Hi When JAWS starts acting like that, try pressing JAWSkey+escape to refresh the screen to JAWS. The format for the run dialog To do a JAWS repair is drive:\path\JAWS installation file name followed by a space, then a slash, then type repair. To accomplish this, press Windows key+r or select Run from the start menu to bring up the run dialog box. Tab to the browse button and [press enter. navigate to the installation file for the version of JAWS you want to repair and press enter. Now tab to the Open entry and press the end key to move to the end of the line. Then press space, slash, the word type, space, then the word repair. For example,
"C:\Local Software\JFW140\J14.0.3005-64bit.exe"/type repair Also uninstalling JAWS will not make you lose your JAWS activation key. You can uninstall JAWS and reinstall it and use the one activation key you have installed on your system. The JAWS activation key will allow you to run the latest JAWS version you have purchased and any earlier version back to JAWS 5 or 6 when the Internet License manager was implemented. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joanne Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 06:19 To: [email protected] Subject: [JAWS-Users] Jaws isn't focusing correctly and sometimes reads phantom characters This is the case with all 3 Jaws versions I have--12, 13 and 14. And now that the repair process has been changed to something I still don't understand how to do, I can't do a repair and would hate to uninstall and lose my keys. Jaws loses focus a lot and I am moved out of my window, and I also have the problem of, when trying to erase characters in a file, Jaws reads extra phantom characters that aren't even part of the file. When using Winamp it will say the previous track and then correct itself to say the track I'm on. It's sort of like something in the video driver isn't dumping information from its memory--like the song track that it's not even on--or it's foggy and may possibly be on a bad screen resolution or color or something. I am using Windows 7 with classic theme, and my resolution is 1024/768 which F.S. had recommended for XP. It is now not showing an entire list and is only seeming to see the bottom item. Does anyone have a suggestion for getting the video to interpret what's on the screen correctly? I have run the free program from System Access to Go, just to see if it could be a computer or screen problem. But it read right so I know I need to do something in Jaws. Thanks for any input. Joanne 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/
