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Leopard-style Dock for Windows with “stacking”

Today I’m gonna show you how to get a Mac (OS X Leopard)-Style Dock for Wondows (in my case Vista) with the new “stacking” feature. Not only does this feature look cool, but it also saves a lot of room/space, so you can fit/stack as many icons as possible, especially if you have a low resolution display and/or a lot of software you want to access quickly.

So, all we need is:

  1. RocketDock (RKLauncher, and ObjectDock also support this I believe, but I prefer RD)
  2. Stacks Docklet (created by Matías Moreno, “introduced” to me by Calvin)
  3. Some Icons (you can get some here)

Once you install RocketDock, download the Stacks docklet, unzip the package, and place the folder in the “docklets” folder (by default located in C:\Program Files\RocketDock\Docklets) such that the folder called “StackDocklet” contains a folder called “Images” and a dll-file called “StackDocklet.dllRead more »

January 3, 2008 Posted by Davron | HowTo's, Reviews, Videos | , , , , , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments