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More disruptive recommendations to downgrade to colorscheme basic on lab PCs despite Themeswitcher?
2014/04/03
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- Is this maybe what happens when Themeswitcher crashes: While the desktop background still gets changed, the Colorscheme does not get set to Basic? How to avoid the crashing FileIOException? What fileIO may a colorscheme change require?
- Disruption is the least of the problem: The warning comes up when computers become dangerously slow. In the past, they have become disfunctional during these episodues and needed to be power-cycled. This has resulted in loss of assignment and assessment materials.
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors
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“Back to basics”: Need once again to default to color scheme basic on teacher computer
2014/01/27
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- Same problem as last term: (What made it come unstuck/unfixed?):
- No Sanako screen sharing activity involved here, but MS-Community-Clips screen sharing.
- Classes are moving in, and we cannot have the teacher computer slow to a crawl and eventually crash in the middle of a Sanako class, especially not when an assessment is involved.
Forced downgrade to Color scheme Windows 7 Basic since “exceeded its allowed memory”
2013/10/31
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This warning and forced downgrade appeared on the teacher after starting using MS-Community Clips (which is just a GUI wrapper for Windows Media Encoder internally, which we used on the same machine successfully while it was still on XP).
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The error seems slightly more informative than what we received earlier, but I did not manage to investigate since this was in the middle of supporting a teaching use .
Sanako screen sharing is now too slow for the client machine..
2013/09/25
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… So that clients get suggested to downgrade to basic color scheme, in the middle of class. I saw this for the first time recently , after upgrade to Windows 7 and study 1200 version 7, on the teacher machine, same 4yr old dell optiplex 760.
Categories: digital-audio-lab, Glitches&Errors
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Our Sanako Study 1200 tutor is “not responding” or crashes
2013/09/11
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- Update: We have been advised to
- change the Windows Color Scheme to Basic (especially removing the desktop background on both client and teacher) and
- set the Tutor / Preferences / to “Slow WLAN”
- possibly update the video driver on the teacher station, using Windows Update or, preferably, the manufacturer’s version
- try to replicate the problem, but keep the Sanako logs.
- Now we are trying to replicate he issue without the teacher station frozen, so that we have access to the logs.
- change the Windows Color Scheme to Basic (especially removing the desktop background on both client and teacher) and
- 2 hard crashes during one class
- The first one
- on “Autoscanning” (cycling screensharing connections to student PC’s)
- The first one took me by surprise, the computer hung completely, I could not bring up process manager nor taskkill the tutor, had to power cycle, at considerable interruption to the the class.
- However, here I got some problem details from windows:
- The first one
- The 2nd one
- also occurred during “Autoscanning”.
- This time, however, not the Autoscan itself brought the system down, but only when I tried to resize the autoscan window by dragging and dropping the border (video-intensive?).
- I got a performance notification from Windows (not legible here, but something to the amount of “your computer is dangerously slow”):
- I managed to task kill the tutor:
- I got some more diagnostics help from Windows which notified me that my “Windows Color scheme” had to be downgraded to “Basic”:
- also occurred during “Autoscanning”.
- Dell Optiplex 760 (B6CCLK1)
- 4GB,
- graphics chip: Y103D Card, Graphics, 256, Loop, OUGA6; original driver Video: AMD Radeon HD3450 256M, v.8.593 WHQL Vista, A05 with DUP (101 MB)
- dual screen (1024*768 secondary, 1920*1080 primary – I remember having hard hangs on this system when attempting to drag Autoscan Windows of Sanako Stuy 1200 Tutor ver. 5.2 across 2 dual screens of the same size on Windows XP )
- Win 7 (64bit).
- No eventvwr or Sanako log data since PC was frozen…