Victor Hats off to a great post. Your level of detail in posts is excellent!
With that said, I've had the following question that somewhat ties in to the below. I have several computers that I use JAWS on. The two main ones (work & home) are my primary concern. What is the easiest way to keep these two in sync regarding JAWS settings? In other words when I make changes to one what is the easiest way to make them on the other with out physically doing so each time. thanks Al -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Victor Gouveia Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jaws-users] JAWS scripts Hi Lois, A friend of mine had a similar problem not too long ago, in that she would make changes to her Jaws settings, but no matter how many times we made those changes, it wouldn't affect Jaws. For example, we wanted Jaws to stop saying question mark when ever it came across one. We went through the whole process of changing her verbosity levels, going to configuration manager and everything, and made sure that the settings were correctly inputted, and nothing, Jaws would still say question mark when it came across one. After pondering this conundrum for a couple of days, I remembered something David had said in a post unrelated to this thread. He had said that the Jaws merge function wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and that triggered something. I checked her start menu, and found that she still had Jaws 5.0 along with the 5.1 version she was currently using. Aside from that, I checked her hard drive, and found that she still had files from her earlier versions of Jaws, such as 3.1 and 3.7 in C drive. I realized that the merge function, as David had said, wasn't all it was cracked up to be because I seemed to remember merging the settings from a previous version of Jaws when I installed it. I quickly did the following and it fixed the problem... 1. Make sure you have a hot key for the current version of Jaws you are using, and make sure, in the event that the hotkey doesn't function the way it is supposed to, make sure it is the only icon on your desktop associated with the letter "J". That way, when, not if, when your speech gives out on you, you'll have more than one way to turn on Jaws. 2, After making the necessary precautions, go into your start menu and see if you have older versions of Jaws. If you find an older version in there, go into it's directory, and into the tools menu, and finally into the installation manager and uninstall each version. This will negate any possible interference from the merge portion of the program. Once that's done, and all your files are gone via the uninstallation process, making sure you've started up the current version of Jaws, go into the Jaws submenu, and to the tools submenu, and into Installation manager. You will get a dialog box asking you what you want to do, ask it to do a repair on your current version of Jaws. Once that's done, don't restart your computer right away, if it asks you to do so, just minimize everything and check for remnants of the programs in your "C" drive. If you find any, feel free to delete these directories that belong to the previous version of Jaws you had on your computer. Once these files have been deleted feel free to restart the computer, if you still need to do that, and Jaws will start with all it's pre-sets and defaults intact. You can then fine tune Jaws to reflect how you prefer, and make sure you save any configuration files you work with. A couple of notes. After you repair Jaws, if you decide not to load Jaws before starting the computer, if you do restart your computer, the checkbox for automatically starting Jaws with Windows will be unchecked, so make sure you are not waiting for nothing. Finally, while uninstalling the older versions of Jaws, you'll be confronted by a dialog box that asks you if you want to remove shared components. The answer to this is yes because you want to do a clean repair, and if it has all those errors because of the merge function, than you'll only be prolonging your suffering. Jaws must do a clean repair, with no extraneous matter to boggle it's mind. Having said that, should anyone have any other questions about my experiences in this matter, feel free to write on or off-list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps. Victor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Visit the JAWS Users list home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the JAWS Users List send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jaws-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
