Winstep Nexus Dock v11.6 FREE released

Now with built-in support for animated icons!

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Might be old news for some (it was released last week), but I wanted to make sure everything was ok before posting the news. :)

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Winstep has released Nexus v11.6. The new release features built-in support for animated icons (just drag & drop, no need for 3rd party docklets), eighteen different dock mouse over effects that can be combined with the Magnify effect, and MUCH MORE! Read the full change log HERE.

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The Winstep Nexus dock is a FREE dock for Windows. Every feature you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and others not available in most other docks, such as live icon reflections, in-dock system tray, Win7 'superbar' abilities for running applications, automatic blur-behind (Vista/7) of semi-transparent dock backgrounds, 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 runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 and currently supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Stoopid question. This isn't the same as Nexus Ultimate...right?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's the free version, only supports one dock and no Shelf. Nexus Ultimate is the paid version - when the free gets updated, the other gets updated too. But don't worry, you already have the latest version. :)

Fences - Organize your desktop icons today!
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh...I thought it was a dock...dock. My bad. lol

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

o_O

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Awesomeness is what it is, pure awesomeness in it's natural form.  Thanks Jorge! 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A duck?

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Site down at the moment ?

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sigh. 500 Internal Server Error? Try again, please, it comes and goes. The site has been acting a bit flaky for the past 3 days, the Basiclink guys are already on it.

 

Hope the nice animated icons SWF demo file I did has nothing to do with the server crashing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did... trouble seems to have started after I added that to the site.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank you for this information I applied the update from its release!  :)

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

No support for Romanian language ...hmmmm 

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm a noob when it comes to winstep/nexus...sorry.

How easy is it to skin (skin editor program vs .ini files and notepad?) and can I convert my objectdock backgrounds to work with this?

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

just bought nexus extreme, works far more smoothly than objectdock and loads a hell of a lot quicker as well. Far more options for customizing. The only problem i have encountered is with the recycle bin not updating the icon when you empty the bin. using windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. but apart from that i am happy with it so far. well worth the money ;)

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 2of3, reply 13
How easy is it to skin (skin editor program vs .ini files and notepad?) and can I convert my objectdock backgrounds to work with this?

You don't need to convert anything - Nexus is compatible with skins for *all* 3rd party docks.

As for skinning, because of the above, you can use whatever skinning format you chose (RocketDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, etc...) to skin Nexus...

Currently Winstep is working on it's own Winstep Theme Builder application so users can make native Winstep skins. Previously, skinning options were part of the applications themselves, so you would skin them via the GUI, but since very few users actually do skins they were removed and are currently being migrated into a dedicated theme builder application.

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

id love to skin winstep, but ill wait for the builder, im too much of a noob not to.

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 15
You don't need to convert anything - Nexus is compatible with skins for *all* 3rd party docks.

As for skinning, because of the above, you can use whatever skinning format you chose (RocketDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, etc...) to skin Nexus...

Currently Winstep is working on it's own Winstep Theme Builder application so users can make native Winstep skins. Previously, skinning options were part of the applications themselves, so you would skin them via the GUI, but since very few users actually do skins they were removed and are currently being migrated into a dedicated theme builder application.

 

Sounds great! Thanks!

I would love to get into skinning Winstep. I hate editing ini files so a theme builder app would be excellent!

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Guys, I got it. Even poor WebGizmos is stuck in v9.5 land because I haven't finished the builder yet, eheh.

You have my promise that's what I will be working on now.

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Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Nimbin, reply 14
works far more smoothly than objectdock and loads a hell of a lot quicker as well. Far more options for customizing.

I have to agree 100%  No offense to SD or the OD developers but Nexus makes ObjectDock look like it is half-finished.

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 19

Quoting Nimbin, reply 14 works far more smoothly than objectdock and loads a hell of a lot quicker as well. Far more options for customizing.

I have to agree 100%  No offense to SD or the OD developers but Nexus makes ObjectDock look like it is half-finished.

I'll neither agree nor disagree. lol I have no problems with ObjectDock. It loads pretty quick but I think its tie-in to explorer should be changed. Couple of times explorer crashed on me. Everything else worked except that and ObjectDock, Nexus ran smoothly as did Rainmeter and Sysmetrix. The problem with explorer was too many apps loading at startup. At least that's what I thought it was so I changed that to just a bare minimum. Still does it occasionally.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 15

Quoting 2of3, reply 13How easy is it to skin (skin editor program vs .ini files and notepad?) and can I convert my objectdock backgrounds to work with this?

You don't need to convert anything - Nexus is compatible with skins for *all* 3rd party docks.

As for skinning, because of the above, you can use whatever skinning format you chose (RocketDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, etc...) to skin Nexus...

Currently Winstep is working on it's own Winstep Theme Builder application so users can make native Winstep skins. Previously, skinning options were part of the applications themselves, so you would skin them via the GUI, but since very few users actually do skins they were removed and are currently being migrated into a dedicated theme builder application.

This is great news!

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting 2of3, reply 17
I hate editing ini files so a theme builder app would be excellent!

Same here, I'm too lazy these days but if anyone has worked with Litestep, Aston or .msstyles, they can easily skin Winstep. I've made several themes for my girlfriend (she's a big Winstep fan) but a "builder" would be a motivator to skin more for sure....

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Vampothika, reply 16
id love to skin winstep, but ill wait for the builder, im too much of a noob not to.

Me, too!

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just for interest sake - I use Rocket Dock, which has an add-on to open folders on the dock in 'stacks' or 'grid' fashion - like Mac. Simple but fantastic way to quickly find & open programs, folders etc. Does Nexus or OD have this capability?

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Nexus Ultimate (NOT the free version of Nexus) supports multiple level sub-docks, which, functionality wise, are pretty much the same thing, or even better because you can put non-file system stuff into them.

Eye-candy wise, sub-docks are not as 'flashy' as Stacks, which is why a native version of Stacks is on the to-do list for Nexus Ultimate. This said, there is something called 'Cris'n'Softs' stand alone Stacks which you can use with the free version of Nexus.