Winstep is proud to announce the release of Winstep Xtreme v7.11 Final.

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Winstep Xtreme is a complete integrated Desktop Environment featuring the next generation of award winning Winstep user interface enhancements.

You can download the new Winstep Xtreme 7.11 version from HERE.

So what is new in Winstep Xtreme 7.11? Well, we kept on listening carefully to your suggestions:

Overall performance has been greatly improved.

Desktop Module positions are now automatically remembered when switching themes.

The RAM meter module is now capable of displaying the top memory hogs.

Added the ability to provide custom Wanda animations.

Updated the internal list of Internet Atomic Time servers to replace those not in service any longer.

Edge bumps now work when performing drag & drop operations.

Changed the Internet communication retrial delays to prevent excessive flashing of the desktop modules when WorkShelf thinks an Internet connection is available when it actually isn't.

Included the extremely popular Winstep Atmospherica theme (over 27,000 downloads) in the default theme pack.

Fixed several miscellaneous issues.

and much, much more!

There are lots of other additions and fixes in this awesome new release. You can see a complete list of changes to the WorkShelf and NeXuS component of Winstep Xtreme HERE and to the NextSTART component HERE.

I am not sure how you did it, but this is release is much faster and has a much smaller memory footprint than any release I can remember.

Nice update.

Thanks! Faster, oh yes, smaller memory footprint not so sure, I guess it will depend on the theme: one of the many 'tricks' used to increase speed was to cache more bitmaps in memory instead of retrieving them from disk every time. It's the old 'speed vs. memory usage' dilema.

These days of multi-gigabyte RAM systems, I think speed is more important than using up an extra 2 or 3 MB to cache bitmaps in memory. HUGE speed gains for very little extra memory usage.

Congrats on the release, Jorge.

I haven't been on here in a long time. I think I'll check out the new stuff.