AutoCad locking up on certain commands

Hello,

I am wondering of you might have a solution for AutoCad locking up on certain commands, it does not freeze CAD up it will allow you to escape out it just won't give you the screen associated with the command you entered. For example, my colleague is trying to open layer states, she types in the command LAYERSTATE or even tries to click the icon and it just sits there like it is thinking but doesn't actually start up the command. I believe she has been told that it is because she has a dual monitor and CAD is getting confused which screen to open in. However this has happened to me before and I do not have a dual monitor system. Any ideas?

Thank you

she doesn't have anything disabling the pop up box or dialogue box does she?

check antivirus and windows settings

I am not sure if anything is disabling the pop up box, is there something I can do to check this?

now you're getting technical

*waits for somebody sensible to arrive on thread*

I have a dual monitor set-up at work and at home and I've never had problems with dialog boxes getting confused.

After typing LAYERSTATE, do you get any message at the command line?

Type CMDDIA at the command line and make sure the variable is set to 1. If it's set to 0, change it to 1 and then try the LAYERSTATE command again.

I have a dual monitor set-up at work and at home and I've never had problems with dialog boxes getting confused.

 

After typing LAYERSTATE, do you get any message at the command line?

 

Type CMDDIA at the command line and make sure the variable is set to 1. If it's set to 0, change it to 1 and then try the LAYERSTATE command again.

There is not message at the command line after I type LATERSTATE. I tried the CMDDIA and it was set to 1. Any other ideas?

I have a dual monitor set-up at work and at home and I've never had problems with dialog boxes getting confused.

 

After typing LAYERSTATE, do you get any message at the command line?

 

Type CMDDIA at the command line and make sure the variable is set to 1. If it's set to 0, change it to 1 and then try the LAYERSTATE command again.

I have dual monitors and there are a few commands (can't remember at the moment but will make a note next time) that will hang everything. The caviot here is the only way I can continue is to kill acad through the task manager, thing is when I do that it tells me it can't kill it as it is waiting on a response from me (acad). the problem is I cannot respond because it's hung up. (ding, ding, ding as I try to close windows looking for a buried dialog box perhaps) but no joy

not sure if this is relative or not but it sounds all too familiar...