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@henke37, @AndyCadley: blogs.msdn.com/.../detecting-and-automatically-dumping-hung-gui-based-windows-applications.aspx
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The latest version of Android has a setting in the developer section where you can make apps that don't respond in a timely fashion in their main thread to messages flash. You get a thick red border...
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Very good explanation, thanks. Would parallelizing the code in Explorer that does this scan help? This way, you could ask a bunch of windows at the same time and hopefully the right one will come back...
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I keep wondering why it seems to be worse with Windows 7 than it is with Windows XP. With no applications running, my Windows XP box will respond to the Windows+L hotkey to lock the screen...
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>> Would parallelizing the code in Explorer that does this scan help? [That only speeds up the case where the app is already running. The initial launch will still have to wait. -Raymond] Yes,...
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[That only speeds up the case where the app is already running. The initial launch will still have to wait. -Raymond] Doesn't this also speed up when there's *two* slow windows, or am I missing...
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My workaround is to use a program (such as AutoHotKey) that allows you to configure hotkeys but doesn't bother to query apps/windows. You can optionally add app detection logic to prevent a duplicate...
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This bites me quite a lot. Maybe now I can figure out what program is causing this. Still, I find the behaviour rather annoying as, in almost all cases, I actually *want* to start another copy of the...
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Microsoft has to accept that manufacturers are going to cheat (i.e. act in their self-interest) and it can try to box them in as much as possible, but this has to happen essentially in the open. You...
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A similar problem can happen when you double click a document, or click on a link in an HTML control. In that case, in order to prevent the same document being opened twice, a DDE message is sent and...
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>>I'm sure it's too late to change now, but why didn't explorer originally store the hotkey information internally? >[Because RegisterHotKey is a window manager feature, not an Explorer...
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@Tim Dawson: Or Windows should change the handling a bit... Explorer can send the WM_GETHOTKEY as broadcast message, and if no reply in 3 seconds, launch the application instead. So in the end it would...
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@James: There's one flaw on that: Not every Windows application is launched by Explorer. Say, IE can launch notepad or else for opening downloads. So Explorer don't keep track of every application...
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@cheong00: That's exactly what I meant by "a case where the window was created by a child process". My point was that figuring out which window corresponds to which shortcut is very non-trivial, and...
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On the other hand, maybe DWM can expose a function to allow Explorer query that, so Explorer can query a centralized source instead of asking each applications? It'd be good if Explorer can know when a...
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What if two windows have the same shortcut? Which is given focus?
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@mpz: "the fact that you don't speak the language comes across anyway" Yes. In europe, one of my travel partners was annoyed that everyone spoke english to him. He said, "how does everyone know...
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Thanks for this wonderful explanation..!
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Raymond, I couldn't have put it better than Mason Wheeler: I think the real question is, why do you have to query active programs for their hotkeys? Why doesn't the program register its hotkey with...
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3 seconds delay for each non-responsive app? hardly that is the true..maybe in the Windows lab where Ray is sitting, but in the real world try forever. I start a debug session then hit WIN+E to launch...
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