Another update, here's what I did. Uninstalled everything associated with desktopx. rebooted and then downloaded the shareware version of desktopx. Then intstalled, and then did the upgrade from stardock central. I still cannot create a system tray object, but I downloaded one from the website and it works fine. Also, objects and widgets are working fine. Now could someone offer a reason to me why a system tray object from another user's outdated version would work on this buggy new version?? See ya