Re: Computer freezes when moving horizontal scroll bar in describe window and datagrid?

Wendy Penfold <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.oracle.toad.free
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Unfortunately the entire computer freezes...the only thing that works is 
the off button.   Toad was the only application I had open at least a 
couple of times.  I know what you mean though--when a virus scan starts 
on my computer, I either have to kill it or forget using Toad.

On 10/13/2011 10:21 AM, Phyllis Helton wrote:
>
> I was going to write about the latest GA version being painfully slow 
> when I have a number of tabs and grids open but as I was looking, I 
> realized that Firefox was consuming huge amounts of resources at the 
> time (with TOAD being a close contender).  I closed Firefox and TOAD 
> started responding normally.
>
> Not saying this is the solution here, but it might be worth looking 
> at. . .
>
> *From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf! 
> Of *Mark Lerch
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:59 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: [toad] Computer freezes when moving horizontal scroll 
> bar in describe window and datagrid?
>
> I've seen pretty odd behavior over the years with things like Windows 
> Themes, Large/Small Fonts and so forth. It's something we often have 
> to code for. It may sound like a stretch but maybe try simplifying as 
> much as possible -  Windows Classic Theme, regular Fonts and so forth.
>
> *From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf 
> Of *Wendy Penfold
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:54 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [toad] Computer freezes when moving horizontal scroll 
> bar in describe window and datagrid?
>
>
>
> No, nothing atypical, just regular fairly small datagrids and column 
> lists.  No, I can't do process explorer because the computer is 
> totally frozen.  I doubt it has anything to do with Toad if no one 
> else is having this issue.  Hardware support changed my video cards 
> because I kept getting a 'blue screen of death'...not sure this is an 
> improvement.
>
> On 10/13/2011 9:29 AM, Mark Lerch wrote:
>
> Sorry.
>
>  !
>
> I doubt it's the video driver. It sounds like it's entirely grid/data 
> related, not video.
>
> What about the number of columns in the grid - very large?  When this 
> happens can you bring up Process Explorer to see if the Toad process 
> is spiked?
>
> *From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> [mailto:[email protected]! m <mailto:[email protected]>] *On 
> Behalf Of *Wendy Penfold
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:56 AM
> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [toad] Computer freezes when moving horizontal scroll 
> bar in describe window and datagrid?
>
>
>
> I'd probably see the humor if my computer didn't keep freezing...6 
> times now and only in Toad.   Video driver?
>
> On 10/12/2011 4:46 PM, Mark Lerch wrote:
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> This was intended as a jest, by the way, maybe it was too subtle : )
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com> 
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com>] On 
> Behalf Of Mark Lerch
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:38 PM
> To: to! [email protected] <mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: RE: [toad] Computer freezes when m! oving horizontal scroll 
> bar in describe window and datagrid?
>
> Have you tried turning on Options > General > Horizontal scroll lock 
> protection?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com> 
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:toad%40yahoogroups.com>] On 
> Behalf Of Wendy Penfold
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:00 PM
> To: ToadList
> Subject: [toad] Computer freezes when moving horizontal scroll bar in 
> describe window and datagrid?
>
> Hi, I just upgraded to 11.0.0.116. I don't know if this is a Toad
> problem or not... 3 times in the last 2 days, my computer has frozen
> when moving a horizontal scroll bar in Toad...twice in a describe window
> and once in a datagrid in the editor. Frozen like in nothing
> works...mouse won't move, alt-tab and alt-ctrl-del don't work....nadda.
> I have to turn my machine off and back on. It doesn't happen every time
> I move the scrol! l bar.
>
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