5 Best App Docks For Windows 10

# Five Best App Launcher Docks for Windows 10: A Comprehensive Guide

## Rocket Dock

Rocket Dock is one of the most popular app launcher docks available for Windows 10. Known for its simplicity and ease of use, this tool allows you to quickly launch applications by adding them to the dock. Once installed, you can customize your desktop by hiding all your desktop icons and organizing everything in the dock.

The dock provides a clean and efficient interface where you can add or remove icons as needed. You have the flexibility to position the dock at the top, bottom, left, or right of your screen, depending on your preference. Additional settings include adjusting opacity, shadow effects, and theme customization. Rocket Dock also offers various themes and skins available for download from their website, allowing you to match the look of your dock with your desktop's aesthetic.

One of the standout features is the ability to drag and drop icons directly into the dock. This makes it easy to organize your applications and keep your desktop clutter-free. Whether you're a Mac or Linux user looking for a similar experience, Rocket Dock delivers a sleek and functional interface.

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## Nexus

Nexus is another excellent app launcher that offers both free and paid versions (the ultimate version costs £15). Compatible with all Windows versions, including 10, 7, and XP, Nexus provides a clean and user-friendly interface for launching applications.

The dock comes with additional features like weather monitoring, RAM usage tracking, and system information tools. You can add icons to the dock by dragging them in or using the settings menu. The design is visually appealing, with clear and graphical icons that make navigation intuitive.

Nexus allows you to customize the position of the dock, hide unused icons, and even clean up your taskbar by removing duplicate entries. This makes it an ideal choice for users looking to streamline their workflow while maintaining a clutter-free desktop environment.

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## Circle Dock

Circle Dock offers a unique approach to app launching with its circular design. Available for free, this tool allows you to add icons in a circle formation, creating a visually distinct and customizable interface. The installation process is straightforward, though note that it requires the .NET Framework 3.5 to run.

Once installed, you can customize the dock's opacity, shadow effects, and overall appearance. Circle Dock provides full customization options, allowing you to add or remove icons, folders, or blank spaces as needed. The circular layout adds a modern touch, making it a favorite among users who prefer a visually appealing launcher.

Like Rocket Dock and Nexus, Circle Dock helps keep your desktop clean by hiding unnecessary icons on both the desktop and taskbar. Its flexibility in customization makes it a versatile tool for users with varying preferences.

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## Launchy

Launchy is a fast and efficient app launcher designed for quick searches and program launches. Compatible with Windows 10, 7, XP, macOS, and Linux, Launchy offers unparalleled speed, making it one of the best tools for power users.

The installation process is simple, allowing you to choose between a portable or standard installation. Once set up, you can customize its appearance by changing themes or rebuilding the catalog of applications on your system.

Launchy's standout feature is its ability to launch applications using keyboard shortcuts, such as pressing Alt + Spacebar, which opens the launcher instantly. This makes it an excellent choice for users who prefer a command-line interface for quick access to their tools.

Whether you're typing "7+7" to get instant math results or "systeminfo" to open system information, Launchy delivers fast and reliable performance. Its sticky note-style interface can be minimized when not in use, keeping your desktop clean while providing quick access to your most-used applications.

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## Conclusion

These app launcher docks—Rocket Dock, Nexus, Circle Dock, and Launchy—are excellent tools for streamlining your workflow on Windows 10. Each offers unique features and customization options, catering to different user preferences. Whether you're looking for a sleek interface (Rocket Dock), additional system monitoring tools (Nexus), or a visually distinct circular design (Circle Dock), there's a launcher out there that will suit your needs.

For those who prioritize speed and efficiency, Launchy stands out as an unparalleled choice. Regardless of your preference, these app launcher docks are sure to enhance your computing experience by keeping your desktop clean and your applications easily accessible.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat you guys got another video here for you here we're gonna be taking a look at five of the best app launcher ducks for Windows 10 so this first start off with the first one which is rocket dock and you can get this from the link which I'll leave in the video description and these are a great little addition to make it very quick and easy to launch your applications once you've got this installed as I'll show you here very simple and easy to install it allows you to add your apps to the launcher which will allow you to quickly launch those applications now that means you can have a much nicer cleaner desktop by hiding all your desktop icons it has all your useful icons on the launcher here as you can see this PC Network because I'm on a virtual machine here but these are all show your network connections documents and of course you can add in exactly what you want on your dock you've got your control panel you've got your recycle bin you can add or remove whatever you like now to go into the dock settings here there's a bunch of settings you can change in here icons position run at startup you can have it sitting on the top or on the bottom or on the left or on the right it's entirely up to you how you want to set that up and of course you can set the centering and the edge offset as well you can also mess around with the shadow and the opacity and also change the actual look and feel of the dock by changing the themes or skins as they are known and you can download more of these off their website there's a bunch of them up there and you can add it to the theme or the sort of look that you're trying to get with your actual desktop you've also got your Styles there it's a bunch of other stuff you got to get more tab there to help you get more if you wish so let me just quickly add a couple of icons to the doc sings he had to do just drag and drop them straight in how much you've got all your icons in there you can clean up your taskbar and you can also clean up your desktop by hiding these icons on your desktop and your taskbar because there's no need to add them in both places it just makes it look nice and easy and you've got that lovely effect there which you would get on a Mac or or on konkey on Linux so it looks quite nice so you can hide your icons there and you can even clean up your tasks while there looks quite good and if you want to remove any icons say for instance show you a support here or any of these icons you can just remove them like so so that is the rocket dock which has been around for quite a while and it's quite a nice little feature to add to your operating system next up we're looking at nexus and this is a win step for Nexus and it's a pretty nice little app you can download the free version or you can pay 15 pounds and get the ultimate version depending on what you're really after works with all versions of Windows when she got this downloaded just go ahead and install so I'm just gonna go into the installation folder here and start to install very simple process again just go through the motions here there we go that's now installed and there's a bunch of other types of launches or docks out there on the market and you can choose which one you like I just wanted to show you five which I think are some of the best so let's open this up and you can see here this one looks quite nice as well and you can add in your icons up here this one gives you a little bit more nicer feel to it I think the icons look really nice and clear and they're much more graphical and you can see here we have the weather also Ram meter and a bunch of other settings up here which gives you all your useful information for your computer you can see we look the clock here you look your Start menu here you can click on this and this will open up Start menu bunch of things on here again you can right-click and go to settings and remove icons from here just like you can any other doc then you can just drag and drop all your icons in or just we show you this one there we go so just drag them in and you can drag him what's important to you and what's not but just remove it and keep all your useful icons up there clean up your desktop and also you'll be able to make it look nice and clean so that is a pretty decent docking station there for your icons let's move on to another one here so I'll just quickly move on to the next one this one's called circle dock now circle dock is a free tool you can download and a different sort of approach really got a nice little circle feature which you can add your icons to same sort principle really they're all pretty much the same thing so you can see here's a bunch of files and folders inside here once you download it all you need to do is click on the circle dock executable so I'm gonna click on this and this will go to install now this one does need to have dot net framework 3.5 so I'm going to let this download and automatically download from Microsoft and install on your system and you'll be able to then configure your a circle dock so this is the actual circle dock here same sort principle you can change the opacity you can drag in your icons just like so and this has a circle sort of feel to it it does have settings and all that sort of good stuff the same as the other ones as well which I'll show you quickly and again if you want to bring this up very quickly you can do just like so and you got Hyde you got add you can add in stuff here you can add dock folders blank icons just about wherever you like creating any composition is very like you've got a full customization inside there configuration application he just go into here and set it up exactly how you like it so as you can see it's fully customizable to your own needs everyone's gonna have their own favourite things they like to do with their dock and you can do the same thing for yours once you've got it installed so whatever you'd like to do here this is where you're going to be any all up so once you've got it all set up how you like you can then click on the icons as you would on your desktop but there just be in a nice organized fashion around here so when you can see here they're all nicely labeled and when you click on these it just opens up the application that cleans up the desktop a little bit lots of keen on the circle dock if I'm quite honest this is probably my best one out of the bunch which is called launches been around for a while and it's a nice simple user interface basically it allows you to do quick searches for programs or apps on your system you cook mac OS Linux and also you've got Windows 10 7 and XP so let's get it installed and take a look and see what it can actually do now I think this is a very fast way of finding stuff on your computer and launching it and getting it open it's probably one of the quickest ways I know and it's a pretty decent bit of kit let's get this installed so I'm gonna accept their terms conditions you can have it as a portable or normal it's entirely up to you I'm gonna go normal and then I'm gonna install this there we go that's done now you can have it as a sticky note or any sort of icon it's in tight it's hardly up to you you can see that I type no pick note here and just push enter so as you can see here if you type in any sort of adding up like say 7 plus 7 it will tell you the answer straight away 14 now if you don't like the overall look of the sticky note pad you can change this to the default one if you want let me just quickly show you how to do that I'm just gonna quickly go into the settings here and change this you can also rebuild the catalog I'll show you how to do that in a second this just adds all these stuff on like the applications you've got on the system so I'll quickly change this to default on here and click OK and this is the default one here we can quickly rebuild the catalog this cool add all the apps that are on the system to the database now when I type this in here you'll see 7 plus 7 it will tell me it's 14 straight away I don't need to open a calculator if I want to open up say system information you systeminfo push enter and it will open up system info very quick and easy to do now because I've got it set to hide launcher you can push open space and this will open up the launcher and it will then allow you to type in another command you can have this on the desktop all the time but if you want to put it as like hidden once you finish using it you can do and you can see it opens up edge real quick once you type in edge and you can type in just about anything you want and the command line is always been the fastest way to open up applications on windows and this is no exception is really really fast now you can use the window search but some people don't want to use that window search you can type mail here you can type just about where we launched Photoshop if you have Photoshop on there control panel and then you'll open up control panel and you can see it's really quick and responsive no searching through the menu system you can just use that app by just push in the alt and space button and it will open it up anyway that's gonna be about it for this video my name is ben brown for bright tech Computers doc hold on ok that is the five best launchers that I can find or like on the Internet thanks again for watching bye for now now if you haven't subscribed yet hit the big red subscribe button on my youtube channel and hit the bell notification bar Nixa there to be notified when we upload new videoswhat you guys got another video here for you here we're gonna be taking a look at five of the best app launcher ducks for Windows 10 so this first start off with the first one which is rocket dock and you can get this from the link which I'll leave in the video description and these are a great little addition to make it very quick and easy to launch your applications once you've got this installed as I'll show you here very simple and easy to install it allows you to add your apps to the launcher which will allow you to quickly launch those applications now that means you can have a much nicer cleaner desktop by hiding all your desktop icons it has all your useful icons on the launcher here as you can see this PC Network because I'm on a virtual machine here but these are all show your network connections documents and of course you can add in exactly what you want on your dock you've got your control panel you've got your recycle bin you can add or remove whatever you like now to go into the dock settings here there's a bunch of settings you can change in here icons position run at startup you can have it sitting on the top or on the bottom or on the left or on the right it's entirely up to you how you want to set that up and of course you can set the centering and the edge offset as well you can also mess around with the shadow and the opacity and also change the actual look and feel of the dock by changing the themes or skins as they are known and you can download more of these off their website there's a bunch of them up there and you can add it to the theme or the sort of look that you're trying to get with your actual desktop you've also got your Styles there it's a bunch of other stuff you got to get more tab there to help you get more if you wish so let me just quickly add a couple of icons to the doc sings he had to do just drag and drop them straight in how much you've got all your icons in there you can clean up your taskbar and you can also clean up your desktop by hiding these icons on your desktop and your taskbar because there's no need to add them in both places it just makes it look nice and easy and you've got that lovely effect there which you would get on a Mac or or on konkey on Linux so it looks quite nice so you can hide your icons there and you can even clean up your tasks while there looks quite good and if you want to remove any icons say for instance show you a support here or any of these icons you can just remove them like so so that is the rocket dock which has been around for quite a while and it's quite a nice little feature to add to your operating system next up we're looking at nexus and this is a win step for Nexus and it's a pretty nice little app you can download the free version or you can pay 15 pounds and get the ultimate version depending on what you're really after works with all versions of Windows when she got this downloaded just go ahead and install so I'm just gonna go into the installation folder here and start to install very simple process again just go through the motions here there we go that's now installed and there's a bunch of other types of launches or docks out there on the market and you can choose which one you like I just wanted to show you five which I think are some of the best so let's open this up and you can see here this one looks quite nice as well and you can add in your icons up here this one gives you a little bit more nicer feel to it I think the icons look really nice and clear and they're much more graphical and you can see here we have the weather also Ram meter and a bunch of other settings up here which gives you all your useful information for your computer you can see we look the clock here you look your Start menu here you can click on this and this will open up Start menu bunch of things on here again you can right-click and go to settings and remove icons from here just like you can any other doc then you can just drag and drop all your icons in or just we show you this one there we go so just drag them in and you can drag him what's important to you and what's not but just remove it and keep all your useful icons up there clean up your desktop and also you'll be able to make it look nice and clean so that is a pretty decent docking station there for your icons let's move on to another one here so I'll just quickly move on to the next one this one's called circle dock now circle dock is a free tool you can download and a different sort of approach really got a nice little circle feature which you can add your icons to same sort principle really they're all pretty much the same thing so you can see here's a bunch of files and folders inside here once you download it all you need to do is click on the circle dock executable so I'm gonna click on this and this will go to install now this one does need to have dot net framework 3.5 so I'm going to let this download and automatically download from Microsoft and install on your system and you'll be able to then configure your a circle dock so this is the actual circle dock here same sort principle you can change the opacity you can drag in your icons just like so and this has a circle sort of feel to it it does have settings and all that sort of good stuff the same as the other ones as well which I'll show you quickly and again if you want to bring this up very quickly you can do just like so and you got Hyde you got add you can add in stuff here you can add dock folders blank icons just about wherever you like creating any composition is very like you've got a full customization inside there configuration application he just go into here and set it up exactly how you like it so as you can see it's fully customizable to your own needs everyone's gonna have their own favourite things they like to do with their dock and you can do the same thing for yours once you've got it installed so whatever you'd like to do here this is where you're going to be any all up so once you've got it all set up how you like you can then click on the icons as you would on your desktop but there just be in a nice organized fashion around here so when you can see here they're all nicely labeled and when you click on these it just opens up the application that cleans up the desktop a little bit lots of keen on the circle dock if I'm quite honest this is probably my best one out of the bunch which is called launches been around for a while and it's a nice simple user interface basically it allows you to do quick searches for programs or apps on your system you cook mac OS Linux and also you've got Windows 10 7 and XP so let's get it installed and take a look and see what it can actually do now I think this is a very fast way of finding stuff on your computer and launching it and getting it open it's probably one of the quickest ways I know and it's a pretty decent bit of kit let's get this installed so I'm gonna accept their terms conditions you can have it as a portable or normal it's entirely up to you I'm gonna go normal and then I'm gonna install this there we go that's done now you can have it as a sticky note or any sort of icon it's in tight it's hardly up to you you can see that I type no pick note here and just push enter so as you can see here if you type in any sort of adding up like say 7 plus 7 it will tell you the answer straight away 14 now if you don't like the overall look of the sticky note pad you can change this to the default one if you want let me just quickly show you how to do that I'm just gonna quickly go into the settings here and change this you can also rebuild the catalog I'll show you how to do that in a second this just adds all these stuff on like the applications you've got on the system so I'll quickly change this to default on here and click OK and this is the default one here we can quickly rebuild the catalog this cool add all the apps that are on the system to the database now when I type this in here you'll see 7 plus 7 it will tell me it's 14 straight away I don't need to open a calculator if I want to open up say system information you systeminfo push enter and it will open up system info very quick and easy to do now because I've got it set to hide launcher you can push open space and this will open up the launcher and it will then allow you to type in another command you can have this on the desktop all the time but if you want to put it as like hidden once you finish using it you can do and you can see it opens up edge real quick once you type in edge and you can type in just about anything you want and the command line is always been the fastest way to open up applications on windows and this is no exception is really really fast now you can use the window search but some people don't want to use that window search you can type mail here you can type just about where we launched Photoshop if you have Photoshop on there control panel and then you'll open up control panel and you can see it's really quick and responsive no searching through the menu system you can just use that app by just push in the alt and space button and it will open it up anyway that's gonna be about it for this video my name is ben brown for bright tech Computers doc hold on ok that is the five best launchers that I can find or like on the Internet thanks again for watching bye for now now if you haven't subscribed yet hit the big red subscribe button on my youtube channel and hit the bell notification bar Nixa there to be notified when we upload new videos\n"