For some reason, when I click to open Microsoft word or go to open any documents that would cause Microsoft word to open, every word file that is on my computer starts opening and my Microsoft word immediately stops responding but continues to open every document. Does anyone know why this occurs or knows how to fix it?
I had this once: when Word crashed and I restarted it, it would open whole bunch of documents. I figured it happened because I never actually closed the Word itself, only closed the current document (while the Word application itself kept running), so when Word finally restarted after crash, it reopened all documents that were accessed since the previous start of the application.
As far as I remember, I used "brute force" approach to deal with the problem: I let the Word open everything it wanted (which took a while - several minutes at least), and when it finally was done, I manually closed each and every opened Word file, then closed the Word itself, restarted it and it was fine.
Oh, one more thing: all of that was happening on Mac, but I don't think it makes a lot of difference.
Hope that helps!
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I cannot find an answer/solution to this issue.
Every time I reopen VS Code after a work session (or after turning the PC off and on again) the windows that open at the same time (because they were open at the same time before I closed VSCode) are sometimes full screen, other times they are reduced to the center of the screen, but this doesn't seem to have a precise pattern and above all I can't find settings that allow me to always open them all maximized (as they were when I closed VSCode last time).
How can this be solved?
My father can't seem to shutdown his computer, ever, so I'm using Task Scheduler to have it automatically power off every night. Thing is, he also can't seem to save his documents, so I need to make sure every open document has it's changes saved when it shuts down. Is it possible to do this using AutoHotkey, VBA, or with some MS Word feature I'm not aware of?
I'm aware of the AutoRecover feature. But, as I understand it, that just saves a copy in another folder that gets thrown away when the document is opened again. It's not as reliable as a manual save.
Any help on this is appreciated. It physically hurts to watch tech-illiterates abuse their PCs.
When I enter a hotkey [any hotkey], AutoHotKey doesn't respond. However, it will respond if I edit, save, and reload it. After which, it will respond three or four times then I must go through the same process of editing, saving, and reloading it again.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program 10 or more times.
Before it began to not respond, it would leave a space after each string. [I'm not sure if that is related to my problem or not.]
I am using Windows 7 and IE 10. I reinstalled IE 8 and IE 9 to see if either would correct the problem. The problem remained.
Thanks for whatever help you may provide.
Me too
I have encountered this same type of problem. AutoHotKey loads my script and responds for a while, then after X number of times the script simply stops responding.
Resolution
To resolve these types of problems I found that opening the debug screen (double click the AutoHotKey icon in the task bar) generally shows that my script is busy running, and doing something. From there it's a simple matter to identify why it's still running.
Since the script is currently busy satisfying a previous request, then a new request can not be initiated.
In my case the problem is some runaway loop that is processing more data than I had expected or it's stuck in some infinite loop.
If you leave the script running while it's stuck, you might also want to open the task manager to see if it's consuming any CPU time or if it's gradually eating more and more memory.
This is NOT a life or death issue. I do have a backup from 2 or 3 days ago. - I think the answer to this may be "Learn to always save & backup your files every night, before you turn out the lights and go home" but just in case there is a happier answer, here goes.
I was programing some Android/Java stuff in Eclipse. I left the machine on with eclipse open and a couple of source java/xml files open inside of eclipse and gave up for the night. When I sat down at the machine this morning, I had a message that windows had preformed an update, and had re-booted my machine. after re-logging in and opening Eclipse it showed the source files in edit windows and they looked normal, but as soon as I tried to type in the edit window, I got some kind of a message that "Files are derived, do I really want to edit them" (I could be wrong on the exact wording. I didn't copy the text down before hitting no or Cancel or whatever the choice was that I thought would get me out of there without doing anything). after I left that screen, it showed me a now blank edit window for the source files. I closed that and and tried to re-open the file from the Package Explorer, but it wouldn't open. So I closed Eclipse and took a look in the /src directory and it appears the source files are gone. I do have a backup from a couple of days ago, so it's not a life or death problem to go back, but my real questions are.
1- Is this a normal occurrence when a machine boots/power fails/crashes unexpectedly with source files open in Eclipse?
2 - Did I answer the "Files are derived..." question wrong? is there something I could have done at that point to rescue the file?
Any comments welcome. - Joe
If you remember where your files were, you could right click on the parent in the Project Explorer > Restore from History or Replace With > Local History.
This feels like a very basic local VCS.
Even though this is not an endless history, you can extend the size allowed for Eclipse to keep such previous versions.
I have an issue on a client machine that seems to be interferring with a word addin that ive built.
When any word document opens on the client machine, a second blank document opens also.
Ive seen this issue on a number of different machines but havent seen an explanation as to why.
Has anyone else seen this behaviour in word and have you managed to stop the second document opening?
Cheers
If this issue is happening regardless of whether or not your addin is installed, perhaps the user has a strange macro running in their default template file (normal.dot)?
You could try replacing normal.dot with a version from a machine which doesn't have the problem to see if that helps!?
If you are delivering your addin as a .dot, it is very easy to accidentally set it up to have a document in it that opens. This, of course, assumes that the problem follows the addin. If it does not follow the addin then you don't have a programming problem.
It happens to me in Windows Explorer when the preview pane is enabled on it.
If you double-click a word document then 2 instances of Word open, one of them is with empty document.
Disabling the preview pane eliminates the problem.