* Windows XP Home Edition, for home desktops and laptops-lacked features such as joining Active Directory Domain, Remote Desktop Server and Internet Information Services Server.

Every Windows version beginning with Windows XP ( excluding ' Home ' edition ) includes an installed Remote Desktop Connection ( RDC ) (" Terminal Services ") client ( mstsc. exe ) whose version is determined by that of the operating system or last applied Windows Service Pack.

After performing searches, results can also be returned in a web browser on the Google Desktop Home Page much like the results for Google Web searches.

It provides four fully customizable ( with the ability to add / remove widgets, move widgets around, change the background and customize shortcuts to applications / contacts ) " Home " screens, called Panorama Desktop.

A separate CADD centre with ANSYS, SCADDS RC-Design & Drafting suite, STRAP, NISA FEM package, Architectural Desktop 2. 0 ( AutoCAD 2000 ), NISA CIVIL, STAAD Pro 2000, 3D Home Architect, 3D Studio and Auto Civil software.

MacSoft's products include games converted from Windows, such as Halo: Combat Evolved and the Age of Empires series, as well as productivity software such as Desktop Labels and 1-2-3 Home Design.

The name KDE was intended as a wordplay on the existing Common Desktop Environment, available for Unix systems.

Microsoft Windows systems support graphical terminals via the Remote Desktop Services component.

In 1995 it took on the development of the Motif toolkit and of the Common Desktop Environment for Unix systems.

Apple often makes use of new or unusual hardware systems ; they were the first vendor to make widespread use of Sony's 3. 5 " floppy drive, and they devised their own Apple Desktop Bus system for keyboards and mice, their own LocalTalk networking system, the high-speed FireWire serial interface for storage and video transfer, the 30-pin iPod dock connector, and non-standard display interfaces such as ADC, Mini-DVI, and Mini DisplayPort.

* MXF Desktop is a free software application from AmberFin that adds MXF awareness to PCs running Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating systems.

Desktop applications can be written to run in a heterogeneous environment of multiple operating systems.

In the mid 1980s, text-based and graphical user interface operating environments such as IBM TopView, Microsoft Windows, Digital Research's GEM Desktop and Quarterdeck Office Systems's DESQview surrounded DOS operating systems with a shell that turned the user's display into a menu-oriented " desktop " for selecting and running PC applications.

Distributed Management Task Force ( DMTF, formerly " Desktop Management Task Force ") is an industry organization that develops, maintains and promotes standards for systems management in enterprise IT environments.

* Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware ( DASH ) – a management standard based on DMTF Web Services for Management ( WS-Management ), for desktop and mobile client systems.

# Desktop systems are add-ons ( hardware boards, usually ) to normal PCs, transforming them into videoconferencing devices.

Desktop card readers are themselves embedded systems ; their manufacturers have usually paid the SDA for complete access to the SD specifications.

Early personal information managers, such as Norton Desktop and Borland's SideKick, provided pop-up calculator, alarm, calendar and other functions for single-tasking operating systems like MS-DOS using terminate and stay resident techniques.

* Many Linux Operating systems utilize a program called Compiz-Fusion which has a highly configurable plugin named " Enhanced Zoom Desktop "

Desktop operating systems such as Windows are now so closely tied to the performance characteristics of magnetic disks that it is difficult to deploy them on other media like flash memory without running into space constraints, suffering serious performance problems or breaking applications.

The environment standardized on the MIPS architecture and two operating systems: SCO UNIX with Open Desktop and what would become Windows NT ( originally named OS / 2 3. 0 ).

The Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician ( MCDST ) certification program demonstrates that a technician can competently support end users and troubleshoot desktop environments running Microsoft Windows XP operating systems.

In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop: " In the last few years, there ’ s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems.

Desktop Linux continued to be focused on technical workstations ( mostly CAD, EDA, and software engineering ) and " fixed-function " systems ( data entry workstations, kiosk, etc.

Motif provides the base toolkit for the Common Desktop Environment ( CDE ), the desktop environment used on commercial Unix systems such as Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

Beagle is a search system for Linux and other such modern Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists in a similar way to Spotlight in Mac OS X, and Windows Search or Google Desktop ( third party ) under Linux or Microsoft Windows.

OpenWindows was included in later releases of the operating systems SunOS 4 and Solaris, until its removal in Solaris 9 in favor of Common Desktop Environment ( CDE ) and GNOME 2. 0.

The IRIX Interactive Desktop uses the Motif widget toolkit on top of the X Window System found on most Unix systems.

The shell has a start menu, a task bar and a desktop that all function in a similar manner to those found in the Explorer Desktop of later 32-bit Windows operating systems.

Desktop computers represent a tiny fraction of the devices a computer engineer might work on, as computer-like architectures are now found in a range of devices including video game consoles and DVD players.

: This section is limited to those programs which are based on the official Kazaa Media Desktop client.

Desktop applications such as Firefox and OpenOffice. org are not yet available for MINIX 3 however.

The latest version of Mandriva Linux, 2011. 0 officially supports only KDE Plasma Desktop, whereas other desktop environments are available but not supported.

Additionally, a number of Desktop bundles are also available.

With PGP Desktop 9. x managed by PGP Universal Server 2. x, first released in 2005, all PGP encryption applications are based on a new proxy-based architecture.

The current shipping versions are PGP Desktop 10. 2. 0 ( Windows and Mac-OS Platforms ) and PGP Universal 3. 2. 0.

Soon after the closure of the CLIÉ line, Sony stopped providing original installation drivers, including Sony's version of Palm Desktop for the CLIÉ, which are necessary for Hotsyncing with the PC and otherwise taking advantage of the handhelds ' many features for which a PC may be required.

Apple's Apple Remote Desktop client management system can be used to send Wake-on-LAN packets, but there are also freeware and shareware Mac OS X applications available.

Some models feature the ability to make voice recordings which are synced using the Voice conduit and can be viewed on a desktop with the Voice Memo application which is part of the Palm Desktop Suite.

Desktop translation memory tools are typically what individual translators use to complete translations.

Desktop news alerts, e-mail alerts, and digital television alerts are also available.

Many musicians and artists use ' patcher ' type programmes, such as Pd, Bidule, Max / MSP and Audiomulch as well as ( or instead of ) digital audio workstations or sequencers and there are still a significant number of people using more " traditional " software only approaches such as CSound or the Composers Desktop Project.

ArcGIS for Desktop Extensions are available, including Spatial Analyst which allows raster analysis, and 3D Analyst which allows terrain mapping and analysis.

The names ArcView and ArcInfo are now used to name different levels of licensing in ArcGIS for Desktop, and less often refer to these original software products.

Desktop size stand-alone dye-sub photo printers are also being applied by social photographers in event photography.

Desktop replacement computers are also often used with a port replicator, to fully enjoy the desktop comfort.

Desktop replacement computers are, with a few exceptions, difficult to upgrade compared to desktop computers, with many of their major components ( such as the display ) integral to the design of the machine, and others ( such as the CPU and GPU ) often being hard to access and replace.

These clients are unauthorized modifications of the Kazaa Media Desktop ( KMD ) application, which typically exclude malware and may provide additional features.

Included in the box are cables for syncing with a computer via USB, and for charging from a wall outlet, Palm Desktop software for Mac and Windows, and a screen protector to apply if desired.

There are also open source screen readers, such as the Linux Screen Reader for GNOME and NonVisual Desktop Access for Windows.

However, Vista's Desktop Window Manager exposes a public API that allows any application to access the same thumbnail representations that Flip3D uses, and so there are a number of third party add-ons that are able to provide Exposé-like functionality in Vista.