Winstep Nexus Ultimate 16.12.0.1049 Multilingual Portable

The Advanced Docking System for Windows. Wikipedia defines a dock as a user interface feature of a number of operating systems that typically provides a user with a way of launching and switching between applications. The Winstep Nexus Dock is a professional dock for Windows. With Nexus, your most frequently used applications are only a mouse click away - and Nexus turns working with your computer into a fun and exciting experience.

Nexus Ultimate is an enhanced version of the free-to-use Nexus dock which is available stand-alone or as a component of Winstep Xtreme (a single easy-to-install package featuring all of Winstep's popular desktop enhancement products for Windows).

Winstep Nexus Ultimate Features
* Display running applications on the dock with task grouping, task filtering and icon customization options.
* Display system tray on the dock as single or grouped icons.
* Blur-Behind (7/Vista) and colorization of dock backgrounds.
* Over 80 special commands such as Sleep, Empty Recycler, CD Control, etc...
* Monitor active connections and bandwidth usage with Net Meter module.
* Get weather forecast for over 39,000 cities world-wide.
* Monitor CPU and RAM usage, multiple mailboxes for incoming mail, and more!
* Multiple animated mouse over effects: zoom, swing, bounce and many more!
* Live icon reflections and animated water-like effects.
* Quickly change icons of shortcuts and running programs by dropping PNG and ICO image files directly into the icon.
* Built in support for animated icons.
* Minimize windows to the dock.
* Multi-monitor support.
* Compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.
* Multiple docks.
* Ability to group shortcuts into an unlimited number of nested sub-docks.
* Categorize applications into user-defined tabs on the Shelf (tabbed dock).
* Increase productivity by displaying folders, the Desktop, My Computer, Control Panel and other virtual system folders as tabs on the Shelf.
* Reduce clutter by hiding desktop icons and using the Shelf's Desktop tab instead.
* One click theme switching via the special Themes tab on the Shelf.
* Exclusive modules/widgets (e.g.; battery monitor module).
* Even more amazing mouse-over, launch and attention effects.
* Unlimited number of clock alarms and reminders.
* Customize system tray with high resolution icons.
* Automatic installs and updates via the Winstep Update Manager.

Powerful Dock Manipulation options (Nexus Ultimate)
Create docks from existing Shelf tabs, detach sub-docks, turn docks into sub-docks, duplicate docks, delete docks - all this using simple drag-n-drop and/or context menu options.

Shelf/Tabbed Dock (Nexus Ultimate)
Not only being able to hold shortcuts dragged into it, the Winstep Shelf is also capable of displaying the contents of special shell folders such as the Desktop, My Computer, Control Panel, Recent Documents, and so forth... It's even able to display the contents of folders in your hard drive, which can then be manipulated via drag & drop as usual.

The Shelf makes it possible to have a 'clean', uncluttered, desktop with no icons on it whatsoever by having Nexus Ultimate hide the icons on the Desktop - icons that can then be quickly accessed via the Desktop tab. Tabs in the Shelf can also have keyboard shortcuts associated to them to make the Shelf simultaneously come to the foreground and open that particular tab.

Live Icon Reflections
The first (and only) Windows dock to feature 'live' icon reflections. Reflections update in real time if the icons animate or change. Size of reflection also user configurable.

Powerful Object-based Drag & Drop
Object based interface offers "drag & drop" capabilities that make it simple to manage your applications, files, printers, etc... Use Drag & Drop to move/copy/re-arrange objects from one location to another, to both inside and outside of docks. Drop documents onto dock application objects and have them automatically loaded. You can quickly change the images used by Nexus items simply by drag & dropping your favorite .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file onto the chosen object.

Special Effects
Eye Candy is king! Lots of optional special effects such as icons zooming, bouncing, glowing, rocking, swinging, squishing, spinning, exploding, etc, shifting to make room for items about to be dropped, bouncing on application launch, visual feedback for specific actions, incredible 'fluid' effects that make docks and icons behave like liquid surfaces, sound events for when docks collapse and pop up or sub-docks open, and lots more!

More Visual Effects (Nexus Ultimate)
With Nexus Ultimate you get even more amazing mouse-over, launch, and attention effects on top of the wide selection already given to you by the free version of the Winstep Nexus dock!

Virtual File System Support
Allows you to drag special Explorer objects, like Control Panel items and the My Computer icon, into docks.

Document Thumbnails
Documents, pictures and video files dragged to a dock show up as thumbnails for easy identification.

Blur Behind
Automatically blurs the background of semi-transparent docks (Vista and Windows 7 only).

Reserve Screen Space
Makes sure maximized windows do not overlap docks attached to screen edges.

Respect Reserved Screen Space
Prevents docked docks from overlaping the Windows taskbar and other screen edge-attached toolbars.

Built in support for animated icons
Nexus features built-in support for animated icons. With no need to install 3rd party docklets and full drag and drop support, animated icons in Winstep applications are as easy to use as any other icons: drop the animated icon PNG strip directly into a dock item and the icon will automatically start animating.

Running Applications
Nexus is a complete taskbar replacement with the ability to display running applications on the dock - with Windows 7 "Superbar" abilities, including Aeropeek, even on Windows XP.

Tray Icon Customization (Nexus Ultimate)
System tray icons are originally small 16x16 icons, and can look very blurry when displayed on the dock at larger sizes. Nexus Ultimate allows you to customize tray icons with high-resolution alternatives to solve this problem, with a set of high-resolution images for system tray icons being included in the application.

Auto-Hide
Docks attached to screen edges can auto-hide onto the screen edge and pop up on demand.

Auto-Collapse
Floating docks (i.e. docks not attached to a screen edge) can collapse into a single control tile and un-collapse on demand.

Full Multi-Monitor Support
Docks can be docked to any screen edge or left floating on any monitor.

In-Dock Modules/Docklets
Nexus features eight useful modules (widgets) such as a talking Digital/Analog Clock that synchronizes your time with time servers on the internet, a Recycler, an Email Checker that supports SSL and multiple email accounts, a Weather Module, CPU, Net and RAM Meters and Wanda, a 'fortune cookie' animated fish!

Battery Monitor (Nexus Ultimate)
Nexus Ultimate offers you an additional UPS/Battery Monitor module, with many more modules exclusive to Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme coming soon! The UPS/Battery Monitor module is capable of logging power events and executing user-specified actions when battery levels reach a certain threshold.

Internal Commands
Internal commands are special commands that you can add to the dock as shortcuts: Hibernate, Power Off Monitor, Empty Recycler, Show Start Menu, Language Bar, CD Control, Lookup IP address and over 80 more!

Clock Alarms and Task Scheduler
Clock module associated alarms allow you to display pop-up reminders, wake you up with music or run programs at specific times, once or periodically. The free version of Nexus supports a single alarm, while Nexus Ultimate supports an unlimited number of alarms.

Keyboard Accelerators
Docks can be brought to the foreground and dock items launched through user-specified hotkeys.

PNG, ICO and TIF File Support
Supports the use of PNG as well as TIF and ICO files for object images and bitmaps.

Complete Customization
Virtually every aspect of every dock is customizable: from icon size, to magnification size, to dock behavior.

Quality And Performance Tested
Nexus has undergone extensive testing by thousands of dedicated users. This testing continues as part of our ongoing efforts to provide top quality software to our customers.

What's New in Version 16.12
* Replaced the Female and Male Clock and Email Checker Voices with new higher quality versions.
* Added new 'Activate if hidden when an application in the dock requests attention' setting to the Activation Settings dialog of the dock's Behavior tab. Enabled by default, this setting controls whether the dock should pop up if hidden when an application with an icon in the dock starts flashing to get your attention.
* The Email Checker module is now able to use speech to report more than 59 new messages (up to 1 million).
* The Email Checker module now displays the number of new messages in the icon itself by default. This can be prevented by disabling the 'Show number of messages in the icon' setting in the Email Checker Settings dialog.
* The Email Checker now checks for new mail immediately after changing settings in the Email Checker Settings dialog, unless automatic checking has been disabled.
* Apparently some Registry Cleanners would sometimes delete Winstep uninstall information from the Windows Registry, which resulted in the user being unable to uninstall the software normally and in him being unable to update normally (trying to install an update via the Winstep Update Manager would result in an error message being displayed instead). Before downloading an upgrade the Winstep Update Manager now checks the Windows Registry for the existence of this critical uninstall section and, if it has been deleted, downloads and installs the full version instead of the smaller upgrade pack. Current settings, etc, are all preserved regardless.
* Module previews in the Module settings dialogs of Preferences now instantly reflect the proper background icons specified by the user via the 'Change Icon' dialog. Previously the Module Settings dialogs were not reflecting changes made to the background icons of modules until those changes were made effective either by pressing the Apply or Ok button in Preferences.
* Improved what happens when the user makes changes to a module in Preferences and then opens the Settings dialog for that module via the right click context menu while Preferences is still open.
* The automatic scaling of the Net Meter module has been changed to progress from 10 Kbit to 100 Kbit, 1 Mbit, 10 Mbits, 100 Mbits, 1 Gbit, 10 Gbits, etc...
* Optimized the performance of updating the meter modules (CPU, Net, RAM) in gauge style when smooth meters is enabled (which is by default).
* Extensive re-organization and fine-tuning of all module related code, both to improve performance as well as to make it even easier to add new modules in the future.
* Made some cosmetic changes to the banner of the Alarm Manager dialog.
* Made some cosmetic changes to the Alarm Reminder in LCD Mode to better keep with the LCD theme: removed the degrees character from the temperature, added automatic replacement of foreign characters with western equivalent for the days of the week.
* Added 'Yearly' option to the clock Alarms - ideal to be reminded of birthdays and anniversaries.
* Yahoo changed the conditions of access to their Weather API, which caused the Yahoo backup weather feed to stop working. Restored this feed by using an alternate URL.
* The user can now define the units used to scale graphs manually in the Net Meter modules as either Bytes, KB, MB, Kbits or Mbits.
* If the Weather Module Settings dialog is open and a weather check is performed in the mean time, the information in the dialog is now updated too.
* METAR Weather information is now retrieved directly from a raw data NOAA server.
* Added 'From Now, On the Hour, Quarter Past, Half Past, Quarter Till' options to the 'Every x hours' daily clock alarm schedule.
* Response to the user pressing WIN+D is now almost instantaneous (before, the dock might momentarily flicker in and out of view).
* 'Restore Wallpaper' thumbnails now transition from wallpaper to wallpaper, when the Windows wallpaper slide-show is active, without first reverting to the general icon.
* WIN+D (Show Desktop) detection is now much more reliable. Microsoft deliberately did not provide a method to know when WIN+D just became active. Knowing when this happens is essential to prevent docks, etc, from hiding together with all other windows. The previous work-around method to detect WIN+D could sometimes falsely assume WIN+D was active if the user clicked on the desktop and no other windows were visible at the time. The changes applied to deal with (the falsely detected) WIN+D would then make docks set to always on top or always on bottom temporarily lose their z-order status.
* Under Windows 7 and later, if Desktop Composition is enabled the iconic window thumbnail extractor will use the DWM instead of PrintWindow to get a still thumbnail. This achieves success in most cases where PrintWindow would fail.
* The 'Busy' animation is now more responsive when starting up, restoring and backing up settings.
* The Weather and Email modules now refresh automatically immediately after restoring old settings.
* The 'Get Weather' button in the weather Module Settings dialog now bypasses the current weather information cache and stores a diagnostics 'Weather.log' file in the Winstep user data folder.
* The clock module is now able to announce the time using the proper format for the following languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese Brazilian and German.
* The email module is now able to count incoming messages using the proper format for the following languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese Brazilian and German.
* Added new English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese Brazilian and German voice packs with high quality voices and all the words required to properly announce the time and count messages in these languages.
* The Winstep Update Manager is now able to look for and update voice packs as well. By default the application only comes with English male and female voices, but if other voices packs are available in the user's own language, the Winstep Update Manager will notify the user and download them right after installation.
* When changing the currently selected language in Preferences, if a voice pack in the selected language exists, it will be automatically selected as well.
* Added a 'Open Folder' button in the Sounds tab of Preferences to show the folder containing the files for the currently selected Voice theme/pack.
* Dock icon labels now bounce up and down with the icon for effects such as jump, bounce, etc...
* Changed the Bounce effect so it's a bit more similar to the original Mac OSX bounce effect. Like the other effects, it now also has settings for fine-tuning * magnitude and duration.
* Added a 'Magnify Settings' button to the Effects tab in Preferences, which allows changing settings for this effect directly when combined with other effects.
* Improved icon reflection rendering performance for themes such as KTEK-4D1 where icon reflections are 'cropped' to the background tile.
* Modified the Performance Settings dialog so the 'basic' slider values now perform a linear escalation as originally intended. The user can still 'pick and choose' in the Advanced dialog.
* None of the settings in the Alarm Settings dialog (Initial Volume, Final Volume, LCD Style color, etc...) were being saved between sessions.
* Clicking the Default button in the METAR Server Settings dialog of the Weather module was restoring the previous, no longer working, NOAA weather link and search string.
* Because of the new aviationweather.gov METAR information page format, a non-working METAR code (i.e.; invalid code or no METAR information for that code) was not being recognized as such, and current weather conditions would be displayed as N/A (Not Available).
* Changing a Windows color scheme or applying a new WindowBlinds theme was not updating the background color of slider controls.
* The Wanda 'Hide/Show Systray Icon' right-click context menu option was not doing anything.
* Fixed bug with the easeInExpo and easeInOutExpo easings which would return the wrong value for t=0.
* In very specific circumstances the Weather module could display a moon icon during the day.
* If the user opened a dialog via a Always On Top dock, the dialog could still appear behind the dock even though the it was also set as 'always on top'.
* If the user opened a dialog via a Always On Top dock, any secondary dialogs would appear behind the parent dialog.
* When resolving shortcuts, if the shortcut had never been used before a MSI dialog would sometimes popup asking to install files. Normally letting MSI complete the install would fix the problem, but not always. This issue has been fixed and the MSI dialog should no longer pop up when resolving shortcuts.
* Minimized windows would lose their 'snap to edge' status when restored from the Winstep application.
* Full screen Adobe Flash videos were triggering a WM_DISPLAYCHANGE message which caused a reset of the reserved screen areas and subsequent screen flickering.
* The backup overwrite prompt appeared twice.
* Running indicators on the dock could take up to a second to refresh after uncollapsing/un-hiding the dock.
* After downloading and installing an updated language file via the Winstep Update Manager, the wrong language could be applied to the application.
* URLs and mail support addresses were still pointing to the old Proxma AG partner website in the German language file.
* Fixed extremelly annoying z-order bug that normally would only happen if a dock was at the bottom of the screen right above the taskbar. Conditions to trigger were: the user would be working on window A and would move the mouse pointer down to the taskbar, thus travelling across the dock, to give focus to window B. The user would click the relevant button in the taskbar and window B got the focus. As the user moved the mouse pointer to window B, it would travel across the dock again which would then (wrongly) bring window A to the top of the z-order (thus above window B).
* If the dock was docked to the top of the screen with the 'Do not flip background for docks at the top of the screen' setting enabled, the distance between the top screen edge and the top edge of the dock might not be enough to show some of the effects without the icons becoming partially cropped at the top.
* Fixed issue that could cause the View Change Log parser to enter an infinite loop and hang the application.
* Fixed some issues with the opacity of the icon reflection as icons in the dock moved up and down.
* Fixed some cropping issues with icon reflections in the dock.
* The movement of the icon drop shadow in combination with the Bounce effect was not correct.
* The Recycler style drag & drop animation was not activating.
* A change to the 'Do not display confirmation when deleting' setting in the Delete Confirmation dialog itself might not be immediately reflected in the Recycler Settings dialog.
* Changing the 'Cache animated icons using original resolution' setting in the Performance Settings Advanced dialog was not causing a memory usage report to be displayed.