Add a smart toolbar to the side of your desktop

SmartBarXP is a powerful, free software only available for Windows, being part of the category Desktop customization software.

More about SmartBarXP

Since we added this program to our catalog in 2005, it has managed to reach 37,542 installations, and last week it achieved 14 installations.

The software version is 1.0.201 and its last update happened on 11/22/2005. It’s available for users with the operating system Windows XP and previous versions, and you can get it in English.

About the download, SmartBarXP is a slick software that requires less space than many software in the section Desktop customization software. It’s a very popular program in countries such as India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

SmartBarXP is a bar that runs down the side of your screen, and can be configured to display interactive panels known as ‘panes’. These panes include media players, slideshow and image viewing panes, a virtual desktop manager, and live news, weather and stock feeds, to mention but a few.

The panes can be repositioned on the bar, and scrolled if the bar becomes too full. The bar can also host extra sections, including a recycle bin, Explorer shortcuts, and taskbar replacement sections (start button, taskbar buttons and system tray sections).

SmartBarXP can be fully customizable in almost every aspect you can think of. Every pane has extensive options and can be tweaked to look and work just the way you want it to. The bar itself can be customized too, with options for positioning, auto hiding, pane scrolling, fading and translucency effects, and changing the language and regional settings.

You can also select the theme the bar takes on, to match your current Windows XP theme, the Classic Windows theme, or even use a third party SmartBarXP theme. This helps give you scope to transform the panel into anything you want it to be.