Aero Dock v1.0.1

First patch since launch. Everything in here came from issues people opened after trying 1.0.0.

Download Aero.Dock_1.0.1_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs per user, no admin needed. Windows will show a SmartScreen box because the installer is not signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.

Fixed

Windows Search and the Start menu showed up as running apps (#7)
The dock treated shell surfaces as if they were windows you had opened. Filtering now matches on process name, window class and package identity, and drops ApplicationFrameHost frames that carry no AppUserModelID.

Open file location opened Documents (#5)
Explorer needs its /select, path quoted inside a single argument and passed through verbatim. The old call was escaped in a way Explorer answered by opening Documents. Packaged apps now open the Apps folder, and a pin whose target is gone falls back to the parent folder.

Reordering lagged behind the cursor (#6)
Drag momentum and elasticity are off, neighbours move on a stiffer spring, and the icon you grab snaps to its base size at drag start instead of animating down while your cursor sits on it.

Some icons rendered much smaller than the rest (#4)
Apps that ship only a 16 or 32 px icon, like Core Temp, are now cropped to their drawn pixels and scaled up, so every tile carries the same optical weight.

Changing icon size distorted the aspect ratio (#3)
Non-square icons are padded instead of stretched, at any dock size.

Both icon fixes need the cache rebuilt, so the cache is versioned and regenerates itself on upgrade. Nothing to clear by hand.

Auto-hide hid the dock mid drag and drop (#1)
The one moment the dock moved out from under your cursor on purpose. It holds still now while files are being dragged onto it.

Quit was hard to find (#8)
Settings has a Quit button next to the settings file controls, and the tray menu's Quit sits below a separator so it is harder to hit by accident. Both restore the Windows taskbar before exiting, so an unclean shutdown cannot leave you without one.

Changed

Configurable auto-hide delay (#2)
Settings, then Dock. Anywhere from 200ms to 5 seconds. It was pinned at 1.4 seconds before.

Built-in dock items can be turned off (#9)
Search button, settings button, clock and date, and the battery, network, volume and Recycle Bin glyphs. Settings, then Dock items.

Search and settings icons redrawn as glass (#10)
Gradient body, specular highlight, seated centre, so they sit next to your app icons instead of looking pasted on. They still take their colour from the active theme.

Upgrading

Install over 1.0.0. Your settings and pins carry over, and the new options pick up their defaults. Config still lives at %APPDATA%\com.aerodock.desktop\settings.json.

Full changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

Aero Dock v1.0.0

Aero Dock is a glass dock and app launcher for Windows — pin your apps to a
floating pane of glass, watch icons swell under the cursor, and hover an app to
see live previews of its open windows.

This is the first public release.

It's built in the Frutiger Aero design language — glass, water, light, and life —
as if Vista's aesthetic had never stopped evolving. Under the glass it's a native
app: the entire Windows integration layer is Rust talking directly to Win32 and
COM, so shortcut resolution, icon extraction, window tracking, and the live DWM
previews are all real Windows APIs.

What's in it

• A dock on any screen edge, floating or flush, DPI-aware across monitors
• Cursor magnification with spring physics, tooltips, and launch bounce
• Live window previews — real DWM thumbnails, framed in glass
• Running-app indicators; click to focus, cycle, or minimize
• Drag to reorder, drop from Explorer to pin, folder flyouts, and stacks
• Keyboard-first search across installed apps (including Store apps) and recent files
• Clock, battery, network, volume, and Recycle Bin in the system corner
• Six themes, optional wallpaper color sync, and five ambient scenes
• Auto-hide, tray icon, and launch-at-sign-in

Install

Download AeroDock_1.0.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for the
current user, so no administrator rights are needed. Aero Dock starts in your
system tray — left-click the tray icon to show the dock.

The installer isn't code-signed, so Windows will show a "Windows protected your
PC" prompt on first run. Click More info → Run anyway, or build it yourself
from source if you'd rather not.

Requires: Windows 10 (1809+) or Windows 11, x64, with the WebView2 runtime
(already present on Windows 11 and current Windows 10).

Privacy

Aero Dock makes no network requests. No telemetry, no analytics, no update check,
no account. Everything it knows is one JSON file in your own app config folder.

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Full details in the changelog.