One of the first things I missed when I switched from Windows to Mac, was the Taskbar along the bottom that shows all my currently open windows. There is nothing wrong with Mac’s Dock, it’s just different and is not a Taskbar. After much searching, I finally found a program that I can use to setup and simulate a Windows Taskbar along the bottom of my Mac OS X (Lion v10.7.2) screen.
It's working just fine on my Mac OS X 10.9.4 (Mavericks). Hopefully there will be support for Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite when it drops in Fall. Which Windows taskbar replacement app do you use on your Mac computer? Do please share with us. Hopefully you can also leave a feedback with regards to your personal experience using the app.
The program is called DragThing. The only downside is that it costs $29 but has a free 30-day trial so you can test it out to see if it’s what you want. But without finding anything else that came even remotely close, I am ok paying the money. Here’s a screen shot:
Taskbar For Mac Os X 10.13
First thing you need to do is move your Apple Dock to the bottom of the screen and disable Automatically Show And Hide The Dock. If you keep the setting enabled so that the dock automatically hides, then whenever you maximize a window it will go right to the bottom of your screen and cover your taskbar. If the Apple Dock is always visible, then it protects the bottom part of the screen from a maximized window.
If you want to move the Apple Dock over to the right hand side, then open up the Terminal app and type
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning end
Press Enter and then type:killall Dock
followed by Enter again (the D in Dock must be a capital D or it will not work).
Now download and install DragThing and from the main preferences menu, click on Docks and enable the Window Dock. You will need to rotate the view of this dock, and then under it’s dock options, set Float Dock Window to Always, Show Window Title Bar At Left, Icon Size to 16×16, Spacing to 0, Width to about 70, Show Item Names At Right, and Use Single-Click To Open Items.
- Taskbar For Mac OS style - put the files to Recycle Bin and delete later in mac style - Built-in ZIP support allows you to decompress or extract ZIP/RAR files - Action Center. Notifier Center: Like windows 10 launcher, the computer also has a action center bar. You can check the notice of application or system with Notification Center.
- When you hide Mac OS X El Capitan menu bar with Mac OS X El Capitan Dock, you will see a pretty nice display screen. Everything looks pretty awesome. Now, follow this step by step guide to hiding Mac OS X El Capitan menu bar. Navigate to the Apple icon at the upper left-hand side of your Mac screen. Choose “System Preferences“.
Mac Os X Taskbar For Windows 7
You can now resize it so it is only 1 item high, and then drag it down towards the bottom left of your screen. Hold down the shift key before you release the mouse button so it remembers where it is, and then under dock options disable the Show Window Title Bar option.
Taskbar For Mac Os X 10.7
And there you have it a Windows style Taskbar along the bottom of your Mac!