With the dock I found I never had to go to my desktop to open any program-- I loved it ! and then the motherboard went on the dell and I got my W7 acer and found that after having a dock I just couldn't go back to using my desktop like I did on my XP pc.
I found the Nexus dock-
http://www.winstep.net/nexus.asp
which has so many more options then the dell dock ever did and now I really can't see going back to using my desktop as a loading zone for icons.
Your Cairo dock is really more like the kind of dock I'ld like so if you come across one like that then let me know.
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