You have to create a shortcut for an app and then drag it to the dock to add it. While this dock app comes with an auto-hide feature, you do have to be careful when choosing where to place this dock on your screen. If your dock and Taskbar are both at the bottom of your screen, you can accidentally open apps from your Taskbar when you are trying to click on the dock.
However, you can always move this dock up or hide your Taskbar. If you want to know how to hide your Taskbar and more, check out our guide on how to customize your Taskbar. Unlike most dock apps, ObjectDock gives you access to a main dock, or what they call a Quicklaunch Dock, as well as a Tabbed Dock. The Quicklaunch Dock works just like the dock on your Mac, while the Tabbed Docks gives you another location to add shortcuts for your programs, documents, links, and other files and folders.
You can set the Quicklaunch Dock to show all your open applications, all your running windows, minimized windows, and even show system tray icons. You can also customize the position, size, style, color, and animation effects of the dock. For example, you can use a zoom effect like the Mac dock has, or you can make your icons glow when you hover your mouse over them. Plus, when you hover over an app, you can see a preview of all the windows you have open for that app. However, unlike the previous apps on this list, ObjectDock is not free.
Customize Size, position and number of icons ObjectDock puts you in control of how big or small your dock is, where it appears on your screen and the icons that populate it. Special effects Personalize your docks with unique animated effects that occur when you mouse-over docked items. Personalize your dock with downloadable skins Choose from the many dock skins included with ObjectDock or discover a new favorite for free at our WinCustomize. Configure Docklets to "Fly out" and display your files or folders ObjectDock can display the contents of folders right in the tab Hide the Windows Taskbar for a cleaner, more accessible desktop Display the local weather or any other location using a docklet Choose from included dock designs or find more at WinCustomize.
Need to unsubscribe? You can create stacks from special folders, such as My Documents, or from ordinary folders on your hard drive. See our article about 7Stacks for information. The launcher can be accessed through the system tray, using a hotkey, or by clicking the middle mouse button.
It is portable and can use relative paths, making it useful as an application launcher for portable programs on USB flash drives. The look of the launcher can be customized using skins and you can use custom picture files.
ViPad is a free application launcher and desktop organization tool for Windows that allows you to gather your favorite program shortcuts, website links, system tools shortcuts, files, folders, etc.
You can even categorize the items onto personalized tabs. Use drag-and-drop to put items on the launcher and to rearrange the items.
Windows 7 App Launcher Gadget provides a very small application launcher that displays on your desktop as a gadget. You can drag and drop program shortcuts, files, and folders directly onto the gadget. You can also add favorites from Firefox, Opera, and IE to the gadget so you can quickly access websites.
If you use Linux, check out the following useful application launchers that are only available for Linux. It can also be used to keep track of open windows. AWN is highly customizable and fits perfectly into your Ubuntu theme. Gnome-Do is a keyboard-oriented program for Linux that allows you to quickly search for many items in your GNOME desktop environment, such as applications, Firefox bookmarks, files, etc.
It is plugin-based, allowing you to easily extend it to handle new items and actions. Docky is a dock application for Linux that makes opening common applications and managing windows quicker and easier. Besides being an application launcher, Docky can also manage your running applications and host various docklets, including a CPU monitor, weather report, and clock.
Applications can integrate with Docky to add extra items to their context menus or modify their icons to display more information. The following application launchers are for those of you who prefer using the keyboard over the mouse.
They make launching applications and opening files quick and easy. Display the FARR window using a custom hotkey, and then just start typing the first letters of the application, file, or folder you want to find and the results display instantly.
You can also use FARR to run web searches, send email, manipulate files, and much more. Plugins, add-ons, and extensions are also available for FARR. Launchy is a free utility for Windows, Linux, and Mac designed to help you launch your documents, files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.
It also indexes the programs in your Start menu in Windows, providing quick access to your favorite programs. Launchy opens as a small window in which you type your search term. The results display below the window as you type.
There are skins to customize the look of Launchy and plugins to extend its functionality. Windows 7 App Launcher 7APL allows you to launch multiple applications at once in Windows using a hotkey or the Windows 7 jump lists feature. You create profiles containing all the applications you want to start at once and apply a hotkey to each profile. To run profiles from a jump list, pin the 7APL. For more information, see our article about Windows 7 App Launcher.
Blaze is an application launcher for Windows that allows you to search your files and folders and the web, as well as launch programs. Also, use Blaze to perform in-place calculations and base conversions.
Create emails on-the-fly and perform commands on a specific Explorer window. Blaze is available in a portable version that supports relative paths. NET Framework 3. Click one of the links below to download it. See our article about Blaze for more information.
Executor is a multi-purpose launcher for Windows that allows you to quickly run programs and search for anything from one central location. It operates using keywords and each keyword can be assigned a hotkey, so Executor can also perform like many popular hotkey managers. The layout, appearance, and behavior of Executor can be customized.
See our article about Executor for more information. Key Launch is an application launcher that allows you to ignore your Start menu and desktop shortcuts and launch programs using your keyboard. Define aliases to launch programs using abbreviations. When you drag the mouse pointer over a floating window including the original position of the window that you are dragging , no docking occurs.
This exception means that you might have to drag other windows out of the way or drag the current window two times before you can move the window to where you want it. If you drag the mouse pointer to a position that is not inside the WinDbg frame or any other dock and then you release the mouse button, the dragged window remains floating. All of the preceding rules apply to the mouse pointer location itself. They do not depend on where you originally selected within the title bar of the window that you are dragging.
If you let WinDbg automatically dock a floating window that was previously docked, WinDbg tries to put the window in the same docking position that it previously occupied.
Also, if you load a workspace, WinDbg tries to restore all of the debugging information windows to their previous positions, whether docked or floating. However, multiple instances of Memory windows and Source windows are not distinguished when the docking position is saved.
For example, if you combine the Locals window together with a Memory window in a tabbed collection, and this state is saved and later restored, the Locals window joins a Memory window in a tabbed collection, but it might not be the same Memory window as before.
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