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5 VD not responding, resulting in accessible apps - ID: 1580420
Last Update: Comment added ( john_hardin )

This can be very damaging: the work done in
applications is lost, because there's no way to show
them (they're on other desktops).

One of the applications that I've learnt to cause this
is Oracle SQLPlus, which always causes VD to become
unresponding.

If you can't prevent it, maybe at least provide a
recovery utility to show hidden applications that were
in other desktops.



dibau naum h ( kowloon ) - 2006-10-19 10:58

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Date: 2009-02-18 20:48
Sender: john_hardin

This happens when the application is busy doing something and is not
processing the event queue. It's a fundamental design flaw of Windows. When
the busy application processes the event queue the VD messages will be
processed in the order they were sent. This can lead to flickering between
all of the desktops you clicked on to get the thing to respond when it was
"hung"...


Date: 2007-02-20 08:19
Sender: typzProject AdminAccepting Donations


In it's latest "version" (maybe not yet released, though), VD
automatically restores hidden windows the next time it is started...

As for VD not responding at all, i never got that. However, it's quite
easy to have *very* slow to respond when switching desktop... I have it
using Visual Studio at work, for example. Basically if the program VD tries
to show is slow to react, then VD will wait a bit.... but it seems to
require some tweaking still...


Date: 2007-02-16 08:49
Sender: novax_


I've had this problem - but I've always resolved it by opening task
manager and closing an offending program (e.g. Acrobat browser plugin
loading a PDF). VD, and the desktop, immediately respond again.


Date: 2006-11-03 12:37
Sender: boesi23

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I also have the problem, that sometimes VD just doesn't response anymore.
But I can't
discover one special app, it mainly happens when switching desktop - but
not very often.

But I've just discovered the hiding method "minimize windows". When this
is enabled, you can
restore the windows with Process Explorer. I hope this is a way to get the
windows back when
VD ?crashes? next time.


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