Winstep Nexus dock and Nexus Ultimate v18.8 released!

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Windows 10 Ready The Winstep Nexus dock is a free dock for Windows. Nexus has everything you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, skins, drag-and-drop support, plus many others exclusive to it such as live icon reflections, over 30 different mouse-over effects, in-dock system tray, built-in support for animated icons, full Windows 10 UWP app support, multi-monitor and high DPI support and much more. Completely customizable, with thousands of different backgrounds freely available online, Nexus is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus Ultimate is the commercial version of the free Nexus dock, adding support for multiple docks, categorized sub-docks, multiple tabbed docks (Shelves), Drawers (dock + single tabbed Shelf hybrid) plus even more widgets and cool looking mouseover effects.

Supported Languages: Arabic, 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.

Nexus and Nexus Ultimate run on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x and Windows 10.

100% Windows 10 compatible with full UWP (Universal) app support.

Over 30 amazing mouse over, attention, launch and delete effects!

Built-in battery, calendar, clock, cpu, email, moon, net, ram, recycler, wanda and weather modules/widgets.

Built in support for system tray icons plus running applications with live window preview thumbnails

Multiple built-in docklets such as a compact media player, alarm manager, sleep timer, language bar, cd control, GeoIP location, screen capture....

...and much, much more!

More Information:

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

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

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Congrats on getting this out the door JC!

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting ZubaZ, reply 1

Congrats on getting this out the door JC!

Thanks, Zubaz! Adding support for multiple Shelves, vertical Shelves and the new Drawers was a staggering amount of work - had to change literally thousands and thousands of lines of code. But it's finally done! Yay! :)

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 2
Thanks, Zubaz! Adding support for multiple Shelves, vertical Shelves and the new Drawers was a staggering amount of work - had to change literally thousands and thousands of lines of code. But it's finally done! Yay! :)
Jeez . . now I feel I should give you money again.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Got it.

Thank you.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This version fixes the frozen system tray and running apps docks (the launch dock has never frozen) but still displays an extra empty icon in the running dock tray.  Clicking dock properties and then Ok makes the empty icon go away.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting gevansmd, reply 5

This version fixes the frozen system tray and running apps docks (the launch dock has never frozen) but still displays an extra empty icon in the running dock tray.  Clicking dock properties and then Ok makes the empty icon go away.

Ah well... can't win them all, I guess. ;)

Thanks for the feedback.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Jc it looks like OD won't be updated and RocketDock ended, so it looks like Nexus Dock will be the only alternative. I wish you good luck. :beer: :pizza:  

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Jorge does it again! I love Winstep, I dunno what I'd do without it.  Thanks Jorge, you da man!!

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Is it Xmas!? :rofl:  :beer:  :pizza:  

FYI for Jorge! Clicking the "Restore Wallpaper" on the upper/shelf dock does nothing.  :-"  

Oh...and love when you come out with updates...my downloads go up! Closing in on 1 million downloads! :grin:

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting ALMonty, reply 7
Jc it looks like OD won't be updated and RocketDock ended, so it looks like Nexus Dock will be the only alternative. I wish you good luck. :beer: :pizza:  

Thanks, AL, but I don't see that as a good thing in any way, shape or form. Quite the opposite, in fact. :(

Never had problems competing (still here after all these years, am I not? ;) ) and competition, when it's civil and fair, is VERY healthy and benefits us all. Especially friendly competition like the one that has always existed between Stardock and Winstep.

But this... it's just sad - and scary. RocketDock gone, OD in limbo, nearly all other skin sites gone...

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 9
FYI for Jorge! Clicking the "Restore Wallpaper" on the upper/shelf dock does nothing.  :-"  

Err... works here.

You do know that it is meant to restore a previous wallpaper that is not part of a Winstep theme, right? That's the original intention of that IC (Internal Command): allow users to quickly go back to the wallpaper they had before running Xtreme for the first time (because Xtreme themes change wallpapers by default).

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 9
Oh...and love when you come out with updates...my downloads go up! Closing in on 1 million downloads! :grin:

Congratulations, Sir Gizmoid! :)

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 10

Quoting WebGizmos,
reply 9
FYI for Jorge! Clicking the "Restore Wallpaper" on the upper/shelf dock does nothing.

Err... works here.

You do know that it is meant to restore a previous wallpaper that is not part of a Winstep theme, right? That's the original intention of that IC (Internal Command): allow users to quickly go back to the wallpaper they had before running Xtreme for the first time (because Xtreme themes change wallpapers by default).

Quoting WebGizmos,
reply 9
Oh...and love when you come out with updates...my downloads go up! Closing in on 1 million downloads!

Congratulations, Sir Gizmoid!

When I reinstalled Winstep and it applied an initial theme...changing the background in the process...it displayed my previous background in the "restore wallpaper" thingy on the shelf...and when I clicked it it did nothing...go figure. :S  

 

And Thanky Sir Jorge! :grin:  

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Gorgeous...great work, Jorge!!!  B)  

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks, Seth! :)

Time to start working on the mythical Winstep Theme Builder... right after I finish updating the website lol.

Remember how Nexus used to be mythical once too? And the idea of multiple Shelves? :)

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Great update, Jorge. :thumbsup:  

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok ok , ya twisted my arm. gotta go git it now. :thumbsup:  

Bought me the Xtreme Basic version. Yay me! :rofl:  

Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

On my list to purchase next week, when I get paid, thanks Jorge! Can't wait for the theme builder now!|-)  

Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JcRabbit, reply 13

Time to start working on the mythical Winstep Theme Builder
Been said a 100 times. Enough already and get it done. Many people waiting for it.

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Couple things. One: When I updated the weather by clicking on detect location it put me in Pocopson. I think that's in Jersey. I'm in Pa in West Chester. I went to the city list and the closest to me is Willow Grove Air Station. If you look at the screenie the weather gadget has the text going off to the side. Two: How do I get the shelf and taskbar to stay not on top. Takes up a lot of real estate on the bottom.

 

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This one

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 18
Couple things. One: When I updated the weather by clicking on detect location it put me in Pocopson. I think that's in Jersey. I'm in Pa in West Chester.

The weather module uses a GeoIP location service to get your location based on your IP address, which is then compared to an internal list of know cities/locations.

If a direct match is found, fine, we now have a proper Weather.com code. if not the weather module then relies on the MSN weather feed to try and find a Weather.com code, based on latitude and longitude coordinates returned by the GeoIP service for your IP address.

If still no match is found, then the weather module will default to the capital of the country you're in.

What can sometimes happen (but is rare, I think) is the IP attributed to you by your ISP resolving to another location (for instance, your ISP headquarters).

Anyway, because the Winstep application caches the GeoIP result, you can know what it was: open the Windows Registry Editor and go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinSTEP2000\Shared\IPCache

See what is inside that key and paste it here so I can have a look too, please (or send it over to the Winstep support address if you are not comfortable sharing the information here). :)

Just for completeness, another way to know is to add the 'Lookup IP address' internal command to a dock or Shelf and then click on it. The information will appear inside a balloon tooltip.

Quoting Uvah, reply 18
I went to the city list and the closest to me is Willow Grove Air Station. If you look at the screenie the weather gadget has the text going off to the side.

Guess I forgot to limit the length of the location field for the weather module in the DarkTech theme. Thanks for letting me know.

In the mean time, simply right click on the Weather module, select 'Weather Monitor Settings' and then edit the 'City' field to whatever you want so the text no longer goes off the side (no worries, what really matters are the METAR and Weather.com codes)

Quoting Uvah, reply 18
Two: How do I get the shelf and taskbar to stay not on top. Takes up a lot of real estate on the bottom.

Exactly what do you want to do with it? Dock it at the top? Undock it? Prevent it from reserving screen space? Set it so it doesn't show the tabs (but then you're making life harder for yourself)?

Anyway, if you right click the left mini-tab, you will get a context menu with a TON of options for that Shelf. You can get to the Shelf Properties dialog for that Shelf from there too.

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What I want it to do is stay under the web page I have open like OD does. So I don't see it until I close my browser.

Reg. entry lists West Chester Pa with the coordinates so that much is correct. Oh, the IP Adress when I clicked on it shows the same coordinates.

Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 18
If you look at the screenie the weather gadget has the text going off to the side.

Ok, fixed the theme for the next release, thanks.

Actually I will have to update that theme here in WC too, since I modified it further here so the CPU desktop module shows the two processes using the most CPU and the RAM desktop module shows the two processes using the most RAM. Always useful to know. :)

Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Uvah, reply 21
What I want it to do is stay under the web page I have open like OD does. So I don't see it until I close my browser.

Right click on the left mini-tab (the little blue cog icon), select 'Shelf Properties' from the context menu that pops up. Go to the Position tab in the Shelf Properties panel, clear 'Prevent maximized windows from overlapping the shelf', press OK.

Done.

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Gee, I love this stuff. Thanks Jorge. 5*  5*  :beer:  Have a beer on me.

Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 11

When I reinstalled Winstep and it applied an initial theme...changing the background in the process...it displayed my previous background in the "restore wallpaper" thingy on the shelf...and when I clicked it it did nothing...go figure.
Have you put a check mark in "Prevent themes from changing your current wallpaper? In general settings tab. I have it set and the restore wallpaper button works for me.