IconPackager not responding

maybe a bad install - have you tried a reinstall?

Ok, I followed your advice and it is working now. But not w/o a hassle!
The uninstall didn't work via the SDC. So, I looked around the forum to see if others had bad experiences with uninstalling IP and found a utility called The Zapper. That did the trick. I re-installed IP via SDC and it asked me to start IP right away. I answered Yes, but nothing happened. I looked wich processes were running and I found multiple instances of IP running. Probably instances left behind when I tried to uninstall via SDC previously. I killed all those instances and voila, IP ran smoothly with all buttons working.
Wow, I think Stardock should make this a bit user friendly!

Thanks!

I do an uninstalling and reinstalling programms only through control panel and I didn't have any problems ever with Stardock stuff.

On my system all Object Desktop components (e.g. IP) are maintained by SDC; not through the standard Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel. I'm not aware of a situation that you can use the standard Control Panel to (un)install OD components; maybe if you buy and install components separately - I can't tell.

If Icon Packager freezes when attempting to change Icons and shows in Windows Task Manager "SDDimmedWait/SDNullOut" Try this it worked for me: Load Icon Packager, Open "Settings", Untick (cross) "Show Splash Screen When Applying Packages" and hey bingo IP will work within seconds.  grails78