homophonic keyboard and computer crashes

[Alexander Boguslawski]

Dear Cole and others,

I am personally familiar with the problem you've encountered.  After my Compaq laptop got stolen, it was replaced with a Dell Latitude D600, with Windows XP.  When I loaded homophonic keyboard, the computer started crashing every time I would switch to Russian (in Netscape, Thunderbird, Word, and many other programs) and there was absolutely nothing our IT people could do to fix the problem.  They even re-imaged the hard drive * and no change.  Finally, I requested another computer (another Dell Latitude D600). I gave them the address of Amherst's site and they downloaded Amherst's homophonic keyboard for me.   That keyboard layout could be improved, but it works.  I am not trying to fine-tune it with the keyboard's manager, which worked so well for me on my Compaq and on my home PC, because I am convinced that the problem lies somewhere in the Dell's file management and hard drive structure.  I have to mention, that occassionally I still get blue screens forcing me to restart the computer, but it happens only with e-mail or the Web, not with Word.  I wonder whether other users of Dell Latitude 600 could add to our discussion.
Alexander Boguslawski, Professor
Rollins College

>>> critendn at PRINCETON.EDU 4/3/2005 3:44 AM >>>

Over the past months, I have developed a problem with my laptop (a Dell Latitude D600, Windows XP): whenever I toggle over to the Russian, the computer crashes.  The keyboard layout I use for the Russian is the homophonic keyboard contributed by Gyula Zsigri that I downloaded from the aatseel.org website.   Not long ago the the computer began crashing even when I wasn't toggling to Russian, so three weeks ago I had to have the whole computer reimaged.  After, I re-downloaded the keyboard, thinking that the problem was somehow manifesting itself when I tried to use the keyboard program but did not originate there.  For the past two weeks, no problems at all.  But for the past two days, my computer has again been crashing whenever I toggle over to the Russian.  Does anyone else have this problem, and can anyone suggest a solution?
Many thanks,
Cole Crittenden.  

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