Because of an ongoing family emergency, I've been spending only a
couple of days a week at home. The rest of the time, I've been
somewhere where I only in the last couple of weeks started having
computer access after a family member offered to allow me to install
my Window Eyes on their computer. So, my planned learning of Windows
7 in a slow, structured manner has become a bit of a rush on another
person's system where I can't really change a lot of settings. I'm
actually coming along pretty good all things considered, but there is
one major issue that is a problem each and every time i start up this
computer. They have Weather Bug set up to open automatically upon
startup and Window eyes doesn't seem to like this. I don't know what
the issue is, but I don't really care about getting WE and Weather
Bug to get along right now. I just want to shut it down as soon as
startup is finished, but even that is proving problematic. If I try
to close the application via the Weather Bug window, it simply
ignores me. I can click close again and again and it just sits there
and keeps going. So, then I tried the system tray and clicking the
buttons to perform either a left or right mouse click both accomplish
nothing. OK, not entirely true, a right mouse click sometimes causes
Window Eyes to say 'context menu', but there isn't a context menu
there, so it doesn't really help anything. The only way I have been
able to successfully shut Weather Bug down is to bring up the
application manager and manually end the application. Even that takes
a bit of doing since when I press control+alt+delete I often only get
the buttons to lock this computer and the other shut down and
switching options available. It usually takes a couple of tries to
get the button to start the application manager to start up.
So, is there an easier way in Windows 7 to get this done? I could
tinker with things a lot more if it was my computer. The thing has
some issues that I am itching to fix, but I haven't got permission to
do so and am not as certain about whether or not I really know what I
am doing since this is Windows 7 and I am just getting started
figuring out the changes made since XP. I can continue the way I've
been going if I have to, it is working in the end, but if I can
correct things without making changes that would alter the interface
the technophobic owners are used to, it would make things much easier.
Thanks,
Chris
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