Compatibility with Other Software

As you might have experienced, sometimes several WPS enhancers don't seem to like each other too much. Or maybe they do like each other, but just don't get along.

However, I have tested &xwp; with several system utilities that I could reach at this time (on both Warp 3 and 4), and a number of users reported other utilities to me. The following programs seemed to be cooperative:

CandyBarZ 1.01 / 1.10
CommandFolder 1.50
Desktop Wizard 1.41 (mind the notes below)
DragText 2.5
Extended Desktop 1.4
FeelX (installs a WPS class)
Hot Scroll 0.80 / 1.00 / 1.10
NPS WPS 1.81 / 1.82 (mind the notes below)
Object Desktop Professional 1.5.2 / 2.0 (mind the notes below)
WatchCat 2.1 (installs a WPS class)
WPAnimatedMousePointer 1.01
X.file 1.1 / 1.2
X.it 2.4 / 2.5

General note. As &xwp; is providing more features with every released version, chances increase that features conflict with other parties' WPS replacement classes. Depending on which software was installed first (and thus appears first in the WPS class replacement list), &xwp; or the other product may not get a chance to actually change the WPS's behavior.

Moreover, since &xwp; offers a number of features which are also contained in other WPS packages (mostly PM hooks), you should make sure that these features are not enabled in several packages at the same time. For example, you should not enable folder status bars in both &xwp; and Object Desktop, which can only lead to problems, or activate the &xwp; trash can while another trash can software is also installed.

Warnings. The following list of incompatibilities is based on reports by users of &xwp;. I have not verified these yet and include them only to save you from trouble.

Object Desktop. OD manipulates the WPS just as intensively as &xwp; does (maybe even more), so it's just natural that most problems have arised with this software.
Note: I do not have Object Desktop. The following is all I know. If you find out something, you're welcome to tell me, and I'll add that to this section. But please do not write me that OD does not cooperate well with &xwp;. I know, and there's little I can do about it.
For all versions, the following rule applies: If you have trouble, &xwp; probably conflicts with OD's folder replacement class, TSEnhFolder. If nothing else works, you can always deregister that class (using the &xwp; "WPS Class list" object), and you'll probably get &xwp; to work.
But before that, mind the following notes:
All Object Desktop versions.
I was reported that &xwp; does not cooperate with the "Browse mode" feature of Object Desktop. You will have to switch this feature off, sorry.
Also, you should make sure to have the "Folder status bars" disabled in Object Desktop before enabling the respective &xwp; function, or the funniest things might happen.
Finally, I was reported that XFolder keeps adding status bars to Object Desktop's "Launchpads" even where they don't belong. Apparently, these things are derived from the WPFolder class also; they have a "View" page in their settings notebooks though, so you can turn off XFolder's status bars for them. If the object doesn't have a "View" page, you can try to manually use the STATUSBAR=NO folder setup string of the XFolder class.
Object Desktop 2.0. Stefan Zechmeister got OD 2.0 to work with &xwp; doing this:
1. Install OD 2.0.
2. Install OD fixkit #1.
3. Install &xwp;.
4. Go to the "&xwp; Setup" object, "Paranoia" page, and raise the "Menu item ID offset" to 700 or above. Starting with V0.9.0, the default is now 700.
If you then move &xwp;'s installation folder to another folder, make sure the target folder has OD's extra features turned off. Otherwise &xwp; will complain that its Configuration Folder does not exist.
If you are using NPS WPS, you must make sure to have its "Select by name" and "Sort by extension" features disabled, because &xwp; offers these features also and gets confused if these features are added by NPS WPS also.
&xwp; does not work with the automatic menu selection of NPS WPS, at least not if you are using the "Folder content" functions. This might lead to bad PM hangs. Use &xwp;'s "Sliding menu" feature instead.
I was reported that &xwp; seems to have problems cooperating with Program Commander/2. Apparently, this can be solved by switching off the "SmartIcons" feature for title bars.
&xwp; also seemed to have problems with DragText on some systems. There must be a setting somewhere in that software to start DragText delayed, which should solve this.
I was told by Hauke Laging that Extended Clipboard (EClip) by Hinnerk Becker does not cooperate with &xwp;. On Hauke's Warp 4 system, the WPS hung at startup and did not respond to anything. Hauke then told me that the problem can be resolved by removing EClip from the startup folder. (I was unable to reproduce all this, but I'm reporting this to you anyway.)
Several users also reported that the "Snap to grid" function did not seem to work. I have tested both Warp 3 and 4 and encountered no problems; these users all had some version of Object Desktop installed, so I suspect in respect to the "Snap to grid" feature, &xwp; and Object Desktop seem to be colliding somehow.
Bernd Schemmer reported that &xwp; seems to be using the same menu ID's as the LAN Server GUI. If you're using LAN Server (or other software that might suffer from this), you can now change &xwp;'s menu IDs in the "&xwp; Setup" object. The default menu ID offset has now (V0.51) been raised from 100 to 300 to avoid these conflicts.
Michael Holzapfel reported that installing GRADD drivers for the ELSA Winner 2000FC video card crashed his system when &xwp; V0.71 was installed, causing a CHKDSK at the next reboot, which in turn damaged the newly installed drivers, so the system wouldn't start at all. He told me that de-installing &xwp; helped.
Dirk Schulz reported that Desktop Wizard and &xwp; don't like each other too much. On his system, he was able to increase the WPS's stability by de-installing Desktop Wizard. Glad he didn't de-install &xwp;. ;-)
I was also reported that Prompt ver. 1.12 by Gary L. Robinson, which appears to implement a subset of the Desktop Wizard features, appears to work fine though.