not all the lockups is the fault of window eyes. i lose speech when the flash player crashes. which is about half the time. both with i e and firefox 17 extended service. w e comes back with this by closeing the plug in container or flash utility for i e and pressing f5 to reload the page. i lose speech when i have live mail 2012 opened and then open firefox or i e and alt tab back to check for mail. i have to close live mail and reload it to get speech back. both of these issues happen with nvda running too. but not as often. other things are when useing windows 8.1 w e loses speech all the time temporarily when in the start screen and in windows explorer. the whole system is being slowed down by windows 8.1 itself. sometimes i have to wait about 20 seconds before speech comes back when in a explorer window or start screen. this is with a quad core i5 with 8gb of memory. i don't have these pauses of speech on the same computer with windows 7 running.
-----Original Message----- From: Christo de Klerk Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 12:34 AM To: john riehl ; gwinfo Subject: Re: fed up with lockups I am experiencing the same frustrating issue and I find myself using the free opposition more and more. Already on my laptop I am only using the free opposition. In fact, it is only the Window-Eyes apps that act as golden handcuffs tying me to Window-Eyes, otherwise I would have moved over to the free opposition some time ago already. As more and more addons become available for the free opposition, I can see that happening in the not too distant future, unless Window-Eyes becomes substantially more stable. Honestly, they can no longer make the claim of "rock solid stability". I have been a loyal Window-Eyes user ever since it saw the light of day in the early '90s, but I am more than casually looking at alternatives now. I have yet to see the free opposition crash or lose speech. That is what I would call "rock solid stability". But the first prize would be that Window-Eyes becomes the good, reliable program it used to be. Kind regards Christo On 2013/12/02 02:48 AM, john riehl wrote: Ib�ve noticed that more and more Windoweyes seems to be locking up in various programs. Ib�ll either alt-tab too quickly away from a screen or for no identifiable reason, WE using Windows-7 locks up and the only way to get it back is to turn off my computer. Perhaps itb�s the complexity of Windows-7, but I donb�t rmemeber this behavior being nearly as frequent under XP. Ib�m fed up and about ready to go to b� the dark sideb� to see if that program is any better. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? John riehl 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. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
