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    Dock for Windows (even Vista compatible)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by sylonien, May 14, 2007.

  1. sylonien

    sylonien Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi peeps.

    Not sure if this is news or what - it is to me. :) How cool is that?? I always loved the Mac's Dock, can't believe I can have it with my Windows. :eek: So smooth and nice - less clutter as well. Only 8Mb or so of my RAM used, so not too bad either.

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  2. vespoli

    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    Neat...

    Do you have a name or a link or anything? :confused:
     
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  3. sylonien

    sylonien Notebook Evangelist

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    Oh yeh sorry forgotten lol :D Very customisable and free aswell!!! Can change loads of skin with, possibilites are endless. Hahaha anyway, here's the link *looks....* Punksoftware RockDock
     
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    There's a pretty healthy list of docks in the Theming Windows XP thread. I am not sure which of those work on Vista though.

    This is pretty slick looking though. I currently use Rocketdock, which is stable enough for me.
     
    ttupa, May 14, 2007
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  5. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    RKLauncher works under vista also

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, May 15, 2007
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  6. sylonien

    sylonien Notebook Evangelist

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    RocketDock works fine with Vista. ;)

    Not sure about RKLauncher - heard some stuff about it. How much RAM does it take up?
     
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    well,new version look nice

    now i can work full screen without windows taskbar thanks to minimized windows
    [​IMG]
     
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  8. sylonien

    sylonien Notebook Evangelist

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    What program are you using? the RocketDock supports Minimise with live preview (with Vista) :)

    How did you get rid of the TAskbar though plus what if you wanna go to Start?? I use the taskbar as well as the Dock for my applications, so I can have my taskbar for my windows - find this combo easiest / efficient to use.

    AS well as having my additional icons on the desktop for my folders -> 'temp' folder :)

    [​IMG]
     
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  9. GRZ530

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    i just turn on Auto-hide in Properties
     
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    sylonien Notebook Evangelist

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    I see - almost tempted to place the taskbar at the top like the Mac, but might get told off for being silly and that I should go and buy a MacBook instead. :p
     
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  11. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    been using since day 1 - had its ups&downs - latest build stable - like it

    averaging 13.000k

    ???? mac users do also try to get windows apps to works under OSX since many win apps offer much better functionalities, but i would not tell them off as being silly and go get themselves a win machine ;-)

    i currently use Finderbar to simulate the mac top taskbar (xp and vista)

    cheers ...
     
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  12. sylonien

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    Ah - take it you're using XP then since Vista already has a search funciton that I regularly use. :)
     
    sylonien, May 16, 2007
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    qhn Notebook User

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    i m triple booting:
    . suse - 20% of ht etime due to development tasks
    . vista - 70%
    . xp - 10% (gaming mostly)

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, May 16, 2007
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