Yep I have this problem intermittently. I just had it this morning. I had a few things open. OE, Excel, my accounting program, crystal reports and IE. I was currently in IE and tried to alt D to type in a new address which doesn't work so well. I can't make a mistake while typing in the new address because all WE will do is Bing at me if I try to back space. So I have to do it right the first time. any way I digress. I finally typed the address correctly and the page started to load. I heard the first part of it loading such as internet explorer best buy 105 links 45 headings and then nothing. The whole thing just stopped. I waited a minute and then hit alt control delete and used the mouse to get to the end task. At this point there is NO speech at all. I can see enough to get the mouse to the button. Once the end task screen shows up I look for the longest entry and that usually is the one labeled as not responding. I move the mouse up to that entry and press the right click button and move the arrow down to the second to last entry that is the end task and press left mouse click. That usually will do the trick and speech will come back while turning off the Not responding program. Some times there will be another window that pops up that has a message and two buttons that will not speak but I know that the two buttons are ok and cancel. I pick the one on the left, which is OK, and then speech will come back. then I can hear what is in the task list and in this case it was IE that was not responding. Once that task was ended speech returned. and then I started this message. after reading a few messages from the list.
I know from the past that the other pop up window that has the ok and cancel buttons is telling me that if I close the program my work will be lost. There is no help for it. If I don't say ok and press cancel I go no where. The system just hangs. When it happens it is usually word or excel that is doing it. This is a windows 2000 pro machine running office 2000 with all patches and updates, and WE 7.1 I don't know why it happens at all it didn't happen as much before 7.1 but occasionally it would. It seams to happen alot more often now. Alt control and delete and I have become well acquainted. smile I also notice that if I am closing out of programs with alt f4 which is my usual WE is slow to react to the next command. I have a tendency to press the windows key until I hear WE start telling me that the start menu is open and closed before opening something else. I don't recall this happening so much in earlier versions of WE. Is it just me and the way I am doing things? Just what I have noticed for what it is worth. If it helps. p.s. Does anyone else have that address bar problem? That one was here before 7.1. Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jed Barton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 6:40 PM Subject: lockup problem > Hey guys, > This is kind of a concerning problem, that happens randomly, and i would > like some input on this. > I usually have my IM program, aa few web pages, and email all open at once. > This is a fast enough of a machine where it can handle it, but usually > atleast once a day i get this problem. > I will do alt tab like i alwayss do to go between applications. > Window-eyes may say > google microsof interne > > Now i have figured out that i am on a web page, and i use that as an > example. I try and go up and down arrow, and it says nothing. > I then do windows key m to minimize everything and it says nothing. > I wait a bit, and basicly i determine the system has locked. What i am > trying to get to is the cause of something like this. > In most of these cases i have done nothing more than switch applications. > Has anyone else had this problem. > I then depress and hold the power button. > As the power button stops moving, and as i'm holding it in, i hear the > harddrive spin, and then the musical sound of windows XP shut down starts to > play. It get through about 2 thirds of that sound, then the machine will > power off. > The thing that concerns me here is it happens so randomly. > Has anyone else had this problem? > Then after it happens, i will try and re-start windoweyes, and i get the > musical high to low sound, ding dong that windows XP makes. > Any ideas guys? I want to try and fix this problem > I have even tried the windoweyes kill script, then restarting window-eyes > and i get the ding dong high to low sound. > This forces me to hard reset the computer, that i don't like doing. > Ideas? > > Thanks, > Jed > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search > form at the bottom of the page. > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > of the message. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
