Invisible Programs Running?

This? I have this bug 2.

I found a solution... but it is not the best answer on this problem.

So far, a fix I tried is working without disabling running programs. Go to Settings > Privacy > Background Apps. Turn all the apps to off and it will stop them from running in the background. It seems the app sync framework is what is causing the blank programs from showing up on the dock. 

This is a known issue running ObjectDock on Win10. The app is not fully compatible with the new OS.

Jim (RND)  reported to me that the ghost icon was the MS app store. If so, isn't that a process that you can prevent from always running in the background? I don't have the issue myself, so I can't test it.

Mine showed 3 modern apps when moused over. I killed these in task manager, but they came back. Deleting the icon from the dock works, until you reboot.

That started happening again after three days.

This has happened to me with at least three windows 10 installs.
The ghost icon can be up to half a dozen or more Win 10 Apps, and if you close them all the ghost icon goes away.
It is very annoying and should have been fixed a long time ago.

What sort of support is this Stardock?

Where's the fix? 

Windows 10 is not a supported operating system for ObjectDock right now.

Hi there,

could someone of you please give me hope, when Object Dock will be supported on Win 10. I miss it soo much, it would be sooo great...

Best SW for Windows...

kind regards

Windows 10 was released approximately 15 months ago. If Windows 10 is not a supported operating system for Object Dock "right now", when exactly were you (Stardock) planning on supporting it?

Win10 support is still something we are deciding if we are going to do.  It will require a complete rewrite (as the lead dev was something like 16 years old at the time of it's creation) and the code has . . issues.  ;)  It's amazing it still works as well as it does. 

Oh, please... and now i decide if i gonna buy a macbook only for the dock....

It is such a drama with Objectdock for years now ... however, now we know the reason at least. Not that the dock always had ... "issues"! In each version. And some bugs are open since ... ah, i forgot.

So, maybe we should gather some good reasons to show Stardock why they should further support the dock; and re-writing it sounds like a really, REALLY good idea to me as a solid basis!

I go first:

01.) Remember your companies name ... StarDOCK!

Okay, okay; that was a warmup ...

02.) No competition (which is a REALLY good reason for a paid product): On Windows there were a few more or less successful tries for docks like the Mac has. However, the famous "RocketDock" is dead for already many, many years and today the Nexus one is the only real competition. All other attempts are either also dead or never were full dock or niche products (like radial ones and such). If THAT is not a good reason than i do not know what is one! Combine that with a fair pricing, add it to the ObjectDesktop again and combine it with Fences like Start10 and voila!

03.-05.) See the last sentence in 02. – the first version of a text never is good, is it not?

So, guys; your turn ... what are all the good reasons? What do you like about the dock? Why do you love it and need it?

I would be willing paying the usual upgrade fee ... or even re-buy a fully re-written dock – when there is REAL support this time and updates/fixes are more often than 1-3 years ...  We could even do a "Kickstarter" or such so there is a definitive income on Stardocks side ...

Greetings from f- ... ähm, "friggin'" ? ... cold Germany!

I think there is reason why it's not commercial viable for them either to die down or being on niche markets. 

Quoting Gaspershooters, reply 15

I think there is reason why it's not commercial viable for them either to die down or being on niche markets. 

The Winstep Nexus Dock is in active development (it's also fully compatible with Windows 10, by the way) and has over 2.5 million downloads at Cnet *alone* (plus 1.15 million at Baixaki, 1.14 million at Softonic, and so on). ObjectDock (which was already in the market for quite some time when Nexus first appeared) has 13 million. Both are great docks.

I would not call something that has download numbers like those 'not commercially viable'. So much so that Winstep has been in business for 17 years already, almost as long as Stardock (post OS/2).

The free docks (RocketDock, RKLauncher, etc...) have been dead for years because that is what nearly always happens when a project is not backed by a commercial side. Freeware authors need to eat too - sooner or later they either get a job that actually puts food on their table and no longer have time to support their creation, or they get tired of it and have no monetary incentive to keep going.

doesn´t it depends on the fact, that stardock´s object dock offers many features, like ghost mode or multiple usage of docks?

While I'm a big fan of Stardock and ObjectDock, it should be noted that, while feature limited compared to ObjectDock and the brilliant Nexus dock, RocketDock does still work flawlessly on Windows 10.  Now that's some fine coding there.  

Quoting Excalpius, reply 18

RocketDock does still work flawlessly on Windows 10.  Now that's some fine coding there.  

RocketDock still is one of the best and most elegant docks. This said, as simple application launchers all docks should work fine running on Windows 10. Whether you run into problems or not will depend on how you use them.

For instance, the last release of RocketDock happened when most of us were still running 32 bit versions of Windows. As such, it does not play well with 64 bit applications because of file-system re-direction. Most of the other older docks won't either.

Windows 10 added the infamous UWP apps and many Windows configuration panels are now UWP apps too. Other than Nexus, which is now able to handle them pretty much as if they were regular Win32 applications (believe me when I say that it wasn't easy pulling that off), no other dock is currently able to handle them properly. If you have any of the other docks set to display running applications on the dock, you will run into the same issue that originated this thread: the appearance of invisible icons.

I recently tried RocketDock and found it wanting. I like using more than one dock and RocketDock can only have one. I googled it and found a work around but it involves a patch, duplicating the ini, moving it somewhere else and renaming it. You do this for each additional dock. With ObjectDock you can have as many docks as you want, same as Nexus Dock. I'll accept one minor bug to get what I need.

Just to be clear: the free version of Nexus only supports a single dock (much like ObjectDock when it had a free and a paid version). Nexus Ultimate, on the other hand, supports as many docks and sub-docks as you want.

If it wasn't for promoting products per se ................................

A quick reminder that this post is in the support forum.  Please do not use it to promote other applications (competing or not)

I did find a work around as mentioned by someone whose name I forgot. If you uncheck show running programs the invisible icon does not appear. Unfortunately neither do any programs you might have running. For me it works because running programs show up on my task bar. Right click on the dock. Go to view and uncheck show programs.