Yeah, Jake, I get that too. It's really poor design that the screen goes black, seems to be an extremely old-fashioned and klutzy command prompt way of doing things.
This is very, very, very poor usability design (Mary Beth Raven, are you watching this?). In my case, because I have four monitors and they ALL go black at once. And what's even worse is that they all go ENTIRELY BLACK -- far worse than Windows UAC causing a similar effect, where the screens go grey but at least you can still see what''s on the greyed-out monitors.
I find the whole user experience to be so off-putting and irritating that I've disabled the "Lotus Domino Diagnostics" service (which starts the nsd.exe task), and am quite prepared to live with that.
I kill a few processes manually -- ntaskldr.exe being one that seems to need cancelling in most cases -- and don't have to reboot. Or I launch the NotesMedic Toolkit 6.0 (see http://www.casseticasoftware.com/Products/NotesMedic.aspx) and start that up sometimes if I get into a development/testing phase where more than the occasional crashes start cropping up.
Yeah, Jake, I get that too. It's really poor design that the screen goes black, seems to be an extremely old-fashioned and klutzy command prompt way of doing things.
This is very, very, very poor usability design (Mary Beth Raven, are you watching this?). In my case, because I have four monitors and they ALL go black at once. And what's even worse is that they all go ENTIRELY BLACK -- far worse than Windows UAC causing a similar effect, where the screens go grey but at least you can still see what''s on the greyed-out monitors.
I find the whole user experience to be so off-putting and irritating that I've disabled the "Lotus Domino Diagnostics" service (which starts the nsd.exe task), and am quite prepared to live with that.
I kill a few processes manually -- ntaskldr.exe being one that seems to need cancelling in most cases -- and don't have to reboot. Or I launch the NotesMedic Toolkit 6.0 (see http://www.casseticasoftware.com/Products/NotesMedic.aspx) and start that up sometimes if I get into a development/testing phase where more than the occasional crashes start cropping up.