Shankar Ganesh

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Docks are little applications that act as program launchers. They hold the shortcuts to your applications for easy access at anytime. Macs have a dock application in-built, but Windows doesn’t.

The advantages in having a dock:

• Docks make your desktop pretty
• Applications can be accessed instantly, saving time
• You need not necessarily go to the desktop every time you want to start a program
• Application indicators on the dock tell you whether a program is running or not
• High Quality Icons: Docks support PNGs
• Windows are minimized to docks, and your Windows taskbar is no longer necessary

Docks have drag and drop support, so you can always drag an .exe to create a shortcut in the dock. They have zoom and transition and other animation effects that add a lot of eyecandy.

ObjectDock
This is one of the best dock applications available for Windows. It’s bundled with a pack of quality icons, so you need not hunt for high quality icons on the net. This one will make you say ‘Wow’ with its amazing features. And when coupled with Windows Vista, you get live preview thumbnails of minimized application and folders.

RocketDock
RocketDock is a feature rich application, complete with real time window previews if you’re on Vista. It’s got support for a wide number of languages, and is Unicode compliant. RocketDock supports multiple monitors too.

RK Launcher
This is my favourite, that’s got most of the features that other Windows Dock Apps have. By default, RK Launcher adds a shortcut to every new application that’s launched, and you can turn this feature off if you wish.

Y’z Dock
Yz Dock is a developing dock application, and is being improved constantly. You could look out for new features soon.

So what’s your favourite dock? If you know any other good ones, share with us in the comments.

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