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How to get Winstep's Nexus Ultimate for FREE

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How to get Winstep's Nexus Ultimate for FREE

Courtesy of Give Away of the Day.com

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/nexus-ultimate/
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Nexus Ultimate at Give Away of the Day

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Giveaway of the Day

For the next 24 hours the full (and latest) version of Nexus Ultimate worth $24.95 will be available FREE from Give Away of the Day. If you ever wondered how Nexus Ultimate compares to other docks in the market, now is your chance to find out!

Nexus Ultimate is one of the most attractive, powerful and flexible docks available today, boasting just about every feature you’d expect from a dock and much more: widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and even live icon reflections, background blur, system tray and tasklist support, etc. Completely customizable, Nexus Ultimate has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with backgrounds for all 3rd party docks.

Terms and conditions

Please note that the Nexus Ultimate version you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations: 1) No free upgrades to future versions; 2) Strictly personal usage.

Note also that this version allows the following upgrades:

  • to Winstep Xtreme (a single easy-to-install package featuring all of Winstep’s popular desktop enhancement products for Windows) for only $14.95 (normal price for Winstep Xtreme is $39.90).
  • to the next release of Nexus Ultimate (which includes free upgrades for a whole year) for only $12.50 (i.e. 50% discount, normal price for Nexus Ultimate is $24.95).

    • FAQ:

    Q) What's the catch?
    A) No catch, other than those described in Terms and Conditions above. Giveaway of the Day are sponsoring Nexus Ultimate for 24 hours.

    The goal of this promotion is also to 1) extend awareness of Winstep products outside the Windows Customization community and 2) hope people will like this software so much that they'll upgrade either to Winstep Xtreme or to the next version of Nexus Ultimate.

    Q) Does the Nexus Ultimate version available from Giveaway of the Day contain any Spyware or Adware?
    A) Absolutely NOT! You can download Nexus Ultimate from Giveaway of the Day in full confidence, but you MUST install and register the software within the 24 hours promotion period - after that the Setup application will not allow you to install the promotional version of Nexus Ultimate.

    Q) Is there any functional difference between the version of Nexus Ultimate at Giveaway of the Day and the one I get when I purchase it from the Winstep web site?
    A) No.

    Q) How do I download Nexus Ultimate from Giveaway of the Day?
    A) Go to their site here and click on the 'Download Nexus Ultimate Now' link. Please make sure to read the README file included with the installation program for instructions on how to register Nexus Ultimate after installation.


    More Information:

    Nexus Ultimate download page at Giveaway of the Day:
    http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/nexus-ultimate

    Winstep Web Site:
    http://www.winstep.net

    More information about Nexus Ultimate:
    http://www.winstep.net/nexus.asp

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    Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Okay

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    Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Quoting Uvah, reply 48
    I was surprised too when Winstep showed up in the package. Too bad I gotta miss out on the cheap upgrade. Anyway...beats a blank.

    Actually, WorkShelf was in the package, not Winstep.

    Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Sorry...I always get the two confused.

    Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Kind of normal, as Nexus, Nexus Ultimate, WorkShelf and NextSTART are all sub-sets of Winstep Xtreme.

    It's still amazing the alternate names people come up with: Nexus Xtreme, Xtreme Ultimate, Winstep Ultimate, Winshelf, Nextstep. Makes providing support for those products just a little bit more difficult, as you have to figure out what they are *actually* running, hehe. |-)

    Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    I had seen this over there and got it as well. Looks interesting, but I had already bought Objectdock Plus 2.0 beta since I owned Windowblinds, Iconpackager, and CursorFX Plus and wanted to make a complete set. :)

    Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Quoting Jafo, reply 51
    "retroactive"

    No,

    retrospective ....

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/retrospective 

    Sorry, mate... retroactive, as in a statute... that's the meaning of the sentence, and retrospective implies looking backwards....your intention was to make the price retroactive. A price is non sentient and cannot look backwards and therefore is retroactive..no squirm room.

    Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    I think DrJBHL is right, Jafo.

    Sorry. :(

    Quoting scharchuk, reply 56
    I had seen this over there and got it as well. Looks interesting, but...

    Ah, inertia... Amazing how resistent to change people are. If you got it already, don't just 'look' at it... try it! |-)

    Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    If you got it already, don't just 'look' at it... try it!
    I did and I really like what I see.5*

    Hands down the best thing I've ever gotten from giveawayofthe day.:thumbsup:

    Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    See what you've been missing all this time for being so difficult? And that wasn't too painful, was it? hehe :P

    Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Anyone tried to do subdocks yet ? THAT is a handy feature. :-)

    Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    And you also have some cool 'Media' Internal Commands which you can add to a dock or Shelf and use to control WinAmp/Windows Media Player.

    Other internal commands can power off your monitors, or start your screen saver on demand, open/close your CD-ROM doors (how lazy can you get?!), clear your Recent Documents list, etc... there are a lot of them, some more useful than others. :d

    Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    JcRabbit,

    Is there a way to get two (2) Dock-nexus at the bottom and still hide them off screen

    I have  Respect space reserved by other docks, too;bars and screen objects.  Un-check  but it still reserved, and won't let me have two (2) at bottom

    and hide off screen... it will but only the floating dock and it only Collapses...

    and if I chose to un-check Dock to edge then I don't get to hide the dock off screen it collapses ..

     

    Reply #64 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Exactly the same issue I have had.

     

    I wanted to use the workshelf to replace my OD tabbed dock and have that and the nexus dock docked at the top.

    Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    VERY nice! I barely caught the deal once I got back in town from vacation. Thanks! :sun:

    Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    I bought Winstep Xtreme (with Nexus and Start Menu Organizer) for a while and it ROCKS.

    Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Sorry guys, having only one dock per screen edge is indeed a limitation that is going to be removed in the next release of Nexus Ultimate/Winstep Xtreme (which, if it's any consolation, will also feature optional horizontal sub-docks, a native Stacks applet, and the ability to have the dock mimic the  "superbar" ability of Windows 7 - which the NextSTART component already does for a long time, by the way - with animated group thumbnails, aero peek, etc...). Just watch this video of NextSTART here for a preview of the latter.

    But I may have a work-around: Winstep docks don't have to be tied to a screen edge, they can be turned into floating docks which you can then position anywhere on the screen, and, obviously, even side-by-side with other floating docks (or a docked dock). Only drawback is that it won't auto-hide into a screen edge, but rather collapse into a single control icon.

    Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    JcRabbit,

    Thanks for the help..

    they can be turned into floating docks which you can then position anywhere on the screen, and, obviously, even side-by-side with other floating docks (or a docked dock). Only drawback is that it won't auto-hide into a screen edge, but rather collapse into a single control icon.

     

    Thanks I had try this and when I moved the Floating dock from the left side to the right side when clicking on the Control icon it did not re-orientate it's self

    what I mean is the dock still opens to the right  which makes it not able to have by the right edge cause when opening, all but the Control icon goes off edge

     

    one question

    I got the offer for the nexus dock (Nexus Ultimate) If need be like having to reinstall the OS would I still be able to reinstall Nexus Ultimate or is it

    only good for one time install...  thanks

     

     

     

    Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Quoting DisturbedComputer, reply 68
    what I mean is the dock still opens to the right  which makes it not able to have by the right edge cause when opening, all but the Control icon goes off edge


    Ah, good catch! I was thinking that perhaps I could solve that quickly by making Nexus evaluate the distance from both edges and then expand into whichever direction has more room (a bit like the sub-docks do) but for this to work properly the Nexus control icon would have to be able to reside on either side of the dock. Doing that would mean changing a LOT of code, unfortunately, as Nexus currently expects the control icon, when it exists, to always be the first (leftmost) icon on the dock.

    Of course, doing the above might be workable if you set the dock not to display a control icon, in which case it will only appear when the dock is collapsed (so you have something to click on to uncollapse it). But then, you wouldn't be able to collapse the dock manually.

    Sigh.

    Quoting DisturbedComputer, reply 68
    I got the offer for the nexus dock (Nexus Ultimate) If need be like having to reinstall the OS would I still be able to reinstall Nexus Ultimate or is it only good for one time install...  thanks

    Only good for a one time install, sorry. GAOTD wraps the setup of the programs they offer on their site with a setup of their own which will only work on the day of the promotion. On the other hand, you do have the heavilly discounted upgrades to the next release of Nexus Ultimate (and all the releases after that for a whole year) or even to Winstep Xtreme. |-)

    Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
    Quoting JcRabbit, reply 58

    Ah, inertia... Amazing how resistent to change people are. If you got it already, don't just 'look' at it... try it! |-)

     

    Maybe so, but at the time ODP 2 was cheaper....

    Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    thanks for the info..

    you do have the heavilly discounted upgrades to the next release of Nexus Ultimate

     

    and I do plan to get it just not to soon yet maybe I will get it for an Xmas gift 

    I am glad I did not upgrade to OD2  cause from what I have done so far with NU (Nexus Ultimate) I like..

    Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Quoting JcRabbit, reply 15
    To all those upgrading to Winstep Xtreme:

    Please don’t forget to uninstall Nexus Ultimate first. Since both programs share the same folder structures, themes, etc, (only the executables and some themes are different), you will corrupt your Winstep Xtreme installation if you try to uninstall later.

    This said, if you have already installed Xtreme on top of Nexus Ultimate, this is very easy to sort:

    1. Make sure Nexus Ultimate is not running (exit it if it is).
    2. Go to C:\Program Files\Winstep\ (or C:\Program Files (x86)\Winstep\ if running a 64 bit system) and delete the nexus-ultimate.exe executable file.
    3. Done!

    I overlooked this, Jorge, so you can disregard the email...lol. But I did as you said, and nextstart still won't load....reinstalling now.

    Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    Same error after reinstall, Jorge.  :'(

    Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    And this is what happens because this forums don't have a 'watch this topic' or 'send notifications of new replies by email'. >:(

    Still having this problem? Open the General tab of NextSTART Preferences and make sure 'Run NextSTART at Windows startup' is enabled.

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    Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top

    And with all of that they don't tell you it's a trial version. Yup...got that annoying pop up that says you have this much time left before it becomes non-functional. I got rid of it.