El Capitan Menu bar for Windows
ViFind is the ultimate El Capitan Menu Bar solution for Windows and it’s not just eye candy either! it’s a fully functional El Capitan menu bar implementation for your Windows desktop. Created by the dream team that brought you the original ViStart start menu! Windows X and Lee-Soft are back. Get the Apple style start button and access your start menu like Apple users do and get the El Capitan OSX menu bar and status menus.
El Capitan Style Start Button
The El Capitan style start button provides Mac like access to the Windows start menu.
Real menu bar from actual software
When a Windows app has a menu bar it will be displayed conveniently at the top of the desktop like in OSX- El Capitan
Genuine OS X El Capitan FinderBar user experience
Integrating features from Windows and El Capitan forming the perfect hybrid with a genuine finderbar user experience.
An Original El Capitan Layout Containing
– Taskbar items with pinning item and notification support
– Tray icon support including system icons
– Date/Time display
This is only the first build and it’s highly experimental. So there could be more features to come in the future!
64 Comments
Daniel Aniq Herry Asmadi
It crash on windows XP SP3 and windows 10 64 bit
here is the error.log of vifind
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,”Starting ViDock rev201″
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,0,”ShellHelper”,”StartButtonHandler”,”Unable to find start button hWnd”
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:52#,0,”ShellHelper”,”StartButtonHandler”,”Unable to find start button hWnd”
#2016-02-26 23:54:53#,0,”ShellHelper”,”StartButtonHandler”,”Unable to find start button hWnd”
Daniel Aniq Herry Asmadi
It crash on windows XP SP3 and windows 10 64 bit
here is the error.log of vifind
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:43#,10,”GDI+Framework”,”GDI+ Error”,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,”Starting ViDock rev201″
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,0,”ShellHelper”,”StartButtonHandler”,”Unable to find start button hWnd”
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:44#,91,”winTaskBar”,”DrawTaskList(); Object variable or With block variable not set
“,””
#2016-02-26 23:54:52#,0,”ShellHelper”,”StartButtonHandler”,”Unable to find start button hWnd”
#2016-02-26 23:54:53#,0,”ShellHelper”,”StartButtonHandler”,”Unable to find start button hWnd”
I hope this will help you fix the issue
Whhothe
not working… windows 10 november update… :/ http://i.imgur.com/nS5pTtyr.png
Lee
Could you tell me which part doesn’t work? From the screenshot it appears functional.
YouTube Li Ming Chun
You taught us how to video???
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Lee
Do you mean you want me to post a video on how to use it?
jairo alexis morveli quispe
hi this looks perfect but when i ide the menu bar on my app i cant see it on vifind, so whats the reason to use it if ill have my menu bar allways on my app? it dont replace ithe menu bar it only shows an aditional menu bar on the top
could you may do it work when the menu bar is hide? ty dude great add and great features i hope youll do it
Lee
Do you mean the original taskbar sometimes becomes visible when using ViFind?
Hery
I have split screen with taskbar and windows application, running windows 7 64bit ultimate.. How to fix it..
Lee
Could you share a screenshot?
Kuan
in the Vifinder, when I click the “drill down” cursor, it crashes too. And the function bar doesn’t always show those options from programs. Eventually I chose to disable Vifinder. (Windows XP)
Lee
What do you mean by the “drill down” cursor?
Robson Ciconelli
Great! Is great work! Thank you a lot for this application.
In future version maybe you can improve start menu like osx (not necessary a clone) like obsolete Objectbar.
Please make a forum to see request of users, improvements, etc… Lots of desktop moders waiting for news and some requests.
Best regards
Lee
Hi Robson, thank’s for the feedback. I will create a facebook group for this
Lee
Discussions can now take place here https://www.facebook.com/groups/678943448913222/
Cheryl
failed- virus detected
Lee
Which antivirus are you using? You may need to submit a false positive report when it flags the file as a virus.
Cheryl
windows defender
Lee
That’s strange. I have Windows Defender and it hasn’t flagged it here. Can you send a screenshot to my e-mail address or upload one here? [email protected]
Jalen
Mine works but the bat only shows apple and not the other stuff
Joye
Hey, I noticed the FinderBar UI wasn’t that accurate, I don’t want to complain, just wanted to point out the design was different, Is there any way you could make a version of this where the icons are layed out like the actual El Capitan menu bar anytime soon? (look at an el capitan screenshot) Other than that, great software! works well with windows 10 and a El Capitan UX style.
Joshua Del Rosario
Heres a screenshot: http://imgur.com/LxUF9si
1. Left one has the taskbar on the top with option “Use small taskbar icons on”, but still, startmenu a bit off of ViFind
2. Right one has the taskbar on the bottom , same results as 1, still a bit off of the bottom screen.
3. I think ViFind should always (or optionally) bring start menu close to it.
4. Double clicking system tray icons doesn’t work, only single left click and single right click works.
Luis Albano Calabrano Hidalgo
hi men, im need help you, my antivirus detect virus and worm, also idea? tnx
ossama mahmoud
stop the taskbar from disappearing
Haritha
I LOVE U LEE-SOFT.COM U ALL ARE GREAT
dotails
When I click full screen about 2 centimeters is reserved at the top of the screen under the task-bar. Also some of the pinned applications don’t appear, Autodesk applications for example.
Juicyousiguy
it doesn’t work on windows 8.1….everytime i run it it doesn’t open
vivek
not working… 🙁
Irfan Pinandhityo
not working in windows 7 32 bit. the system tray icon does not appear, the percentage of battery and wifi icon. please fix..
Dale Corne
I have ALWAYS loved your work. You are fantastic. I just have one problem with this finderbar. It doesn’t show “File, Edit,View,Go,Window or Help”. It also has no drop down menus. Is it supposed to have those things or am I missing something ? I’m using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
Wesoł
Is there any way to customize my own this bar?
Ro man
Sometimes the orginal Windows taskbar is coming to front and vifind is behind the taskbar. In this case i cant use any of the bars. I have to exit vifind and restart explorer.exe. Is there a fix or how can i avoid this?
Greets
Luka
For me ViFind works fine, and its show all, except for File, Edit, and other likely Notepad commands. Big congratulations!
Wesoł
Try to use Winstep Nexus Dock and in preferences find option Hide Windows Taskbar, obviously only if you use dock like program 😀
Marcel S.
Is it possible to scale the bar and the elements on it up ?
Mine looks very small.
Also is there any configuration windows for this =?
JustaHookra
So, when a program is not active, can you add finder and go and window and help and other stuff?
Adilson
Hi Lee
works on this one are done?
Any improvements like skinning/theming?
Gabriel
Hi Lee-Soft, On the menu bar I installed is not showing the system icons https://prnt.sc/gwlstx
marcy
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! Wondering how to save the icons I add to the taskbar so they’ll appear again on restart
Lee Chantrey
Thanks for your support. It should depend on which window has active focus, if you open Notepad it will be able to read the file menus from that application and copy it.
Lee Chantrey
@marcy, do you mean how do you make it start up automatically with Windows?
Lee Chantrey
@Gabriel It hasn’t been implemented yet, it’s not a bug though.
vladimir
http://prntscr.com/h9vmxn full list of items does not fit! I use windows 8.1
Azhe-kun
work on build 17046
Ahmed Adel
that’s a good try, but still far away from perfect… no customization (hate the apple icon btw, for me I need the finderbar functionality but I’m not going to hide the beautiful win10 identity), also lacks the most impressive feature in finderbar ( its linkage to the opened window so it display the main commands above). some weird behavior also noticed (app icons don’t open apps, and a weird applicationframehost.exe icon appear and all apps can be opened from it).
keep trying, windows users will pay for that features 🙂
Connor Ripley
Hello. I would like to asky why does it show every process instead of the open applications? It really glitches everything.
Ana
Hello, great work, but I can’t hide or unpin the explorer folder nor the app next to it, both seems buggy (it doesnt open, I don’t know what app is that lol). Also, the menu from Skype or any other software doesn’t show in the taskbar. I have Windows 10 fall creators 1709 update. I already tried to reinstall, unpin all folders from the original windows taskbar, clean the pc, etc.
http://prntscr.com/irrgwu
Lee Chantrey
Hi guys thanks for leaving feedback. Could you kindly place issues on the project’s github page? I’ve made this project open source now as I have little time to work on it. https://github.com/lee-soft/ViDock/issues
Thanks,
Lee
Pinky834
Hi there!
Not that I would like to delete this application at the moment but just in case I do how would Ido it on windows 10?? Like what would the file in the uninstall section be?
Lee
Like you would uninstall any other application. Please refer to Windows 10 documentation on how to uninstall programs.
VampireFox2
First of all this looks amazing and authentic. I have some questions about some of the functionalities that may not be working. The start menu works fine however the programs that are in the tray do not respond when clicking on them and the calendar, wifi, and sound settings do not respond as well. I don’t know if I ran into a bug but these are some of the most used things that I use. It’s a pain to have to go into the Windows 10 settings to function with these. Are these things supposed to function or are they just for looks?
VampireFox2
Forgot to add that I’m on Windows 10 64bit version 10.0.17134 (Build 17134)
VampireFox2
Leo
Hey Lee, can you make a dark version? I tried finding the textures to change it my self but I can’t seem to find it…
Paresh
How can I Change Display of Date Format or Wanted T-Clock 2010
tamir
hey, I use Windows in Hebrew
In Hebrew, the text is from right to left
1. How can I turn the taskbar from right to left
2. How do I change the clock to 24H? (not AM:PM)
Manthan
Please make dark version too. Also why is it picking weird apps that I dont ever use like ApplicationFrameHost.exe on top right
Xyr0
Would be awesome to change font size of panel
M Hirsch
Hi it works great, but is there multiple monitor support. How can I access settings?
Simon B.
This is really awsome, however there’s one thing I would like to see: If an app is not supported by ViFind it would be nice if it would show “standard” options like on MacOs (File, Edit, View…). This would be awsome!
Akhil Kumar
I cant access wi-fi ,speaker and volume direct from menu bar
Ossama Soleiman
Lee, almost everything you make never ceases to amaze me.
Lee
Thank you. It’s been a cooperative effort though, everyone who uses my tools in some way have helped me develop my tools. Suggestions and testing have all helped make the tools what they are and I wish I still had the time to develop them.
Anthony
Hello, i have a problem here, the chrome window doesn’t fit the vifind windows