Side by Side Error. Dragon Dictation having problems.
This is from the error log:
Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nuance\NaturallySpea
Any Suggestion as to how to correct.
Thanks,
Steve
Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nuance\NaturallySpea
Any Suggestion as to how to correct.
Thanks,
Steve
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Try running SFC /SCANNOW from a command prompt. If that doesn't work, it's uninstall/reinstall time I'm afraid.
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I've requested that this question be deleted for the following reason:
Not enough information to confirm an answer.
Not enough information to confirm an answer.
Before deleting this question, I'd like to know if the OP tried the 12.5 service pack. There are specific reports that this update fixed the exact problem he's having. It would be nice to know if it does or does not work for him. Regards, Joe
joewinograd--Good luck on getting an answer to your question.
This is just another example of the Asker just walking away from the thread without response to any of the several suggestions made. E-E really should have some way to avoid this.
In this mornings mail I got at least seven Admin postings to delete or close threads where "Not enough information to confirm an answer" or where thread was "abandoned". But the party not providing the information or doing the abandoning was the Original Asker who did not respond to suggestions.
The pity in all this is that good suggestions are lost.
This is just another example of the Asker just walking away from the thread without response to any of the several suggestions made. E-E really should have some way to avoid this.
In this mornings mail I got at least seven Admin postings to delete or close threads where "Not enough information to confirm an answer" or where thread was "abandoned". But the party not providing the information or doing the abandoning was the Original Asker who did not respond to suggestions.
The pity in all this is that good suggestions are lost.
Hi jcimarron,
Agree with you completely! I've been on several threads with EE mods about this and have made no progress in changing their overall thinking on the issue. So all I do now is object one question at a time when I think it's a bad idea to delete a thread. As you say, good suggestions are often lost. EE does a disservice to its paying customers by deleting so many questions when the OP goes silent. Other EE members would be well-served to find these threads when faced with a similar problem. An EE admin once told me that 80% of answers at EE are found by searching the archives, not by asking a question. Problem is, when a question is deleted, it's gone from the archives! When I see that a good thread, with some fine suggestions, is about to be deleted, I save the thread locally to my PC.
Performance on this issue varies by mods. Some have an extreme tendency to delete threads. Others appear to take a more thoughtful (and, admittedly, time-consuming) approach by reviewing the thread carefully and accepting answer(s), thereby keeping the thread in the archives for all EE members to find when searching for the same or a similar problem.
You and I are on the "Forcing Printing Defaults" question, where SouthMod said something very interesting, which I did not know:
In their defense, I think the mods are overwhelmed with volume. After all, they are unpaid volunteers, afaik. I don't purport to understand EE's business model, but perhaps they need some paid employees who do this full-time to improve the situation. Regards, Joe
Agree with you completely! I've been on several threads with EE mods about this and have made no progress in changing their overall thinking on the issue. So all I do now is object one question at a time when I think it's a bad idea to delete a thread. As you say, good suggestions are often lost. EE does a disservice to its paying customers by deleting so many questions when the OP goes silent. Other EE members would be well-served to find these threads when faced with a similar problem. An EE admin once told me that 80% of answers at EE are found by searching the archives, not by asking a question. Problem is, when a question is deleted, it's gone from the archives! When I see that a good thread, with some fine suggestions, is about to be deleted, I save the thread locally to my PC.
Performance on this issue varies by mods. Some have an extreme tendency to delete threads. Others appear to take a more thoughtful (and, admittedly, time-consuming) approach by reviewing the thread carefully and accepting answer(s), thereby keeping the thread in the archives for all EE members to find when searching for the same or a similar problem.
You and I are on the "Forcing Printing Defaults" question, where SouthMod said something very interesting, which I did not know:
EE policy requires us to close them out if they are abandoned.Of course, "close" doesn't mean "delete"; accepting answers is another way to "close"...keeping in the archives all of the excellent suggestions from all of the EE Experts who participated in that thread.
In their defense, I think the mods are overwhelmed with volume. After all, they are unpaid volunteers, afaik. I don't purport to understand EE's business model, but perhaps they need some paid employees who do this full-time to improve the situation. Regards, Joe
Netminder--Thanks.
Hi Modalot, modus_operandi, Netminder,
First, thanks to the three of you (and all of the Mods) for your admin service here at EE. There may be times when it doesn't seem like it, but it is truly appreciated! :)
Additional thanks to Netminder for explaining the different roles of the Mods and the Cleanup Volunteers...I didn't realize this. I can understand now that the Cleanup Volunteers would lean more towards a quick Delete key, while the Mods would spend more time reviewing a question and accepting answers/awarding points accordingly.
I agree that it's very easy to complain about a system and, in many cases, very difficult to come up with something that's better. Given that you are open to suggestions, here's one: have a separate archive section (or maybe a flag/status indicator in the regular archive section) where questions can be saved even if the OP has not accepted an answer. Sure, points are important, but even more important is retaining the collective wisdom of many experts who put in time to answer a question...and those answers could help many EE members in the future when faced with the same (or similar) problem. I'd be fine in many cases with zero points being awarded, but the question with its answers being archived, not deleted.
I can tell you that I've seen many questions here at EE where the advice of the experts blew me away...great stuff! And in some of those cases, the OP went silent and an admin deleted the question, forever losing those terrific answers. Yes, I could ask the question again when faced with the same problem, but it surely would be nice to find it in the EE archives, even if it's in a "Questions without Accepted Answers" section. Admittedly, this would take more effort on the part of the EE admin folks (Mods and Cleanup Volunteers...and the latter would apparently have to be given more flexibility than they have now), but if a question appears to have some really good answers by "certified" experts who claim that their solutions work, then I'd like to see those answers archived, not deleted.
I understand modus_operandi's comment that the threads EE wants to keep in the database are those that have actual solutions to problems, not just threads that have interesting information. But I've seen many questions where a certified expert says that his/her answer has worked, yet the question (with the answer that an expert claims is a solution) is deleted when the OP goes silent. It's not that the OP says it doesn't work...it's that the OP doesn't say anything at all. In this case, I'd go with the expert, not the OP!
OK, done with my two cents...thanks for listening. Best regards, Joe
First, thanks to the three of you (and all of the Mods) for your admin service here at EE. There may be times when it doesn't seem like it, but it is truly appreciated! :)
Additional thanks to Netminder for explaining the different roles of the Mods and the Cleanup Volunteers...I didn't realize this. I can understand now that the Cleanup Volunteers would lean more towards a quick Delete key, while the Mods would spend more time reviewing a question and accepting answers/awarding points accordingly.
I agree that it's very easy to complain about a system and, in many cases, very difficult to come up with something that's better. Given that you are open to suggestions, here's one: have a separate archive section (or maybe a flag/status indicator in the regular archive section) where questions can be saved even if the OP has not accepted an answer. Sure, points are important, but even more important is retaining the collective wisdom of many experts who put in time to answer a question...and those answers could help many EE members in the future when faced with the same (or similar) problem. I'd be fine in many cases with zero points being awarded, but the question with its answers being archived, not deleted.
I can tell you that I've seen many questions here at EE where the advice of the experts blew me away...great stuff! And in some of those cases, the OP went silent and an admin deleted the question, forever losing those terrific answers. Yes, I could ask the question again when faced with the same problem, but it surely would be nice to find it in the EE archives, even if it's in a "Questions without Accepted Answers" section. Admittedly, this would take more effort on the part of the EE admin folks (Mods and Cleanup Volunteers...and the latter would apparently have to be given more flexibility than they have now), but if a question appears to have some really good answers by "certified" experts who claim that their solutions work, then I'd like to see those answers archived, not deleted.
I understand modus_operandi's comment that the threads EE wants to keep in the database are those that have actual solutions to problems, not just threads that have interesting information. But I've seen many questions where a certified expert says that his/her answer has worked, yet the question (with the answer that an expert claims is a solution) is deleted when the OP goes silent. It's not that the OP says it doesn't work...it's that the OP doesn't say anything at all. In this case, I'd go with the expert, not the OP!
OK, done with my two cents...thanks for listening. Best regards, Joe
Netminder,
Thanks for your thorough and thoughtful reply – much appreciated! A few more comments on your comments:
> either the posts solve the problem or they don't
Based on whose assessment? If it comes down to a choice between an expert who says his post solves the problem and an OP who says nothing, I'll go with the expert who says his post solves the problem. If I had the same problem as the OP, I'd like to try the suggestion of an expert who says his post solves the problem (there's always, of course, the YMMV caveat).
> "Forced" means that the asker didn't close the question; someone else did (even if it's the automated process used by a CV).
But the deleted ones are gone from the archives...a member doing a search will not find them.
> But there are certainly cases where a question with a lot of participants trying different things can eliminate a lot of time for the asker.
Yes, exactly!
> They're just not as frequent as one might think.
Argues even more strongly for keeping them in the archives and not deleting them.
> There's nothing that says that you can't object when the CV suggests deleting, even if those Experts who blow you away do not object.
Yes, that's what I started doing.
> but they know enough to know if a comment is reasonably a solution.
This is the crux of it! But I've seen many comments that I think are "reasonably a solution" where the question has been deleted and the "reasonably a solution" comments are forever gone.
> that's what the Object button is for.
We're on the same page here!
Regards, Joe
Thanks for your thorough and thoughtful reply – much appreciated! A few more comments on your comments:
> either the posts solve the problem or they don't
Based on whose assessment? If it comes down to a choice between an expert who says his post solves the problem and an OP who says nothing, I'll go with the expert who says his post solves the problem. If I had the same problem as the OP, I'd like to try the suggestion of an expert who says his post solves the problem (there's always, of course, the YMMV caveat).
> "Forced" means that the asker didn't close the question; someone else did (even if it's the automated process used by a CV).
But the deleted ones are gone from the archives...a member doing a search will not find them.
> But there are certainly cases where a question with a lot of participants trying different things can eliminate a lot of time for the asker.
Yes, exactly!
> They're just not as frequent as one might think.
Argues even more strongly for keeping them in the archives and not deleting them.
> There's nothing that says that you can't object when the CV suggests deleting, even if those Experts who blow you away do not object.
Yes, that's what I started doing.
> but they know enough to know if a comment is reasonably a solution.
This is the crux of it! But I've seen many comments that I think are "reasonably a solution" where the question has been deleted and the "reasonably a solution" comments are forever gone.
> that's what the Object button is for.
We're on the same page here!
Regards, Joe
> It's removed from public view, but it's still there, and if an Expert has a question ID number, we can find it -- and if it's fairly recent, we sometimes don't even need that.
Didn't know this! Very good to know.
> explain to me why your comment is the answer
> So make your case, and the odds are pretty good that you'll get the points you've earned.
Fair enough.
Thanks again for your thorough and thoughtful responses. Regards, Joe
Didn't know this! Very good to know.
> explain to me why your comment is the answer
> So make your case, and the odds are pretty good that you'll get the points you've earned.
Fair enough.
Thanks again for your thorough and thoughtful responses. Regards, Joe