Victor, Thank you so much. That's exactly what I was looking for. I'm going to save this message, as I'm sure I'll need it again. though. I did enough uninstalling and delete of the default jcf files, that I finally got everything to work again.
Thank you and thanks to everyone who tried to help. And Dan, if you want to e-mail me off list, I'll give you a link to a page where you can learn about Skype and scripts for it and a list for blind Skype users. Regards, Lois eI didn't see where repair was in the latest version though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:15 AM 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] > > > > 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! 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