As it happens with all betas in order to prevent you from continuing on using potentially buggy software, Nexus beta 1 expired on August 1st.

Unfortunately the beta 2 release had to be delayed until July 30 while I waited for the new language translations to be ready. Because of this, for some people the release came too close to the expiration date for the Update Manager to pick it up on time and upgrade automatically.

My apologies to those who got the 'This Beta has expired, please contact Winstep support' message.

Since beta 2 is nearly feature complete and its preview release was rather extensivelly tested with no serious bugs found, I decided NOT to include time out code on beta 2. This said, it's always a good idea to leave the Winstep Update Manager enabled and upgrade whenever a new release is available.

Nexus 9.7 beta 2 adds a lot of the features requested by users of the first Nexus public beta and should fix all the bugs found on that release too.

1 - Download the 9.7 public beta 2 from HERE.

2 - Exit any running Winstep applications.

3 - Unzip and run NexusSetup.exe

Note:

This setup includes all the files necessary for a clean installation of Nexus.

If you are running Winstep Xtreme and you want to try this release of Nexus, you can install it without fear of damaging your current Winstep Xtreme installation, but you MUST NOT UNINSTALL it via Add/Remove Programs afterwards. The later will DAMAGE your Winstep Xtreme installation. You can simply delete Nexus.exe once you are finished playing with it.

Major new features in relation to beta 1:

Icon spacing.
Running indicators.
Icon Locking.
Optional full right click context menus.
Ability to rename modules/docklets.
Container folders of shortcuts in the dock can be browsed via the right click context menu.
Customizable left, middle and right click actions for list of running programs.
Better handling of icon reflections on vertical docks.
Faster startup time.
Five more languages supported: Spanish, Swedish, Farsi, Norwegian, Polish.
... and much more!

Feature suggestions and all constructive criticism are, as always, greatly appreciated.

Enjoy,

Should we go to add/delete programs and delete Nexus beta 1 prior to installing beta 2; or will it just write over previous beta version?
Thanks...great software thus far!

Just install on top.

How do I add a sub-menu? I use these alot.

You don't on the free Nexus. Buy WSX for submenu support.

Already did that. Just noodling with the beta.