System Tray Icons..

Looks like the systray dock function isn't working in limited user mode right now, so if you're using limited users you'll want to do this while logged on as Administrator so you can see results.

This method will set up a new dock for systray. You can similarly just add the systray items to an existing dock, but I'd guess you'd want them seperate:

Right click on the object dock icon in your systray, select "my docks". In the "ObjectDock: My Docks" window that appears, click on "Create new dock" button on the right side.

In "ObjectDock Properties" window that pops up, click on "Dock Contents" (the bottom item on the left side). Window changes, click on "Display system tray icons along with my icons" to select it. That should load them up.

To delete the 3 default icons that are included with every new dock, either right click on them and select "Remove entry" or just drag them off to the desktop which will also delete them (not copy or move them to the desktop like you might think).

That should do it.

Thanks for your time and advices. But i still wont load the trays up in the new dock i made

You are logging in as an Administrator, right?

Yes. I only got 1 user on my computer, and thats the one iam on.

What OS and version?

I'm having the same problem, because it's Vista. I know why, but don't know how to fix it.

The internet, battery, and volume icons are "System" icons. So for some reason they won't just show up automatically because of this.

How do I bypass this?

I found some docklets to put the battery meter WWW Link, I'm mostly interested in the battery.

I'm having the same issue with the system tray.

I'm using WinXP Home (fully up-to-date) -- sole-user/administrator -- and OD v1.9, and I can't seem to get the system tray icons to show up on any of my docks, or even in a dock of it's own. I've left the system tray tab on one of my docks and even after several reboots over several days of use, it's still blank.

Does anyone know what the problem is and if there's a solution?

Thanks.

toruschka

It could be anything that's causing od not to show syst tray,i just tried both the tab & zoomer settings to show st & they appeared without issue,that to me discounts a bug in od since my 2ndry comp also is able to show st.
I would do this if i was in your situation
use windows update not auto update-then hit the custom button-install all updates.
delete any trace of od ,manually remove registry entries & any stuff in prog files etc.
run ccleaner
reinstall od with stardock central & not by a .exe file
pray real hard

it would'nt hurt to double check settings in od before taking drastic measures that may not work like i've posted above,if all else fails i'd reformat the comp & start fresh,which i have done with other issues in numerous apps tho these days i have a backup image on another hdd to save time

I can confirm that OD has problem with enumerating tray icons when started as NON admin.
I found one workaround, exit from OD, start OD as admin, exit OD, restart it as NON admin.
That would allow the non privileged access of the tray items to OD.

Unprivileged startup of OD also causes the Start Menu Docklet to misbehave.
When clicking the Start Menu icon, the Start Menu appears at it's original (windows) position rather then right above the Start Menu Docklet Icon and an error dialog shown



and that dialog usually also closes the just opened Start Menu.

The workaround above (or the OD restart itself?!?) sometimes fixes this issue also.

Please fix these BUG, it is very annoying.

Thanks for your suggestions!

Mine ODPlus doesn't show System Tray too (WinXP Pro SP2). Tried the Admistrator workaround, but still doesn't work. Can't afford reinstalling whole system. Any other suggestions? Maybe some Registry tweak could fix it?

After reading post #10 above I went back and played with this some more. I hadn't noticed that you could "run as" Admin, exit Object Dock, run OD normally while still under the limited login and then have the systray work.

One thing I saw when doing this though is that it only works if the Admin theme has a systray dock loaded, or if one is created while under the "run as" Admin. Otherwise when OD is started normally while still under the limited user the systray still won't load. It seems the systray piece itself of the program needs to be "kick-started" while the Admin "run as" is in effect. Fiper, does that help?

Also Fiper, can you get a systray dock while you are logged in as Administrator from the Windows Login screen? If you can't get one in one of your current themes while logged in as Administrator, try saving your current theme, then load the "v1.9 Plus Default" theme and see if you can create one in it. If it still won't work, you would seem to have a different problem and you might want to contact Stardock Support directly using the form found
WWW Link
and reference this thread.

I would DEFINITELY NOT reinstall Windows to try to fix this, way too much trouble and it quite possibly would not even fix your problem.

Fiper:

Oh argh. I just looked at the system requirements for OD+ WWW Link

and it says "Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000 (32-bit)" so if your XP Pro is 64-bit that could very well be the source of your issue and I'd contact SD support at the link I put in reply #13.

Too many friggin' permutations of the same operating systems.