[gui-talk] O.T. Windows error involving Desktop and DLL somethingissueWi

[Joel Deutsch]

Thanks. Don't worry. If you read ahead , you'll see that the problem 
resolved itself. Personally, I have a scanner and Open Book on this 
computer, and that has nothing to do with the Desktop and so forth, in my 
case. Just for comparison.

thanks for responding.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George and Pamela Dominguez" <geodom at optonline.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] O.T. Windows error involving Desktop and DLL 
somethingissueWi


I can't tell you about your problem, but I heard you referring to the active
desktop.  When we were setting up this computer with the kurzweil and the
scanner and the screenreader, we were told to disable the active desktop or
turn it off.  Paam.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 2:22 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] O.T. Windows error involving Desktop and DLL
somethingissueWi


> this seems to have started when the
> surprising moment a few days ago (was it Microsoft's monthly Tuesday
update
> delivery, courtesy of my having set updating to automatic?) which, right
> while I was working in Word or replying to email, rebooted my computer
and,
> sometime later, posted some sort of message saying it had had to do the
> reboot to put into effect something vital that it had just changed in my
> Windows.
>
> At the time, I just shrugged; I'd been taking security updates, by one
> method or another, for a long time, and never had the computer reboot
itself
> like that, rather than suggesting to me that I ought to reboot,
voluntarily.
>
> And all week, when I've  shut down my computer, here's what's been
> happening. After the shutdown has begun (I forget now, but I think the
> Windows shutdown theme music has already sounded at this point), there
comes
> one of those big hollowly coming  Windows error sounds, and Jaws reads me
> just part of a message I never quite understand. It seems to be saying
that
> something involving DLL won't initialize because Windows is shutting down,
> or something like that. Whereupon Windows proceeds to go ahead and shut
> down, and, perhaps after a few seconds longer than usual, my monitor goes
> dark (I'm partially sighted).
>
> And the next time I start my computer, everything boots up, but what I get
> when the process is finished isn't my familiar Windows Desktop, but a
> light-colored screen that seems to be filled with text or something,
though
> I can't make out anything about what it might be, for lack of central
> vision. But if I poke around with Jaws a little, I find a message that
> Windows has demurred to load my Active Desktop because of, what, I don't
> remember what it says. And it offers, among other controls, a button for
> restoring the Active Desktop. After I press Enter on this, it asks me to
> confirm that I really want to do this. I don't hear any message suggesting
> why I might not want to, which isn't very informative for me. So I say
Yes,
> and there's my Desktop again. And the computer seems to function well
enough
> until I shut it down, whereupon the same thing happens as before.Now, I
have
> no idea whether my computer might have worked well enough without the
Active
> Desktop, if I'd just launched the applications I use with my hotkeys, as I
> always do anyway. I hardly ever go to the Desktop for anything but the odd
> little program for which I've never thought it worth the trouble of
setting
> a hotkey. But, because having the Desktop there seems what's right and
> normal, I haven't experimented in that way. I just want to know what's the
> matter.
>
> Now, all I remember from messages I recently read on a Jaws list about
> solving a DLL-related problem that sounded sort of like this (I don't know
> what DLL stands for, by the way, that's
> how out of it I am about this), is that they found their problem to have
> been created by a Windows security patch that somehow played havoc with
some
> sort of "dashboard" that sounded as if it had to do with a scanner. Well,
> I've got a MicroTek scanner, which I use kind of transparently,operating
it
> only by way of Open Book. I don't know of anything to do with a dashboard,
> with or without magnetized plastic  religious figurines atop it. Sorry,
old
> rock and roll joke.
>
> any helpful explanations and suggestions will be appreciated, on list or
> off.
> Joel
>
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