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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Buxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [jaws-users] JAWS scripts > Say out there! Is there any site where one can access scripts for Jaws, > for > any type of programs? Ken b > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lois Butterfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:56 AM > Subject: Re: [jaws-users] JAWS scripts > > >> 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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