Why does my dock 'time out'?

January 16, 2005 3:07 PM from

For no apparent reason my dock will disappear, any suggestions? It can be after 10 mins or half hour and no one thing seems to cause it to happen. The only way to bring it back seems to be > open OD > Load Theme. Eventually when I get it looking ok I want to get rid of my desktop icons, but only if I can rely on my OD+. Thanks

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Reply #1 January 16, 2005 3:33 PM from

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This is quite unusual, does your dock shutdown or is it just hidden? Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on the occasion where your dock 'timed out' and see wether it is running (ObjectDock.exe).

You mentioned you have OD+, did you unistall your free version before installing the enhanced version? What OS are you using?

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Reply #2 January 17, 2005 2:39 PM from

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Mine is doing the exact same thing. It is just dissapearing in no specific time frame. I leave the computer for awhile and come back and no objectdock. It is completely gone. I checked in Task manager to make sure it wasn't just locked up and it wasn't even running. The program has been doing this to me all weekend since I switched from the free version to the OD+ version. Before I installed OD+ I deleted all reference to OD in the registry and from my main drive. After the install it was running in it's default mode. I had saved my theme from the previous version and I am using that. Perhaps the theme is causing it. I've got a windows bar hidden at the top of my screen with the link to OD+ in it so it's not that big of a deal to start back up but I would like to know why it's just shutting off on its own without an error code or anything else. Thanks for the help.

Reply #3 January 17, 2005 3:06 PM from

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Mabe the old theme might do this, it seems strange though. Do you use any docklets in your theme? Maybe one of the docklets doesn't like the OD+.

Try to create a theme from scratch and see whether it still happens..

Reply #4 January 17, 2005 6:35 PM from

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I thought about this and recalled that my free version did the same thing when I was using a docklet that shows the systray. I'm using that docklet again and I bet that's what's doing it. If the person who posted the original message could let us know if he's using that docklet that would be most helpful.

Reply #5 January 18, 2005 5:19 PM from

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i've just got the free version of OD and mine is timing out in the same way. i'm also using the docklet which shows the systray

Reply #6 January 18, 2005 7:33 PM from

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Ok I'm almost positive at this point it's that darn docklet. I removed it last night and haven't had one crash since. I know that docklet is a really cool one but the facts are the guy that made it hasn't done any bug fixing on it since May 2004 and I guess he isn't likely to start now so if you want your dock to work correctly just give up that docklet. I want to use that docklet to elminate the windows bar but it's useless if it crashes your objectdock program every few minutes. So I'm wiping my hands of it and moving on. Have a good one and thanks for the help.

Reply #7 February 2, 2005 1:58 AM from

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my od+ does the same thing. i also use the sys tray docklet which is real cool, but im going to try without it. does anyone no of a zone alarm pro docklet? or a docklet that shows internet activitie, like the zone alarm sys tray - in & out.?

Reply #8 February 2, 2005 2:14 AM from

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I reacently read that there was an updated sys tray docklet that solved the prob? does anyone else have this prob.? or is the sys tray just a myth?
ps Whhen i run excel, or somtimes inet explorer it crashes od+ anywho?

Reply #9 February 2, 2005 5:58 AM from

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I installed the SysTray docklet yesterday and spent 2 days with this problem.
Found this thread this morning, removed the docklet and now the problem has gone.
Shame about this bug because it's a useful docklet, a great idea and otherwise well-implemented - hopefully we'll see an update soon.

Reply #10 February 2, 2005 1:55 PM from

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I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM BUT I HAVE UNINSTALED THE SYSTRAY DOKLET IT'S GOING JUST PERFECT

Reply #11 February 4, 2005 7:13 AM from

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Melchior Moos, the developer wrote to me that he knows about this bug but has stopped development for this docklet.

Reply #12 February 9, 2005 3:51 AM from

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I have the same problem with Object Dock (free version), I do not have the SYSTRAY docklet, the ones I have are MAIL CHECKER, START MENU, POWEROFF and WEATHER DOCKLET.
Any further suggestions?!

Reply #13 February 9, 2005 1:01 PM from

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Remove each of these Docklets, one at a time. More than likely that one of these other docklets (or maybe a combination of two docklets running at the same time) are causing the problems you described.

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