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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1997
Scott Elliott, Beaverton, OR (US);
Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides an apparatus and computer method, generally referred to as ANTI-FREEZE.TM., for controlling the operation of a computer running under an operating system such as WINDOWS.RTM. 95 and WINDOW.RTM. NT operating system, or their like, for making responsive a program when that program becomes unresponsive to inputs from the keyboard and/or mouse. ANTI-FREEZE.TM. provides a user interface for the selection of an unresponsive program and then causes the operating system to send a message to the selected unresponsive program. If the selected unresponsive program responds to the message from the operating system, ANTI-FREEZE.TM. determines if the selected unresponsive program has any disabled windows and if so enabling a disabled window resulting in the selected unresponsive program to again become responsive. If the selected unresponsive program does not respond to the message from the operating system, ANTI-FREEZE.TM. modifies the selected unresponsive program to become responsive to messages sent from the operating system to the selected unresponsive program resulting in the selected unresponsive program to again become responsive.