Chris TH

FWIW, I have had OD+ and Firefox working happily together through all updates of each ever since about Firefox V1.0.

Yepp, I know. This is what I'm talking about. If you have OD+ you don't need a tray docklet ... The typical way to do it is to create a new (zoomer) dock and select the option to display tray items in that dock. Alternatively, I believe you can create a new tray tab on a tabbed dock (I've only seen this a long time ago on the default install hence my 'believe' qualification)... <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral

And yet it works for Auckland, New Zealand !!

I am also in Australia (Sydney as it happens) and it won't work for me either - nor will any overseas location work (eg New York, New York etc). After doing some TCP/IP packet sniffing during updating of the weather docklet so far all I've found is that the HTTP (and some TCP) requests from my PC are being marked with bad checksums in the TCP portion of the packet. There seems to be no reply from the weather server so I'm guessing the requests are being ignored because of the checksum e

The GPS data is usually quite easy to interpret (Google: NMEA), it's getting the data from the COM port into DX that's the tricky part. I don't know if DX supports interfacing with the hardware directly... Or does DX support DLL calls? If so then you might be able to get hold of a serial port DLL that DX can call routines out of to get hold of the data from the GPS. Failing that, you'd need to find/write a small executable to do the same thing which can be called from DX. <

There is an option for a better-looking bootscreen built into Vista. Try adding the No-Gui-Boot flag in the boot.ini file. Apparently that unlocks a far better-looking bootscreen. Google! This works in XP also! You don't get the progress animation, but you can use any 640x480x16col image as a bootscreen. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/sd/SDC24.gif

There all free and all have the same problem. This is a problem in OD. Sorry, not in my (and others in this thread, apparently) experience... I have 3 (of 6 total) docklets that access not only the internet but the WMI interface for network adapters directly & as I said my machine often takes up to 2 min for the NIC adapter(s) to even show up in the system tray (some kind of domain/workgroup login problem) and the (all SysStats) docklets respond immedia

So go find another weather docklet off the Wincustomize website (there'll be quite a few) and gof or it... What the problem with this suggestion? They're all free. You'll almost certainly find one made using the SysStats docklet support in which case you'll virtually guarantee being able to change the update interval - every second if you want! Find another docklet and move on - it's not rocket science! <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcentral/" tit

it has Norton Antivirus while the others have McAffe Both of these have been known to cause problems to many people in the past with internet-connected apps/widgets (eg Natural Desktop, DesktopX RSS widgets etc) judging by past threads in here. put in the firewall settings look for stardock products like object dock, dxwidget, etc and always allow access What he said <img src="http://images.stardock.co

standard weather docklet on ODfree = approx 12 minutes to self update after dial up connected. Ahhh, so it's working as designed. I guess some people are so impatient to know what the weather is... Personally, I just look outside - or more preferably *go* outside <img src="http://images.stardock.com/sd_com/smiles/Ew.gif" border=0 align="absmidd

So why not ditch the internal one & find another that works like you want and maybe even looks better or has more functions? It's not like you need to pay for them...

I have several docklets (not weather tho') that rely on a network connection. They just come good when the network adapter starts. I'm on a notebook & when I hook up to my corporate LAN it can take up to 2 min for the LAN adapter icon to initialise & the OD+ docklets still have no problems. It could well be a docklet bug, but there's a million weather docklets to choose from - why not try to find one that works & use that instead? <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdce

WB creates a regedit entry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software/StarDock/Common labeled MCP enable / disable and defaults MCP enable to disable which causes the systray in OB to disappear. You have to use regedit to re-enable with a "1" and reboot. Hmm, Although I don't have WB or OBar installed I *do* use OD+ that uses the system tray feature. I enabled it through SDC and it runs from the registry location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Curren

Yes, docklets especially those that update in 'reatime' (certainly many of the SysStats ones anyway) are set to update on a time interval. Usually delving into the config of the (SysStats) docklet you can find the interval and change it if it's worrying you that much.

I got my version of this solved also (only *some* tray icons were being displayed!). Stardock's Mike/milksama tracked down the problem to the "SSDP discovery service" and "Universal Plug and play device host" services. Once these were stopped and disabled, it all came back up fine. Aparrently there are some Microsoft KB articles on this: Link 1 and Link 2

There are 2 types of docklet for OD. One type is 'hard-coded' i.e it's in the form of a DLL and only has a single purpose/function. It's configurability is limited to what the porgrammer provides when the docklet is designed. The other type is like SysStats which is a generic environment to support all sorts of functions that can be displayed as a docklet in OD. SysStats is configured with it's own GUI and saves it in an .ini file but will also support images and scripting etc

FWIW, I've narrowed this down a little more... My reported problem appears on my main PC which is a Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop which during business hours is connected to an external KB & monitor via a docking station. While in this configuration, with the display adapter set to 'Analog Monitor' i.e the external screen and the 'digital display' i.e the laptop's flat panel screen is switched off, then I get the system tray problem. If the laptop is run standalone i.e using it's fla

Just about to edit my reply but, yes, Cavan1 is correct...

As of version 1.5.024 the answer is.... YES!

Hmmm in my case it does it the 'old' way (i.e all tabs are changed) unless you specifically tick the box: 'allow each tab to have it's own style'.

i just copied my changed boot.ini & whenever i have to reinstall xp i simply copy this to original boot.ini & bootskin works perfectly. Can you maybe please show your boot.ini file somewhere? Do you get just a static bootscreen or dows it have the animated progress bar included? <a href="https://www.stardock.com/products/sdcen

Ok, just updated to 1.50.024 and the situation is still the same. Seems to be quite a few new threads with similar issues... Clues? Anybody? Bueller?

Try the stand-alone MCP install: WWW Link Just re-installed this and it didn't fix the issue. There's one more icon I forgot: Microsoft ActiveSync. Having said the above, it seems to be a little random as to which icons will display on any given reboot. For example just now after restarting following the standalone install

OK, here's the list - BTW the PC is a Toshiba Tecra M2, WNIXP pro w/- all updates. These are visible Toshiba Dual Pointing Device Nokia PC suite InfoProcess Antihook Intel Wireless Proset Utility Battery Status Ethernet NIC Wireless NIC These are not visible ObjectDock+ WordWeb Daemon Virtual DVD Avira AntiVir Microsoft Defender This one won't show up at all. Stardock RightClick HTH! <a href="https:/

OK, will do. Prior to doing this I thought I'd report the following troubleshooting steps I attempted already, bearing in mind only *some* of the tray icons are missing not all (?!) i.e about 6 icons showing instead of 10-12. Using SDC, disabled 'MCP notification area support' (MCP smart startup was already disabled). Note that when I did this & dismissed the dialog, all the tray icons returned! Closed SDC & rebooted. On restart no icons at all showing (to be expected since MCP