RocketDock by Punk Software is a great Mac OS X dock clone for Windows. It is bouncy when you mouseover, allows you to drag and drop new shortcuts to the bar, and lets you customize all the settings, including the icon height, opacity, and even edge offset. I really like this clone, because it ships with many skins to further integrate your computing experience. It offers a myriad of options which makes it fairly versatile.
Besides being nifty, usable and having a small memory footprint, RocketDock is apparently also is a big hit with wired three-year-olds. Mine just asked to "do the rocket things", meaning he wanted to run the mouse over RocketBar and watch the icons jump up and down. Talk about a selling point.
More screenshots after the jump...
This is the general settings screen. Here you can set many options

The icons settings screen. You can set things like icon image quality, size, zoom, width, and duration.

Next is the position screen, which is helpful for setting the edge offset to bring RocketDock up above your Windows taskbar. This works for any side of your screen, which you can also set here.

And last is the style screen. Here you choose the skin (yes, all those skins pictured here come preloaded, and then some), opacity, and other style options.
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Subscribe to commentsAukonOct 20th 2006 12:23PM
RocketDock is fantastic for a dock on Windows, it works well.
But I use RK Launcher, seems to be alot more appealing how it works and looks.
DanyNov 22nd 2006 10:40AM
I have just downloaded a new GUI theme and it would look pretty good with a dock so I figured I should download one.
mark cowleyNov 25th 2006 7:43PM
can you tell do you or will you be doing an orb style dock?
dDec 29th 2006 8:22AM
As a long time Mac user, I love RKD. The only problem I have now is the icons in the dock. When icons in the dock are enlarged, the look bad.
D.
virajMar 21st 2007 9:15AM
its good for change.
alissaApr 7th 2007 6:53PM
hey
i might sound retarded, but how do you download the dock?
i really want one on my windows but don't know how to get it so feel free to email me ONLY with the answer
alissamcshane@yahoo.com
tazzymanJun 9th 2007 4:54PM
# 17 (Dylan) - look at engage for Enlightenment or also adesklets or also gdesklets for Gnome.
Karl