Now many users are envious of that pretty impressive dock that you will find on Macs. Several people have said that Microsoft copied Apple with the new taskbar that they introduced into their latest operating system, Windows 7. While I personally think this new dock is a great addition to the OS and it has some important differences, some people may insist that it’s Apples idea so Apples dock is just better!
The new Windows 7 taskbar
Well here is how you can add the Mac OS dock to any Windows Machine Running XP, Vista and Windows 7.
There is a great application that you can download called RocketDock, and what’s truly great about this is the fact that it’s completely free.
It’s very simple to use, just click here to download it and then install.
You then get your dock up and running by either double clicking the “RocketDock” desktop icon or go to all programs and launch RocketDock.
You will then see the Dock pop up complete with the nice bubble zoom effect that’s also present on the Mac OS Dock.
In a way it’s also very like the Windows 7 dock. To add programs to the dock, simply drag a desktop icon or shortcut to the dock and it will automatically fit in and pin itself there. To remove them simply drag them out.
RocketDock
By going into the settings you will find lots of options from positioning the dock to the different themes available for it, so you can customise it exactly how you want. You can also change the mouse over effect and icon size, there’s lots of settings in there for you to mess around with.
It’s a great little program and you can set it to run at start up and also have it set to overlay everything so you can use it just like on the Mac, and as I said it’s completely free!
