Automatically starting ObjectDock

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Just a quick heads-up, don't know if anyone else has been having this problem, but here's how I got around it.

I've been using ObjectDock for a while now, and I'm very happy with it. The only problem I've run into is getting it to start up automatically, but only for me (my wife doesn't like the program, sorry). Enabling the option to start automatically in the program itself put an OD icon in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Startup, and when I moved it to my Startup folder, it wouldn't load at all (this behavior persists even after a complete FFR of Windows).

For a while, the only workaround I could think of was to put an OD icon on my quicklaunch, and manually run it every time I logged in. It was only one extra click, but needless to say, still far from elegant.

More recently, I have written a small batch file that I put in the common startup folder. The first thing it does is check the current username; if it's not me, it quits out immediately (takes care of my wife). Then it switches to the OD program folder, and runs OD by using the Start command. I also use the batch file to rotate my wallpaper as well, and it works beautifully.

-- Ben
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Update: I'm also an idiot.

Basically, what's going on is this: I normally like to keep my user-side Start Menus clean by removing everything that installed its shortcuts in my user profile's Start Menu, and putting them in the common Start Menu, and in doing so, I deleted the Startup folder under my profile. I did not realize that this caused a registry key related to how programs are run at startup to get broken. Later, I went in and recreated the Startup folder on my side, but didn't realize that there was a further step required in regedit. The details are WWW Link.

-- Ben
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Interesting.

On my side it's checked to run at startup & it does
On my wife's side run at startup is unchecked & she never sees it

Just installed 1.5 free on my sisterinlaw's computer and it gave the option to only install for one user or all - picked one and it worked
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