Odd behavior after system crash

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I've been using ObjectDock fine for a few months now, but I am getting odd behavior after my Windows 2000 system froze and I had to restart. OD was crashing when trying to load, so I completely uninstalled, deleted all user data (that I'm aware of anyway), and reinstalled from scratch (also rebooted the computer after uninstalling and again after reinstalling a couple of times).

Now, ObjectDock refuses to accept about half my applications as acceptable shortcuts. Drag and drop just gives me nothing, no message, no new icon, just nothing. Selecting New Shortcut and pointing to one of these unaccepted applications causes OD to crash right after selection in the browse window. It's also always the same applications it refuses to use, meaning if I try to add something, uninstall, restart, reinstall, restart, OD still won't accept them. The applications themselves all work fine, scanning my system for other issues turns up nothing that I can see, the only cranky application appears to be OD.

I can only assume I am missing a settings file somewhere that needs to be removed, or something in Windows itself that only appears to affect ObjectDock at the moment is damaged. I just have no clue what to look for or where.

If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it. :)

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

In between the uninstalling and the rebooting and the reinstalling did you run a clean up programs like CCleaner?  If OD for some reason got messed up you still may have some linering pieces. 

From your description OD was working okay prior to the system freezing.  Can you remember what was happening when it froze?  Installing something, deleting something, some action the computer didn't like?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

my Windows 2000 system
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I'm not sure if ccleaner will work on 2000...check before using. I'd check security priviledges and attributes on the files you trying to link and see if they are different from the links that work.

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