On/Off button om a dock??

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Hi guys!

Since I'm running a full objeckdock setup, without even the windows startbar, I want an off-buton and log-off button on my dock. I have no idea if this is possible though, can anyone help me with this??

I was also wondering if there is a possibility to appoint separate icons to my dvd drive for loaded and empty state. Is this possible?

And as a last question I wanted to know where I could find some good icons for my harddisk and dvd drives. I checked the objecktdock sections, but I couldnt find any full matchin sets like the cobalt set that came with objectdock. Am I missing something?

Thanx in advance!!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There are sneaky ways to add things like shutdown, logoff and all that. I don't know them, so I use the Syscmd docklet. You can grab that here: Link

You can have multiple instances of it, so just load it a couple of times and assign each one what you want.

Second question I am not sure of. With the standard dock icons I don't think that is possible unless you leave the icons set to default. Then the dock icon for the drive will take on whatever image the inserted disc has (if it has one, right now I can have a little Rise of Nations icon in my drive as it is the disc in the drive). Better than that I can't say. Sorry.

Finally, while there aren't a lot of full drive icon packs in the Object Dock library you can do a Google and find some really nice ones. I have a bunch, but sadly don't remember where I got them. There is another alternative though, and this is the one I use. Do you use IconPackager? If you do then you have your full set of icons right there with all drives and such. If you leave the icons set to default, every time you apply a new IconPackage (and reload Object Dock +) your drives will all take on the correpsonding icon in the package. You can also extract icons from IconPackages and use them wherever you want. It works really well for me and keeps things all looking like they match nicely. Hope that helps.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
If you want an off button or a logoff button, here's a way around it that would create two separate buttons:

Right click the desktop and choose new->shortcut. When you are prompted for the target, type %windir%\system32\SHUTDOWN.EXE -s -t 0 (where %windir% represents the directory where windows is located, typically c:\windows). The argument "-s" means "shutdown," and the argument "-t 0" means wait 0 seconds before shutting down. Create another shortcut with the same target, but change the "-s" to "-l" (meaning "logoff," don't use quotes). Then, you can drag those shortcuts to your dock, change the icons to whatever you'd like, and they should work fine. Let me know if you have any questions.