Re: DLL relocation fixed
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 07:43:49 -0700
I apologize for entering this thread so belatedly, but I've been slow to
think that maybe it's got something to do with a problem I've been
experiencing (actually it's my system that's been doing the experiencing, I
suppose) for the past few days. Now that I think of it, probably since 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 the message I read here about someone fixing some
DLL-related problem (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.
I know this is not Jaws related, except insofar as I'm struggling to deal
with this using Jaws instead of being able to see more information and
context about the issue on my monitor. So any knowledgeable response, on or
off list, will be especially appreciated.
Thanks.
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: DLL relocation fixed
Roland, I clicked on the links to Microsoft fix as given in several helpful
messages, on this list and found the download for the fix, installed and
rebooted the system and the problem was solved.
HTH,
George R. Marshall
geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Hudson" <rollieshirl@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: DLL relocation fixed
> Hi George,
>
> I experienced the same problem. Would you tell me how difficult it is to
> make this change? Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Rollie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Marshall" <geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "jaws Lite" <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> "JawsUsers" <jaws-users-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "k1000"
> <k1000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:34 AM
> Subject: DLL relocation fixed
>
>
>> Hi All:
>> Thanks to all of you who answered my previous cry for help with a
>> solution, it worked and now all is well.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> George R. Marshall
>> geom4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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