Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Freeware, Windows x64
7stacks lets you pin multiple folders to your Windows 7 taskbar
by Lee Mathews Jun 29th 2009 at 10:00AM
One feature of the Windows 7 taskbar I don't quite agree with is the inability to pin folders somewhere other than Windows Explorer. I have two or three key folders that I'd like to access from my taskbar - and I'd rather not have create new toolbars to do it.Alastria software's 7stacks has the solution. It's a small (about 800Kb) program that creates OsX-like stacks as standalone shortcuts. Unlike your native Windows 7 folders, each 7stacks shortcut behaves like a separate executable - so you can pin as many as you like to your taskbar.
Apart from the stack view, you can also display folder contents as a menu (plain old lists) and grid (pictured).
To see 7stacks in action, you can watch a brief demo I captured after the break.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Greg said 10:45AM on 6-29-2009
Wow this thing is awesome and just what I was looking for, only problem I see is that if you have your taskbar set to 'Auto-hide' then when you click on the stacks folder the opened stack doesn't open in the correct location. Rather it opens exactly where you clicked.
Example here: http://hosted.drpic.com/vault/1DDVCQBRHE.png
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Derek said 5:27PM on 6-29-2009
I am the lead developer of this app. Thanks to DownloadSquad for finding and reviewing it!
Greg, several other people have alerted me to this bug. I will have a fix released by tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up.
http://alastria.com
noneofmyconcern said 11:47AM on 6-29-2009
nothing new under the sun, Lee
"StandaloneStack" adds this feature to Windows 2000, XP, Vista and indeed Windows 7
http://www.chrisnsoft.com/standalonestack/
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Lee Mathews said 11:56AM on 6-29-2009
Oh, you mean: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/15/add-leopard-style-folder-stacks-to-windows/
I find this one much easier to deal with, though. To each his/her own!
Molly said 11:44AM on 6-29-2009
nothing new under the sun, Lee
"StandaloneStack" adds this feature to Windows 2000, XP, Vista and indeed Windows 7
http://www.chrisnsoft.com/standalonestack/
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Molly said 7:04PM on 6-29-2009
sorry for double posting
and yeah, i suppose that has been covered here a while ago already, since StandaloneStacks is around quite some time.
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Xanthonus said 7:08PM on 6-29-2009
This is a great feature to have I know I will use it once I get my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. I really like when you hit the documents folder and it gave you the entire list of folders like music and videos I could really use that.
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