“Eclecticism, (from Greek eklektikos, “selective”), in philosophy and theology, the practice of selecting doctrines from different systems of thought without adopting the whole parent system for each doctrine.” – Encyclopaedia Britannica.
I nearly just deleted the whole site but enough people are still showing interest in Desktop Info and a couple of other freeware projects to encourage me to resurrect and continue maintaining them, at least for now. So the first order of the day is a fresh new web site! Something modern, fun and easy …
Version v1.8 ———— September 2018 This version represents another not insignificant refactor which allows us to do a whole bunch of stuff we couldn’t do previously. You should review the readme.txt, there’s lots of new information there. There may be things I’ve broken that I haven’t discovered yet. Your current ini file will need modifications …
Version v1.7 ———— August 2018 (Four years, that’s not so bad is it?) Change 1: Signing with digital code certificate. You can confirm this by right clicking the DesktopInfo.exe, select Properties and the Digital Signatures tab. Change 2: Removed secondary form from Windows task switcher. Change 3: Removed MSN status option. Change 4: Now correctly …
There’s been a regular stream of inquiries over the years about Desktop Info to warrant looking into resurrecting it. The last official release was v1.51 in April 2014. I made available an unofficial version 1.60 in November 2017 which was a compile I did in August 2014 and never released. I was amazed to see …