Patti, You might try maximizing your document window prior to working in it. Do this by pressing alt+spacebar and then press the letter X 2. press alt+Dash and again press X This maximizes both document and application windows. HTH
At 12:48 PM 8/10/2006 -0500, Patti wrote: >Hey Victor, >I think I'll do nothing right now, because I'm not having any problems yet. >Like I said the only thing I can think of when I'm typing an email or a >letter Jaws sometimes will not read some words or letters. >I don't know what to do on that problem. >Patti > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Victor Gouveia > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:44 AM > Subject: Re: [jaws-users] JAWS scripts > > > Hi Patti, > > In normal circumstances, I would agree with you, it will take up a > great deal of room on your hard drive if you have 869 versions of a > program on your computer, especially if these extra versions aren't needed. > > There are some things you might want to consider. First, is how much > room on your hard drive you currently have. I'm assuming you have at > least a 10 gigabyte hard drive and if you check, you'll find that the > Jaws 510 folder on your hard drive has little more than 10 megabytes. Not > very much when you consider that 1000 megabytes equals 1 gigabyte. I > could bore you with the explanation of the actual size of a megabyte, > gigabyte and kilobyte, but I think you get the point. > > With 10000 megabytes on your hard drive, taking up 10 isn't that big a > deal in the grand scheme of things. > > Having said that, if you have 8 or nine previous versions of Jaws > sitting on your hard drive, this could get redundant and there is > absolutely no need for it. In fact, I would be surprised that your Jaws > is functioning properly without some bugs in that case. > > This leads me to my second point. As Jaws sits on your "C" drive, > having previous versions of it sitting on your drive could become serious > enough to warrant deleting them. If Jaws sat in any other drive besides > the "C" drive, than it wouldn't be an issue, but because a great number > of the programs on your computer use the "C" drive as temporary storage > and should you get long in the tooth, so to speak, keeping music files, > audio books and the like on your hard drive, than this temporary storage > space can become a premium consideration. > > Out of a 40 gigabyte hard drive on my laptop, which is partitioned in > half into two drives, I have less than 8 gigabytes left on it. Yes, I do > have a great deal of music on it, and some audio books, I mean let's face > it, some meetings can become rather tiresome, and while using a pair of > headphones with my laptop, I can just bring up some music while the > person speaking just drones on and on, oblivious to the fact that I don't > give a rat's posterior what he's saying...LOL > > In any case, eventually, you will get an error message that you have no > space left on your hard drive, and that you should please clear up some > space so that some programs can function. At this point, you will have no > other choice but to start removing these previous versions of Jaws, and > that's when you have to worry about it. > > One thing I should mention... > > If you do have multiple versions of Jaws on your computer, or at least > files belonging to previous versions of Jaws, you might be interested in > knowing that the further back you go in versions, the smaller the space > these folders take up. > > For example, I am running Jaws 7, but as I said in my previous post, I > have a Jaws 5.1 folder on my hard drive. I also have Jaws 5.0 on my hard > drive also. While Jaws 510 only takes up 7 megabytes, the Jaws 50 folder > only takes up about 800 kilobytes, so as you can see, it isn't taking up > that much room. At some point, I will get that error message telling me > to clear up some crap on my drive, but until then, I won't have to worry > if I've got that little bit of research I need at any given time. > > I hope I haven't completely bored the list with this explanation. Quite > frankly, I've been in a talkative mood lately and what a great forum for > it. Hope you don't mind David. > > 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! 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