Well I hear what you're saying Philly, but my dock is quite simple - just 6 tabs, each of which contains only shortcuts to programs I use. All my software is installed on my boot drive. The only non-shortcut I have is one ObjectDock pointer to My Calendar, which is my Google calendar. I'll experiment with removing this one tomorrow and post results here.
I've tried several things and discovered the following: 1. When I take ObjectDick out of my startup sequence my system boots in normal time (about 13 seconds - my boot drive is a Samsung 840Pro SSD.) 2. When I start ObjectDock after booting without it auto-starting it takes 17.4 seconds for the dock (I have only 1) to show up. This seems like a long time and I have
Thanks for the suggestions. I don't have any plugins for my dock but I did go through services.msc and was able to knock out a few things (like MBAM and Backup Scheduling, both of which I do myself.) Even so I find the ObjectDock is the last thing to come up at boot time and I can tell by the speed of my system's fan that there is a fair amount of CPU activity going on just before ObjectDock shows up on my
I second all the suggestions - although #9 doesn't happen for me. For #7 I'd like to see a pop-out month view when right-clicking.
I've installed ObjectDoc on my Win7-74 SP1 system and although I like it there does seem to be a problem: my system not boots in about twice the time it used to. Is this an ObjectDock issue? Or should I be looking someplace else for some sort of startup problem?
I hit Alt+F4 once too often and my tabbed dock (the only one I have) closed. The only way I could get it back was to reboot Win7. The tray icon was still there but from that I could only open the OD Confgurator window; nothing I tried there would get my dock to reappear. This seems like a bug but perhaps I am missing something. What could it be?
1. Add an option to display then name of the icon below the icon itself 2. Add an option to set the color of the tab text (so dark colors could be used for the tab background)
AHA! Most excellent reply _ thanks. In fact, the option to boot directly to the desktop was NOT checked. So I checked it and now the system boots properly. I wonder why/how that option got unchecked. Another oddity about the
With Win8 my system booted straight to the desktop each time - YAY! But I just installed the Win8.1 update (no problems installing at all!) and now my system boots to the horrid Modern UI - thsu forcing me to click on the Desktop icon to get to my beloved desktop. Yes, I do have the latest 1.30 version of Start8 and Yes I do have the option checked for "Automatically go to the desktop when I log in." How do I get my system to boot straight to the desktop?