Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-07 Thread Robert Lauriston
That's a test of your social engineering skills. What experience you have or lack with any particular version of any software is irrelevant. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Michael Norton wrote: > This is true, but in some companies, you have to get past an HR or agency >

[Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-07 Thread Michael Norton
Robert Lauriston wrote: - Unstructured FrameMaker hasn't really changed much since version 5.5.6. There are some useful new features layered on top, but if you know how to use any version you can quickly get up to speed on any other. Any competent hiring manager should know that.

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-04 Thread David Artman
For those who Want To Know More: [1]http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/what-is-dwmexe-and-why- is-it-running/ You can safely kill it permanently, if you don't mind a Classic/Basic Windows experience. [FWIW, I often switched down to a Classic Desktop theme in the past

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
: "framers" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 10:04:59 AM > > Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New > > Unstructured FrameMaker hasn't really changed much since version > 5.5.6. There are some useful new features layer

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-03 Thread Kevin Ryan
Thanks again to those who've offered constructive assistance with my FrameMaker 7.2 "Not Responding" issue-and to Gillian for considerately alerting me of my backwardness and future unemployability. I actually AM considering an upgrade to the current FrameMaker version, as it does perform

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-03 Thread gill6034
Thursday, March 3, 2016 10:04:59 AM Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New Unstructured FrameMaker hasn't really changed much since version 5.5.6. There are some useful new features layered on top, but if you know how to use any version you can quickly get up to speed on

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-03 Thread gill6034
Thursday, March 3, 2016 10:04:59 AM Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New Unstructured FrameMaker hasn't really changed much since version 5.5.6. There are some useful new features layered on top, but if you know how to use any version you can quickly get up to speed on

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-03 Thread Robert Lauriston
t; - Original Message - > > From: "John Sgammato" <john.sgamm...@actifio.com> > To: "Gillian Flato" <gill6...@comcast.net> > Cc: "framers" <framers@lists.frameusers.com>, "Kevin Ryan" > <kevin.r...@systemsandsof

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-03 Thread gill6034
;kevin.r...@systemsandsoftware.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:04:27 PM Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New ...and professional writers are most productive with professional grade tools! On Mar 2, 2016 7:43 PM, < gill6...@comcast.net > wrote:

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-02 Thread John Sgammato
t software to work on a > modern PC. And yes, Frame 7.2 is ancient. > > -Gillian > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kevin Ryan" <kevin.r...@systemsandsoftware.net> > To: "framers" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Sent: Wednesday, Ma

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-02 Thread Robert Lauriston
t ancient software to work on a > modern PC. And yes, Frame 7.2 is ancient. > > -Gillian > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kevin Ryan" <kevin.r...@systemsandsoftware.net> > To: "framers" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> > Sent

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-02 Thread gill6034
dsoftware.net> To: "framers" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 1:48:08 PM Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New Thanks, Robert. More pieces of the puzzle. I do remember turning off Aero for my "old/good" computer's

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New

2016-03-02 Thread Kevin Ryan
Thanks, Robert. More pieces of the puzzle. I do remember turning off Aero for my "old/good" computer's FrameMaker a few years ago (though I can't remember why), but have not done so on my "new/bad" computer. I will now. ___ This message is from

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-02 Thread Kevin Ryan
Bingo. I had a freeze-up and David's "end DWM.exe process" method worked like a charm to save my files. Mega-thanks! Kevin ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-02 Thread Kevin Ryan
Thank you again for everyone's advice about preventing freeze-ups on my FrameMaker 7.2 / Windows 7 system. I feel well equipped to deal with this problem now. Gosh, who were those masked people? Kevin Ryan Technical Writer Systems & Software, Inc.

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Ragnar HanĂ¥s
-Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+ragnar.hanas=betamed...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 18:39 To: Kevin Ryan <kevin.r...@systemsandsoftware.net>; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Resp

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Scott Prentice
This is one of the many reasons that I use a Mac. I've got VMs (Fusion) of various versions of Windows so I can run older software on the OS it was intended to run on. I can upgrade my hardware and continue to keep XP, Win7, etc., around for the software that runs best on each platform. No

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Frank Stearns
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Robert Lauriston wrote: FrameMaker 7.2 was released in 2005. There's no reason to upgrade something that works, and no reason to spend time and money on upgrades to deal with Microsoft compatibility bugs you can solve for free. Switching from 7.2 to 13 (2015) could be a lot

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Steve Rickaby
At risk of getting flamed left, right and center, and with due respect for Art, I'd just point out that FrameMaker 7 for Mac still runs like a train on my 2003 MDD Mac dual PowerPC under Classic (the OS 9 emulator). I've long since upgraded, but certainly not because of FrameMaker. I've done

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
FrameMaker 7.2 was released in 2005. There's no reason to upgrade something that works, and no reason to spend time and money on upgrades to deal with Microsoft compatibility bugs you can solve for free. Switching from 7.2 to 13 (2015) could be a lot of work due to the switch to Unicode in

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Frank Stearns
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Robert Lauriston wrote: Windows Virtual PC is a VM, Microsoft's answer to Oracle's VirtualBox. XP Mode is a Virtual PC system image that includes XP and uses the license from the Windows 7 host. It integrates with Windows 7 better than VirtualBox does. This has nothing to

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Art Campbell
Seriously guys, running software released in 2000, 16 years ago on systems with features and software functions that weren't even imagined? This is an exercise for the computer museum, not a production environment. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
You can make Windows XP Mode work on Windows Home, but Dell Latitude = Windows Pro / Enterprise / Ultimate. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > Yes, but you need to have a sufficiently "high-powered" version of Win7 (Pro > or Enterprise, I

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Lauriston Sent: March-01-16 3:08 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC Windows Virtual PC is a VM, Microsoft's answer to Oracle's VirtualBox. XP Mode is a Virtual PC system image that includes XP and uses the license from the Wind

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Caroline Tabach
] On Behalf Of Kevin Ryan Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 16:29 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC Hi, After using my older version of FrameMaker on Windows 7 without issues on a Dell Latitude E6430 laptop for several years, my company just

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
Windows Virtual PC is a VM, Microsoft's answer to Oracle's VirtualBox. XP Mode is a Virtual PC system image that includes XP and uses the license from the Windows 7 host. It integrates with Windows 7 better than VirtualBox does. This has nothing to do with the various Windows 7 "compatibility

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Frank Stearns
On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Kevin Ryan wrote: Thanks to all for the tips. Here's one more: get the *free* Oracle VM VirtualBox emulator. There are several different versions of hosts and emulations in the Virtualbox family; we have the XP emulator running on Win7 Pro. In the emulator we run

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
Is your old PC running 32-bit Windows? It should be 64-bit, if it has 8GB, but people make mistakes. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Kevin Ryan wrote: > Thanks to all for the tips. > > Initially I thought David's first suggestion had it nailed because I had

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Kevin Ryan
Thanks to all for the tips. Initially I thought David's first suggestion had it nailed because I had not installed the applicable "7.2 to p158" update from Adobe. My attempt to do so today met with a roadblock "GetDiskSpaceFailed" error. However, I don't think the lack of this update is

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
Did they switch you from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows? The latter is much less compatible with legacy software. You might try XP Mode. It's a virtual machine running XP within Windows 7. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7 On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread tom . beiswenger
; <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Date: 03/01/2016 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC Sent by:"Framers" <framers-bounces+tom.beiswenger=emhartglass@lists.frameusers.com> Just spit-balling, but try these, in orde

Re: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread David Artman
, to perhaps 'catch' the failure in the act (e.g., memory or CPU running out of control). Wish I could tell you more... but diagnosing a system failure by email is pretty challenging, in this day and age. :) David Original Message Subject: [Framers] FrameMaker 7.2

[Framers] FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC

2016-03-01 Thread Kevin Ryan
Hi, After using my older version of FrameMaker on Windows 7 without issues on a Dell Latitude E6430 laptop for several years, my company just replaced my laptop with a new Latitude E6540, also having Windows 7. I've recently begun using the program on the new PC for the first time since