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, Vista Blur-behind effects, and much more. Completely customizable, Nexus has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7 and is currently available in the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brasil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.

The v10.9 release is a major release. Feature highlights:



◦Added new Squish, Spin, Sonic Boom, Heal, Fire, Magic, Flare, Wind and Water dock mouseover effects:



◦New particle mouseover animations can be colorized for thousands of different variations
◦Each mouseover effect now has its own independent settings, such as magnitude, duration and color
◦Added window thumbnails with peek ability that pop up when mousing over icons of running programs:



◦Added 'Do Not Launch Multiple Sessions' setting to the Misc.Advanced dialog so clicking on a shortcut of a running application brings that application forward instead of launching a new instance
◦Dock can now be prevented from comming forward by accident when bumping the screen edge by enabling the new 'Disable edge activation' setting
◦Wallpapers can now be applied automatically when switching to a new theme
◦Explosion Animation, shown when an item is deleted, can now be disabled
◦Balloon tooltip now display thumbnails of document and video files
◦Dock alignment can now be set by dragging the dock horizontally or vertically
◦Color of item labels can now be changed
◦Added support for Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Hungarian and Korean languages
◦Much more!