HUD solutions?

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i love having all the info i need in a convenient, easy to see way. i have to have all the time, date, cpu, weather, battery... and i hate icon's on my desktop. for a while i used a double bar of RK Launcher, but i've recently made the switch to object dock and avedesk for my itunes control. my question is, does anyone have a better way to do what i want? i have screenshots below. i like how it looks, the simpleness (especially the awesome tabbed dock for all app launching) but object dock is up to anywhere from 18-30 megs, and i read things on here saying it runs at 4 megs, so i must have too much going on. opinions?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My one tabbed dock is taking 12k, with a peak of 38k.

Try going into the od config > performance options and check opitmized for memory.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what OS and what docklets are you running? you may be running a docklet that may be hogging up the resources. I would try removing the docklets one at a time until you find the one that is being greedy with the memory. some docklets are not up to date for current OS styles and Builds/ service pack's. example some are not up dateded to work well on vista if at all and fewer are ready for 64 bit.  it may be as simple as a image eating up resources in the docklet.


some docklets used BMP files instead of more compressed image types. so the image loaded takes more ram. these are but a few of the variables to look in to. let me know what you find.

 
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i actually have done so. its actually really odd, and now i'm beginning to think memory use is related to something else then OD, because of the odd variance i get, from 11 megs to 50. (its the usual settled range that is between 18 and 30). i know i definitly have a huge lag when i try to use the flyouts (i have a core 2 duo and 2gigs of ram, so i dont think a flyout should be that challenging. :) ).
but thats definitly comforting to hear that its running right there with someone else. now i feel less like a mutant computer owner.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
im running vista, with those systats docklets on the right hand side, ishut, and a couple stack docklets. nothing that looks to dangerous.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
 my only other thought could be, that possibly the stagger with the fly out menus could be a Vard performance issue? 
 the meg variance could be the Weather dock etc updating it's info. just a thought. mine runs lean but i run only the stock clock and weather docklets. mine run about 4-10 megs.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
after some slight reconfiguring, yeah, i think its the updating. i'm using less flyouts now, and its running much better.

but it kinda sucks that now i can't use the awesome looking flyouts.

and now i think i feel the need to start a new thread about flyouts.