ObjectDock shifting around?

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I've been having the same problem constantly, and it's causing trouble with my games.

When I run objectdock, it runs normally (I do get an error saying the startmenu helper file couldn't be injected, any thoughts on that?) for the most part, but when I go into a game, it seems to shift all the docks in the upper left corner of the screen. This often means that if I move the mouse to the upper left of a game, it'll like flash up through the game, and if I click, it might pop back to the desktop.

More annoying though, is that everytime after I run a program, I have to reset the menu bars back to their original place by actually making them appear from the original positions (by moving my mouse to those specific edges, three in total).

 

I have a screenshot that I can add to show the problem, does anyone have an idea what can be done about it?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Best thing to do is probably unload Object Dock, play the games, then when you're done load Object Dock back up.  The games are probably changing your screen resolution, which OD doesn't deal with well (that would be the re-positioning on the screen), plus it and the games are competing for the graphics attention and priority (that would be OD butting in on your games).  The games may very well run better with OD unloaded anyway.

Little reminder here to save your Object Dock themes occasionally.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I think DaveRI gave you a good suggestion.  It might help also to know what version of Object Dock and OS you are running?

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm running 1.90 Plus  on Windows xp SP3.

That sounds like a good idea, but a very annoying one at the same time, I have it running as a taskbar and menu bar and such as well. Meaning I'd be a bit crippled untill I start it up again.

Oh, and the fact that I run my games from it as well. So turning it off forces me to manually find my games, or put links on the desktop again.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I suppose you could save the theme once while the docks are in the correct position, let everything go bonkers, then re-load the theme afterwards.

I would at least try the games without OD loaded though just to see if they run any better.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh and if you want you could save your main theme with one name, e.g. "General", then make another theme to use with the games and save it with a different name, e.g. "Games", and switch back and forth between the two.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

These are all work arounds. The problem didn't happen in the free version, it does in the pay version...

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well I do know that you are supposed to uninstall the free version before you install the paid version.  If you didn't do that you might want to save and backup your themes and any icon backgrounds, icons, and docklets you've downloaded, then uninstall the plus, uninstall the free if it still shows, reboot, and re-install the plus.

Be warned that I have no idea whether or not that will resolve your specific problem though.  You might want to start up a ticket with Stardock Support here:

https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=submit

You'll want to include that you're running XPSP3 and refer to this thread if you want to save some typing.

In the meantime someone else may come along with something.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Yup I did that, didn't really help much. I'll make a ticket about it, and a new issue I've encountered. Aparantly objectdock crashes Skype O.o