Dell Dock - organize your icons

Dell Dock is a utility from Dell and Stardock that enables you to organize your desktop icons. Instead of having icons on your desktop you can organize them at Dell Dock by Categories. The Categories is like a drawer where you can group your application icons accordingly. When you open the folder the shortcuts will pop up. By default Dell Dock have few categories like Office, Photos, Music and Videos where all the shortcuts of your Office apps, My Pictures, My Music and My Videos are in placed. You can also add your own categories and shortcuts.

So far I have no idea of any icon dock solution that offers categorization like Dell Dock that is free. Although RocketDock is available but it has no categorization capability like Dell Dock. But we are Dell user right?


Features of Dell Dock

• Easy access to commonly used programs & files.
• Reduces icon clutter on the desktop.
• Groups like applications under categories, such as: Take Pictures & View Pictures grouped under Photos.
• Avoids confusion over which icon does what, by viewing easy to read titles for each icon.
• Add, move, or delete: category(s), shortcut(s), and separator(s).
• Customize your dock: change the location, color, lock dock settings, enable autohide, disable run at startup and more.
• Bring to Top When Mouse Nears Edge - allows you to access the dock when a full screen application covers it, by simply moving the mouse to the edge of the screen where the dock is located.
• Backup & restore customization settings - nice if you want multiple dock configurations for different purposes or people (i.e. business, school, gaming, Mom's dock, Joe's Gaming dock).
• Supports touch screen monitors (i.e. tablet computers) by displaying a larger dock with visible icon titles.

System Requirements

• Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) or Windows XP.
• Dell Computer.

Documentation

The conventions in this manual include:

• Click or select - means to press your left mouse button.
• Right click - means to press your right mouse button.
• Cancel or abort - are used interchangeably and mean the same thing (i.e. cancel/do not save changes).
• Default - this refers to a setting that the Dell Dock is set to when factory installed (i.e. Run at startup).

Dell Inspiron 14R Windows 7 Desktop Screenshot