Circle Dock

Circle Dock is an Open Source Circular and Spiral Dock for Windows which allows you to Arrange Your Shortcuts in a Mouse-Centered Application Dock.

What Circle Dock Allows You to Do:

Launch your programs from a circular dock.
Drag and drop your files, folders, and shortcuts onto a circular dock that you can resize.
Rotate the dock with either your mouse wheel or the keyboard arrow keys.
Change the image shown for the icons and change the skins (compatible with icons and skins for Rocket Dock, Object Dock, etc.).
The dock appears where your mouse is by pressing a hotkey (default is F1) or your middle mouse button.
Tested on computers with multiple monitors, Windows XP/Vista/7, 32-bit & 64-bit, and requires only '.Net' Framework 2.0.
Automatically works on all Windows Vista and 7 computers and most Windows XP computers.
A new settings panel that allows you to customize many options. It updates your dock as you make changes. See it change in real time! No need to press an OK button.
Multi-language capable. Just translate the English.ini file to the language of your choice. 50+ Languages currently available.
Change the image used for the dock icons with the easiest method out there: Just set the program to "Icon Replacement Mode" in the right-click menu of the center icon and you can change all the icon images by just dragging and dropping new PNG images onto them! Huge time saver when you are customizing your dock.
Built-in support for Windows HD Icons. Vector and detailed PNG's come through with great clarity.
Rotate the dock with your mouse wheel or arrow keys (customizable).
Reorder and Organize the dock items with a new adjustment interface. Located via right-click on an item.
By default, clicking on the center button does not open the start menu. You can enable this in the settings panel.
New easy method of upgrading from older versions.

The Idea Behind Circle Dock

The idea behind Circle Dock is that the dock should appear where your mouse is instead of you having to move your mouse to the dock like with other programs. This is accomplished by making the dock a circular or spiral shape so that it can be placed anywhere, even near the edge of the screen. The off-screen portions of the dock are easily reached by just scrolling with your mouse wheel or arrow keys.

Sources

Content in this article was copied from the CircleDock website, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.
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