Hi.
As Eric said, you can keep both without issue. What happens here is
that, when you upgrade to a new major version, in stead of doing an in
place upgrade, it makes a whole new folder and installs a separate copy
just of the new version. This allows you to, as you noticed, have
multiple copies of major versions. The advantage here is that issues
with one that make it difficult or impossible to do something you need,
if your other version or versions were ok with doing that, you should be
able to shut down the current version and manually run the other version
to have all of its capabilities and, in the case of falling back to 18
from 2018, be rid of any bugs that may have been introduced in the 2018
cycle and not yet fixed.
If you need to switch to the old version, here's the steps
1. Shut down the existing version of JAWS using insert+f4, then pressing
enter.
2. Hold your windows key, and press r then release both. This is the
shortcut for the run dialogue. It's an edit box where you can type the
path of a file you want to execute, it's handy in some situations, such
as this. Go ahead and hit windows+r while JAWS is still running if you
want to find out what the run dialogue looks like.
Tip: If you want to make sure you know how to type jaws18 etc, try it
with JAWS already running. If you specify 18 while running 2018
currently, it'll just open the jaws window or the jaws system tray menu
(if running from tray), even if you specify a different, but valid,
version than what is currently running.
3. After hitting Windows+r, wait for a few seconds to ensure it has
popped up then type one of the following in the run box
jaws17
jaws18
jaws2018
depending on which version of JAWS you want to start. If you hear a
sound, you either didn't get focused in the right place or you typed it
wrong. If you end up stuck with no screen reader, press
ctrl+windows+enter to start narator. If you're on an older version of
windows you might need to just use windows+enter or windows+u, if you
use windows+u you'll need to tab around to the read text on screen aloud
using narator and press space to check it in order to actually start
narator. Once Narator is running you can start JAWS using the JAWS
shortcuts on your desktop - should have one for every version of JAWS
that is installed.
Lastly, if, when, you do uninstall versions of JAWS you no longer need,
select the freedom scientific jaws (version number) in the manage apps
screen, or programs and features. Making sure it is a JAWS you're
uninstalling not one of the other freedom scientific products like
synthesizer or talking install, etc. During the uninstallation you'll be
asked do you want to remove shared components. Choose no, don't remove
shared components. This is the answer to your question about how to
uninstall one without uninstalling parts of both of them.
Until jaws 2018 is released and is stable to your satisfaction, I highly
recommend keeping your JAWS 18, and, for the record, I personally do
keepone previous version installed than that which is the latest I have
installed. This is in case I find a bug even in the release version that
works ok in the previous version, or if I change a setting or break the
latest one and I can just switch to another version quickly and decide
to beat on the new, broken, version to try and fix it later on when I'm
done with what ever it is I'm doing.
Good luck with your shiny new Shark!
Cheers:
Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We
make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com";
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On 8/31/2017 3:40 PM, Maria Campbell wrote:
The first time I tried downloading the beta version of JAWS 2018, I
got an older version of the current. So now I have the current and an
older version called JAWS 18 plus one called JAWS 2018. . I'm afraid
of removing the JAWS 18.0 for fear of damaging the JAWS 2018. I'm
wondering how should I proceed?
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