This is a bit of a long shot, but last week after I tried to restore my
windows XP machine back to a slightly older restore point due to it starting
to have a couple operating system issues most likely due to all the
software/configuration testing I've done on it, as per usual, but the
machine seemed to not go anywhere after I left it restarting for around half
an hour after telling it to use the clean restore point, and eventually, I
had to literally run a windows installation repair, and then install windows
XP service pack 3 to make it generally work again.
Now the issue is that it won't let me run certain installation packages,
like trying to reinstall a version of adobe reader since it seems to be
looking for installation files/components that don't exist, but the main
thing that has now come around is that I can't even start microsoft word
2003 since jaws seems to crash, and the whole system is almost hanging -
only thing to do seems to be to hit Ctrl + Alt + Del keys, wait a little
bit, hit Alt + U for turn off menu items, and then hit the R key to choose
the restart option - all of this without any talking going on, since even
narrator and NVDA don't seem to want to cooperate properly when I then try
to make them act as a form of backup, and jaws is just crashing outright.
Anyway, now tried reinstalling office 2003 in case it needed to be
repaired/reverted to it's initial installation state, but still doesn't
work, but, FWIW, other pieces of office software, like excel do still work,
so it seems to be specifically word in this part of the puzzle.
Anyway, apart from being pretty sure will again have to reload windows from
scratch, like I normally seem to need to do around every 3-6 months, was
just wondering if anyone had any ideas/ideas to try sort this out more
easily/quicker?
TIA
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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