Object Desktop 2009 Official Support Thread
Post your thoughts, questions, issues with Object Desktop 2009 here.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 by Zargon | Discussion: Object Desktop
When Object Desktop 2009 is released, this is where the known issues will be posted. Please post your findings here as well. Thank you!
Notes and Known Issues: (all issues are being worked on at this time)
Theme Manager 3.0 (Published at 11am)
- Aero Midnight theme included as a .suite file for Object Desktop customers.
- My Desktop / Save My Desktop: Dreams, skins and cursors sometimes do apply when saved as part of a suite. Please apply through the Applications tab as a workaround at this time.
- Applications / Cursors: Sometimes cursors take two applies before applying.
- My Desktop / Create New Theme: The Download URL function is not working at this time.
- Please update SoundPackager before applying sounds through Theme Manager 3.0.
- Users will need to open SoundPackager one time to have sound packages show up in Theme Manager 3.0.
- Fixed - On systems that do not have MyColors installed, an error about the StardockWeather.ocx file not being registered will display when applying weather gadgets.
- The Aero Midnight skin does not extract and apply 100% of the time on faster hardware.
Deskscapes 2.5 (with XP support published at 1pm)
- With a Dream file applied dragging and dropping icons from the desktop to a folder does not work at this time.
- Please visit this web site to review video card requirement details. In short, AGP Video cards are not supported at this time. Future driver updates from NVIDIA/ATI will add support later this year. At that time only AGP 8x will be supported (4x/2x/1x bus speeds are not adequate to support dream functionality at low CPU).
- The Watercolor Dream may exhibit some distortion on Windows XP.
Bootskin Pro 1.0 (published at 6:30pm)
- There is a new WinCustomize gallery for Windows Vista bootskins. Boot skins created for XP will not work with Bootskin Pro.
- Bootskin Pro allows users to create boot skins for Windows Vista, so boot skins created for XP can be re-generated and uploaded to WinCustomize.
- Bootskin Pro Create boot skin tab will attempt to read your Object Desktop Ultimate serial from the registry. If the serial number field is blank, paste in your Object Desktop Ultimate serial number to create a boot skin.
- There may be an issue with .bootskin file associations on some systems.
WindowBlinds 6.3 (published on 11/18/2008)
- Windows Vista 64-bit users may need to reboot after install if skins do not apply correctly.
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Reply #42 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:19 PM
Quoting sargan,
reply 5
Where do I go to download OD 2009. Thank you in advance. I am an Ultimate OD subscriber
Download and install Impulse from here: http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulse_setup.exe
Then use the Desktop tab in Impulse to install
I have the standard version of Object Desktop and my license expires June of 2009. Do I get OD 2009 or do I have to have the Ultimate or renew my subscription? The reason I am asking is that I got the latest version of Impulse, but my Object Desktop Apps aren't updating to the 2009 version.
Reply #43 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:31 PM
What happens if you go to the Applications tab, click on skins and apply Aero midnight through that mechanism.
Do you have WindowBlinds installed or just MyColors?
Reply #44 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:32 PM
If you click Yes on the dialog that warns you about the AGP card, the dream should apply.
Reply #45 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:33 PM
You are entitled to 2009 updates.
Reply #46 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:33 PM
That is not a problem, I just need to know how you created them to help you.
Reply #47 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:45 PM
I have the standard version of Object Desktop and my license expires June of 2009. Do I get OD 2009 or do I have to have the Ultimate or renew my subscription? The reason I am asking is that I got the latest version of Impulse, but my Object Desktop Apps aren't updating to the 2009 version.
You are entitled to 2009 updates.
They aren't showing up in "My Desktop" tab. Is there anything special I need to do?
Reply #48 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:57 PM
Please contact support@stardock.com to help you out with that. We need to know your private information that I would rather you not post here to resolve that issue.
Reply #49 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:58 PM
You have to apply Aero Midnight before the skin will show up in WindowBlinds.
What happens when you try to apply Aero Midnight?
When I apply the Aero Midnight theme, the wallpaper, icons, and gadgets appear, but the Windowblind doesn't change. If I look under "applications" in Theme Manager, the Aero Midnight windowblind is not listed.
Reply #50 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:03 PM
They aren't showing up in "My Desktop" tab. Is there anything special I need to do?
Please contact support@stardock.com to help you out with that. We need to know your private information that I would rather you not post here to resolve that issue.
Thanks. I've contacted customer support.
Reply #51 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:11 PM
zargon, like k10w3, i do not have aero midnight listed on the applications tab of theme manager. also, i have almost all of odnt, including windowblinds, installed.
Reply #52 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:18 PM
I UPDATED Soundpackager as required for use with Theme manager 3 (Windows Defender off and Firewall diasbled) and now it insists that it needs to be activated and gives me "Activation Error (stage 4)" each and every time............I've put my OD ultimate serial in with my email and no go
....took me three hours to fix last night's Windowblinds update......I'm wondering if I've got something borked in ODNT period. The deskscapes update was the the only one that's worked right since Windowblinds 6.3 came out
Reply #54 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:34 PM
Reply #55 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:04 PM
When I try and start a dream on Dreamscapes 2.5, my PC thinks for a second and then does nothing. This happens with any dream I attempt to run. I just downloaded the latest 2.5 version today using Impulse.
Some specs:
OS: XP SP3
Video Card: nVidia Quadro FX570M.
Thus far I have tried to remove my current theme with Theme Manager and then try the dream, no joy. I have also restarted the various OD applications with no joy. Has anyone seen this before, and if so, what was the resolution?
Reply #56 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:07 PM
We are aware of this issue and looking into it at this time.
Reply #57 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:08 PM
Did you apply Aero Midnight? It will not show up until you apply it once.
Reply #58 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:09 PM
k10w3 - Vista or XP?
Reply #59 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:12 PM
Do you have a video codec installed? Do you have DirectX9 installed? You will need both to apply a dream.
See information here about this:
https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/faq.asp
Reply #60 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:20 PM
When I try and start a dream on Dreamscapes 2.5, my PC thinks for a second and then does nothing. This happens with any dream I attempt to run. I just downloaded the latest 2.5 version today using Impulse.
Do you have a video codec installed? Do you have DirectX9 installed? You will need both to apply a dream.
See information here about this:
https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes/faq.asp
DX9 is installed, and I have a number of codecs installed using that Decoder Checkup Utility. My perfered codec is the Intervideo Video Decoder. After selecting that and restarting my PC, still nothing.
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Reply #41 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:22 PM
I created the other tabs not the My Desktop tab. Is there a problem with that?