Desktop

[Guest mistral]

I.m using Iconoid as a desktop utility

When windows starts i get the message from Iconoid " Unable to set hook to

desktop, this may be because "show desktop" was acitve when Iconoid started

if so, make sure at least one window is showing and restart Iconoid.

 

When i click ok all is fine

 

any ideas? thks

Mistral

[Guest Malke]

Re: Desktop

 

mistral wrote:

> I.m using Iconoid as a desktop utility

> When windows starts i get the message from Iconoid " Unable to set hook to

> desktop, this may be because "show desktop" was acitve when Iconoid started

> if so, make sure at least one window is showing and restart Iconoid.

>

> When i click ok all is fine

 

Check with Iconoid's tech support for issues with their program.

 

 

Malke

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[Guest Circular_Spin]

RE: Desktop

 

> any ideas? thks

> Mistral

 

Hey Mistral:

the only "idea" that is coming to my mind, is that there might be a DLL

conflict between Iconoid and another program.

 

That is to say that Iconoid and another program might be sharing a common

resource file and they are conflicting with each other.

 

Did the problem show up after you installed something new? If so then a new

installation of another program may have modified or overwritten one of

Iconoid's DLL's. Replacing DLL's is not easy.

 

But you might also try temporarily shutting off as many start-up items and

programs as you can, and then restart your computer and just Iconoid. If you

don't get the error after you do this, then you know one of the start-up

items is conflicting. But the question then becomes which one? The only way

to know is to turn them all back-on, one by one, and restart, until you find

the program that is conflicting with Iconoid.

 

(If you are comfortable working with "services" then you can try temporarily

turning off as many services as possible, and likewise rebooting. But if you

don't know much about services, then it is best not to play around with

them.)

 

All of that is tedious and involves a heck of a lot of restarting, and may

not solve your problem.

 

In the end it could be a bug or issue with Iconoid itself, in which case you

would need to contact that company directly. I've heard people use the

"unable to hook" term when referring to Delphi and C++ code, so that might

point to a bug in the code.