Object Dock

Sudden Absence of the Dock

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I've come to rely on Objeck Dock almost too much, really, for getting stuff done without massive desktop clutter... Took me a good 5 minutes to open a browser cause I keep trying to make the dock come up :P

To put it simply, it's been working perfectly all this time until recently. I reinstalled Object Dock and it worked again for a short time until this morning.

Any ideas? I'm running Windows XP, and so far have ruled out a number of programs... but still completely lost in so far as getting it to work again.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Have you checked to see if you accidentally set the dock to auto hide?  Wack your cursor up against the sides of the screen and see if it pops up.  Then check the setting in the configuration panel.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you restart it from the start menu, does the config show up, or the dock?

If you open up task manager, is it running?

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting messiah1, reply 1
Have you checked to see if you accidentally set the dock to auto hide?  Wack your cursor up against the sides of the screen and see if it pops up.  Then check the setting in the configuration panel.
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I told it to autohide by default and it won't even show up when I do that. It just sits in the processes until I end it. Restart it and still nothing. It shortly pauses at 11000k-ish and then jumps to 14500k-ish and sits there until ended. No unhiding or nothin'.

Quoting Zubaz, reply 2
If you restart it from the start menu, does the config show up, or the dock?

If you open up task manager, is it running?
End of Zubaz's quote

Yes, it is still running. (insert above response here) It just sits in the processes until I end it. Restart it and still nothing. It shortly pauses at 11000k-ish and then jumps to 14500k-ish and sits there until ended. No unhiding or nothin'... Restarting it shows up neither.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'd guess it's just off screen.

end the task

edit C:\Users\zubaz\AppData\Local\Stardock\ObjectDockPlus\CurretnTheme.ini

Change

position.x={some number}
position.y={some number}

to be 50

Save

Restart OD

Move it where you want

 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 4
I'd guess it's just off screen.

end the task

edit C:\Users\zubaz\AppData\Local\Stardock\ObjectDockPlus\CurretnTheme.ini

Change

position.x={some number}
position.y={some number}

to be 50

Save

Restart OD

Move it where you want

 
End of Zubaz's quote

I went to what I think would be the XP equivelent (C:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Local Settings\Application Data\Stardock\ObjectDock\CurrentTheme.ini) and looked about it. Nothing there about position.x or y. I changed DockPosition to 50, tryed it, found nothing. changed it back to be safe. Changed auto-hide to be 0 from 1 and tried DockPosition again, nothing, switched it back.

Thinking maybe it's in another file for XP? I'll have to look around for it... but... well, any other idears?

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

btw, what version of ObjectDock are you running?  Free or Plus and what is the version number?

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

It was recently reinstalled for this same problem from a fresh download... so... I'm thinking it's 1.9, also it is currently the free version. Any way to confirm the version if the thing won't load up?

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

It just popped up on the side of my screen for some unknown reason... Quite a curious case... Much thanks to yous, Zubaz and messiah1. Something must have spurred it out of hiding in the ini file editing. ^_^

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You had OD off when you made the changes, right?

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 9
You had OD off when you made the changes, right?
End of Zubaz's quote

This is correct. Made sure it was ended out of the processes.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Any way to confirm the version if the thing won't load up?
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If it shows in your Systray you can right click the icon and choose "About Objectdock"

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting AeoAeo330, reply 8
It just popped up on the side of my screen for some unknown reason... Quite a curious case... Much thanks to yous, Zubaz and messiah1. Something must have spurred it out of hiding in the ini file editing.
End of AeoAeo330's quote
Glad it resolved.  :)

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It just popped up on the side of my screen for some unknown reason
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Hope it stays for you.