// Experimental — pre-1.0

ViFind

A macOS-style menu bar for Windows.

ViFind launched in February 2016 as the "El Capitan Menu bar" — a dream-team-reunion project with Lucifiar after a few years apart. The product is now called ViFind; the GitHub repo is still called ViDock from when it was a slightly different idea. Same project, three names, one binary. It puts a Mac-style menu bar across the top of your Windows screen, lifts the menu bar from the active app into it, and includes a start button so you can still get to the Windows start menu in a Mac-shaped way.

There's also tray-icon support, a clock, and pinning. It's experimental — the version number (0.0.0.201) is honest, this never made it to a 1.0 — but it works, and it's a reasonable starting point if anyone wants to push it forward.

What it does

• Persistent menu bar across the top of the screen.
• Auto-lifts the menu bar from any focused Windows app into the global bar.
• Start button on the bar — opens the Windows start menu.
• Tray icons, date and time.
• Taskbar-like pinning and notifications.

Where it stands

Last shipped: 0.0.0.201 (2018). Pre-1.0, never finished, hasn't been touched since. The most experimental of the four — works enough to use, plenty of rough edges.

VB6 codebase at github.com/lee-soft/ViDock. Of the four apps this is the one most likely to benefit from someone with energy and time picking it up.