Rocket Dock: Free Mac-Style Application Launcher for Windows

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. The graphics is quite appealing consuming only 15 MB of your system memory. This is a Windows Version of the Mac OS X Dock application. It is a launch pad for applications and folders which can be positioned anywhere on your Desktop and can be customized to autohide when not in use.

Shortcuts to your most used applications and folders can be added to the Dock just by dragging and dropping onto it. Also any unwanted shortcuts can be removed by just dragging them off the Dock. There are lots of themes available to make the Dock blend into your desktop theme. Some examples are Vista, Vista Black, Aero milk, Luminous and CrystalXP. With it’s Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock.

Features include minimizing windows to the dock, indicators for currently running application, drag and drop and multi-monitor support, auto-hide etc. Rocket Dock has many positioning and layering options so you can place it anywhere you like on your desktop. With it’s support for alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons, you can customize the look and feel of Rocket Dock to suit your taste. You can also customize Rocket Dock with skins from MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y’z Dock Skins.

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Rocket Dock can be customized with a host of Add-ons like Icons, Skins and Docklets. You can find these Add-ons here.