Hi David, You know, you're one of many people I've heard complaining recently about the poor performance of Window-Eyes. And yet, as much as I've heard complaints about Window-Eyes not being upgraded to deal with problems, it never seems to occur to people that other software on their systems is being continually upgraded, and that perhaps this is the cause of their problems, and not necessarily Window-Eyes at all. Indeed, how can Window-Eyes be blamed at all when it isn't changing from day to day, or month to month, unlike the OS code, due to MS security fixes, or pattern definitions of anti-malware software such as Malware Bytes or MS Security Essentials. I recently had the experience that Malware Bytes quarantined something which prevented my browser from working, and only after restoring it did my browser begin working again. And so, my point is that Window-Eyes's apparent vice, that is, not being upgraded, may turn out to be its virtue. Our OS is constantly being tweaked by Microsoft, and our anti-malware softwar is meddling with our OS and browsers as well. Therefore, I recommend being careful where we point our fingers when we're looking for someone to blame. Besides, what is the point in all this negativity anyway. I, for one, am more interested in helping people solve problems, rather than being a punching bag for people's emotional venting.
Cheers, Rod -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 7:54 AM To: WE English Mailinglist Subject: Frustrated Sorry for the heading, but it is quite describing for my last half-hour experience. The screen reader really is far to unstabil lately. For several days, it crashes when I try to run certain apps, like the Polyglot. It gives me errors randomly in GWToolket and HomerShared. OK, I have checked for updates to all my apps, re-downloaded and installed the two above mentioned apps, but still the screen reader decides to hang every now and then. More like ten times a day. This afternoon it reaches its climax. I experienced another unstability and decided to close down WE, before it would crash on me. Better to do things controlled, I figured. Yes, it closed down and the closing jingle played. I gave it something like ten seconds, which used to be enough for my closing things down in the past. After the ten second wait, I pressed the hotkey to reload Window-Eyes. And received an error about it not being able to hook with Explorer, blah-blah-blah. And, of course, the screen reader hung here, so how would I know, if not it was thanks to NVDA. Pressing OK on the error (nope, I did not find it OK but there was no other button to press) :) I finally got the screen reader up running. I figured that since the error had shown up at the startup, I would try another controlled close-down reload procedure. So again, closed it down and everything seemed fine. Then after a few seconds, pressed the hotkey to reload. Again, had I not have NVDA installed, I would have been lost. Because all I got now, was the error telling that WE is already running. Silly, foolish and blurby stuff. It had just jingled to me, that it was closing, and after the last few seconds waiting, it should by all means be closed down and unloaded - at least had it worked properly like any profesional software. Never seen such behavior from other software. Does it claim to be unloaded, how come it now tells me it is already running? NVDA helped me in the TaskManager, and here all I could find running from GW was the Wilie or whatever it is called. Both the 32 and 64bit version was running, since this is a 64bit machine and OS. I tried to kill those two processes, and it showed up to be gone in the TaskManager. Now, back to the reloading of the screen reader. Hit the hotkey, and what do I get? You all may think I am funny, or at least the screen reader thinks it is playing time, telling the bad jokes of its own choice. I got the following error message, and not until I hit the OK button the screen reader would load. Now I don't want to spend more time in fooling around unless I have to face another craziness from this "rock solid" screen reader. Sorry, b ut this is simply not acceptable. I am on Win7 Pro, an OS that has been around for more than a handful years. Things like this should be sorted out by now. Don't tell me the next version may happen to solve things. I have heard that pop-song before. It does not help me to know things may eventually get fixed next year or decade. I need perform my computing now. I have run a full scan with MS Essentials, MalwareBtes and CCleaner. None of it has proven helpful in solving things Any more things to try? Am I really the only one facing this kind of time-wasting silliness? Really don't believe so, due to the feedback seen lately on the list. GW, please, have a fix out that door, and get back on the rock. Here is the error message I get at startup. Sometimes it complains about Explorer, sometimes about Notepad, sometimes about who knows what, and once in a while you won''t believe it but it may happen to start with no complains (congratulations). :) --------------------------- Window-Eyes Error --------------------------- Unable to set hook in process notepad DrawFocusRect at address 76beef20 Bytes: e9 13 11 fd ff 8b 05 4d 33 07 --------------------------- OK --------------------------- -- David 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. 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.
