Won't load on startup

Desktop X and RightClick

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 by Scrofulous1 | Discussion: Object Desktop

I purchased the new Object Desktop today. So far, I have been unable to get both RightClick and Desktop X to load on startup. Once they are manually loaded, they work fine. I am using Vista SP1, and when I look in TweakVista Startup options, the two programs are not there, despite having checked the autostart boxes. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling, and have tried with User Account on and off. Any suggestions on how to get the programs to load on startup would be appreciated.

I tried dragging RightClick.exe to Startup on the Windows start menu and it "ran" all the individual items in the RightClick folder. The ini opened in notepad, the png opened in a graphics broweser etc so I won't be trying that again! Windows were popping up like popcorn.

Thanks.

PS - The new Impulse worked great; a real user-friendly environment.       

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KarmaGirl
Reply #1 Wednesday, April 9, 2008 6:59 PM
With the "auto start" boxes, were you setting them in the programs themselves or in TweakVista?

Scrofulous1
Reply #2 Wednesday, April 9, 2008 11:37 PM
Within the program itself, thanks. When experiencing trouble I then checked TweakVista to see if they got disabled somewhow and they weren't there at all, despite being checked via the program itself.

milksama
Reply #3 Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:29 PM

Ichi: For rightclick, try running this file:
http://sd.stardock.com/mike/apps/startup_rc.bat
(Note: You will want to click this link from within Internet Explorer)

As for DesktopX, individual widgets can be set to autostart if you right click on them. You can alternatively just throw these into the Start Menu startup folder, as this is where they end up anyway when set to autostart.

-Mike


Scrofulous1
Reply #4 Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:37 PM
Thank you. Rightclick was fixed by running the bat file. I'll keep it with my DWM bat file because DWM still won't load if I use Windowblinds. Widgets are OK because as you say they run individually but without DesktopX running on boot, will I have to load a Desktop or Object manually every time? It would be nice to have full functionality if possible, and that extends to WindowBlinds which when loaded, causes DWM to crash. I was hoping SP-1 or WB updates to fix that for me but it didn't. I know you are busy with new releases right now and appreciate the help.

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