No Kidding, what's the problem?  I will never go back to 32bit and you guys need to recognize that 64bit is going strong right now, thanks to many computers coming packed with 64 bit Vista that supports over 3.25gigs of RAM.

agreed

I haven't had any luck with the system tray docklet, or the start menu with my OD+ 1.9 in Vista 64.  Everything else seems to work well, but of course it's not a complete replacement of the task bar without them.

Totally. I use this on 2 computers at work and at home. At work I run the 32 bit version of Vista with the object dock with the start menu and never use the windows task bar (it's hidden).

When I go home to my 64 bit Vista I feel crippled having to use the Windows Task bar again. The hint above with the VBS script works great! Finally at least a viable option untill we get an update of Oject Dock for 64.

If you uninstall OD+, then re-install it from Impulse, you should be able to have both the start menu and the sys tray in Vista x64. I am running Vista Ultimate x64 no problem.

I uninstalled via Impulse, then reinstalled via Impulse, and when I try to select the system tray option in the dock settings, it tells me "System tray functionality is not currently available for 64-bit versions of Windows".

So, I'm running Vista Ultimate 64, what did I do wrong?

Do I need to uninstall from SDC or something?

Thanks for your help.

Okay, I was able to get it to work thanks to a combination of what people have said above.

1) Uninstall OD+ 190.033 from within Impulse

2) Reboot

3) Using SDC, install 190i[b].020

4) Run OD+ from the Start menu etc (wouldn't run from SDC directly for me).

5) Be happy. 

I manually made sure "Enable MCP notification area support" and "Enable MCP SmartStartup" are CHECKED in the SDC/Tools/Settings/General tab, but I don't know if that is required.  I did this in SDC before rebooting above, just fyi.

I now have Start Button and System Tray on Zooming docks support under Vista 64 Ultimate.

I hope this helps and again, thank you to Wally3k, et al, for their helpful comments.

Ah, thanks for the heads up, Oh Bass Master. 

Yeah, part of the problem appears to be that SDC thinks you are updated just fine when running 190.033 via Impulse, so it won't allow an update/install.  So the full uninstall from Impulse (and reboot) is required before re-installing via SDC. 

Fortunately, the settings are still there, so it was entirely painless.  The taskbar is not HISTORY on my setup once more. 

So we need SDC to get the x64 features working...

But where the hell is it? It seems all links point to Impulse.

I'm a little frustrated that if the latest beta is available why can't we get it through Impulse???

Edit: Found it and everything works!

Where do you find the beta version on Stardock????  I've got Vista 64 Premium and would love to use the menu and system tray.  thanks.

It took me all of three minutes to do what I describe in my post, Shotti. 

If you have the time to post your unhappiness, and we've taken the time to try and help you, then maybe you should take the time to make the change needed to be happy? 

I agree it needs to be fixed at the company level, but we've all found a workaround and it works.  Good luck to you!

Abustama, you download Stardock Central @  [ED: see link below in next post!]

Thanks for the link fix!

If you follow my instructions above, you can have ObjectDock Plus working just fine under Vista 64, with all features. 

Happy Holidays!