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Objectbar: The Mysterious Case of the Disapperaing Icons

November 28, 2002 12:42:33 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Have a shareware version of OB, and i use it for a taskbar and systray. My icons have this habit of disappearing a couple of minutes after i boot up. Im left to guess what position the systray icons are in and click on them, sometimes with undesirable consequences.

Any pointers?
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Reply #1 November 28, 2002 2:16:57 AM
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The only thing I can think is maybe you have the autohide function enabled on them. Open up your configuration utility and study the settings and options. There are some specific skins that have had that problem for me.

What version OB are you using?
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Reply #2 November 28, 2002 7:25:19 AM
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gm

the OB version is 1.3.

No, i dont have autohide enabled. and ive had this problem on all themes
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Reply #3 November 28, 2002 10:32:19 AM
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Load Theme Editor (right click on taskbar or menu and choose properties). Open "File/General Options/Startup Options" and be sure you don't have "Disable Trayserver from Loading at Startup" checked. If it is, uncheck it, save, logoff or reboot and see if that fixes it.

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Reply #4 November 28, 2002 10:16:23 PM
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jebland

no luck. those options were never checked. done plenty of reboots and reinstalls.

config:
win xp
runnng - desktopx, objectbar, windows blinds

any other ideas?

so long
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Reply #5 November 28, 2002 11:06:53 PM
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I don't use desktop x so I don't know much about that. I was wonder which OB theme you are using?

Do you import the WB skin to them?
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Reply #6 November 29, 2002 10:13:35 AM
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I don't use DesktopX either, so I probably cannot help you. ObjectBar problems with icons not showing in the system tray are usually caused by Trayserver.exe not loading, or not loading in the right order. On my computer, Trayserver.exe loads from HKLM, and ObjectBar, Windowblinds and Explorer Synchronizer load from HKCU and all the icons in the system tray show just fine. But it sounds like your problem may be a setting in DesktopX. You might check the DesktopX newsgroup and see if anyone else has had this problem.
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Reply #7 November 29, 2002 10:22:15 AM
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guys - thanks. have uninstalled objectbar (. the only reason i loaded object bar was to use hotkeys and get rid of the stupid start button. guess ill have to live with the start button. as for the shortcuts, ive installed strokeit - creates mouse gestures in all applications
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Reply #8 December 2, 2002 1:38:54 AM
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Im having the exact same problem..I really need to figure out how to fix this, im so bored of the same old windows Taskbar and my sys tray takes up half of it i too..anybody figure out how to fix this yet?
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Reply #9 December 2, 2002 1:53:48 AM
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I don't think so. Have you tried the new application... Object Doc? That is just for the bored part of you... we really should figure this other thing out. Are you on XP?

I was wondering something the other night... somewhere in the configuration utility there was a paramater "always have at least ~some number~ showing. One of the numbers is 0. dono... maybe a reach.

Are you on shareware too?

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Reply #10 December 2, 2002 9:40:17 AM
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before i start trying to be to helpful, which problems are people getting?

the origional post doesnt sound like icons not reaching the system tray (normally by the clock) at all.


totaltully - have uninstalled objectbar (. the only reason i loaded object bar was to use hotkeys and get rid of the stupid start button.

you can use the short cut features of OB without getting rid of the start button if that helps.

i know it is only a partial solution to start with, but at least it is something.
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Reply #11 December 2, 2002 6:11:40 PM
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Ok, i managed to fix mine, my friend still had an old objectbar and he sent it to me, i uninstalled the one i have now and installed that one, uninstalled it and reinstalled this one and it worked.
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