David, It's my understanding that you shouldn't install earlier versions of JAWS when you have JAWS on your system. I think you'd need to uninstall them all, then reinstall one by one, beginning with the earliest and going up in sequence.
I have to wonder why anyone would need so many versions. I remember 9 worked on some websites for a time when later versions didn't, but that ceased to be the case. -----Original Message----- From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Ogilvie via Jfw Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 8:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Jaws stops speaking in Windows 7 I have a desktop computer running multiple versions of Windows and have various versions of Jaws on each. On the Windows 7 partition, I had full versions and demos of Jaws from version 9 to 15. I recently decided to do a cleanup and uninstall some of the earlier versions of Jaws. Now, when I try to start any version of Jaws such as the Jaws 15 demo, Jaws will start up, speak "Jaws for Windows is ready", then quit. The activation dialog no longer appears, so I think that somehow the activation system has gotten munged. I've tried reinstalling all the previous versions of Jaws that I can get my hands on, and the same problem occurs. (Jaws on XP, Vista and 8.1 update 1 on the same machine start up as expected.) Has anyone experienced this problem before and can offer a solution? Thanks in advance! David Ogilvie -- Client CCTV packages for Windsor David Ogilvie High Technology Assessment Specialist Centre for Sight Enhancement, School of Optometry University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Phone: (519) 888-4567 x 35243 Fax: (519) 746-2337 “Like Us” on Facebook Description: uWaterloo CSE on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofWaterlooLowVisionClinic> “Follow us” on Twitter Description: Follow uWaterloo CSE on Twitter <https://twitter.com/#%21/UWLowVision> https://uwaterloo.ca/sight-enhancement/ The information contained in this email message (including attachments, if any) is confidential and intended only for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, kindly notify the sender and delete this email message immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20140611/76747bc4/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 708 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20140611/76747bc4/attachment.gif> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 711 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20140611/76747bc4/attachment-0001.gif> _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
