Chris TH

Chris TH

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Remember, the functionality I (thought) I paid for was to tab enable the normal dock. If you just blindly accept that the tabbed dock holds no interest for me, that lack of feature makes it a pointless product to me. I think you're overstating it a bit. Not having the eye-candy doesn't make the tabbed dock any less functional . Of course, FWIW, I agree with those who said they prefer the tabbed dock without the eye-candy s

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These two are the main ones I've found - there'll be a lot of docklets in common. Also SysStats works with other docks/hosts besides ObjectDock so you need to choose wisely DockEx SysStats Homepage A very good SysStats forum page: <a href="http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&

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when I follow the instructions it asked me if I want to replace the existing Docklets file do I want that to happen? Not sure what you mean by 'docklets file', but in general it's safe to replace all the old files when installing the new (2.5.11) version of SysStats. Yes, it's easier/better/smoother if ObjectDock is not running at the time. When you download a 3rd party docklet, it *should* be packaged/zipped with the same directory structure as

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options in SDC are turned off - SDC = Stardock Central - it's a downlaod manager for Stardock's products. You can download it for free and once installed and you've registered your paid-for products through it, it will manage all the updates etc. I also use it to interact with these forums It's that app that has the options I referred to, not Ob

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maybe someone could upload a "working dock" or settings? but im not sure either if that works.. It won't make any difference to the system tray - OD just displays what if finds according to the Windows one. If you open task manager, do you have a process called SDMCP.EXE running? If so it needs to be disabled. This is best done from Stardock Central by unchecking "Enable MCP Smart Startup" and "Enable MCP Notification Area Support" (reboot

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I hope your using version 1.9 If not then you should upgrade. If you just installed then I suggest a reboot and see if the icons show up. And then make sure that both the "Enable MCP..." options in SDC are turned off - unless you have other apps that need them eg ObjectBar, DesktopX (?)...

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Just wondering if it's at all possible to incorporate toolbars that have an edit field and that normally live in the Windows taskbar eg like 'Address', 'Google Search' and (my particular desire) 'Windows Search Deskbar' into ObjectDock somehow? Maybe there's a docklet wrapper of some kind that someone knows about? Alternatively, if it's possible to do it with RightClick, that would also be good!

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and is it still possible to have everything in one nice dock with nice jumping icon effects and without having ugly tabs? You'd have to use 2 docks, eg one with Shortcuts+Tasks & 1 with SysTray (or some other combination) and place them close together to appear as one. Might be tricky to get a nice alignment if you're using zooming effects etc. It's not necessary to have tabbed docks to display tasks or tray. FWIW I have OD 1.9+ and have 4 dock

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I'm quoting Judge (SysStats author) who wrote the text below in the Aquasoft SysStats forums... maybe it's related to your problem? To quote from a Samurize forum: When a perfmon (aka PDH meter) crashes or doesn't report data for a while Windows disables it and leaves it disabled. You will probably find relevant events in your event log. Perfmons might also become disabled for other less obvious reasons eg. installing a service pack or a .NET Runb distribution.<br

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I use Judge's SysStats world clock available here: WWW Link and here: WWW Link You can run multiples of them on ObjectDock - I have one at local time, and one for our supplier's timezone in Europe. HTH. <img src="http://images3

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the Microsoft Defender icon only appears if I manually turn it off then on again in the MSD config. Talking to myself... It's just made a liar out of me - the Windows Defender icon appeared about 10min after the system booted today! <img src="http://images.sta

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For v1.9 of OD +, I do not have SDMCP running, nor either of the MCP options checked in SDC. For the most part it is working fine with the following exceptions: Multiple copies of the netwrok adapter icon (this has been there forever & doesn't really worry me) and a new one: the Microsoft Defender icon only appears if I manually turn it off then on again in the MSD config. If I just exit OD+ it's there in the Windows tray. From what I remember reading (by Je

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Yepp, I know. This is what I'm talking about. If you have OD+ you don't need a tray docklet ... The typical way to do it is to create a new (zoomer) dock and select the option to display tray items in that dock. Alternatively, I believe you can create a new tray tab on a tabbed dock (I've only seen this a long time ago on the default install hence my 'believe' qualification)... <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral

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I am also in Australia (Sydney as it happens) and it won't work for me either - nor will any overseas location work (eg New York, New York etc). After doing some TCP/IP packet sniffing during updating of the weather docklet so far all I've found is that the HTTP (and some TCP) requests from my PC are being marked with bad checksums in the TCP portion of the packet. There seems to be no reply from the weather server so I'm guessing the requests are being ignored because of the checksum e

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I found out (the hard way) that hook.dll is NOT part of ObjectDock - it's part of the SysStats docklet support. You'll need to re-install SysStats or just copy the hook.dll file from the SysStats archive (latest version here: SysStats ) to the ObjectDock install folder like I did. Alternatively, it may be possible to unregister the dll with the command "regsvr32 -u hook.dll" at a cmd prompt? I didn't try it because it just oc

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MySecret: yeah I should be adding more user-notification on the Tray side of it too. The tray module also checks file integrity before it can operate. Currently, failing silently if those checks fail. So if a file has a single byte messed up by the download, it won't work. Since I've definitely heard of people having install problems before, this could be the case. Leading me to think so based on that both of these modules appear to be silently not working. In the next

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