Everyone is using the stylish Windows 7 circle dock, except you? If you also want your very own circle dock, then find out how to enable the Windows 7 circle dock and experience a new way to access your programs and files.
Ok, I agree the Windows 7 MAC dock is a nice way to launch your programs, but who says that there aren’t better ways to launch your programs in Windows 7? There are plenty of great ways, one of the is Windows 7 circle dock.
Quick Links:
- What is the Windows 7 circle dock?
- How to enable the circle dock
- How to change the circle dock skin
- Download Windows 7 circle dock
What is the Windows 7 circle dock?
The Windows 7 circle dock is an innovative way to navigate and start your programs. Normally, you would click on Start and open your programs via the Start menu or you would place a shortcut on your desktop. Both methods are old-fashioned but work very well. Nonetheless, you might be looking for a new way like launch your programs from a circular dock. Here’s how a circle dock could look like on your desktop:
Enable the Windows 7 Circle Dock
After downloading the circle dock below, open the folder where you installed the circle dock to, this is usually C:\Program Files\Circle Dock. Inside you will find the CircleDock.exe, double-click on it to start the circle dock.
After starting the circle dock, right-click on the circle dock and click on Dock Settings. Go to the tab Visibility. Define a shortcut for launching the circle dock. I chose CTRL + Middle Mouse Button, but this is a personal choice and up to you. Click on close and you can now launch the Circle dock.
You can now drag and drop new shortcut icons on the circle dock and they will be automatically added. Because the default skin of the circle dock is not that beautiful we’re now going to change the circle dock skin to this:
How to change Windows 7 Circle Dock Skin?
Launch the circle dock (see instructions here), right-click on it and open the Dock Settings
Go to the tab Elements. The sub-tab Background will allow you to change the Background image when you click on the folder icon with the three dots. It will open an folder with all the skins that are included, but of course you can download more skins online or create your very own skins (it’s a simple .png file).
Download Windows 7 Circle Dock
You can download the Windows 7 circle dock over at http://circledock.wikidot.com/. There is one version for Windows 7 32-bit and one for Windows 7 64-bit. If you don’t know the difference, you should read this:
What Windows version do I have 32-bit or 64-bit?
Latest Releases:
Circle Dock 1.5.5 32-bit
Circle Dock 1.5.5 64-bit
Additionally, you will have to install the .Net Framework 2.0 or you won’t be able to run the circle dock.
The only addition, and I mean the only addition, would be to have the ability to execute a program as an Administrator via a rightclick.
This is one fantastic program. Just what I was looking for. In fact I was trying myself how to do something like this. Perfect. Thanks.
Marshall
You know for a minute, when I checked my e-mail, I actually thought there was something about windows 7 that Microsoft did that I didn’t know about – I was obviously wrong. I had this ages ago on my XP, which worked pretty well with a seven remix pack – which, slight language barriers aside – worked just as well. It’s no substitute for the real thing though now that I will be able to use it on the real deal. Your work continues to be useful and informative.
Hmm..I downloaded the 64 bit (and before you ask, I am quite certain – if not very much so certain – that I’m using 64 bit windows) and if anything, it appeared buggy at best. I remember the older release I used to have being so much more stable than this. It doesn’t like too much in the way of interface settings, and on one occasion it decided that it didn’t like a particular integer for a specific setting and refused to let me adjust it several times to it’s original figure. Whilst graphically it may appeal, I find this application sadly lacking – I’ll stick with RocketDock. It didn’t work for me, but it might work for others.
how to unistall the circle dock from my pc? reply me soon.
64 bit of the Circle Dock will not download, comes up with a blank screen