7stacks is an easy to use, free app that
lets Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have “stacks” of icons in their
Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar (in Vista and XP). By using
stacks, users can reduce icon clutter, and combine a
group of related icons into a single icon. For instance, if you use
application suites such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or Adobe CS4,
you can have all the suite’s icons combined into one icon!
You can also use it to browse and access documents within a folder
very quickly. Usually, when you want to edit a series of frequently used
documents, you’d have to either launch the app, and go to File|Open, or
open the (My) Computer icon and go into your (My) Documents folder and
pick the file you want. With 7stacks, just create a stack to that
document’s folder, and open that document in a couple of clicks.
7stacks was created because of my own frustrations with Windows 7, as
great an OS as Win7 is. Because Windows 7′s new taskbar, called the SuperBar is very similar to the Mac OS X Dock,
many comparisons are going to be made. But Windows 7 seemed to have one
glaring omission of OSX: stacks. Now, with 7stacks, you get almost the same functionality as the OS X stacks, but with a more “Windows 7″ appearance.
7stacks is incredibly easy to use, and has a variety of looks and features, allowing anyone to customize
the look of their stack however they’d like. And using Windows 7, its
easy to create new stacks by right-clicking on any stack, and selecting “Create New Stack” in the JumpList.
7stacks will place an shortcut icon on your desktop to this new stack,
which you can then pin to your Windows 7 taskbar, or Vista or XP
QuickLaunch bar.
7stacks even solves the problem other similar apps have had: forcing
users to “hack” the executables and shortcuts to allow multiple stacks
on the Windows 7 taskbar. 7stacks solves this by using 10 identical
executables (numbered 0-9) and assigning the shortcuts slots based on
which ones are used. The end result is that you can just pin up to 10
stacks on the taskbar, with no need to even think about hacking or
reconfiguring or adjusting .. it just works!
Check out these features:
- In 7 and Vista, 7stacks uses Aero, making the stacks look like part of Windows itself.
- Browse subfolders within a stack, just like in OS X Snow Leopard.
- 3 different styles of stacks: Normal, Grid, and Menu
- Normal displays a stack of icons vertically, with a text description next to it.
- Grid displays a “squarish” grid of icons only; useful when displaying a large number of items like document folders.
- Menu displays a cascading menu of items, with a very small icon and a name next to it. Hover over subfolders to browse inside those folders.
- In Windows 7, create a new stack by right-clicking on any stack and selecting “Create New Stack” from the JumpList entry.
- In Menu mode, 7stacks doesn’t even need to be in a toolbar. You can use it right from your desktop, or any other folder.
- Pin up to 10 different stacks on the Windows 7 taskbar
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