Phillip I need to know more information to your problem to solve it...

I can say that the free version of OD works with Home Basic. I used it for over a year with no trouble at all.

I still use OD but have OD+ now.

Hey shelbygt long time no talk. it's been all work for me now ahehehe.

I don't know. I just installed OD free. naturally since the sys req says compatible with vista i would assume it is  compatible even on basic. so i just can't understand why it hangs and stops working when i run it. for now i have resorted to Rocketdock. Pretty nice but not so nice as OD i tell you. I really want OD on my PC.

Windows Vista Home Basic

1gb RAM

160 GB HDD

Oh and it's a packaged desktop by the way. Acer Aspire...

or is their e-recovery technology killing all my Stardock Apps. Take note even Logon Vista doesn't work. Oh the pain.

Have you update vista with windows Update? Perhaps you have the first version full of bugs...an try to run OD with the admin rights

Seems like I've seen something about compatibility issues with Acer laptops......I'll see if I can dig it up....

try rocketdock,never had a crash yet and does the same job

Did you even read this thread before replying,davyandjane?

I recall something about Acer security or some such thing being a problem. There was a post about it a while back. I am sure Lantec or someone can dig it up.

Phillip it sounds like there is some program installed on the computer which handles the regs and such.

Sort of like a firewall or a anti-virus. Simular to the likes of spybot I bet. This would stop the program from writing to the registry. Thus it fails to run. That or the UAC is doing something wrong on that machine for some reason. Try turning the UAC off and reinstalling the programs.

This is what I was able to find......read them all before applying any "fixes"

https://forums.wincustomize.com/331163

https://forums.wincustomize.com/327565

what was your point wizard,i did read the thread

above comment was not mine

Lantec is correct.  It's a known issue with the E-Security program that comes pre-loaded on most Acer computers.  The update available here: http://www.egistec.com/oem-acer001/program-update.html (from the link LanTec provided) should clear it up.

Myself I would not use that program and it would be uninstalled from my computer!

Thanks Dash and Lantec - this is what I had figured - just did not know what program that Acer had called it to be.

Sounds a lot like Spybot to me and I hate these types of programs on anything. People just thought UAC with Vista was bad and then they resort to something like this to protect their systems.

Phillip you can try that patch - but be me I'd remove the program itself completely. Besure you run a good anti-virus and firewall and be happy with it. Reg blockers are a mess!

Yeah, uninstalling was the original option to fix that issue before the update was found, so we offer that up too.  It's your choice of which option to use(my choice = ).