Aston2 Menu opens the new line of Aston2 products which turn your desktop into a yet more convenient and attractive environment. Aston2 is developed on an absolutely new engine created from scratch. Aston2 product line includes three basic products: - Aston2 Menu which replaces the regular Windows start menu. - Aston2 Panels which can replace Windows taskbar and yet enhance the shell functionality. - Aston2 Desktop which replaces Windows Explorer desktop and can be filled with any Aston 2 widgets and icons. Thus complete Aston2 SHELL can be considered the combination of all the above components. But which of them to use is entirely up to end-user''s choice. Aston 2 Menu features: - Themes and skins support. Aston2 settings are split into two parts - theme settings and private settings. All Aston2 widgets are skinnable: you can change the skin of any element - Widgets support (This demo version contains the following default widgets: Clock Calendar Recycle bin Disks Power control Search Toplist Username Weather and Uninstall). Widgets can be built into the desktop panels or popup menus - Fast and convenient search for the files on the local disks and for the information in the Internet - Flexible configuration. Every element of the menu can be tweaked and customized thus letting one to create yet more convenient working area. The same concerns Aston 2 Panels and Aston 2 Desktop as well - Animation support in every aspect of Aston2: smooth widgets opening and moving animated wallpaper animated icons and other elements of skinned widgets - Aston2 Menu can be used both in Aston1 shell (staring from 1.9.5 version) and in Explorer shell. - Drag''n''Drop operations support user friendly interface - Unicode support - xml standard used for all the parameters setup - Multi-language support - Plug-ins support. There are a lot planned features for the future Aston2 Menu release.