Jacob, Although this suggestion will not help your current situation, it will in the future. Consider using Image for Windows. Sounds like you have a need to put your system back to a solid starting point quite frequently. With Image for Windows, you build your basic OS and all necessary programs and then burn a basic image. Anytime you want to return to that point you simply pop in the CD, go have a cup of coffee and come back in about a half hour and your good to go. I use this often and it is totally blind accessible. Just a thought because I've been where you are and have spent hours messing around to no avail.
Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Issue with jaws 11 and word 2003 after computerissues were resolved using windows XP service pack 3 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...' __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5180 (20100607) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
