check your active desktop settings. turn it off if it is on.
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:50:34 -0500 "Harry Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Hi listers,
>I have big problems here. I hope you can help me figure out what is
>going
>on with my screen reader/ or computer or both.
>Approximately, 48 hours ago a big change came over my system(s), after
>I
>visited three web sites. I sent information to two of them in the
>form of
>registration, and on one of them I downloaded a winzip file about
>Visual
>Basic.
>I opened the winzip file and read some of it to make sure it was there
>on my
>floppy disk to where I directly downloaded the file from the web
>site.
>
>Then I closed down everything and shutdown my machine. Then a few
>hours
>later I cranked it up again. Here is where the trouble began. I will
>not
>say all of my problems, but let it suffice to say I definitely have
>problems
>with jfw working right.
>Before all this happened when I would boot up, I would go to the
>desktop.
>Now I go to something called program manager. It will say program
>manager,
>even though I am on the desktop.
>The insert+F6 command or the windows key+m command both take me to
>program
>manager. What happened to my desktop?
>
>I have tried all kinds of things to make jfw read correctly as it did
>in the
>past, but it won't. It does not read a message automatically any
>more,
>whether in a mail program or MS Word the PC cursor in the screen
>reader
>skips lines, sometimes whole paragraphs and screens full, and bounces
>all
>over the place.
>The read all command does not work in any place. I can read a
>document by
>taking about five or eight times more time and effort to read a
>document by
>pressing the downarrow or line down command, refreshing the blank line
>which
>it announces by pressing the refresh command insert+escape, then
>reading the
>line with the say line command, and then repeat for each line and so
>on and
>so on.
>Using the insert+s and the insert+q does not offer me a clue. I have
>completely reloaded jfw3.2 from the CD, using Dr. Jaws and the whole
>bit,
>and nothing helps.
>
>A sighted person said my screen looks entirely different than it use
>to look
>a couple of days ago. She saw a tiny box in the MS Word document
>title
>called visual basic and some little doodads after that. She x'ed that
>out
>with the mouse.
>I have looked in MyComputer program for a Visual basic file, but none
>is
>found. Could downloading a file from the web make all this stuff
>happen to
>my system? The only visual basic file I have or know of is located on
>a
>floppy disk, which I downloaded two days ago, when all these problems
>started.
>Your help is appreciated,
>Harry
>The Trust Walker
>
>
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>
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