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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This is a note on a problem we had in my lab regarding an
error message that we encountered: <u>Error 11009: A drawing error, with the
code 0x887601c2.</u></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We were having E-Run crash in the middle of an experiment
occasionally and this was the error that showed up. Initially, PST thought this
might be due to video card problems or even network routines polling the lab
machines and using video card resources. However, I tried a simpler approach
and tried to make the intermittent error replicable by running myself in the
experiment and pressing keys and key combinations at random on each trial and
in between trials. Sure enough, the drawing error came up when I hit either of the
Windows keys on each side of the space bar, next to the ALT keys ( these are
Dell Optiplex GX 280 machines bought for the lab last summer ). The error could
be elicited reliably and consistently on each of the four machines in the lab.
So my subjects were accidentally hitting the Windows key, when they were trying
to hit the keys defined as response keys ( N and M ).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>PST knew about this problem and pointed me in the direction
of an E-Prime Support Note:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font><a
href="http://www.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/kb.asp?TopicID=1371">INFO: How to
avoid accidental pressing of special keys (Windows Key, Ctrl+E...</a>.</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The third-party routine that will block the Windows keys is
called WinKeyKill. Has anyone on this list actually used this routine? I’d
like to know how well it works. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cheers, </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sudevan</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>P Sudevan</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Professor and Chair</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Department of Psychology</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point</span></font></p>
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