Hi, I have not bothered with this phone service, so cannot vouch for the
validity of the following piece of information I found on the Twitter
sphere.
for anyone that has a magic jack, you can get a tool from here
http://is.gd/cyifl that forces it to stay in the system tray.
Many thanks.
On 8/9/2010 10:03 PM, Alan R. Downing wrote:
> I concur with the suggestion that it is best to dedicate a
separate computer
> to Magic Jack. I also have a problem where Magic Jack causes constant
> reloading of IE and FF. It drove me crazy until I put it on its own
> box.
>
>
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Belle [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:38 PM
> To: Grant E. Metcalf; gw-info
> Subject: Re: Window-Eyes and Magic Jack
>
> I've only had magic jack on xp, but it seems fairly well behaved, I
> had to get an upgrade, a little executable to make it work on a
> couple of my machines,
> and sometimes it'll steal focus, but nothing untoward.
>
> I think the best thing to do with magic jack is throw it on an old
> junker on your network, and let it babysit magic jack if you don't
> want any headaches at all.
>
> Have you tried the end task list to close magic jack and or clearing
> window-eyes out that way and starting again?
>
>
> At 07:11 PM 8/9/2010, Grant E. Metcalf wrote:
>> Hello Gang,
>>
>> I recently installed Magic Jack on my XP desktop running WE 7.2. I
>> now am having problems whenever I use Internet Explorer, I think
>> Version 8. When I try to go on the web to a website, I get no
>> speech, maybe the beginning of the header. The only way to get
>> speech back is to close Internet Explorer and reboot which is the
>> only way to close Magic Jack once opened. It may be interfering with
>> other desktop applications as well, although, I can't remember
>> which, if any, at the moment.
>>
>> Questions:
>> 1. Does anybody else using Window-Eyes have this problem with Magic
>> Jack? and what are you doing to resolve it?
>> 2. Is there a script that might help resolve this problem?
>> 3. Or, am I destined to reboot everytime I use Magic Jack in order
>> to get it out of the way? (unplugging it seems to present its own
>> set of problems.)
>> 4. Will programs like Magic Jack and Skype cause these kind of
>> problems when trying to access the internet with Explorer or other
>> browsers due to software/hardware conflict or overload?
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give
>>
>> Grant E. Metcalf
>> Bartimaeus Alliance of the Blind, Inc.
>> Phone: 650-589-6890
>> Email: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
>> Website: <http://bartimaeus.us/>http://bartimaeus.us/
>>
>>
>>
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