Now it is possible to select file as source. ... WinRider will scroll each string from the file.
http://www.winrider.com/download/wrider_2.exe - 256Kb - Download - Screenshot

12Ghosts SetColor
Great tool to set the icon colors suitable to your wallpaper image. Change the desktop icon's text color and the desktop icon text's background color, even to transparent! Now with Windows XP shadow support. A handy tool, with a functionality not possible before in Windows.
http://12Ghosts.com/download/12setcolor.exe - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

JewelPro
JewelPro is a art label maker that will make CD case labels. You can add pictures and size and recrop them to any size and position them. You can add text position it, resize it, change colors & change font sizes. New multiline txt tool. There's a full functional drawing program included. ... You can add text to the end of the label, change the font Size and color. ... You can make the end label a solid color or a gradient color. ... Also included is a new character map viewer and printer that will allow you to view all the different characters for a different font and will print out your...
http://www.winsite.com/bin/downl?w...iscutil/JPCDL.zip|62|500000028645 - 6Mb - Download - Screenshot

LeoPicture
LeoPicture provides a convenient instrumentation for manipulating images to broad specter of customers from digital photography amateurs to web designers and scientists. General features: Open and save image files in *. bmp;*. jpg;*. tif;*. gif;*. png;*. ... Fill area with transparent color, change color, add and extract color. ... Put text label with selected color and font size and face on image. ... Change brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, scale up and filter noise of the whole image or selected area(s).
http://www.leokrut.com/leopicture.zip - 284Kb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop Calendar
Desktop Calendar is a free desktop enhancement program which can add a calendar and to-do-list to your computer's desktop. Everyday when you powered on your computer, you will see a calendar on your desktop with your full control. You may change the desktop's color, calendar's color, calendar's... This freeware features active calendar,intuitive to-do-list and customizable background and text colors. ... And you may schedule your to-do-list.
http://www.bestshareware.net/tools/dcsetup.exe - 286Kb - Download - Screenshot

Color Picker ActiveX Control
Color Picker AcitveX Control is designed with simplicity in mind. It designed for . NET, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, HTML, Office document and any other environment that support ActiveX technology. Color Picker ActiveX Control is an ActiveX component that includes one dialog. ... The Color Picker dialog box, allows you to select a very specific shade, either by visually choosing it or by defining the color numerically. ... Color selection is the act of picking the color that you want to use in part of your image.
http://www.redminibox.com/products/colorpicker/ColorPicker.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Rainbow Folders
Rainbow Folders (RF) is an easy to use program, which allows you to change color of the icon representing chosen folder to any color you like. What for ? Mainly to boost yours computer usage speed & skills. When you're exploring directory which contains lots of subdirectories in Windows Explorer... And now the best part: you can colorize unlimited number of folders - each into a different color. ... But changing colors is not everything you can do with help of RC, you can also set an extra warning when someone will be trying to delete colorized folder, and optional text that will 'pop up'...
http://www.republika.pl/programyaionela/rf.zip - 328Kb - Download - Screenshot

XP Icons
Give your Win98/Me/Win2k System icons the look of XP by changing your Start menu, Desktop, Drives, Folders and various file type icons to XP. XP Icons changes nearly 100 Win98/98SE/Me and Win2k system icons to the new Windows XP Icons Set. Version 3 now allows installing the complete set or... Also allows choice of Desktop Icons text colors. ... Also includes options to remove shortcud colored block behind the Desktop Icon text.
http://camtech2000.net/Programs/xpicon30.zip - 2Mb - Download - Screenshot

Desktop-3D Notes
Desktop-3D Notes (D3D) is a PC Sticky Notes software that is fully and individually customizable. You can send notes across the internet to all your friends. Change colors and fonts within each Note. You can also print your Notes. D3D is so fun and addicting! ... You can now change font, size and color throughout the notes text. ... Change each Desktop-3D note to any color at anytime. ... Ability to change the alarm sound of each Desktop-3D Note. ... Sliding options for each Desktop-3D Note Ability to change the font of each Desktop-3D Note.
http://www.absolutefuturity.com/download.asp?prodID=205 - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot