The Widget Dock is a column of Widget icons that initially appears at the right edge of the desktop. It's a handy tool for accessing your Widgets. The dock can be set to appear at the top, bottom, left, or right edge of the desktop.

Using the mode setting button (a plus or minus sign that appears when you move the cursor over the Dock), you configure which Widgets the Dock displays: all possible Widgets or only those widgets that are actively working on your desktop. On a 1400x1050 pixel screen, the dock can show a row of up to 16 Widgets.

When you move the cursor to the dock, it displays two additional areas of clickable icons. At the top or left, there is a gear icon, which is a shortcut to the settings menu, a magnifying glass icon for Yahoo! Search, and a plus or a minus sign for the mode setting. At the bottom or right there is space for navigation icons for scrolling between rows or columns of mini-Widgets. Between these navigational icons is an icon for turning on the Heads Up Display feature, which shows all the Widgets currently on your desktop.