The Winstep Nexus dock is a FREE dock for Windows. Every feature you’d expect from a dock, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and many others not available in most other docks, such as live icon reflections, in-dock system tray, blur-behind effects, and much more. Completely customizable, with thousands of different backgrounds freely available online, Nexus is fully compatible with skins for all 3rd party docks.

Nexus runs on the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, 10 and 11.

v25.2 is mainly a maintenance release, with some quality of life and stability improvements! Most importantly, it improves Windows 11 compatibility by bringing back functional access to the system tray in Windows 11 24H2, reserved screen areas are reset when returning from sleep, major language files have been updated, etc... Please read complete change log below.

Important note to Windows 11 22H2 and above users:

Nexus v25.2 complete change log:

• Updated Swedish language file.
• Updated German language file.
• Updated Japanese language file.
• Updated French language file.
• Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file.
• Updated Portuguese language file.
• The 'Disable All Animations' setting now also disables the animations of the Live Preview Thumbnails.
• Unchecking the 'Show system tray in this dock' setting no longer disables the 'Group system tray icons' and 'Always show all system tray icons' settings.
• Increased the distance the mouse pointer must travel before a drag operation is initiated from 3 to 7 pixels to help prevent accidental drags.
• Balloon tooltip of RAM Meter module now also states used memory in GB in addition to percentage of RAM used.
• Added warning about systray customization no longer being functional after Windows 11 23H2.
• Screen reserved areas are now reset upon returning from Sleep/Hibernation.
• The Windows 11 22H2/23H2 CPU usage mitigation settings no longer appear on the CPU Meter settings panel if running Windows 11 24H2 as Microsoft seems to have finally fixed the problem.
• 'Run as Administrator' setting in the Item Properties dialog appeared cropped on systems with 150% screen DPI or above.
• When launching via a menu some applications that required elevation in their manifest, the UAC prompt might still appear minimized in the taskbar.
• Fixed system tray area appearing completely empty in Windows 11 24H2.
• Made sure system tray still showed the tray expand button and the system tray icons cog button under Windows 11 23H2 and above even if the "show all system tray icons" setting was enabled.
• Wrong EUR price stated in the 'Upgrade to Nexus Ultimate' dialog when using the French translation.

Nexus Ultimate v25.2 complete change log:

• Updated Swedish language file.
• Updated German language file.
• Updated Japanese language file.
• Updated French language file.
• Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file.
• Updated Portuguese language file.
• The 'Disable All Animations' setting now also disables the animations of the Live Preview Thumbnails.
• Unchecking the 'Show system tray in this dock' setting no longer disables the 'Group system tray icons' and 'Always show all system tray icons' settings.
• Increased the distance the mouse pointer must travel before a drag operation is initiated from 3 to 7 pixels to help prevent accidental drags.
• Balloon tooltip of RAM Meter module now also states used memory in GB in addition to percentage of RAM used.
• Added warning about systray customization no longer being functional after Windows 11 23H2.
• Screen reserved areas are now reset upon returning from Sleep/Hibernation.
• The Windows 11 22H2/23H2 CPU usage mitigation settings no longer appear on the CPU Meter settings panel if running Windows 11 24H2 as Microsoft seems to have finally fixed the problem.
• The power events log might not be displayed in full if the file became somehow corrupted with NULL chars. To prevent this any NULL chars embedded in it are now automatically removed when opening the file.
• 'Run as Administrator' setting in the Item Properties dialog appeared cropped on systems with 150% screen DPI or above.
• When launching via a menu some applications that required elevation in their manifest, the UAC prompt might still appear minimized in the taskbar.
• Fixed system tray area appearing completely empty in Windows 11 24H2.
• Made sure system tray still showed the tray expand button and the system tray icons cog button under Windows 11 23H2 and above even if the "show all system tray icons" setting was enabled.