New User with Questions on MS Outlook, Quicken and Locking Dragging

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I am new to Objectdock (free vers) and have been experimenting with some of the features.  I am using Vista Home Premium (32bit).

1.   I have chosen to DISPLAY OPEN WINDOWS ALONG WITH MY ICONS as well as REPRESENT MINIMIZED WINDOWS BY THEIR SCREENSHOTS and USE MINIMIZE ANIMATION IN VISTA.

All applications seem to appear correctly in the dock while running (icon appears) and minimized (screenshot and small icon appear), but when I minimize Microsoft Outlook nothing shows up in the dock.  Is this a known bug?

2.  I also use Quicken and it appears the dock freezes while Quicken is running.  When I quit Quicken the dock works again.  Is this a known bug?

3.  Sometimes when I drag an Icon to the trash I miss and end up adding it to my dock; I noticed a preference LOCK DRAGGING that keeps me from accidently adding an icon to the dock but it also doesn't allow me to drag anything into the trash icon.  Can't you lock the dock but allow dragging to the trash?

Any info/guidance/tips would be greatly appreciated.

Mercury52

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Bug #1 and #2 are caused by the respective programs. They treat the screen differently than other programs so OD can't get a proper capture of their window. It's something that Stardock should work on, but definately not caused by them.

I believe that Bug #3 has been fixed in the latest paid versions of OD. I used to have the same issue a while ago, but now all is working as it should. There are third party recycle bin docklets, but I had problems with those as well.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Too bad you have to pay to get a bug fix.  Guess I'll just not lock the dock for now.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I just started using ObjectDock recently and wondered about this too - when you have the taskbar showing and Outlook is shown in the tray, you can right click on the icon and uncheck the "minimize to tray" option. This will minimize it to the dock. :)