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 #142 Tuesday, November 17, 2015 8:47 PM
Redneck, you have a PM too.
Lightstar, I just made a test order here and there were two things I noticed:
1. The discount and price were fine in the first page, as you said.
2. However, when I press the checkout button the order is immediately fulfilled (and with the discounted price). There is no second panel with another checkout price.
Since the e-commerce part is all handled by BMT Micro I'm not sure what is going on. To have something to send them so they can look into it, can you please send me two screenshots to the Winstep support address? The first holding the pre-checkout screen, the second the screen you get with the non-discounted price after clicking checkout.
Please don't forget to erase/edit out any private credit card number information on those screenshots (I know you won't have a problem knowing how to do that) 
Reply #143 Tuesday, November 17, 2015 9:16 PM
Will do Jorge, but it will have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks for looking into this.
You have PM Jorge. 
Reply #144 Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:48 PM
The discount code issue with Paypal and Amazon orders has been fixed.
Reply #145 Wednesday, November 18, 2015 11:13 PM
I got me the Winstep Xtreme Home Network Edition!!! Thanks, Jorge!!
Now, if only I could have 2 NextStart taskbars, one for each monitor........
I know I can span monitors, but I'd prefer 2 separate bars.
I want a lot, huh?
Reply #148 Wednesday, November 18, 2015 11:36 PM
Not to ruin the party, and I do realize this thread has gotten off course, it would be cool to have the ability to set the NextStart start button to open Start10, rather than the default Win10 menu.
Just dreamin"....... 
Reply #149 Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:43 AM
Not to ruin the party, and I do realize this thread has gotten off course, it would be cool to have the ability to set the NextStart start button to open Start10, rather than the default Win10 menu.
If you can get Start10 to open via a command line switch, then you can. Remember the NS Start Button is an hotspot like any other, so it can be associated to basically anything, not just the main NextSTART menu.
Reply #150 Thursday, November 19, 2015 2:03 PM
As if I had any idea what a command line switch is, or how to make one..... 
Reply #151 Sunday, January 31, 2016 10:59 PM
Ok, I know I'm very late, but I did finally open it. It's pretty cool. Can't wait till I can actually use it for something!!
Reply #152 Sunday, January 31, 2016 11:46 PM
Unfortunately, as I explained in the related thread on the Winstep forums, the Theme Builder will have to wait until the next release.
Reply #155 Monday, February 1, 2016 11:15 AM
You better!
And please, and this is for everyone, enough with the old boring *rectangular* Shelf and Desktop Modules skins. Winstep supports free skinning - be creative!
With the new found freedom the Theme Builder will give me, on my part I promise I will also add a ton of extra skinning features/options to what is already there.
Reply #157 Tuesday, February 2, 2016 3:16 PM
Jorge, any idea how to cure skinner's block?
Reply #159 Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:20 PM
Tried that, had fun, but still couldn't get enthused about skinning. 
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Reply #141 Tuesday, November 17, 2015 8:23 PM
All the problems occur in IE and Chrome, through BitsDujour or your sites purchase area Jorge. Before checkout the price is fine but after going to checkout it goes to the original price. Credit card or PayPal doesn't matter, the problem occurs either way.
Also, I have tried at least 10 times and the problem always occurs. Even tried on my cell phone.