Pinning vertically

JerometheGiraff said:

Miles that is exactly what I wanted. :) That is nice, really nice, beneficial. :)

It's a nice utility. The only "bug" I found is really a Windows bug. 1 out of 10 icons you might get blank paper icon instead of the app icon for the shortcut. I just extract the icon from the app and put it in an icon folder in documents. I do Change Icon and navigate to that. Other than that it's solid.

MilesAhead said:

JerometheGiraff said:

Miles that is exactly what I wanted. :) That is nice, really nice, beneficial. :)

It's a nice utility. The only "bug" I found is really a Windows bug. 1 out of 10 icons you might get blank paper icon instead of the app icon for the shortcut. I just extract the icon from the app and put it in an icon folder in documents. I do Change Icon and navigate to that. Other than that it's solid.

I've found it doesn't work with some 64bit programs. 7Stacks which I posted a link to earlier does.

I've tried both and they both do the job. Let us know which you chose.

kado897 said:

MilesAhead said:

JerometheGiraff said:

Miles that is exactly what I wanted. :) That is nice, really nice, beneficial. :)

It's a nice utility. The only "bug" I found is really a Windows bug. 1 out of 10 icons you might get blank paper icon instead of the app icon for the shortcut. I just extract the icon from the app and put it in an icon folder in documents. I do Change Icon and navigate to that. Other than that it's solid.

I've found it doesn't work with some 64bit programs. 7Stacks which I posted a link to earlier does.

When's the last time 7Stacks was updated? I ask because I tried it out when I saw the announcement on seven forums. It was flaky enough I took it off and looked for something else. Where are these 64 bit programs? Only reason I can think of it wouldn't work would be if the app was in a folder that gets caught up in redirection. But then any 32 bit launcher would have the same problem.

(I just looked. 7Stacks last revision is July 5, 2009.. so I definitely tried the latest version.)

I had trouble with VirtualBox and the Snipping tool. There were also programs where it wouldn't extract the icon but I can't remember which they were.

kado897 said:

I had trouble with VirtualBox and the Snipping tool. There were also programs where it wouldn't extract the icon but I can't remember which they were.

I don't put everything in one launcher. I tend to use Standalone Stacks for stuff I use frequently but not often enough to pin to TaskBar by themselves. I have folders in RocketDock with categories of apps. No one launcher is perfect for everything. I use FARR hotkey launcher and a couple of specialized ones I wrote myself.

I liked 7Stacks but there was something unstable about it. It was long enough ago I don't remember exactly what motivated me to search out something similar. But then on some systems it may work perfectly. Not every bug shows up on every PC.

I've been running it for a couple of months now and on my system its stable but a bit slow on occasion.