You can even add your own folder shortcuts and personalize them with icons. There are also 30 themes that you let you customize the appearance of your dock. However, adding apps to this dock can be difficult. You have to create a shortcut for an app and then drag it to the dock to add it.
While this dock app comes with an auto-hide feature, you do have to be careful when choosing where to place this dock on your screen. If your dock and Taskbar are both at the bottom of your screen, you can accidentally open apps from your Taskbar when you are trying to click on the dock. However, you can always move this dock up or hide your Taskbar. If you want to know how to hide your Taskbar and more, check out our guide on how to customize your Taskbar.
Unlike most dock apps, ObjectDock gives you access to a main dock, or what they call a Quicklaunch Dock, as well as a Tabbed Dock. The Quicklaunch Dock works just like the dock on your Mac, while the Tabbed Docks gives you another location to add shortcuts for your programs, documents, links, and other files and folders. You can set the Quicklaunch Dock to show all your open applications, all your running windows, minimized windows, and even show system tray icons.
You can also customize the position, size, style, color, and animation effects of the dock. For example, you can use a zoom effect like the Mac dock has, or you can make your icons glow when you hover your mouse over them.
Plus, when you hover over an app, you can see a preview of all the windows you have open for that app. However, unlike the previous apps on this list, ObjectDock is not free. Download: ObjectDock. They are generally very customizable and extendable. RocketDock is an application launcher, or dock, for Windows that sits along one edge of your desktop. You can also extend the functionality of the dock using docklets and the look of the dock is customizable.
ObjectDock is another dock for Windows that is similar to RocketDock. It allows you to organize your shortcuts, programs, and running tasks on an attractive, animated dock. You can also add extra functionality to your dock as widgets, such as a weather widget, a clock, a calendar, and a battery status widget. Setup your dock quickly by importing your Quick Launch shortcuts and pinned Taskbar items. Your dock can be placed on any edge of your screen. It also provides Aero-Peek-like functionality for improved task switching and allows you to access your system tray icons on your dock.
RK Launcher is another free dock utility for Windows that provides a visually pleasing bar on the edge of your screen to which you can easily add shortcuts to programs, files and folders. The dock can be placed on any edge of your screen or in one of the corners. You can completely customize the appearance with themes and custom icons and add functionality with docklets. XWindows Dock is a free dock program for Windows that emulates the Mac launcher toolbar. Sliderdock is a free dock program for Windows that is different from the dock programs we have showed you so far.
It allows you to easily add program shortcuts, files, and folders to each circular dock, or ring, by dragging and dropping. You can have multiple rings of icons. Rotating the mouse wheel in each ring rotates the icons providing quick access to the icons. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to access the icons on your dock. Sliderdock is completely customizable, from the appearance of the rings and icons to the behavior of the dock.
Circle Dock is another free, circular dock program for Windows, but different from Sliderdock. When you activate Circle Dock, it can display right at your mouse cursor, even if your mouse is at the edge of the screen.
Any icons on the dock that are off the screen can be accessed using the mouse wheel or arrow keys. You can add unlimited folders, shortcuts, links, and managements across sub-levels. The background and icons on your dock are fully customizable. Circle Dock supports multiple monitors and virtual desktops and is portable.
To run it, simply extract the files and run the. Winstep Nexus Dock is a free, completely customizable dock program for Windows that provides live icon reflections among many other eye candy effects. The drag-and-drop capabilities of Nexus Dock make it easy to manage your applications, files, printers, etc. Use drag-and-drop to move, copy, and rearrange objects on and off the dock. Drop documents onto application objects on your dock to automatically load them in the appropriate programs.
Documents, pictures, and video files dragged onto your dock displays as thumbnails for easy identification. Change the appearance of the icons on your dock by dragging and dropping your favorite. Nexus Dock can also act as a Taskbar replacement with its ability to show minimized, running programs and the system tray on your dock.
When activated, the Windows desktop icons are hidden and the Windows background blurred, showing icons on the launcher. Icons can be grouped as you do in iOS; drag and drop one icon onto another one to create a group that can be renamed, as displayed in the following image.
NET Framework 4, which can be downloaded using one of the following links:. The following is a list of applications launchers that are portable. It essentially acts as a portable desktop and you can save all your settings and preferences for all your portable programs.
CodySafe is an alternative to PortableApps. You can download portable programs from the CodySafe site, but you are also encouraged to obtain programs from sites such as PortableApps. You can group and categorize your portable apps and customize CodySafe using skins, themes, and sounds. See our article about CodySafe for more information. Portable Application Launcher PAL is a free Windows launcher that organizes your shortcuts into groups and categories.
You can also customize the menu using styles. Portable programs in the PortableApps. In addition to providing a convenient menu for launching applications, you can also add documents to a special Docs screen and tools and utilities on the Extras screen, such as notes, a calendar, and easy access to the Portable Freeware Collection.
Appetizer is a free, open source, portable application launcher for Windows that allows you to organize your programs on a customizable, resizable dock that can be displayed horizontally or vertically. Resize the icons to any of three different sizes and add your own custom icons.
Organize the icons by dragging and dropping them on the dock and group your icons into menus. Customize the Appetizer dock using skins. PStart is a simple Windows system tray launcher for applications. Use PStart to open important documents and folders, as well as portable programs. When you install PStart, you can choose to install PStart to your local hard drive or to a removable device.
PStart uses relatives paths when installed as a portable application. If a different drive letter is assigned to your USB flash drive when inserted into a different computer, your portable applications, files, folders can still be opened properly.
ASuite is another free, portable application launcher for Windows similar to PStart. It displays your program shortcuts, files, folders, and web page links in a tree structure on the List tab. ASuite uses relative paths, like PStart, so your programs, files, and folders can be opened on any Windows computer without issue.
The program requires installation, but it can be installed to any drive, local or removable. Use SE-TrayMenu to gain quick access to most frequently used applications and system commands using a customizable popup menu from the Windows system tray. Quickly add programs, documents, folders, and internet links to the menu using drag-and-drop. Enhance the functionality and convenience of your Windows 7 desktop and add some visual pizzazz with these easy-to-use docks.
I'm a big fan of the dock. Be it on the Linux or the Mac desktop - the dock always makes the desktop look cleaner and programs more easily accessed. So I set out to find five good docks for the Windows 7 environment. Each of these docks is still under development and offers a clean style and easy configuration. All five of these docks offer a free version and some have added features offered in a paid-for release.
No matter which version you go with, they will all do just what you need -- extend your desktop's functionality.
Note: This list is also available as a photo gallery. The desktop dock may not be for everyone. But if you're looking for an easy way to extend the functionality of your desktop and give it a little pizzazz at the same time, one of these docks should suit your needs perfectly.
They are all incredibly simple to use, consume very little resources, and are stable enough for production-use machines.
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