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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
- References: <15DEC199220470840@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:55:52 GMT
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- In article <15DEC199220470840@zeus.tamu.edu> lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M) writes:
-
- >>
- >>
- >> Hi folks,
- >> I'm sure that many of you have had the unfortunate experience
- >> of having the WPS freeze, with the mouse pointer, background downloads,
- >> and the clock running in the background, but a dead keyboard and
- >> mouse buttons. Crtl-Esc? HA!! No effect, or worse, the dialog box to kill
- >> the offending app, which just won't die.
- >>
- >> The only recourse, if you're lucky, is the three fingered salute,
- >> but usually it's red button or Ctrl-Alt-NumLock time.
- >>
- >> I have had very few problems since I stopped running a seamless Winos2
- >> session constantly, but I did have a freeze happen the other day-I made
- >> the mistake of opening the folder I had just unzipped the icon file from
- >> Hobbes into (why _1300_ in one file!;-)).needless to say, crash & burn...
- >>
- >> EXCEPT
- >> I happened to have PSPM running, to try it out, and was able to get to
- >> it before things hung completely, and killed pmshell. It came back up in
- >> usable condition, albeit slowly, but I was able to get to any open apps,
- >> and exit them normally, thus saving my data.
- >>
- >> Since this scenario will not work if the keyboard locks up,
- >> is there a utility or driver that will recycle the WPS on demand? I've
- >> never had Ctrl-Alt-Numlock fail to work properly (If you can call that a
- >> solution!!), so some sort of driver should be possible to permit the WPS
- >> to be killed via the keyboard, even if it is "locked up".
- >>
- >> Anyone have a solution?
- >>
- >> Thanx in advance!
- >>
- >> LISA
- >>
- >> PS
- >> This is one I actually did get around to reporting to tech-support before the
- >> embargo, but they had no solution.
-
- Well, I consistently have a problem with PMGlobe (32bit version) locking things
- up. Ctrl-Esc will tell me this is so, and offer to let me kill the task but it
- won't die, Ctrl-Alt-Del time. No way to reach anything useful like PSPM to
- kill it any other way. I have had the Desktop to report itself locked, and if
- kill is selected, the desktop will restart. Hmm, missed the Ctrl-Alt-Numlock
- trick when it was discussed earlier, will have to try that the next time the
- system locks up.
-
- --
- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
- (713)-274-3299 (voice)
- (713)-274-2324 (fax)
-
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