You might have seen in the apple computer, there are some good looking icon and menu at the middle buttom of the screen.
Rocket Dock is also same type of software developed by an Apple fanboy and fangirl on OS X. So you want to have it in your XP or in VISTA. Just download Rocket Dock and make your vista/xp like a apple computer with easy shortcuts.
RocketDock 1.3.5 Download