Aston is a powerful and flexible shell replacement application. Unlike many competing products, you do not have to have an expensive powerful computer to run Aston. Combining high speed and eye-candy it consumes less RAM, than default Windows shell and needs few processor resources. It is fast and stable, so you can save your computer's power for other tasks.

Aston fully replaces standard Windows Desktop and adds numerous new features:
Nice looking, easily configurable interface;
Detailed configuration of any element;
Simple visual configuration;
Custom skins for all elements;
Ability to change system colors, icons and cursors;
Icons of any size and shape, animated and transparent icons;
Transparency and animation effects;
Plugins, adding new features to your shell;
Hotkeys for any actions (launching applications, URLs, minimizing Windows, etc...);

Besides, Aston contains all elements of default Windows shell:

Desktop, Taskbar, System Tray, Main Menu, etc... Aston is based on completely original code and it is not a clone of any other shell. Its code is highly optimized by speed and size.