In the last build the new start menu shortcut was working....now in build (532u) it does not work. Using the new troubleshooting options I ...1 by 1 checked marked & restarted OD, no difference after each step. Removed it, Cleaned cache, restarted, Still not working. When I click on the icon the mouse momentarily freezes & fades in color but will not show startmenu. This occurs regardless of which effects are used or if effects are not used.

The 2 XP Startmenu Docklets available in the gallery both work perfectly.

Also with the weather docklet I have check marked open flyout on click yet the flyout opens on hover and single click opens the webpage. I would really like to have the click feature on flyout.

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I'm having trouble with the 1.59a build of OD+. It can't install the mouse DLL hook. I've tried reinstalling three times, without luck. The system is XP Pro. Logitech Mouseware is installed. There have never been problems with this combination before.


The dock will load, but won't unhide. I can use the dock, but only if I right click on it first, then left click on an item. Left clicking without a preliminary right click doesn't do anything.

Anyone with "objectdock closes sometimes" problems...can you check your ObjectDock program folder for crash logs? If it didn't have time to give you a crash dialog, it still likly was able to save a crash report. Please check your program folder (likly "c:\Program Files\Stardock\ObjectDock" or similar) for files named something like: "ObjectDock Crash Report (4-13-2007 243b30c56).zip" and toss them over to support, with "v1.6 beta crash" in the subject. Thank you!!

By the way, the laggy mouse problem - its not fixed for the one that was just released, juuuust figured that out finally a few hours after. Will be updating either today or tomorrow with another refresh that fixes that. (Phew, thats a lot of refreshes! )

v 1.60 Plus, build 531u
All roads still lead to Home...  

Above is what right-click on systray icon says in 'About' window

SDC says 1.59a[b].011 Updated 4/17/2007

any URL goes to WC...

Foobie - good catch on the start menu glitch! Fixed I'm thinking...will be updating again tonight or tomorrow, give that one a try

I will go search for a small animal to sacrifice...

This has occured in WinXP once in a while as well.

More strangeness with minimized apps:

I have "Always show windows as thumbnails" checked in Vista and show minimized windows on the dock (only).

Here is my dock (with minimized apps shown right of the last separator):



Here is what was running at the time and the window state:

- Two instances of Excel 2007 (not minimized)
- IE 7 (not minimized)
- Outlook 2007 (not minimized)
- Word 2007 (not minimized)

So basically, although I had no apps minimized, the dock decided to show Excel and IE7. In addition, the representation of Excel was poor... 4 icons and no thumbnails of the spreadsheets. Strange!

virtualrain: also, there's a note when you click it in the next refresh and the option grays out... if you have "always show thumbnails" clicked, there is no minimize animation as the image for the window is already being used as the thumbnail on the icon itself.

Thanks for the screenshot, yeah thats wierd behavior...can I ask, are any of the above running as administrator? Ran-as-admin apps will have trouble with the "show minimized apps only"/etc feature unless ObjectDock also is ran as admin. Realistically I should just be excluding them, since I can't keep track of them. So if say you had an admin app minimized when you started ObjectDock, and then restored it...OD would have no idea because of Window's security. The thumbnails being crappy icons instead of real representations, now that's just Window's fault...you probably recently came out of suspend or a screensaver or something like that, at which point Vista discards the information of the thumbnail and I cannot use it anymore.

Here are the properties for the excel shortcut I used to launch excel where the icons were all screwed up. Note that run as administrator is not selected or enabled.



Could the screwed up icons be somewhat related to my problem above where I had all three of these somewhat confusing and overlapping features turned on?

- Types of windows to show = minimized windows only
- Always show windows as thumbnails (Vista Only) = on
- Represent minimized windows by their screenshots = on

??? I think you need to clarify these settings or clean them up.

JMBdev: Re the "objectdock closes sometimes" problems, I've had it happen again today & there is no crash log, but it does seem to be triggered by leaving the machine for a while & the screensaver activating if that is any help.

CerebroJD: yep yeah several people have reported the windows live messenger problem. got a report about Outlook 2007 as well. Both are fixed in the build I'm uploading as we speak

Oops, actually looks like it just finished. So in that case, announcement time!

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***New v1.6 build is now available on Stardock Central! Should fix the majority of problems that have been mentioned on these boards

Fixes include:

1.59b beta
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x-Fixed mouse lagginess on startup / when ObjectDock is busy.

x-Improved system tray, should now work more reliably than ever! Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Messenger should both now work reliably.

x-Fixed issue where autohiding tabbed docks would not autohide anymore after you right clicked anything.

x-Fixed up a couple minor resource leaks

x-Improved taskbars / thumbnail behavior.

x-Added option to turn off tabbed docks' ability to automatically dock to the edge as a drawer when dragging. Option available in "misc options".

x-Fixed multimonitor issue with the Start Menu functionality, and added better problem-notification.

x-Fixed issue with flyouts where if they contained 9+ items and zooming is disabled, they could show up partially behind the dock.

x-Fixed issue where icons for url-shortcuts would not get remembered

x-UI improvments

virtualrain: thanks thought you could appreciate that!

gez. that is wierd. I'll have to take a look at that specifically...can't say with 100% confidence I'll be able to work around it immediatly though...not sure what rules its trying to play by. (If the Office UI itself and how it works under the covers is any indicator, not by the ones everyone else plays by! )