StandaloneStack 2: Get Leopard Stacks in Taskbar and Desktop in Windows XP and Vista
If you use a dock utility like ObjectDock or RocketDock, you might be knowing about the Stack docklet from Matonga. It shows stacks of shortcuts in the dock.
If you don’t want to use any dock software but want to have Mac OS X Leopard like Stacks feature in Windows Taskbar, following freeware will help you.
StandaloneStack 2 is an excellent free utility which shows Leopard style stacks in Windows Taskbar. Just create a shortcut with the good parameters and run it to show the stack.
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You can download it using following link:
Once you have downloaded StandaloneStack 2, unzip the files and run standalonestack2.exe to create and customize your stack.
finally I had the idea and I found the way to use together the StandaloneStack2 (the Stacks on steroids) and the AnimatedShortcut docklet !!
Standalone Stack while a nice program is broken for 32 bit shortcuts in 64 bit windows. I suggest 7stacks which works with all 32 bit and 64 bit windows programs that I have tried it with so far. it also allows you to choose grid style and it lets you choose mac style open/close(click to open/click to close)
alastria.com/software/7stacks/
Great tool, but it should have a fixed limit size for grid stack by number of icons, with a side scroll bar like the original macOS do. In grid mode indeed folders with many items clutter up the whole screen and the button “show in explorer” disappears.
It’s no true that Standalonestack is broken for 32 bit shortcuts on Windows 64 bit, I’m using it on Windows 11 and it work like a charm with any shortcut for 32 and 64 bit programs. Its flaw is another as I wrote in the other message, there is missing a fixed size view for folders with many items, with a side scroll bar.