Hi Mark, Go ahead and set up Windows 7 and JAWS on your MBP if that's what you want to do. :) I doubt you'll have any difficulties. I only had trouble because I was following specific troubleshooting steps. I removed the JAWS and Window-Eyes video drivers from the Device Manager, with intent to repair them later. In retrospect, I suppose I should have uninstalled "Freedom Scientific Video Intercept" from the Programs and Features panel in Control Panel, but there is no guarantee that this would have made any difference. In any case, I was quite taken aback that this would have totally deactivated JAWS.
Dongles have their fair share of problems too, but are definitely a little more fail safe. Just a random example of a problem I've experienced with FS Dongles, if you connect a dongle to a computer too early (e.g. before JAWS is installed), then install JAWS, the Dongle will work absolutely fine. However, Windows will offer you a driver update for the Dongle. If you install that update, the Dongle will stop working and you'll have a lot of troubleshooting to do before things start working again. Also of course on something like a Macbook Pro, if it is a current model, you'll only have one USB port to work with (given the Dongle will take up the other one). That's rather unfortunate. While repairing the Boot Camp support software is not exactly a normal part of using the computer that most people will have to do, Apple does roll out updates to the software from time to time which a lot of users will want to take advantage of. While I don't have first hand knowledge of this, I suspect those updates will throw off the activation as well. Cheers, Grant On Aug 31, 2014, at 12:45 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Grant, > > I am so sorry you are having this problem but thank you so much for sharing > your insights. > > How does one go about uninstalling the Jaws Intercept video drivers? > > I was thinking about setting up Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro but, after > reading your post, perhaps I'll rethink this. > > Thanks again, > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Hardy > Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 8:04 PM > To: MacVisionaries List > Subject: A few issues with Boot Camp, and a heads-up for users of JAWS > > Hello all, > > I encountered Wi-Fi issues on a late 2013 Retina Macbook Pro while running > Windows 8.1 professional via Boot Camp. I therefore decided to do some > troubleshooting. Really the only troubleshooting suggestion I could find > apart from erasing my Windows partition and starting from scratch was to > repair the Boot Camp support software. I tried to do this but got errors > saying that the installer could not complete and to try it again at a later > time. > > Upon doing some research, I discovered that at least a few people got these > errors who had third-party video drivers installed, and therefore the fix > was to temporarily uninstall all third-party video devices, repair the Boot > Camp installation, then reinstall them. As you probably know, JAWS does in > fact install a video driver to assist with screen reading, so I uninstalled > it temporarily and sure enough, this was the fix. The Boot Camp installer > was able to run at that point and repaired the support software. > > Unfortunately, it seems that uninstalling the Freedom Scientific Video > Intercept drivers triggered my JAWS activation to be lost. Clearly this > should not have happened, but I've encountered many situations where this > has happened to JAWS over the years for fairly minor system tweaks, or even > smaller things such as turning off the Wi-Fi switch on a laptop, and > occasionally you can fix the problem by putting things back to the way they > were. I hoped that reinstalling the Video Intercept drivers would have > re-activated my copy of JAWS, but it did not. This feels like a bug, and I > think users of JAWS should be aware that if they are going to repair or > update their Boot Camp Support Software, it is likely that they will lose > their activation. Since Apple does post updates to the support software from > time to time, I think this is something to keep in mind. > > On another note my Wi-Fi issues are unfortunately not resolved. Among other > things, Wi-Fi does not work after the computer sleeps. Windows thinks that I > am using a separate Wi-Fi adapter (e.g. the label of the adapter changes > from "Wi-Fi" to "Wi-Fi 2", and no connections can be established until the > computer is rebooted. Also, the connection drops quite frequently--and > again, this only happens while using Windows and not with OS X. > > Just wanted to share, but any insight would of course be welcomed. > > Grant > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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