Hi Miriam, Selling your soul won't be necessary, hopefully! LOL Here's an explanation of the Jaws key, Windows key, + F4, keystroke, it is not a toggle. Also, steps for creating a shortcut keystroke:: From: "Paul Magill" < In some situations, when Jaws has crashed, or another process has crashed Jaws, you can use WindowsKey+JawsKey+F4 to shut down Jaws and all its associated processes, thus allowing it to be restarted in the usual way without rebooting.
Note, it does not always work, but saves a lot of time when it does. This method also causes an error reporting file to be created, and if asked by FS support, can be emailed to them to assist in analysing the initial problem. Regards, Paul from Aust If you don't have a shortcut keystroke to restart Jaws once you have invoked the above keystroke, try the following to create one: 1. Go to the Desktop by pressing, Windows key + D, or Windows key + M. 2. Press the letter, J, until you have the JAWS icon highlighted. 3. Press, Alt + Enter, to open the JAWS icon Properties. When the JAWS icon properties opens you should be on the shortcut page. 4. Tab to the Shortcut key field, and type in the shortcut key combination of your choice, like Alt, Control, + J, or whatever other combination you prefer. 5. Tab to the, Apply, button, press the spacebar, tab around again to the, Okay, button, and press, Enter, to save the change & close. Now, when you press, Alt, Control, + J, or whatever shortcut key you assigned, JAWS should restart. Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers! Sent from my iBarstool. Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement. In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I agree. ----- Original Message ----- From: Miriam Vieni To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 7:40 PM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 18 Please tell me again, in detail, what to do when Jaws 18 disappears. I wrote down to press Jaws key plus windows key plus F4 and this turns off Jaws. And if I press these keys again, they act as a toggle. Am I supposed to press them simultaneously? When I press them the first time, I can see with my hugely magnified Magic that the screen changes. But I haven't gotten Jaws to restart with those keys or with any others. I am having to resort to turning the computer off with the button and then turning it on again. Even though I can see that I've moved to the screen that says, "Shut Down", the key strokes don't work. But, after I press the button, just before the screen changes, Jaws says something, but then the computer shuts down. I have a 64 bit windows 7 computer. I'd sell my soul for a key stroke that would just get Jaws working again without having to shut down the computer and wait for it to start and load. Miriam 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/
