Published on February 2, 2004 By ToddeSwe In WinCustomize Talk
Hi all!

Since i started to use objectdock my whole system is slow and terrible to use. Can someone else verify this so i'm not alone here...

Todde
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on Feb 02, 2004
You're not alone....do you have any 'Docklets' running? Just close and re-start the proggie and that may do the trick. (it's known to build up 'Handle' count over time.)



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on Feb 03, 2004
Another thing that will help is to turn the dock backgrounds tranparancies to opaque...
on Feb 03, 2004
It helps for a short moment to quit and restart...
Does someone develope ObjectDock or ...
I've got just one docklet and that's the kkmenu

Todde
on Feb 03, 2004
tranparancies to opaque


All the way transparent works well too.
on Feb 04, 2004
Strange that just some people have this problem...
When i hit the show button next to the clock down right corner my CPU hits 100% workload... When i quit the ObjectDock everything is cool... and fast as usually.

I've just uninstalled TweakXP and wonder if some prefs from that could cause my problems...?

Todde
on Feb 04, 2004
Also if you use ICONS (.ICO) for your dock objects insted of PNG files, it makes a big differerence, especially if you got a lot of them.
on Feb 04, 2004
indeed. icons are a big thing that eats up the processing time to render the magnifying things. if you like the funcitonality of the bar but it runs too slow for you, set it not to magnify the icons, or to magnify only slightly.
on Feb 04, 2004
You may have a point there ... i had ONE ICO and i changed it and i must say that i've noticed a small improvement.

Thanks!

Todde
on Feb 05, 2004
What's your OS? If you're running XP and have multiple users with different themes running that will drag you down fer sher.
How much RAM do have? 512 seems a minimum to keep everything running happily. Running graphic-intensive [ie:DX themes with a lot going on] apps use a lot fo video memory. Your video card will rob memory from your RAM if it's being maxed out. Running Sisoftware Sandra [free vers. on Cnet] will tell you more about your comp. than you probably wanted to know, but it has little tips that show where you're losing performance. Of course, you could go back to the plain old look that came with your comp, but that wouldn't be any fun!
on Feb 05, 2004
My OS is Win XP SP1 and no i don't use miltiple users. And yes 512 Mb of memory is correct. And my GFX card is GeForce 4 Ti 4200 with 128 mb mem. So this small thingy like ObjectDock should run perfect on my system i think. Maby the TweakXP has made some changes to my system and that's why it's kinda slow... i have removed TweakXP now but maby some changes don't changes back to how it was before TweakXP ...

I'll do a new install of everything later on and i'll see if that helps.

Thanks anyway, and i'm NOT going to uninstall ObjectDock.

Todde
on Feb 05, 2004
Only joking about un-install! I wish I had a better answer for you on the slow-down I defer to the greater tech-heads out there. Good luck!
on Feb 07, 2004
thats your problem. its a gforce
on Feb 07, 2004
So my GeForce 4 Ti should'nt be enough?

Made my day ..

Todde
on Feb 07, 2004
I want to set it up on my computer... but I am a lttle scared now.

This is what I have:
Celron 240 GHz
256 RAM
on Feb 07, 2004
The problem is NOT with our hardware, it's the ObjectDock that have some bugs.

And i know that other people with lesser computers runs ObjectDock without any problems. And THAT annoy's the hell out of me.

Todde
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