We have covered many dock utilities like RKLauncher, Rocket Dock, Circle Dock, etc. Today we are going to share another cool free dock for Windows.
"SliderDock" is a free application launcher that is different from other dock utilities. It allows an easier access to your icons in a special way by making them rotate toward your mouse when you use your mouse wheel. In this way, you wont need to chase your icons all over your screen anymore.
Just rotate your mouse wheel and let the icons come to you. It allows you to easily drag and drop icons to access them later on by double clicking on them.
Following are its main features:
- Simple drag and drop function to add an icon
- Quickly launch an application
- Use the mouse wheel to let the icons come to you
- Smooth animations during icons rotation
- Highlight effect around selected icon
- Customizable icons(compatible with objectdock and rocketdock icons)
- Hide / Unhide application with the use of a shortcut key
It works in Windows XP, Vista and 7 and you'll need to install .NET Framework before using it.
Download Link (Portable version)
NOTE: You can also check other free docks at following link:
Ultimate Collection of the Best Dock Utilities for Windows
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software.
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Kkrazy92
Pretty sweet looking design. I've been using Rocketdock for years now, so giving this a try wouldn't be bad. This is very inovative.
Arvin V. Malabanan
ooooh. a cool new kind of dock.. i have a question VG, what's the best dock in terms of performance? i love to install one of those but i don't know what's the best one to use that will not take a lot of cpu usage or ram. thanks for the update as always
Robero
Thanks VG for sharing.Will give it a whirl to see how it goes?Seems quite nifty.Been using Object Dock (Free) for quite some time.Guess it would not hurt to do a comparison,who knows this may be my choice?
sid-crafty
no use to me, i use a notebook which doesn't has a mouse wheel
brunlea
thanks for this....its really cool man.
The Swiftman
Arvin V. Malabanan- I have tried all of the docks listed above (except for SliderDock). The best for performance is probably RocketDock. The only reason I use Object Dock is because it is from Stardock. :) If you are looking for eye candy, you can check out XWindows Dock (isn't listed above). It has very good animations and it works with Object Dock and RocketDock skins. It also is very customizable.
Arvin V. Malabanan
thanks for the answer VG.. i have another question.. what do you mean by xwindows dock works with rocketdock.. it means that i must install rocketdock first in order to use xwindows dock?
Arvin V. Malabanan
oh i thought vg is the one who post. sorry my mistakes.. my thanks go to swiftman... and also thanks for vg for updates as alwasy :)
Saurabh gupta
This s/w is just a Waste of time. It doesnt work at all. When i try to open the sliderdock.exe, it crashes n shows d error report.
I hv .net v3.5 installed on my XP machine but even dat makes no difference
DISAPPOINTED!!!
If der is a way plz let me know.
Thnx Askvg
brunlea
@ saurahh gupta....its just worked fine on xp but i've not tried it on vista yet....