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If you don't mind using a third party application, Bins sounds exactly what you're looking for, although it's $5.

There's also 7stacks that can do something similar that is free, although it hasn't been updated in a few years.

Why do you use Bins when there are free options that do the same thing?

7stack is a free alternative that does much the same thing.

Similar functionality exists built right into windows without needing to install any 3rd party software. Here's a step-by-step guide to building custom menus off of the task bar: (1) unlock taskbar. (2) right click on taskbar and select tool "Toolbars". (3) select "New Toolbar..." (4) select a folder with the files/folders/shortcuts that you want in you menu and click "Select Folder". (5) a tool bar will appear on the taskbar with icons of everything in your selected folder... click and hold the handle on the end of the tool bar and drag it towards the start button so that fewer and fewer icons are showing.... continue this until all of them are no longer showing and only two chevrons ">>" are showing. Now when those chevrons are clicked a menu of icons will appear. You can add or remove objects from the folder the toolbar is based on to change the menu... folders will spawn sub menus, and you can select "show title" so that multiple menus can be told apart.

I liked your taskbar, so I looked into "Bins".

Unfortunately, it costs $20.

Here's a free alternative for folks I found -- I'm going to try it out and see if it "clicks".

http://alastria.com/software/7stacks/

EDIT: it's not bad. Probably not as polished as Bins, but it fits my price range ($0).

Use 7Stacks. It's similar to the "stacks" feature in Mac OS X, and allows you to group icons or folders or links into single icons on the taskbar. Hope you find this useful.

Don't get a dock program for Windows. Seven's taskbar is much more powerful as-is.

If you do find yourself missing Stacks, then install <strong>7 Stacks</strong>. I don't use it and suggest that you don't either, simply because the taskbar works extremely well without any extensions. Also, try not to keep seemingly every program you ever use pinned to your taskbar, like I've seen on some computers. It's stupid on OS X, and it's stupid here, as it decreases your efficiency. Just hit the windows button, type part of the program's name, and hit enter - bam.

Also, read up on Windows 7 shortcuts, particularly the "Windows Logo Key", "Windows Explorer", and "Taskbar" shortcut sections.

For anyone who thinks the idea of having a stack of shortcuts taking up one icon slot on your task bar, but aren't ready to take the plunge and purchase Bins, there's another freeware application that does basically the same thing called 7Stacks. Works fine in Windows 10. Just figured it was worth mentionin' for anyone interested.

7Stacks - Good for making explorable folders that appear as customisable icons on your taskbar. For a relevant example you could make an adobe icon on the taskbar that shows the shortcuts to your adobe programs when you click on it.

Fences - Groups desktop icons together, you can either let it do it automatically or customise your own fences.

If you look up Rainmeter launchers/docks on deviant art there will also be a fair few on there that you can make use of :)

I use 7stacks to recreate that functionality. It's not perfect but should do what you want (more details in this comment).

You could probably just point it to your C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder if all your shortcuts are already there.

Fair enough. I found this one free utility that claims to offer the ability to create app folders for the Windows taskbar. It's made for Windows 7, though, so I'm not sure how it would play with 10.

http://alastria.com/software/7stacks/

I was thinking about getting something like RocketDock/StarDock, but I don't want to run an app that unnecessarily clutters the screen. I searched around for similar apps.

7stacks lets me do what I intended, but it's still quite not what I wanted: http://i.imgur.com/h801QUZ.png

It's very ugly, I'd like to be able to define a minimum grid size (icon placeholders) (image shows 2x1, and it looks bad, 2x4 (8 icons) with padding would look beautiful). Seems outdated/buggy. There's no way to hide the caption/folder's name. And it lacks customization options. It also spawns the grid based on the cursor's position at the time, not the actual icon's position.

I personally create desktop shortcuts of the webapps I use, set them to launch in a new window instead of a new tab, then put all of them in a folder. I then create a new toolbar on my taskbar and direct it at that folder.

You could also achieve something more similar to the way the Chrome App Launcher menu functions by using something like 7 Stacks or Bins to hold all of your shortcuts on the taskbar without eating up your taskbars real estate, but they are both discontinued apps and may have issues on Windows 10, or not even function.

This method also allows me to create a pseudo-webapp of things that aren't actually official Chrome webapps, so I can individually launch them in a window without a tab or URL bar and just use them that way, without having to open my actual browser and loading up extra tabs.

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> I'm curious to how you do that in windows with the custom menus.

There are a couple of ways: 7stacks is a free 3rd party app that can do it. But there's no need to go to 3rd party apps as the taskbar itself natively has the capacity. Right click on the taskbar, select "Toolbars", select "Create New Toolbar...", you'll see a select folder dialog box. Select a folder that you want to be represented as a menu. The taskbar will now contain a separate quick-launch-bar like collection of icons for whatever was in that folder. Drag the dotted lines of the toolbar until the only thing left on the toolbar is two chevrons: ">>". Clicking on them will now bring up a menu of what ever was in that folder.

> Ubuntu and Linux Mint are easy to dual boot.

These seem to be the favored choices. Thanks! Will also look into XFCE.

group the icons or try this program 7stacks 7stacks is an easy to use, free app that lets Windows 7 (and Vista and XP) users have “stacks” of icons in their Taskbar (in 7) or QuickLaunch Toolbar.