[Framers] Framers Digest, Vol 120, Issue 2

[Robert Lauriston]

Desktop Window Manager handles Windows' visual effects. If you're
having problems with it, you might want to turn off all the Aero
stuff. It may be conflicting with that weird UI layer in FrameMaker.
(There's a name for that framework, but I've forgotten it.) I turn off
all that stuff as a distraction and the dwm.exe process shows 0:00:00
of CPU time.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Kevin Ryan
<kevin.ryan at systemsandsoftware.net> wrote:
> Some clarification, since David Millis's bingo suggestion came to me off-list:  Ending the DWM.exe process in Task Manager allowed me to recover from my FrameMaker 7.2's "Not Responding" state here in the Computer Museum.  Here is David's bang-on advice:
>
> From: David Millis [mailto:David.Millis at DrakeSoftware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 8:29 AM
> To: Kevin Ryan <kevin.ryan at systemsandsoftware.net>
> Subject: FrameMaker 7.2 Not Responding on New PC
>
> Hi Kevin.
>
> I've had a similar setup and issue that you have for several years now. The hanging problem seems to manifest itself when I hold the mouse down for a while (undetermined amount of time but longer than just a click) and dragging to either highlight an area of text or dragging the scroll bar.
>
> I've been able to go to the Task Manager, click the Processes tab, find DWM.exe, and end task on that file. Sometimes I've had to end task on it twice. 99.9% of the time, this works. ...