Winstep Nexus Dock v15.9 Released!
Thursday, October 1, 2015 by JcRabbit | Discussion: OS Customization
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 many others not available in most other docks, such as live icon reflections, in-dock system tray, blur-behind effects, and much more. Completely customizable, with thousands of different backgrounds freely available online, Nexus is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.
Supported 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.
Nexus runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8.x and Windows 10.
v15.9 is a monster release, with hundreds of changes and additions. Focus was on adding missing key functionality as well as, of course, some new eye-candy.
What's New? Highlighted Features:
- Speed! Due to new and improved activation and hide delay timings, Nexus simply feels a lot more responsive. Rendering performance when shifting icons in a fully expanded Shelf to make room for a new shortcut is now also an order of magnitude faster (Nexus Ultimate only).
- Improved Windows 10 integration.
- Now fully high-DPI aware. Throw anything at it from 100% to 200% scaling and everything will still work and look as it should. New settings added to control the scaling of menus and the Shelf on high DPI systems.
- Added support for systems with multiple input languages: new 'Language Bar' internal command can be placed anywhere and emulates the functionality of the Windows language bar.
- New optional Edge Swipe activation mechanism.
- Shortcuts in the dock now double up as running application icons, so there is no duplication of icons when running applications are being displayed in the dock.
- Shelf now smoothly resizes when double clicking a tab header to fully expand the Shelf in order to show all the contents of that tab at once (Nexus Ultimate only).
- Weather module now automatically retrieves the user's location when running for the first time. Also added new 'Get My Location' button in the Weather settings panel.
- New Smoke mouseover/launch/attention effect. Not too intrusive and makes the dock look like it's on fire! My new personal favorite when combined with the magnify effect.
- Added support for RKLauncher dock skins.
- New option to colorize themes based on the dominant color of the current desktop background.
- Explosion animation shown when an item is deleted or removed is now user-customizable.
- New optional Windows 10 style for some UI elements, specifically designed so the application blends in with the new Windows version. Automatically enabled on Windows 10 systems.
- Added new 'Action Center' internal command (Windows 10 only).
- Clicking the clock module now shows the Windows calendar instead of the Regional Settings dialog (Windows 7 onwards).
- Font size in the User Interface is now automatically decreased when a non-English language is selected to better accomodate the (usually) longer translations.
- ... many other performance and stability improvements!
More Information:
Winstep Web Site:
http://www.winstep.net
More information about Winstep Xtreme:
http://www.winstep.net/xtreme.asp
More information about the Winstep Nexus dock:
http://www.winstep.net/nexus.asp
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Reply #65 Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:33 PM
... and the head put on a spike for all to see.
Watching too much William Wallace, are we? 
But yeah... you might not actually do it... but you will certainly feel like it after experiencing that About tab. And that's what the program opens to. lol
Reply #66 Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:45 PM
How does one say Torquemada in Portuguese...probably the same. 
Reply #69 Wednesday, November 4, 2015 7:01 PM
But yeah... you might not actually do it... but you will certainly feel like it after experiencing that About tab. And that's what the program opens to. lol
OK, so not only do you announce torture, but you are gonna pull a Microsoft and force it on us? 
Reply #72 Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:08 AM
I'm nice, so nice I decided to subscribe to Nexus Extreme Basic. Now......where's them ball and chains. 
Reply #73 Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:42 AM
Thanks, but what the hell is a "Nexus Extreme Basic"? 
<Education mode on>
List of available Winstep products:
Nexus (free)
Nexus Ultimate
Nexus Ultimate Home Network
Winstep Xtreme Basic
Winstep Xtreme
Winstep Xtreme Home Network
Start Menu Organizer (free)
Start Menu Organizer Pro
And here is a product comparison list.
There is no Nexus Xtreme nor a Winstep Ultimate. 
<Education mode off>
Anyway, hope you have fun with Extreme Fun Basic, err, Nexus Basic Home, err, rats, Winstep Xtreme Basic!
P.S. I think we might have an alpha of the Winstep Theme Builder (Nexus skinning only, but enough to get the feel for it and for all the hating to begin lol) before the weekend. But don't hold me to that.
Reply #74 Thursday, November 5, 2015 9:25 AM
P.S. I think we might have an alpha of the Winstep Theme Builder (Nexus skinning only, but enough to get the feel for it and for all the hating to begin lol) before the weekend. But don't hold me to that.
And what planet are you from?
You do know you're in the WinCustomize forums, right?
Like we're not gonna hold you to that.....yeah, right. 
Reply #77 Monday, November 9, 2015 3:09 PM
I'm posting here because I'm not at home, no power because of a faulty switch on an underground transformer. I just received Winstep Extreme Basic (see...I got it right that time). I installed it and double clicked on the activation key and nothing happened. Any ideas?
Reply #78 Monday, November 9, 2015 3:22 PM
Open WorkShelf Preferences. Is the Registration tab still visible? if not, it correctly self-registered.
If it is still visible, go to the Advanced tab, click on the 'Troubleshooting Options' button then the 'Restore File Associations' button in the dialog that pops up. Close everything and double click the license key file again. If all goes well, you should get a dialog saying 'Thank you for registering...'
Reply #79 Monday, November 9, 2015 4:00 PM
Winstep Extreme Basic (see...I got it right that time).
Actually, no.
It's Xtreme, not Extreme.........
Almost got it right. 
Reply #80 Monday, November 9, 2015 4:05 PM
Semantics......semantics...... 
Cool! Registration tab not visible so it must have self registered. Now...................where's the Them Manager!?!
*typo deliberate*
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Reply #61 Wednesday, November 4, 2015 3:19 PM
the added tutorial approach I chose for it (the 'skinning wiki' is actually already a part of the builder itself, which I think will be of great help to newbie and professional skinners alike) doesn't help either (who likes writing user guides? lol). But I know it's importance and I've been persevering, one panel at a time. Little by little it's getting there.
Excellent! This I like a good deal. Less navigating and searching.
my God, you are all going to hate me for it!
Who said we don't hate you already?