Winstep Nexus

What is Winstep Nexus?

Wikipedia defines a dock as a UI feature of multiple operating systems that typically provide the user with a way to start and switch between applications. Winstep Nexus Dock is a professional dock for Windows. With Nexus, the most commonly used apps are just a click away from the mouse - and the Nexus turns computer work into a fun and exciting experience.

Nexus Ultimate is an enhanced version of the Nexus dock, available independently or as a component of Winstep Xtreme.

In-depth features

Various docks and sub-docks (Nexus Ultimate)

Create multiple docks for a variety of custom needs, organize applications into collectible groups or sub-docks.

Powerful Dock Manipulation Options (Nexus Ultimate)

Create stations from existing shelf guides, deattach sub-docks, turn them into sub-docks, duplicate them, delete them – all using simple drag-and-drop options and/or context menu.

Shelves / docks with guides (Nexus Ultimate)

Not only being able to keep shortcuts dragged to it, a shelf is also able to display the contents of special shell folders such as desktop, my computer, control panel, recent documents and so on, contents of hard disk folders, which can be manipulated with drag and drop feature as usual.

A shelf makes it possible to have a 'clean', organized, iconless desktop, causing Nexus Ultimate to hide icons on the desktop - icons that can be quickly accessed on the Desktop tab. Tabs on a shelf can also have keyboard shortcuts associated with them to cause the shelf to reach the foreground simultaneously and open that particular tab.

You can create as many shelves as you want with the built-in Dock and Shelves Manager, snap them to the edge of the screen of any monitor, or even leave them floating on the desktop. You can even add sub docks and grid stacks to shelves:

Grid Stacks (Nexus Ultimate)

Stacks are a particularly useful new feature that can provide instant access to application content, documents, downloads, and any other folders placed on a station, shelf, or drawer. There they sit until you click on them, when they appear in a grid arrangement.

With the same technology on the shelves, you can also use Grid Stacks to display the contents of virtual shell folders, such as the Windows Control Panel, desktop, documents, and recent applications, UWP applications in Windows 10.

Drawers (Nexus Ultimate)

Basically, a single shelf with tabs, a drawer is a hybrid dock/shelf, blending some of the best features of the docks with some of the best features of the shelves.

Search filter (Nexus Ultimate)

Shelves, drawers and grid stacks are able to display folders containing thousands of files - so sometimes finding what you want is the problem.

All you need to do is start typing, and the content is automatically filtered according to what you just typed. You can press Backspace to delete a character or ESC to clear and discard the search filter.

Reflections of live icons

The first (and only) Windows docks with live icon reflections. Reflections are updated in real time if the icons are animated or changed. The size and transparency of reflections are also user configurable.

Powerful object-based Drag & Drop

The object-based interface offers drag-and-drop features that simplify the management of applications, files, printers. Use the Drag and Drop feature to move/copy/rearrange objects from one location to another, both inside and out. off the docks. Drop documents on the dock application objects and load them automatically. You can quickly change the images used by Nexus items by simply dragging and dropping your . ICO, . PNG or . Favorite TIF on the chosen object.

Special effects

Eye Candy is king! Many optional special effects such as icon zoom, jump, brightness, swing, squish, rotation, blast, shifting to make room for items to be discarded, jumping on app launch, visual feedback for specific actions, amazing '' fluid effects that cause the docks and icons to behave like liquid surfaces, sound events for when the docks collapse and arise or the sub-docks open and more!

Additional visual effects (Nexus Ultimate)

With Nexus Ultimate, you get even more amazing mouse, start, and delete effects, plus the wide selection already offered by the free winstep nexus dock!

Virtual file system support

Allows you to drag special Explorer objects, such as Control Panel items and the My Computer icon, to the docks.

Document thumbnails

Documents, photos, and video files dragged to a station appear as thumbnails for easy identification.

Blur behind

Automatically blurs the bottom of the semi-transparent docks.

Reserve screen space

Ensures that maximized windows do not overlap the docks attached to the edges of the screen.

Respect the placeholder on the screen

Prevents docked docks from overimposing the Windows taskbar and other toolbars connected by the edge of the screen.

Built-in support for animated icons

Nexus has built-in support for animated icons. Without the need to install third-party docklets and full drag-and-drop support, the animated icons in Winstep apps are as easy to use as any other icon: release the PNG track from the animated icon directly into a dock item, and the icon will start animating automatically.

Running applications

Nexus is a complete taskbar replacement with the ability to display apps running in the dock - with Windows"superbar skills, including Aeropeek, even on Windows XP.

System tray

The Nexus can display the system tray on the station in one of two modes:

Tray icons can be displayed one by one or in grouped mode to take up as little space as possible.

Tray icon customization (Nexus Ultimate)

System tray icons are originally small 16x16 icons and can become very blurry when displayed in the docking station in larger sizes. Nexus Ultimate allows you to customize tray icons with high-resolution alternatives to solve this problem, with a set of high-resolution images for system tray icons included in the app.

Full support for Windows 10 UWP (Universal) applications

Nexus is the only dock currently capable of handling UWP applications in Windows 10 like normal Win32 applications.

Hide automatically

Docks connected to the edges of the screen can automatically hide at the edge of the screen and appear on demand.

Collapse automatically

Floating docks (that is, docks not connected to a screen edge) can be collapsed into a single control block and collected on demand.

Full support for multiple monitors and high DPI

Stations can be attached to any edge of the screen or left floating on any monitor.

Modules / Widgets

The Nexus features eight useful modules (widgets), such as a digital clock/analog speaker that synchronizes your time with Internet time servers, a recycler, an SSL-compatible email checker and multiple email accounts, a weather module, CPU, network and RAM Meters and Wanda, an animated fish 'fortune cookie'!

Additional battery monitor, calendar and moon phase modules (Nexus Ultimate)

Nexus Ultimate offers you an additional UPS/Battery Monitor, a calendar and a moon phase module, with more exclusive Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme modules coming soon!

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768