Test by @Macarlo
Windows 2000 Professional Beta Tester
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Hi All
I just tested here on my Windows 2000 Professional this simply fantastic enhancement called NextSTART 2.0, developed by Jorge Coelho and John T. Folden. I tested it exhaustive and any problem I have not encountered. Here is a shareware that I recommend for improve you Windows 2000 desktop. You can download it and also register it in BMT Micro web site, at:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/

NextSTART 2.0 is a powerful, dynamic pop-up menu that can be used as a replacement or supplement to the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar. Modeled after the menus from OPENSTEP, NextSTART also offers an incredible amount of flexibility and is fully customizable. Some of it's many features are Transparent Menus, customizable Titlebars and Buttons, Theme Support, customizable Menu Behavior, Hotspot support, Taskbar and Systray Management and Dynamic Menus. You can also create your own menu structure, exactly as you like, using the built-in Menu Editor. NextSTART is part of the WinSTEP2000 suite of groundbreaking components for the Windows 32-bit environment

 System Requirements: Windows9x or Windows NT v4.0 (w/Service Pack 3)

 NextSTART v2.0, by Jorge Coelho and John T. Folden, is a powerful, dynamic pop-up menu that can be used as a replacement or supplement to the Windows Start Menu. NextStart also offers an incredible amount of flexibility so that the user can customize it to his needs and desires. What follows is just a brief description of it's many powerful features...

 - Powerful Menuing System -

Unlike many other menu programs, NextStart does NOT require you to re-enter the paths to all the programs listed on your Start Menu. NextStart will automatically read the directory structure of your Programs folder(s) and create a menu for you on the fly! In fact, thanks to NextStart's dynamic menu support, it will create as many menus as you wish based on any hard drive or directory!

 If you wish to create your own customized menuing system, no problem! NextSTART 2.0 includes a powerful, built-in Menu Editor (ME) allowing you to create any number of menus. The ME also allows the use of over 80 handy Internal Commands that give quick access to not only NS specific features but also many popular Windows functions.

- Complete Start Menu And Taskbar Replacement -

NextSTART 2.0 features built-in task management to control running apps and the Windows System Tray. Gain access to your running apps via handy task icons/tiles right on your desktop. Best of all, you can choose the position of the "task list", the style, and even which icons should be displayed for specific applications. NS also allows you to place the Systray anywhere on your desktop!

 - Advanced NeXT-Style Look And Feel -

The NextSTART user interface was heavily inspired by the original NeXTSTEP operating system. Unlike many other Windows shell replacements and add-ons, the association is more than just skin deep. We've adopted many NeXT style functions and controls both in the menus and in the new and improved NS2 Preferences Manager. NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP users should feel right at home. We've also expanded on these "classic" ideas and added plenty of our own, creating an advanced and unique menuing system for Windows Users.

- Customizable Menus and Theme Support -

Not happy with the default NS2 configuration? Would you prefer a menuing system that emulated BeOS or Mac? How about transparent menus? No problem...You can configure how the menus look and behave! Choose where scroll-buttons are located, how menu selection is made, which mouse button activates the menus, assign hot keys and more! You can choose the font, the size, the colors (even use gradients and bitmaps!), 3D effects, custom icons and, still, more! In fact, thanks to the improved Theme support of the NS2 Preferences Manager you can now import and export themes based on the above options. Share them with your friends!

 - Hot Spot Support -

Thanks to an incredibly flexible feature utilizing user defined Hot Spots, you can "attach" a menu to not only different areas of your desktop but also other menu programs and applications!

Registration:

NextSTART 2.0 is SHAREWARE. You may try it for a period of 30 days, after which you must either purchase the component or remove it from your system. The unit price for NextSTART 2.0 is $19.95USD. If you find this component useful please support the shareware concept and it's authors. Registration encourages future development. Thank You.

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