Chris TH

Reply to OD 1.6 Beta Bug Reports in Docks WinCustomize Forums

I have the same issue as MySecret, no system tray icons. I just can't get them to show. On XP SP2 as well. Even though I rarely need the tray, I still need it accessible. Ditto for me. XP SP2. When I updated initially it was working fine, then I read in the history about it using a new trayserver exe & so I fiddled with the MCP settings in SDC which seems to have broken it. Right now I have both "Enable MCP notification area suppor

Reply to GPS connectivity? in DesktopX Stardock Forums

The GPS data is usually quite easy to interpret (Google: NMEA), it's getting the data from the COM port into DX that's the tricky part. I don't know if DX supports interfacing with the hardware directly... Or does DX support DLL calls? If so then you might be able to get hold of a serial port DLL that DX can call routines out of to get hold of the data from the GPS. Failing that, you'd need to find/write a small executable to do the same thing which can be called from DX. <

Reply to INSTALLING downloaded docks then using them in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

I have a decent recipe for dock a l'orange. My dock keeps hiding itself... does that mean I have a Peeking Dock? <img src="http://images3.stardock.com/wc/icons/

Reply to Bootskin for Vista in BootSkin Stardock Forums

There is an option for a better-looking bootscreen built into Vista. Try adding the No-Gui-Boot flag in the boot.ini file. Apparently that unlocks a far better-looking bootscreen. Google! This works in XP also! You don't get the progress animation, but you can use any 640x480x16col image as a bootscreen. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/sd/SDC24.gif

Reply to Weather docklet fails to update on boot because net not available yet in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

There all free and all have the same problem. This is a problem in OD. Sorry, not in my (and others in this thread, apparently) experience... I have 3 (of 6 total) docklets that access not only the internet but the WMI interface for network adapters directly & as I said my machine often takes up to 2 min for the NIC adapter(s) to even show up in the system tray (some kind of domain/workgroup login problem) and the (all SysStats) docklets respond immedia

Reply to Weather docklet fails to update on boot because net not available yet in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

So go find another weather docklet off the Wincustomize website (there'll be quite a few) and gof or it... What the problem with this suggestion? They're all free. You'll almost certainly find one made using the SysStats docklet support in which case you'll virtually guarantee being able to change the update interval - every second if you want! Find another docklet and move on - it's not rocket science! <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/" tit

Reply to Weather docklet fails to update on boot because net not available yet in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

it has Norton Antivirus while the others have McAffe Both of these have been known to cause problems to many people in the past with internet-connected apps/widgets (eg Natural Desktop, DesktopX RSS widgets etc) judging by past threads in here. put in the firewall settings look for stardock products like object dock, dxwidget, etc and always allow access What he said <img src="http://images.stardock.co

Reply to Weather docklet fails to update on boot because net not available yet in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

standard weather docklet on ODfree = approx 12 minutes to self update after dial up connected. Ahhh, so it's working as designed. I guess some people are so impatient to know what the weather is... Personally, I just look outside - or more preferably *go* outside <img src="http://images.stardock.com/sd_com/smiles/Ew.gif" border=0 align="absmidd

Reply to Weather docklet fails to update on boot because net not available yet in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

So why not ditch the internal one & find another that works like you want and maybe even looks better or has more functions? It's not like you need to pay for them...

Reply to Weather docklet fails to update on boot because net not available yet in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

I have several docklets (not weather tho') that rely on a network connection. They just come good when the network adapter starts. I'm on a notebook & when I hook up to my corporate LAN it can take up to 2 min for the LAN adapter icon to initialise & the OD+ docklets still have no problems. It could well be a docklet bug, but there's a million weather docklets to choose from - why not try to find one that works & use that instead? <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdce

Reply to Windows Task/Job scheduler wtih Exceptions in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Thanks Paxx! There were a lot of other useful links there also, I've downloaded several trial versions & will check them out.

Windows Task/Job scheduler wtih Exceptions in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Hoping to draw on the vast expertise of the WinCustomise userbase ... I'm looking for a task scheduler to run under WinXp or later that you can setup exceptions to the rule. To clarify: I want to setup task(s) that run every Mon-Fri at certain times - this is easy and can be done in one line of crontab or windows scheduler, but for my

Reply to What's with the enable MCP 0/1 in the common Win reg folder for SD? in ObjectBar Stardock Forums

WB creates a regedit entry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software/StarDock/Common labeled MCP enable / disable and defaults MCP enable to disable which causes the systray in OB to disappear. You have to use regedit to re-enable with a "1" and reboot. Hmm, Although I don't have WB or OBar installed I *do* use OD+ that uses the system tray feature. I enabled it through SDC and it runs from the registry location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Curren

Reply to Access violation at adress OO4DEC86 in module `Icon Developer exe. Read of address 000000000. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I don't think reply #1 had anything to do with anything except trolling. I guess no-one around here's a 5th Element fan.... It links to a wav file from the movie when LeeLoo crashes through Corben Dallas' cab. Crash - get it? It wasn't a troll. I just Googled for sound bites & this site came up - maybe it does have some security issues, I wouldn't know

Reply to Access violation at adress OO4DEC86 in module `Icon Developer exe. Read of address 000000000. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

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Reply to Feeling left out in Community WinCustomize Forums

I still run '98 on one I was just about to say... has someone resurrected that ancient thread about moving Stardock products to XP and leaving all the 98/ME/2000 users behind! <a href="https://www.wincustomize.com/resources.aspx?cmd=3" title="Posted v

Reply to Psychopath Destroys G5 for Dell in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

And that right at the very top it explains how it was a prank!

Reply to File Question in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I suspect it's because the GIF format can't support the wide range of colours & shades that JPG can I know, quoting myself, how lame... from the Wikipedia entry for GIF: GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format using a palette of up to 256 distinct colours from the 24-bit RGB c

Reply to File Question in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

I suspect it's because the GIF format can't support the wide range of colours & shades that JPG can (it may be as low as 256 colours IIRC). GIF is great for scanned text and 'cartoon-like' images etc which have lots of areas of the same colour. I can see the outcry from people being forced to convert their artistic creations to GIF only to see them horribly dithered etc. You can always make JPG files smaller by increasing the compression (i.e lowering the quality). It's amazing

Reply to OD Too Big! in Docks WinCustomize Forums

I have ObjectDock plus as well but I don't like that as its tabbed Hmm... You do know that with OD+ you can have as many docks as you like (and you don't have to have a tabbed one!) right ? Try rightclicking on the OD+ taskbar icon and selecting "My Docks..." <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0

Reply to Roll-call: Respond here please! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Wave your hand if you can hear me !

Reply to OD+ Stateful Icons in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

What about adding docklets to the system tray tab? I did this by accident once (!) and I think the only drawback is a separator between the docklet(s) and the other system tray icons...

Reply to ObjectDock i/o every second in ObjectDock Stardock Forums

Yes, docklets especially those that update in 'reatime' (certainly many of the SysStats ones anyway) are set to update on a time interval. Usually delving into the config of the (SysStats) docklet you can find the interval and change it if it's worrying you that much.

Reply to 'No tray icons...' SOLVED in ObjectDock Stardock Forums

I got my version of this solved also (only *some* tray icons were being displayed!). Stardock's Mike/milksama tracked down the problem to the "SSDP discovery service" and "Universal Plug and play device host" services. Once these were stopped and disabled, it all came back up fine. Aparrently there are some Microsoft KB articles on this: Link 1 and Link 2

Reply to How to add hardware monitors in ObjectDock Stardock Forums

There are 2 types of docklet for OD. One type is 'hard-coded' i.e it's in the form of a DLL and only has a single purpose/function. It's configurability is limited to what the porgrammer provides when the docklet is designed. The other type is like SysStats which is a generic environment to support all sorts of functions that can be displayed as a docklet in OD. SysStats is configured with it's own GUI and saves it in an .ini file but will also support images and scripting etc