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Winstep Xtreme v16.3 Released!
March 10, 2016
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An integrated workspace environment, Winstep Xtreme is a powerful suite of applications that merge incredible usability and performance with breathtaking eye candy.
Winstep Xtreme runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, 2008, 8.x and 10.
v16.3 is a maintenance release, fixing all the issues in v16.2 we were aware of. If you find any other problems, please don't assume we already know about them - report them to us so we can fix them.
WorkShelf v16.3 complete change log:
- Updated Spanish language file.
- Added 'Lock Size of Desktop Modules' setting, enabled by default, to the Theme Options dialog. With that setting enabled, current desktop module scaling is preserved when switching themes. If the setting is disabled, the scaling of desktop modules is associated to a particular theme, e.g.; this allows you to have desktop modules automatically scaled to 150% whenever you switch to theme A and 100% when you switch to theme B.
- 'Double caching of icons' performance setting is now enabled by default.
- The CD Control internal command was displaying an error message on some systems.
- Lauching items pointing to shortcuts (.lnk files) of a 64 bit application resulted in a 'File not found' error.
- Dropping a shortcut file (.lnk file) into a folder item in the dock now copies/moves the shortcut as it should instead of the original file.
- A dock brought to the foreground via an edge bump would auto-hide as soon as the mouse pointer left it even if a sub-dock was currently open.
- Double clicking the icon of a running application on the dock would open a second instance of that application.
- Mousing over the running application icon of a task that had just closed could result in a 'Access Violation' error.
- An always-on-top dock set to hide automatically for maximized windows was not hidding for full screen windows (e.g.; watching a video full screen on Youtube).
- Wallpaper color-hot track is now correctly previewed when trying new themes and wallpapers in the Themes tab.
- Fixed the 'Stop' image in the Troubleshooting dialog so it properly scales up on high-DPI systems and displays a flat-image icon on Windows 10 systems.
- Decreased the luminance value of the smaller and thinner language identifier text in the Language Bar icon so it's a bit more visible.
- The CD Control internal command was unable to eject media on computers that did not support loading media via software.
- The 'Auto-Hide after a short delay' setting in the Behavior tab of the Shelf Properties dialog was not doing anything.
- It is now possible to change an item's icon by drag & dropping an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file into the icon even if the dock is locked.
- The result of a drag & drop operation (i.e.; Copy, Move or Link) is now accurately and immediately reflected even when the dock is locked. As before, pressing the SHIFT key forces a move, and pressing the CTRL key forces a copy. Locked docks do not allow items to be moved/re-arranged within the dock, but they still allow a) customizing dock item icons via drag & drop of image files, b) launching a document with a particular application by dropping that document into the application's icon in the dock and c) copying and moving files into drive folders in the dock.
- Locked docks were not accurately reflecting which item was being affected by the file being dropped (i.e.; with unlocked docks, dropping an item before the middle half of a dock icon would insert that item before the icon, dropping it after the middle half would insert the item after the icon. Since locked docks do not allow the insertion of items, this would not accurately reflect which dock item was being targeted by the drag & drop operation).
- The Shelf was still shifting icons in a 'Regular' tab type to make room for dropped items even if the Shelf was locked.
- If the 'Enable double caching of icons' performance setting was enabled, non-magnified icons on the dock could appear slightly blurred because they were being drawn with the High Quality *Bilinear* interpolation mode instead of High Quality *Bicubic*.
- The systray icons of a handful of applications (such as KVirc and Agnitum Outpost Pro) were not playing well with the system tray handling of Winstep applications because they reported a pre-Vista notify icon structure to the system but actually expected mouse click messages to be passed using the post NOTIFYICON_VERSION_4 format.
- Drag & dropping a program (executable) from an Explorer window into the Shelf's Quick Launch tab was showing a 'Move File' visual indication instead of the correct shortcut (Link) visual cue.
- Fixed the 'Opaque on mouseover' desktop module feature which was not working properly and improved the smoothness of the fading in and out animation.
- Text on Windows 7-style Balloon tooltips was not being correctly centered vertically.
- Scaling of desktop modules is no longer reset when you switch to a different theme, unless the new 'Lock size of Desktop Modules' setting is disabled.
- Fixed bug that could cause the Shelf to display a tab of blank icons if a Modal settings window was opened when the Shelf needed to refresh the contents of a tab.
- Right clicking the Quick Launch tab in the Shelf and selecting 'New Program' would actually copy the file to the Quick Launch folder instead of creating a shortcut to it. Right clicking on Shelf tabs pointing to folders that should host shortcuts only now displays 'New Shortcut' and 'New Folder Shortcut' in the context menu instead of 'New Program' and 'New Folder'. Selecting 'New Shortcut' allows the user to select a file via the Browser dialog, and *shortcut
- to that file is created instead of the file being copied. Likewise, selecting 'New Folder Shortcut' allows the user to select an existing folder via the Browser dialog, and a shortcut to that folder is created in the target folder.
- The Rename dialog was showing the wrong icon when renaming items in non-Regular Shelf tabs.
- The Monitor drop down box in the Shelf Properties dialog did not have any effect.
- If auto-hide was enabled for the Shelf, deleting an item on a folder type tab would collapse the Shelf while the confirmation dialog was still on the screen, which would then display a blank non-responsive Shelf.
NextSTART v16.3 complete change log:
- Updated Spanish language file.
- The CD Control internal command was displaying an error message on some systems.
- Lauching items pointing to shortcuts (.lnk files) of a 64 bit application resulted in a 'File not found' error.
- Fixed the 'Stop' image in the Troubleshooting dialog so it properly scales up on high-DPI systems and displays a flat-image icon on Windows 10 systems.
- Decreased the luminance value of the smaller and thinner language identifier text in the Language Bar icon so it's a bit more visible.
- The CD Control internal command was unable to eject media on computers that did not support loading media via software.
- The systray icons of a handful of applications (such as KVirc and Agnitum Outpost Pro) were not playing well with the system tray handling of Winstep applications because they reported a pre-Vista notify icon structure to the system but actually expected mouse click messages to be passed using the post NOTIFYICON_VERSION_4 format.
- The Quick Launch section in the Taskbar was not automatically reflecting changes made to the name of Windows Quick Launch shortcuts.
- Disabling the capture of WorkShelf Desktop Modules into the taskbar as icons was not automatically changing the format of the captured desktop modules, only the opposite did.
- Fixed issue in which a WorkShelf module captured into the NextSTART taskbar might fail to appear if the taskbar was previously hidden or collapsed.
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In this difficult times, wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Stay safe!
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v20.10 brings many new features and stability improvements, increased compatibility with Windows 10 and much more!
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Nexus Dock v20.10 Released!
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v20.10 brings many new features and stability improvements, increased compatibility with Windows 10 and much more!
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Happy Holidays!
December 18, 2019
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Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Winstep 20th Annniversary!
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Winstep is celebrating 20 years in business with a fantastic, time-limited, price reduction all across the board! Enjoy it while it lasts!
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Winstep Xtreme v19.2 Released!
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v19.2 is mainly a maintenance release with a few goodies thrown in such as a matching Windows 10 Light Mode and much more!
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Nexus Dock v19.2 Released!
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Happy Holidays!
December 17, 2018
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Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Winstep Xtreme v18.12 Released!
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Just in time for Christmas, v18.12 is a massive release featuring the new Grid Stacks, Search Filters, multi monitor profiles and much more!
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Nexus Dock v18.12 Released!
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Cyber Monday!
November 26, 2018
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Cyber Monday 2018 is here and Winstep Xtreme is 50% off for the next 24 hours. So, will you take the final chance to bag a deal?
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Black Friday!
November 23, 2018
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Black Friday 2018 is upon us and Nexus Ultimate is 40% off.
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Winstep Xtreme v18.10 Released!
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Icon colorization, center icons in Shelves, Drawer resizing, improved handling of hybrid Win32/UWP apps, menu scaling and much more!
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Nexus Dock v18.10 Released!
October 9, 2018
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Icon colorization, improved handling of hybrid Win32/UWP apps, context menu scaling and much more!
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Price Increase Announcement
October 7, 2018
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After nearly 20 years providing the best products at competitive prices, Winstep is increasing the prices of all its applications for the first time - just to make up (barely) for inflation.
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Winstep Xtreme v18.8 Released!
August 30, 2018
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Major release featuring the new Drawers, support for multiple and vertical Shelves and much more!
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Nexus Dock v18.8 Released!
August 30, 2018
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Major release featuring new colorization options, new Drawers and support for multiple and vertical Shelves (Nexus Ultimate) and much more!
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Winstep Xtreme v18.5 Released!
June 1, 2018
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Major release featuring the ability to access docks directly from NextSTART, new Delete Effect with 22 different animations, alarm overlays and much more!
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Nexus Dock v18.5 Released!
June 1, 2018
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Major release featuring new Delete Effect with many different animations, enhanced Media Player functionality and playlist handling, alarm overlays and much more!
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Winstep and the EU GDPR
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union (EU).
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Winstep Xtreme v18.3 Released!
March 31, 2018
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Major release with new alarm options, power saving modes and media player internal command, plus many other performance and stability improvements!
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Nexus Dock v18.3 Released!
March 31, 2018
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New alarm options, full dock keyboard support, power saving modes and media player internal command, plus many other performance and stability improvements!
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Winstep Xtreme v18.1 Released!
January 20, 2018
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New optional Dark Mode for the User Interface, new Windows 10 icons, many other performance and stability improvements!
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Nexus Dock v18.1 Released!
January 20, 2018
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New optional Dark Mode for the User Interface, new Windows 10 icons, many other performance and stability improvements!
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Winstep Xtreme v17.12 Released!
December 28, 2017
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A bit late for Christmas but still not too late, v17.2 is here. Many Windows 10 related additions and fixes and much more!
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Nexus Dock v17.12 Released!
December 28, 2017
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A bit late for Christmas but still not too late, v17.2 is here. Many Windows 10 related additions and fixes and much more!
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Happy Holidays!
December 22, 2017
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Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Cyber Monday!
November 27, 2017
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Cyber Monday 2017 is upon us and Winstep Xtreme is 50% off.
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New moon module, new sub-dock options, smooth Shelf scrolling and much more!
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Wallpaper hot-track smooth colorization transitions, new moon module and pop-up calendar (Nexus Ultimate), and much more!
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Happy Holidays!
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Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Winstep Xtreme v16.12 Released!
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New calendar module, high-quality voice packs in multiple languages, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v16.12 Released!
December 8, 2016
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High-quality voice packs in multiple languages, Email Checker module now displays number of unread messages on the icon itself, and much more!
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Winstep Xtreme v16.9 Released!
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v16.9 is is mostly a maintenance release, fixing some issues in the previous version and restoring the NOOA/METAR Weather feed.
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Nexus Dock v16.9 Released!
September 30, 2016
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v16.9 is is mostly a maintenance release, fixing some issues in the previous version and restoring the NOOA/METAR Weather feed..
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Winstep Xtreme v16.6 Released!
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New Fast Boot option, running Universal Windows Apps in Windows 10 now display the proper icon and can be pinned to docks and the taskbar, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v16.6 Released!
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New Fast Boot option, running Universal Windows Apps in Windows 10 now display the proper icon and can be pinned to the dock, and much more!
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Winstep Xtreme v16.5 Released!
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NextSTART taskbar high-DPI support, new colorization options and much more in this new release!
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Nexus Dock v16.5 Released!
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New colorization options, fixed 3D dock backgrounds distortion at certain icon sizes, and much more!
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Winstep Xtreme v16.3 Released!
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Maintenance release fixing all the issues we know of in v16.2.
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Nexus Dock v16.3 Released!
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Maintenance release fixing all the issues we know of in v16.2.
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Winstep Xtreme v16.2 Released!
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New battery module, clock alarms, 10 amazing new mouse-over, launch and attention effects and much more in this new release!
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Nexus Dock v16.2 Released!
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Minimize windows to the dock, new internal commands, performance improvements and much more in this release!
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Winstep Xtreme v15.9 Released!
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High DPI compatibility, Language Bar, Weather module Geo location, better Windows 10 integration and much more in this new release!
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Nexus Dock v15.9 Released!
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High DPI compatibility, combined dock shortcuts with running applications, Weather module Geo location, better Windows 10 integration and much more in this release!
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Winstep Xtreme v15.7 Released!
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Winstep Xtreme is now 100% compatible with Windows 10 and much more in this new release!
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Nexus Dock v15.7 Released!
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Nexus is now 100% compatible with Windows 10 and much more in this new release!
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With Windows 10 just around the corner, many users have been wondering if Winstep applications (Nexus, Nexus Ultimate and Winstep Xtreme) will work correctly with it.
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Winstep Xtreme v14.11 Released!
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Restored weather feed for weather forecast and more in this maintenance release!
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Nexus Dock v14.11 Released!
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Restored weather feed for weather forecast and more in this maintenance release!
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Take back what is yours!
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In an effort to force you into using Metro, Microsoft stripped the familiar Start Menu out of Windows 8. In the process it also stripped your ability to chose for yourself what is best for you.
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Winstep Xtreme v12.2 Released!
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This is a monster release, click the Read More link below for a guided tour on what's new!
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This is a monster release, click the Read More link below for a guided tour on what's new!
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Winstep Xtreme v11.10 Released!
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Weather module working again, new Launch and Attention effects, new Tray tab in Preferences, and more...
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Nexus Dock v11.10 Released!
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Weather module working again, new Launch and Attention effects, and more...
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Weather feed down!
November 6, 2011
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Weather module not working? Find out why and what is being done about it.
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Winstep Xtreme v11.6 Released!
July 6, 2011
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Maintenance release of Winstep Xtreme.
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Nexus Dock v11.6 Released!
July 6, 2011
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Maintenance release of Nexus and Nexus Ultimate.
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New Winstep Theme: DarkTech
June 24, 2011
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Brought to you by the Winstep design team - more in-house themes currently in the pipeline.
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Winstep Xtreme v11.5 Released!
June 23, 2011
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System tray icon customization, ability to mix mouseover effects, support for animated icons, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v11.5 Released!
June 20, 2011
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Dock mouseover effects can now be combined with magnify effect, support for animated icons, and much more!
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Winstep Xtreme v11.2 Released!
March 14, 2011
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New release featuring increased support for Microsoft's High DPI virtualization technology, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v11.2 Released!
March 14, 2011
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New release featuring increased support for backgrounds of 3rd party docks, preserving aspect ratio of image thumbnails, and much more!
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Start Menu Organizer v1.5 Released!
March 14, 2011
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New release adding more languages and increasing compatibility with 64 bit versions of Windows!
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Winstep Xtreme v10.9 Released!
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Major release featuring nine new incredible dock mouseover effects, five new menu opening animations, Windows 7 "Superbar" ability with window previews and aeropeek capability on docks, horizontal sub-docks, and much more!
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Nexus Dock v10.9 Released!
October 8, 2010
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Major release featuring nine new incredible dock mouseover effects, Windows 7 "Superbar" ability with window previews and aeropeek capability, and much more!
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Nexus featured at Download.com!
October 8, 2010
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Nexus featured on the front page of Cnet's Download.com!
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Start Menu Organizer v1.4 Released!
August 9, 2010
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Version 1.4 fixes an issue in which the Pro version of the program could stop when expanding the Administrative Tools group and adds support for 23 languages.
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Winstep Xtreme featured at Download.com!
July 18, 2010
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Winstep Xtreme has been featured on the front page of Cnet's Download.com, not once, but twice!
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Winstep Xtreme v10.6 Final Released!
July 13, 2010
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Roughly 1 year in the making, the official upgrade to Winstep Xtreme v9.5 is finally here!
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Nexus Dock v10.6 Released!
July 13, 2010
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Maintenance release of our free popular Winstep Nexus dock.
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Winstep announces strategic alliance with Proxma AG!
July 13, 2010
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Proxma AG will market Winstep products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Start Menu Organizer v1.3 Released!
July 2, 2010
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New version of the Winstep Start Menu Organizer featuring support for even more languages.
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Welcome to our new web site!
June 15, 2010
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The Winstep web site gets a brand new face to match the quality of our products.
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