Doris and All, I'm probably about as set as I'm going to be. JAWS 10 does not seem to want to run as a service on this machine and at least now seems to be coming up talking after system boot up. I tried copying the JAWS 10 icon on my desktop to my startup folder as a temporary solution as you suggested and thought it had been successful to at least have J 10 come up talking at some point. It wasn't doing it 100% of the time, though and somehow, my efforts without sighted assistance available apparently resulted in the OE menu bar being moved. I'd thought something was blocking My Desktop and had planned on calling my tech for a remote session anyway, but the new OE problem made that essential.
He didn't find anything blocking My Desktop, but I did see something one time, but wasn't able to determine what it was. I vastly prefer DEC-Talk Access 32 to Eloquence and another tech at his shop has seen the screen I think is causing the problem and he thought it had something to do with DEC-Talk Access 32, but hadn't heard of it and wasn't sure. The remote session with my tech got J10 talking after boot up and I had to wait until this morning to call FS about the activation problem with J9 because of threatened severe thunder storms. The FS support guy thought the activation problem was "weird," so seemed to agree with all of us here about that. He thought uninstalling JAWS 9 probably wouldn't cause J10 to decide it wanted to be activated since it would then be the earliest version. He tried to encourage me to uninstall JAWS 9 and 10. I didn't have any problem uninstalling J9 as long as it didn't create more activation problems, but I'm almost positive that 10 is the last JAWS version I can continue to have my beloved DEC-Talk Access 32 run on. After I hung up, I got 9 uninstalled and 10 doesn't seem to demand to be activated, so I'm happy. Margaret ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doris and Chris" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 10 Not Talking on Boot Up The new soundcard would be the reason your older jaws want to be activated. for a fix until you can get your activation problem sorted out next week, you can copy the shortcut from your desktop for the version of jaws you want to run - and that is activated - into your startup folder. This will give you speech automatically once your desktop is loaded. It is not quite the same as loading jaws as a service but should do the trick unless you need to have jaws speak at the logon screen. jaws is way too picky about hardware changes with its activation. You might want to look into getting a hardware dongle to avoid such problmes - or see if the free nvda isn't sufficientfor what you need to do on the computer. <g> hth Doris At 08:55 AM 7/31/2011, you wrote: >Doris, > >Before my current round of trouble started about a week and a half >ago, JAWS 9 and 10 were installed. My SMA went to JAWS 12. JAWS 11 >was on the machine, but not installed. > >About a week and a half ago I lost speech , on the XP Home and it >re-booted itself with a this computer has recovered from a serious >error message and it said it was the blue screen error. I couldn't >get any version of JAWS to talk at all and computer literate sighted >assistance couldn't get it talking with the mouse. We did a remote >session with my tech and he couldn't get it talking either. When he >heard about the blue screen error message, he said that it had >happened to a lot of local computers lately due to frequent >lightning strikes in the area. He concluded that the sound card >needed to be replaced and came over the next day and put in a >replacement sound card. He installed JAWS 12 from the CD while he was here. > >Part of the problem is that when I unload JAWS 10 to load J9 to go >into basics or whatever they called it then to tell J9 not to load >on startup, before I can press JAWS key-J, JAWS almost immediately >says Activate button and wants to be activated. > >Currently, there are icons on My Desktop for JAWS, 9, 10, and >122. J11 has not been installed. > >It's been a long week and any more suggestions would be extremely appreciated. > >Margaret > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doris and Chris" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 6:44 AM >Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 10 Not Talking on Boot Up > > >Dear Miss Margaret, > >You should not have to activate your jaws 9.0 in order to turn off >the "run jaws first" option in it. > >when it comes up after boot up and asks to be activated, have it run >in 40-minute mode instead. This is plenty of time to go into its >basic options and to uncheck the "run first jaws" (or run jaws at >windows startup" or whatever it is called these days. > >when you have unchecked the option in jaws 9, tab to the "OK" tutton, >enter on it. then close out jaws 9 and bring up jaws 10 or whatever >version you want to have coming up when you start your computer. go >into its options and and check the checkbox to have it start >automatically. This should fix the problem. > >I can only guess to the reason why your jaws 9 wants to be activated >when your 10 is working fine. Did you by any chance get a new jaws >license in between so that the newer jaws maybe has a diferent >serial number? You cold check the serial number - not the long >activation code) when you bring up the different versions to fix the >automatic startup. This is just a wild guess, though. > >good luck and keep us posted! > >Cheers, > >Doris > > > > >At 06:19 AM 7/31/2011, you wrote: > >Raymond and All, > > > >Activating 9, which was the one that wanted to be > >activated failed. I got an error message: > > > >Client Activator > >Error Code: 52500 > >You have received this message due to one of the following possibilities: > >- You are not connected to the Internet. Check your connection and > >try again. > >- Your 20-digit Authorization number is typed incorrectly. Check > >for spaces or incorrect characters and try again. > >- The Freedom Scientific server may be experiencing temporary > >difficulties. Try again later. > >- You have canceled registration. > >If you continue to experience this problem, point your Internet > >browser to www.FSActivate.com and follow the instructions to > >retrieve an Activation > >License Code that will activate your product. > > > > > > > >I'm connected to the Internet. > > > >www.freedomscientific.com > > > >loads. > > > >The 20 digit number came up from the activation disk. > > > >I have not knowingly canceled registration. > >My remaining activation count just now from > > > > > >www.FSActivate.com > > > >is 1. When I requested more last weekend, the form wanted my e-mail > >address, but I never heard from FS that they've approved or rejected > >the request. > > > >I think I'll have to contact FS on Monday, but does anybody have any > >ideas in the mean time? I don't think I Can remember the last I ran > >JAWS 9. I can uninstall it, but I'm afraid JAWS 10 will decide it > >needs to be activated. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Margaret > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "raymond lombardi" <[email protected]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 8:42 PM > >Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Jaws 10 Not Talking on Boot Up > > > > > > > > > >I would say run the version of jaws that wants to be activated and look to > >see if the automatically start jaws box is checked and if it is uncheck it. > > > > > > > >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/ > > >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/ 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/
