Organizing Your Desktop

"It's nice to have a cleaner home". Organizing your Desktop is very essential to each one of us especially to the people who are doing online business or even working with their own computers. When our desktop is organized, we can easily and smoothly work, find the files or folders that we need easily, and have a cleaner view and desktop interface. What we need is a software that can help us in organizing
our desktop. RocketDock is a free software which helps us in organizing our desktop. By placing the shortcut buttons on it, you can have a presentable and east-to-work desktop.

What is RocketDock ?

    RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. ( Definition from www.RocketDock.com ).
See Example Image below.

    Download and Customize your own RocketDock at RocketDock.com/Download.

How to Change RocketDock Skin/Theme

    Download the Skin/Theme you want to set at http://adf.ly/jQUUU. See Example Image below to know what does RocketDock Skin/Theme looks like.

If you have chose and downloaded your own skin/theme already then lets go to the next step. Extract the files you have downloaded. Right Click the file and click "Extract Here". You should now see a new folder with the skin/theme inside it. Now copy the folder. Right click and click "Copy". Next Step is to locate your RocketDock Folder. If you don't have enough knowledge on locating files/folders, then follow these steps.

* Go to My Computer
* Press Ctrl+F
* Click "All Files and Folders"
* Type "RocketDock" in the textbox labeled "All or part of the file name" and click "Search".
* Wait until RocketDock Folder Shows. See Example Image below.

    Double-Click the folder. You should see Different folders including the folder labeled with "Skins". Double-Click the folder "Skins" and then Paste the skin/theme you have downloaded a while ago. See Example Image Below.

    The Next and final step is to use the skin/theme. Open your "RocketDock", right-click and click "Dock Settings". A window will appear which contains Dock basic settings. Click "Style" and find the Skin you have downloaded then click "Ok". Now your Done. See Image below.

How to change RocketDock Icons

    Download RocketDock Icons at http://adf.ly/jQe45. Just do the same steps above. Paste the icons you have downloaded this time at "Icons Folder". Now Right click the icon you want to change in the rocketdock and click "Icon Settings" and select the icon you want to replace. Now click "Ok" and your done. See Example Image below.

How to Put Shortcut Icons in RocketDock

    Simply Drag and Drop the icons you want to put in the dock. Make sure that you haven't checked "LOCK ITEMS". When you delete an icon, simply drag and drop it outside the dock. For example you want to add a shortcut icon of "My computer" in the dock, simply drag the icon of "My computer" into the dock and delete the existing icon in the desktop.
For latest updates, visit RocketDock's website regularly at www.RocketDock.com.

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