This may not always work, depending on what caused speech to stop. Sometimes you need to resort to sighted assistance, or rebooting.
Andy
At 09:19 AM 9/9/2009, you wrote:
Hi. This can be difficult but it is usually easy to work through. In these situations starting another screen reader gives you speech so you can find the offending program. You don't have to spend another dime either. You can put the demo of JFW on your system. You can put a copy of the free NVDA screen reader on your system. You could even use narrator to help you. This doesn't happen to me very often but when it does I start NVDA. Once I end Explorer or Outlook Express or some other non-responsive program WE comes back alive. I use NVDA's quit hotkey to go back to one speech source and I'm back on my way without rebooting or randumly shutting down programs or killing and restarting WE. In the past year I believe I've had to push the power button to restart one time. It reallyh is easy to have speech to help us out of situations where it seems that WE is locked up. It's often some other program which may very well be from MicroSoft.

----- Original Message ----- From: "net bat" <[email protected]>
To: "GW INFO" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: window eyes 7.1 locking up


there are times when speech is lost because a program has stopped working. you have to try to quit the program that microsoft says has stopped working then w e will start talking again. very hard to do without any speech.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Coffman" <[email protected]>
To: "gwinfo" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: window eyes 7.1 locking up


I have had this problem with Vista and it occurs sometimes with zoomtext as well as window eyes. I have seg mye screen resolution to the max that the monitor will support help. Also wineyes works much faster.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]>
To: "'Casey'" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: window eyes 7.1 locking up


to get the kill window eyes script, you will need to go to script central,
which is a choice off of the gwmicro.com web site.  you will need to search
for it.  you will need to read some in the manual on how to install a
script.

when you hang, you cannot execute the macro script; however, when you
installed it it has installed a batch file, with a icon on your desktop.

you press windows-m or windows-d, either one works, to get you to the
desktop.

then you press the shortcut key for the icon to the batch file, which
happens to be control-alt-f4.

you wait a few seconds for it to work, then you press the shortcut key for
window eyes, which is control-alt-w.  hopefully you hear window eyes start
up.

hth,

Chip



-----Original Message-----
From: Casey [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:50 PM
To: Chip Orange
Subject: Re: window eyes 7.1 locking up

Hi Chip can you please tell us where to get this kill windows micro and
either that how to create it.
And then when you use windows key and the letter m do you directly land on
the micro or how do you get to it if you don't have window eyes and you need
to use the kill window eyes micro?

Casey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:03 AM
Subject: RE: window eyes 7.1 locking up


Jennifer,

it's a known problem.

there's a macro, named "kill window eyes", which may help you when this
happens.

it puts a shortcut on your desktop (which only works for xp), which will
kill the window eyes process.  you minimize all windows with windows-M
when
the loss of speech happens, press k to move to this shortcut, and press
enter.  you could assign it a unique keystroke which would work better.

it will kill the window eyes process, and you wait a few seconds, and
press
the hot key which starts window eyes up again.

the kill window eyes macro also has a hot key which is supposed to do
this,
but I've found in cases where this happens, all macros in window eyes are
also hung, so you are left using this desktop shortcut.

hth,

Chip


-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Thompson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: window eyes 7.1 locking up

Hi has anyone experienced window eyes 7.1 locking up?  When I would go
away
from my computer for a while it would lock up.  So when I was not using
the
computer I would turn window eyes off and it worked.  But even when I have
been sitting here searching in the internet and so on my window eyes
locked
up again.  It is really annoying and I hope it will get fixed.  I mean my
computer is only a couple of months old so I no it is not my computer! I
had to shut down the computer by doing the start menu and the  letter u
twice and arrow down once and hope that it was on shut down and not on the
sleep mode.

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