strange problem

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fired up my pc today and suddenly found 3 extra '?' icons appearing mysteriously to the right of my bar. i never put them there and they were not there when i shut down my pc last night. however i did notice yesterday that when i drag any item to my recycle bin which sits to the extreme right of the icon bar, the bar actual gets longer. those 3 '?' are now sitting where the empty space was. the worse part is i can't even drag them off the bar to get rid of them! this is very distressing! i wish i could post a screen shot of what i mean but i don't see such an option in his forum.




ok i have solved a part of the puzzle. i had the 'lock dragging' option checked and that was preventing me from getting rid of the '?'s. however i can still see the empty space at the end of the icon bar. how do i get rid of it? it looks ugly.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I assume you are referring to ObjectDock.

The empty space is probably caused by either an invisible entry (due to dragging files onto the dock recycle bin), or due to a seperator which is not showing and uses the same spacing as a dock entry. Note - at this time, ObjectDock does not support drag-n-drop of files to the recycle bin without also creating a dock entry. Perhaps this will change in future builds.

In the case of an invisible entry, just click on the spot and drag off the dock - if you get a "poof" then that was the issue.

In the case of a seperator which is not showing, you can right-click on it (this may take a bit to find the correct location) - until you see a "remove this seperator" option in the context (right-click) menu.

Note - you can also remove a dock entry by right-clicking on it and selecting "Remove Entry" from the context menu, which allows you to remove the entry without deselecting "Lock Dragging".

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
thanks for the tip about just clicking and dragging off the empty slot but i still think its stupid that i will get this problem when i drag something to the recycle bin. hope they fix it in the next version.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Don't drag it to the OD recycle bin...don't use a recycle bin at all...stupid is as stupid does...

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