Environment: Standalone Windows 8 with 2 monitors
Display Fusion Version: 5.1 Pro
ObjectDock Vesrion 2.10.0.811
I use ObjectDock as the task bar for my primary monitor and windows taskbar on the secondary monitor. When I activate the 4 options under Mouse Management, about 30 seconds later Objectdock simply freezes for long periods of time and eventually becomes non-functional. No errors are posted from either app and no anomalies are posted to event manager. Turning off Mouse Management allows ObjectDock to continue functioning.
This issue has shown up with some applications that also use mouse hooks. We contacted Microsoft about it, and it turns out that because our hooks run at high integrity, Windows won't pass the hook messages to the program with lower integrity hooks after we're done with them, for security reasons. Apparently a program that runs hooks at high integrity could modify the messages before passing them to the low integrity program.
We've contacted Stardock to see if we can work together to find a solution for this issue, but for now there are a few workarounds:
Make sure ObjectDock starts up after DisplayFusion. It works this way, because the hooks chain is Last In, First Out, and lower integrity hooks can pass the messages to higher integrity ones. So, if ObjectDock is started after DisplayFusion, it will get the mouse hook messages first, then pass them to DisplayFusion.
Disable the Mouse Management options on the DisplayFusion Settings > Window Management tab (not ideal if you need those features)
Disable UAC (also not ideal, from a security standpoint)
Sorry for the long-winded technical explanation, hopefully it makes sense. Please let me know if you have any other questions at all.
Managing the work-around is a snap, that is - making sure objectdock starts up after displayfusion.
