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If you run dragon with windows xp you may notice it freezes sometimes. the fix is simple.

1. right-click on dragon, click properties
2. click the compatibility tab
3. make sure the box for "run this program in compatibility mode for:" is checked and set it to windows 2000
4. click ok, your done

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I honestly NEVER had problems with dragon freezing in XP, at all :p

**edit** apart from that, I do have problems with the compatibility changes of XP

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I've never had it freeze either.
If it runs into a problem it crashes and exits. When that happens 99% of the time it is because I did something wrong in a script change.
If it stops responding, it is because it is busy working.

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holy crap I do have problems with Dragon freezing. I'll try this. Thanks!

it freezes unless i have it set this way.

and i'm running windows xp pro, fully updated on a P4 3.0C with 1gb of DDR400, memory timings 2-2-2, 10k rpm sata drive.

could be hardware issues, since all my stuff is new.

either way, it solved my problem. others may have the same issue.

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Overall Dragon is ok but it has the horrible habbit of freezing when you have 2 websites and media player running. Normally this wouldn't bug me, but dragon never dies. I say die as in ctrl alt del then shut program, it once took 10 min for windows to take it out. Is that a windows issue or a dragon issue?

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Probably the windows debugger. Win2k (and I assume XP) has a debugger called drwatsn32 that runs when something crashes. If you find that name in the process list and end task it, then the crashed program will go aswell. You can turn off the debugger in the Administrator somewhere, I can't remember where. It normally took about 10 minutes for me to run it's course and go away when something crashed.

Odd.. I have used all dragon versions over the last 3 years or so, have used them on Win 98, 98SE, (no, not win ME), 2000 Pro, 2000 Server, XP home, and XP pro... have never had it crash like that.. only a user error of the famous invalid integer from a script typo *shrugs*

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In my case, i'm not allowed to do anything (not even klicking the mouse button) while dragon is running or it will freeze. If anybody faces freezing problems, try to shut down any background programs, chat programs, winamps and other stuff and don't touch your mouse while dragon is working... no problems then

(I'm using winxp prof)

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Ya, it just looks like it freezes. But it doesn't. It just doesn't update the program, but it's still functioning. You can do whatever you want while dragon runs (but it'll be outrageously slow depending on your computer). After a certian amount of time (for me it's 30 minutes, but I'm sure for anyone else it's faster ) dragon will respond again and say it's done.

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Incidentally, this is why I made the switch over to Dragon 1.05 - it never gives me this problem (I also use WinXP prof).

Oh.. well, you're right Armada, i tried it right now, but haveing programs in the background increases the time dragon needs from 4 minutes to more then 15 on my computer it does so, anyway

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Task Manager just says that Dragon has stopped responding for me whenever I minimize it. It never affects it though, it always finishes making the map in the end.

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