Haunting Morgana » Star Dock Central Problem

Published on March 10, 2005 By HauntingMorgana In

There seems to be a problem when I upgrade Star Dock Central after starting it. Says that there is a new version, etc. so I install it, it asks to reboot, so I do.

The problem is, on the reboot, when the system is restarted, all icons in my task bar are gone.

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ama02

on Mar 10, 2005

Same thing happened to me, after auto upgrade two days ago. At first I thought my firewall was not loading at reboot, but further inspection of my tray tab (objectdock plus) showed it was indeed running. Looks like only the icons in the main sys tray are missing.

Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Chris TH

on Mar 10, 2005

The reason has been discovered and there is a fix described in the stardock news groups as follows:

> I just updated my Stardock Central and ObjectDock, only to find things
> have gone awry. My System Tray won't show (or appears to always be
> empty), even though I have started sdmcp.exe. When is this thing
> supposed to start? It isn't in my Start Menu and does not start on its
> own. For some reason, DesktopX no longer starts up with Windows, even
> though I never touched it.
>
> On a related note, ObjectDock's readme says "sdmcp.exe must be to use
> the tabbed Tray to display system tray items," but my AWOL System Tray
> is not on a tabbed tray. It is on a zoomer. Should the readme be
> ammended to include all dock's?

For some reason the new SDC install deletes the MCP files from
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Stardock. It seems they have to be there
for SDMCP to startup properly - I think it starts before the Start
Menu->Startup items.

I found them in X:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\Downloads\SDCommon
ie. where your SDC is currently installed and where it is set to
download files into.

Copy them back into the first dir, reboot and you're away.

Note that this occurred for me both when first updating to the latest
SDC beta, and then reverting back to the last SDC release.

Something to be looked for the next release I guess.

Hope this helps.

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ama02

on Mar 10, 2005

For some reason the new SDC install deletes the MCP files from
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Stardock. It seems they have to be there
for SDMCP to startup properly - I think it starts before the Start
Menu->Startup items.

I found them in X:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\Downloads\SDCommon
ie. where your SDC is currently installed and where it is set to
download files into.

Copy them back into the first dir, reboot and you're away.

My directory structure seems to be a little different. How many MCP files do I need to locate, and what are the file names? I can do a search for them, but I don't have a "Downloads" folder. Thanks for finding the info.

Chris TH

on Mar 10, 2005

The entire contents of SDCommon (in my case) were needed:

mcpcore.dll
MCPStub.dll
sdmcp.exe

HTH

ama02

on Mar 10, 2005

I tried copying the first two files on your list (didn't notice the exe one) and nothing happened! duh!

Okay, I'll go get the 3rd file and copy it over...thanks so much for your help!!

edit to add: Found that exe file and copied it over, everything is back to normal. yay! btw, I had to copy them from the Common Files directory to the Stardock\SDCentral folder, instead of the other way around like the instructions. Thanks again!

Diafragma

on Mar 10, 2005

This happened to me when I installed the latest Object Dock plus version... I hope they release an update soon

ama02

on Mar 10, 2005

Diafragma, I've learned, after a few bad updates, to turn off the auto-update feature in SDC. I've had to restore my system once before when SDC downloaded/installed an ODock+ update.

Chris TH

on Mar 10, 2005

For me it had nothing to do with OD+, only the update of SDC was the problem.

HauntingMorgana

on Mar 20, 2005

Has this been corrected yet?

Tried to update again yesterday, same issues. resorted to a True Image.

Fix the darned problem Already would you Star Dock? Without having to have a work around.

Oh, I'd also like to add-

Your products and such are truly top notch. I could never imagine using windows without your programs!

vicster

on May 31, 2006

Has anyone had any update on this issue yet? I'm still having problems and cannot find the needed files anywhere.

Chris TH

on May 31, 2006

This is really puzzling... I don't know what you've tried already, or what other threads you've read. but may I suggest the following:

Make sure you're logged in with admin rights.

Uninstall SDC - check in the Windows' "Set program Access & Defaults" that it's gone from there. Then check using TaskManager that no copies of SDMCP.EXE are running (kill them if so).

Delete any startup entries for SDMCP.EXE you might have in the startup folder(s) and/or MSConfig->Startup.
IIRC the location(s) for SDMCP startup is under:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\WinLogon\Notify\MCPClient
No other startup entries are needed

Run this: http://www.stardock.com/files/odnt_zapper.exe

Restart the PC.

Close OD and/or whatever else maybe using the system tray.

Re-install SDC (enable the 'MCP Notificatoin' & 'MCP Startup' checkboxes).

Start OD (and....)

Does this help?

vicster

on Jun 01, 2006

Many thanks for the info

I'll try what you suggest and will post the result as soon as I can.

vicster

on Jun 01, 2006

Well, no luck with that

Still the 'Stardock MCP not found or wrong version Sys tray support disabled' error message and no sys tray.

Anyway I did find a another thread whic had a similar problem. It would appear that it is all down to the file which is nowhere to be found on my system. Anyway there had been an answer from one of the tec guys who provided a link download the missing files:
Link

Once downloaded and installed, everything's now working fine.

Thanks for the help anyway - much appreciated.

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