With regard to Jaws, and OpenBook, I have both a software license
maintenance agreement in place and a dongle.  I only use the SMA on my
personal grassroot computers.  

Since purchasing the dongle, Freedom Scientific life has gotten much
simpler.

Mark

 

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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 5:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS

Yes.  I wish I could have warned you.  I urge you to get a Dongle from
Freedom Scientific (if you can) in order to tide over these sorts of
happenings, which are indeed regrettably unexpected, and unacceptable.

I would argue for virtualisation, except that the same thing happens in
virtual machines, because VMWare by default auto-installs new updates to the
guest tools when they become available in the host.  However, at least in
VMWare Fusion, you should be all right with JAWS as long as you don't move
the VM to a machine with a different CPU feature set, and I'd also recommend
keeping the optical DVD drive in place of the physical one.  Then as long as
you don't intentionally change the spec of the machine in any way, JAWS
shouldn't require activation again.

As a final strategy, you can use another screen reader, and launch JAWS only
when you require it.  Sometimes I find that the activation requirement is
persistent, even if you've fixed whatever hardware change caused it, so that
merely restarting doesn't work.  Therefore, don't start JAWS unless or until
it's absolutely necessary.  This would require making sure that JAWS isn't
configured to start up with the machine.

Hope this helps, in future at any rate.

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