Please help me with the 'stacks' docklet

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I am having a problem with Object Dock 2 and the "stacks" adddon docklet.  I hope this is the correct forum.  Anyways, here is is my issue / question.  I have stacks installed correctly and it actually works fine.  But when I add a stack it shows the entire contents of a folder. I want a stack to show a list of different programs, not the entire contents of a folder. As an example ... I want it to work like this : if you click on a stack icon a list ( fan or list ) will pop up and display all my apps like Excell,firefox,thunderbird,ultraedit, ect...... currently I can only add 1 folder and all of that folders contents are displayed (not good) :(

 

Please advise me on what I am doing wrong.  I see other people with "fan" lists that show only appliations.

 

Thanks

John

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just a shot in the dark here, but can't you just make shortcuts to all those apps, place them in a folder then point the stacks docklet to it?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 1
Just a shot in the dark here, but can't you just make shortcuts to all those apps, place them in a folder then point the stacks docklet to it?
End of Wizard1956's quote

 

Ok I tried that but now when I click on the icon in the stack layout I get this error:

......

C:\Utilities\RevoUninstaller.lnk  The specified path does not exist.

Check the path and try again.

......

If I manually go into the new folder I created called C:\Utilities and click on the RevoUninstaller shortcut I put there, it loads up just fine .. so I know the shortcut/link is correct.  So why the error ??  What should I do ?

 

HELP!

John

PS. I am running Win7 Ultimate 64 with the latest version of Object Dock Pro v2

 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I've tried it with that same shortcut ( Revo is a great program, imo) on two different stack docklets. Dragging from desktop after creating a shortcut or from the program file(create link) to the stack folders works for me on Win7/64/OD 2.0. Maybe someone else can reproduce this. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Good Luck.

 BTW, near as I can tell, I'm using THIS version of docklet.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I just deleted the shorcuts and tried again ..... it now works fine !

 

thanks again

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

:thumbsup:  

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I am suddenly having more or less the same problem, but only with one shortcut (iTunes).

It all used to work perfectly, then something went haywire with just that shortcut.

I have all of my music and videos in a shortcut folder named "Entertainment".

I deleted the old iTunes shortcut because I kept getting a "File not found" error when I clicked on it in that stack.

I created a new shortcut for iTunes on my desktop, tested it (it worked), opened the Entertainment folder, moved the shortcut into that folder, tested it (it worked), closed the folder, checked the Entertainment stack, the new shortcut was in there, clicked on it ... and "File not found."

I could see this happening if something was wrong with the bloody shortcut, but if I open the folder (even through the Stack Docklet) and click on the shortcut, it comes up just fine.  All of the other shortcuts in that (and every other shortcut folder) work perfectly.

I'm on a Windows 7 64bit system, but I wouldn't think that would make a difference for one single solitary shortcut.

 

Any thoughts??