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Explorer crashes when screen resolution or icons change in Fences Stardock Forums

I've been having trouble with Explorer crashing similar to what other folks have been having. I can reproduce it reliably by changing the screen resolution or adding/removing a second display. It also seems to crash when new icons appear on the desktop (both when added manually and when installers add them). And it just crashed every time I used Fences configuration to change the overall layout. I tried some of the other troubleshooting steps recommended in previous threads: complete

Reply to DeskScapes 2.0 Launch Support Thread in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="DalamarNL" reply="21" id="1956248"]I just downloaded the free version of Deskscapes, there are a few sample animated desktops included. There is a minor problem though. All samples work just fine (Grassy field, Waterdream), but the Watercolor dream just doesn't start properly. No errors, it just freezes immediately (that's what it looks like) and shows nothing but a blue colored background. I have version 2.0, it won't let me update to 2.5.[/quote] I'm experienc

Reply to Snow crash in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Last night, I had another snow crash, while DeskScapes wasn't even installed. A bit of Web research showed that there's a long-standing issue with NVidia's display drivers that leads to slowdowns, driver resets, and BSODs on some rigs. When it happens, Windows reports an error in nvlddmkm.sys. The first time it happened, my screen was too trashed to read, but the second time I could make out the nvlddmkm BSOD behind the snow. In short, this is probably an issue with my GPU or its driv

Reply to "Verify Installation" unreliable in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

I finally figured out why DeskScapes kept failing verification: Impulse installs the default Dreams in /Stardock/Dreams and expects to find them there when verifying. However, if you're running a standard (non-admin) account, then you need to elevate or switch to an admin account for installation, and the Dreams get installed in the admin's Documents folder instead of your standard account. Thus, Impulse can't find them (and neither can DeskScapes if you try to u

Reply to "Verify Installation" unreliable in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Aha, that makes sense! Thanks for the explanation. After some more experimentation, I've found that the verification issues fall into three general groups: 1. Apps that include variable files in the static install list, as you just described. 2. Apps with conflicting installations. The theme-related apps seem prone to this. 3. Legitimate problems. I suspect that there was a problem with my early DeskScapes downloads; my last attempt installed OK. (Unfortunately, it had

Reply to Snow crash in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

OK, thanks for the suggestions! Luckily the machine is new enough that I don't have any critical data on it yet. ;) Yes, the 9800 is PCI-E. No, I don't know my codecs of the top of my head, but I can check. Ugh, I hope it's not something more widespread like that. Edit: I don't know whether it's relevant, but after rolling back I tried Windows DreamScene to see whether it exhibited similar problems. I ran the streetlight background for quite a while without trouble.

Reply to Theme Manager? in MyColors Stardock Forums

On my work machine, I started with just Fences and ObjectDock Plus loaded. I installed Theme Manager, then tried to install Think Green but hit the prompt issue. I then installed MyColors, but it failed verify. I uninstalled MyColors, which surprisingly also uninstalled Theme Manager. After that, I switched to the order you used: MyColors, Theme Manager, themes. That worked OK except for the conflict between the MyColors and Think Green packages. On my home machine, I started

Theme Manager? in MyColors Stardock Forums

I've been trying to figure out the right procedure for installing Theme Manager and/or MyColors. From what I've read of Theme Manager, it's like a "MyColors Plus" and so I figured I wouldn't need both apps. However, when I tried to download the free themes without installing MyColors, I got a confusing warning message that requested a registration number. I couldn't figure out which registration number it wanted or where to get it, so I figured it would be easier to just install MyColors.

Snow crash in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I finally got DeskScapes to install and verify this morning. (My first several attempts didn't pass Impulse's "Verify Installation" check.) I checked out the free backgrounds, decided I liked the sand & water one the best. Everything was fine for a few minutes, but then my whole screen filled with colored snow, and the video output shut down. Pressing the sleep key did a full reboot into Safe Mode instead of just putting the machine to sleep. I'm reluctant to do a lot of experimen

Reply to "Verify Installation" unreliable in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Thanks for the reminder. It didn't fix the problem, but I did get more information! I was finally able to install and verify DeskScapes. Unfortunately, it crashed my system after just a couple minutes. I don't know whether that's a problem with the install, the app, or my system. RightClick is behaving the same way it always has: It verifies OK immediately after installation, but Impulse reports a bad install as soon as I configure or quit the program. I downloaded it once with Window

Reply to "Verify Installation" unreliable in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Is anyone else running into this or able to reproduce it? It's getting to be more of a problem than I originally thought -- a couple of apps fail to verify right after installation, and others soon after. Trying to get MyColors/Theme Manager set up has been especially problematic. When I installed Theme Manager first, MyColors failed to verify, but it seems to work OK in the other order. If I download and install the Think Green theme, MyColors fails to verify, and vice versa. (I think that's

"Verify Installation" unreliable in Object Desktop Stardock Forums

Impulse's "Verify Installation" function seems to fail spuriously for several of my Object Desktop applications. It reported bad installs for DeskScapes, DesktopX, IconPackager, ObjectBar, RightClick, and WindowBlinds. I know that at least one report is bogus, and two more are very suspicious. All three are easily reproducible here. First, IconPackager fails to verify if I change the "Repair Shell Icons" settings at all. If I change it back to the original settings, Impulse verifies i

Reply to IconPackager v4.1 Release Support Thread in IconPackager Stardock Forums

I've hit a few problems with IP v4.10.177 running on Vista Ultimate 32. First, I'm seeing the same dialog box corruption that chiwou82 did. It affects the Change Icon dialog and its file-browsing sub-dialog. You can see what the dialogs are supposed to look like in the manual: <a id="ctl00__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl17__LinkUser" title="Click user name to view more options." onclick="Sd.Menus.showMenu('userMenu17');" href="https://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/help/