I found the message which it displayed for a second in EventViewer:
Application popup: IconX.exe - DLL Initialization Failed : The application failed to initialize because the window station is shutting down.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Yes.. I uninstalled IconX from within SC, and reinstalled it directly from S.C,
not from archive.. Still no dice..

It seems that when I shut down the computer, and DesktopX shuts down because of it,
DX doesn't detect that the computer is shutting down, so it tries to run
IconX standalone (as the new does when you unload DX before IconX), and that doesn't
work because of the computer being in shutdown/logout state..

Hello all,
During the last update via stardock central Desktopx (autoinstall) reported a problem with the install... How can I reset the install to install again?
Thanks for the advice in advance. (you guys are good)

Alberto, you did?? Do you know when there's a fix available for that annoyance?

Is there any way to disable the label mouse over action?

I have my label to reduce to nothing on mouse over.
You can also set the label on mouse over to equal what it starts at = no expansion

Sir Bichur,

Thanks for the reply, I already have my away and mouse over states configured so that my labels never visually change. My problem involves the icon animation being activated when I mouse over the label. For example my away icon state has the icon size at 72x72 while my mouse over icon state is set at 96x96. When the mouse passes over the label not the icon the icon will zoom from 72x72 to 96x96. I don't want this to happen because when I pass over the label it zooms once, resets, and then zooms again once my mouse reaches the icon creating a horrible looking double zoom effect. This is hard for me to explain so sorry if I've confused anyone.

I have also been having problems after the update. The problem I am having is that IconX no longer automatically loads with DesktopX after the update. It's like DesktopX no longer detects that IconX is installed.

I can load them individually but the tabs in DesktopX for IconX are missing.

I can run IconX by itself and get the option to have it start automatically but once I run DesktopX that option disappears.

If DesktopX is running I can load IconX separately and it will load and run, but, after rebooting IconX will not come back.

I have uninstalled both DesktopX and IconX, manually removed the folders from the HDD (lost all my desktops). Rebooted and then reinstalled them and I still have the same problem.

Sir Bichur.. The problem for my part is that when you shutdown/logoff the DesktopX unloads IconX (the one which integrates with DX), and tries to load IconX standalone, and that is not possible
when in shutdown mode, so it throws the errormessage above (which isn't seen for more than a second). In EventViewer, in the System category, with source: Application Popuo, there you can find the errormessage above..

You can check the behaviour of the restart of IX by running both IX and DX, then Unload DX..
You see that it both unloads IX, unloads DX, and starts IX again, this time standalone..
Same thing if you are already running IX standalone and then start DX.. Those doesn't result
in a error because of the computer isn't in shutdown mode.. i.e it seems that it doesn't know/care
that the computer is shutting down..

The problem with this is that it doesn't store the startup settings,as it did before, probably
because of the error above..

Try to run IconX standalone (i.e no DX), and select start at startup, and IX starts with SmartStartup.. If you do the same with DX, DX does the same.. But together, then only DX will
start on the next login..

A somewhat irritating problem really..

The tabs however, shouldn't really be a problem if it did what was expected.. i.e if DX AND IX are running when I shutdown (without errormsg), then both should start when I login again..

Mr haerdalis...
yeah, i hear you. it's also be discussed here Link

but the error message thing wasn't mentioned. have you tried creating a shortcut to iconx in the startup folder? it will let both run at startup assuming you have DTX checked - check out comments #27 & #34

i've used the "shortcut in startup folder" workout method - that worked.
but i still have with the error message at the end.

Sir Bichur, I use the smartstart 'cause it avoids such things like displaying the
default desktop first, and then adding one after another item.. such as IconX (if only
that worked properly together with DX), and DX.. It seems somewhat faster to load that
way too..

@ iseekserendipity

same problem here
Iwould really be interested in a fix.

Would like to know more about 'Smartstart' - how to activate it ?

I had to make my own startup shortcut in order to have IconX load-up.

I too have thing where default icons appear, then not until end of start-up process does IconX load-up. It looks to be a very untidy process of redrawing & positioning.

Is it possible to raise priority of IconX during startup ?

Thanks for help