Winstep Nexus Dock 16.6
Release date June 27, 2016
Nexus is now 100% compatible with Windows 10 and much more in this new release!
Nexus will help you with super fast access to your most frequently used applications, with flexible options allowing it to dock or float anywhere on the screen, providing a myriad of "on demand" possibilities.
From it's generous use of situational sensitive context menus to it's advanced Drag & Drop support, Nexus is not only easy to use - it's a joy!
Features:
Live icon reflections.
Item magnification and other mouse over effects.
Multiple special effects.
Automatic semi-transparent background blur (Vista and Windows 7 only).
Auto-hide and auto-collapse.
Running programs displayed on dock.
System tray displayed on dock.
In-dock modules/widgets.
Internal commands.
Running indicators.
Icon locking.
Optional full right-click context menus.
Full multi-monitor support.
Ability to prevent maximized windows from overlapping the dock.
Ability to respect screen space reserved by other applications.
Supports adding virtual file system objects such as Control Panel items.
Document thumbnails.
Completely customizable, thousands of themes available.
Compatible with themes for all 3rd party docks.
Full Drag & Drop support.
Extremely easy to use with intuitive interface.
Configuration backup and restore.
Multi language support.
Includes Update Manager to look for, download, and automatically install new versions.
Quality and performance tested.
Changelog
Nexus v16.6 complete change log:
Added new 'Fast Boot' option to the General tab of Preferences. When enabled it should help make the application boot faster forcing Windows to load it before most other applications. Since it does this by adding an entry to the RunOnce key, some security packages (such as WinPatrol) might start prompting the user.
Normalized the time remaining shown when downloading updates so it didn't jump all over the place.
Running Universal/Metro applications in Windows 10 now display the proper app icon instead of a general App icon.
Running Universal/Metro applications can now be pinned to the dock.
Multiple instances of running Universal/Metro applications can now be grouped together.
Shortcuts to Universal/Metro applications pinned to the dock now behave like other Win32 applications in terms of complying to the current 'Combine dock icons with running applications' and 'Do not launch multiple sessions of the same application' settings.
When pinning a running application to the dock, the new shortcut now uses the running application's customized icon (if any).
All User Interface bitmaps are now stored internally as high-resolution bitmaps so they always look good even on very high-DPI systems.
User Interface is now 100% compatible with the current Windows system colors and Stardock WindowBlinds themes.
Effect bitmaps have been moved to an external resource DLL to cut the size of updates by half.
Moved some User Interface images to an external resource DLL.
Text in the User Interface now uses Segoe UI instead of Tahoma on high DPI systems with Cleartype enabled.
Update Manager options are now grayed out if the user chooses not to check for updates, to make it clear that those options only have an effect if Check for updates is enabled.
The Item Properties dialog was sometimes showing a blank icon when changing the filename or icon path of an application.
The 'Colorize with dominant color of desktop background' feature was sometimes not working with the Windows 10 wallpaper slide-show feature.
The 'Lookup IP Address' internal command was failing to get the correct user's location if it only had latitude and longitude coordinates.
Fixed huge GDI/memory leak introduced in v16.2 that could eventually crash the application when icons on the left side of the dock representing running applications showed the number of open windows for that application. The original image/icon (without the overlapping number) was not getting destroyed as it should.
Fixed many misc.issues on the UI related to high DPI settings.
System Requirements
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Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista/7/8.x/10
32 or 64 bit. - 500 Mhz processor.
- 256 MB of RAM.
- 30 MB of free hard disk space.
- Screen resolution 800x600 or higher.
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Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista/7/8.x/10