[Virtualacorn-list] It Happened Again

charles charles at charleshope.demon.co.uk
Tue Apr 26 07:49:04 BST 2011


On 26 Apr, Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:

> It has happened again. What happened again is too long to fit in a 
> subject heading.

> I was running both Windows 7 and RO 4.39 (full details at foot of 
> e-mail) straight from Boot-up. I had plugged in an 8GB SDHC card into 
> a card reader which was plugged into a USB port.

> It was copying about 7GB of JPEG photos onto an internal hard-drive 
> with oodles of free-space, which had copied well over 4GB when, all of 
> a sudden, I could see bits of the Windows furniture ON TOP of the 
> RiscOS Window (which is running full-screen). I could also see two 
> pointers: the RO one (which was imobile) and the Windows7 one (which 
> could move). No keyboard presses were operative on RO, in particular 
> ALT-RET would not do anything. Nor would any other RO keys. It was 
> dead, but wouldn't relinquish being on top of the windows desktop.

> The only bits of windows furniture that were on top of the (dead) RO 
> desktop were those windows GADGETS I had configured on the windows 
> desktop, such as a Calender, CoreTemp, and the Weather gadget. Some 
> minor windows bits were also on top of the dead RO desktop, but not 
> any of the windows' programs icons.

> Moreover, I could not shut down Windows. When I positioned the Windows 
> pointer in the bottom LH corner where the Windows START icon was 
> hidden beneath the RO desktop, I could click the windows mouse on it. 
> Up would flash the windows window for accessing the start menu (but it 
> also almost instantly vanished again. - In particular, try as I might, 
> I could not move the windows pointer fast enough over to where the 
> windows Shutdown Computer icon is before it vanished again. Wherever I 
> clicked (with the windows pointer) I was in danger of activating the 
> windows icons which were all  (all except the windows gadgets) hidden 
> beneath the dead RO full-screen window.

> Is there a Windows  keyboard shortcut to Shutdown the windows 
> Computer? I'll have to write that down on the LCD monitor so's I'll 
> remember it if it happens again.


hold down the on button until it shuts down.

-- 
>From KT24 

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16 





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