Hi Ralf, Here at work we are very tightly controlled over which software we put on our PCs. I therefore needed to check with our PC Support guy about downloading these utilities.
He has pointed out to me that in Windows XP and above there is a standard operating System facility for this: task kill taskkill /f /im outlook.exe Seems to do it. I am not suggesting that this might be better or worse, just that it is now in the OS. Regards, John. John Farley *********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Kefferpuetz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 21 March 2011 14:59 To: Farley, John [OS-IE]; [email protected] Subject: RE: WE 7.5 Loss of Speech, Outlook 2007 John, I use pskill from sys internals to do the job. You can download it here: http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PsTools.zip Unpack it where ever you want and create a shortcut on your desktop to the pskill.exe with the parameter -t outlook.exe and give it a short-key like control-alt-k. So, if outlook, means WE, hangs, I hit control-alt-k, Outlook gets killed and speech comes back. Good luck, Ralf -----Original Message----- From: Farley, John [OS-IE] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 3:49 PM To: Ralf Kefferpuetz; [email protected] Subject: RE: WE 7.5 Loss of Speech, Outlook 2007 Hi Ralf and thank you for the tip about saving the note. How do you kill Outlook without speech please? Regards, John. John Farley *********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Kefferpuetz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 21 March 2011 14:23 To: Farley, John [OS-IE]; [email protected] Subject: RE: WE 7.5 Loss of Speech, Outlook 2007 I can confirm this behavior with Outlook 2007 and WE 7.2/7.5. WE occasionally hangs when the spell check dialog comes up or when the new mail notification window pops up. John, in this cases do not kill WE, instead kill outlook and restart it. Killing outlook brings WE back. So, I always press control-s before pressing control-enter, just to have the mail in my drafts folder. Regards, Ralf -----Original Message----- From: Farley, John [OS-IE] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 2:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: WE 7.5 Loss of Speech, Outlook 2007 I am using WE 7.5 on a Windows XP SP3 PC with Office 2007. I did not run the beta here on my work PC. I installed WE 7.5 when the AP Reminder informed me it was ready to install. On more than 3 occasions now I have lost speech from WE and found the only corrective action that would work was a reboot of the PC. On each occasion speech was lost at the same point. I have read an e-mail and wanted to pass my thanks on to the sender, but not all of the recipients. Keystrokes were <control>R followed by my words, then <control><enter>. At this point speech was lost. I tried killing WE, which worked. I then re-launched WE. No speech resulted. I re-launched WE again. I then got the beep which indicates WE is already running, but not speaking. I have outlook set to do a spelling check before it sends and e-mail. My suspicion is that things go wrong when doing that spelling check. As this is an occasional error I do not want to run this PC without spelling checking switched on. I had hoped that this outstanding issue might have gone with the new release. This has been in the "bug list" for some time now. Thanks. Regards, John. John Farley - SAIC, Downstream Applications Service Delivery Manager Phone : +44 (0) 1442 227731 Fax : +44 (0) 1442 227601 Mobile : +44 (0) 7785 928755 Support: +44 (0) 1442 227777 E-Mail: [email protected] SAIC, Hemel One, Boundary Way, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 7YU UK 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. 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.
