I purchased ObjectDesktop software thinking believing the claims made by Stardock that it improves productivity, but after my experience using it, I will say that reality is far from those claims. I spent more time than I could afford trying to troubleshoot issues and learn without any help documentation.

1. When I enabled windowblinds, shadowFX stopped working and I was told because they are not compatible with each other. In that case, why sell them as part of objectdesktop package and have users buy incompatible versions in one package. Imagine paying for Microsoft office  (which means paying for Word and Excel) and it turns out Word and Excel are not compatible with each and you could only use one or the other. What would that be like? At the very minimum, since this compatibility is known issue, stardock should provide detailed documentation on how to achieve shadows in windowblinds.

2. I was told you could configure shadows in windowblinds, but how? There is no help documentation or tutorials. In fact, I have not seen help documentation for any of the ObjectDesktop products.

3. When I use some themes in windowblinds that were installed default by WindowBlinds, it messes up fences on my desktop and some options in windows explorer context menu are not properly visible. This is almost as if Windowblinds was not thoroughly tested.

4. windowblinds should be readily usable out of the box. There is so much learning curve to customize the themes such as add shadows, etc. and zero help documentation.

5. Launch8 is about as useless as it gets. There is no hotkey to call it up automatically (I have to run it from start menu) and since I have more than 25 shortcuts in quick launch, the dock shows icons for only some of the 25 shortcuts and there is no option to scroll the dock which means I cannot see rest of the shortcuts and the settings button on the dock.

ObjectDesktop in my opinion turned out to be below average at best.