In the 'Process Dock', clicking on one of these open application icons will immediately bring that application to the forefront. I chose the 'heads-up-display' translucent black design. Visually, you can choose from many different color schemes and designs. You can position DragThings' Process Dock on the bottom of the screen if you want I have it in the upper-right corner of my screen.

(You can create other panels or docks to display tabbed groups of icons of frequently-used applications that you want to launch.) Unlike the Dock, it does not show icons of applications that are not running right now. There is a free trial the app costs US $29.Īmong other features, DragThing can be configured to display a floating 'Process Dock', a panel of the icons of applications that are currently open and running - and only the ones currently running. I have owned and used this program for more than ten years.

Here is some more information about DragThing, in addition to com. It will not work for current OS and is not open sourced or available for sale now. Enjoy your shiny new taskbar! Eventually right click it and select a new color.Ī 32 bit app for Mojave and lower was DragThing Turn 'Lock position' on (can be found at Advanced tab)ġ0. Turn 'Use Single-Click To Open Items' on (can be found at Advanced tab)

Set the following (got most of it from this page):.

Right click again on it and click 'Dock settings.'.

Drag it to the center of the bottom of the screen.

Right click on the window that appeared when you pressed ⌘+0 and click Rotate.

Make sure DragThing is the active application (It says 'DragThing' next to the  in the topleft corner then), press ⌘+0 and close all the DragThing windows except the one that appeared when you pressed that.

Open the downloaded DMG file, drag the DragThing icon to the applications folder, delete the DMG file, open the applications folder (or Launchpad if you have Mountain Lion) and open DragThing.

However, if you like it you should buy it. It costs US $29 but you can try it for free.

Download DragThing (thanks to this page for telling me about it).

(so it won't get in the way of the Windows-like taskbar you are going to create, while you can still use it as a handy app launcher.)

Click the  in the topleft corner, click Dock, then click Left or Right to move the dock to left or right.

It can be configured to create a Windows-like taskbar. This answer only works for older OS versions (<=10)ĭragThing is a commercial application that can display a list of running applications.

Mac os style dock for windows 10