Hey! Big fan of Nexus Dock. I wanted to report a bug that I just worked around after it causing me much consternation.

Symptoms:

I could not drag-and-drop any shortcuts onto the Dock. If I tried, various behaviours were observed:

- A blue screen icon would show up, and open File Explorer when clicked on
- An access violation error occurred
- An unknown error occurred (I think this was it?)
- The program would crash
- The icon I was trying to drag-and-drop would freeze over the dock, eventually leading to a crash

Troubleshooting:

Attempted reset, reinstall, no luck.

The only thing I had to go on was that if I turned on the icon title option, the affected icons (if they were made), had Korean and Chinese text on them. This was despite my not using those languages on my system at all, let alone in the icons I was trying to add.

Then I put two-and-two together and remembered that Nexus Dock doesn't seem to support non-Latin text in any case? When I tried using the translation program to translate into Marathi, I only saw black diamonds with question marks.

Could this be related to Windows' language settings interfering with Nexus Dock somehow?

Solution:

Went to Windows Settings -> Time & Language -> Language & Region -> Related Settings -> Administrative Language Settings -> Change System Locale -> Turn off "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support".

(In case it's relevant, my Current System Locale is "English (India)".

Now it works as before perfectly! *pats self on back*

Yes, that Windows setting is not enabled in Windows by default for a reason. NEVER enable that option unless you want to see all your ANSI applications starting to crash left and right.

Anyway, glad you figured it out and posted the solution.