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Winstep Nexus dock (free dock with system tray support) v10.4 released

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Winstep Nexus dock (free dock with system tray support) v10.4 released

Who said you couldn't have a free dock with system tray support?

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Winstep has released Nexus v10.4 (and Nexus Ultimate v10.4). The Winstep Nexus Dock is a FREE professional dock for Windows. With Nexus, your most frequently used applications are only a mouse click away - and Nexus turns working with your computer into a FUN and enjoyable experience once again.

Nexus includes every feature you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and even others not available in most other docks, such as live icon reflections, in-dock system tray, Vista Aero Glass effects, and much more. Completely customizable, Nexus has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus Ultimate is an enhanced, multi-dock, multi-level version of the free-to-use Nexus dock which is available stand-alone and as a component of Winstep Xtreme, a single easy-to-install package featuring all our popular desktop enhancement products for Windows.

Nexus is free. Nexus Ultimate is $24.95 and adds, besides multiple docks and multi-level sub-docks, a powerful tabbed dock able to display not only regular shortcuts as well as virtual folders such as the Control Panel, Desktop, My Computer, etc..., and even file system folders of your choice. With Nexus Ultimate your whole computer is literally only one mouse click away! 

Nexus and Nexus Ultimate

Download the final release of Nexus 10.4

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Nexus runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7. It's available in the following languages: Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

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Major hightlights of the 10.4 release: lots of performance enhancements, Nexus initializes much faster, negative edge offsets, ability to customize the system tray expansion icon, further improved compatibility with 3rd party dock themes, the dock no longer 'flashes' when adding or removing items, smoother animation effects, fixed potential freeze when returning from hibernation, fixed issue in which the dock could become unresponsive after exiting a DirectX full screen game, and many other improvements!

Watch Nexus in action:

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Winstep Website: http://www.winstep.net
Registration: FREE
You can download Nexus from HERE (18 MB).

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The Nexus dock is awesome Jorge! And I have 7 years and close to 400 docks invested in OD 1.9! ;)

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 17
Nope, not currently, sorry. Nexus has it's own set of system stat docklets (modules): CPU Meter, Net In and Out Meters and a RAM Meter. Many more are scheduled to be added once the final version of Winstep Xtreme (currently in beta) with the new User Interface and multi language support has been released.

The native Modules/Docklets in Winstep applications also feature the same attention to detail Winstep is well-known for: for instance, the Net Meter modules also allow you to monitor which applications are using your LAN connection, which port they are connected to, kill unwanted connections, etc..., and can also show you a mind boggling array of TCP/UDP stats regarding each Network Interface Card.

The clock module is not only able to show you the time in analog or digital formats, as it is also able to synch your system time to the Internet Atomic Time servers *and* tell you the current time in plain English (male and female voices available).

The Desktop versions of the CPU and RAM meters (only available in Winstep Xtreme, sorry) are also able to show you at a glance which applications are using the most CPU and RAM at that point in time, etc...

You can expect the same level of features and attention to detail from future Winstep modules.

 

Thanks very much for your informative answer.

Looks like there are already very cool docklets!

If I may suggest, as a humble developer of few SysStats docklets, it's nice to have CPU/RAM/Virtual Memory in one docklet (virtual memory is also an important factor for performance). I also suggest Net in & out in one docklet with IP as a bonus (just to save some dock space). Another nice docklet is one that shows HD space for few drives & opens my computer with a click.

Those are all docklets I created (or modified) so I'll personally miss them.

I'll also miss my beloved MoonPhase docklet.

Anyway, I must say, this dock looks like the ultimate winner! Finally live reflection in Windows, amazing set of features & best support that listens to the users ... Thanks for your brilliant work JcRabbit !!!

 

 

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

My pleasure, and thanks for your suggestions. |-)

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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you!!!  :karma:

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hm, although I have Winstep Xtreme I can't figure out how to get sub-docks in Nexus. or is that another license ???

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Are you running Winstep Xtreme 9.5 or 10.4? Reason I'm asking is because the UI was completely redone in 10.4 and the way you do things is different. If you're still running 9.5, you really, really should upgrade to 10.4 (in beta mainly because the documentation is still being updated).

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Figured out. ;) Have to use Workshelf to create docks with subdocks. Using 10.4 Beta.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Great how you can have an infinite number of nested sub-docks, no? |-)

Don't forget you also have the Shelf (a feature of both Winstep Xtreme and Nexus Ultimate), which is also a great way to categorize programs:

Unlike most tabbed docks out there which are only able to hold shortcuts dragged into it, the Winstep Shelf is also capable of displaying the contents of special shell folders such as the Desktop, My Computer, Control Panel, Recent Documents, and so forth... It's even able to display the contents of folders in your hard drive, which you can then manipulate via drag & drop as usual.

Note also how the Shelf makes it possible to have a 'clean', uncluttered, desktop with no icons on it whatsoever. Just tell Nexus Ultimate/Winstep Xtreme to hide the desktop icons - and then quickly access them via the Desktop tab. Another nice feature is that you can associate a keyboard shortcut to a tab to make the Shelf simultaneously come to the foreground *and* open that particular tab for quick access.

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Unlike most tabbed docks out there which are only able to hold shortcuts dragged into it, the Winstep Shelf is also capable of displaying the contents of special shell folders such as the Desktop, My Computer, Control Panel, Recent Documents, and so forth... It's even able to display the contents of folders in your hard drive, which you can then manipulate via drag & drop as usual.

Note also how the Shelf makes it possible to have a 'clean', uncluttered, desktop with no icons on it whatsoever. Just tell Nexus Ultimate/Winstep Xtreme to hide the desktop icons - and then quickly access them via the Desktop tab. Another nice feature is that you can associate a keyboard shortcut to a tab to make the Shelf simultaneously come to the foreground *and* open that particular tab for quick access

 

:omg:   I'm liking this more and more...I'm finding it harder and harder not to just go ahead and pony up the dough.

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I need to start getting a bit more active in this (and other) forums. Most people don't realize how much functionality is crammed into Winstep applications - that above is only scratching the surface.

It kills me every time I see someone requesting an ObjectDock feature which has been part of Nexus/Winstep Xtreme for years, and not beeing able to say 'Hey, Nexus does that already'. Thing is, Stardock doesn't interfere with my threads, I don't interfere with theirs.

But nothing stops me from talking about Nexus and Winstep software on my own threads. :grin: