7Stacks: Get Mac OS X Stacks in Windows XP, Vista and 7

7stacks is a free application for Windows XP, Vista and 7 users that lets you have "stacks" of icons in the Taskbar (in Windows 7) or Quick Launch Toolbar (in Windows Vista and XP). By using stacks, users can reduce icon clutter, and combine a group of related icons into a single icon. For instance, if you use application suites such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or Adobe CS4, you can have all the suite's icons combined into one icon!

You can also use it to browse and access documents within a folder very quickly. Just create a stack to the desired document's folder, and open that document in a couple of clicks.

7stacks is incredibly easy to use, and has a variety of looks and features, allowing anyone to customize the look of their stack however they'd like. And using Windows 7, its easy to create new stacks by right-clicking on any stack, and selecting "Create New Stack" in the JumpList. 7stacks will place an shortcut icon on your desktop to this new stack, which you can then pin to your Windows 7 taskbar, or Vista or XP QuickLaunch bar.

Features List:

In 7 and Vista, 7stacks uses Aero, making the stacks look like part of Windows itself.
Browse sub-folders within a stack, just like in OS X Snow Leopard.
3 different styles of stacks: Normal, Grid, and Menu.
In Windows 7, create a new stack by right-clicking on any stack and selecting "Create New Stack" from the JumpList entry.
In Menu mode, 7stacks doesn't even need to be in a toolbar. You can use it right from your desktop, or any other folder.
Pin up to 10 different stacks on the Windows 7 taskbar.

You can download it using following link:

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14 Comments

informale

Does not work on my pc. Whenever I try to run any of the pinned stacks it seems to load at first, but then nothing happens. I run again and I end up with two or more processes called SevenStacks0.exe and I still get nothing.

Youtube howto, anyone?
vor nach

How do you use it, there are no help files or useful screen shots , not even on their site....
johnny.rotton

NIS 09 reported a threat with its sonar. Could someone else please varify this.
Johnny

false positive cuz your antivirus sucks pal
Hom3r

Works fine for me... Interesting, but more of an eye candy thing imo.
Daniel

Nice app, but starts to slow. And why having a single process for each stack and not making it multi-task-able. Standalonestack is even better but does not work for me cause I have my taskbar on top but stacks are alway opended upwards. With 7Stacks it works fine, but to slow as I said.
informale

Okay, tested it on a win7 installation in a virtual machine - it does work. But to my taste, it is unusable in real life - a bit slow, a bit workaround-ish (separate processes).
Gary

So how do you get a Game stack as in the picture above? What is the file name or perhaps it's a GUID?
dharma.janitor

@informale and everyone else using this with Windows 7:
To prevent 7Stacks from being to slow you have to remove the language bar from the taskbar.
1. Right click on the language bar (left of the tray bar - if you're an english reader it's probably "EN"), then "Settings...".
2. Click on "Language Bar" Tab
3. Now set it either to "Floating On Desktop" or "Hidden"
4. Click "OK" and you're done!^^
Fernando

This program is a piece of crapp.
Doesn't works when you click the stack and only shows the grid or menu almost 2 minutes after.
Don't waste your time with this crappy program.