Hi: I too get some heavy lockups in Internet Explorer. Very often on a page WE goes silent and there is no keyboard response. If I hit the activate narrator key sometimes after a few minutes narrator will start and I can alt tab to the desktop or sometimes to just a list of 2 objects, one for the Desktop and one for the WebPage I was on but hitting enter on either of these does nothing. Sometimes I got the Focus Switching message, sometimes that above mentioned list and sometimes something like Program Manager or just nothing in which case, like Josh, I have to hit the button on the machine to ReBoot. Many times though I can get WE back if I muck about in narrator if keyboard response does come back enough to close the page in question. I, like Josh, run Windows 8.1 and the latest version of Internet Explorer if he is using Internet Explorer but the symptoms sound very similar to what he is trying to describe. I have not had this happen in my Desktop Application yet but it happens several times every day lately while trying to work in Internet Explorer (using Yahoo Finance or Amazon and is indeed quite annoying. For example, I may be reading a Financial Article to determine if I should buy or sell a stock and in the middle of reading the article, or trying to tab or arrow to something, have everything lockup and have no keyboard access and have to leave that article to try and get speech back somehow (if lucky and I can get narrator fired up) - not good me thinks. So this is a problem and even if it is related to Internet Explorer WE can not allow the keyboard to get locked up. With the keyboard locked up there is no way of trying to analyze anything to further identify the problem - just ReBoot if speech doesn't come back after several minutes I guess as the cleanist option and lose whatever you were working on. I hope that since the new Spartin browser will be simpler that WE will work much, much better with it - this is indeed one of my biggest headaches with the new WindowEyes to date. I havent mentioned it since I have no good analysis other than the rather general description above but it is happening here, in Windows 8.1, as it is happing to Josh on his Windows 8.1 machine so not isolated to his system. Rick USA
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