Jambo
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Winstep nexus dock for Win7:
I like it but the start bar at the top is annoying and looks poo at the bottom. Unsure if I'm gunna keep it
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Dom
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Try out Rocketdock, it's a lot less bloaty than Winstep - looks good though 
As for the taskbar, what about putting it to one of the sides? You might be able to get a 'start' button plugin for your dock, in which case you can hide the task bar or i believe there are ways to remove it completely (can't say i've tried under 7, i know you could on XP though).
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Jambo
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The windows logo icon at the start is a start menu. Can I just hide the task bar then?
I tried the side and wasn't sure on that either tbh 
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Dom
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Don't know of a way to complete remove it, although you can auto-hide the taskbar but this will hide the 'start' button and taskbar/status bar etc.
On some docks i've seen (can't remember what as it was about 3/4 years ago) Start button/menu replacements, so you have an icon, click and the Start Menu appears from the dock. You could also remove/hide the taskbar back in XP as well but as said, i'm not sure if you can do that under Win 7.
Edit - Just did a quick google as saw, Taskbar Eliminator for Win 7. No idea if it works or not. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-hide-or-remove-windows-7-taskbar
[Edited on 08-03-2011 by Dom]
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Jambo
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Cool thanks Dom.
Also what did you mean by bloaty??
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pow
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One breath you wanna get rid of IE 64bit (which is a packaged part of windows) and next your installing bloatware like this  
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Jambo
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Im guessing your mention of bloat were that means it makes things run slow? If so its bye bye Nexus 
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
One breath you wanna get rid of IE 64bit (which is a packaged part of windows) and next your installing bloatware like this
Rocketdock isn't too bad, about 10-20mb of ram usage. But Pow has a point
[Edited on 08-03-2011 by Dom]
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Jambo
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So it's gunna make it run slow right??
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
So it's gunna make it run slow right??
Depends, but i found some docks better (less of a resource hog) than others and winstep wasn't great from what i remember. Vista memory management is pretty shite in comparison to Win 7, so you might have issues.
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Jambo
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I'm running windows 7 dude! It seems ok so far, the little performance indicators seem to be working harder
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Russ
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Would be good if you had a folder to keep all your applications in and had no use for a start button.
You can install OSX on a lot of pc's though, could even dual boot it, so you can have windows 7 when you need it and osx when you want to be able to do nothing but it look pretty
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pow
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It's just what it could be running behind it, you think you're installing a nice fluffy dock bar but behind it could be gathering information about how you use your PC and sending it out to the companies servers.
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adiohead
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That's sooooo apple 
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Jambo
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Lot of ifs there Pow. I have yet to decide to keep it. Nothing wrong with standard windows os tbh! Lol
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
It's just what it could be running behind it, you think you're installing a nice fluffy dock bar but behind it could be gathering information about how you use your PC and sending it out to the companies servers.
Use Windows 7 Firewall Control, then you can block applications from accessing the outside 
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Jambo
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Just for you Ade 
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Jambo
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ahh FFs why is that gay litle num lock symbol there 
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Russ
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becuase it will never be osx?
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Jambo
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Yes Russ 
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