Winstep Nexus dock and Nexus Ultimate v18.8 released!
Friday, September 7, 2018 by JcRabbit | Discussion: OS Customization
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 #43 Thursday, September 13, 2018 12:25 AM
Got it, just bought Nexus Ultimate today, and so far, I'm loving it!
Reply #44 Thursday, September 13, 2018 7:29 AM
I disable NextStart easily. Right click on the taskbar and click on exit NextStart. Done. No need to open preferences.
Reply #45 Thursday, September 13, 2018 8:29 AM
Can't figure out why I can't access any Modules/Widgets in Nexus Ultimate, or do I need Winstep Xtreme?
Reply #46 Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:33 AM
Shouldn't matter. On the Nexus dock there is an icon that can hide or show all the widgets. Its the white one with the gray center. Hope that helps.
Reply #47 Thursday, September 13, 2018 11:37 AM
Ross, that only exists in Winstep Xtreme. You won't see it if you only have Nexus.
Reply #48 Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:47 PM
Yes but it should also be in Ultimate which Don says he has.
Reply #49 Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:59 PM
Yes but it should also be in Ultimate which Don says he has.
No. I just worked this issue out with Don, but for future reference only Winstep Xtreme features the free form desktop version of the modules. Nexus and Nexus Ultimate only support modules as icons on docks, etc...
Easiest way to know what does what before you buy is by referencing THIS PRODUCT COMPARISON PAGE.
Reply #51 Thursday, September 13, 2018 7:15 PM
Yes but it should also be in Ultimate which Don says he has.
No. I just worked this issue out with Don, but for future reference only Winstep Xtreme features the free form desktop version of the modules. Nexus and Nexus Ultimate only support modules as icons on docks, etc...
Easiest way to know what does what before you buy is by referencing THIS PRODUCT COMPARISON PAGE.
Thanks a lot Jorge, and next time, I'll do my research better, I have to say, this will be a joy to skin.
Reply #54 Friday, September 14, 2018 2:26 AM
Thank you JcRabbit Winstep Nexus dock is a great work!!!
Reply #56 Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:15 PM
I have another unreleased theme that Winstep commissioned from Vstyler some years ago, but it is still 100% in PSD format only.
Here is what I am going to try to do: instead of putting it together by editing the configuration files directly (or asking WebGizmos to help me with that) I am going to use this as an opportunity to keep developing the Winstep Theme Builder, so I can use that to put the theme together. Good opportunity to eat my own dog food and also motivate me to finish the damn thing.
Well, at least there's plenty of good will on my part... let's see if I can back that up with some action. Sigh. lol
Reply #57 Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:55 PM
Ross (Z71) and I are working as a team on the Office WB too.
Reply #59 Wednesday, September 19, 2018 3:28 AM
Reading this thread is a joy. It convinces me skinning is FAR from dead.
Reply #60 Wednesday, September 19, 2018 6:50 PM
Just a quick question. How do I get the browser icon to point to my default browser which is now Chrome again. I uninstalled Opera and rebooted but it doesn't open Chrome. Its still pointing at Opera.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:20 PM
I feel dumb asking this but how does one go about just launching the dock when you have Winstep Extreme? There are times when I do not want Nextstart or the WorkShelf active, sometimes I only want to use the dock.
Everything in Winstep Xtreme is modular, so it can be enabled/disabled at will.
For instance, when you say you don't want NextSTART, if what you actually mean is the NextSTART taskbar (so you can still access the 100% customizable NextSTART menu by bumping the top left screen corner), all you need to do is open NextSTART Preferences, go to the Taskbar tab and clear the 'Allow NextSTART to replace the Windows taskbar' setting, then press OK.
If you REALLY do not want to have NextSTART running, all you need to do is exit the application. If you do not want it to run EVER, then open NextSTART Preferences, go to the General tab and disable 'Run NextSTART at Windows Startup'.
As for the Shelf in WorkShelf, open WorkShelf Preferences and go to the Docks & Shelves tab. From there you can enable/disable all the currently active Shelves, Docks and Drawers. You can also do the same via each dock/shelf/drawer 'Dock and Shelf Management' right click context sub-menu.
Same thing for the desktop modules, you can right click any of the desktop modules for options to open/close other modules, or you can do that from the Modules tab in WorkShelf Preferences.